The Calcutta Review, Volumes 134-435University of Calcutta, 1912 |
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Page 72
... become snow- ghosts ; and , even at the present day , the priests in the north chant prayers in order to appease them and to prevent them from haunting their living kinsmen . In the story entitled : " The Snow - Ghost , " it is narrated ...
... become snow- ghosts ; and , even at the present day , the priests in the north chant prayers in order to appease them and to prevent them from haunting their living kinsmen . In the story entitled : " The Snow - Ghost , " it is narrated ...
Page 81
... become completely extinct about 700 A. D. * SECTION II . - ANIMAL - LORE AND TREE - CULT . Japanese Belief in Mythical Animals . - The Japanese believe in the existence of some mythical animals , which are , according to Gordon Smith ...
... become completely extinct about 700 A. D. * SECTION II . - ANIMAL - LORE AND TREE - CULT . Japanese Belief in Mythical Animals . - The Japanese believe in the existence of some mythical animals , which are , according to Gordon Smith ...
Page 82
... become goblins . Tails or no tails , cats are supposed to be magicians and credited with the possession of the power to make corpses dance . Japanese seamen are afraid of the O - bake , the honorable ghosts of the persons who are ...
... become goblins . Tails or no tails , cats are supposed to be magicians and credited with the possession of the power to make corpses dance . Japanese seamen are afraid of the O - bake , the honorable ghosts of the persons who are ...
Page 83
... becomes also bent . Cock - lore of the Japs . - The great Deity of Miono- seki , who is the patron of mariners and rules over storms and tempests , hates cocks , hens and eggs . No boat or junk or steamer can be hired to carry to ...
... becomes also bent . Cock - lore of the Japs . - The great Deity of Miono- seki , who is the patron of mariners and rules over storms and tempests , hates cocks , hens and eggs . No boat or junk or steamer can be hired to carry to ...
Page 84
... become very fine , people become fond of looking at them and , in course of time , consider them to be sacred and , as the result thereof , hang a fringe of thatch or rope round them to denote that they are the abodes of deities ...
... become very fine , people become fond of looking at them and , in course of time , consider them to be sacred and , as the result thereof , hang a fringe of thatch or rope round them to denote that they are the abodes of deities ...
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