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Author : Eli Edward Burriss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258920456
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Taboo, Magic, Spirits written by Eli Edward Burriss and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Author : Eli Edward Burriss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781506168951
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Taboo, Magic, Spirits written by Eli Edward Burriss and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of primitive elements in Roman religion, this deals with such topics as witchcraft, taboo, incantations, magic, and the superstitions that affected every part of everyday life. Thoroughly well-researched, while avoiding being 'heavy' reading. Even Christians will find this interesting reading as the sections on prayer, blood sacrifices and raising the hands sets the contextual backdrop for much of the New Testament." (Quote from willyfogg.com) Table of Contents PREFACE CHAPTER I: MANA, MAGIC AND ANIMISM CHAPTER II: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MANA (TABOO) CHAPTER III: MISCELLANEOUS TABOOS CHAPTER IV: MAGIC ACTS: THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES CHAPTER V: REMOVING EVILS BY MAGIC ACTS CHAPTER VI: INCANTATION AND PRAYER CHAPTER VII: NATURALISM AND ANIMISM "In the early stage of his development man has no conception of a superior being on whom he is dependent, whose will he must win; but he believes that by performing some mysterious action, usually imitating the action desired, and often assisted by an incantation or charm--whether it be an amulet for defense or a talisman for offense--he can force the desired result. This mysterious action and incantation, passing under the name of magic, arises, as we have seen, from a curious twist in thinking which leads a person to believe that the effect is the same thing as the cause, that something like a person or thing is the person or thing itself, that similarity in thought is similarity in fact, and that something which has touched a person is still in contact with him."
Author : Eli Edward Burriss
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016659475
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Taboo, Magic, Spirits written by Eli Edward Burriss and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Eli Edward Burriss
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781296087531
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Taboo, Magic, Spirits - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Eli Edward Burriss and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Laine Fuller
Publisher : 1000 Volt Press
ISBN 13 : 1734742275
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Conjuring the Commonplace: A Guide to Everyday Enchantment and Junk Drawer Magic written by Laine Fuller and published by 1000 Volt Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there magic in your junk drawer or in the pieces of a broken china plate? In Conjuring the Commonplace, Laine Fuller and Cory Thomas Hutcheson answer with a resounding, “Yes!” and deftly show you how to incorporate that magic into your everyday. They also point to other hidden treasures in places in your home you may have never thought to look. As the hosts of the long-running podcast New World Witchery, Cory and Laine have shared the folklore and magic of North America and their own magical journeys with listeners. Conjuring the Commonplace continues that conversation, highlighting the folklore of the common objects and the practical ways they have each incorporated these small magics into their lives and how you might too. If you’ve ever questioned whether to toss out that bit of string from a sewing project or wondered what you should know before picking up that shiny penny on the sidewalk, this book is for you.
Author : Joel Bjorling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387648
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Consulting Spirits written by Joel Bjorling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, people have been intrigued with spirits, angels, or devas as sources of wisdom and guidance. They are not only interesting as those who possess an insight into events and circumstances, but also as proof of life after death. In this clear and useful reference guide, Bjorling presents a listing of the literature on the various ways in which people of different cultures have consulted spirits—through shamans and oracles, magic, mediums, Voodoo, and psychics. Each chapter contains a general introduction to the respective topic as well as a listing of pertinent books, articles, and dissertations. His survey also includes early spirit contacts in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Author : Scott Cunningham
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738717134
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs written by Scott Cunningham and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-04-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded and revised, this comprehensive guide features magical uses of over 400 herbs and plants from all parts of the world. With over 500,000 copies in print, this reference book is a must for all who perform natural magic. It features illustrations for easy identification of every herb, in addition to common names, use, and rulership.
Author : Hilton J. Bik
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462813550
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Tyranny, Taboo, and the Ten Commandments written by Hilton J. Bik and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hebrew Bible is arguably the most influential work of all time—the most prized, and most studied, literary possession of Western civilization. Yet its message remains enigmatic, obscured by the cryptic nature of its archaic vocabulary. Using the “Ten Commandments” as an illustrative portal, Hilton Bik explains how the West fundamentally misunderstands the Holy Word emanating from the East. Drawing upon an illustrious array of contemporary scholarship he demonstrates how traditional biblical commentary is chronically jeopardized by entrenched presuppositions that preclude an accurate interpretation of the exotic narrative. This unbiased, historically based analysis of the ancient manuscript yields some startling discoveries—insights that test the very foundational ideas of both Judaism and Christianity and question the commonly accepted nexus between the Decalogue and civil society.
Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136277978
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Theory of Collective Behaviour written by Neil J. Smelser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume XVII of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. First published in 1962, this study offers a theoretical synthesis of collective behavior.
Author : Christopher A. Faraone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195354834
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Magika Hiera written by Christopher A. Faraone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence for magical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.
Author : Eileen Holland
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609250915
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Spellcaster's Reference written by Eileen Holland and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need to bless a newborn babe? Wondering what color candle to use for a winter handfasting? What herbs are best to use when the Moon is in Cancer? Magick is intent, but any witch will tell you that intent requires forethought and preparation. And even the most seasoned ritualist needs a reference to determine the best timing and most powerful ingredients for their magical work. From Solstice to Saturday to Seven O’ Clock, from Vervain to Mandrake to Amber, using the right magickal correspondences strengthens any spell, ceremony, or ritual. Here Eileen Holland has gathered together a wealth of magickal knowledge, complete with everything from hours, days, weeks, and astrological alignment to proper corresponding plants, animals, oils, herbs, and deities, and compiled them into the ultimate reference book for anyone seeking guidance in creating their own enchantments. Includes a glossary of less familiar terms and deities, as well as a glossary of ingredients.
Author : Wendy B. Faris
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826514424
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Ordinary Enchantments written by Wendy B. Faris and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristics and narrative techniques, and proposes a new theory to explain its significance. In the most comprehensive critical treatment of this literary mode to date, Wendy B. Faris discusses a rich array of examples from magical realist novels around the world, including the work not only of Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but also of authors like Salman Rushdie, Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, and Ben Okri. Faris argues that by combining realistic representation with fantastic elements so that the marvelous seems to grow organically out of the ordinary, magical realism destabilizes the dominant form of realism based on empirical definitions of reality, gives it visionary power, and thus constitutes what might be called a "remystification" of narrative in the West. Noting the radical narrative heterogeneity of magical realism, the author compares its cultural role to that of traditional shamanic performance, which joins the worlds of daily life and that of the spirits. Because of that capacity to bridge different worlds, magical realism has served as an effective decolonizing agent, providing the ground for marginal voices, submerged traditions, and emergent literatures to develop and create masterpieces. At the same time, this process is not limited to postcolonial situations but constitutes a global trend that replenishes realism from within. In addition to describing what many consider to be the progressive cultural work of magical realism, Faris also confronts the recent accusation that magical realism and its study as a global phenomenon can be seen as a form of commodification and an imposition of cultural homogeneity. And finally, drawing on the narrative innovations and cultural scenarios that magical realism enacts, she extends those principles toward issues of gender and the possibility of a female element within magical realism.
Author : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640336X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Myth of Disenchantment written by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines’ founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.
Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610270851
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Theory of Collective Behavior written by Neil J. Smelser and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2011-08-21 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern, high-quality republication of a sociological and social psychology classic. New preface by the author and extensive new Foreword by MIT's Gary Marx. An authorized and quality edition--not just scanned and forgotten like most such reprints today--this book is part of the Classics of the Social Sciences Series by Quid Pro Books. Quality ebook formatting includes linked notes, legible tables, and active TOC. The book's original page numbers from its first printing are embedded for continuity of citations and a class syllabus.
Author : Hermann Bengtson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520031500
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Ancient History written by Hermann Bengtson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our translation is made especially for students who have not yet acquired facility in German. It departs from Professor Bengtson's text mainly in that the general bibliographical appendix has been reorganized to conform with the plan of the Cambridge Ancient History and also has been revised with the English-reading student in mind.
Author : Ruth Stein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804763046
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book For Love of the Father written by Ruth Stein and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Love of the Father provides a psychological explanation of the attraction of destructive and self-destructive fundamentalism in terms of male longings.
Author : Alicia J. Batten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567684687
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity written by Alicia J. Batten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of dress in communication and in both establishing and defending identity. The volume begins by reviewing how scholars in the fields of classics, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology examine dress. The second section then looks at materials, including depictions of clothing in sculpture and in Egyptian mummy portraits. The third (and largest) part of the book then examines dress in specific contexts, beginning with Greece and Rome and going on to Jewish and Christian dress, with a specific focus on the intersection between dress, clothing and religion. By combining essays from over twenty scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, the book provides a unique overview of different approaches to and contexts of dress in one volume, leading to a greater understanding of dress both within ancient societies and in the contemporary world.
