The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... notes of the future , make themselves heard . But is the myth equally a poem ; and is it , therefore , equally empty and fictitious ? To such a conclusion one might easily be led if we received the mythology merely from Homer and the ...
... notes of the future , make themselves heard . But is the myth equally a poem ; and is it , therefore , equally empty and fictitious ? To such a conclusion one might easily be led if we received the mythology merely from Homer and the ...
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... notes of music and the musical scale . They first brought musical instruments into Greece . In Crete they discovered fire ; they were rapid runners and dancers , and the Dactylus was a peculiar kind of dance ; the Dactylon a famous ...
... notes of music and the musical scale . They first brought musical instruments into Greece . In Crete they discovered fire ; they were rapid runners and dancers , and the Dactylus was a peculiar kind of dance ; the Dactylon a famous ...
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... note , what Tornäus says , who regards the seer - faculty , which formerly was so much in esteem , as the work of the devil : - " Some possess the magic gift from nature , which is horrible . For those whom the devil per- ceives will be ...
... note , what Tornäus says , who regards the seer - faculty , which formerly was so much in esteem , as the work of the devil : - " Some possess the magic gift from nature , which is horrible . For those whom the devil per- ceives will be ...
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... note of the cuckoo . It belongs to the omen of success , when the traveller un- expectedly hears its voice in a wood . Birds whose move- ments are prophetic are called Way - birds . How early these superstitions found their way amongst ...
... note of the cuckoo . It belongs to the omen of success , when the traveller un- expectedly hears its voice in a wood . Birds whose move- ments are prophetic are called Way - birds . How early these superstitions found their way amongst ...
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... note of some of his views . He considers all things under certain modifications to proceed from one primæval being . The soul is a portion of this primæval being , which he calls " principium universale catholicum . " Thence comes the ...
... note of some of his views . He considers all things under certain modifications to proceed from one primæval being . The soul is a portion of this primæval being , which he calls " principium universale catholicum . " Thence comes the ...
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