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- Primitive Mentality Chapter VII
THE PRACTICES OF DIVINATION (continued) Direct communication with the forces of the unseen world is not always possible. The primitive has it in his power to find the most favourable conditions for such intercourse, and to solicit a dream or…
- The Religious System of the Amazulu Section 34
…2. — Diviners who have eaten impepo, that is, who possess a real gift of divination, and who are able to divine without any help from the enquirers. 3. — Those who use bones or sticks in divination. The bones are called…
- The Chukchee Chapter 16
…Nelson1 tells of a similar method of divination among the Eskimo southward from the mouth of the Yukon. For divination by head-lifting among other Eskimo of America, I will refer to Dr. Boas.2 Another method of divination, nearly…
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…It is imperative that he should know all there is to know about them, and it is this end which is served by divination. To the primitive, divination is an added perception. Just as we employ instruments to enable us…
- Primitive Mentality Chapter VI
THE PRACTICES OF DIVINATION Of all the direct data which their experience affords, primi- tives are chiefly interested in those which proceed from the unseen world, and reveal to them the orders issued by the mystic powers dwelling therein. The…
- The Todas Chapter XII
…We shall find that certain Todas have the power of divination, others are sorcerers, and others again have the power of curing disease by means of spells and rites, while all three functions are quite separate from those of the…
- Primitive Mentality Chapter VIII
ORDEALS The history of the Middle Ages familiarized us with those tests, closely connected with divination, which are called Judgments of God, or Ordeals. They were known, as Glotz x has so clearly demonstrated, to the Ancient Greeks. They are…
- The Religious System of the Amazulu Section 28
…He too en quires of them as other people do ; and he too seeks divination of them. If they do not speak, he does not know what they will say ; he cannot tell those who come for divination what they…
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…This resembles a good deal a method of divination used at Motlav, and described above, but there is no divination in these tricks. There was, and perhaps still is, in the Torres Islands some- thing similar to this, when ghosts…
- The Religious System of the Amazulu Section 36
…Uma kw enze THERE is among black men a some thing which is divination within them. When any thing valuable is lost, they look for it at once ; when they cannot find it, each one begins to practise this inner…
- Medicine, Magic, and Religion Chapter II
…Various other forms of divination are practised. In Murray Island, and still more in the western islands of the Torres Straits, the skulls of relatives are used for this purpose, the ghost to whom the skull belonged in life giving…
- Anthropology Chapter VIII
…A system of such divination, known as hepatoscopy, was worked out by the Babylonian priests perhaps by 2,000 B.C. Their rules are known from the discovery of ancient clay models of the liver with its several lobes, each…