Magic and FetishismHaddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)
Religion
Magic and Fetishism
Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)
Fetishism; Magic
Hair, nail-pairings, etc. (3), scalp-lock (4), saliva (5),
luck-ball (5), footprints (6), clothes (7), rag bushes and
pin-wells (8), personal ‘ornaments’ (9), food (10), cannibalism
(10), sympathetic relations between persons (11), couvade (13).
B. Homœopathic Magic.
Plants (15), rain-making (16), wind-making (18), increase of
plants (18), and of animals (19), luring animals to be caught
(19), human effigies to injure or kill people (20).
II. MAGICAL POWER OF NAMES AND WORDS.
Objection to names being mentioned of people, fairies, and
animals (22), names of power (24), satire (26), _geis_ (27),
tabu (28).
III. TALISMANS AND AMULETS.
Stones and metals (30), colour (31), bones, teeth, claws,
etc. (32), lucky pig (33), amulets against the evil eye (33),
luck-bone (39).
IV. DIVINATION—(40).
V. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MAGIC.
A. Public Magic.
Australian _intichiuma_ totem ceremonies (41), corn-planting
dance of the Musquakie (45).
B. Private Magic.
Folk-remedies (46), love-charms (47), nefarious magic (48).
VI. MAGICIANS.
Training of sorcerers and societies of magicians (51).
VII. PSYCHOLOGY OF MAGICAL PRACTICES.
Nervous instability (53), suggestion (53), make-believe (55),
tabu (55), _mana_ (58), projective will-power or telepathy
(60), from spell to prayer (61), the impossible not undertaken
(62), loopholes in case of failure (63).
FETISHISM
I. DEFINITION.
1. Etymological (66), 2. Historical (66), 3. Dogmatic (67).
II. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS OF FETISHISM.
May be any object (72), a symbolic charm with sympathetic
properties (74), a sign or token representing an ideal notion
or being (76), habitation of a spiritual being (77), vehicle
for communication of a spirit (79), instrument by which spirit
acts (80), possesses personality and will (83), may act by own
will or by foreign spirit (84), spirit and material object can
be dissociated (87), worshipped, sacrificed to, talked with
(89), petted and ill-treated (90).
III. FETISHISM AS A FORM OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP—(91).
MAGIC
I. SYMPATHETIC MAGIC
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