Ritual and belief : $b Studies in the history of religionHartland, Edwin Sidney
Religion
Ritual and belief : $b Studies in the history of religion
Hartland, Edwin Sidney
Ethnopsychology; Magic; Religion; Rites and ceremonies
[78.2]
Junod, _S. A. Tribe_, ii. 467; i. 441.
[78.3]
Durkheim, _op. cit._, 63 note.
[79.1]
All this indictment holds good in a lesser degree of the witch-hunts
of Europe and New England.
[80.1]
Gregor, 197.
[80.2]
This, however, is not exactly what Marillier says. “A ‘natural’
act (and that is its sole difference from a magical act) only reaches
bodies, or at least it only reaches the soul through the object it
animates. A magical practice, which may, however, be a purely material
act, acts in some way from within outwards (_agit en quelque sorte du
dedans au dehors_); it only kills or fecundates the man, animal, or
plant to which it is applied, by exercising first of all its
beneficent or calamitous action on the soul, which, like that of the
sorcerer, is the principle of his life” (_Rev. Hist. Rel._, xxxvi.
343).
[80.3]
Doutté, 328, 330.
[81.1]
Doutté, 340, 334, 343, 338. Compare what the schoolboy called their
“conjuring tricks,” performed before Pharaoh by Moses and Aaron,
and by the magicians (Ex. vii. 8 _sqq._).
[82.1]
Marett, _Anthrop._, 209. Dr Marett might have omitted the words “of
evil” after “supernormal powers.” They do not strengthen his
argument. In savage communities a hard and fast line is not usually
drawn between supernormal powers of evil and supernormal powers of
good.
[82.2]
_Ibid._, 210.
[83.1]
Marett, _Anthrop._, 211.
[84.1]
P. E. Goddard, _Univ. Cal. Pub._, i. 87.
[84.2]
Marett, _Anthrop._, 213.
[84.3]
Westermarck, _Ceremonies_, 67 note, quoting Destaing.
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