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
[190.1]
Junod, _S. A. Tribe_, ii. 368, 384. If Lactantius and the other
writers of antiquity who have mentioned the sacrifice to Hercules
referred to by Dr Frazer (_Magic Art_, i. 281) had given us the exact
words and occasion of the rite, we might perhaps find a similar
explanation for it. Both that and the rite addressed at Cranganore in
Southern India (_ibid._, 280) to the goddess Bhagavati are at present
very obscure.
[191.1]
Anantha Krishna, i. 53, 76.
[191.2]
Temple, _Leg. Panj._, ii. 425. _Cf._ _F. L._, x. 406.
[191.3]
Grimm, _Teut. Myth._, i. 20, where other instances are also cited.
[192.1]
Rev. J. H. Weeks, _J. A. I._, xxxix. 134, reproduced in the same
author’s _Congo Cannibals_, 176.
[194.1]
Plutarch, _De Iside_. Wiedemann (213) suggests that the Greeks
misunderstood the myth. But the text of the hymn which he quotes
appears to prove the accuracy of Plutarch’s interpretation. This is
in effect the view taken by Dr Wallis Budge (_Gods_, i. 487).
Harpocrates (Heru-p-khart) is Horus the younger.
[195.1]
De Groot, _Rel. Syst._, iv. 429, 421, 342; Giles, ii. 276.
[196.1]
Dalton, 232.
[197.1]
_N. Ind. N. and Q._, iii. 97, par. 205.
[197.2]
Jülg, 96 (Story No. 9). Compare children’s tales from various parts
of India, where the hero or heroine’s life is dependent on a
necklace which is stolen. The owner of the necklace dies when it is
worn by the thief, and revives when it is taken off. The birth of a
child follows visits by the other spouse. By the child’s help the
necklace is recovered, and permanent life is thus restored to the
half-dead, half-living hero or heroine (Frere, 230 (Story No. 20);
Day, 1 (Story No. 1); Steel and Temple, 85).
[197.3]
Kruijt, 398, 509; _cf._ 230.
[198.1]
Petitot, 262.
[199.1]
Von Wlislocki, _Volksdicht._, 283.
[199.2]
Maurer, 300 (_cf._ 192). A Protestant version is given,
Lehmann-Filhés, i. 132.
[200.1]
Le Braz, 321, Story No. 60.
[201.1]
Boas, _Ind. Sag._, 267. Compare a curious Tlingit story of a girl who
married a dead man (ghost), who in consequence came to life again
(Swanton, _Tlingit Myths_, 247).
[202.1]
The ghostly visitant might be of either sex, though the masculine was
perhaps more common. The visit was generally attended in either case
with fatal effects. See below as to _Lamiæ_.
[203.1]
Herodotus, vi. 68, 69.
[203.2]
Augustine, _Civ. Dei_, xv. 23.
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