The Origin of Man and of His SuperstitionsRead, Carveth
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The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
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Animism; Human beings -- Origin; Magic; Superstition; Totemism
[442] A. M. Czaplicka, _Aboriginal Siberia_, p. 178.
[443] J. G. Frazer, _Psyche’s Task_.
[444] Pp. 138-9.
[445] Rivers, _History of Melanesian Sociology_, II. p. 156.
[446] Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_.
[447] im Thurn, _op. cit._, p. 339.
[448] J. H. Weeks, _Among Congo Cannibals_, p. 145.
[449] _Across Australia_, p. 350.
[450] _Primitive Bakongo_, p. 285.
[451] Skeat, _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, I. p. 563.
[452] Rivers, _The Todas_, p. 263.
[453] Abbot, _Macedonian Folk-Lore_, p. 225.
[454] _Op. cit._, p. 203.
[455] _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, pp. 387-8.
[456] Spencer and Gillen, _Across Australia_, pp. 334-5.
[457] Whiffen, _op. cit._, pp. 182-3.
[458] Jounod, _Life of a South African Tribe_, II. p. 456.
[459] Whiffen, _op. cit._, pp. 64 and 168.
[460] _Primitive Bakongo_, p. 216.
[461] _Aboriginal Siberia_, pp. 230, 240.
[462] _Paradoxe sur le comédien._ Mr. William Archer, some years ago,
published _Masks and Faces_, an entertaining and very instructive book,
in which he (as a genuine though unprofessional psychologist) discusses
this paradox in the light of evidence obtained, by _questionnaire_ and
otherwise, from actors then living.
[463] _Man_, September 1817, p. 144.
[464] _Aboriginal Siberia_, p. 197.
[465] _Suggestion und Hypnotismus in der Völkerpsychologie._
[466] Meiners, _Briefe über die Schweiz_ (quoted by Carlyle in essay on
_Count Cagliostro_).
[467] _Aboriginal Siberia_, pp. 169, 172.
[468] _Text-book of Insanity_, pp. 281 and 79.
[469] Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, p.
497.
[470] J. G. Frazer, _Belief in Immortality_, pp. 250-60.
[471] For another example see Rivers, _History of Melanesian
Sociology_, II. p. 411.
[472] G. Turner, _Samoa_, p. 346.
[473] For the most elaborate of all such performances, see the
initiation into the Ghost Society of the Kwakintle Indians, in Frazer’s
_Totemism and Exogamy_, III. p. 538.
[474] Casalis, _My Life in Basuto Land_, p. 185.
[475] Basil Thompson, _The Fijians_, p. 158.
[476] Basil Thompson, _Diversions of a Prime Minister_, pp. 201 and 346.
[477] _The Heroic Age_, p. 413.
[478] Spencer and Gillen, _Across Australia_, pp. 374-5.
[479] “Aborigines of Victoria,” _Transactions of the Ethnological
Society_, New Series, I. p. 300.
[480] _Eagle-hawk and Crow_, p. 146.
[481] J. G. Frazer, _Belief in Immortality_, p. 239.
[482] J. H. Weeks, _The Primitive Bakongo_, pp. 284 and 285.
[483] J. H. Weeks, _Among Congo Cannibals_, p. 293.
[484] Callaway, _op. cit._, pp. 29-30.
[485] _The North-West Amazons_, p. 218.
[486] J. O. Dorsey, “Siouan Cults,” pp. 431-2 and 485, _Am. B. of
Ethn._, XI.
[487] Coddrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 270.
[488] _Polynesian Researches_, II. p. 204.
[489] John Martin, _W. Mariner’s Account of the Tonga Islands_, II. pp.
105 and 137.
[490] Hose and McDougall, _The Pagan Tribes of Borneo_, II. pp. 48 and
214.
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