Hebrew Idolatry and Superstition: Its Place in Folk-lore |
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aboriginal Accadian amongst Amorites ancient Ashera Assyrian influence Astarte Baal Balaam Baydaru Beltan blond race blood Burning incense cakes to worship calf camel caste ceremony CLASS customs dance devourers divination by arrows Eating raw flesh enchantment Ethnology in Folklore evidence Feast festival find traces fire folklore former inhabitants former race garlands Goidels heavenly bodies Hebrews high place Hittites Holne Horses in honour human sacrifice Hyksos idolatry Immoral practices attending incense to Baal instance Israelites Khond kindled land list of pagan midsummer Moloch Monthly Review non-Aryan offered origin pagan Palestine pillar or raised Pouring out libations pre-Aryan pre-Semitic probably Professor Robertson Smith Queen of Heaven raised stone religion reproductive powers rhabdomancy rites ritual connected rude stone sacred Saluting or worshipping stone altar stone pillar sun image superstition survivals Tammuz temple Tree alongside Turanian victim village witchcraft Women weeping Women worshipping Worshipping the sun
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Page 40 - Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt...
Page 56 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 4 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Page 56 - When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire...
Page 18 - The camel chosen as the victim is bound upon a rude altar of stones piled together, and when the leader of the band has thrice led the worshippers round the altar in a solemn procession accompanied with chants, he inflicts the first wound...
Page 12 - BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Page 41 - The chief festival in honour of the sun and fire is upon the 21st of June, when the sun arrives at the summer solstice, or rather begins its retrograde motion.
Page 56 - There shall not be found with thee any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 42 - ... that we .should see at midnight the most singular sight in Ireland, which was the lighting of fires in honour of the sun. Accordingly, •exactly at midnight, the fires began to appear, and taking the advantage of going up to the leads of the house, which had a widely extended view, I saw on a radius of thirty miles, all around, the fires burning on every eminence which the country afforded.
Page 27 - At the village of Holne, situated on one of the Spurs of Dartmoor, is a field of about two acres, the property of the parish, and called the Ploy (Play) Field. In the centre of this stands a granite pillar (Menhir) six or seven feet high. On May morning, before daybreak, the young men of the village assemble there, and then proceed to the Moor, where they select...