Curiosities of Superstition And Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions
The book Curiosities of Superstition And Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions was written by author W H Davenport William Henry Davenport Adams Here you can read free online of Curiosities of Superstition And Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Curiosities of Superstition And Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions a good or bad book?
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It be- comes important, therefore, to propitiate them ; but this can be done only through the intervention of a Tadibe, or sorcerer ; who, on occasion, stimulates himself into a wildly excited condition, like the frenzy of the Pythean or Delphic priestess. When the credulous Samojede invokes his as- sistance, he attires himself in full necromantic costume : a kind of shirt, made of reindeer leather j and trimmed with red cloth. Its seams are similarly trimmed ; and the shoul- ders are decorated... with red cloth tags, or epaulettes. A visor of red cloth conceals his face, and upon his breast gleams a plate of polished metal. Thus imposingly arrayed, the Tadibe takes his drum of reindeer skin, ornamented with brass rings, and, attended by a neophyte, walks round and round with singular state- liness, while invoking the presence of the spirits by a dis- cordant rattle. This gradually increases in violence, and THE SA VAGE RACES OF ASIA. 157 is accompanied by the droning incantation of the words of enchantment.
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