Next. Preface : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], p. 1 I. THE FINDING OF THE SOUL. SURVIVALS may be defined as primitive rites believed and practised, rites which once were 'faith' but which from a later and higher conception simply 'remain over' or survive. A survival may...
Next. I. The Finding Of The Soul : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], II. The Wanderings of Psyche (part 2) The foregoing brief summary, sufficient for my present purpose, is from living tradition. I give now the original Gaelic, which I owe to Mr. Kenneth Macleod, who kindly wrote down for me...
Untitled : This long out-of-print book, graciously loaned to sacred-texts for scanning by a reader from their personal library, reviews the extensive literature on survivals of pre-Christian beliefs in the Celtic area. It covers customs from Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Brittany...
I. The Finding Of The Soul : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], I. The Finding of the Soul (part 2) Among certain savages the strip cut off at circumcision is bound on the arm; and in the Jewish ritual some of the blood mingled with wine is quaffed by the operating priest. What is tasted by...
Title Page And Front Matter : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], p. i p. ii SURVIVALS IN BELIEF AMONG THE CELTS p. iii PUBLISHED BY JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW, Publishers to the University. MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON. "New York," "The Macmillan Co." "Toronto," "The Macmillan Co...
Ii. The Wanderings Of Psyche : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], The Wanderings of Psyche (part 3) ("g") "The Water-horse" (cf. the Boobrie as water-horse in a preceding section).--After the bull one thinks next of the water-horse, which is not, at least in all its phases, to be classified...
Iii. The Earthly Journey : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], III. The Earthly Journey (part 3) It was not right to make a cake of the kind known as "Bonnach Boise"(adh), "i.e." a small cake shaped and made on the palm of the hand, without making a hole in the middle of it. The re...
Preface : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], p. v PREFACE. THIS volume gives the substance of my first series of public lectures in Folk-Psychology delivered in the University of Glasgow. The treatment is objective in the sense that there is throughout a unifying thought...
Next. Ii. The Wanderings Of Psyche : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], p. 207 CHAPTER III. THE EARTHLY JOURNEY. EVERY journey has its stages, and for the purposes of these pages account is to be taken of the following: 1. "Lustration", or lustral rites, whether by fire, by water, by milk or by...
Next. Iii. The Earthly Journey : * "Survivals in Belief Among the Celts", by George Henderson, [1911], III. The Earthly Journey (part 2) The rites that unite the human with the divine embrace all forms of partaking in thankfulness in common with the divine as it is recognised; the giving to get; the giving to appease. Here...