Untitled : TABOO, MAGIC, SPIRITS: A STUDY OF PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS IN ROMAN RELIGION BY ELI EDWARD BURRISS [1931, Copyright Not Renewed] Title Page Preface Contents Chapter I: Mana, Magic and Animism Chapter II: Positive and Negative Mana (Taboo) Chapter III: Miscellaneous Taboos Chapter IV: Magic Acts:...
Chapter I. Mana, Magic And Animism : TABOO, MAGIC, SPIRITS CHAPTER I MANA, MAGIC AND ANIMISM THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN EARLY man, in common with present-day savages, was unable to form correct inferences concerning the world about him. The reason for this seems to lie in the ignorance and in the intensely powerful imaginati...
Chapter Vii. Naturalism And Animism : CHAPTER VII NATURALISM AND ANIMISM THE subject of animism was discussed in the introductory chapter, 1 and the reader is referred to the principles laid down there. It remains, however, to enlarge upon and illustrate these principles with special reference to Roman life. But first let us say...
Chapter Ii. Positive And Negative Mana : CHAPTER II POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MANA (TABOO) As soon as man becomes self-conscious, he feels that anything different from himself is potentially, if not actually, dangerous: it contains a strange power to do him harm, and he must, if this be possible, force it to do him good. If experience teaches...
Chapter Iv. Magic Acts. The General Principles : CHAPTER IV MAGIC ACTS: THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES WE have observed, in our first chapter, that magic acts arise from early man's inability to distinguish effect from cause, the part from the whole, that which is like or has been in contact with a person or thing, from the person or thing itself...
Chapter V. Removing Evils : CHAPTER V REMOVING EVILS BY MAGIC ACTS MAGIC acts in Roman religion are intended to remove the harmful effects of contact with religiously dangerous persons and things, possessing, as we say, negative mana or taboo; to ward off real or potential evil influences which have not as yet harmed...
Chapter Vi. Incantation And Prayer : CHAPTER VI INCANTATION AND PRAYER A STUDY of the Roman prayers which have come down to us, whether they be found in their original integrity as in the Carmen Saliare, the Carmen Arvale, the prayer of the Umbrian Attiedii, those of the farmer recorded by Cato in his De Agricultura; or whether, like...
Preface : PREFACE ROMAN religion, as we meet it in historical times, is a congeries of many elements. One of the problems of the modern scholar is to separate and interpret these various elements--primitive, Latin, Etruscan, Greek, Oriental. Even the casual student of comparative religion, who is also...
Chapter Iii. Miscellaneous Taboos : CHAPTER III MISCELLANEOUS TABOOS IN the last chapter, after illustrating the terms positive and negative mana, we discussed the taboo on blood and five other taboos which are allied with it--on women, children, death, leather, and days. The present chapter will illustrate rather fully and attempt...
Title Page : TABOO, MAGIC, SPIRITS: A STUDY OF PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS IN ROMAN RELIGION BY ELI EDWARD BURRISS New York, Macmillan Company [1931, Copyright Not Renewed] Scanned And Proofed By Eliza Fegley At Sacredspiral.com, July 2003. Formatted To HTML By J.B. Hare , July 2003. This Text Is In The Public Dom...
