Scatalogic [!] rites of all nations : A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe / Based upon original notes and personal observation, and upon compilation from one thousand authorities. By Captain John G. Bourke.
- John Gregory Bourke
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Scatalogic [!] rites of all nations : A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe / Based upon original notes and personal observation, and upon compilation from one thousand authorities. By Captain John G. Bourke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![toe would not be married within the ] year, 11)3; ligatures, 107,221; wives in Borneo tattooed on the thighs, 785; i Apache-Yuma matrons tattoo, 18b'; ' urine drunk at marriages in Siberia, i 228. See Philters, Aphrodisiacs, Lig- atures, Ring, Wedding, Bride, Wool. | Coprolite, 184. Cry, the more you, the less you piss, 182. Crepitus, the God of Flatulence. See Flatulence. Crvpto-Jews, 18. Cures by transplantation, 349. Cybele. See Bona Dea, 445. Dandelion, superstitions in connection with, 248. Dandruff, 804, 306, 328, 331. Dandruff. See Hair Dentnfice, urine used as a, 203, 204, 205. Devil's posterior kissed, 384. Devil's presents all turned to filth and dross, 27U. Diseases, all cured by mistletoe, S9.104, 105,107 ; catamenia, used in cure of,— see Catamenia, Therapeutics; ordure and urine used in the cure of, — see Therapeutics, Transference of; see Cures by Transplantation ; sacred diseases, — see Fpilepsy ; the heathen theory of disease, 423, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 456, 458, 457, 462. Divination, 11,13, 14, 15, 16, 90, 96, 107. 126, 155, 233, 234, 246, 247, 248. See Cockle-Bread, Urinoscopy, Gam- bling. Dice, Visions, Onions. Omens, Cockle-Bread Courtship and Mar- riage, Parturition. Dreams, 253. Drink of Oblivion of the Druids, 106. Drink, the Mad Potion, Wysoccan, 242. Drinks, 380. Drinks. See Foods, Urine as a Bever- age, Intoxicants, Eaude Mille Fleurs, Table Liqueurs. Druidism, 372. Druids. See Mistletoe. Ducking-stool. See Ordeals and Pun- ishments. Dung, all earthly joys compared to, by the Apostle Paul, by Saint Mnitliew, and by Thomas a Kempis, 271. Dung, definition of, 52, — See Pe-dung. Excrement, Dung-carts, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; dung-heaps used in punishment, 87 ; dung-gods, 127, 12S, 130, 131, 132, 133., — sen Excrement Gods; dung thrown by Australian neophytes, 237, — see Parturition; thrown at Guinea negresses in their first pregnancy. 237. Dung of whales, amber was believed to be, 271. Dung, the eggs of the basilisk would hatch only in, 269. Dungi, king of Chaldea, B.C. 2,000, 52. Dyaks of Borneo, cover up their evacu- ations, 146. Dyeing. See Industries. Dyeing of Hair. See Hair. Ear-Wax. See Therapeutics. Easter eggs, 323. See Eggs. Eau de Mille Fleurs, made of eow dung, 30, 330; in medicine, see Therapeu- tics. Eggs, in Cures by Transplantation (q- v.); a plausible explanation of the meaning of the custom of exchang- ing Easter eggs, 465. Emetics. See Therapeutics. Enchantment. See Magic. Esculapius ate excrement, 129. Eucharist, errors in connection with the doctrine of the, 54, 55, 56. Eucharistic bread sprinkled with hunmn semen by the Manicheans and Albi- genses, 220. Eunuch, the urine of, used as an aphro- disiac, 224 ; also as an antiphrodisiac, 224; and as a remedy for sterility, 233, 281; emasculation, a religious rite among Hottentots, 238, 239; also among the Galli, priests of Cybele, 394. Evergreens at Christmas. See Mistletoe. Excrement, Animal. See Therapeutics, Ordeals. Myths, Insults, Sacrifice, Industries, Agriculture, Commerce, Fuel. Hair, Smoking, Philters, Witch- craft, Virility. Excrement eaten, 240. Excrement gods, of Romans, of Egyp- tians, of Assyrians, of Hebrews, of Mexicans; Esculapius an excrement god ; the excrement gods of the Moa- bites; Bel-Phegor an excrement god, 127, 128, 123, 130, 131, 132. Excrement, Human, see Grand Lama of Thibet; in Medicine, see Thera- peutics ; in Punishments, see Ordeals and Punishments ; in Initiation, see Initiation ; in Industries, see Indus- tries ; in Witchcraft, see Witchcraft ; was believed to be the greatest pana- cea aga'inst Witchcraft; see Cures by Transplantation. See also Agri-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21032804_0504.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
