Magic in names and in other things / by Edward Clodd.

  • Edward Clodd
Date:
1920
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Credit: Magic in names and in other things / by Edward Clodd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    echoing of their voices in the Parana forest has among the Abipones the same explanation. The Indians of the Rockies would not venture near Manitobah Island because in the sound of the low wailing waves beating on the beach they heard voices from the spirit land. In South Pacific myth Echo is the parent fairy to whom at Marquesas divine honours are paid as the giver of food and as 44 she who speaks to the worshipper out of the rocks.” 1 The Anglo- Saxon word for echo is wudu-maer, i. e. wood nymph. As one of the Oreades, Echo, for con¬ niving at the amours of Jupiter, was changed by the jealous Juno into a lovesick maiden, until, pining in grief at her unrequited love for Narcissus, there remained nothing but her voice. (c) Mana in Personal Names. Taboo is the dread tyrant of savage life. Among civilized peoples, under the guise of customs whose force is stronger than law, it rules in larger degree than most persons care to admit. But among barbaric communities it puts a ring fence round the simplest acts, regu¬ lates all intercourse by the minutest codes, and secures obedience to its manifold prohibitions by threats of punishment to be inflicted by magic and other apparatus of the invisible. It may be called the Inquisition of the lower culture, 1 Dorman, pp. 42, 302.
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