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Survivals in Belief Among the Celts, by George Henderson, [1911], at sacred-texts.com
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CHAPTER I. THE FINDING OF THE SOUL |
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Survivals Defined | |
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A Possible non-Celtic Element | |
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Religion and Rite | |
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Religion embraces a Special Carefulness; is the opposite of Negligence; and of a Social Nature | |
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Celtic Religious Psychology | |
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Religion embraces more than Magic | |
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The Spoken Word | |
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The Spell | |
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The Positive Word | |
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Magic Charm: bricht (the Ceremonially Conceived Word) | |
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The Power of the Word | |
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The Soul in the Name | |
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Asseveration by the Tribal God | |
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The Soul and Body-Parts: Oath by the Elements | |
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Ancient Ritual of the After-Birth | |
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The Soul in the Eye | |
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Averting the Evil Eye | |
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The Blood-Soul | |
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Blood-Drinking | |
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The Blood-Covenant | |
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The Soul in the Blood | |
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The Soul in the Breath | |
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The 'Double' | |
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The Self as different from the Body | |
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Chief Forms of Soul-Cult |
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1. Animism | |
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2. Animalism and Manism | |
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3. Daimonism | |
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Gessa, i.e. Restrictions or Taboos | |
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Raising the Name | |
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Faint 'Survival' of Simulative Couvade | |
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Brian and the Virgin Birth: Parthenogenesis | |
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The Dusii of Gaul: the Breton Courils | |
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Varieties of Supernatural Birth | |
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Life-Tokens | |
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The External Soul | |
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Swearing by Weapons | |
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Swearing by the Hand | |
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The Soul-Form as Moth, Butterfly | |
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The Bee-Soul | |
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The Bird-Soul |
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Cuckoo | |
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Cormorant | |
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Raven, Magpie, Eagle | |
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Swan | |
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Ghost-Bird of St. Kilda | |
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Wren | |
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Heron | |
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Crane and Gull | |
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Language of Animals | |
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Sacred Animals | |
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Animal-Fasting | |
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The Theriomorphic Soul |
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(a) Hare-Form | |
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(b) Cat-Form | |
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(c) Mare-Form (Horse-Form) | |
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Clan Leod and the Horse | |
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Morc na Maighe | |
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(d) Fowl Taboo or Sacred | |
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Sacredness and Potency of Swine's Blood | |
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(e) Deer-Form | |
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Oisin's Animal Parentage | |
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The White Hind as Fairy Love | |
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Names of Animal Origin | |
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(f) Bull-Form | |
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(a) The Boobrie as Bird | |
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(b) The Boobrie as Water-Horse | |
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(c) The Boobrie as Water-Bull | |
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The Bittern | |
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Water-Bull | |
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The Gaulish Tarvos Trigaranos | |
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The Divine Bull | |
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Water-Wraith and Nymphs | |
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The Bull on the Paris Altar | |
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The Bull of Trèves | |
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The Donn Cualnge | |
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An Irish Wake Orgy | |
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Cuchulainn and Lug | |
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(g) The Water-Horse | |
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(h) Serpent-Form | |
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(i) Wolf-Form | |
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(j) Dog-Form | |
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(k) Seal-Form | |
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(1) Boar-Form: an treith chuileanach | |
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(m) Semi-theriomorphic Form | |
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(n) The Tree-Soul | |
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The Rowan as Tree of Life | |
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The Sacred Tree or Bile | |
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The Tree-Soul and Labhraidh Lorc | |
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(o) The Soul in Stones or the God-Stone | |
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'Telling it to the Stones' | |
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STAGES OF THE JOURNEY | |
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1. Lustration |
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2. Illumination |
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3. Healing |
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(a) 1. The Rites that unite Man with Man |
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(a) 2. The Rites that unite Man with the Divine as recognised |
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(b) The Rites that avert |
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(c) Faith-Healing |
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(d) Folk-Medicine |
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1. The Lustral Rites | |
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Leigheas Cuairte | |
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Lustration by Fire | |
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Lustration by Water | |
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" " Milk | |
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The Transition from Lustration to Sacrifice: Blood | |
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2. Illumination | |
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Omens | |
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Stones of Omen | |
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Divination by Bull-Feast | |
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Scapulimantia | |
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Crystal-Gazing | |
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The Sight of the Two Worlds (Second Sight) | |
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First Sight: Apparent Double Presence: tármachduinn | |
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3. Healing |
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(a) 1. The Rites that unite Man with Man | |
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Wedding Rites in 'Survival' | |
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(a) 2. The Rites that unite the Human with the Divine |
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Primitive Commensality | |
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Libations | |
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Michael's Cake | |
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Offering | |
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Michael's Portion: the Michaelmas Sheep | |
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Relics of Sacrifice: the 'Devoted' Person | |
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Beltane Rural Sacrifice | |
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Purification and Fertility |
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The Hogmanay Breast-Strip {Caisein Uchd, Caisein Calluig} | |
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The Man in Cow-Hide | |
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(b) The Rites that avert: Cocks in Sacrifice | |
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The 'Invocation' to avert Ignorance or Revelation attempted by Magic | |
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The Part for the Whole: preventing Cattle-Loss | |
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Animal Sacrifice | |
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Bull Sacrifice | |
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Live Trout in Healing Rites | |
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Human Sacrifices: heart of a man who did not know his parents; the man without a father; auspication of buildings; 'the putting away of Death'; vicarious sacrifice | |
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Elements of Sacrifice: commensality; purification; giving to get; giving to avert (propitiation); substitution (life for life) | |
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Positive Magic | |
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The Negative Code | |
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The Burdens of the Soul | |
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Crime and Sacrifice | |
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The Transmission of Luck | |
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(c) Faith-Healing |
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Psychic Suggestion | |
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Primitive Incubation | |
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The Sacred Loch | |
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The Sacred Well | |
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The Sacred Cave | |
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(d) Folk-Medicine: Religion and Magic | |
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Retrospect | |
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