Etruscan Roman RemainsCosimo, Inc., 01.01.2007 - 400 Seiten The Etruscans are one of history's great mysteries -- a sophisticated society that flourished at the heart of the Classical world and then vanished, leaving relatively few archaeological remains and few records of their culture. The Etruscans were adept at magic, and Etruscan books of spells were common among the Romans but they have not survived. While greatly influenced by the Greeks, the Etruscans retained elements of an ancient non-Western culture, and these archaic traits contributed greatly to the civilization once thought of as purely Roman (gladiators, for example, and many kinds of divination). Leland retrieves elements of Etruscan culture from the living popular traditions of remote areas of the Italian countryside where belief in "the old religion" survives to an astonishing degree. Recorded when many of these secret beliefs and practices were fading away, this remarkable volume deals with ancient gods, spirits, witches, incantations, prophecy, medicine, spells, and amulets, giving full descriptions, illustrations, and instructions for practice. |
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LARES LASA | 80 |
VII TITUNOALBINAVERBIODUSIOREMLEJANO MEANA MONTULGA TALENAPICO | 122 |
CHAP PAGE | 251 |
THE EXORCISM OF DEATHTHE SPELL OF THE CRADLE DIVINATION WITH LEAD | 303 |
EVIL INCANTATIONSTHE SPELL OF THE HOLY STONE AND THE SALAGRANATHE | 326 |
LETTERED CYLINDER | 362 |
ROMAN SLINGSTONE | 373 |
INDEX | 377 |
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Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition (Classic Reprint) Charles Godfrey Leland Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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Seite 35 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Seite 26 - The babe was born at the first peep of day ; He began playing on the lyre at noon, And the same evening did he steal away Apollo's herds...
Seite 252 - LA STALLA DI MAIALE — DREAMING IN A PIGSTY AND SWINE LORE. E are told in the Heimskringla, an early history of Norway, that when Ragnhild, the wife of King Halfdan the Swarthy, was with child she dreamed marvellous dreams. Once she seemed to be standing in a garden trying to take a thorn out of her chemise, but the thorn grew in her hand until it was like a long spindle. One end of it took root in the earth, while the other shot up into a great tree, so high that her eye could scarcely reach the...
Seite 255 - ... begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake. And this thought having occurred to him, he had it proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to any one who would teach him what was the right time for every action, and who were the most necessary people, and how he might know what was the most important...
Seite 173 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Seite 94 - As a lunar-solar goddess, I believe that Losna was peculiarly associated with the mirror as a magic object. Philostratus declares that if a mirror be held before a sleeping man during a hail or thunder-storm, the storm will cease. LARONDA. Laronda in Tuscany is a very kind, benevolent spirit, who, strangely enough, is peculiar to, or who dwells in, caserme, or soldiers' barracks—" Sarebbc un spirito clelle casermc dei militari. E molta buona.
Seite 150 - Sanskrit budh, to express the revived consciousness of the whole of nature at the approach of the light of the morning ; unless there was another totally distinct root, peculiar to Latin, expressive of that idea. The two ideas certainly seem to hang closely together; the only difficulty being to find out whether ' wide awake ' led on to ' knowing,
Seite 39 - I (therefore) pray thee give me Fortune and talent! " Aplu, as is recorded in detail by all writers on Etruscan mythology, was Apollo. His is one of the commonest figures on vases and mirrors. My informant had, as I learned from close questioning, never heard the name
Seite 172 - All of which, if the reader be " a thinking character," may give him something to think over when he sees a Gothic interlace, or serpentine ornaments, or love-knots, or fish-nets, or Hegel's sentences ! Lenormant, in his Magie Cfialdaiennet speaks of the very ancient weaving of magic knots — that is, plaiting interlaces, as old Assyrian, of which he says that the efficacy was so firmly believed in, even up to the Middle Ages, and gives in illustration the following against a disease or pain in...
Seite 185 - I insist on any positive identity of any of my discoveries with ancient ones. There may have been, for aught I know, mistakes or misunderstandings as regards any or all these names. I have simply written down what I gathered, and I dare say there will be correctors enough in due time to verify or disprove it all. All of the old Etrusco-Roman deities were in pairs, male and female, hence possibly the modern confusion as to certain names. They also " crossed " one another.