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Length6h 31m
About this audiobook
Who, and what are the medicine-men (or medicine-women), of the American Indians? What powers do they possess in time of peace or war? How is this power obtained, how renewed, how exercised? What is the character of the remedies employed? Are they pharmaceutical, as we employ the term, or are they the superstitious efforts of empirics and charlatans, seeking to deceive and to misguide by pretended consultations with spiritual powers and by reliance upon mysterious and occult influences? Such a discussion will be attempted in this book, which will be restricted to a description of the personality of the medicine-men, the regalia worn, and the powers possessed and claimed. To go farther, and enter into a treatment of the religious ideas, the superstitions, omens, and prayers of these spiritual leaders, would be to open a road without end.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length6 hrs 31 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Medicine-Women
21Hair Powder
2Remedies and Modes of Treatment
22Dust from Churches—Its Use
3Hair and Wigs
23Clay-Eating
4Mudheads
24Prehistoric Foods Used in Covenants
5Scalp Shirts
25Sacred Breads and Cakes
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6The Rhombus, or Bull Roarer
26Unleavened Bread
7The Cross
27The Hot Cross Buns of Good Friday
8Necklaces of Human Fingers
28Galena
9Necklaces of Human Teeth
29Analogues to be Found Among the Aztecs, Peruvians, and Others
10The Scratch Stick
30The Magic Wind Knotted Cords of the Lapps and Others
11The Drinking Reed
31Rosaries and Other Mnemonic Cords
12The "Kunque" of the Zuñi and Others
32The Sacred Cords of the Parsis and Brahmans
13Use of Pollen by the Israelites and Egyptians
33Use of Cords and Knots and Girdles in Parturition
14Hoddentin a Prehistoric Food
34"Medidas," "Measuring Cords," "Wresting Threads," Etc.
15Hoddentin the Yiauhtli of the Aztecs
35Unclassified Superstitions Upon This Subject
16"Bledos" of Ancient Writers—Its Meaning
36The Medicine Hat
17Tzoalli
37The Spirit or Ghost Dance Headdress
18General Use of the Powder Among Indians
38Amulets and Talismans
19Analogues of Hoddentin
39Phylacteries
20The Down of Birds in Ceremonial Observances
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