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The tea-tree in China, from its marked effect on the human constitution, has long been an agent of superstition, and been associated with the following legend, quoted by Schleiden.
'What is individual character but the personification of race, said Sidonia, 'its perfection and choice exemplar? Instead of being an inconsistency, the belief in the influence of the individual is a corollary of the original proposition. 'I look upon a belief in the influence of individual character as a barbarous superstition, said Vavasour.
The universal superstition about names is at the bottom of this custom. The Aleutian Islanders, according to Dall, are quite distressed when obliged to speak to their wives in the presence of others. The number of these instances could probably be increased by a little research.
There was one misfortune of a singular nature, to which women were liable in those days: they were in perpetual danger of being accused of witchcraft, and suffering all the cruelties and indignities of a mob, instigated by superstition and directed by enthusiasm; or of being condemned by laws, which were at once a disgrace to humanity and to sense.
Such inborn superstition as is here depicted dies hard, but it must pass away with the spread of knowledge; it will, however, take time. Nevertheless, China has a great future before it, as it has had a great past, and instead of having passed her climacteric, I predict that she is destined to reach a position of paramount importance in the Eastern world. TUESDAY, December 26.
Repeated in the text by an error of the scribe. III R. 60, col. ii. 90 to col. iii. 24. I.e., there will be war. One is reminded of the modern superstition which associates war with the 'northern light' in the heavens. I.e., there will be sedition. So a variant text. I.e., will play havoc with the Inhabitants of the deep. I.e., there will be peace.
"Captain Paul, I don't like our ship's name. Duras? What's that mean? Duras? Being cribbed up in a ship named Duras! a sort of makes one feel as if he were in durance vile." "Gad, I never thought of that before, my lion. Duras Durance vile. I suppose it's superstition, but I'll change Come, Yellow-mane, what shall we call her?" "Well, Captain Paul, don't you like Doctor Franklin?
Moreover the princess Otomie became known throughout the city as 'the blessed princess, the favoured of Tezcat. For so strong a hold had custom and superstition upon this people that they thought it the greatest of honours to her, who was among the first ladies in the land, that he who for a little space was supposed to hold the spirit of the soul of the world, should deign to desire her companionship when he ate.
We were now in the heart of a dark cedar swamp, and my mind was haunted with visions of wolves and bears; but beyond the long, wild howl of a solitary wolf, no other sound awoke the sepulchral silence of that dismal looking wood. "What a gloomy spot," said I to my husband. "In the old country, superstition would people it with ghosts." "Ghosts! There are no ghosts in Canada!" said Mr.
Visit to Manabo Conversation with my Guide Religion of the Tinguians Their Marriage Ceremony Funereal Rites Mode of Warfare I take leave of the Tinguians Journey to the Igorrots Description of them Their Dwellings A Fortunate Escape Alila and the Bandits Recollections of Home A Majestic Fig-tree Superstition of Alila Interview with an Igorrot The Human Hand Nocturnal Adventure Consternation of Alila Probable Origin of the Tinguians and Igorrots.
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