Part 2

THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

By CHARLES SQUIRE, Author of The Mythology of the British Islands.

JUDAISM.

By ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, Lecturer in Talmudic Literature in Cambridge University, Author of Jewish Life in the Middle Ages.

PRIMITIVE OR NICENE CHRISTIANITY.

By JOHN SUTHERLAND BLACK, LL.D., Joint Editor of the Encyclopædia Biblica.

SHINTOISM.

MEDIAEVAL CHRISTIANITY.

ZOROASTRIANISM.

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ITALY.

Other Volumes to follow.

MAGIC AND FETISHISM

By ALFRED C. HADDON, Sc.D., F.R.S. UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN ETHNOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE

LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. LTD. 16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET 1906

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty

PREFATORY NOTE

It is by no means easy to do justice to such a large, comprehensive, and at the same time vague subject as magic in the small compass of a Primer, and part of even that small space had to be devoted to another subject. For sins of omission I must claim this excuse; for sins of commission I claim the indulgence of the reader.

A. C. H.

CONTENTS

MAGIC

I. SYMPATHETIC MAGIC.

A. Contagious Magic.

Hair, nail-pairings, etc. (3), scalp-lock (4), saliva (5), luck-ball (5), footprints (6), clothes (7), rag bushes and pin-wells (8), personal ‘ornaments’ (9), food (10), cannibalism (10), sympathetic relations between persons (11), couvade (13).

B. Homœopathic Magic.

Plants (15), rain-making (16), wind-making (18), increase of plants (18), and of animals (19), luring animals to be caught (19), human effigies to injure or kill people (20).

II. MAGICAL POWER OF NAMES AND WORDS.

Objection to names being mentioned of people, fairies, and animals (22), names of power (24), satire (26), geis (27), tabu (28).

III. TALISMANS AND AMULETS.