![]() ![]() ![]() "It was the devil put it into my head," says the criminal and there is not a point of this old sorcery which is not earnestly and seriously advocated by the Roman Catholic Church and the preachers of the Salvation Army. ![]() This the Jews, if they did not learn it from the Assyrians in the first place, had certainly studied deeply in Babylon, where it formed the great national cult. Nothing is more apparent in the New Testament than that all diseases were anciently regarded as coming from devils, or evil occult, spiritual influences, their negative or cure being holiness in some form. We have abundant traces of this left in our highest civilization and religion among people who gravely attribute every evil to the devil instead of the unavoidable antagonisms of nature. According to the old Shamanic belief, which was the primæval religion of all mankind, every disease is caused by an evil spirit which enters the body and can only be driven out by magic. For the former, the following remedy is applied: Three lungs and three livers, of frogs are dried and powdered and drunk in spirits, after which the sick man or woman saysīy "the evil" is understood evil spirits. THOUGH not liable to many disorders, the gypsies in Eastern Europe, from their wandering, out-of-doors life, and camping by marshes and pools where there is malaria, suffer a great deal from fevers, which in their simple system of medicine are divided into the shilale- i.e., chills or cold-and the tate shilalyi, "hot-cold," or fever and ague. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, by Charles Godfrey Leland,, at ĬHAPTER II CHARMS AND CONJURATIONS TO CURE THE DISORDERS OF GROWN PEOPLE HUNGARIAN GYPSY MAGIC Sacred Texts Neo-Paganism Roma Index Previous Next ![]()
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