tailieunhanh - Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play, etc., and, in fact, embodying almost the whole of the ancient | Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney 1 Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney Project Gutenberg s The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1885-1886 Government Printing Office Washington 1891 pages 301-398 Author James Mooney Release Date March 9 2008 EBook 24788 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SACRED FORMULAS Produced by William Flis Carlo Traverso and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France BnF Gallica at http Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney 2 Transcriber s note The following symbols are used to represent special characters for accent not apostrophe for apostrophe single closing quote for opening single quote n i u w U raised superscript letters x any letter x with breve a a with macron THE SACRED FORMULAS OF THE CHEROKEES. BY JAMES MOONEY. CONTENTS Introduction 307 How the formulas were obtained. 310 The A yu n in i Swimmer manuscript 310 The Gatigwanast i Belt manuscript 312 The Gahun i manuscript 313 The Inâl i Black Fox manuscript 314 Other manuscripts 316 The Kanâhe ta Ani-Tsa lag i Et i or Ancient Cherokee Formulas 317 Character of the formulas--the Cherokee religion 318 Myth of the origin of disease and medicine 319 Theory of disease--animals ghosts witches 322 Selected list of plants used 324 Medical practice-theory of resemblances--fasting--tabu--seclusion--women 328 Illustration of the gaktu n ta or tabu 331 Neglect of sanitary .

• Y học thường thức
• the formulas
• Cherokee religion
• manuscripts
• Medicine dances
• The Gatigwanast
• sanitary regulations
• Theory of disease