Contents
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I. THE FINDING OF THE SOUL |
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| Survivals Defined | |
| A Possible non-Celtic Element | |
| Religion and Rite | |
| Religion embraces a Special Carefulness; is the opposite of Negligence; and of a Social Nature | |
| Celtic Religious Psychology | |
| Religion embraces more than Magic | |
| The Spoken Word | |
| The Spell | |
| The Positive Word | |
| Magic Charm: bricht (the Ceremonially Conceived Word) | |
| The Power of the Word | |
| The Soul in the Name | |
| Asseveration by the Tribal God | |
| The Soul and Body-Parts: Oath by the Elements | |
| Ancient Ritual of the After-Birth | |
| The Soul in the Eye | |
| Averting the Evil Eye | |
| The Blood-Soul | |
| Blood-Drinking | |
| The Blood-Covenant | |
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| The Soul in the Blood | |
| The Soul in the Breath | |
| The 'Double' | |
| The Self as different from the Body | |
| Chief Forms of Soul-Cult |
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| 1. Animism | |
| 2. Animalism and Manism | |
| 3. Daimonism | |
| Gessa, i.e. Restrictions or Taboos | |
| Raising the Name | |
| Faint 'Survival' of Simulative Couvade | |
| Brian and the Virgin Birth: Parthenogenesis | |
| The Dusii of Gaul: the Breton Courils | |
| Varieties of Supernatural Birth | |
| Life-Tokens | |
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| The External Soul | |
| Swearing by Weapons | |
| Swearing by the Hand | |
| The Soul-Form as Moth, Butterfly | |
| The Bee-Soul | |
| The Bird-Soul |
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| Cuckoo | |
| Cormorant | |
| Raven, Magpie, Eagle | |
| Swan | |
| Ghost-Bird of St. Kilda | |
| Wren | |
| Heron | |
| Crane and Gull | |
| Language of Animals | |
| Sacred Animals | |
| Animal-Fasting | |
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| The Theriomorphic Soul |
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| (a) Hare-Form | |
| (b) Cat-Form | |
| (c) Mare-Form (Horse-Form) | |
| Clan Leod and the Horse | |
| Morc na Maighe | |
| (d) Fowl Taboo or Sacred | |
| Sacredness and Potency of Swine's Blood | |
| (e) Deer-Form | |
| Oisin's Animal Parentage | |
| The White Hind as Fairy Love | |
| Names of Animal Origin | |
| (f) Bull-Form | |
| (a) The Boobrie as Bird | |
| (b) The Boobrie as Water-Horse | |
| (c) The Boobrie as Water-Bull | |
| The Bittern | |
| Water-Bull | |
| The Gaulish Tarvos Trigaranos | |
| The Divine Bull | |
| Water-Wraith and Nymphs | |
| The Bull on the Paris Altar | |
| The Bull of Trèves | |
| The Donn Cualnge | |
| An Irish Wake Orgy | |
| Cuchulainn and Lug | |
| (g) The Water-Horse | |
| (h) Serpent-Form | |
| (i) Wolf-Form | |
| (j) Dog-Form | |
| (k) Seal-Form | |
| (1) Boar-Form: an treith chuileanach | |
| (m) Semi-theriomorphic Form | |
| (n) The Tree-Soul | |
| The Rowan as Tree of Life | |
| The Sacred Tree or Bile | |
| The Tree-Soul and Labhraidh Lorc | |
| (o) The Soul in Stones or the God-Stone | |
| 'Telling it to the Stones' | |
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| STAGES OF THE JOURNEY | |
| 1. Lustration |
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| 2. Illumination |
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| 3. Healing |
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| (a) 1. The Rites that unite Man with Man |
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| (a) 2. The Rites that unite Man with the Divine as recognised |
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| (b) The Rites that avert |
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| (c) Faith-Healing |
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| (d) Folk-Medicine |
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| 1. The Lustral Rites | |
| Leigheas Cuairte | |
| Lustration by Fire | |
| Lustration by Water | |
| " " Milk | |
| The Transition from Lustration to Sacrifice: Blood | |
| 2. Illumination | |
| Omens | |
| Stones of Omen | |
| Divination by Bull-Feast | |
| Scapulimantia | |
| Crystal-Gazing | |
| The Sight of the Two Worlds (Second Sight) | |
| First Sight: Apparent Double Presence: tármachduinn | |
| 3. Healing |
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| (a) 1. The Rites that unite Man with Man | |
| Wedding Rites in 'Survival' | |
| (a) 2. The Rites that unite the Human with the Divine |
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| Primitive Commensality | |
| Libations | |
| Michael's Cake | |
| Offering | |
| Michael's Portion: the Michaelmas Sheep | |
| Relics of Sacrifice: the 'Devoted' Person | |
| Beltane Rural Sacrifice | |
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| Purification and Fertility |
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| The Hogmanay Breast-Strip {Caisein Uchd, Caisein Calluig} | |
| The Man in Cow-Hide | |
| (b) The Rites that avert: Cocks in Sacrifice | |
| The 'Invocation' to avert Ignorance or Revelation attempted by Magic | |
| The Part for the Whole: preventing Cattle-Loss | |
| Animal Sacrifice | |
| Bull Sacrifice | |
| Live Trout in Healing Rites | |
| Human Sacrifices: heart of a man who did not know his parents; the man without a father; auspication of buildings; 'the putting away of Death'; vicarious sacrifice | |
| Elements of Sacrifice: commensality; purification; giving to get; giving to avert (propitiation); substitution (life for life) | |
| Positive Magic | |
| The Negative Code | |
| The Burdens of the Soul | |
| Crime and Sacrifice | |
| The Transmission of Luck | |
| (c) Faith-Healing |
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| Psychic Suggestion | |
| Primitive Incubation | |
| The Sacred Loch | |
| The Sacred Well | |
| The Sacred Cave | |
| (d) Folk-Medicine: Religion and Magic | |
| Retrospect | |
| INDEX |