The Magical Origin Of Kings First Published Under The Title Lectures On The Early History Of The Kingship PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... lecture iii Magical telepathy in war--Homoeopathic Magic in relation to plants, animals, inanimate things, and the dead--Homoeopathic Magic used to annul evil omens--Examples of Contagious Magic--Magical contact between a wounded person and the weapon that hurt him--Magical contact of footprints--Public magicians develop into kings--Rise of monarchy essential to the emergence of mankind from savagery. In the last lecture I explained the two great principles of magic, which may be called the Law of Similarity and the Law of Contact. The law of similarity is the foundation of homoeopathic or imitative magic. The law of contact is the foundation of contagious magic. Both branches of magic assume the possibility of acting on persons and things at a distance. At the end of last lecture I illustrated this primitive belief in telepathy by the rules observed by people at home while their friends are away hunting or searching for precious commodities, such as camphor. Rules of the same sort, based on a belief in the sympathetic connection between persons at a distance, are observed by friends and relations at home while the men are out on the warpath. Thus among the Toradjas of Central Celebes, when a party is away hunting for heads, the villagers who stay at home, and Lect. in telepathy in war 61 especially the wives of the head-hunters, have to observe certain rules in order not to hinder the absent men at their task. In the first place the entrance to the lobo or spirit-house is shut. For the spirits of their fathers, who live in that house, are now away with the warriors, watching over and guarding them; and if any one entered their house in their absence, the spirits would hear the noise and return in great anger at thus being recalled from...