The souls of man: 1) urtă - the soul that departs for the warm regions after or on the point of a man's death; 2) lash - soul in t...

I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit ( ἐν τῷ ἐγγαστριμύθῳ ), and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee. (Reg. I 28.8) ...

Bogoros (1) believes that he can explain the "separate voices" of the Chukchee shamans by ventriloquism. But his phonograph recor...

[I]t seems that the [Altaic] shaman makes vertical descent down the seven successive "levels," or subterranean regions, called pu...

This distemper [Melancholie] would sometimes cast a cloud, and some halfe damps upon her naturall cheerfulnesse, and socialblenesse, and so...

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy voice shall be low out of the dust and thy voice shall be as of ...

La thème des personnages enfermés dans des bocaux sphériques « résulte - indique Baltrušaitis - de la dégénérescence du cosmos cristall...

Géza Róheim, Hungarian and Vogul Mythology , Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, ed. Esther S. Goldfrank, Vol. 23, J. J. Aug...

In the Vogul conception, the vital space of the surrounding world consists of seven strata or tiers. According to our information, these ar...

The Voguls worshipped - and perhaps still worship - one especially among their gods who bears the name of "The Man Who Looks at the Wo...

Torum is a divinity under whose symbol [the Vogouls] convey the idea of a universal god, the merciful sovereign of the world. They ...

Géza Róheim, Hungarian and Vogul Mythology , Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, ed. Esther S. Goldfrank, Vol. 23, J. J. Augus...

Il est bien plus probable que les Gètes avoient puisé dans la Tartarie, d'où ils étoient originaires, le culte du Dieu La , & l'...

Il semble à chacun que la maîtresse forme de nature est en lui : touche et rapporte à celle-là toutes les autres formes. Les allures qui ne ...

А Митьку я раздавлю как таракана. Я черных тараканов ночью туфлей давлю: так и щелкнет, как наступишь. Щелкнет и Митька твой. Ф. М. Досто...

В этой избе печь стояла изразцовая и была сильно натоплена. По стенам красовались голубые обои, правда все изодранные, а под ними в трещина...

(C) Alistair Ian Blyth

Based on Fathers and Sons. A Novel . Ivan Sergheïevich Turgeneff. Translated from the Russian with the approval of the author by Eugene Sc...

Une traduction est un jugement, un commentaire, c'est un miroir où l'auteur peut comtempler à son aise les défauts de son esprit. Un...

La Bêtise publique me submerge. (...) La Bourgeoisie est tellement ahurie qu'elle n'a plus même l'instinct de se défendre. -- E...

Et au fond toujours cette vieille canaillerie immuable et inébranlable. C'est là la base. Ah! comme il vous en passe sous les yeux! De t...

Le cimetière oriental est une des belles choses de l'Orient. Il n'a pas ce caractère profondément agaçant que je trouve chez nous à ...

Mets ton masque Sokolov, que tes fermentations anaérobies fassent éclater les tubas de ta renommée et que tes vents irrépressibles transfor...

L'homme se plaît à exercer les forces de son corps & de son intelligence ; il sent que l'oisiveté est contraire à son être , ...

C’était le grand bagne de l’Amérique transporté sur notre continent ; c’était enfin, l’immense, la profonde, l’incommensurable goujaterie d...

Filip Florian's novel The Days of the King (Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, 2011) is at Read This Next for the week of 11 July 2011 Intervi...

Покой был известного рода, ибо гостиница была тоже известного рода, то есть именно такая, как бывают гостиницы в губернских горо...

Огромный, величиною почти с слона, таракан остановился у дверей и просунул свои усы. Полное собрание сочинений в 14 томах (1937-1952) , Том ...

(v) If only you knew how sorry I was to find not you but rather the note you left on my desk. Had I returned but a minute earlier, I might s...

(iv) "Cat's mint" (i.e. catsfoot). Glechoma hedera terrestris, alleviates piles. Arzamas region medicinal herbarium Кошечья м...

(iii) Having ordered a very light supper, which consisted of only a sucking pig, Chichikov straight away undressed and, climbing under the ...

(i) "Would you like to take some snuff? It chases away headaches and gloomy moods; it is even good for treating haemorrhoids." Say...

Хотя бы только пожелать так, хотя бы только насильно заставить себя это сделать, ухватиться бы за этот <день>, как утопающий хватает...

Creation sometimes pours into the spiritual eye the radiance of heaven. The green mountains that glimmer in a summer gloaming from the dusky...

Даниил Иванович говорил: надо подойти к пропасти, стать на самом краю ее, взглянуть вниз и не упасть. Чинари глава из книги Якова Семено...

Iulian Ciocan, Înainte să moară Brejnev (Before Brezhnev Died). Polirom: Jassy, 2007. 173 pp. Before Brezhnev Died by Iulian Ciocan is...

Samuel Beckett, letter to Mary Manning Howe, sent from Hamburg on 14 November 1936 ... I am exhorted to ablate 33.3 recurring to all eternit...

Babylon is a towne not very great but very populous, and of great traffike of strangers, for that it is the way to Persia, Turkia and Arabi...

In a most curious and rare tract, entitled A Joco-serious Discourse in two Dialogues, between a Northumberland Gentleman and his Tenant, a S...