Vivre dans le monde comme dans un immense musée d'étrangeté, plein de jouets curieux, bariolés, qui changent d'aspect, que quelque-...

Of the ferryman across the "Waters of Death" there is no trace in the Old Testament. Spirits are supposed rather to "fly awa...

Des démonologues du moyen âge mentionnent le démon Tintinillus comme ayant pour mission de recueillir dans une grand sac les versets des ps...

Tenebrae apud inferos, duplices. Illas Corporis voco, et exteriores, has Animi et interiores. Illae Corporis, tenebras Aegyptias, horribil...

La présomption est notre maladie naturelle et originelle. La plus calamiteuse et frêle de toutes les créatures c'est l'homme, et qu...

He hath a soule drownd in a lumpe of flesh, or is a peece of earth that Prometheus put not halfe his proportion of fire into. A thing that...

Youwan Shestalow ( Юван Николаевич Шесталов ) (1937-2011) ērγəŋ mākemn, mōjtəŋ mākemn ōsta, ōsta joχtŭmākem. wojkan χāľkwet rāmγantē...

Youwan Shestalow ( Юван Николаевич Шесталов ) (1937-2011) χōtal śarmat χuriŋ āγi kit saγaγe saγijāγe. āŋkwatike - simkem tōli, wōrkem ...

According to Jochelson (1), among the Koryak there exist two conceptions of the abode of the departed. One soul of the deceased may rise to...

A Vogul of the northern Ural. ( Collection of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography ). M. A. Czaplicka, Aboriginal S...

De Lingua etiam et sermone Mortuorum oriuntur quaestiunculae. Mortuorum Dialogos finxere multi, sed qua lingua colloquuntur mortui, nescio....

On the 14th of May [1692], he embarked at Solikamskoi, and crossing the little River of Usolkat, half a League from this City, he entered t...

La Moldavie est une des plus belles et des plus agréables Provinces de l'Europe. On y voit de grandes Campagnes, qui font arrosées de d...

The Vogouls are hardly of a middling stature, have generally black hair, and for the most part a scanty beard. They have some traits of the...

These people are sometimes called Vagouls and Vagoulitzes; but the appellation they give themselves is Mansi. They are of Finnish extractio...

Me did he lead to the Dwelling of Darkness, the home of Irkalla, Unto the Dwelling from which he who entereth cometh forth never! (Aye), b...

The Sosva Voguls maintain that the Prince of the Underworld sends sickness and death. (...) In several areas xuḽ-ōtәr or kuḽ-noàjer is id...

Les fausses religions ont aussi leur enfer: celui des Païens, assez connu par les descriptions qu’en ont faites Homere, Ovide et Virgile, e...

Xaca, dont la secte est très-répandue dans le Japon, enseigne que, dans le lieu du supplice que les méchants vont habiter après leur mort, ...

Exotericam Xekiae disciplinam describunt Le Comte, La Loubere, Bernier, maxime vero Kaempferus, ex quorum narrationibus constat, ita hunc I...

Les habitants de l'isle Formose croient que les hommes, après leur mort, passent sur un pont fort étroit, fait avec une sorte de roseau...

Offenditur nationes omnes, quae modo in Universo sunt, conspirare cum antiquis in dogmate de misera impiorum post mortem conditione   S...

Chichikov himself is merely the ill-paid representative of the Devil, a travelling salesman from Hades, “our Mr Chichikov” as the Satan and...

When a corpse is buried, the soul of the deceased descends into the underworld - called the 'lower land' or the 'lower world...

One of the most significant protective spirits among the Northern Voguls is mir-susnē-xum 'the World Overseeing Man'. He is also c...

Le Feu que nous avons ici bas, quoique il ne soit qu'une image très imparfaite de celui de l'Enfer, abîme, détruit, dissout, et r...

Le livre imprimé n'existe que depuis quatre cents ans tout au plus, et il s'accumule déjà dans certain pays de manière à mettre en ...

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'...