{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sbc/sbc02.htm","path":"neu/celt/sbc/sbc02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sbc/sbc02.htm","text":"Survivals in Belief Among the Celts, by George Henderson, [1911]\n| CHAPTER I. THE FINDING OF THE SOUL (OR THE INTERNAL SOUL) | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Survivals Defined | 1, 5 | \n| A Possible non-Celtic Element | 3 | \n| Religion and Rite | 5 | \n| Religion embraces a Special Carefulness; is the opposite of Negligence; and of a Social Nature | 8 | \n| Celtic Religious Psychology | 9 | \n| Religion embraces more than Magic | 10 | \n| The Spoken Word | 11 | \n| The Spell | 13 | \n| The Positive Word | 15 | \n| Magic Charm: bricht (the Ceremonially Conceived Word) | 17 | \n| The Power of the Word | 18 | \n| The Soul in the Name | 19 | \n| Asseveration by the Tribal God | 20 | \n| The Soul and Body-Parts: Oath by the Elements | 21 | \n| Ancient Ritual of the After-Birth | 23 | \n| The Soul in the Eye | 25 | \n| Averting the Evil Eye | 27 | \n| The Blood-Soul | 29 | \n| Blood-Drinking | 30, 31 | \n| The Blood-Covenant | 32 | \n| p. viii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Soul in the Blood | 40 | \n| The Soul in the Breath | 45, 49 | \n| The 'Double' | 47 | \n| The Self as different from the Body | 48 | \n| Chief Forms of Soul-Cult | | \n| 1. Animism | 51 | \n| 2. Animalism and Manism | 52 | \n| 3. Daimonism | 56 | \n| Gessa, i.e. Restrictions or Taboos | 57 | \n| Raising the Name | 58 | \n| Faint 'Survival' of Simulative Couvade | 59 | \n| Brian and the Virgin Birth: Parthenogenesis | 65 | \n| The Dusii of Gaul: the Breton Courils | 73 | \n| Varieties of Supernatural Birth | 74 | \n| Life-Tokens | 75 | \n| CHAPTER II. THE WANDERINGS OF PSYCHE (OR THE EXTERNAL SOUL) | | \n| The External Soul | 76 | \n| Swearing by Weapons | 77 | \n| Swearing by the Hand | 78 | \n| The Soul-Form as Moth, Butterfly | 79 | \n| The Bee-Soul | 83 | \n| The Bird-Soul | | \n| Cuckoo | 89 | \n| Cormorant | 90 | \n| Raven, Magpie, Eagle | 91 | \n| Swan | 92 | \n| Ghost-Bird of St. Kilda | 92 | \n| Wren | 96 | \n| Heron | 98 | \n| Crane and Gull | 99 | \n| Language of Animals | 99 | \n| Sacred Animals | 100, 101 | \n| Animal-Fasting | 101 | \n| p. ix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Theriomorphic Soul | | \n| (a) Hare-Form | 102 | \n| (b) Cat-Form | 107 | \n| (c) Mare-Form (Horse-Form) | 109 | \n| Clan Leod and the Horse | 117 | \n| Morc na Maighe | 119 | \n| (d) Fowl Taboo or Sacred | 121 | \n| Sacredness and Potency of Swine's Blood | 121 | \n| (e) Deer-Form | 121, 131 | \n| Oisin's Animal Parentage | 123, 127 | \n| The White Hind as Fairy Love | 125 | \n| Names of Animal Origin | 129 | \n| (f) Bull-Form | 133 | \n| (a) The Boobrie as Bird | 135 | \n| (b) The Boobrie as Water-Horse | 137, 143 | \n| (c) The Boobrie as Water-Bull | 138 | \n| The Bittern | 144 | \n| Water-Bull | 147 | \n| The Gaulish Tarvos Trigaranos | 148 | \n| The Divine Bull | 149, 152 | \n| Water-Wraith and Nymphs | 149, 150 | \n| The Bull on the Paris Altar | 153 | \n| The Bull of Tr\u00e8ves | 155 | \n| The Donn Cualnge | 158 | \n| An Irish Wake Orgy | 158 | \n| Cuchulainn and Lug | 159-161 | \n| (g) The Water-Horse | 161 | \n| (h) Serpent-Form | 165 | \n| (i) Wolf-Form | 170 | \n| (j) Dog-Form | 173 | \n| (k) Seal-Form | 175 | \n| (1) Boar-Form: an treith chuileanach | 175 | \n| (m) Semi-theriomorphic Form | 176 | \n| (n) The Tree-Soul | 179 | \n| The Rowan as Tree of Life | 181 | \n| The Sacred Tree or Bile | 187 | \n| The Tree-Soul and Labhraidh Lorc | 197 | \n| (o) The Soul in Stones or the God-Stone | 198 | \n| 'Telling it to the Stones' | 203 | \n| p. x | | \n| CHAPTER III. THE EARTHLY JOURNEY | | \n| | PAGE | \n| STAGES OF THE JOURNEY | 207 | \n| 1. Lustration | | \n| 2. Illumination | | \n| 3. Healing | | \n| (a) 1. The Rites that unite Man with Man | | \n| (a) 2. The Rites that unite Man with the Divine as recognised | | \n| (b) The Rites that avert | | \n| (c) Faith-Healing | | \n| (d) Folk-Medicine | | \n| 1. The Lustral Rites | 208 | \n| Leigheas Cuairte | 209 | \n| Lustration by Fire | 211 | \n| Lustration by Water | 216 | \n| \" \" Milk | 218 | \n| The Transition from Lustration to Sacrifice: Blood | 220 | \n| 2. Illumination | 220 | \n| Omens | 224 | \n| Stones of Omen | 227 | \n| Divination by Bull-Feast | 229 | \n| Scapulimantia | 231 | \n| Crystal-Gazing | 233 | \n| The Sight of the Two Worlds (Second Sight) | 239 | \n| First Sight: Apparent Double Presence: t\u00e1rmachduinn | 243 | \n| 3. Healing | | \n| (a) 1. The Rites that unite Man with Man | 245 | \n| Wedding Rites in 'Survival' | 247 | \n| (a) 2. The Rites that unite the Human with the Divine | | \n| Primitive Commensality | 252 | \n| Libations | 254 | \n| Michael's Cake | 255 | \n| Offering | 257 | \n| Michael's Portion: the Michaelmas Sheep | 259 | \n| Relics of Sacrifice: the 'Devoted' Person | 261 | \n| Beltane Rural Sacrifice | 262 | \n| p. xi | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Purification and Fertility | | \n| The Hogmanay Breast-Strip {Caisein Uchd, Caisein Calluig} | 263 | \n| The Man in Cow-Hide | 265 | \n| (b) The Rites that avert: Cocks in Sacrifice | 266 | \n| The 'Invocation' to avert Ignorance or Revelation attempted by Magic | 267 | \n| The Part for the Whole: preventing Cattle-Loss | 270 | \n| Animal Sacrifice | 271 | \n| Bull Sacrifice | 273 | \n| Live Trout in Healing Rites | 275 | \n| 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 | 276 | \n| Elements of Sacrifice: commensality; purification; giving to get; giving to avert (propitiation); substitution (life for life) | 287 | \n| Positive Magic | 291 | \n| The Negative Code | 292 | \n| The Burdens of the Soul | 299 | \n| Crime and Sacrifice | 305 | \n| The Transmission of Luck | 307 | \n| (c) Faith-Healing | | \n| Psychic Suggestion | 309 | \n| Primitive Incubation | 313 | \n| The Sacred Loch | 315 | \n| The Sacred Well | 321 | \n| The Sacred Cave | 333 | \n| (d) Folk-Medicine: Religion and Magic | 334 | \n| Retrospect | 341 | \n| INDEX | 344 |","title":"Survivals in Belief Among the Celts: Contents","type":"page"}