 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1832 - 366 pages
...When sent for by a sick person, their practice principally consists in feeling for the mischievous deity, and in smothering him when found, by rubbing...provoked their displeasure. In order to cure some disTHE TAHUNAS AND THEIR DUTIES. 24/7 eases, they place the patient in water, invoking the god, and... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1832 - 408 pages
...When sent for by a sick person, their practice principally consists in feeling for the mischievous deity, and in smothering him when found, by rubbing...which they pretend to inflict death on any one who has pro\oked their displeasure. In order to cure some dis* eases, they place the patient in water, invoking... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1833 - 480 pages
...When sent for by a sick person, their practice principally consists in feeling for the mischievous deity, and in smothering him when found, by rubbing...provoked their displeasure. In order to cure some disease, they place the patient in water, invoking the god, and beating the water with branches of... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - Mythology - 1860 - 644 pages
...the Tauas being inspired, smother the mischievous deity between D,e fingers and the palm of the hand. In order to cure some diseases they place the patient...branches of trees and pouring some of it on his head. The Tauas (of whom some are females) become gods after their dead. The office of the Tahnnas (the priests,... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - Mythology - 1860 - 1130 pages
...smother the nüsehievous deity between thefingcrsandthepalmofthehand. In orderte eure some discases they place the patient in water, invoking the god...water with branches of trees and pouring some of it on Ins head. The Tanas (of whom some itrc females) become 'gods after their dead. The offlce of the Tahunas... | |
 | Philipp Wilhelm Adolf Bastian - 1860 - 1574 pages
...the Tanas being inspired, smother the mischievous deity between the lingers and the palm of the hand. In order to cure some diseases they place the patient...invoking the god and beating the water with branches <>< trees and pouring some of it on his head. The Tanas (of whom some are females) become gods after... | |
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sickness from a god ;" and the Tauas, being inspired, are applied to, as alone capable of contending with the evil. When sent for by a sick person, their practice principally consists in feeling for the mischievous deity, and in smothering him when found,... 