eBooks „superstition“
43 eBooks were found for the search term „superstition“.
Edward Hooker Dewey
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
- Health & Fitness
- English
- 54176 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 3
- 5
This volume is a history, or a story, of an evolution in the professional care of the sick. It begins in inexperience and in a haze of medical superstition, and ends with a faith that Nature is the all in all in the cure of disease. The hygiene unfolded is both original and revolutionary: its practicality is of the largest, and its physiology beyond any possible question. The reader is assured in advance that every line of this volume has been written with conviction at white heat, that enforced food in sickness and the drug that corrodes are professional barbarisms unworthy of the times in which we live. [more]
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William Carleton
The Black Spector (fiscle part-VI)
- History
- English
- 141507 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
There Is Very Little To Be Said About This Book In the Shape Of A
Preface. The Superstition Of The Evil Eye Is, And Has Been, One Of The
Most General That Ever Existed among Men. It May Puzzle Philosophers To
Ask Why It Prevails Wherever Mankind Exists. There Is Not A Country On
The Face Of The Earth Where A Belief In the Influence Of The Evil Eye
Does Not Prevail. In my Own Young Days It Was A Settled dogma Of Belief.
I Have Reason To Know, However, That, Like Other Superstitions, It Is
Fast Fading out Of The Public Mind. Education And Knowledge Will Soon
Banish Those Idle And Senseless Superstitions: Indeed, It Is A Very
Difficult Thing to Account For Their Existence At All. [more]
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History Of england From The Accession Of james Ii Vol. 2
- History
- English
- 224023 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history.
Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians for its one-sidedness and its complacency. Karl Marx referred to him as a "systematic falsifier of history".[2] His tendency to see history as a drama led him to treat figures whose views he opposed as if they were villains, while his approved characters were presented as heroes. Macaulay goes to considerable length, for example, to absolve his hero King William III of any responsibility for the Glencoe massacre (1692) [more]
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Effinger. John Robert
Women Of The Romance Countries
- Short Story
- English
- 114300 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
The eleventh century, which culminated in the religious fervor of the
First Crusade, must not on that account be considered as an age of
unexampled piety and devotion. Good men there were and true, and women
of great intellectual and moral force, but it cannot be said that the
time was characterized by any deep and sincere religious feeling which
showed itself in the general conduct of society. Europe was just
emerging from that gloom which had settled down so closely upon the
older civilizations after the downfall of the glory that was Rome, and
the light of the new day sifted but fitfully through the dark curtains
of that restless time. Liberty had not as yet become the shibboleth of
the people, superstition was in the very air, the knowledge of the
wisest scholars was as naught, compared with what we know to-day;
everywhere, might made right. [more]
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Vaman Acharya
PAVANPUR AND GHOST
- Short Story
- English
- 3153 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 667
Pavanpur is a small town on the bank of river Pavani. Most of the residents have formed a firm opinion that a ghost is haunting in the midnight in a corner house of the bank colony. Very few intellectuals of the town denied this fact and tried to remove the superstition of the people. In the meantime, a team of research students of the university visited the town to study on the existence of ghost. One of the team member took a bold decion to purchase the terror house with an intention to face the ghost. During his stay in the house, he had to face terrible situations. Finally, he was in a position to find out the truth.
He was awarded doctorate from the university. [more]
Keywords: pavanpur, ghost, research student, university, thesis, doctorate
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Henry Fielding
Amelia Volume I (fiscle part-I)
- Essay
- English
- 76321 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
The Various Accidents Which Befel A Very Worthy Couple After Their
Uniting in the State Of Matrimony Will Be The Subject Of The Following
History. The Distresses Which They Waded through Were Some Of Them So
Exquisite, And The Incidents Which Produced these So Extraordinary,
That They Seemed to Require Not Only The Utmost Malice, But The Utmost
Invention, Which Superstition Hath Ever Attributed to Fortune: Though
Whether Any Such Being interfered in the Case, Or, Indeed, Whether
There Be Any Such Being in the Universe, Is A Matter Which I By No
Means Presume To Determine In the Affirmative. To Speak A Bold Truth,
I Am, After Much Mature Deliberation, Inclined to Suspect That The
Public Voice Hath, In all Ages, Done Much Injustice To Fortune, And
Hath Convicted her Of Many Facts In which She Had Not The Least
Concern. [more]
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Henry Fielding
From This World To The Next (fiscle part- 9)
- Nature
- English
- 46501 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 1
Whether The Ensuing pages Were Really The Dream Or Vision Of Some Very
Pious And Holy Person; Or Whether They Were Really Written In the Other
World, And Sent Back To This, Which Is The Opinion Of Many (Though
I Think Too Much Inclining to Superstition); Or Lastly, Whether, As
Infinitely The Greatest Part Imagine, They Were Really The Production
Of Some Choice Inhabitant Of New Bethlehem, Is Not Necessary Nor Easy
To Determine. It Will Be Abundantly Sufficient If I Give The Reader An
Account By What Means They Came Into My Possession. Mr. Robert Powney,
Stationer, Who Dwells Opposite To Catherine-Street In the Strand, A
Very Honest Man And Of Great Gravity Of Countenance; Who, Among Other
Excellent Stationery Commodities, Is Particularly Eminent For His Pens,
Which I Am Abundantly Bound To Acknowledge, As I Owe To Their Peculiar
Goodness That My Manuscripts Have By Any Means Been Legible: This
Gentleman, I Say, Furnished me Some Time Since With A Bundle Of Those
Pens, Wrapped up With Great Care And Caution, In a Very Large Sheet Of
Paper Full Of Characters, Written As It Seemed in a Very Bad Hand. [more]
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Henry Fielding
Amelia (Complete) (Fiscle Part 13) of 1
- Short Story
- English
- 164905 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
The Various Accidents Which Befel A Very Worthy Couple After Their
Uniting In The State Of Matrimony Will Be The Subject Of The Following
History. The Distresses Which They Waded Through Were Some Of Them So
Exquisite, And The Incidents Which Produced These So Extraordinary,
That They Seemed To Require Not Only The Utmost Malice, But The Utmost
Invention, Which Superstition Hath Ever Attributed To Fortune: Though
Whether Any Such Being Interfered In The Case, Or, Indeed, Whether
There Be Any Such Being In The Universe, Is A Matter Which I By No
Means Presume To Determine In The Affirmative. To Speak A Bold Truth,
I Am, After Much Mature Deliberation, Inclined To Suspect That The
Public Voice Hath, In All Ages, Done Much Injustice To Fortune, And
Hath Convicted Her Of Many Facts In Which She Had Not The Least
Concern. I Question Much Whether We May Not, By Natural Means, Account
For The Success Of Knaves, The Calamities Of Fools, With All The
Miseries In Which Men Of Sense Sometimes Involve Themselves, By
Quitting The Directions Of Prudence, And Following The Blind Guidance
Of A Predominant Passion; In Short, For All The Ordinary Phenomena
Which Are Imputed To Fortune; Whom, Perhaps, Men Accuse With No Less
Absurdity In Life, Than A Bad Player Complains Of Ill Luck At The Game
Of Chess. [more]
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Jerome K. Jerome
Paul Kelver
- Short Story
- English
- 138235 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Fate Intended Me For A Singularly Fortunate Man. Properly, I Ought To
Have Been Born In June, Which Being, As Is Well Known, The Luckiest
Month In All The Year For Such Events, Should, By Thoughtful Parents,
Be More Generally Selected. How It Was I Came To Be Born In May,
Which Is, On The Other Hand, Of All The Twelve The Most Unlucky, As I
Have Proved, I Leave To Those More Conversant With The Subject To
Explain. An Early Nurse, The First Human Being Of Whom I Have Any
Distinct Recollection, Unhesitatingly Attributed The Unfortunate Fact
To My Natural Impatience; Which Quality She At The Same Time Predicted
Would Lead Me Into Even Greater Trouble, A Prophecy Impressed By
Future Events With The Stamp Of Prescience. It Was From This Same
Bony Lady That I Likewise Learned The Manner Of My Coming. It Seems
That I Arrived, Quite Unexpectedly, Two Hours After News Had Reached
The House Of The Ruin Of My Father's Mines Through Inundation;
Misfortunes, As It Was Expounded To Me, Never Coming Singly In This
World To Any One. That All Things Might Be Of A Piece, My Poor
Mother, Attempting To Reach The Bell, Fell Against And Broke The
Cheval-Glass, Thus Further Saddening Herself With The Conviction--For
No Amount Of Reasoning Ever Succeeded In Purging Her Welsh Blood Of
Its Natural Superstition--That Whatever Might Be The Result Of Future
Battles With My Evil Star, The First Seven Years Of Tiny Existence Had
Been, By Her Act, Doomed To Disaster. [more]
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Sir James George Frazer
Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- English
- 166040 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
- 1
In This Concluding Part Of _The Golden Bough_ I Have Discussed The
Problem Which Gives Its Title To The Whole Work. If I Am Right, The
Golden Bough Over Which The King Of The Wood, Diana's Priest At Aricia,
Kept Watch And Ward Was No Other Than A Branch Of Mistletoe Growing On
An Oak Within The Sacred Grove; And As The Plucking Of The Bough Was A
Necessary Prelude To The Slaughter Of The Priest, I Have Been Led To
Institute A Parallel Between The King Of The Wood At Nemi And The Norse
God Balder, Who Was Worshipped In A Sacred Grove Beside The Beautiful
Sogne Fiord Of Norway And Was Said To Have Perished By A Stroke Of
Mistletoe, Which Alone Of All Things On Earth Or In Heaven Could Wound
Him. On The Theory Here Suggested Both Balder And The King Of The Wood
Personified In A Sense The Sacred Oak Of Our Aryan Forefathers, And Both
Had Deposited Their Lives Or Souls For Safety In The Parasite Which
Sometimes, Though Rarely, Is Found Growing On An Oak And By The Very
Rarity Of Its Appearance Excites The Wonder And Stimulates The Devotion
Of Ignorant Men. Though I Am Now Less Than Ever Disposed To Lay Weight
On The Analogy Between The Italian Priest And The Norse God, I Have
Allowed It To Stand Because It Furnishes Me With A Pretext For
Discussing Not Only The General Question Of The External Soul In Popular
Superstition, But Also The Fire-Festivals Of Europe, Since Fire Played A
Part Both In The Myth Of Balder And In The Ritual Of The Arician Grove. [more]
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