Collective volume with texts in Batak (1-3) : Divination with a lemon ; and other texts
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Author : Geoff Woollams
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0191509248
What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middle East and which have developed and spread across much of the Western Hemisphere and beyond over the ensuing millennia. At their most benign, they contain charms and remedies for natural and supernatural ailments and advice on contacting spirits to help find treasures and protect from evil. But at their most sinister they provide instructions on how to manipulate people for corrupt purposes and, worst of all, to call up and make a pact with the Devil. Both types have proven remarkably resilient and adaptable and retain much of their relevance and fascination to this day. But the grimoire represents much more than just magic. To understand the history of grimoires is to understand the spread of Christianity, the development of early science, the cultural influence of the print revolution, the growth of literacy, the impact of colonialism, and the expansion of western cultures across the oceans. As this book richly demonstrates, the history of grimoires illuminates many of the most important developments in European history over the last two thousand years.
Author : J.C. Vergouwen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9401510350
.J. c. Vergouwen's work, Het Rechtsleven der T'oba-Bataks, here presented in an English translation, was published in the autumn of 1933, a few weeks before the author's death at the early age of 44 from tuberculosis, from which he had suffered since 1930. During the time he spent in a sanatorium in Davos and later in the Netherlands, he began and completed his monograph on the customary law of the Toba-Batak. His book immediately became one of the outstanding works of Dutch scholarship on Indonesian customary law (Adat law). Jacob Cornelis Vergouwen began his career as an administrative officer in South Borneo (now Kalimantan) in 1913, after a brief prac tical training. In 1921 he was given the opportunity for further study at the University of Leiden where a five-year scientific training for a career as an administrative officer in the Dutch East Indies had just been instituted. On obtaining his Master's degree, he was appointed to the Tapanuli Residency, from of old, the homeland of the Toba, Mandailing, Angkola, and Dairi or Pakpak Batak. As a young official, Vergouwen had already evinced great interest in the laws and customs of the Dayak people in Borneo. His studies at the University brought him into close contact with the founder of the science of Indonesian Adat law, Professor Cornelis van Vollenhoven, one of the greatest Dutch jurists of this century.
Author : William Marsden
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The History of Sumatra" (Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And / Manners Of The Native Inhabitants) by William Marsden. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Douglas S. Farrer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 140209356X
This is the first in-depth study of the Malay martial art, silat, and the first ethnographic account of the Haqqani Islamic Sufi Order. Drawing on 12 years of research and practice, the author provides a major contribution to the study of Malay culture.
Author : Henry Walter Bellew
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1867
Category : English language
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Author : Arthur Naylor Wollaston
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Augustus Henry Keane
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Anthropology
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Author : James Richardson
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Page : 950 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1885
Category : English language
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