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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...some of the Asiatic countries,1 and may have given rise to the custom which extended into Britain of exposing sick children on the house-tops.2 1 To the Queen of Heaven the fathers, grove in the house of the Lord.--2 kings, and princes in the cities of Kings xxi. 7. Judah and in Jerusalem, burned in-lessfh mails for Baal and for the ceuse, poured out drink-offerings, and grove.--2 Kings xxiii. 4. made rakes.--Jeremiah xliv. 15,17,19. Ashera, translated grove, was a 'The children of Israel "set up deity whose image was of wood, not images and groves in every hill, and fashioned into a human form.--Keu undcr cirriI green tree" (2 Kings xvii. rick's Phoenicia, p. 302. 10, and notes in D'Gyley and Mant's 3 Isaiah Ixv. 11. Bible). Josiah brake down the altars 4 See the article on Cyclopean re of Baalim. The (sun) images he cut mains in countries from India to the down. The groves, carved images, and extreme west of Europe. molten images he brake in pieces, made s Theod. Liber f'oenileiitialis, xxvii. iinM of them, and strewed it on the IS; and Arch. Ebor. sec. 23; Ecgbert graves of them that sacrificed nnto PocnitcuIiale, lib. ii. sec. xxiii.; them.--2 Chron. xxxiv. 4. Thorpe's Ancient I.aws of England, Manassch set a graven image of the vol. ii. pp. 34, 101. It would be Suiiertiuous to refer to all the superstitious rites, extinct or extant, that show how deeply rooted in the minds of our ancestors was the belief in the control exercised by the moon over the affairs of men; nor is it necessary to accumulate proofs that the belief in its supposed influence had not ceased with the termination of the eighteenth century.3 In every department of witchcraft and sorcery the position of the moon and planets was an element of special...