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CURIOSITIES
OF
SUPERSTITION,
AND
Sketches of some Unrevealed Religions.
BY
W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS,
AUTHOR OF “HEROES OF THE CROSS,” ETC.
“To my mind there is no study more absorbing than that of the Religions of theWorld,—the study, if I may so call it, of the various languages in which man hasspoken to his Maker, and of that language in which his Maker ‘at sundry times andin divers manners’ spake to man.”—Max Müller.
“Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor.”—Statius, Thebaid, 661.
LONDON:
J. MASTERS AND CO., 78, NEW BOND STREET.
MDCCCLXXXII.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. MASTERS AND CO.,
ALBION BUILDINGS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Buddhism, its Origin and Ceremonies | 1 |
| II. | Magianism: the Parsees | 43 |
| III. | Jewish Superstitions | 68 |
| IV. | Brahmanism | 84 |
| V. | Hindu Mythology, and the Vishnu Purana | 99 |
| VI. | In China: Confucianism, Taouism, and Buddhism | 119 |
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