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A STUDY
...IN...
Native American Folk-lore
and History.
....BY....
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D., D.Sc.
Professor of American Archæology and Linguistics in the
University of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA:
MacCalla & Company, Printers, 237-9 Dock Street.
...1894...
By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D.
(Read before the American Philosophical Society, Jan’y 5, 1894.)
1. The words Nagual, Nagualism, Nagualist. 2. The EarliestReference to Nagualism. 3. The Naualli of the Aztecs; their Classesand Pretended Powers. 4. The Sacred Intoxicants; the Peyotl, theOloliuhqui, the Teopatli, the Yax Ha, etc. 5. Clairvoyance andTelepathy during Intoxication. 6. The Naualli of Modern Mexico. 7. TheTonal and the Tonalpouhque; the Genethliac System of the Nahuas. 8.The Aztec Sodality of “Master Magicians.” 9. The Personal GuardianSpirit.
10. Folk-lore of the Mixe Indians. 11. Astrological Divination of theZapotecs. 12. Similar Arts of the Mixtecs. 13. Nagualism in Chiapas, asDescribed by Bishop Nuñez de la Vega. 14. Nagualism Among the Quiches,Cakchiquels and Pokonchis of Guatemala. 15. The Metamorphoses ofGukumatz. 16. Modern Witchcraft in Yucatan and Central America; theZahoris and Pa