The tongue of time, and star of the states: [electronic resource]: a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch (1840)
Comstock, Joseph · Hartford: : [s.n.] · leaf 247
p-pily, this is not the case. * This case is founded on fact; both the father and daughter were patientsof the present writer. She was his favorite child. The man was Lieut.Governor of the state in which he lived. THE TONGUE OF TIME. 243 § 22. The magical practices of our Indian aborigines,… … Lieut. Pike, of the U. S. army, afterwards General Pike, relateshis having been present at one of their religious, or medicinaldances, composed of both sexes, all dressed in their gayest attire,every dancer holding a small skin of some animal in his or herhand. This skin appeared to be the wand of…
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