Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 170
osebutt was most dangerous, but for such purpose transferred HORNS. 149 the horns to the head of some nondescript creature. Thehorn has thus become a natural weapon of man-demons.The same evolution has taken place in America; for,although among its aboriginal legends we may meet withan occasional… … Fig. 12.—American Indian Demon. mound (Red Indian) in the State of Georgia. It is pro-bably as ancient as any example of a human head withhorns in the world ; and as it could not have been in-fluenced by European notions, it supplies striking evi-dence that the demonisation of the forces and…
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