 | Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1927 - 330 oldal
...the unhappy victim. The account cannot further be pursued nor the case as heard in the civil courts. "It is not wax that I am scorching, it is the liver, heart and spleen of So-and-so that I scorch" was the explanation of a Malayan of Mr. Skeat. One last example to show the wide distribution in time... | |
 | George E. Marcus - 1992 - 426 oldal
...victim sculpted into his likeness with wax and then slowly scorched for seven nights while intoning, "It is not wax that I am scorching, it is the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so that I scorch" (Frazer 191 1:57), and this type of representation hitching likeness to substance is borne out by ethnographic... | |
 | Sir James George Frazer, James George Frazer - 1993 - 768 oldal
...spittle, and so forth of your intended victim, enough to represent every part of his person, and then make them up into his likeness with wax from a deserted...every night for seven nights, and say: " It is not wax thai I am scorching, It is the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so that I scorch." After the seventh... | |
 | Michael T. Taussig - 1993 - 324 oldal
...represent every part of his person, and then make them up into his likeness with wax from a deserted bee's comb. Scorch the figure slowly by holding it over a lamp every night for seven nights, and say 'It's not the wax that I am scorching; it is the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so that 1 scorch.'... | |
 | Turner B S Staff - 2004 - 202 oldal
...pretending." They have the thought which it is left to Mr Skeat's Malays to express with perfect clearness: " It is not wax that I am scorching, it is the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so that I scorch."8 This relative disjunction, then, of instrument and end, protasis and apodosis, being taken... | |
 | James George Frazer - 2005 - 733 oldal
...spittle, and so forth of your intended victim, enough to represent every part of his person, and then make them up into his likeness with wax from a deserted bees' comb. Scorch the figure slowly by holdmg it over a lamp every night for seven nights, and say: "It is not -max that I aim scorching,... | |
 | Margaret M. Lock, Judith Farquhar - 2007 - 706 oldal
...victim sculpted into his likeness with wax and then slowly scorched for seven nights while intoning, "It is not wax that I am scorching, it is the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so that I scorch," and this type of representation hitching likeness to substance is borne out by ethnographic research... | |
 | 1921 - 710 oldal
...eyebrows, spittle, and so forth of your intended victim, enough to represent every part of his person, then make them up into his likeness with wax from a deserted...is the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so that 1 scorch." After the seventh time burn the figure, and your victim will die. This charm obviously combines... | |
 | John Skorupski - 294 oldal
...A Malay spell, one of the comparatively few spells quoted by Frazer, is spoken over a wax figurine: "It is not wax that I am scorching. It is the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so that I scorch."** Again, compare the words of consecration spoken in the Roman Catholic mass ("This is my body. . . this... | |
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Take parings of nails, hair, eyebrows, spittle, and so forth of your intended victim, enough to represent every part of his person, and then make them up into his likeness with wax from a deserted bees' comb. Scorch the figure slowly by holding it over... 
