evil eye
curses
Chinese amulets |
P.994 - §5 Prereligious
praying was part of the mana practices of the Melanesians, the oudah beliefs
of the African Pygmies, and the manitou superstitions of the North American
Indians. The Baganda tribes of Africa have only recently emerged from the
mana level of prayer. In this early evolutionary confusion men pray to gods--local
and national--to fetishes, amulets, ghosts, rulers, and to ordinary people. |