The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))

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Bourke John Gregory. The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))

CHAPTER I. THE MEDICINE-MEN, THEIR MODES OF TREATING DISEASE, THEIR SUPERSTITIONS, PARAPHERNALIA, ETC

MEDICINE-WOMEN

REMEDIES AND MODES OF TREATMENT

HAIR AND WIGS

MUDHEADS

SCALP SHIRTS

THE RHOMBUS, OR BULL ROARER

THE CROSS

NECKLACES OF HUMAN FINGERS

NECKLACES OF HUMAN TEETH

THE SCRATCH STICK

THE DRINKING REED

CHAPTER II. HODDENTIN, THE POLLEN OF THE TULE, THE SACRIFICIAL POWDER OF THE APACHE; WITH REMARKS UPON SACRED POWDERS AND BREAD OFFERINGS IN GENERAL

THE "KUNQUE" OF THE ZUÑI AND OTHERS

USE OF POLLEN BY THE ISRAELITES AND EGYPTIANS

HODDENTIN A PREHISTORIC FOOD

HODDENTIN THE YIAUHTLI OF THE AZTECS

"BLEDOS" OF ANCIENT WRITERS – ITS MEANING

TZOALLI

GENERAL USE OF THE POWDER AMONG INDIANS

ANALOGUES OF HODDENTIN

THE DOWN OF BIRDS IN CEREMONIAL OBSERVANCES

HAIR POWDER

DUST FROM CHURCHES – ITS USE

CLAY-EATING

PREHISTORIC FOODS USED IN COVENANTS

SACRED BREADS AND CAKES

UNLEAVENED BREAD

THE HOT CROSS BUNS OF GOOD FRIDAY

GALENA

CHAPTER III. THE IZZE-KLOTH OR MEDICINE CORD OF THE APACHE

ANALOGUES TO BE FOUND AMONG THE AZTECS, PERUVIANS, AND OTHERS

THE MAGIC WIND KNOTTED CORDS OF THE LAPPS AND OTHERS

ROSARIES AND OTHER MNEMONIC CORDS

THE SACRED CORDS OF THE PARSIS AND BRAHMANS

USE OF CORDS AND KNOTS AND GIRDLES IN PARTURITION

"MEDIDAS," "MEASURING CORDS," "WRESTING THREADS," ETC

UNCLASSIFIED SUPERSTITIONS UPON THIS SUBJECT

THE MEDICINE HAT

THE SPIRIT OR GHOST DANCE HEADDRESS

AMULETS AND TALISMANS

THE "TZI-DALTAI."

CHALCHIHUITL

PHYLACTERIES

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The Caucasian population of the United States has been in intimate contact with the aborigines for a period of not less than two hundred and fifty years. In certain sections, as in Florida and New Mexico, this contact has been for a still greater period; but claiming no earlier date than the settlement of New England, it will be seen that the white race has been slow to learn or the red man has been skillful in withholding knowledge which, if imparted, would have lessened friction and done much to preserve and assimilate a race that, in spite of some serious defects of character, will for all time to come be looked upon as "the noble savage."

Recent deplorable occurrences in the country of the Dakotas have emphasized our ignorance and made clear to the minds of all thinking people that, notwithstanding the acceptance by the native tribes of many of the improvements in living introduced by civilization, the savage has remained a savage, and is still under the control of an influence antagonistic to the rapid absorption of new ideas and the adoption of new customs.

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Gomara also calls attention to the fact that the medicine-men, "hechiceros" and "brujos," as he calls them, of the Nicaraguans, possessed the power of lycanthropy; "segun ellos mismos decian, se hacen perros, puercos y gimias."31

Great as are the powers claimed by the medicine-men, it is admitted that baleful influences may be at work to counteract and nullify them. As has already been shown, among these are the efforts of witches, the presence of women who are sometimes supposed to be so "antimedicinal," if such a term may be applied, that the mere stepping over a warrior's gun will destroy its value.

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