Omens from sneezing

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Omens from sneezing.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic knowledge. · view the constellation · filed as D1812.5.0.1

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Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter III

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Kittredge Witchcraft 44, 398 n. 170
general *Pease Classical Philology VI (1911) 429ff
general *Tylor Primitive Culture (First Am. ed.) I 97ff.
general Knowlson Popular Superstitions (1910) 175ff.
general Schweizer Volkskunde (1912) 20f.
general Encyc. Rel. Ethics IX 398f.
general Penzer III 303ff.
general Gessler Bull. bib. et péd. du Musée belge XXX (1926) 193ff.
general Saintyves L'Eternuement et le Baillement (Paris, 1921) 148
general *Fb "nyse" II 704
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "niesen" VI 1076ff.

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Filed under Future learned through omens.

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Omens from flight of birds Behavior of fire as omen Rising smoke as omen Haruspices: divination by condition of animal's liver Divination by throwing objects into water. If they swim the omen is bad; if not, good Divination from first person (thing) met Divination from animal fight Divination from howling of dog. (Cf. D1812.5.1.12.1.) Divination from clouds. (Cf. D1812.5.1.11.) Divination from sound of voice Divination from sound of chariot wheels Magic manifestation as omen Stone changes from red to green as auspicious sign. (Cf. D1293.1, D1293.2, D1317.12.) Weather signs Prognostications for year from winds blowing on January 1. (Cf. D1812.5.0.7.3.) Divination by choice of roads: which son to be born first

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