Scatalogic Rites of All Nations / A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe
SCATALOGIC RITES OF ALL NATIONS.
A Dissertation upon the Employment of Excrementitious Remedial Agents in Religion, Therapeutics, Divination, Witchcraft, Love-Philters, etc., in all Parts of the Globe.
Based upon Original Notes and Personal Observation, and upon Compilation from over One Thousand Authorities.
BY CAPTAIN JOHN G. BOURKE, Third Cavalry, U. S. A.,
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Member of the Anthropological Society, of Washington, D.C.; Member of the “Congres des Américanistes;” Associate Member of the Victoria Institute and Philosophical Society of Great Britain; Member of the Society of American Folk-Lore;
Author of the “Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona;” “An Apache Campaign;” “Notes on the Theogony and Cosmogony of the Mojaves”; “The Gentile Organization of the Apaches;” “Mackenzie’s Last Fight with the Cheyennes,” and other works.
NOT FOR GENERAL PERUSAL.
WASHINGTON, D.C. W. H. LOWDERMILK & CO. 1891.
Copyright, 1891 , By John G. Bourke.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
John Gregory Bourke
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COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FEAST OF FOOLS AND THE URINE DANCE.
THE FEAST OF FOOLS TRACED BACK TO MOST ANCIENT TIMES.
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE FEAST OF FOOLS.
THE “SZOMBATIAKS” OF TRANSYLVANIA.
THE GENERALLY SACRED CHARACTER OF DANCING.
FRAY DIEGO DURAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE MEXICAN FESTIVALS.
THE URINE DANCE OF THE ZUÑIS MAY CONSERVE A TRADITION OF THE TIME WHEN VILE ALIMENT WAS IN USE.
CHINOOK OLIVES.
URINE IN BREAD-MAKING.
HUMAN ORDURE EATEN BY EAST INDIAN FANATICS.
HUC AND DUBOIS COMPARED.
UN DALAI-LAMA IRLANDAIS.
BACCHIC ORGIES IN NORTH AMERICA.
THE SACRIFICE OF THE DOG A SUBSTITUTION FOR HUMAN SACRIFICE.
THE MUSHROOM DRINK OF THE BORGIE WELL.
MUSHROOMS AND TOADSTOOLS WORSHIPPED BY AMERICAN INDIANS.
A FORMER USE OF FUNGUS INDICATED IN THE MYTHS OF CEYLON, AND IN THE LAWS OF THE BRAHMINS.
FORMER EMPLOYMENT OF AN INFUSION OR DECOCTION OF MISTLETOE.
THE MISTLETOE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN HELD SACRED BY THE MOUND-BUILDERS.
THE MISTLETOE FESTIVAL OF THE MEXICANS.
VESTIGES OF DRUIDICAL RITES AT THE PRESENT DAY.
THE LINGUISTICS OF THE MISTLETOE.
COW DUNG ALSO USED BY THE ISRAELITES.
THE SACRED COW’S EXCRETA A SUBSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SACRIFICE.
HUMAN ORDURE AND URINE STILL USED IN INDIA.
THE ASSYRIAN VENUS HAD OFFERINGS OF DUNG PLACED UPON HER ALTARS.
THE MEXICAN GODDESS SUCHIQUECAL EATS ORDURE.
ISRAELITISH DUNG GODS.
POSTURE IN URINATION.
THE SACRED CHARACTER OF BRIDGE-BUILDING.
TANNING.
BLEACHING.
DYEING.
PLASTER.
AS A CURE FOR TOBACCO.
TO RESTORE THE ODOR OF MUSK AND THE COLOR OF CORAL.
CHEESE MANUFACTURE.
OPIUM ADULTERATION.
EGG-HATCHING.
TAXES ON URINE.
CHRYSOCOLLON.
FOR REMOVING INK STAINS.
AS AN ARTICLE OF JEWELRY.
TATTOOING.
AGRICULTURE.
URINE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SALT.
PREPARATION OF SAL AMMONIAC, PHOSPHORUS, SOLUTION OF INDIGO.
MANURE EMPLOYED AS FUEL.
SMUDGES.
HUMAN AND ANIMAL EXCRETA TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH OF THE HAIR AND ERADICATE DANDRUFF.
AS A MEANS OF WASHING VESSELS.
FILTHY HABITS IN COOKING.
STERCORACEOUS CHAIR OF THE POPES.
ORDURE IN LOVE-PHILTERS.
ANTI-PHILTERS.
WEANING.
FEARFUL RITE OF THE HOTTENTOTS.
WAR-CUSTOMS.—ARMS AND ARMOR.
ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE EMOTIONS UPON THE EGESTÆ.
EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF DIOSCORIDES.
THE VIEWS OF GALEN.
SEXTUS PLACITUS.
“SAXON LEECHDOMS.”
AVICENNA.
MISCELLANEOUS.
HUMAN ORDURE.
SCHURIG’S IDEAS REGARDING THE USE IN MEDICINE OF THE EGESTÆ OF ANIMALS.
ORDURE AND URINE IN FOLK-MEDICINE.
OCCULT INFLUENCES ASCRIBED TO ORDURE AND URINE.
OTHER EXCREMENTITIOUS REMEDIES.
HAIR.
SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH THE HUMAN SALIVA.
CERUMEN OR EAR-WAX.
WOMAN’S MILK.
HUMAN SWEAT.
SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH THE CATAMENIAL FLUID.
AFTER-BIRTH AND LOCHIÆ.
HUMAN SEMEN.
HUMAN BLOOD.
HUMAN SKIN, FLESH, AND TALLOW.
HUMAN SKULL.—BRAIN.—MOSS GROWING ON HUMAN SKULL.—MOSS GROWING ON STATUE.—LICE.
MOSS GROWING ON HUMAN SKULLS.
HUMAN BRAIN.
LICE.
MOSS GROWING ON THE HEAD OF A STATUE.
WOOL.
BONES AND TEETH.—MARROW.
HUMAN TEETH.
TARTAR IMPURITIES FROM THE TEETH.
RENAL AND BILIARY CALCULI.—HUMAN BILE.
BEZOAR STONES.—LYNCURIUS.
COSMETICS.
A FEW REMARKS UPON THE USE OF BLADDERS IN RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES.
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN SPORT OF “CORRER EL GALLO” AND THE ENGLISH PASTIME OF “THROWING AT ‘SHROVE-COCKS.’”
THE SCARABÆUS OF EGYPT.
EPILEPSY.
ANCESTOR-WORSHIP.—MAN-WORSHIP.—THE GRAND LAMA.
FOOTNOTES.
ADDENDA.
INDEX.
