Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions

by W. H. Davenport Adams

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CURIOSITIES

OF

SUPERSTITION,

AND

Sketches of some Unrevealed Religions.

BY
W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS,
AUTHOR OF “HEROES OF THE CROSS,” ETC.

“To my mind there is no study more absorbing than that of the Religions of the World,—the study, if I may so call it, of the various languages in which man has spoken to his Maker, and of that language in which his Maker ‘at sundry times and in divers manners’ spake to man.”—Max Müller.

“Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor.”—Statius, Thebaid, 661.

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