Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History

by Daniel G. Brinton

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Nagualism. A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History.

By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D.

(Read before the American Philosophical Society, Jan’y 5, 1894.)

Contents.

[1.] The words Nagual, Nagualism, Nagualist. [2.] The Earliest Reference to Nagualism. [3.] The Naualli of the Aztecs; their Classes and Pretended Powers. [4.] The Sacred Intoxicants; the Peyotl, the Ololiuhqui, the Teopatli, the Yax Ha, etc. [5.] Clairvoyance and Telepathy during Intoxication. [6.] The Naualli of Modern Mexico. [7.] The Tonal and the Tonalpouhque; the Genethliac System of the Nahuas. [8.] The Aztec Sodality of “Master Magicians.” [9.] The Personal Guardian Spirit.

[10.] Folk-lore of the Mixe Indians. [11.] Astrological Divination of the Zapotecs. [12.] Similar Arts of the Mixtecs. [13.] Nagualism in Chiapas, as Described by Bishop Nuñez de la Vega. [14.] Nagualism Among the Quiches, Cakchiquels and Pokonchis of Guatemala. [15.] The Metamorphoses of Gukumatz. [16.] Modern Witchcraft in Yucatan and Central America; the Zahoris and Padrinos.