10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TERAPH»
Discover the use of
teraph in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
teraph and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
existed the first days after Teraph's visit seemed to be fading away, withered by
the radio silence. One night, while my parents and the couple were sitting and
chatting around the radio, a strange message came out from the speakers: “
Thron ...
2
The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale
Whereas von Matt reads the scene about the fabrication of the teraph (the magic
doll) as the first step in the artist's process of self-realization, I would interpret this
scene in view of how it refers back to Viktor's experience of reading Cazotte, ...
Dorothea E. von Mücke, 2003
A Teraph was the decapitated head of a child, placed on a pillar and compelled
by magic to reply to the questions of the sorcerer. Let us suppose, for the sake of
illustration, that the legends of such enchantments rest on some groundwork of ...
David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, 1871
From Macmtllan'8 Magazine. UNCONSCIOUS CEREBRATION. JL
PBTCHOLOGIOAL STUDY. The old necromancers were said to obtain oracles by
means of Teraphim. A Teraph was the decapitated head of a child, placed on a
pillar and ...
5
The Eclectic: A Monthly Magazine of Useful Knowledge
A Teraph was the decapitated head of a child, placed on a pillar and compelled
by magic to reply to the questions of the sorcerer. Let us suppose, for the sake of
illustration, that the legends of such enchantments rest on some groundwork of ...
A Teraph was the decapitated head of a child, placed on a pillar and compelled
by magic to reply to the questions of the sorcerer. Let us suppose, for the sake of
illustration, that the legends of such enchantments rest on some groundwork of ...
7
Palestine: the Bible History of the holy land
Now in Syriac the word, in its singular form, (f]1fl,teraph,) means, according to Bar
Bahlul, an inquirer, which very well agrees with the use of teraphim as oracles.
From the narrative in the text, it is manifest that the figures were of small size, ...
8
A Book of the Beginnings
The monthly prognosticators made use of the Teraph in the secrecies of the
mysteries with the Q'deshoth as their demonstrators. Hence the connection with
divination, sorcery, idolatry, and iniquity,5 the Teraphim that spoke vanity to the ...
9
The Destroyer; Or, The Sorcerers of the Domdaniel. From ...
A teraph stood against the wall of the cavern. ' It w'as'the head of a newborn
infant, which Khawla had seized at the very moment of its birth, in order to use it
for her hellish 'charms. The head had been wrong oil', and was now, after being ...
10
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Khawla to the Teraph turned :— “ Tell me where the Prophet's hand Hides 0ur
destined enemy?" The dead lips spake again,— “ I view the seas, I view the land,
I search the ocean and the earth; Not on ocean is the boy, ' Not on earth his steps
...
