 | George Chaworth Musters - Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) - 1871 - 380 pages
...belief which prompts all their religious acts is that in the existence of many active and malicious evil spirits or demons, of whom the principal one is always...times, but as occasion requires, such as a birth, death, &c., are intended to propitiate the Gualichu. When a child hurts itself, the slaughter of marcs... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1875 - 268 pages
...belief which prompts all their religious acts is that in the existence of many active and malicious evil spirits or demons, of whom the principal one is always...spirit is the function of the wizard, or doctor, or medicine-man, who combines the medical and magical arts, though not possessed of an exclusive faculty... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 844 pages
...performed were prompted by their dread of malicious demons, the chief of whom, Giialicbn, is al( wavs on the watch to cause mischief. To propitiate or drive away this spirit is the .function of the wiz.-ml, doctor, or medicine-man, who fas in other countries) com' bines the medfciil and mugicnl arts.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 902 pages
...the natives performed were prompted by their dread of malicious demons, Ihe chief of whom, Gualichú, is always on the watch to cause mischief. To propitiate...drive away this spirit is the function of the wizard, doctor, or medicineman, who (as in other countries) combines the medical and magical arts. The Gualichú... | |
 | 1886 - 850 pages
...religious acts the natives performed were prompted by dread of demons, the chief of whom, Gualichu, is always on the watch to cause mischief. To propitiate...drive away this spirit is the function of the wizard, who (as in other countries) combines the medical and magical arts. The Gualichu is invisible (except... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 832 pages
...religious acts the natives performed were prompted by dread of demons, the chief of whom, Gualichu, is always on the watch to cause mischief. To propitiate...drive away this spirit is the function of the wizard, who (as in other countries) combines the medical and magical arts. The Gualichu is invisible (except... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 998 pages
...the natives performed were prompted by their dread of malicious demons, the chief of whom, Gualichú, is always on the watch to cause mischief. To propitiate...drive away this spirit is the function of the wizard, doctor, or medicineman, who (as in other countries) combines the medical and magical arts. The Gualichú... | |
 | Rafael Karsten - Religion - 1905 - 164 pages
...by the belief in the existence of many active and malicious spirits or demons, of whom the principal is always on the watch to cause mischief. To propitiate...away this spirit is the function of the wizard or medicine-man. The sacrifices, made not at stated times, but ns occasion requires, are always intended... | |
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He is invisible (except to the "doctor," who has the gift of second-sight), and he can enter into the bodies of people, and cause sickness and disease of every sort. Besides... 