snake-worship

Some hold that we have here "the protest of ethical religion against the unnatural fascination of snake-worship."

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

[359] Boudin (_Etude Anthropologique: Culte du Serpent_, Paris, 1864, pp. 66-70) brings forward examples of this aspect of snake-worship.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

Tree and plant worship is quite as antique as is snake-worship.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

Hundreds of pages have been written on snake-worship, in which a wonderful amount of metaphysical lore has been expended.

Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881

But after a while a snake-priest, Powako, brings on earth secretly the snake-worship

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

The remnant of the Whydahs who had escaped the edge of Guadja Trudo's sword, were abundantly thankful to him, for permitting them to continue in the enjoyment of their snake-worship.

Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ah�dee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney. To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade 1791

a few days, my brothers and sisters were quite well, and the belief of my parents in snake-worship died away.

Old Daniel Thomas Hodson

Concerning the other, Bosman, as reported by Schultze, says that among the negroes of Whida, where snake-worship prevails (529. 80

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Babylonia, but snake-worship, which may be the same, is asserted by J.T. Marshall (end of art.

The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

And, again, the snake-worship that grows so rapidly into the Hindu cult can scarcely have been uninfluenced by the fact that there are no less than thirty snake-tribes. [

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894