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Title: The fountain : with jets of new meanings
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston : William White & Co. New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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o-pards, and other wild beasts of the jungle. In theCentral Provinces the loss of human life by tigers, 240 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. wolves, hysenas, leopards, bears, and panthers, is im-mense. We learn that superstition also plays no small part in the mainte-nance of these intol-erable scourges. TheGonds, for instance,instead of musteringin force to hunt downthe tigers who wagewar against them andtheir herds, have anidiotic way of regard-ing the tiger as adivinity whose wrathit is unsafe to arouse.If one of them falls aprey to the divinitysappetite for humanflesh, the rest of thefamily are forthwith tabooed as displeasing to the ob-ject of their reverent dread, and must expiate theiroffence by costly sacrifices, which may leave them pen-niless but will restore them to their caste-rights. What misery comes from the womb of Ignorance !Disordered imaginations, the changing and inclementskies of superstition, entail distress and wretchednessupon human nature. We listen with reverence to the
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BAD DREAMS OF ONE NOT A TEE-TOTALLER. OMENS AND SIGNS. 241 dictates of truth, while with abhorrence we hear theprayers of superstition. A firm believer in spiritualintercourse, I know, is not exempt from the bitterstruggles and horrible notions fixed in the religiousimagination by having once believed in popular theol-ogy. They are afraid of u ghosts and graveyards,and dread encountering imps of darkness, and suf-fering many deaths by being in bondage through fearof death. At length they obtain a life-long emanci-pation by being converted to the evidences of spiritualintercourse. And yet I know a Spiritualist, who wouldrepel with scornful emotions the least insinuation thathe is superstitious, who was one day absolutely dis-heartened in the prosecution of a worthy enterprise,because by chance a striped squirrel ran across thepath in a grove through which he was walking toward

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