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The aim of this article is to present a special kind of ancient rituals called 'namburbi'. Therefore, they are shown in a wide context of ancient Near Eastern religion and magic, which explains the sense of their existence. They were performed after a god's decision to punish an individual or a society, which was carried by an evil omen. Among different kinds of rituals connected with divination,...
In Japan, the beginning of the seventeenth century gave birth to a new type of literature – anti-Catholic fiction, which aimed at fostering hostility towards foreign missionaries among the mass reader. Late examples of such literature attributed to the apostles of the new faith several supernatural powers (i.e. the ability to fly, disappear, tell fortunes), that separated them from their human dimension...
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