'Shadow' or Magic of the Dene Hareskins: its four categories.
These are characteristic of all Savage Spiritualism. The subject
somewhat neglected by Anthropologists. Uniformity of phenomena.
Mr. Tylor's theory of the origin of 'Animism'. Question whether
there are any phenomena not explained by Mr. Tylor's theory.
Examples of uniformity. The savage hypnotic trance. Hareskin
examples. Cases from British Guiana. Australian rapping spirits.
Maori oracles. A Maori 'seance'. The North American Indian Magic
Lodge. Modern and old Jesuit descriptions. Movements of the Lodge.
Insensibility of Red Indian Medium to fire. Similar case of D. D.
Home. Flying table in Thibet. Other instances. Montezuma's
'astral body'. Miracles. Question of Diffusion by borrowing, or of
independent evolution.
Philosophers among the Dene Hareskins in the extreme north of
America recognise four classes of 'Shadow' or magic. Their
categories apply sufficiently closely to all savage sorcery
(excluding sympathetic magic), as far as it has been observed. We
have, among the Hareskins:--