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In Native American Ojibwa culture the human mind was believed to be susceptible to dark spirits, when the mind is weakest (I.e. asleep) and would give bad dreams. In defense the men and women would weave dream catchers. These talismans would let the good dream spirits through, whilst trapping the bad spirits in the pattern. [14] [15] Fish
Dreamcatcher, Royal Ontario Museum An ornate, contemporary, nontraditional dreamcatcher. In some Native American and First Nations cultures, a dreamcatcher (Ojibwe: ᐊᓴᐱᑫᔒᓐᐦ, romanized: asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for 'spider') [1] is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. It may also be decorated ...
In the case of a family who had already lost a child, the parents may name the next child Alter and Alte (both meaning "old" in Yiddish) [37] in an effort to confuse the Angel of Death. [38] Another example is Nekras ( Некрас , "not handsome" in Russian) which was given with the hope the child would be handsome.
Ryōgen (left), 18th chief abbot (zasu) of Enryaku-ji. The omikuji sequence historically commonly used in Japanese Buddhist temples, consisting of one hundred prophetic five-character quatrains, is traditionally attributed to the Heian period Tendai monk Ryōgen (912–985), posthumously known as Jie Daishi (慈恵大師) or more popularly, Ganzan Daishi (元三大師), and is thus called ...
A dream interpreter reveals the meaning of dreams about snakes biting you, attacking you, or being in your house. ... The dreamer will have to look at their own spiritual beliefs and ask ...
dream interpretation; dream questions: by dreaming; dririmancy/driromancy / ˈ d r ɪər ɪ m æ n s i /: by dripping blood [10] (alteration of drimimancy, influenced by Middle English drir, ' blood '). Compare hemotomancy. drimimancy/drymimancy / ˈ d r ɪ m ɪ m æ n s i /: by bodily fluids (Greek drimus, ' pungent ' + manteía, ' prophecy ')
The dream dictionary includes interpretations of dreams, giving each symbol in a dream a specific meaning. The argument of what dreams represent has greatly changed over time. With this changing, so have the interpretation of dreams. Dream dictionaries have changed in content since they were first published. The ancient Greeks and Romans saw ...
A mojo (/ ˈ m oʊ dʒ oʊ /), in the African-American spiritual practice called Hoodoo, is an amulet consisting of a flannel bag containing one or more magical items. It is a "prayer in a bag", or a spell that can be carried with or on the host's body.