isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

โ€œโ€Mahanduโ€, uttered a voice, which seemed to come from the bowels of the earth, on which the Shaman was prostrated. โ€œPeace be with you... what would you have me do for you?" Startling as the fact seemed, we were quite prepared for it, for we had seen other Shamans pass through similar performances. โ€œWhoever you [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

โ€œโ€ O young girl, a god possesses thee! It is either Pan, or Hekate, or, the venerable Corybantes, or Cybele that agitates thee!โ€, the chorus says, addressing Phaedra in Euripides. This form of psychological epidemic has been too well-known from the time of the Middle Ages to cite instances from it. The Choroea sancti Viti [...]