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Tag: Legend
Buddhist charm for ending drought. Chinese superstition.
Buddhist “Tso-fu-sze” ceremony performed to evoke rain and end drought, illustrated in a charm.
Taoist protective formulas against house fires.
Taoist priests use colored charms and rituals to protect and cleanse homes from fire, invoking the God of Fire.
Tolling of Buddhist Bells and the series of 108 strokes.
Monks in Buddhist monasteries toll bells 108 times daily, symbolizing the Chinese year and believed to soothe souls.
Paper Streamers placed on graves. Old Chinese Customs.
Buddhist and Confucian beliefs differ on souls’ knowledge of their afterlife resting places.
Variegated dress known as that of the “hundred families”.
In China, a tradition involves creating a child’s dress from begged cloth pieces to invoke blessings and protection, known as “Peh-kia-i.”
THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL
THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL. COSSACK FAIRY TALES.
ICONS. THE VLADIMIR MADONNA.
Note on the Vladimir Madonna, Vladimirskaya.- Note on the St Alexis Icon. By Robert Steele, Leonard Wharton.
Gwitchin. Peoples of Alaska in 1850th.
Arctic searching expedition: a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert’s Land and the Arctic Sea
Evenk Shaman. A Tungusian Priest, in the Vicinity of the Argun.
THE Evenks (Formerly Tungusian) are pagans of the sect of the Shamans.
Auguste Racinet. The Costume History by Françoise Tétart-Vittu.
Racinet's Costume History is an invaluable reference for students, designers, artists, illustrators, and historians; and a rich source of inspiration for anyone with an interest in clothing and style. Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet’s Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted.
Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through to the end of the 19th century, the six volume work remains completely unique in its scope and detail. “Some books just scream out to be bought; this is one of them.” ― Vogue.com