Greek Folk-Songs From the Turkish Provinces of Greece Albania, Thessaly, (Not Yet Wholly Free) And Macedonia: Literal and Metrical Translations. E-book. Formato PDF Lucy Mary Jane Garnett   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I. The Plutarchian Legend of the Death of Pan 2. The symbolic meaning given to this Legend, and its untruth Testimonies to this untruth by Christian students of F olk-lore The essential and surviving characteristics of Paganism Illustrations in our F olk-songs of the feeling of One ness with Nature, and of direct Personalizing of its phenomena 6. Illustrations of the indirect Personalizing of N ature in the creation of Gods and Demi-gods Illustrations of unconsciousness of sin in Sexual Love, and of nonbelief in a supernatural state of Rewards and Punishments 8. Illustrations of the feeling of Family kinship, and of patriotic devotion to the Fatherland What was the origin of the Legend of which the sym bolic truth is thus disproved.

Mysticism and Magic in Turkey, an Account of the Religious Doctrines, Monastic Organisation, and Ecstatic, Powers of the Dervish Orders. E-book. Formato PDF Lucy Mary Jane Garnett   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Protest by the Monks Of Islam has not been without practical results in Persia, so may it likewise be expected to have corresponding results in Turkey From the Sufism of the Dervish Orders sprang the movement of Babism, the initiation Of which was contemporary with the European revolutionary uprising Of '48. This movement, which was sup pressed with the most barbarous atrocities, gave greater promise than any other event connected.

Turkish Life in Town and Country. E-book. Formato PDF Lucy Mary Jane Garnett   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In Macedonia there are still a considerable number of Beys, or landed gentry, whose ances tors — many of them newly converted Moslems of non-turkish origin — obtained grants of land at the conquest, which they held as military fiefs; and previous to the introduction in 1867 of the present centralising administration, the country districts of this province were ruled by local magnates, either such Turkish feudatories, or tribal Chieftains, such as are still found in Albania and Kurdistan, whose loyalty to the Porte was most easily secured by allowing them entire free dom in dealing with their own vassals.