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The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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From the introduction:The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play, etc., and, in fact, embodying almost the whole of the ancient religion of the Cherokees. The original manuscripts, now in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, were written by the shamans of the tribe, for their own use, in the Cherokee characters invented by Sikwâ ́ya (Sequoyah) in 1821, and were obtained, with the explanations, either from the writers themselves or from their surviving relatives.Some of these manuscripts are known to be at least thirty years old, and many are probably older. The medical formulas of all kinds constitute perhaps one-half of the whole number, while the love charms come next in number, closely followed by the songs and prayers used in hunting and fishing. The great number of love charms will doubtless be a surprise to those who have been educated in
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- James Mooney
- Publisher
- Talking Drum Publications
- Published
- 1891
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Adventure, Social Science, Ethnography
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (142 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14