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Haunted springs and water demons in Palestine
Studies in Palestinian customs and folklore • Jerusalem • Published In 1922 • Pages: 153-170
By: Kanʻān, Tawfīq.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Upon the basis of a lifetime residence in the former Palestine, the author discusses one phase of demonology, that of haunted springs and water demons. The objective of the article is to answer how this belief in demonology is so well established in mythology and superstition. The author defines the various types of spirits, their location, habits and power. The popular beliefs and rationale held by both Moslems and Christians about these spirits and their habitations, theories as to disease and its cure, the propitiation of spirits, an enumeration of the inhabited springs in the area, and other subjects are discussed in detail.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious offenses
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Purification and atonement
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnophysics
- Ethnogeography
- Menstruation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Palestinians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Psychologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Stanley A. Fishler ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1914-1922
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- T. Canaan
- Revised and enlarged from the Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society -- Vol. 1, p. 153-170
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs