Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day ...Mental Health Press, 1958 - 299 pages |
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... Saint of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum for kindly permitting me to examine and to reproduce photographs of phallic objects in the Museum ; to the Director of the British Museum for permission to re- produce a number of plates ...
... Saint of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum for kindly permitting me to examine and to reproduce photographs of phallic objects in the Museum ; to the Director of the British Museum for permission to re- produce a number of plates ...
Page 60
... saint . " Phallic amulets , as love and fertility charms , are worn in India , Ceylon and Egypt . In Java there are stones , the touching of which it is thought " will open woman's womb . " The wide- spread belief in the powers of a ...
... saint . " Phallic amulets , as love and fertility charms , are worn in India , Ceylon and Egypt . In Java there are stones , the touching of which it is thought " will open woman's womb . " The wide- spread belief in the powers of a ...
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... Saint should no longer be exposed . " The following is the account of the FĂȘte of St. Cosmo and Damiano , as it ... Saints are exposed , and afterwards carried in procession from the Cathedral of the City to this Church , attended by a ...
... Saint should no longer be exposed . " The following is the account of the FĂȘte of St. Cosmo and Damiano , as it ... Saints are exposed , and afterwards carried in procession from the Cathedral of the City to this Church , attended by a ...
Contents
CHAP | 3 |
SUN MOON AND NATURE WORSHIP | 13 |
THE BIRTH OF PHALLICISM | 40 |
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