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Title: Nagualism
A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History

Author: Daniel G. Brinton

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Language: English

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NAGUALISM.

A STUDY

IN

Native American Folk-lore
and History.

BY

DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D., D.Sc.,

Professor of American Archaeology and Linguistics in the
University of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:
MACCALLA & COMPANY, PRINTERS, 237-9 DOCK STREET.
1894

_Nagualism. A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History._

_By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D._

(_Read before the American Philosophical Society, Jan'y 5, 1894._)

CONTENTS.

1. The words _Nagual_, _Nagualism_, _Nagualist_. 2. The Earliest
Reference to Nagualism. 3. The _Naualli_ of the Aztecs; their Classes
and Pretended Powers. 4. The Sacred Intoxicants; the _Peyotl_, the
_Ololiuhqui_, the _Teopatli_, the _Yax Ha_, etc. 5. Clairvoya