Symbols, Signs and Signets by Lehner Ernst

Author:Lehner, Ernst
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486141169
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

MONSTERS AND IMAGINARY FIGURES

OUR ANCESTORS IN BYGONE times blamed their misfortune and good luck, their fears, and hates and hopes on all kinds of invisible beings. To lessen the psychological strain of the unknown that interfered constantly with their lives our forefathers found it wise to give these invisible powers symbolic form no matter how frightful that form might be. They then knew what they were up against.

Crawling and flying beasts of prey, fantastic creatures that were part-human and part-animal arose from the human mind to populate forests and mountains, skies and oceans. Throughout the centuries these creatures were responsible for good and bad happenings in human life, and they had to be fought and bribed, appeased and thanked.

We should not shake our heads over these fantastic superstitions of our ancestors or dispose of them as incredulous. We still are not over that hump today. Even in our modern time too many people outside the jungle and voodoo country still believe in all kinds of animal magic. Werewolves and vampires still roam parts of our planet. Bats are hellbent to fly into women’s hair and scalp them. Black cats cross our path to bring misfortune. The sea serpent pops up faithfully every year on the desks of our newspaper editors and gets oceans of printer’s ink to splash around in comfortably. But the most horrible of all contemporary monsters is the mouse who still throws womanhood all over the globe into spasmodic fits.

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