Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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, after a sketch of Binger. stition the Bushman is the culminatingexample of the world. It has been claimed by many travelersand observers that some of the peoplesOpinion that of the interior of SouthernAfrica have no religion atall. It has been said, bywhat would appear to be competent au-thority, that tribes here and there have some Africanshave no reli-gion. spirits, some fears regarding their in-fluence over the affairs of life. The notions which SUch peoples Rudeness of Ni- entertain, however, are ££££££-merely rudimentary, and fetiches.do not include any of the truer elementsof even an enlarged superstition. Thereligious customs of the savage tribesshow a childish stage of development at GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. which the inquirer may well be aston-ished. The aborigines address theirfetiches with less regard and venerationthan the children of the better classes ofbarbarians would show in addressingtheir parents, Negroes have been seento cajole and coddle their little wooden
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FETICH DANCE—MOKHO MISSI K.OU.Drawn by Riou, from a sketch. and stone gods, soothing and pettingthem in order to induce the inhabitingspirit to be propitious! In other moodthey will at intervals become captiousand angry with their fetiches becausethey do not respond to worship, and insuch feeling will smite them with thehand, or even break them and throwthem away as no longer worthy of thedevotion of the possessor! One of the worst aspects of this reli-gious degradation of the Nigritians isits apparent persistency. Persistency of It Seems to hold fast to superstitions; voodooism in the blood and intellectual United states,constitution of the Negro races. It is awell-known fact that the Blacks, whenlifted out of their native environ-ment and transported to foreignlands, still persist in and repro-duce their native superstitions.This is abundantly shown in thehistory of the African race in theUnited States. Here for fullyseven generations this people hasbeen planted. The ancestors hav

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