HIST 421 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Late Antiquity
Document Summary
Some time around the turn of the 8th century a diligent scribe copied a short list of magical practices and superstitions into a codex that comprises mostly of canonical material. This shirt text is commonly known to most modern scholars as the. Indiculus superstitionum et paganiarum (a short list of superstition and pagan practices) Of sacrilege at the graves of the dead. Of sacrilegious acts in connection with churches. Of the sacred rights of the woods which they call nimidas. Of those things which they do upon stones. Of the sacred rites of mercury and jupiter. Of the sacrifice which is offered to any of the saint. Of auguries according to birds or according to the dung or sneezing of horses of cattle. Of fire made by friction from wood. Of the observance of the pagans on the hearth or in the inception of any business. Of undetermined places which they celebrate as holy.
