W L Hildburgh
Biographic Data
| ID | 280383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W L Hildburgh |
| GIVEN NAMES | W L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hildburgh |
| SIGNATURE | HILDBURGH W L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Society of Antiquaries |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 84 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1906 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Studies in Medieval English Alabaster Carvings: III. English Alabaster Representations of the ‘Lamentation Over the Dead Christ’
(1956). Studies in Medieval English Alabaster Carvings. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 14-19
III.— Medieval Copper Champlevé Enamelled Images of the Virgin and Child
In the group of images in the round with which this study is primarily concerned, the Virgin Mary is represented enthroned and holding the Child Christ on her left knee. He usually is seated, but sometimes stands. Two distinct methods of construction appear in these images: in one, a carved wooden core is overlaid with thin, but stiffish, sheets of copper shaped to conform closely to the surface of the carving; in the other, the image is constitu…
Some English medieval alabaster carvings in Italy
There are, or at least are known formerly to have been, in Italy a somewhat surprising number of alabaster carvings produced in medieval England, some of them in their original gaily-painted frameworks, in churches or in museums; others, detached from their initial wooden supports and now more or less isolated, preserved in public museums or in private collections. How and when these carvings came to be in Italy would seem to have remained as yet…
Studies in Medieval English Alabaster Carvings
(1954). Studies in Medieval English Alabaster Carvings. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 11-23
II.— Aeolipiles as Fire-blowers
An aeolipile is a device whose essential feature is that vapour confined in it under pressure can issue from it only through a small aperture. Although the Oxford English Dictionary agrees with the French Academy in deriving ‘aeolipile’ from a combination of the name of the god of the winds, Aeolus, and the Latin pylae or the Greek Πύλαι, implying thus that originally it meant something like ‘doorway of Aeolus’ or ‘gates of the winds’, I am incli…
Shorter Bibliographical Notices
Psychology Underlying the Employment of Amulets in Europe
AN amulet may be broadly defined as, and for our present inquiry will be taken to be, a material object through whose retention there is sought the averting of some result displeasing, or the obtaining of some outcome pleasing, to the possessor of that object, and in a way which seems to be beyond natural laws as proclaimed by persons best qualified to understand them. Primarily it is the retention of the object, for the sake of its presumed apot…
Representations of the Saints in Medieval English Alabaster Carvings
II.— English Alabaster Carvings as Records of the Medieval Religious Drama
The idea, long since accepted, that the English alabaster-carvers of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries depicted in their reliefs things times has, I believe, not seriously been questioned. As Prior, writing in 1913, put it, ‘since the scenes [as they appeared in the carvings] were those of contemporary representation in passion-plays and mysteries, the pasteboard make-ups of the religious stage, which were on view in every …
Folk-Life Recorded in Medieval English Alabaster Carvings
Obituary Dr. A. H. Krappe
A Group of Medieval English Alabaster Carvings at Nantes
Apotropaism in Greek Vase-Paintings
Quite another concept-a concept which I take to resemble more or less closely the one whereon are based the numerous representations of an eye surrounded by antagonistic creatures or objects-finds, I think, expression in the way certain other animals appear in the vase-paintings. That concept is to the effect that the picturing of the mastering of an embodiment, or of a symbolization, of some particular evil influence will keep that influence fro…
On Some Italian Renaissance Caskets with Pastiglia Decoration
The minor arts of the Renaissance in Italy included the ornamentation of small wooden boxes with reliefs moulded in a plastic material which was applied while yielding and hardened subsequently to the firmness of a soft stone. Although persons of a romantic turn of mind like to call such boxes ‘jewel-caskets’, it would seem more probable that they were made for the use of persons of moderate means, as substitutes for the caskets of precious mater…
The Place of Confusion and Indeterminability in Mazes and Maze-Dances
Note on a Silver Parcel-Gilt Cross from the Abruzzi
On Italian Copper Champleve Enamels of the Thirteenth Century
Indeterminability and Confusion as Apotropaic Elements in Italy and in Spain
SIR JAMES FRAZER, in his Folk-Lore in the Old Testament, devotes a chapter1 to The Sin of a Census, taking as his text the report, in II Samuel xxiv and in I Chronicles xxi, of David's numbering of his people. He instances many examples, drawn from pagan or Moslem or Christian folk in Africa, or America, or the Pacific, or Europe, of the evil consequences which are, or which have been, presumed to follow whether of living creatures or of inanimat…
Some Presumably Datable Fragments of an English Alabaster Retable, and some Assembled Notes on English Alabaster Carvings in Spain
In view of the very number—possibly more than three thousand—of English alabaster devotional (as distinct from those made as parts of monuments) carvings which have survived, it is somewhat astonishing how extraordinarily small a proportion of them have hitherto been datable otherwise than on intrinsic grounds. We have, indeed, many references to such carvings in dated or datable documents, but in extremely few cases have we been able to identify…
Circumstantial Evidence in Mediaeval Enameling
A Twelfth-century copper Cross from Scania
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Varieties of Circumstantial Evidence in the Study of Mediaeval Enameling
Cowrie Shells as Amulets in Europe
THERE have appeared in Man, of recent years, a number of contributions1 -articles or letters-concerned with the occult meanings attached to cowrie shells among a number of various peoples, and with the purposes which such shells, when employed as amulets, are presumed to serve. In those contributions it was observed, in respect of their significations, that because of the resemblance of their undersides to an image of the vulva they have been use…
A Gilt Bronze Cross of the Early Thirteenth Century
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Lunar Crescents as Amulets in Spain
Some Cairene Amulets for Houses and for Horses and Donkeys
Apotropaism in Greek Vase-Paintings
Quite another concept-a concept which I take to resemble more or less closely the one whereon are based the numerous representations of an eye surrounded by antagonistic creatures or objects-finds, I think, expression in the way certain other animals appear in the vase-paintings. That concept is to the effect that the picturing of the mastering of an embodiment, or of a symbolization, of some particular evil influence will keep that influence fro…
Iconographical Peculiarities in English Medieval Alabaster Carvings
Lunar Crescents as Amulets in Spain
A Datable English Alabaster Altar-piece at Santiago de Compostela
In the year 1456 a certain English parish priest, making the pilgrimage to the great shrine of St. James at Santiago de Compostela, took with him an English retable of wood with panels of carved alabaster, and gave it to the cathedral containing the shrine, A document, written in Gallegan Spanish and still in being, sets forth how there appeared before its writer, with witnesses, at the high altar, on the 25th day of May, 1456, ‘a man who said th…
Further Notes on Spanish Amulets
Psychology Underlying the Employment of Amulets in Europe
AN amulet may be broadly defined as, and for our present inquiry will be taken to be, a material object through whose retention there is sought the averting of some result displeasing, or the obtaining of some outcome pleasing, to the possessor of that object, and in a way which seems to be beyond natural laws as proclaimed by persons best qualified to understand them. Primarily it is the retention of the object, for the sake of its presumed apot…
Cowrie Shells as Amulets in Europe
THERE have appeared in Man, of recent years, a number of contributions1 -articles or letters-concerned with the occult meanings attached to cowrie shells among a number of various peoples, and with the purposes which such shells, when employed as amulets, are presumed to serve. In those contributions it was observed, in respect of their significations, that because of the resemblance of their undersides to an image of the vulva they have been use…
Further Notes on the Uses in Spain of Prehistoric Stone Implements as Amulets
Caravaca” Crosses and their Uses as Amulets in Spain
Notes on Some Japanese Magical Methods for Injuring Persons
To obtain news of an absent person, the operator should dress a broom in human clothing and should stand it, very early in the morning (see remarks on the "Hour of the Ox," infra), in an empty room which has eight tatami (floor-mats); after placing an addressed letter in the bosom of the dummy, the latter should be told to deliver it, and to put the answer in a certain specified place.The operator should then leave the room without looking back a…
Notes on Spanish Amulets
Representations of the Saints in Medieval English Alabaster Carvings
Some Presumably Datable Fragments of an English Alabaster Retable, and some Assembled Notes on English Alabaster Carvings in Spain
In view of the very number—possibly more than three thousand—of English alabaster devotional (as distinct from those made as parts of monuments) carvings which have survived, it is somewhat astonishing how extraordinarily small a proportion of them have hitherto been datable otherwise than on intrinsic grounds. We have, indeed, many references to such carvings in dated or datable documents, but in extremely few cases have we been able to identify…
Stone Implements Presumably Used as Amulets in Spain
A Curious Type of Stone St. John's Head
In certain continental museums there are examples of a curious form of detached St. John's Heads, made of a sort of hard alabaster, all so much alike as to indicate that they must all have been carved in one locality (and very probably in one workshop), and within a fairly short period of time. These heads, which seem clearly not to be English in origin—although by some scholars it has been assumed that they were—differ from medieval English alab…
Further Miscellaneous Notes on Medieval English Alabaster Carvings
The miscellaneous notes herewith presented have been gathered, at various times and from various sources, since publication of my last series of notes of the kind, in the Archaeol. Journ. for 1931 (lxxxviii, 228–46). The one single factor they all have in common is some connexion or other with the medieval English alabaster industry, on which much scattered material has already appeared in several well-known books and in a very considerable numbe…
Further Notes on English Alabaster Carvings
The Musée du Louvre has lately received as a gift from the City of Paris–in whose historical museum, the Carnavalet, they had been preserved–five English alabaster reliefs: a ‘Betrayal’, complete, but with a weathered surface; a fine ‘Christ led to Judgement’; a fragmentary ‘Christ before Pilate’; a ‘Naming of St. John’; and a ‘St. Michael and the Blessed Virgin’
Notes on some English Alabaster Carvings
The following notes consist of brief accounts of, and comments upon, some examples of English alabaster work, most of which have been exhibited before the Society at different times and are at present (1924) on loan at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington
Some Magical Applications of Brooms in Japan
IN many parts of the world there exist beliefs as to the supernatural powers inherent in the broom, for man, in "is contests with the personified unseen, has often, and in many ways, made use of the broom either as a weapon °f defence (or, less frequently, one of offence) or as an instrument of control.An examination of some of the Magical applications of the broom in Japan, and of some °f the beliefs attached to it there, should consequently Pro…
Note on the Gourd as an Amulet in Japan
Among the multitude of forms assumed by the Japanese netsuke, that of IL the bottle-gourd is unusually prominent.It is peculiarly adapted to serve for that of a notsuke, because its constricted portion gives a place for the cord, while its smooth and rounded surface permits the netsuke to, pass easily under the girdle, thus facilitating the putting on or putting off of the article for whose attachment This content downloaded from 65.182
Notes on Some Japanese Methods of Personal Purification After a Funeral
Seven Japanese Variants of a Toothache-Charm, Including a Driven Nail
Notes on Some Burmese Amulets and Magical Objects
Notes on some Contemporary Portuguese Amulets
Spanish Votive Offerings. Plate IX
Notes on Spanish Amulets
Chinese Methods of Cutting Hard Stones
Notes on some Contemporary Portuguese Amulets
Notes on Some Flemish Amulets and Beliefs
Notes on Some Amulets of the Three Magi Kings
(1908). Notes on Some Amulets of the Three Magi Kings. Folklore: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 83-87
Notes on Sinhalese Magic
Impurity (ceremonial uncleanness
Notes on Some Tibetan and Bhutia Amulets and Folk-Medicines, and a Few Nepalese Amulets
W. L. Hildburgh, Notes on Some Tibetan and Bhutia Amulets and Folk-Medicines, and a Few Nepalese Amulets, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 39 (Jul. - Dec., 1909), pp. 386-396
Notes on Some Burmese Amulets and Magical Objects
Further Notes on Spanish Amulets
Seven Japanese Variants of a Toothache-Charm, Including a Driven Nail
Some Japanese Charms Connected with the Preparation and Consumption of Food
Some Cairene Amulets for Houses and for Horses and Donkeys
Notes on Spanish Amulets (Third Series). (with Plate XV.)
Notes on Spanish Amulets (Fourth Series). (With Plates I. and II.)
Notes on Some Cairene Personal Amulets
In MAN, 1915, 102, I described a number of personal amulets, in use at Cairo, dependent primarily for their supposed virtues upon qualities inherent in the inaterials of which they are composed.The objects shown on the plate accompanying the present article are, for the most part, in contradistinction to those amulets, dependent for their supposed virtues primarily upon qualities which have been imparted to them by artificial means.While a number…
Notes on Some Japanese Majinai Connected with Love (I)
Notes on Some Japanese Magical Methods for Injuring Persons
To obtain news of an absent person, the operator should dress a broom in human clothing and should stand it, very early in the morning (see remarks on the "Hour of the Ox," infra), in an empty room which has eight tatami (floor-mats); after placing an addressed letter in the bosom of the dummy, the latter should be told to deliver it, and to put the answer in a certain specified place.The operator should then leave the room without looking back a…
Notes on Some Japanese Majinai Connected with Love (II)
Notes on Some Japanese Coins and Coin-Like Objects Used as Amulets and in Charms
In China " charms [consisting in the case referred to, of small brass swords with a round coini " welded to them], are cast occasionally when temples are beiDg erected or restored, for distribution " among the inhabitants of the ward or parish, to avert the ills provoked by the building works, " especially by the disturbance of the spirits of the soil."-deGroot, The Religiou.sSystent of China
Some Japanese Household Charms Against Insects and Other Vermin
in Fuh-kien Province, in China, on the 8th day of the 4th moon the festival of "Buddha washing vegetables" is celebrated, one of the features of which is the pouring of water, from a spoon, over a small seated figure of Buddha, in the temples.** The gaki (the Sanskrit preta), or hungry spirits.For much on the relations which, in Japan, are believed to exist between the gaki and insects, see L. Hearn's Kotto (New York and London, 1902), pp.181 sqq…
Note on a Magical Curative Practice in Use at Benares
The Directing of Conscious Agents in Some Japanese "Imitative" Magical Practices
Some Japanese Charms Connected with the Making of Clothing
Notes on Some Japanese Methods of Personal Purification After a Funeral
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