Lewis Spence, the Glossary
James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar.[1]
Table of Contents
39 relations: Angus, Scotland, Atlantis, Basques, Berbers, Bronze Age, Celtic Britons, Central America, David MacRitchie, Dean Cemetery, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Edinburgh, Folklore studies, Greenland, Henry O'Brien (classicist), Ignatius L. Donnelly, Immanuel Velikovsky, Kʼicheʼ people, Maghreb, Maya civilization, Mexico, Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency), Monifieth, Myth, Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (Lewis Spence), National Party of Scotland, New World, Occult, Occultism in Nazism, Popol Vuh, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Scotland, Scottish folklore, Scottish independence, Scottish National Movement, Scottish National Party, The Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, The Scotsman, University of Edinburgh, 1929 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election.
- British encyclopedists
- Lemuria
- People from Monifieth
- Scots-language poets
- Scottish National Party politicians
- Scottish folklorists
- Scottish lexicographers
Angus, Scotland
Angus (Angus; Aonghas) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.
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Atlantis
Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος|island of Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations.
Basques
The Basques (or; euskaldunak; vascos; basques) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.
Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
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Celtic Britons
The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).
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Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
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David MacRitchie
David MacRitchie (16 April 1851 – 14 January 1925) was a Scottish folklorist and antiquarian. Lewis Spence and David MacRitchie are Scottish folklorists.
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Dean Cemetery
The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland.
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Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Donald Alexander Mackenzie (24 July 1873 – 2 March 1936) was a Scottish journalist and folklorist and a prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. Lewis Spence and Donald Alexander Mackenzie are 20th-century Scottish historians, Mythographers, Scottish folklorists and Scottish journalists.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Folklore studies
Folklore studies (less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom) is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Henry O'Brien (classicist)
Henry O'Brien (1808–1835) was an Irish classicist and author best known for his hypothesis concerning Irish round towers.
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Ignatius L. Donnelly
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (November 3, 1831 – January 1, 1901) was an American Congressman, populist writer, and fringe scientist. Lewis Spence and Ignatius L. Donnelly are Atlantis proponents.
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Immanuel Velikovsky
Immanuel Velikovsky (p; 17 November 1979) was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist. Lewis Spence and Immanuel Velikovsky are Mythographers.
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Kʼicheʼ people
Kʼicheʼ (pronounced; previous Spanish spelling: Quiché) are Indigenous peoples of the Americas and are one of the Maya peoples.
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Maghreb
The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.
Maya civilization
The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency)
Midlothian and Peebles Northern was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950.
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Monifieth
Monifieth (Monadh Fotha) is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (Lewis Spence)
Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria is a book written by Lewis Spence, published in 1916.
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National Party of Scotland
The National Party of Scotland (NPS) was a centre-left political party in Scotland which was one of the predecessors of the current Scottish National Party (SNP).
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New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
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Occult
The occult (from occultus) is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism.
Occultism in Nazism
The association of Nazism with occultism occurs in a wide range of theories, speculation, and research into the origins of Nazism and into Nazism's possible relationship with various occult traditions.
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Popol Vuh
Popol Vuh (also Popul Vuh or Pop Vuj) is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, one of the Maya peoples who also inhabit the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, as well as areas of Belize, Honduras and El Salvador.
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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Scottish folklore
Scottish folklore (Scottish Gaelic: Beul-aithris na h-Alba) encompasses the folklore of the Scottish people from their earliest records until today.
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Scottish independence
Scottish independence (Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba; Scots unthirldom) is the idea of Scotland regaining its independence and once again becoming a sovereign state, independent from the United Kingdom.
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Scottish National Movement
The Scottish National Movement (SNM) was a political organisation which campaigned for Scottish independence in the 1920s.
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Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scots National Pairty, Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party.
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The Myths and Legends of the North American Indians
The Myths and Legends of the North American Indians is a book written by Lewis Spence and was first published in 1914 by London George G. Harrap & Company.
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The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.
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University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh (University o Edinburgh, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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1929 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election
The 1929 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in Scotland on 29 January 1929 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the House of Commons constituency of Midlothian and Peebles Northern.
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See also
British encyclopedists
- Abraham Rees
- Denis Gifford
- Dennis de Coetlogon
- Donald Mackenzie Wallace
- Ephraim Chambers
- Henry Scherren
- Hugh Chisholm
- Isaac Jones (priest)
- John Alexander Hammerton
- John Marius Wilson
- John S. Clarke
- Leslie Halliwell
- Lewis Spence
- List of contributors to Rees's Cyclopædia
- Maurice Burton
- Reginald Arthur Smith
- Ruth Bidgood
- William Nicholson (chemist)
Lemuria
- A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
- A Dweller on Two Planets
- After Man
- Amy Carlson (religious leader)
- Atlantis (Sun Ra album)
- Child of Light
- Ernst Haeckel
- Harvey Spencer Lewis
- Helena Blavatsky
- Kumari Kandam
- Lemuria
- Lemurian Fellowship
- Lewis Spence
- Philip Sclater
- Root race
- Semir Osmanagić
- The Gorgon Cult
- William Scott-Elliot
People from Monifieth
- Alex Anderson (footballer)
- Alex Ferguson (footballer, born 1913)
- Alex Stott
- Charles Findlay Davidson
- Chris Hegarty (footballer, born 1984)
- Earl Reoch
- Freddie Scott (British Army officer)
- George Carmichael Low
- George Simpson (golfer)
- Ian Hutcheon
- James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure
- Lewis Spence
- Thomas Martin Cappon
- William Fisher Cassie
Scots-language poets
- Alexander Gray (poet)
- Alexander Scott (20th-century poet)
- Allan Ramsay (poet)
- Aonghas MacNeacail
- Charles Murray (poet)
- Christine De Luca
- David Purves
- Duncan Glen
- Edith Anne Robertson
- Flora Garry
- George Campbell Hay
- Harry Josephine Giles
- Helen Cruickshank
- J. K. Annand
- James Gray (poet)
- James Hogg
- James Mackintosh Kennedy
- James Robertson (novelist)
- Janet Paisley
- Joanna Baillie
- Len Pennie
- Lewis Spence
- Marion Angus
- Mary Symon
- Matthew Fitt
- Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster)
- Neil MacCallum
- R. Crombie Saunders
- Robert Burns
- Robert Fergusson
- Robert Garioch
- Robert McLellan
- Tom Hubbard
- Tom Scott (poet)
- Violet Jacob
- W. D. Cocker
- W. N. Herbert
- William Henry Ogilvie
- William Meston
- William Neill (poet)
- William Soutar
- William Thom (poet)
- William Wilkie
Scottish National Party politicians
- Alex Wood (politician)
- Annie S. Swan
- Arthur Donaldson
- Colin Bell (journalist)
- Compton Mackenzie
- David Rollo (politician)
- Derrick White (politician)
- Douglas Drysdale
- Douglas Young (classicist)
- Duncan Ross (Scottish politician)
- Eric Linklater
- F. Marian McNeill
- Frank Matthews Leslie
- Frank Ross (Scottish politician)
- Harry Rankin (politician)
- Hugh Kerr
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Hugh MacDonald (Scottish politician)
- Ian Hamilton (advocate)
- Isobel Lindsay
- James Braid (politician)
- Jim Fairlie (politician, born 1940)
- Jimmy Reid
- Joan Sturgeon
- John MacCormick
- John McAteer
- Joseph Gloag
- Leader of the Scottish National Party
- Lewis Spence
- Malcolm Slesser
- Mark Hirst
- Mary Fraser Dott
- Michael Grieve
- Michael Murgatroyd
- Muriel Gibson (politician)
- Neil MacCallum
- Oliver Brown (Scottish activist)
- Peter Murrell
- Robert Gray (Scottish politician)
- Rosalind Mitchell
- Rosemary Hall (political activist)
- Scottish National Party MEPs
- Scottish National Party MPs
- Scottish National Party MSPs
- Tom Gibson (Scottish politician)
- Wendy Wood (artist)
- William Taylor (ophthalmologist)
- Willie McRae
Scottish folklorists
- Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
- Alexander Morison McAldowie
- Andrew Lang
- Calum Maclean (folklorist)
- Charlotte Auerbach
- Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster
- Dòmhnall Iain Dhonnchaidh
- David MacRitchie
- Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- E. S. Reid Tait
- Emily Gerard
- Ernest Marwick
- F. Marian McNeill
- George Fraser Black
- James George Frazer
- James Napier (chemist)
- Jeannie Robertson
- Jessie Saxby
- John Farquharson (Jesuit)
- John Firth (folklorist)
- John Gregorson Campbell
- Katherine Whyte Grant
- Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray
- Lewis Spence
- Lizanne Henderson
- Margaret Bennett (writer)
- Mary MacLeod Banks
- May Elliot Hobbs
- Otta F Swire
- Robert Craig Maclagan
- Robert Kirk (folklorist)
- Robert Munro (folklorist)
- Rose Ethel Bassin
- Sandra Billington
- Sheila Stewart
- Stewart Sanderson
- Stuart Harris-Logan
- Walter Gregor
- Walter Traill Dennison
- William Alexander Clouston
Scottish lexicographers
- A. J. Aitken
- Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
- Alexander Adam
- Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871)
- Bonaventure Hepburn
- Christian Kay
- Colin Mark
- Ewen MacLachlan
- George Buchanan (engineer, born 1790)
- George Dunbar (classical scholar)
- Gyurme Dorje
- Iseabail Macleod
- James Herbert Lorrain
- James Main Dixon
- James Murray (lexicographer)
- James Wood (encyclopaedist)
- John Craig (geologist)
- John Gilchrist (linguist)
- John Jamieson
- John Longmuir (poet)
- John Ogilvie (lexicographer)
- John Robison (inventor)
- Lewis Spence
- Mairi Robinson
- Matthew George Easton
- Michael Proffitt
- Robert Archibald Armstrong
- Robert Carruthers
- Robert Hunter (encyclopædist)
- Robert Morrison (missionary)
- Thomas Roebuck
- William Allan Neilson
- William Craigie
- William Jackson Elmslie
- William Lorimer (scholar)
- William Robertson (Hebraist)
- William Shaw (Gaelic scholar)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Spence
Also known as James Lewis Thomas Chalmbers Spence, Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955.