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" Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll; this spoon had been carried to the grave of a dead man, and becoming inspired at full moon, in fact lunatic, it danced about convulsively like a table... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 154
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1903
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - Folklore - 1873 - 296 pages
...metempsychosis comes in to complete the proof. " Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island, who had a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll; this...about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-stance." Tylor, op. cit. II. 139. us that the evidence of the senses is trustworthy only in...
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - Literary Criticism - 1877 - 274 pages
...metempsychosis comes in to complete the proof. " Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island, who had a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll ; this...about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-stoiee." Tylor, op. cit. II. 139. us that the evidence of the senses is trustworthy only in...
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - Folklore - 1890 - 282 pages
...metempsychosis comes in to complete the proof. " Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island, who had a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll ; this...about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-stoice." Tylor, op. cit. II. 139. us that the evidence of the senses is trustworthy only in...
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The Making of Religion

Andrew Lang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1898 - 438 pages
...motionless piece of stone or stick ? Mr. Tylor, perhaps, leads us to a plausible conjecture by writing : ' Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island,...about convulsively, like a table or a hat at a modern spirit séance.' ' Now M. Lefébure has pointed out (in ' Malusine ') that, according to De Brosses,...
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The Making of Religion

Andrew Lang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1898 - 402 pages
...motionless piece of stone or stick ? Mr. Tylor, perhaps, leads us to a plausible conjecture by writing : ' Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island,...about convulsively, like a table or a hat at a modern spirit séance.' ' Now M. Lefébure has pointed out (in ' Malusine ') that, according to De Brosses,...
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The Making of Religion

Andrew Lang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1898 - 432 pages
...motionless piece of stone or stick ? Mr. Tylor, perhaps, leads us to a plausible conjecture by writing : ' Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island,...about convulsively, like a table or a hat at a modern spirit séance.' ' Now M. Lefébure has pointed out (in ' Melusine ') that, according to De Brosses,...
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Myths and myth-makers

John Fiske - 1902 - 380 pages
...metempsychosis comes in to complete the proof. " Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island, who had a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll; this...about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-sea/ite." Tylor, op. cit. ii. 139. tive belief in the ghostly survival of persons and objects...
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Publications, Volume 50

Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1902 - 1012 pages
...of the Malays we are told in Primitive Culf¿t\\i¿¿ 152: “Mr. Dat¿in saw t¿ o Malay women on Keeling Island, who held a wooden spoon, dressed in...becoming inspired at full moon, in fact lunatic, it danc-d about convulsively, like a table or a hat at a modern spirit séance.” This is of course an...
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Folklore, Volume 13

Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - Electronic journals - 1902 - 592 pages
...doll ; this spoon had been carried *°the grave of a dead man, and becoming inspired at full rooon, in fact lunatic, it danced about convulsively, like a table or a hat at a modern spirit séance." This is of course an automatism, not a case of movement without contact. II. In the...
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The Making of Religion

Andrew Lang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1909 - 396 pages
...motionless piece of stone or stick ? Mr. Tylor, perhaps, leads us to a plausible conjecture by writing : ' Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island,...about convulsively, like a table or a hat at a modern spirit séance.' ' Now M. Lefébure has pointed out (in ' Malusine ') that, according to De Brosses,...
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