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... where the wretched custom of abandoning and even plundering widows and orphans was tending to bring the whole race to extinction , a helpless widow would seek to persuade some father that the soul of a dead child of his had passed ...
... where the wretched custom of abandoning and even plundering widows and orphans was tending to bring the whole race to extinction , a helpless widow would seek to persuade some father that the soul of a dead child of his had passed ...
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A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men ...
A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men ...
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Yet also a survey of its details among mankind displays in the midst of variety à regular recurrence of episode which brings the everrecurring question , how far is this correspondence due to transmission of the same thought from tribe ...
Yet also a survey of its details among mankind displays in the midst of variety à regular recurrence of episode which brings the everrecurring question , how far is this correspondence due to transmission of the same thought from tribe ...
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Loudly he called to Tuoni's daughter to bring the ferry - boat across :1 Schoolcraft , ' Algic Res . ' vol . ii . pp . 32 , 64 , and see ante , vol . i . p . 312 . ? Steller , ' Kamtschatka , ' p . 271 ; Klemm , ' C. G. ' vol . ii . p .
Loudly he called to Tuoni's daughter to bring the ferry - boat across :1 Schoolcraft , ' Algic Res . ' vol . ii . pp . 32 , 64 , and see ante , vol . i . p . 312 . ? Steller , ' Kamtschatka , ' p . 271 ; Klemm , ' C. G. ' vol . ii . p .
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Then she ferries him over , and Tuonetar the hostess brings him beer in the two - eared jug , but Wainamoinen can see the frogs and worms within and will not drink , for it ...
Then she ferries him over , and Tuonetar the hostess brings him beer in the two - eared jug , but Wainamoinen can see the frogs and worms within and will not drink , for it ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Murray, 1903 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 14 May 2014 |
| Length | 973 pages |
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