Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 |
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... if not universal doctrine of low races — Continued existence , rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ; its attachment to bodily remains - Feasts of the Dead .
... if not universal doctrine of low races — Continued existence , rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ; its attachment to bodily remains - Feasts of the Dead .
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... and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracleinspiration - Fetishism— Disease - spirits embodied — Ghost attached to remains of Corpse — Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied in , attached to ...
... and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracleinspiration - Fetishism— Disease - spirits embodied — Ghost attached to remains of Corpse — Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied in , attached to ...
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... rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ... spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things ...
... rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ... spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things ...
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They believe that the ' kla ' or ' kra , ' the vital soul , becomes at death a ' sisa ' or ghost , which can remain ... or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Volta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell .
They believe that the ' kla ' or ' kra , ' the vital soul , becomes at death a ' sisa ' or ghost , which can remain ... or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Volta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell .
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4 Knowing so thoroughly as we now do the theology of the Zulus , whose ghosts not only survive in the 1 6 6 Aryan evidence in ' Rig - Veda , ' x . 14 , 8 ; xi . 1 , 8 ; Manu , xii . 16-22 ; Max Müller , ' Todtenbestattung , ' pp . xii ...
4 Knowing so thoroughly as we now do the theology of the Zulus , whose ghosts not only survive in the 1 6 6 Aryan evidence in ' Rig - Veda , ' x . 14 , 8 ; xi . 1 , 8 ; Manu , xii . 16-22 ; Max Müller , ' Todtenbestattung , ' pp . xii ...
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