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... give his likeness to the child ; and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because he had a mark like the scar of a gun - shot wound on his hip , it being believed that a chief dead some four generations ...
... give his likeness to the child ; and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because he had a mark like the scar of a gun - shot wound on his hip , it being believed that a chief dead some four generations ...
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... gives a Jew unclean meat to eat , his soul shall enter into a leaf , blown to and fro by the wind ; ' for ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth ; ' and he who speaks ill words , his soul shall pass into a dumb stone , as did Nabal's ...
... gives a Jew unclean meat to eat , his soul shall enter into a leaf , blown to and fro by the wind ; ' for ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth ; ' and he who speaks ill words , his soul shall pass into a dumb stone , as did Nabal's ...
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... give the body its funeral rites , that the shade should not fit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd 1 Oldfield in ' Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . iii . pp . 228 , 236 , 245 . 2 Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' p . 221 ...
... give the body its funeral rites , that the shade should not fit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd 1 Oldfield in ' Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . iii . pp . 228 , 236 , 245 . 2 Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' p . 221 ...
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... give here elaborate details of the world - wide thought that when the corpse is buried , exposed , burned , or otherwise disposed of after the accepted custom of the land , the ghost accompanies its relics . The soul stays near the ...
... give here elaborate details of the world - wide thought that when the corpse is buried , exposed , burned , or otherwise disposed of after the accepted custom of the land , the ghost accompanies its relics . The soul stays near the ...
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... gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead ...
... gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead ...
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