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In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ...
In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ...
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... to the head or mouth of the corpse , whereby to send down month by month the offerings of food and drink.5 Among rude Asiatic tribes , the Bodo of North - East India thus celebrate the last funeral rites . The friends repair to the ...
... to the head or mouth of the corpse , whereby to send down month by month the offerings of food and drink.5 Among rude Asiatic tribes , the Bodo of North - East India thus celebrate the last funeral rites . The friends repair to the ...
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His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed ...
His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed ...
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... sucking and stinging them , and the fiends drawing down the skin of women's shoulders into pokes , and smiting into their heads with burning hammers their gay chaplets of gold and jewels turned to burning nails , and so forth .
... sucking and stinging them , and the fiends drawing down the skin of women's shoulders into pokes , and smiting into their heads with burning hammers their gay chaplets of gold and jewels turned to burning nails , and so forth .
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... reclining on their couches of gold and gems , served by children ever young , with bowls of liquor whose fumes will not rise into the drinkers ' heads , living among the thornless lotus - trees and date - palms loaded to the ground ...
... reclining on their couches of gold and gems , served by children ever young , with bowls of liquor whose fumes will not rise into the drinkers ' heads , living among the thornless lotus - trees and date - palms loaded to the ground ...
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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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