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... Worship -- Doctrine of Embodiment of Spirits in human , animal , vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracleinspiration - Fetishism— Disease - spirits embodied — Ghost attached ...
... Worship -- Doctrine of Embodiment of Spirits in human , animal , vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracleinspiration - Fetishism— Disease - spirits embodied — Ghost attached ...
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Closely connected and even largely overlapping one another , both world - wide in their distribution , both ranging back in time to periods of unknown antiquity , both deeply rooted in the lowest strata of human life which lie open to ...
Closely connected and even largely overlapping one another , both world - wide in their distribution , both ranging back in time to periods of unknown antiquity , both deeply rooted in the lowest strata of human life which lie open to ...
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Permanent transition , new birth , or re - incarnation of human souls in other human bodies , is especially considered to take place by the soul of a deceased person animating the body of an infant . It is recorded by Brebeuf that the ...
Permanent transition , new birth , or re - incarnation of human souls in other human bodies , is especially considered to take place by the soul of a deceased person animating the body of an infant . It is recorded by Brebeuf that the ...
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The belief in the new human birth of the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a ...
The belief in the new human birth of the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a ...
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... thus come back.2 Next , the lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the lower animals .
... thus come back.2 Next , the lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the lower animals .
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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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