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... Land of the Dead - Visits by the Living to the Regions of Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset : the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realization of current religious ideas , whether of savage ...
... Land of the Dead - Visits by the Living to the Regions of Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset : the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realization of current religious ideas , whether of savage ...
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... land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to ...
... land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to ...
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... land he had possessed during his former life . 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 ...
... land he had possessed during his former life . 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 ...
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Edward Burnett Tylor. this Land of Souls . They can be born again as souls in new human bodies , and a soul who was poor before will now be rich . Many will not come back as men , but will become animals . To an African mother who has ...
Edward Burnett Tylor. this Land of Souls . They can be born again as souls in new human bodies , and a soul who was poor before will now be rich . Many will not come back as men , but will become animals . To an African mother who has ...
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... land if they have kept feasts and oaths and abstained from forbidden meats , but if not , to be plunged into the river by the god , and thus drowned and buried in eternal oblivion . Even common water can drown a negro ghost , if we may ...
... land if they have kept feasts and oaths and abstained from forbidden meats , but if not , to be plunged into the river by the god , and thus drowned and buried in eternal oblivion . Even common water can drown a negro ghost , if we may ...
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