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... look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them . Among the Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging ...
... look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them . Among the Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging ...
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... looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches always over wretched mortals , -thence they passed along the banks to the entrance of the land where the shades of the departed , quickened for a while by the taste of ...
... looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches always over wretched mortals , -thence they passed along the banks to the entrance of the land where the shades of the departed , quickened for a while by the taste of ...
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... looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes , accounts are not unusual of men whose spirits , travelling in ...
... looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes , accounts are not unusual of men whose spirits , travelling in ...
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... 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 in the clothes ...
... 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 in the clothes ...
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... look down upon the molten lava.1 Fourthly , in old times and new , it has come into men's minds to fix upon the sun and moon as abodes of departed souls . When we have learnt from the rude Natchez of the Mississippi and the Apalaches of ...
... look down upon the molten lava.1 Fourthly , in old times and new , it has come into men's minds to fix upon the sun and moon as abodes of departed souls . When we have learnt from the rude Natchez of the Mississippi and the Apalaches of ...
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