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... negro ghost , if we may believe the missionary Cavazzi's story of the Matamba widows being ducked in the river or pond to drown off the 1 Cranz , ' Grönland , ' p . 259 . 2 Williams , ' Fiji , ' vol . i . p . 244. See ' Journ . Ind ...
... negro ghost , if we may believe the missionary Cavazzi's story of the Matamba widows being ducked in the river or pond to drown off the 1 Cranz , ' Grönland , ' p . 259 . 2 Williams , ' Fiji , ' vol . i . p . 244. See ' Journ . Ind ...
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... ' vol . ii . p . 158. For modern visits to hell and heaven by Chris- tianized negro visionaries in America , see Macrae , ' Americans at Home , ' vol . ii . p . 91 . tales represent the belief of their age , if not 52 ANIMISM .
... ' vol . ii . p . 158. For modern visits to hell and heaven by Chris- tianized negro visionaries in America , see Macrae , ' Americans at Home , ' vol . ii . p . 91 . tales represent the belief of their age , if not 52 ANIMISM .
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... negro's belief that there is a firmament stretched above like a cloth or web ; the Finnish poem which tells how Ilmarinen forged the firmament of finest steel , and set in it the moon and stars . The New Zealander , with his notion of a ...
... negro's belief that there is a firmament stretched above like a cloth or web ; the Finnish poem which tells how Ilmarinen forged the firmament of finest steel , and set in it the moon and stars . The New Zealander , with his notion of a ...
Page 105
... negro of our own day would feel to the utmost the sense of those lines in the beginning of the Iliad , which describe the heroes ' ' souls ' being cast down to Hades , but ' themselves ' left a prey to dogs and carrion birds . Rising to ...
... negro of our own day would feel to the utmost the sense of those lines in the beginning of the Iliad , which describe the heroes ' ' souls ' being cast down to Hades , but ' themselves ' left a prey to dogs and carrion birds . Rising to ...
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... negro doctrine of disease - spirits is displayed in the following description from Guinea , by the Rev. J. L. Wilson , the missionary : - ' De- moniacal possessions are common , and the feats performed by those who are supposed to be ...
... negro doctrine of disease - spirits is displayed in the following description from Guinea , by the Rev. J. L. Wilson , the missionary : - ' De- moniacal possessions are common , and the feats performed by those who are supposed to be ...
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