Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 |
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A series of examples from among the native tribes of America will serve well to show the various ways in which such ideas are worked out . The Ahts of Vancouver's Island consider the living man's soul able to ...
A series of examples from among the native tribes of America will serve well to show the various ways in which such ideas are worked out . The Ahts of Vancouver's Island consider the living man's soul able to ...
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... and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient ... because her late husband had entered into a walrus.2 Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Powhatans ...
... and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient ... because her late husband had entered into a walrus.2 Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Powhatans ...
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See also Shaw in ' As . Res . ' vol . iv . p . 46 ( Rajmahal tribes ) . 1 Eisenmenger , part ii . p . 23 , 10 ANIMISM .
See also Shaw in ' As . Res . ' vol . iv . p . 46 ( Rajmahal tribes ) . 1 Eisenmenger , part ii . p . 23 , 10 ANIMISM .
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The doctrines which , separate or compounded , make up the scheme of future existence among particular tribes , are principally these : the theories of lingering , wandering , and returning ghosts , and of souls dwelling on or below or ...
The doctrines which , separate or compounded , make up the scheme of future existence among particular tribes , are principally these : the theories of lingering , wandering , and returning ghosts , and of souls dwelling on or below or ...
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For other cases of desertion of dwellings after a death , possibly for the same motive , see Bourien , “ Tribes of Malay Pen . ' in ' Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . iii . p . 82 ; Polack , M. of New Zealanders , ' vol . i . pp .
For other cases of desertion of dwellings after a death , possibly for the same motive , see Bourien , “ Tribes of Malay Pen . ' in ' Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . iii . p . 82 ; Polack , M. of New Zealanders , ' vol . i . pp .
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