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... 3 of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bones at the Feast of the Dead ; 4 of that pathetic funeral rite of the Iroquois , the setting free a bird on the evening of burial , to carry away the soul .
... 3 of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bones at the Feast of the Dead ; 4 of that pathetic funeral rite of the Iroquois , the setting free a bird on the evening of burial , to carry away the soul .
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The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of resurrection and ...
The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of resurrection and ...
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... become bloodthirsty beasts ; stealers of grain and meat shall turn into rats and vultures ; the thief who took dyed garments , kitchen - herbs , or perfumes , shall become accordingly a red partridge , a peacock , or a musk - rat .
... become bloodthirsty beasts ; stealers of grain and meat shall turn into rats and vultures ; the thief who took dyed garments , kitchen - herbs , or perfumes , shall become accordingly a red partridge , a peacock , or a musk - rat .
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... which thus have not only life but sense ; that the souls of reapers pass into beans and barley , to be cut down in their turn , and thus the elect were careful to explain to the bread when they ate it , that it was not they who ...
... which thus have not only life but sense ; that the souls of reapers pass into beans and barley , to be cut down in their turn , and thus the elect were careful to explain to the bread when they ate it , that it was not they who ...
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Their experiences have been in great measure what they were taught in early childhood to expect , the journey along the path of the dead , the monstrous strawberry at which the jebi - ug or ghosts refresh themselves , but which turns to ...
Their experiences have been in great measure what they were taught in early childhood to expect , the journey along the path of the dead , the monstrous strawberry at which the jebi - ug or ghosts refresh themselves , but which turns to ...
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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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