Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 |
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... it being believed that a chief dead some four generations before , who had such a mark , had returned.2 In Old Calabar , if a mother loses a child , and another is born soon after , she thinks the departed one to have come back .
... it being believed that a chief dead some four generations before , who had such a mark , had returned.2 In Old Calabar , if a mother loses a child , and another is born soon after , she thinks the departed one to have come back .
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The doctrine has been current among them since early days of European intercourse , and in accordance with it they habitually regarded the Englishmen as their own deceased kindred , come back to their country from an attachment to it in ...
The doctrine has been current among them since early days of European intercourse , and in accordance with it they habitually regarded the Englishmen as their own deceased kindred , come back to their country from an attachment to it in ...
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... believing in the resurrection of the dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as departed spirits thus come back.2 Next , the lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of ...
... believing in the resurrection of the dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as departed spirits thus come back.2 Next , the lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of ...
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It is especially certain green or brown harmless snakes , which come gently and fearlessly into houses , which are considered to be ' amatongo ' or ancestors , and therefore are treated respectfully , and have offerings of food given ...
It is especially certain green or brown harmless snakes , which come gently and fearlessly into houses , which are considered to be ' amatongo ' or ancestors , and therefore are treated respectfully , and have offerings of food given ...
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Many will not come back as men , but will become animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , ' He will come again . ' In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul ...
Many will not come back as men , but will become animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , ' He will come again . ' In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul ...
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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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