Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury them by the wayside , that their souls might enter into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis ...
... North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury them by the wayside , that their souls might enter into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis ...
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... North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because ...
... North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because ...
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... North - West 1 Grey , Australia , ' vol . i . p . 301 , vol . ii . p . 363 , [ native's accusation against some foreign sailors who had assaulted him , " djanga Taal - wurt kyle - gut bomb - gur , ” — “ one of the dead struck Taal ...
... North - West 1 Grey , Australia , ' vol . i . p . 301 , vol . ii . p . 363 , [ native's accusation against some foreign sailors who had assaulted him , " djanga Taal - wurt kyle - gut bomb - gur , ” — “ one of the dead struck Taal ...
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... North American tribes , we hear of the Pow- hatans refraining from doing harm to certain small wood- birds which received the souls of their chiefs ; of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bones at the ...
... North American tribes , we hear of the Pow- hatans refraining from doing harm to certain small wood- birds which received the souls of their chiefs ; of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bones at the ...
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... North America the Chickasaws believed that the spirits of the dead in their bodily shape moved about among the living in great joy ; as the Aleutian islanders fancied the souls of the departed walking unseen among their kindred , and ...
... North America the Chickasaws believed that the spirits of the dead in their bodily shape moved about among the living in great joy ; as the Aleutian islanders fancied the souls of the departed walking unseen among their kindred , and ...
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