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... its primary phases best represented among the lower races , while survivals of these among the higher races mark the transition from savage through barbaric to civilized faiths — Transition of Animism in the History of Religion ...
... its primary phases best represented among the lower races , while survivals of these among the higher races mark the transition from savage through barbaric to civilized faiths — Transition of Animism in the History of Religion ...
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... persons as have opened themselves for the admission of the devil and acquired the nature of beasts , becoming foxes in cunning , etc. , appear also at a distance in the proper shape of such beasts as they represent in disposition .
... persons as have opened themselves for the admission of the devil and acquired the nature of beasts , becoming foxes in cunning , etc. , appear also at a distance in the proper shape of such beasts as they represent in disposition .
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In the classic world such rites were represented by funeral feasts and oblations of food . 4 In Christian times there manifests itself that interesting kind of survival which , keeping up the old ceremony in form , has adapted its ...
In the classic world such rites were represented by funeral feasts and oblations of food . 4 In Christian times there manifests itself that interesting kind of survival which , keeping up the old ceremony in form , has adapted its ...
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2 tales represent the belief of their age , if not. 3 Bosman , “ Guinea , ' Letter 19 , in Pinkerton , vol . xvi . p . 501 ; Burton , ' Dahome , ' vol . ii . p . 158. For modern visits to hell and heaven by Christianized negro ...
2 tales represent the belief of their age , if not. 3 Bosman , “ Guinea , ' Letter 19 , in Pinkerton , vol . xvi . p . 501 ; Burton , ' Dahome , ' vol . ii . p . 158. For modern visits to hell and heaven by Christianized negro ...
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tales represent the belief of their age , if not of their author . His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with ...
tales represent the belief of their age , if not of their author . His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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