Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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Animism , expanding from the Doctrine of Souls to the wider Doctrine of Spirits , becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls --Transition - stage ...
Animism , expanding from the Doctrine of Souls to the wider Doctrine of Spirits , becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls --Transition - stage ...
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A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men ...
A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men ...
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As in 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 ...
As in 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 ...
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Among the Iroquois of North America the spirit also stays near the body for a time , and “ unless the rites of burial ... it was believed that the spirits of the dead hovered for a time upon the earth , in a state of great unhappiness .
Among the Iroquois of North America the spirit also stays near the body for a time , and “ unless the rites of burial ... it was believed that the spirits of the dead hovered for a time upon the earth , in a state of great unhappiness .
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2 sumes the steam or savour of the food , or its essence or spirit . ... he slowly sets the dish of rice before the Brahmans , and while they silently eat the hot food , the ancestral spirits take their part of the feast .
2 sumes the steam or savour of the food , or its essence or spirit . ... he slowly sets the dish of rice before the Brahmans , and while they silently eat the hot food , the ancestral spirits take their part of the feast .
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