Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... story by a bushranger in Australia may , perhaps , be objected to as a mistake or an invention , but did a Methodist minister in Guinea conspire with him to cheat the public by telling the same story there ? The possibility of ...
... story by a bushranger in Australia may , perhaps , be objected to as a mistake or an invention , but did a Methodist minister in Guinea conspire with him to cheat the public by telling the same story there ? The possibility of ...
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... stories of long - past ages . History is oral or written record which can be satisfactorily traced into contact with the events it de- scribes ; and perhaps no account of the course of culture in its lower stages can satisfy this ...
... stories of long - past ages . History is oral or written record which can be satisfactorily traced into contact with the events it de- scribes ; and perhaps no account of the course of culture in its lower stages can satisfy this ...
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... story that their ancestors vowed not to make plantations . Another rude people of the Malay peninsula are the Jakuns , a simple , kindly race , among whom some trace their pedigree to a pair of white monkeys , while others declare that ...
... story that their ancestors vowed not to make plantations . Another rude people of the Malay peninsula are the Jakuns , a simple , kindly race , among whom some trace their pedigree to a pair of white monkeys , while others declare that ...
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... story of about a thousand years ago . The game in question is thus played in France : -The children stand in a ring ... stories of the Jews , the Jews told them of the Christians , and Christians themselves reached a bad emi- nence in ...
... story of about a thousand years ago . The game in question is thus played in France : -The children stand in a ring ... stories of the Jews , the Jews told them of the Christians , and Christians themselves reached a bad emi- nence in ...
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... story that bears are born as yeless , hairless , shapeless lumps of white flesh , and have fterwards to be licked into form.2 " " Again , in relics of old magic and religion , we have some- 1 Grimm , ' Deutsche Myth . ' p . 222 . 2 Plin ...
... story that bears are born as yeless , hairless , shapeless lumps of white flesh , and have fterwards to be licked into form.2 " " Again , in relics of old magic and religion , we have some- 1 Grimm , ' Deutsche Myth . ' p . 222 . 2 Plin ...
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