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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 pass 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 pass into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis ...
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... North American Indians were observed to set the child in place of the last owner of its name , so that a man would treat as his grandfather a child who might have been his grandson . " The belief in the new human birth of the departed ...
... North American Indians were observed to set the child in place of the last owner of its name , so that a man would treat as his grandfather a child who might have been his grandson . " The belief in the new human birth of the departed ...
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... North - West America we find some Indians believing the spirits of their dead to enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle- faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some ...
... North - West America we find some Indians believing the spirits of their dead to enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle- faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some ...
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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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... ( Bechuanas ) ; Waitz , vol . iii . p . 199 ( Ojibwas ) ; -their motive is not clear . 2 Oldfield in Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . iii . pp . 228 , 236 , 245 . 4 charms.1 Among the Iroquois of North America the spirit 24 ANIMISM .
... ( Bechuanas ) ; Waitz , vol . iii . p . 199 ( Ojibwas ) ; -their motive is not clear . 2 Oldfield in Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . iii . pp . 228 , 236 , 245 . 4 charms.1 Among the Iroquois of North America the spirit 24 ANIMISM .
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