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... Spirits , becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Defini- tion of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls -Transition - stage classes of Souls passing into good and evil De- mons - Manes - Worship ...
... Spirits , becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Defini- tion of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls -Transition - stage classes of Souls passing into good and evil De- mons - Manes - Worship ...
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... spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men . In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White ...
... spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men . In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White ...
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... spirits present in the hall of ancestors ; 1 so multitudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes - spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spirit ...
... spirits present in the hall of ancestors ; 1 so multitudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes - spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spirit ...
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... spirits , human in shape , but with long tails and long upright ears , are mostly souls of departed natives , whose bodies were left to lie unburied or whose death the avenger of blood did not expiate , and thus they have to prowl on ...
... spirits , human in shape , but with long tails and long upright ears , are mostly souls of departed natives , whose bodies were left to lie unburied or whose death the avenger of blood did not expiate , and thus they have to prowl on ...
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... spirit also stays near the body for a time , and " unless the rites of burial were performed , it was believed that the spirits of the dead hovered for a time upon the earth , in a state of great un- happiness . Hence their extreme ...
... spirit also stays near the body for a time , and " unless the rites of burial were performed , it was believed that the spirits of the dead hovered for a time upon the earth , in a state of great un- happiness . Hence their extreme ...
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