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" Among the Seminoles of Florida, when a woman died in childbirth, the infant was held over her face to receive her parting spirit, and thus acquire strength and knowledge for its future use. "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 435
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1903
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 30

American essays - 1872 - 808 pages
...; and the Greenlanders, according to Cranz, reckon two separate souls, the breath and the shadow. " Among the Seminoles of Florida, when a woman died...acquire strength and knowledge for its future use Their state of mifld is kept up to this day among Tyrolese peasants, who can still Jancy a good man's...
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - Folklore - 1873 - 296 pages
...; and the Greenlanders, according to Cranz, reckon two separate souls, the breath and the shadow. " Among the Seminoles of Florida, when a woman died...acquire strength and knowledge for its future use Their state of mind is kept up to this day among Tyrolese peasants, who can still fancy a good man's...
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The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the ...

Daniel Garrison Brinton - Social Science - 1876 - 362 pages
...the Northmen, p. 148. lize their sterile wombs ; and when, among the Seminoles of Florida, a mother died in childbirth, the infant was held over her face...thus acquire strength and knowledge for its future use.1 So among the Takahlis, the priest is accustomed to lay his hand on the head of the nearest relative...
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The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times ...

De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Mythology - 1880 - 980 pages
...for several months was nevertheless still alive. Among the Seminoles of Florida, when a woman died ia child-birth, the infant was held over her face to...acquire strength and knowledge for its future use. It is said of the Fijians that they distinguish between a man's " dark spirit/' or shadow, which goes...
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - 1882 - 276 pages
...Greenlanders, according to Cranz, reckon two separate souls, the breath and the shadow. " Among the Serninoles of Florida, when a woman died in childbirth, the infant...acquire strength and knowledge for its future use Their state of mind is kept iip to this day among Tyrolese peasants, who can still fancy a good man's...
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Myths and Dreams

Edward Clodd - Dreams - 1885 - 306 pages
...those about to die, in hope that the vital principle as it passed from the body would enter theirs. Among the Seminoles of Florida, when a woman died...acquire strength and knowledge for its future use. So among the Takahlis, the priest is accustomed to lay his hand on the head of the nearest relative...
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The Agnostic: A Monthly Journal of Liberal Thought, Volume 1

Agnosticism - 1885 - 612 pages
...mouth. Among the Seminoles of Florida, when a woman dies in childbirth, the child is held over her mouth to receive her parting spirit, and thus acquire strength and knowledge for its future use. At the deathbed of an ancient Roman the nearest kinsman lent over to inhale the last breath of the...
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Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology ..., Volume 1

Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 532 pages
...of Aryan speech, or whether they adopted it in their migration across Slavonic lands.8 German pe-ist and English ghost, too, may possibly have the same...of the departing (et excipies hanc animam ore pio). Then: state of mind is kept up to this day among Tyrolese peasants, who can still fancy a good man's...
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, Volume 1

James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1890 - 436 pages
...being impregnated by the passing soul. Amongst the Seminoles of Florida when a woman died in childbed the infant was held over her face to receive her parting spirit.' The Romans caught the breath of dying friends in their mouths, and so received into themselves the...
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - Folklore - 1898 - 280 pages
...Greenlanders, according to Cranz, reckon two separate souls, the breath and the shadow. " Among the Seininoles of Florida, when a woman died in childbirth, the infant...acquire strength and knowledge for its future use Their state of mind is kept up to this day among Tyrolese peasants, who can still fancy a good man's...
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