| American essays - 1872 - 810 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... | |
| John Fiske - Folklore - 1873 - 300 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| John Fiske - Folklore - 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... | |
| Edward Clodd - Dreams - 1885 - 308 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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