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" The Basutos not only call the spirit remaining after death the seriti or "shadow," but they think that if a man walks on the river bank a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in; while in Old Calabar there is found the same identification... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 432
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1903
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 30

American essays - 1872 - 808 pages
...phantasm seen in dreams ; the Basutos going so far as to think " that if a man walks on the river-bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water . and draw him in." Among the Algonquins a sick person is supposed to have his shadow or other self temporarily detached...
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - Folklore - 1873 - 268 pages
...phantasm seen in dreams ; the Basutos going so far as to think "that if a man walks on the river-bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in." Among the Algonquins a sick person is supposed to have his shadow or other self temporarily detached...
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Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology ..., Volume 1

Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1874 - 528 pages
...death the shadow of a man will in some way depart from the corpse, to become an ancestral spirit. 6 The Basutos not only call the spirit remaining after...the ukpon or " shadow," for a man to lose which is fatal. 3 There are thus found among the lower races not only the types of those familiar classic terms,...
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The Principles of Sociology, Volume 6, Issue 1877

Herbert Spencer - Sociology - 1877 - 850 pages
...conception of the otherself as having substantiality, " think that if a man walks on the river-bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in"; we may see that the irreconcilability of their ideas is so great, that advancing physical knowledge...
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The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times ...

De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Mythology - 1880 - 980 pages
...remaining after death the seriti, or "shadow," and they think if a man walks on the bank of a river a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in. In Old Calabar they believe in the same spirit or shadow — ukpon — the loss of •which is fatal....
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Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by ...

John Fiske - 1882 - 276 pages
...phantasm seen in dreams ; the Basutos going so far as to think "that if a man walks on the river-bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in." Among the Algonquins a sick person is supposed to have his shadow or other self temporarily detached...
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The Principles of Sociology, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - Sociology - 1883 - 876 pages
...change. Thus when the Basutos, led by their conception of the otherself as having substantiality, " think that if a man walks on the river -bank, a crocodile...may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in"; we may see that the irreconcilability of their ideas is so great, that advancing physical knowledge...
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The Pedigree of the Devil

Frederic Thomas Hall - Demonology - 1883 - 300 pages
...substantial ; it is taken from him at . death, but restored to him in the second life.2 The modern Basutos think that if a man walks on the river bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in.2 The old cultured Egyptians and the modern savage Basuto agree pretty closely in theory. 1 Kenouf,...
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Greek Thinkers: book I. The beginnings. book II. From metaphysics to ...

Theodor Gomperz - Philosophy, Ancient - 1901 - 658 pages
...own text (p. 20). Page 19, 1. 16. " The Basutos . . . think that if a man walks on the river-bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in " (Tylor, op. cit., i. 388). We have not scrupled to draw largely on Tylor's statements. Page 22, 1....
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Myths and myth-makers

John Fiske - 1902 - 380 pages
...phantasm seen in dreams ; the Basutos going so far as to think " that if a man walks on the river-bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and draw him in." Among the Algonquins a sick person is supposed to have his shadow or other self temporarily detached...
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