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Page viii
... become available during the last twenty years has made it necessary to insert further details of evidence , and to correct some few statements . For convenience of reference , the paging of the last edition is kept to . September , 1891 ...
... become available during the last twenty years has made it necessary to insert further details of evidence , and to correct some few statements . For convenience of reference , the paging of the last edition is kept to . September , 1891 ...
Page xi
... become pseudo - history - Geological Myths - Effect of doctrine of Miracles on Mythology — Magnetic Mountain - Myths of relation of Apes to Men by development or degeneration - Ethnological import of myths of Ape - men , Men with tails ...
... become pseudo - history - Geological Myths - Effect of doctrine of Miracles on Mythology — Magnetic Mountain - Myths of relation of Apes to Men by development or degeneration - Ethnological import of myths of Ape - men , Men with tails ...
Page 9
... becomes difficult or impossible to set down such correspondence to accident or wilful fraud . A story by a bushranger in Australia may , perhaps , be objected to as a mistake or an invention , but did a Methodist minister in Guinea ...
... becomes difficult or impossible to set down such correspondence to accident or wilful fraud . A story by a bushranger in Australia may , perhaps , be objected to as a mistake or an invention , but did a Methodist minister in Guinea ...
Page 17
... becomes a vital point of ethnographic research to gain the clearest possible insight into their nature . This importance must justify the detail here devoted to an examination of survival , on the evidence of such games , popular ...
... becomes a vital point of ethnographic research to gain the clearest possible insight into their nature . This importance must justify the detail here devoted to an examination of survival , on the evidence of such games , popular ...
Page 18
... becoming very strong that even what seem its most spontaneous and motiveless phenomena will , nevertheless , be shown to come within the range of distinct cause and effect as certainly as the facts of mechanics . What would be popularly ...
... becoming very strong that even what seem its most spontaneous and motiveless phenomena will , nevertheless , be shown to come within the range of distinct cause and effect as certainly as the facts of mechanics . What would be popularly ...
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po Hist human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning mediæval Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu