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... legends which , starting from an ancient savage state , describe its elevation by divine civilizers : this , which may be called the supernatural progression - theory , is exemplified in the familiar culture - traditions of Peru and ...
... legends which , starting from an ancient savage state , describe its elevation by divine civilizers : this , which may be called the supernatural progression - theory , is exemplified in the familiar culture - traditions of Peru and ...
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... Legend and language concur to make probable an admixture of Aryan blood accompanying the adoption of Aryan speech , but the evidence of bodily characteristics shows the Vedda race to be principally of indigenous pre - Aryan type.1 The ...
... Legend and language concur to make probable an admixture of Aryan blood accompanying the adoption of Aryan speech , but the evidence of bodily characteristics shows the Vedda race to be principally of indigenous pre - Aryan type.1 The ...
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... legend of the Boni Homines , but that the game was known to the children of the eighth century much as it is now , and that the Armenian Patriarch simply accused the Paulicians of playing at it with live babes.1 1 Halliwell , ' Popular ...
... legend of the Boni Homines , but that the game was known to the children of the eighth century much as it is now , and that the Armenian Patriarch simply accused the Paulicians of playing at it with live babes.1 1 Halliwell , ' Popular ...
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... legends where a man makes a compact with the fiend , but at the last moment gets off scot - free by the interposition of a saint , or by some absurd evasion- such as whistling the gospel he has bound himself not to say , or refusing to ...
... legends where a man makes a compact with the fiend , but at the last moment gets off scot - free by the interposition of a saint , or by some absurd evasion- such as whistling the gospel he has bound himself not to say , or refusing to ...
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... legend - mongers took the matter in hand , and their attempts to devise historical explanations are on record in a group of philosophic myths , —Greek , Jewish , Christian . Prometheus prays for the preservation of his artificial man ...
... legend - mongers took the matter in hand , and their attempts to devise historical explanations are on record in a group of philosophic myths , —Greek , Jewish , Christian . Prometheus prays for the preservation of his artificial man ...
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