Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... Soul in name and nature to Shadow , Blood , Breath - Division or Plurality of Souls- Soul cause of Life ; its restoration to body when supposed absent- Exit of Soul in Trances - Dreams and Visions : theory of exit of dreamer's or seer's own ...
... Soul in name and nature to Shadow , Blood , Breath - Division or Plurality of Souls- Soul cause of Life ; its restoration to body when supposed absent- Exit of Soul in Trances - Dreams and Visions : theory of exit of dreamer's or seer's own ...
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... Souls ' supper for the spirits of the dead is a survival . The simple keeping up of ancient habits is only one part of the transition from old into new and changing times . The serious business of ancient society may be seen to sink ...
... Souls ' supper for the spirits of the dead is a survival . The simple keeping up of ancient habits is only one part of the transition from old into new and changing times . The serious business of ancient society may be seen to sink ...
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... blind days of popery , as an expiation for the souls of such as were snatched away by sudden death ; see below , p . 287 . [ Note to 3rd ed . ] phenomena of culture , and of the laws to which 20 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
... blind days of popery , as an expiation for the souls of such as were snatched away by sudden death ; see below , p . 287 . [ Note to 3rd ed . ] phenomena of culture , and of the laws to which 20 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
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... souls and other spiritual beings in general . More than half of the present work is occupied with a mass of evidence from all regions of the world , displaying the nature and meaning of this great element of the Philosophy of Religion ...
... souls and other spiritual beings in general . More than half of the present work is occupied with a mass of evidence from all regions of the world , displaying the nature and meaning of this great element of the Philosophy of Religion ...
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... soul , whereby he was kept in mind or remembrance . The proper sense of the phrase ' sowing his wild oats ' seems generally lost in our modern use of it . No doubt it once implied that these ill weeds would spring up in later years ...
... soul , whereby he was kept in mind or remembrance . The proper sense of the phrase ' sowing his wild oats ' seems generally lost in our modern use of it . No doubt it once implied that these ill weeds would spring up in later years ...
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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