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... Spirit- rapping and Spirit - writing - Rising in the air - Performances of tied mediums - Practical bearing of the study of Survival . CHAPTER V. EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE . Element of directly expressive Sound in Language - Test ...
... Spirit- rapping and Spirit - writing - Rising in the air - Performances of tied mediums - Practical bearing of the study of Survival . CHAPTER V. EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE . Element of directly expressive Sound in Language - Test ...
Page xii
... Spirits - Doctrine of Souls , its prevalence and definition among the lower races - Definition of Apparitional Soul or Ghost - Soul - It is a theoretical conception of primitive Philosophy , designed to account for phenomena now classed ...
... Spirits - Doctrine of Souls , its prevalence and definition among the lower races - Definition of Apparitional Soul or Ghost - Soul - It is a theoretical conception of primitive Philosophy , designed to account for phenomena now classed ...
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... 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 into the sport of later ...
... 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 into the sport of later ...
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... Spirit , said these Sioux theologians , made all things except the wild rice ; but the wild rice came by chance . ' Man , ' said Wilhelm von Humboldt , ' ever connects on from what lies at hand ( der Mensch knüpft immer an Vorhandenes ...
... Spirit , said these Sioux theologians , made all things except the wild rice ; but the wild rice came by chance . ' Man , ' said Wilhelm von Humboldt , ' ever connects on from what lies at hand ( der Mensch knüpft immer an Vorhandenes ...
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... given in another chapter . As a man's soul is considered to go in and out of his body , so it is with other spirits , particularly such as me . enter into patients and possess them or afflict I. - H DRINKING HEALTHS . 97.
... given in another chapter . As a man's soul is considered to go in and out of his body , so it is with other spirits , particularly such as me . enter into patients and possess them or afflict I. - H DRINKING HEALTHS . 97.
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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