Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... story by a bushranger in Australia may , perhaps , be objected to as a mistake or an invention , but did a Methodist minister in Guinea conspire with him to cheat the public by telling the same story there ? The possibility of ...
... story by a bushranger in Australia may , perhaps , be objected to as a mistake or an invention , but did a Methodist minister in Guinea conspire with him to cheat the public by telling the same story there ? The possibility of ...
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... story that their ancestors vowed not to make plantations . Another rude people of the Malay peninsula are the Jakuns , a simple , kindly race , among whom some trace their pedigree to a pair of white monkeys , while others declare that ...
... story that their ancestors vowed not to make plantations . Another rude people of the Malay peninsula are the Jakuns , a simple , kindly race , among whom some trace their pedigree to a pair of white monkeys , while others declare that ...
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... story of about a thousand years ago . The game in question is thus played in France : -The children stand in a ring ... stories of the Jews , the Jews told them of the Christians , and Christians themselves reached a bad emi- nence in ...
... story of about a thousand years ago . The game in question is thus played in France : -The children stand in a ring ... stories of the Jews , the Jews told them of the Christians , and Christians themselves reached a bad emi- nence in ...
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... story that bears are born as eyeless , hairless , shapeless lumps of white flesh , and have afterwards to be licked into form.2 Again , in relics of old magic and religion , we have some- 1 Grimm , ' Deutsche Myth . ' p . 222 . 2 Plin ...
... story that bears are born as eyeless , hairless , shapeless lumps of white flesh , and have afterwards to be licked into form.2 Again , in relics of old magic and religion , we have some- 1 Grimm , ' Deutsche Myth . ' p . 222 . 2 Plin ...
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... story obviously connected with another popular saying : ' devil take the hindmost . ' But even at this game the stupid fiend may be cheated , as is told in the folk - lore of Spain and Scotland , in the legends of the Marqués de Villano ...
... story obviously connected with another popular saying : ' devil take the hindmost . ' But even at this game the stupid fiend may be cheated , as is told in the folk - lore of Spain and Scotland , in the legends of the Marqués de Villano ...
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