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The belief in the new human birth of the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a ...
The belief in the new human birth of the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a ...
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In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as ...
In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as ...
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1 In Africa , again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that the souls of bad men became jackals , and good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea ...
1 In Africa , again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that the souls of bad men became jackals , and good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea ...
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To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , “ He will come again . ” l In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul appears in strong and varied development .
To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , “ He will come again . ” l In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul appears in strong and varied development .
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Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great ...
Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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