Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion . of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next ...
... America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion . of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next ...
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... America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because he had a mark ...
... America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because he had a mark ...
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... America , will serve well to show the various ways in which such ideas are worked out . The Ahts of Vancouver's Island consider the living man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the ...
... America , will serve well to show the various ways in which such ideas are worked out . The Ahts of Vancouver's Island consider the living man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the ...
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... America , we find Indians believing the spirits of their dead to enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some particular grandam ...
... America , we find Indians believing the spirits of their dead to enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some particular grandam ...
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... America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical philosophy , reviving and failing through classic and medieval Europe , and lingering at last in the modern world as an ...
... America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical philosophy , reviving and failing through classic and medieval Europe , and lingering at last in the modern world as an ...
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