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North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury them by the wayside , that their souls might enter into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis ...
North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury them by the wayside , that their souls might enter into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis ...
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In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; 1 and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; 1 and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
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In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the Indians in their bodies ; some think that after death they will pass again into the bodies of the animals they occupied ...
In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the Indians in their bodies ; some think that after death they will pass again into the bodies of the animals they occupied ...
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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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Though the unhappy savage custom of deserting houses after a decease may mostly be connected with other causes , such as horror or abnegation of all things belonging to the dead , there are cases where it 1 Schoolcraft , • Indian Tribes ...
Though the unhappy savage custom of deserting houses after a decease may mostly be connected with other causes , such as horror or abnegation of all things belonging to the dead , there are cases where it 1 Schoolcraft , • Indian Tribes ...
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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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