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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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... 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 this former state.3 In another district of North - West ...
... 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 this former state.3 In another district of North - West ...
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Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Powhatans refraining from doing harm to certain small woodbirds which received the souls of their chiefs ; 3 of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bores ...
Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Powhatans refraining from doing harm to certain small woodbirds which received the souls of their chiefs ; 3 of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bores ...
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As in North America the Chickasaws believed that the spirits of the dead in their bodily shape moved about among the living in great joy ; as the Aleutian islanders fancied the souls of the departed walking unseen among their kindred ...
As in North America the Chickasaws believed that the spirits of the dead in their bodily shape moved about among the living in great joy ; as the Aleutian islanders fancied the souls of the departed walking unseen among their kindred ...
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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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