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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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The beast is the very incarnation of familiar qualities of man ; and such names as lion , bear , fox , owl , parrot , viper , worm , when we apply them as epithets to men , condense into a word some leading feature of a human life .
The beast is the very incarnation of familiar qualities of man ; and such names as lion , bear , fox , owl , parrot , viper , worm , when we apply them as epithets to men , condense into a word some leading feature of a human life .
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Compare the notion attributed to the followers of Basilides the Gnostic , of men whose souls are affected by spirits or dispositions as of wolf , ape , lion , or bear , wherefore their souls bear the properties of these , and imitate ...
Compare the notion attributed to the followers of Basilides the Gnostic , of men whose souls are affected by spirits or dispositions as of wolf , ape , lion , or bear , wherefore their souls bear the properties of these , and imitate ...
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The regularity with which such conceptions repeat themselves over the world bears testimony to the regularity of the processes by which opinion is formed among mankind . At the same time , the student who carefully compares them will ...
The regularity with which such conceptions repeat themselves over the world bears testimony to the regularity of the processes by which opinion is formed among mankind . At the same time , the student who carefully compares them will ...
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There Kronos reigns over them , and they dwell careless in the Islands of the Happy , beside deep - eddying Ocean-blest heroes , for whom the grain - giving field bears , thrice blooming yearly , the honey - sweet fruit : « Ένθ ' ήτοι ...
There Kronos reigns over them , and they dwell careless in the Islands of the Happy , beside deep - eddying Ocean-blest heroes , for whom the grain - giving field bears , thrice blooming yearly , the honey - sweet fruit : « Ένθ ' ήτοι ...
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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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