Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Demons - Manes - Worship - Doctrine of Embodiment of Spirits in human , animal , vegetable , and inert bodies ... Demons affecting man - Spirits manifest in Dreams and Visions : Nightmares ; Incubi and Succubi ; Vampires ; Visionary ...
... Demons - Manes - Worship - Doctrine of Embodiment of Spirits in human , animal , vegetable , and inert bodies ... Demons affecting man - Spirits manifest in Dreams and Visions : Nightmares ; Incubi and Succubi ; Vampires ; Visionary ...
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... demon or a The Buddhist theory of " karma " or " action , " which controls the destiny of all sentient beings , not by judicial reward and punishment , but by the inflexible result of cause into effect , wherein the present is ever ...
... demon or a The Buddhist theory of " karma " or " action , " which controls the destiny of all sentient beings , not by judicial reward and punishment , but by the inflexible result of cause into effect , wherein the present is ever ...
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... demons ; the Karens were said to destroy their villages to escape the dangerous neighbourhood of departed souls . * Such proceedings , however , scarcely extend beyond the limits of savagery , and only a feeble survival of the old ...
... demons ; the Karens were said to destroy their villages to escape the dangerous neighbourhood of departed souls . * Such proceedings , however , scarcely extend beyond the limits of savagery , and only a feeble survival of the old ...
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... demons lament that their daily task of new torture was interfered with by the prayers and alms of devout persons leagued against them to save souls , and especially they complained of the monks of Cluny . Thereupon the hermit sent a ...
... demons lament that their daily task of new torture was interfered with by the prayers and alms of devout persons leagued against them to save souls , and especially they complained of the monks of Cluny . Thereupon the hermit sent a ...
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... demon births on earth , or in luxurious heaven - palaces of gold and jewels , or in the agonizing hells where Oriental fancy riots in the hideous inventory of torture - caldrons of boiling oil and liquid fire ; black dungeons and rivers ...
... demon births on earth , or in luxurious heaven - palaces of gold and jewels , or in the agonizing hells where Oriental fancy riots in the hideous inventory of torture - caldrons of boiling oil and liquid fire ; black dungeons and rivers ...
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