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... vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Disease - spirits embodied - Ghost attached to remains of Corpse , Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied ...
... vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Disease - spirits embodied - Ghost attached to remains of Corpse , Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied ...
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... and chilis , and tomatos never failed , and where abode the souls of children sacrificed to Tlaloc , its god , and the souls of such as died by drowning or thunderstroke , or by leprosy or dropsy , or other acute disease .
... and chilis , and tomatos never failed , and where abode the souls of children sacrificed to Tlaloc , its god , and the souls of such as died by drowning or thunderstroke , or by leprosy or dropsy , or other acute disease .
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... vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Disease - spirits embodied Ghost attached to remains of Corpse , Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied in ...
... vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Disease - spirits embodied Ghost attached to remains of Corpse , Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied in ...
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Turning to the dark races of the Pacific , we find the Tasmanians laying their sick round a corpse on the funeral pile , that the dead might come in the night and take out the devils that caused the diseases ; it is asserted in a ...
Turning to the dark races of the Pacific , we find the Tasmanians laying their sick round a corpse on the funeral pile , that the dead might come in the night and take out the devils that caused the diseases ; it is asserted in a ...
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To take a stone or pluck a twig from one of these graves , to stumble against one in the dark , would be resented by the angry Vazimba inflicting disease , or coming in the night to carry off the offender to the region of ghosts .
To take a stone or pluck a twig from one of these graves , to stumble against one in the dark , would be resented by the angry Vazimba inflicting disease , or coming in the night to carry off the offender to the region of ghosts .
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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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