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... and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of
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... 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 . 3 A survival of such thought may
be ...
... 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 . 3 A survival of such thought may
be ...
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... 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 ,
attached to ...
... 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 ,
attached to ...
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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 general way of the
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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 general way of the
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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 . The Malagasy
is ...
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 . The Malagasy
is ...
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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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