Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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... which can remain in the house with the body , plague the living , and cause sickness , till it departs or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell .
... which can remain in the house with the body , plague the living , and cause sickness , till it departs or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell .
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... superhuman beings or angels who dwell in the planetary ether , and thence to a still higher state , the secret of whose natura M. Figuier does not endeavour to penetrate , “ because our means of investi . gation fail at this point .
... superhuman beings or angels who dwell in the planetary ether , and thence to a still higher state , the secret of whose natura M. Figuier does not endeavour to penetrate , “ because our means of investi . gation fail at this point .
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The Nicaraguans believed that if a man lived well , his soul would ascend to dwell among the gods , but if ill , it would perish with the body , and there would be an end of it . Granted that the soul survives the death of the body ...
The Nicaraguans believed that if a man lived well , his soul would ascend to dwell among the gods , but if ill , it would perish with the body , and there would be an end of it . Granted that the soul survives the death of the body ...
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Nevertheless death and life dwell but ill together , and from savagery onward there is recorded many a device by which the survivors have sought to rid themselves of household ghosts . Though the unhappy savage custom of deserting ...
Nevertheless death and life dwell but ill together , and from savagery onward there is recorded many a device by which the survivors have sought to rid themselves of household ghosts . Though the unhappy savage custom of deserting ...
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... and that the spirits of men left unburied , or killed in battle and eaten , would wander ; and the bringing such malignant souls to dwell within the sacred burialenclosure was a task for the priest to accomplish with his charms .
... and that the spirits of men left unburied , or killed in battle and eaten , would wander ; and the bringing such malignant souls to dwell within the sacred burialenclosure was a task for the priest to accomplish with his charms .
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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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