Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... enter into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion . of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then ...
... enter into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion . of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then ...
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... enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the inhabitant of a house . In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the Indians in their bodies ...
... enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the inhabitant of a house . In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the Indians in their bodies ...
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... enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear ... entered into a walrus . Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Pow- hatans refraining from doing harm to ...
... enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear ... entered into a walrus . Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Pow- hatans refraining from doing harm to ...
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... entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the ... enter into fruit - bearing trees . But it is an open question whether these and the Hindu ideas are originally ...
... entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the ... enter into fruit - bearing trees . But it is an open question whether these and the Hindu ideas are originally ...
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... entering into the bodies of men or beasts . Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls trans- migrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of object - souls.2 Buddhism , like the Brahmanism from which it ...
... entering into the bodies of men or beasts . Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls trans- migrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of object - souls.2 Buddhism , like the Brahmanism from which it ...
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Africa Amazulu Amer ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahmans Brinton Buddhism Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conception connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro offerings original Parsi pass Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia polytheism prayer priest region religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems Sheol snakes solar spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity survival temple theology theory thou thought thunder tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu