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North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury them by the wayside , that their souls might enter into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis ...
North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury them by the wayside , that their souls might enter into mothers passing by , and so be born again . In North - West America , among the Tacullis ...
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... able to 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 ...
... able to 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 ...
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America , we find Indians believing the spirits of their dead to enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging ... which the angekok had forbidden her for a time , because her late husband had entered into a walrus .
America , we find Indians believing the spirits of their dead to enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging ... which the angekok had forbidden her for a time , because her late husband had entered into a walrus .
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Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp ... men and childless women are eaten eternally by worms and snakes , while the good enter into fruit - bearing trees .
Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp ... men and childless women are eaten eternally by worms and snakes , while the good enter into fruit - bearing trees .
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... are so scrupulous as this , and the consideration has occurred to them that souls in roots and herbs are in most vile and abject bodies , so that if dislodged they may become better off by entering into the bodies of men or beasts .
... are so scrupulous as this , and the consideration has occurred to them that souls in roots and herbs are in most vile and abject bodies , so that if dislodged they may become better off by entering into the bodies of men or beasts .
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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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