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... Spirits manifcst in Dreams and Visions : Nightmares ; Incuhi add Succubi ; Vampires ; Visionary Demons - Demons of darkness repelled by fire - Demons otherwise manifest : seen by animais ; detected by footprints , Spirits conceived ...
... Spirits manifcst in Dreams and Visions : Nightmares ; Incuhi add Succubi ; Vampires ; Visionary Demons - Demons of darkness repelled by fire - Demons otherwise manifest : seen by animais ; detected by footprints , Spirits conceived ...
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... by Water and Fire : its transition from material. continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical --- Sacrifice : its original Giftthcory passes into the Homage - thcory and the ...
... by Water and Fire : its transition from material. continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical --- Sacrifice : its original Giftthcory passes into the Homage - thcory and the ...
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by Water and Fire : its transition from material to symbolic purification ; its connexion with special events of life ; its appearance among the lower races— Lustration of new - born children ; of women ; of those polluted by bloodshed ...
by Water and Fire : its transition from material to symbolic purification ; its connexion with special events of life ; its appearance among the lower races— Lustration of new - born children ; of women ; of those polluted by bloodshed ...
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it all away , for the meat jumped off the spit into the fire , and a piece of cotton was found in the ears , which the wise man decided to be a piece of the ci - devant Turk's turban . ' Such cases , however , are exceptional .
it all away , for the meat jumped off the spit into the fire , and a piece of cotton was found in the ears , which the wise man decided to be a piece of the ci - devant Turk's turban . ' Such cases , however , are exceptional .
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... so multitudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes -- spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spiritcircles , and peep over ...
... so multitudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes -- spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spiritcircles , and peep over ...
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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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