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... doctrine of low racesContinued existence , rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ; its attachment to bodily remains -- Feasts of the Dead i . . CHAPTER XIII .
... doctrine of low racesContinued existence , rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ; its attachment to bodily remains -- Feasts of the Dead i . . CHAPTER XIII .
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... vegetable , 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 ...
... vegetable , 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 ...
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... rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ... spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things ...
... rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ... spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things ...
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They believe that the “ kla ” or “ kra , " the vital soul , becomes at death a sisa ” or ghost , which can remain in ... or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell .
They believe that the “ kla ” or “ kra , " the vital soul , becomes at death a sisa ” or ghost , which can remain in ... 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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When the East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the " old people , " he can reply that " they are ended , ” yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an account of the religious ideas of ...
When the East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the " old people , " he can reply that " they are ended , ” yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an account of the religious ideas of ...
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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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