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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 holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the ...
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 holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the ...
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Every time we sat at dinner , we had not only spirit - voices calling to us , but spirit
- hands touching us ; and last evening , as it was his farewell , they gave us a
special manifestation , unasked for and unlo ked for . He sitting at the right hand
of ...
Every time we sat at dinner , we had not only spirit - voices calling to us , but spirit
- hands touching us ; and last evening , as it was his farewell , they gave us a
special manifestation , unasked for and unlo ked for . He sitting at the right hand
of ...
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But we may at least see how again and again the question was taken in hand ,
and how out of the three or four available answers some people adopted one ,
some another , some several at once . Primitive theologians had all the world
before ...
But we may at least see how again and again the question was taken in hand ,
and how out of the three or four available answers some people adopted one ,
some another , some several at once . Primitive theologians had all the world
before ...
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Though they dig into Sheol , thence shall mine hand take them ; though they
climb up to Heaven , thence will I bring them down . ” Thither Jew and Gentile go
down : “ What man liveth , and shall not see death ? shall he deliver his soul from
the ...
Though they dig into Sheol , thence shall mine hand take them ; though they
climb up to Heaven , thence will I bring them down . ” Thither Jew and Gentile go
down : “ What man liveth , and shall not see death ? shall he deliver his soul from
the ...
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Yet their quiet is contrasted in a tone of sadness with the life on earth ; "
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work , nor
device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom , in Sheol , whither thou goest . ” ] Such
thoughts of ...
Yet their quiet is contrasted in a tone of sadness with the life on earth ; "
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work , nor
device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom , in Sheol , whither thou goest . ” ] Such
thoughts 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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