Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased . The Nutka Indians not without ingenuity accounted for the existence ...
... head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased . The Nutka Indians not without ingenuity accounted for the existence ...
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... head or mouth of the corpse , whereby to send down month by month the offerings of food and drink.5 Among rude Asiatic tribes , the Bodo of North - East India thus celebrate the last funeral rites . The friends repair to the grave , and ...
... head or mouth of the corpse , whereby to send down month by month the offerings of food and drink.5 Among rude Asiatic tribes , the Bodo of North - East India thus celebrate the last funeral rites . The friends repair to the grave , and ...
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... head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed in the clothes he was buried in . Then Kleodemos caps this story with his own , how when he was sick , on the seventh day when his fever was burning like a furnace , everyone left ...
... head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed in the clothes he was buried in . Then Kleodemos caps this story with his own , how when he was sick , on the seventh day when his fever was burning like a furnace , everyone left ...
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... heads with burning hammers their gay chaplets of gold and jewels turned to burning nails , and so forth . Late in this fifteenth century , St. Patrick's Purgatory fell into discredit , but even the destruction of the entrance- building ...
... heads with burning hammers their gay chaplets of gold and jewels turned to burning nails , and so forth . Late in this fifteenth century , St. Patrick's Purgatory fell into discredit , but even the destruction of the entrance- building ...
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... heads , living among the thorn- less lotus - trees and bananas loaded to the ground , feasting on the fruits they love and the meat of the rarest birds , with the houris near them with beautiful black eyes , like 1 Cranz , Grönland ...
... heads , living among the thorn- less lotus - trees and bananas loaded to the ground , feasting on the fruits they love and the meat of the rarest birds , with the houris near them with beautiful black eyes , like 1 Cranz , Grönland ...
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