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In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; 1 and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; 1 and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
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A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring ... The Ahts of Vancouver's Island consider the living man's soul able ...
A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring ... The Ahts of Vancouver's Island consider the living man's soul able ...
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In the Tonga islands , the future life was a privilege of caste , for while the chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu ...
In the Tonga islands , the future life was a privilege of caste , for while the chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu ...
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4 Petrus Damianus , Vita S. Odilonis , ' in the Bollandist ' Acta Sanctorum , Jan. 1 , has the quaint legend attached to the new ordinance . An island hermit dwelt near a volcano , where souls of the wicked were tormented in the flames ...
4 Petrus Damianus , Vita S. Odilonis , ' in the Bollandist ' Acta Sanctorum , Jan. 1 , has the quaint legend attached to the new ordinance . An island hermit dwelt near a volcano , where souls of the wicked were tormented in the flames ...
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All Souls ' Day kecps up , within the limits of Christendom , a commemoration of the dead which combines some touches of pathetic imagination with relics of savage animism scarcely to be surpassed in Africa or the South Sea Islands .
All Souls ' Day kecps up , within the limits of Christendom , a commemoration of the dead which combines some touches of pathetic imagination with relics of savage animism scarcely to be surpassed in Africa or the South Sea Islands .
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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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