Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because he had a mark like the scar of a gun - shot wound on his hip , it being believed that a chief dead some four generations before , who had such a mark , had returned.2 In Old ...
... Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because he had a mark like the scar of a gun - shot wound on his hip , it being believed that a chief dead some four generations before , who had such a mark , had returned.2 In Old ...
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... Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness ... Island consider the living man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the ...
... Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness ... Island consider the living man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the ...
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... 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 , the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died with ...
... 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 , the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died with ...
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... island hermit dwelt near a volcano , where souls of the wicked were tormented in the flames . The holy man heard the officiating demons lament that their daily task of new torture was interfered with by the prayers and alms of devout ...
... island hermit dwelt near a volcano , where souls of the wicked were tormented in the flames . The holy man heard the officiating demons lament that their daily task of new torture was interfered with by the prayers and alms of devout ...
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... Islands . In Italy the day is given to feasting and drinking in honour of the dead , while skulls and skeletons in sugar and paste form appropriate children's toys . In Tyrol , the poor souls released from purgatory fire for the night ...
... Islands . In Italy the day is given to feasting and drinking in honour of the dead , while skulls and skeletons in sugar and paste form appropriate children's toys . In Tyrol , the poor souls released from purgatory fire for the night ...
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Africa Amazulu Amer ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahmans Brinton Buddhism Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conception connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro offerings original Parsi pass Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia polytheism prayer priest region religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems Sheol snakes solar spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity survival temple theology theory thou thought thunder tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu