Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... keep the precepts , his next birth will be in one of the hells , he will then be born in this world as a beast , afterwards as a preta or sprite ; a proud man may be born again ugly with large lips , or as a demon or a The Buddhist ...
... keep the precepts , his next birth will be in one of the hells , he will then be born in this world as a beast , afterwards as a preta or sprite ; a proud man may be born again ugly with large lips , or as a demon or a The Buddhist ...
Page 26
... keep it in repair . But even in the lowest culture we find flesh holding its own against spirit , and at higher stages the householder rids himself with little scruple of an unwelcome inmate . The Green- landers would carry the dead out ...
... keep it in repair . But even in the lowest culture we find flesh holding its own against spirit , and at higher stages the householder rids himself with little scruple of an unwelcome inmate . The Green- landers would carry the dead out ...
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... keep the soul from its desired rest , and among the chief of these is when its mortal remains have not had the funeral rites . Hence the deep - lying belief that the ghosts of such will walk . Among some Australian tribes the " ingna ...
... keep the soul from its desired rest , and among the chief of these is when its mortal remains have not had the funeral rites . Hence the deep - lying belief that the ghosts of such will walk . Among some Australian tribes the " ingna ...
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... keeping time to the deep - sounding drum , and when the old woman who carries the bones on her bamboo tray lowers it from time to time , then girls who carry pitchers and brass vessels mournfully reverse them to show that they are empty ...
... keeping time to the deep - sounding drum , and when the old woman who carries the bones on her bamboo tray lowers it from time to time , then girls who carry pitchers and brass vessels mournfully reverse them to show that they are empty ...
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... keeps his coffined parent for years , serving him with meals as if alive . He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat and drink set out on special days when they are thought to return home . He even ...
... keeps his coffined parent for years , serving him with meals as if alive . He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat and drink set out on special days when they are thought to return home . He even ...
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