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... vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Disease - spirits embodied - Ghost attached to remains of Corpse , Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied ...
... vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Disease - spirits embodied - Ghost attached to remains of Corpse , Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied ...
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existence of the soul after death , and may be more conveniently treated of elsewhere , in connexion with such subjects as dĉmoniacal possession and fetish - worship . We are here concerned with the more permanent tenancy of souls for ...
existence of the soul after death , and may be more conveniently treated of elsewhere , in connexion with such subjects as dĉmoniacal possession and fetish - worship . We are here concerned with the more permanent tenancy of souls for ...
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Sir George Grey was hugged and wept over by an old woman who found in him a son she had lost , or when a convict , recognized as a deceased relative , was endowed anew with the land he had possessed during his former life .
Sir George Grey was hugged and wept over by an old woman who found in him a son she had lost , or when a convict , recognized as a deceased relative , was endowed anew with the land he had possessed during his former life .
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... possess all that they possessed on earth ; therefore it is that the Guarayos adorn their dead , and burn their weapons for them , and bury them with their faces to the East , whither they are to go.s Among American peoples whose ...
... possess all that they possessed on earth ; therefore it is that the Guarayos adorn their dead , and burn their weapons for them , and bury them with their faces to the East , whither they are to go.s Among American peoples whose ...
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... perhaps of ghostly gloom , men are to retain their earthly forms and their earthly conditions , to have around them their earthly friends , to possess their earthly property , to carry on their earthly occupations .
... perhaps of ghostly gloom , men are to retain their earthly forms and their earthly conditions , to have around them their earthly friends , to possess their earthly property , to carry on their earthly occupations .
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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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