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... fetish - animals , priests ; consumption of substance by deity or idol ; offering of blood ; transmission by fire ; incenseEssential Transfer : consumption of essence , savour , etc .-Spiritual Transfer : consumption or transmission ...
... fetish - animals , priests ; consumption of substance by deity or idol ; offering of blood ; transmission by fire ; incenseEssential Transfer : consumption of essence , savour , etc .-Spiritual Transfer : consumption or transmission ...
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... priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging from observations made on the person of the infant , determines which of his progenitors has reappeared , and the child generally at least among the ...
... priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging from observations made on the person of the infant , determines which of his progenitors has reappeared , and the child generally at least among the ...
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The New Zealand priest would repeat to the infant a long list of names of its ancestors , fixing upon that name which the child by sneezing or crying when it was uttered , was considered to select for itself ; while the Cheremiss Tatar ...
The New Zealand priest would repeat to the infant a long list of names of its ancestors , fixing upon that name which the child by sneezing or crying when it was uttered , was considered to select for itself ; while the Cheremiss Tatar ...
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... his cruel son that he might not walk , why was this torture inflicted on a man so holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked near a dagoba with his slippers on , and had trodden on a priest's carpet without washing his feet .
... his cruel son that he might not walk , why was this torture inflicted on a man so holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked near a dagoba with his slippers on , and had trodden on a priest's carpet without washing his feet .
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William of Ruysbroek speaks of the notion of souls passing from body to body as general among the mediĉval Nestorians , even a somewhat intelligent priest consulting him as to the souls of brutes , whether they could find refuge ...
William of Ruysbroek speaks of the notion of souls passing from body to body as general among the mediĉval Nestorians , even a somewhat intelligent priest consulting him as to the souls of brutes , whether they could find refuge ...
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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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