Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the ...
... sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the ...
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... sick- ness , till it departs or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell . But they can and do come back from 1 Brinton , p . 254 ; see also Martius , vol . i . p ...
... sick- ness , till it departs or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell . But they can and do come back from 1 Brinton , p . 254 ; see also Martius , vol . i . p ...
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... sick- ness in the family it is generally they who are first pro- pitiated . Among Turanian races of North Asia , the Chu- wash put food and napkins on the grave , saying , “ Rise at night and eat your fill , and there ye have napkins to ...
... sick- ness in the family it is generally they who are first pro- pitiated . Among Turanian races of North Asia , the Chu- wash put food and napkins on the grave , saying , “ Rise at night and eat your fill , and there ye have napkins to ...
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... sickness , de- clares that the shades of ancestors demand a particular cow , the beast is slaughtered and left shut up for a time for the shades to eat , or for its spirit to go to the land of shades , and then is taken out to be eaten ...
... sickness , de- clares that the shades of ancestors demand a particular cow , the beast is slaughtered and left shut up for a time for the shades to eat , or for its spirit to go to the land of shades , and then is taken out to be eaten ...
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... sickness , Nor by Death dragged from the living , Nor destroyed by other ending . ' " Wainamoinen replies with lying reasons . Iron brought him , he says , but Tuoni's daughter answers that no blood drips from his garment ; Fire brought ...
... sickness , Nor by Death dragged from the living , Nor destroyed by other ending . ' " Wainamoinen replies with lying reasons . Iron brought him , he says , but Tuoni's daughter answers that no blood drips from his garment ; Fire brought ...
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