Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... 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 . 446 . Waitz , vol . ii . p . 419 ( Maravi ) . 3 ...
... 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 . 446 . Waitz , vol . ii . p . 419 ( Maravi ) . 3 ...
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... sorcerer , in cases of 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 ...
... sorcerer , in cases of 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 ...
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... sorcerer's wicked will by coming slyly behind his victim and hitting him with his club on the back of his neck , and of a dead man's ghost angered by having his name uttered , and creeping up into the utterer's body to consume his liver ...
... sorcerer's wicked will by coming slyly behind his victim and hitting him with his club on the back of his neck , and of a dead man's ghost angered by having his name uttered , and creeping up into the utterer's body to consume his liver ...
Page 129
... sorcerer pulling the disease off the patient's legs ( as one pulls off a pair of trousers ) , going out of doors to blow it away , and bidding it begone to the mountain or the sea ; the performance concluding with the regular sucking ...
... sorcerer pulling the disease off the patient's legs ( as one pulls off a pair of trousers ) , going out of doors to blow it away , and bidding it begone to the mountain or the sea ; the performance concluding with the regular sucking ...
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... sorcerer , " affected with fits of spasmodic contraction of the muscles of one breast , which he attributes , as they do all other diseases , to the devil " ; this malady served to prove his inspiration to his people . When Dr. Mason ...
... sorcerer , " affected with fits of spasmodic contraction of the muscles of one breast , which he attributes , as they do all other diseases , to the devil " ; this malady served to prove his inspiration to his people . When Dr. Mason ...
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