Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volumes 1-2Brentano's, 1924 - Animism |
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... demons ; i.e. from the indigenous tribes of the island . Legend and language concur to make probable an admixture of Aryan blood accompanying the adoption of Aryan speech , but the evidence of bodily characteristics shows the Vedda race ...
... demons ; i.e. from the indigenous tribes of the island . Legend and language concur to make probable an admixture of Aryan blood accompanying the adoption of Aryan speech , but the evidence of bodily characteristics shows the Vedda race ...
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... demon , when he had taught his black art to a class of scholars , to seize one of them for his pro- fessional fee , by letting them all run for their lives and catching the last - a story obviously connected with another . popular ...
... demon , when he had taught his black art to a class of scholars , to seize one of them for his pro- fessional fee , by letting them all run for their lives and catching the last - a story obviously connected with another . popular ...
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... demons out through their nostrils , by means of a ring containing a root of mystic virtue mentioned by Solomon.1 The account of the sect of the Messalians , who used to spit and blow their noses to expel the demons they might have drawn ...
... demons out through their nostrils , by means of a ring containing a root of mystic virtue mentioned by Solomon.1 The account of the sect of the Messalians , who used to spit and blow their noses to expel the demons they might have drawn ...
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... demons and sorcerers should do mischief with them , but the fear of leaving such clippings and parings about lest their former owner should be harmed through them , has by no means died out of European folk - lore , and the German ...
... demons and sorcerers should do mischief with them , but the fear of leaving such clippings and parings about lest their former owner should be harmed through them , has by no means died out of European folk - lore , and the German ...
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... demons ) fell backward or forward , to the right or left . But when processes of this kind are developed to complexity , the system has , of course , to be completed by more arbitrary arrangements . This is well shown in one of the ...
... demons ) fell backward or forward , to the right or left . But when processes of this kind are developed to complexity , the system has , of course , to be completed by more arbitrary arrangements . This is well shown in one of the ...
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Abipones Africa Amazulu ancestors ancient animals animistic appears Archip Aryan barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body Brahmans called Castrén ceremony Christian civilization connexion culture Dayaks dead death deity demons divine doctrine dwell earth evidence evil express fancy father fetish Fiji fire funeral ghosts gods Greek Grimm Hades hand heaven higher Hindu human idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land language legend living lower races lustration man's mankind Max Müller meaning Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature numerals Oestl offerings Ojibwa origin Parsi passed Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia prayer priest primitive religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice Sanskrit savage Schoolcraft seems souls sound spirits stone story survival Tatar theory things thought tion Tonga traced tree tribes Turanian tribes vigesimal Waitz words worship Yoruba Zealand Zulu
Popular passages
Page 1 - CULTURE or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Page 178 - For the dews will soone be falling; Leave your meadow grasses mellow, Mellow, mellow; Quit your cowslips, cowslips yellow; Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot; Quit the stalks of parsley hollow, Hollow, hollow; Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow, From the clovers lift your head ; Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot, Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow, Jetty, to the milking shed.
Page 55 - He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 284 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 43 - To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.
Page 384 - ... an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 6 Т And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock ; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Page 58 - The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world...
Page 187 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 397 - Cant'' is, by some people, derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking in the pulpit in such a dialect, that it is said he was understood by none but his own congregation, and not by all of them.
Page 141 - ... it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive them in her bosom that have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism and wilfully refused the benefit thereof...