Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... Demons affecting man - Spirits manifest in Dreams and Visions : Nightmares ; Incubi and Succubi ; Vampires ; Visionary Demons - Demons of darkness repelled by fire - Demons other- wise manifest : seen by animals ; detected by footprints ...
... Demons affecting man - Spirits manifest in Dreams and Visions : Nightmares ; Incubi and Succubi ; Vampires ; Visionary Demons - Demons of darkness repelled by fire - Demons other- wise manifest : seen by animals ; detected by footprints ...
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... demon or a worm . The Buddhist theory of " karma " or " action , " which controls the destiny of all sentient beings , not by judicial reward and punishment , but by the inflexible result of cause into effect , wherein the present is ...
... demon or a worm . The Buddhist theory of " karma " or " action , " which controls the destiny of all sentient beings , not by judicial reward and punishment , but by the inflexible result of cause into effect , wherein the present is ...
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... demons ; the Karens were said to destroy their villages to escape the dangerous neighbourhood of departed souls.1 Such proceedings , however , scarcely extend beyond the limits of savagery , and only a feeble survival of the old thought ...
... demons ; the Karens were said to destroy their villages to escape the dangerous neighbourhood of departed souls.1 Such proceedings , however , scarcely extend beyond the limits of savagery , and only a feeble survival of the old thought ...
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... holy man heard the officiating demons lament that their daily task of new torture was interfered with by the prayers and alms of devout persons leagued VOL . II . D my revivals which have so often given the past a ANIMISM . 33.
... holy man heard the officiating demons lament that their daily task of new torture was interfered with by the prayers and alms of devout persons leagued VOL . II . D my revivals which have so often given the past a ANIMISM . 33.
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... demon births on earth , or in luxurious heaven - palaces of gold and jewels , or in the agonizing hells where Oriental fancy riots in the hideous inventory of torture -caldrons of boiling oil and liquid fire ; black dungeons and rivers ...
... demon births on earth , or in luxurious heaven - palaces of gold and jewels , or in the agonizing hells where Oriental fancy riots in the hideous inventory of torture -caldrons of boiling oil and liquid fire ; black dungeons and rivers ...
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