Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul - entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; 2 and the Santals of Bengal are ...
... less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul - entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; 2 and the Santals of Bengal are ...
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... less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal 1 Calmet , vol . ii . ch . xxxvi .; Brand , vol . iii . p . 67 . inanner , or that they shall by some means be 26 ANIMISM .
... less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal 1 Calmet , vol . ii . ch . xxxvi .; Brand , vol . iii . p . 67 . inanner , or that they shall by some means be 26 ANIMISM .
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... less lifelike than this . It seemed to them that the dead man's soul , in his proper human figure , walked in front of the corpse as they carried it to the burial - ground , there to dwell till the great feast of the dead ; but ...
... less lifelike than this . It seemed to them that the dead man's soul , in his proper human figure , walked in front of the corpse as they carried it to the burial - ground , there to dwell till the great feast of the dead ; but ...
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... less of practical intention in it than of childish make- believe . Now and then , however , the sacrificers themselves offer closer definitions of their meaning . The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not ...
... less of practical intention in it than of childish make- believe . Now and then , however , the sacrificers themselves offer closer definitions of their meaning . The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not ...
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... less myths . Few subjects have aroused the savage poet's mind to such bold and vivid imagery as the thought of the here- after . Yet also a survey of its details among mankind displays in the midst of variety a regular recurrence of ...
... less myths . Few subjects have aroused the savage poet's mind to such bold and vivid imagery as the thought of the here- after . Yet also a survey of its details among mankind displays in the midst of variety a regular recurrence of ...
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