Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... Living to the Regions of Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realiza- tion of current religious ideas , whether of savage or civilized theology , in ...
... Living to the Regions of Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realiza- tion of current religious ideas , whether of savage or civilized theology , in ...
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... living child of hers , or vice versa , thus gaining for herself a new relative and protector . It is mostly ancestral or kindred souls that are thought to enter into children , and this kind of transmigration is therefore from the ...
... living child of hers , or vice versa , thus gaining for herself a new relative and protector . It is mostly ancestral or kindred souls that are thought to enter into children , and this kind of transmigration is therefore from the ...
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... living for conscience sake upon birds , and would not touch walrus - meat , which the angekok had forbidden her for a time , -because her late husband had entered into a walrus . Among the North American Indians , we hear of the ...
... living for conscience sake upon birds , and would not touch walrus - meat , which the angekok had forbidden her for a time , -because her late husband had entered into a walrus . Among the North American Indians , we hear of the ...
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... living , and cause sickness , 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 this Land of Souls . They can be born ...
... living , and cause sickness , 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 this Land of Souls . They can be born ...
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... living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again , attention must be given to the practice , so common among low and ...
... living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again , attention must be given to the practice , so common among low and ...
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