Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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Page 96
... living at the same feast and in similar terms goes far to prove here a common origin for both ceremonies . The ' minne ' was at once love , memory , and the thought of the absent , and it long survived in England in the ' minnying ' or ...
... living at the same feast and in similar terms goes far to prove here a common origin for both ceremonies . The ' minne ' was at once love , memory , and the thought of the absent , and it long survived in England in the ' minnying ' or ...
Page 444
... living or dead has been a subject of philosophic speculation and of superstitious fear . Both the phantom of the living and the ghost of the dead figure in Cicero's typical tale . Two Arcadians came to Megara together , one lodged at a ...
... living or dead has been a subject of philosophic speculation and of superstitious fear . Both the phantom of the living and the ghost of the dead figure in Cicero's typical tale . Two Arcadians came to Megara together , one lodged at a ...
Page 449
... living man predicts his death , immediate if it is up to his head , less nearly approaching if it is only up to his waist ; and to see in spiritual vision a spark of fire fall upon a person's arm or breast , is a forerunner of a dead ...
... living man predicts his death , immediate if it is up to his head , less nearly approaching if it is only up to his waist ; and to see in spiritual vision a spark of fire fall upon a person's arm or breast , is a forerunner of a dead ...
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