Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... practices as the various kinds of sacrifice to the ghosts of the dead and to other spiritual beings , the turning to the ... practice of reckoning numbers by tens is a species . The geographical distribu- tion of these things , and their ...
... practices as the various kinds of sacrifice to the ghosts of the dead and to other spiritual beings , the turning to the ... practice of reckoning numbers by tens is a species . The geographical distribu- tion of these things , and their ...
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... practice as a relic of superstition . Lastly , the same trial by water is recognized as one of the regular judicial ... practices which have their roots deep in the very stratum of early philosophy where witchcraft makes its first ...
... practice as a relic of superstition . Lastly , the same trial by water is recognized as one of the regular judicial ... practices which have their roots deep in the very stratum of early philosophy where witchcraft makes its first ...
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... practice of certain rude tribes of the North- West . The Quakeolths , for instance , did not actually sacrifice the widow , but they made her rest her head on her husband's corpse while it was being burned , until at last she was ...
... practice of certain rude tribes of the North- West . The Quakeolths , for instance , did not actually sacrifice the widow , but they made her rest her head on her husband's corpse while it was being burned , until at last she was ...
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