Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... remarkable phenomenon of men leading a savage life while speaking an Aryan dialect . This is the wild part of the race of Veddas or ' hunters , ' of whom a remnant still inhabit the forest land . These people are dark - skinned and flat ...
... remarkable phenomenon of men leading a savage life while speaking an Aryan dialect . This is the wild part of the race of Veddas or ' hunters , ' of whom a remnant still inhabit the forest land . These people are dark - skinned and flat ...
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... remarkable account of themselves , that they are descendants of shipwrecked Malays from the Bugis country , but were so harassed by pirates that they gave up civilization and cultivation , and vowed not to eat fowls , which betrayed ...
... remarkable account of themselves , that they are descendants of shipwrecked Malays from the Bugis country , but were so harassed by pirates that they gave up civilization and cultivation , and vowed not to eat fowls , which betrayed ...
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... remarkable are its traces in modern French . The donkey has its name of baudet from Baudoin , Baldwin the Ass . Common French dictionaries do not even contain the word goupil ( vulpes ) , so effectually has the Latin name of the fox ...
... remarkable are its traces in modern French . The donkey has its name of baudet from Baudoin , Baldwin the Ass . Common French dictionaries do not even contain the word goupil ( vulpes ) , so effectually has the Latin name of the fox ...
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu America ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin Polynesia primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu