Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... seems an unfortunate one , in the face of the fact that the supposed bow - and- arrow - making instinct fails among the natives of Tasmania , to whom it would have been very useful , nor have the Australians any bow of their own ...
... seems an unfortunate one , in the face of the fact that the supposed bow - and- arrow - making instinct fails among the natives of Tasmania , to whom it would have been very useful , nor have the Australians any bow of their own ...
Page 215
... seem almost bound- less . The verb to waddle has a strong imitative appearance , and so in German we can hardly resist the ... seems only a ' coloured ' word . The root sta , to stand , ' Sanskrit sthâ , forms a causative stap , Sanskrit ...
... seem almost bound- less . The verb to waddle has a strong imitative appearance , and so in German we can hardly resist the ... seems only a ' coloured ' word . The root sta , to stand , ' Sanskrit sthâ , forms a causative stap , Sanskrit ...
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... seems to come in the clouds , letting down his head into the waves , while his tail seems fixed to the sky , and this dragon draws up the waves to him with such avidity that even a laden ship would be taken up on high , so that to avoid ...
... seems to come in the clouds , letting down his head into the waves , while his tail seems fixed to the sky , and this dragon draws up the waves to him with such avidity that even a laden ship would be taken up on high , so that to avoid ...
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