Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... spirit , it is instructive to notice the words which have been found suitable to express it . The ghost or phan- tasm seen by the dreamer or the visionary is an unsubstan- tial form , like a shadow or reflexion , and thus the familiar ...
... spirit , it is instructive to notice the words which have been found suitable to express it . The ghost or phan- tasm seen by the dreamer or the visionary is an unsubstan- tial form , like a shadow or reflexion , and thus the familiar ...
Page 433
... spirit ; and the dialects of the Gypsies have this word dūk with the meanings of ' breath , spirit , ghost , ' whether these pariahs brought the word from India as part of their inheritance of Aryan speech , or whether they adopted it ...
... spirit ; and the dialects of the Gypsies have this word dūk with the meanings of ' breath , spirit , ghost , ' whether these pariahs brought the word from India as part of their inheritance of Aryan speech , or whether they adopted it ...
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... spirit , not to men only but to animals and plants.1 The Dayaks of Borneo not only consider men and animals to have a spirit or living principle , whose departure from the body causes sickness and eventually death , but they also give ...
... spirit , not to men only but to animals and plants.1 The Dayaks of Borneo not only consider men and animals to have a spirit or living principle , whose departure from the body causes sickness and eventually death , but they also give ...
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