Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Estes & Lauriat, 1874 - Animism |
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... less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the Santals of Bengal are said ...
... less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the Santals of Bengal are said ...
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... less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal manner , or that they shall by some means be con- veyed to him in his distant spirit - home , there are given supplies of food and drink ...
... less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal manner , or that they shall by some means be con- veyed to him in his distant spirit - home , there are given supplies of food and drink ...
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... less of practical intention in it than of childish make - believe . Now and then , however , the sacrificers themselves offer closer definitions of their mean- ing . The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not ...
... less of practical intention in it than of childish make - believe . Now and then , however , the sacrificers themselves offer closer definitions of their mean- ing . The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not ...
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... less myths . Few subjects have aroused the savage poet's mind to such bold and vivid imagery as the thought of the hereafter . Yet also a survey of its details among mankind displays in the midst of variety a regular recurrence of ...
... less myths . Few subjects have aroused the savage poet's mind to such bold and vivid imagery as the thought of the hereafter . Yet also a survey of its details among mankind displays in the midst of variety a regular recurrence of ...
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... less strong than that which leads them to place their world of the dead on or below the earth's sur- face . Yet some well - marked descriptions of a savage See Schoolcraft , ' Indian Tribes , ' part i . pp . 269 , 311 ; Smith ...
... less strong than that which leads them to place their world of the dead on or below the earth's sur- face . Yet some well - marked descriptions of a savage See Schoolcraft , ' Indian Tribes , ' part i . pp . 269 , 311 ; Smith ...
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