Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the ... West 1 Grey , Australia , ' vol . i . p . 301 , vol . ii . p . 363 , [ native's accusation against some foreign ...
... Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the ... West 1 Grey , Australia , ' vol . i . p . 301 , vol . ii . p . 363 , [ native's accusation against some foreign ...
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... western Asia . William of Ruysbroek speaks of the notion of souls passing from body to body as general among the medieval Nestorians , even a somewhat intelligent priest consulting him as to the souls of brutes , whether they could find ...
... western Asia . William of Ruysbroek speaks of the notion of souls passing from body to body as general among the medieval Nestorians , even a somewhat intelligent priest consulting him as to the souls of brutes , whether they could find ...
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... West Africa the Efik cook food and leave it on the table in the little shed or " devil - house " near the grave , and thither not only the spirit of the deceased , but the spirits of the slaves sacrificed at his funeral , come to ...
... West Africa the Efik cook food and leave it on the table in the little shed or " devil - house " near the grave , and thither not only the spirit of the deceased , but the spirits of the slaves sacrificed at his funeral , come to ...
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... West Africa we hear of the feast of the dead at the time of yam - harvest ; 6 at the end of the year the Haitian negroes take food to the graves for the shades to eat , " manger zombi , " as they say.7 The Roman Feralia and Lemuralia ...
... West Africa we hear of the feast of the dead at the time of yam - harvest ; 6 at the end of the year the Haitian negroes take food to the graves for the shades to eat , " manger zombi , " as they say.7 The Roman Feralia and Lemuralia ...
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... Western Church at large took up the practice , and round it , on the second of November , there naturally gathered surviving remnants of the primitive rite of banquets to the dead . The accusation against the early Christians , that ...
... Western Church at large took up the practice , and round it , on the second of November , there naturally gathered surviving remnants of the primitive rite of banquets to the dead . The accusation against the early Christians , that ...
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