Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... ancestors ; so multi- tudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes - spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spirit- circles , and peep over ...
... ancestors ; so multi- tudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes - spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spirit- circles , and peep over ...
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... ancestors of part of any dainty food , and an Indian who fell by accident into the fire would believe that the spirits of his ancestors pushed him in for neglecting to make due offerings . The minds of the Hurons were filled with ...
... ancestors of part of any dainty food , and an Indian who fell by accident into the fire would believe that the spirits of his ancestors pushed him in for neglecting to make due offerings . The minds of the Hurons were filled with ...
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... ancestors demand a particular cow , the beast is slaughtered and left shut up for a time for the shades to eat , or for its spirit to go to the land of shades , and then is taken out to be eaten by the sacrificers . So , in more ...
... ancestors demand a particular cow , the beast is slaughtered and left shut up for a time for the shades to eat , or for its spirit to go to the land of shades , and then is taken out to be eaten by the sacrificers . So , in more ...
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... ancestors fed , and the footprints of the ghostly buffaloes that followed them . On Gunung Danka , a mountain in West Java , there is such another Earthly Paradise . ' The Sajira who dwell in the district indeed profess themselves Moham ...
... ancestors fed , and the footprints of the ghostly buffaloes that followed them . On Gunung Danka , a mountain in West Java , there is such another Earthly Paradise . ' The Sajira who dwell in the district indeed profess themselves Moham ...
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... ancestors , the " Abapansi , " the " people underground . " 5 From among rude Asiatic tribes , let us take example from the Karens . " 1 Steller , Kamtschatka , ' p . 269 . 2 Harmon , ' Journal , ' p . 299 ; see Lewis and Clarke , p ...
... ancestors , the " Abapansi , " the " people underground . " 5 From among rude Asiatic tribes , let us take example from the Karens . " 1 Steller , Kamtschatka , ' p . 269 . 2 Harmon , ' Journal , ' p . 299 ; see Lewis and Clarke , p ...
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