Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... ancient and medieval world , men habitually invoked supernatural aid beyond such material shifts as these , calling in the priest to lay or banish in- truding ghosts , nor is this branch of the exorcist's art even yet forgotten . There ...
... ancient and medieval world , men habitually invoked supernatural aid beyond such material shifts as these , calling in the priest to lay or banish in- truding ghosts , nor is this branch of the exorcist's art even yet forgotten . There ...
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... ancient Egyptian would set out his provision of cakes and trussed ducks on reed scaffolds in the tomb , or would even keep the mummy in the house to be present as a guest at the feast , σύνδειπνον καὶ συμπότην ἐποιήσατο , as Lucian says ...
... ancient Egyptian would set out his provision of cakes and trussed ducks on reed scaffolds in the tomb , or would even keep the mummy in the house to be present as a guest at the feast , σύνδειπνον καὶ συμπότην ἐποιήσατο , as Lucian says ...
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... ancient rite . The funeral feast is served in Russia , with its table for the beggars , laden with fish - pasties and bowls of shchi and jugs of kvas , its more delicate dinner for friends and priests , its incense and chants of ...
... ancient rite . The funeral feast is served in Russia , with its table for the beggars , laden with fish - pasties and bowls of shchi and jugs of kvas , its more delicate dinner for friends and priests , its incense and chants of ...
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... ancient rites as he was , he strin- gently kept up this , " he sacrificed to the dead as if they were present , " but when he was asked if the dead had knowledge of what was done or no , he declined to answer the question ; for if he ...
... ancient rites as he was , he strin- gently kept up this , " he sacrificed to the dead as if they were present , " but when he was asked if the dead had knowledge of what was done or no , he declined to answer the question ; for if he ...
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... ancient myth - maker , who watched the sun descend to the dark under - world , and return at dawn to the land of living men . These heroic legends lie in close - knit con- nexion with episodes of solar myth . It is by the simplest ...
... ancient myth - maker , who watched the sun descend to the dark under - world , and return at dawn to the land of living men . These heroic legends lie in close - knit con- nexion with episodes of solar myth . It is by the simplest ...
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