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... so that if dislodged they may become better off by entering into the bodies of
men or beasts . Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls transmigrating into
inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of object - souls .
... so that if dislodged they may become better off by entering into the bodies of
men or beasts . Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls transmigrating into
inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of object - souls .
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We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into beasts , the viler
according to their crimes ; that he who kills a fowl or rat will become a fowl or rat
himself ; that souls can pass into plants rooted in the ground , which thus have
not ...
We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into beasts , the viler
according to their crimes ; that he who kills a fowl or rat will become a fowl or rat
himself ; that souls can pass into plants rooted in the ground , which thus have
not ...
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An instance of the belief within the limits of modern Christian Europe may be
found among the Bulgarians , whose superstition is that Turks who have never
eaten pork in life will become wild boars after death . A party assembled to feast
on a ...
An instance of the belief within the limits of modern Christian Europe may be
found among the Bulgarians , whose superstition is that Turks who have never
eaten pork in life will become wild boars after death . A party assembled to feast
on a ...
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... crocodile and dog , till it arrives at man , thence ascending to become one of
the superhuman beings or angels who dwell in the planetary ether , and thence
to a still higher state , the secret of whose natura M . Figuier does not endeavour
to ...
... crocodile and dog , till it arrives at man , thence ascending to become one of
the superhuman beings or angels who dwell in the planetary ether , and thence
to a still higher state , the secret of whose natura M . Figuier does not endeavour
to ...
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In the spiritual world , says Emanuel Swedenborg , such persons as have
opened themselves for the admission of the devil and acquired the nature of
beasts , becoming foxes in cunning , etc . , appear also at a distance in the proper
shape of ...
In the spiritual world , says Emanuel Swedenborg , such persons as have
opened themselves for the admission of the devil and acquired the nature of
beasts , becoming foxes in cunning , etc . , appear also at a distance in the proper
shape of ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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