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Page 143
... very fairly compared these objects to the amulets or talismans with which they
were themselves familiar , and called them feitiço or “ charm , " a word derived
from Latin factitius , in the sense of “ magically artful . ” Modern French and
English ...
... very fairly compared these objects to the amulets or talismans with which they
were themselves familiar , and called them feitiço or “ charm , " a word derived
from Latin factitius , in the sense of “ magically artful . ” Modern French and
English ...
Page 160
The mental and physical phenomena of what is now called “ table - turning ”
belong to a class of proceedings which we have seen to be familiar to the lower
races , and accounted for by them on a theory of extrahuman influence which is
in the ...
The mental and physical phenomena of what is now called “ table - turning ”
belong to a class of proceedings which we have seen to be familiar to the lower
races , and accounted for by them on a theory of extrahuman influence which is
in the ...
Page 172
The spirit could be conveyed with the image , both were called “ cemi , " and in
the local accounts of sacrifices , oracles , and miracles , the deity and the idol are
mixed together in a way which at least shows the extreme closeness of their ...
The spirit could be conveyed with the image , both were called “ cemi , " and in
the local accounts of sacrifices , oracles , and miracles , the deity and the idol are
mixed together in a way which at least shows the extreme closeness of their ...
Page 234
An account of the Vaudoux serpent - worship still carried on among the negroes
of Hayti , in Lippincott ' s Magazine , ' Philadelphia , March 1870 . ? Castrén , '
Finn . Myth . ' p . 196 , see 228 . or symbol of an Algonquin clan - animal is called
...
An account of the Vaudoux serpent - worship still carried on among the negroes
of Hayti , in Lippincott ' s Magazine , ' Philadelphia , March 1870 . ? Castrén , '
Finn . Myth . ' p . 196 , see 228 . or symbol of an Algonquin clan - animal is called
...
Page 244
Speaking of star - deities , he says that shepherds venerated a certain star called
Sheep , another star called Tiger protected men from tigers , etc . : “ And
generally , of all the animals and birds there are on the earth , they believed that
a like ...
Speaking of star - deities , he says that shepherds venerated a certain star called
Sheep , another star called Tiger protected men from tigers , etc . : “ And
generally , of all the animals and birds there are on the earth , they believed that
a like ...
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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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