Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1903 - Animism |
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... carrying personality as it carries likeness . This thought of the soul's continued existence is , however , but the gateway into a complex region of belief . The doctrines which , separate or compounded , make up the scheme of future ...
... carrying personality as it carries likeness . This thought of the soul's continued existence is , however , but the gateway into a complex region of belief . The doctrines which , separate or compounded , make up the scheme of future ...
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... carry the dead out by the window , not by the door , while an old woman , waving a firebrand behind , cried ' piklerrukpok ! ' i.e. , ' there is nothing more to be had here ! ' ; the Hottentots ... carried out , for an obstacle 26 ANIMISM .
... carry the dead out by the window , not by the door , while an old woman , waving a firebrand behind , cried ' piklerrukpok ! ' i.e. , ' there is nothing more to be had here ! ' ; the Hottentots ... carried out , for an obstacle 26 ANIMISM .
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... carried out , for an obstacle to bar the soul from coming back ; 1 so Brandenburg peasants pour out a pail of water at the door after the coffin , to prevent the ghost from walking ; and Pomeranian mourners returning from the churchyard ...
... carried out , for an obstacle to bar the soul from coming back ; 1 so Brandenburg peasants pour out a pail of water at the door after the coffin , to prevent the ghost from walking ; and Pomeranian mourners returning from the churchyard ...
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... carried it to the burial - ground , there to dwell till the great feast of the dead ; but meanwhile it would come and walk by night in the village , and eat the remnants in the kettles , 1 Charlevoix , ' Nouvelle France , ' vol . vi . p ...
... carried it to the burial - ground , there to dwell till the great feast of the dead ; but meanwhile it would come and walk by night in the village , and eat the remnants in the kettles , 1 Charlevoix , ' Nouvelle France , ' vol . vi . p ...
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... carried in procession with a solemn , ghostly , slid- ing step , keeping time to the deep - sounding drum , and when the old woman who carries the bones on her bamboo tray lowers it from time to time , then girls who carry pitchers and ...
... carried in procession with a solemn , ghostly , slid- ing step , keeping time to the deep - sounding drum , and when the old woman who carries the bones on her bamboo tray lowers it from time to time , then girls who carry pitchers and ...
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