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Page 6
... dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men . In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing ...
... dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men . In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing ...
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... Dead ; of that pathetic funeral rite of the Iroquois , the setting free a bird on the evening of burial , to carry away the soul.5 In Mexico , the Tlascalans thought that after death the souls of nobles would animate beautiful singing ...
... Dead ; of that pathetic funeral rite of the Iroquois , the setting free a bird on the evening of burial , to carry away the soul.5 In Mexico , the Tlascalans thought that after death the souls of nobles would animate beautiful singing ...
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... dead daughter ? ' 1 In Africa , again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that the souls of bad men became jackals , and of good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the ...
... dead daughter ? ' 1 In Africa , again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that the souls of bad men became jackals , and of good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the ...
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... dead to earth as unclean beasts.1 The pictures and hieroglyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead , however , do not afford the necessary confirmation for these state- ments , even the mystic transformations of the soul not being of the ...
... dead to earth as unclean beasts.1 The pictures and hieroglyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead , however , do not afford the necessary confirmation for these state- ments , even the mystic transformations of the soul not being of the ...
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... dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again ...
... dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again ...
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