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Page 134
... fetish - woman of Guinea is thus described in the act of answering an enquirer who has come to consult her . She is crouching on the earth , with her head between her knees and her hands up to her face , till , becoming inspired by the ...
... fetish - woman of Guinea is thus described in the act of answering an enquirer who has come to consult her . She is crouching on the earth , with her head between her knees and her hands up to her face , till , becoming inspired by the ...
Page 135
... fetish to come and fetch him , or perhaps merely to drive a dozen wooden pegs into the ground , so to bury his friend's disease with them.1 The details of demoniacal possession among barbaric and civilized nations need no elaborate ...
... fetish to come and fetch him , or perhaps merely to drive a dozen wooden pegs into the ground , so to bury his friend's disease with them.1 The details of demoniacal possession among barbaric and civilized nations need no elaborate ...
Page 143
... fetish , although curiously enough both languages had already pos- sessed the word for ages in a different sense , Old French faitis , ' well made , beautiful , ' which Old English adopted as fetys , ' well made , neat . ' It occurs in ...
... fetish , although curiously enough both languages had already pos- sessed the word for ages in a different sense , Old French faitis , ' well made , beautiful , ' which Old English adopted as fetys , ' well made , neat . ' It occurs in ...
Page 144
... fetish . Of course , among the endless multitude of objects , not as we should say physically active , but to which ignorant men ascribe mys- terious power , we are not to apply indiscriminately the idea of their being considered ...
... fetish . Of course , among the endless multitude of objects , not as we should say physically active , but to which ignorant men ascribe mys- terious power , we are not to apply indiscriminately the idea of their being considered ...
Page 145
... fetishes . But this must not be taken for granted . To class an object as a fetish , demands explicit statement that a spirit is considered as embodied in it or acting through it or communicating by it , or at least that the people it ...
... fetishes . But this must not be taken for granted . To class an object as a fetish , demands explicit statement that a spirit is considered as embodied in it or acting through it or communicating by it , or at least that the people it ...
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