Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 106
... hand than in the Arabian Nights ' tale where Abdallah of the Sea indig- nantly breaks off his friendship with Abdallah of the Land , when he hears that the dwellers on the land do not feast and sing when one of them dies , like the ...
... hand than in the Arabian Nights ' tale where Abdallah of the Sea indig- nantly breaks off his friendship with Abdallah of the Land , when he hears that the dwellers on the land do not feast and sing when one of them dies , like the ...
Page 116
... hand , we see the North Guinea negroes transferring the souls of the dead , according to their lives , to the rank of good and evil spirits , and if evil worshipping them the more zealously as fear is to their minds a stronger impulse ...
... hand , we see the North Guinea negroes transferring the souls of the dead , according to their lives , to the rank of good and evil spirits , and if evil worshipping them the more zealously as fear is to their minds a stronger impulse ...
Page 123
... hand it provides an explanation of the phenomena of morbid exaltation and derangement , especially as connected with abnormal utterance , and this view is so far extended as to produce an almost general doctrine of disease . On the other ...
... hand it provides an explanation of the phenomena of morbid exaltation and derangement , especially as connected with abnormal utterance , and this view is so far extended as to produce an almost general doctrine of disease . On the other ...
Page 126
... hands and feet ; when a person is wounded , the " hantu pari " fastens on the wound and sucks , and this is the cause of the blood flowing . And so on , as the describer says , " To enumerate the remainder of the hantus would be merely ...
... hands and feet ; when a person is wounded , the " hantu pari " fastens on the wound and sucks , and this is the cause of the blood flowing . And so on , as the describer says , " To enumerate the remainder of the hantus would be merely ...
Page 134
... hands up to her face , till , becoming inspired by the fetish , she snorts and foams and gasps . Then the suppliant may put his question , “ Will my friend or brother get well of this sickness ? ” — “ What shall I give thee to set him ...
... hands up to her face , till , becoming inspired by the fetish , she snorts and foams and gasps . Then the suppliant may put his question , “ Will my friend or brother get well of this sickness ? ” — “ What shall I give thee to set him ...
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Africa Amazulu Amer ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahmans Brinton Buddhism Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conception connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro offerings original Parsi pass Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia polytheism prayer priest region religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems Sheol snakes solar spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity survival temple theology theory thou thought thunder tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu