Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Living to the Regions of Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset : the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realization of current religious ideas , whether of savage or civilized theology , in ...
... Living to the Regions of Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset : the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realization of current religious ideas , whether of savage or civilized theology , in ...
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... living child of hers , or vice versa , thus gaining for herself a new relative and protector . It is mostly ancestral or kindred souls that are thought to enter into children , and this kind of transmigration is therefore from the ...
... living child of hers , or vice versa , thus gaining for herself a new relative and protector . It is mostly ancestral or kindred souls that are thought to enter into children , and this kind of transmigration is therefore from the ...
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... living man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the inhabitant of a house . In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the ...
... living man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the inhabitant of a house . In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the ...
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... living for conscience ' sake upon birds , and would not touch walrus- meat , which the angekok had forbidden her for a time , because her late husband had entered into a walrus . Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Pow ...
... living for conscience ' sake upon birds , and would not touch walrus- meat , which the angekok had forbidden her for a time , because her late husband had entered into a walrus . Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Pow ...
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... living , and cause sick- ness , till it departs or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell . But they can and do come back from 1 Brinton , p . 254 ; see also Martius ...
... living , and cause sick- ness , till it departs or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell . But they can and do come back from 1 Brinton , p . 254 ; see also Martius ...
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