Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 159
... negro , and himself , as the saying is , " become black . " Thus even yet some traveller , watching a white companion asleep , may catch a glimpse of some claw or bone or such - like sorcerer's trash secretly fastened round his neck.1 ...
... negro , and himself , as the saying is , " become black . " Thus even yet some traveller , watching a white companion asleep , may catch a glimpse of some claw or bone or such - like sorcerer's trash secretly fastened round his neck.1 ...
Page 170
... negro who feeds ancestral images and brings them a share of his trade profits , but will beat an idol or fling it into the fire if it cannot give him luck or preserve him from sickness ; by famous idols of Madagascar , of which one goes ...
... negro who feeds ancestral images and brings them a share of his trade profits , but will beat an idol or fling it into the fire if it cannot give him luck or preserve him from sickness ; by famous idols of Madagascar , of which one goes ...
Page 176
... negro demands a visible object to which worship may be directed . He wishes really and sensibly to behold the god , and seeks to shape in wood or clay the conception he has formed of him . Now if the priest , whom the god himself at ...
... negro demands a visible object to which worship may be directed . He wishes really and sensibly to behold the god , and seeks to shape in wood or clay the conception he has formed of him . Now if the priest , whom the god himself at ...
Page 187
... negro , who finds the abodes of his good and evil spirits in great rocks , hollow trees , mountains , deep rivers , dense groves , echoing caverns , and who passing silently by these sacred places leaves some offering , if it be but a ...
... negro , who finds the abodes of his good and evil spirits in great rocks , hollow trees , mountains , deep rivers , dense groves , echoing caverns , and who passing silently by these sacred places leaves some offering , if it be but a ...
Page 201
... negro has his guardian spirit - how far identified with what Europeans call soul or conscience , it may be hard to determine ; but he certainly looks upon it as a being separate from himself , for he summons it by sorcery , builds a ...
... negro has his guardian spirit - how far identified with what Europeans call soul or conscience , it may be hard to determine ; but he certainly looks upon it as a being separate from himself , for he summons it by sorcery , builds a ...
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