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soul is like to come to harm , and die the other death where there is nothing left ,
and this is to them the dolefullest thing of all . Thus the Fijians tell of the fight
which the ghost of a departed warrior must wage with the soul - killing Samu and
his ...
soul is like to come to harm , and die the other death where there is nothing left ,
and this is to them the dolefullest thing of all . Thus the Fijians tell of the fight
which the ghost of a departed warrior must wage with the soul - killing Samu and
his ...
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Though the unhappy savage custom of deserting houses after a decease may
mostly be connected with other causes , such as horror or abnegation of all
things belonging to the dead , there are cases where it 1 Schoolcraft , " Indian
Tribes ...
Though the unhappy savage custom of deserting houses after a decease may
mostly be connected with other causes , such as horror or abnegation of all
things belonging to the dead , there are cases where it 1 Schoolcraft , " Indian
Tribes ...
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... missionaries argued against this proceeding , but were met by ridicule of their
ignorance , and the reply " that there were two things in the food , one the
substance , and the other the accidents of quantity , quality , smell , taste , and the
like .
... missionaries argued against this proceeding , but were met by ridicule of their
ignorance , and the reply " that there were two things in the food , one the
substance , and the other the accidents of quantity , quality , smell , taste , and the
like .
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The Zulus of our own day tell of men who have gone down by holes in the ground
into the underworld , where mountains and rivers and all things are as here
above , and where a man may find his kindred , for the dead live in their villages ...
The Zulus of our own day tell of men who have gone down by holes in the ground
into the underworld , where mountains and rivers and all things are as here
above , and where a man may find his kindred , for the dead live in their villages ...
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Mutatis mutandis these tales reappear in Christian mythology , as when Gregory
the Great records that a certain nobleman named Stephen died , who was taken
to the region of Hades , and saw many things he had heard before but not ...
Mutatis mutandis these tales reappear in Christian mythology , as when Gregory
the Great records that a certain nobleman named Stephen died , who was taken
to the region of Hades , and saw many things he had heard before but not ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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