Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 114
... Turning to the dark races of the Pacific , we find the Tasmanians laying their sick round a corpse on the funeral pile , that the dead might come in the night and take out the devils that caused the diseases ; it is as- serted in a ...
... Turning to the dark races of the Pacific , we find the Tasmanians laying their sick round a corpse on the funeral pile , that the dead might come in the night and take out the devils that caused the diseases ; it is as- serted in a ...
Page 115
... turn their backs on the living , the living fall in the fight , to become ancestral spirits in their turn . In anger the " itongo " seizes a living man's body and inflicts disease and death ; in bene- ficence he gives health , and ...
... turn their backs on the living , the living fall in the fight , to become ancestral spirits in their turn . In anger the " itongo " seizes a living man's body and inflicts disease and death ; in bene- ficence he gives health , and ...
Page 145
... turn of mind which in a Gold - Coast negro would mani- fest itself in a museum of monstrous and most potent fetishes , might impel an Englishman to collect scarce postage - stamps or queer walking - sticks . In the love of abnormal ...
... turn of mind which in a Gold - Coast negro would mani- fest itself in a museum of monstrous and most potent fetishes , might impel an Englishman to collect scarce postage - stamps or queer walking - sticks . In the love of abnormal ...
Page 148
... turns into a fleshy or leathery lump , and causes disease ending in death . Thus , on the one hand , the spirit - theory of disease is brought into connexion with that sorcerer's practice so extraordi- narily prevalent among the lower ...
... turns into a fleshy or leathery lump , and causes disease ending in death . Thus , on the one hand , the spirit - theory of disease is brought into connexion with that sorcerer's practice so extraordi- narily prevalent among the lower ...
Page 156
... turning it several times in different directions , at last it pointed directly to the tent where the stolen goods lay concealed . The Lama now mounted astride the bench , and soon carried it , or , as was commonly believed , it carried ...
... turning it several times in different directions , at last it pointed directly to the tent where the stolen goods lay concealed . The Lama now mounted astride the bench , and soon carried it , or , as was commonly believed , it carried ...
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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