 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 956 pages
...shadow, the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates, capable of leaving the body and appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness, and able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things... | |
 | 1901
...and thought in the individual it animates, capable of leaving the body and appearing to men waiting or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness, and able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things... | |
 | Otto Charles Glaser - Biology - 1904 - 476 pages
...shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates ; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal...present; capable of leaving the body far behind to flask swiftly from place to place; mostly impalpable and invisible, yet also manifesting physical power,... | |
 | Archaeology - 1911 - 526 pages
...individual it animates; indopendently possessing the perßonal consciousness and volition of its cbrporeal owner past or present; capable of leaving the body...especially appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantom separate from the body of which it bears the likeness; continuing to exist and appear to men... | |
 | Biology - 1912 - 772 pages
...shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates ; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal...especially appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantom separate from the body of which it bears the likeness; continuing to exist and appear to men... | |
 | 1913 - 384 pages
...shadow ; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates ; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal...especially appearing to men, waking or asleep, as a phantam separate from the body of which it bears the likeness ; able to enter into, possess, and act... | |
 | Francis Stuart Chapin - Evolution - 1913 - 348 pages
...nature a sort of vapor, a film, a shadow, the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates, capable of leaving the body far behind to flash swiftly from place to place, invisible yet manifesting physical powers. The Indian believes that during sleep the human spirit wanders... | |
 | Ebenezer Griffith-Jones - Future life - 1917 - 368 pages
...or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal...mostly impalpable and invisible, yet also manifesting 1 Primitive Culture, vol. 5., p. 429 (third edition). physical power, and especially appearing to men... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1923 - 860 pages
...shadow, the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates, capable of leaving the body and appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness, and able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things... | |
 | Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes - Immortality - 1925 - 192 pages
...or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal...especially appearing to men, waking or asleep, as a particular phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness; continuing to exist and... | |
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It is a thin unsubstantial human image, in its nature a sort of vapour, film, or shadow ; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates ; independently possessing thex personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal owner, past or present... 
