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" Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll; this spoon had been carried to the grave of a dead man, and becoming inspired at full moon, in fact lunatic, it danced about convulsively like a table... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 154
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1903
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 30

American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...metempsychosis comes in to complete tlie proof. "Mr D.irwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island, who had a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll : this...and becoming inspired at full moon, in fact lunatic. even in civilized countries, which are unused to the severe training of science, no stronger evidence...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 30

American essays - 1872 - 898 pages
...Keeling Island, who Ь rf! r, wooden spnon dressed in clothes like a doll: this, spoon had been earned to the grave of a dead man, and becoming inspired at full moon, in fad lunatic. even in civilized countries, which are unused to the severe training of science, no stronger...
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Early Sociology of Religion, Volume 4

Turner B S Staff - Philosophy - 2004 - 390 pages
...motionless piece of stone or stick ? Mr. Tylor, perhaps, leads us to a plausible conjecture by writing: ' Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island,...about convulsively, like a table or a hat at a modern spirit seance.'' Now M. Lefebure has pointed out (in ' Melusine') that, according to De Brasses, the...
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