Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... feasts and oaths and abstained from forbidden meats , but if not , to be plunged into the river by the god , and thus drowned and buried in eternal oblivion.3 Even common water can drown a negro ghost , if we may believe the story of ...
... feasts and oaths and abstained from forbidden meats , but if not , to be plunged into the river by the god , and thus drowned and buried in eternal oblivion.3 Even common water can drown a negro ghost , if we may believe the story of ...
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... Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or less ... feast of the dead ; but meanwhile it would come and walk by night in the village , and eat the remnants in the ...
... Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or less ... feast of the dead ; but meanwhile it would come and walk by night in the village , and eat the remnants in the ...
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... feasts - though some indeed would eat all.1 In Madagascar , the elegant little upper chamber in King Radama's mausoleum was furnished with a table and two chairs , and a bottle of wine , a bottle of water , and two tumblers were placed ...
... feasts - though some indeed would eat all.1 In Madagascar , the elegant little upper chamber in King Radama's mausoleum was furnished with a table and two chairs , and a bottle of wine , a bottle of water , and two tumblers were placed ...
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... feasts month by month , laying food and drink on the graves of the departed . In the same region of the world , the Kol tribes of Chota Nagpur are remarkable for their pathetic reverence for their dead . When a Ho or Munda has been ...
... feasts month by month , laying food and drink on the graves of the departed . In the same region of the world , the Kol tribes of Chota Nagpur are remarkable for their pathetic reverence for their dead . When a Ho or Munda has been ...
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... feast is spread for them , and with charac- teristic fancy , some victuals are left over for any blind or feeble spirits who may be late , and a pail of gruel is provided for headless souls , with spoons for them to put it down their ...
... feast is spread for them , and with charac- teristic fancy , some victuals are left over for any blind or feeble spirits who may be late , and a pail of gruel is provided for headless souls , with spoons for them to put it down their ...
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