Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 69
... fire and brimstone , Vesuvius , Etna , and Hecla had spiritual as well as material terrors to the mind of Christendom , for they were believed to be places of purgatory or the very mouths of the pit where the souls of the damned were ...
... fire and brimstone , Vesuvius , Etna , and Hecla had spiritual as well as material terrors to the mind of Christendom , for they were believed to be places of purgatory or the very mouths of the pit where the souls of the damned were ...
Page 97
... fire ; black dungeons and rivers of filth ; vipers , and vultures , and cannibals ; thorns , and spears , and red - hot pincers , and whips of flame . To the modern Hindu , it is true , cere- monial morality seems to take the upper hand ...
... fire ; black dungeons and rivers of filth ; vipers , and vultures , and cannibals ; thorns , and spears , and red - hot pincers , and whips of flame . To the modern Hindu , it is true , cere- monial morality seems to take the upper hand ...
Page 113
... fire that the ancestral spirits pushed him in to punish 1 Sir J. Shore in ' Asiatic Res . ' vol . iv . p . 331 . For some collections of details of manes - worship , see Meiners , ' Geschichte der Religiouen , vol . i . book 3 ; Bastian ...
... fire that the ancestral spirits pushed him in to punish 1 Sir J. Shore in ' Asiatic Res . ' vol . iv . p . 331 . For some collections of details of manes - worship , see Meiners , ' Geschichte der Religiouen , vol . i . book 3 ; Bastian ...
Page 167
... fire , laid them in the seat of honour on fresh straw , and at certain times of the year steeped them in ale , that they might bring luck and comfort to the house . In an account dating from 1851 , the islanders of Inniskea , off Mayo ...
... fire , laid them in the seat of honour on fresh straw , and at certain times of the year steeped them in ale , that they might bring luck and comfort to the house . In an account dating from 1851 , the islanders of Inniskea , off Mayo ...
Page 170
... fire if it cannot give him luck or preserve him from sickness ; by famous idols of Madagascar , of which one goes about of himself or guides his bearers , and another answers when spoken to at least , they did this till they were ...
... fire if it cannot give him luck or preserve him from sickness ; by famous idols of Madagascar , of which one goes about of himself or guides his bearers , and another answers when spoken to at least , they did this till they were ...
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