Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... ghosts not only survive in the under - world , but are the very deities of the living , we can put the proper sense to these expressions . But without such information , we might have mistaken them for denials . of the soul's existence ...
... ghosts not only survive in the under - world , but are the very deities of the living , we can put the proper sense to these expressions . But without such information , we might have mistaken them for denials . of the soul's existence ...
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... ghost of a departed warrior must wage with the soul - killing Samu and his brethren ; this is the contest for which the dead ... ghosts to the beach , and Nangananga dashes them in pieces on the great black stone , as one shatters rotten ...
... ghost of a departed warrior must wage with the soul - killing Samu and his brethren ; this is the contest for which the dead ... ghosts to the beach , and Nangananga dashes them in pieces on the great black stone , as one shatters rotten ...
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... ghosts , and of souls dwelling on or below or above the earth in a spirit - world , where existence is modelled upon ... ghost - souls of the dead hover among the 1 Cavazzi , Congo , Matamba , et Angola , ' lib . i . 270. See also ...
... ghosts , and of souls dwelling on or below or above the earth in a spirit - world , where existence is modelled upon ... ghost - souls of the dead hover among the 1 Cavazzi , Congo , Matamba , et Angola , ' lib . i . 270. See also ...
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... ghost - stories . Almost throughout the vast range of animistic religion , we shall find the souls of the departed ... ghosts . Though the unhappy savage custom of deserting houses after a decease may mostly be connected with other ...
... ghost - stories . Almost throughout the vast range of animistic religion , we shall find the souls of the departed ... ghosts . Though the unhappy savage custom of deserting houses after a decease may mostly be connected with other ...
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... ghost . In Old Calabar it was customary for the son to leave his father's house to decay , but after two years he might re- build it , the ghost being thought by that time to have departed ; the Hottentots abandoned the dead man's house ...
... ghost . In Old Calabar it was customary for the son to leave his father's house to decay , but after two years he might re- build it , the ghost being thought by that time to have departed ; the Hottentots abandoned the dead man's house ...
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