Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 148
... practice of transferring a sick man's ailment to a live fowl , which is set free with it , and if any one catches the fowl , the disease goes to him . Captain Burton's account from Central Africa is as follows . Disease being possession ...
... practice of transferring a sick man's ailment to a live fowl , which is set free with it , and if any one catches the fowl , the disease goes to him . Captain Burton's account from Central Africa is as follows . Disease being possession ...
Page 149
... practice of transferring the ailment to a knot or a lock of hair and burying it is the most harmless , but another device is a very pattern of wicked selfishness . In England , warts may be touched each with a pebble , and the pebbles ...
... practice of transferring the ailment to a knot or a lock of hair and burying it is the most harmless , but another device is a very pattern of wicked selfishness . In England , warts may be touched each with a pebble , and the pebbles ...
Page 150
... practice surviving in lands of higher culture . The spirits which enter or otherwise attach themselves to objects may be human souls . Indeed one of the most natural cases of the fetish - theory is when a soul inhabits or haunts the ...
... practice surviving in lands of higher culture . The spirits which enter or otherwise attach themselves to objects may be human souls . Indeed one of the most natural cases of the fetish - theory is when a soul inhabits or haunts the ...
Page 151
... practice which may have had its origin in the merest child- ish make - believe , but which would lead a thorough savage animist straight on to the conception of the soul entering 1 Mason , Karens , 1. c . p . 231 . Meiners , vol . ii ...
... practice which may have had its origin in the merest child- ish make - believe , but which would lead a thorough savage animist straight on to the conception of the soul entering 1 Mason , Karens , 1. c . p . 231 . Meiners , vol . ii ...
Page 153
... practice these conceptions blend almost inextricably . This state of things is again a confirmation of the theory of animism here advanced , which treats both sets of ideas as similar developments of the same original · 1 Castrón ...
... practice these conceptions blend almost inextricably . This state of things is again a confirmation of the theory of animism here advanced , which treats both sets of ideas as similar developments of the same original · 1 Castrón ...
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