Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... not fairies , but the forgotten peoples of this island who used the arrows with the tips of flint . Thunder is only so far connected with them that the heavy rains loosen the surface soil , and lay bare its long IO CUSTOM AND MYTH .
... not fairies , but the forgotten peoples of this island who used the arrows with the tips of flint . Thunder is only so far connected with them that the heavy rains loosen the surface soil , and lay bare its long IO CUSTOM AND MYTH .
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... connected by ties of race with the people of Ceylon . Yet , when the Spaniards conquered Mexico , and when Sahagun ( one of the earliest missionaries ) collected the legends of the people , he found them , like the Cingalese , strong ...
... connected by ties of race with the people of Ceylon . Yet , when the Spaniards conquered Mexico , and when Sahagun ( one of the earliest missionaries ) collected the legends of the people , he found them , like the Cingalese , strong ...
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... connected with the noise , may be , no one would explain them as the result of community of race between Cingalese and Aztecs . Nor would this explanation be offered to account for the Aztec and English belief that the creaking of ...
... connected with the noise , may be , no one would explain them as the result of community of race between Cingalese and Aztecs . Nor would this explanation be offered to account for the Aztec and English belief that the creaking of ...
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... connection be- tween the colour black , and mourning for the dead , is natural and almost universal . Examples like these might be adduced in any number . We might show how , in magic , negroes of Barbadoes make clay effigies of their ...
... connection be- tween the colour black , and mourning for the dead , is natural and almost universal . Examples like these might be adduced in any number . We might show how , in magic , negroes of Barbadoes make clay effigies of their ...
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... connection with the turndun is that women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe , who call it bribbun , have a ... connected with the 1 Kamilaroi and Kurnai , p . 268 . mysteries . In Gippsland there is a tradition of the 34 CUSTOM ...
... connection with the turndun is that women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe , who call it bribbun , have a ... connected with the 1 Kamilaroi and Kurnai , p . 268 . mysteries . In Gippsland there is a tradition of the 34 CUSTOM ...
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Página 185 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Página 150 - Therewith the slayer of Argos gave me the plant that he had plucked from the ground, and he showed me the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible.