Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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Página 10
... objects on which he has lighted . He carries them home , and the village wisdom determines that the wedge - shaped piece of metal is a ' thunder- bolt , ' or that the bits of flint are ' elf - shots , ' the heads of fairy arrows . Such ...
... objects on which he has lighted . He carries them home , and the village wisdom determines that the wedge - shaped piece of metal is a ' thunder- bolt , ' or that the bits of flint are ' elf - shots , ' the heads of fairy arrows . Such ...
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... object and use of the arrow - heads became intelligible when we found similar weapons in actual use among savages , so the salutation to the sneezer becomes intelligible when we learn that the savage has a good reason for it . He thinks ...
... object and use of the arrow - heads became intelligible when we found similar weapons in actual use among savages , so the salutation to the sneezer becomes intelligible when we learn that the savage has a good reason for it . He thinks ...
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... object of both myths is to account for the grouping and other phenomena of the constellations . May not similar explanatory stories have occurred to the ancestors of the Australians , and to the ancestors of the Greeks , however remote ...
... object of both myths is to account for the grouping and other phenomena of the constellations . May not similar explanatory stories have occurred to the ancestors of the Australians , and to the ancestors of the Greeks , however remote ...
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... objects seemed equally endowed with human personality , and to which no metamorphosis appeared impossible . In the following essays , then , the myths and customs of various peoples will be compared , even when these peoples talk ...
... objects seemed equally endowed with human personality , and to which no metamorphosis appeared impossible . In the following essays , then , the myths and customs of various peoples will be compared , even when these peoples talk ...
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... object . The bull - roarer has been , and is , a sacred and magical instrument in many and widely separated lands . It is found , always as a sacred instrument , employed in religious mysteries , in New Mexico , in Australia , in New ...
... object . The bull - roarer has been , and is , a sacred and magical instrument in many and widely separated lands . It is found , always as a sacred instrument , employed in religious mysteries , in New Mexico , in Australia , in New ...
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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.