Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... probably an ancient fetich stone . Not to speak , here , of our own religious traditions , the old vein of savage rite and belief is found very near the surface of ancient Greek religion . It needs but some stress of circumstance ...
... probably an ancient fetich stone . Not to speak , here , of our own religious traditions , the old vein of savage rite and belief is found very near the surface of ancient Greek religion . It needs but some stress of circumstance ...
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... species is of unknown antiquity . In the moderate allowance of 250,000 years , there is time for stories to have wandered all round the world , as the Aggry beads of Ashanti have probably crossed the continent THE METHOD OF FOLKLORE . 23.
... species is of unknown antiquity . In the moderate allowance of 250,000 years , there is time for stories to have wandered all round the world , as the Aggry beads of Ashanti have probably crossed the continent THE METHOD OF FOLKLORE . 23.
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Andrew Lang. the Aggry beads of Ashanti have probably crossed the continent from Egypt , as the Asiatic jade ( if Asiatic it be ) has arrived in Swiss lake - dwellings , as an African trade - cowry is said to have been found in a Cornish ...
Andrew Lang. the Aggry beads of Ashanti have probably crossed the continent from Egypt , as the Asiatic jade ( if Asiatic it be ) has arrived in Swiss lake - dwellings , as an African trade - cowry is said to have been found in a Cornish ...
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... probably , in the width of its hospitality at least , an innovation . As Tiele remarks , we cannot derive Dionysus from the Assyrian Daian nisi , ' judge of men , ' a name of the solar god Samas , without ascertaining that the wine ...
... probably , in the width of its hospitality at least , an innovation . As Tiele remarks , we cannot derive Dionysus from the Assyrian Daian nisi , ' judge of men , ' a name of the solar god Samas , without ascertaining that the wine ...
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... probably puzzled to the last degree . If he be an Englishman , country- bred , he says to himself , ' Why , that is the bull - roarer . ' If he knows the colony and the ways of the natives , he knows that the blacks are celebrating ...
... probably puzzled to the last degree . If he be an Englishman , country- bred , he says to himself , ' Why , that is the bull - roarer . ' If he knows the colony and the ways of the natives , he knows that the blacks are celebrating ...
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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.