Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... turndun , and the Greeks called it póμßos ) is complete . Now twist the end of the string tightly about your finger , and whirl the bull - roarer rapidly round and round . For a few moments nothing will happen . In a very interesting ...
... turndun , and the Greeks called it póμßos ) is complete . Now twist the end of the string tightly about your finger , and whirl the bull - roarer rapidly round and round . For a few moments nothing will happen . In a very interesting ...
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... turndun , they first looked cautiously round them to see that no one else was looking , and then answered me in undertones . ' The chief peculiarity in connection with the turndun is that women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe ...
... turndun , they first looked cautiously round them to see that no one else was looking , and then answered me in undertones . ' The chief peculiarity in connection with the turndun is that women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe ...
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... turndun . They are much less instructed in their own theology than the men of the tribe . One woman believed she had heard Pundjel , the chief supernatural being , descend in a mighty rushing noise , that is , in the sound of the turndun ...
... turndun . They are much less instructed in their own theology than the men of the tribe . One woman believed she had heard Pundjel , the chief supernatural being , descend in a mighty rushing noise , that is , in the sound of the turndun ...
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... turndun.2 Servius , the ancient commentator on Virgil , men- 1 Taylor's New Zealand , p . 181 . 2 This is not the view of le Père Lafitau , a learned Jesuit missionary in North America , who wrote ( 1724 ) a work on savage manners , com ...
... turndun.2 Servius , the ancient commentator on Virgil , men- 1 Taylor's New Zealand , p . 181 . 2 This is not the view of le Père Lafitau , a learned Jesuit missionary in North America , who wrote ( 1724 ) a work on savage manners , com ...
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... turndun . No single point is omitted . The Kovos , like the turndun , is a small object of wood , it is tied to a string , when whirled round it produces a roaring noise , and it is used at initiations . This is not the end of the ...
... turndun . No single point is omitted . The Kovos , like the turndun , is a small object of wood , it is tied to a string , when whirled round it produces a roaring noise , and it is used at initiations . This is not the end of the ...
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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.