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... tribes of the Vindhya . Although we cannot so far lull our faculty of thought as to realise the mental vacuity of the savage , we may , from survivals nowadays , lead up to reasonable guesses of savage ways of looking at things in ...
... tribes of the Vindhya . Although we cannot so far lull our faculty of thought as to realise the mental vacuity of the savage , we may , from survivals nowadays , lead up to reasonable guesses of savage ways of looking at things in ...
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... cheek and eyeballs . " In Finnish myth the demon Hiisi forms a huge snake from the spittle of a fellow - demon . Cf. also Thomson's Masai Land , pp . 288-290 . North American tribes making images of their foes , whose 16 MYTHS AND DREAMS .
... cheek and eyeballs . " In Finnish myth the demon Hiisi forms a huge snake from the spittle of a fellow - demon . Cf. also Thomson's Masai Land , pp . 288-290 . North American tribes making images of their foes , whose 16 MYTHS AND DREAMS .
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Edward Clodd. North American tribes making images of their foes , whose lives they expect to shorten by piercing those images with their arrows , we remember that these barbarous folk have their representatives among us in the Devonshire ...
Edward Clodd. North American tribes making images of their foes , whose lives they expect to shorten by piercing those images with their arrows , we remember that these barbarous folk have their representatives among us in the Devonshire ...
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... tribe thought that sun , moon , and stars were men and women who went into the sea every night and swam out by the east . The Bushmen say that the sun was once a man who shed light from his body , but only for a short distance , until ...
... tribe thought that sun , moon , and stars were men and women who went into the sea every night and swam out by the east . The Bushmen say that the sun was once a man who shed light from his body , but only for a short distance , until ...
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... tribes of South India a curious distinction made ; rational beings , as gods and men , being grouped in a " high - caste or major gender , " and living animals and lifeless things in a " casteless or minor gender . " The languages of ...
... tribes of South India a curious distinction made ; rational beings , as gods and men , being grouped in a " high - caste or major gender , " and living animals and lifeless things in a " casteless or minor gender . " The languages of ...
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