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" ... behind, to flash swiftly from place to place; mostly impalpable and invisible, yet also manifesting physical power, and especially appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness; continuing to... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 381
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1871
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The American Naturalist, Volume 46

Biology - 1912 - 780 pages
...of which it bears the likeness; continuing to exist and appear to men after the death of that body; able to enter into, possess and act in the bodies of other men, of animals and even of things." 2 These conclusions, drawn from the experience of dreaming, are not much more primitive than the opinions...
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The New Englander, Volume 33

Criticism - 1874 - 820 pages
...may be defined as follows : It is a thin unsubstantial human image, in its nature a sort of vapor, film, or shadow; the cause of life and thought in...bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things." (i, 387.) These conceptions are readily formed in the savage mind by crude speculation upon what appears...
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The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism

Epes Sargent - Spiritualism - 1880 - 408 pages
...mostly impalpable and invisible, yet also manifesting physical power, and especially appearing to man waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body...bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things." Mr. Stephen's notion, therefore, on which he bases so much of his abuse of Spiritualism and denial...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 1

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 878 pages
...appearing to men walcing or asleep as a phantasm separate from the bodv of which it bears the likeness, and able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things inanimate. When the sleeper awakens from a dream, he believes that his soul has really been %way, or...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 1

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 854 pages
...to men waiving or asleep as a phantasm separate from the Ixxly of which it bears the likeness, and able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of tilings inanimate. When the sleeper awakens from a dream, he believes that his soul has really been...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 33

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1874 - 820 pages
...races may be denned as follows : It is a thin unsubstantial human image, in its nature a sort of vapor, film, or shadow ; the cause of life and thought in...bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things." (i, 387.) These conceptions are readily formed in the savage mind by crude speculation upon what appears...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 1

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 912 pages
...appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness, and able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things inanimate. When the sleeper awakens from «• dream, he believes that his soul has really been away,...
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The Columbian Cyclopedia, Volume 1

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 956 pages
...appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness, and able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things inanimate. When the sleeper awakens from a dream, he believes that his soul has really been away, or...
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CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA

1901
...appearing to men waiting or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness, and able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things inanimate. When the sleeper awakens from a dream, he believes that his soul has really been nwav, or...
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The Soul--a Study of Past and Present Beliefs

Lonna Dennis Arnett - Soul - 1904 - 136 pages
...of which it bears the likeness ; continuing to exist and appear to men after the death of that body; able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things.'' This definition has wide application, is, in fact, a general definition, yet as one having universal...
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