 Oh! my child, had I known you were going to die ! Of what use is it for me to survive you?' These and other doleful cries may be heard two hundred yards from the house ; and as you go near you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic expressions...  An Introduction to the History of Religion - Side 181af Frank Byron Jevons - 1902 - 443 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Greenwood - 1864 - 506 sider
...doleful cries may be heard two hundred yards from the house ; and as you go near you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic expressions of grief,...this they called an "offering of blood for the dead." Every one acquaint^ with the historical parts of the Bible will here observe remarkable coincidences.... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1864 - 430 sider
...two * 1 Thees. iv. 13-18. hundred yards from the house ; and, as you go near, you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic expressions of grief,...head with stones till the blood runs, and this they call an offering of blood for the dead." How different the scenes which are witnessed in times of bereavement... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1871 - 442 sider
...near, you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic expressions of grief, such as rending the garments, tearing the hair, thumping the face and...head with stones till the blood runs, and this they call an ' offering of blood ' for the dead."« 25) 26. he went in," taking others with Him,6 as witnetset,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 850 sider
...case distinctly asserted. Turner tells us that a Samoan ceremony on the occasion of a decease, was " beating the head with stones till the blood runs ;...they called ' an offering of blood' for the dead." § 90. All these various observances, then, imply the conviction that death is a long-suspended animation.... | |
 | 1882 - 526 sider
...near, you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic expressions of grief, such as rending the garments, tearing the hair, thumping the face and...head with stones till the blood runs, and this they call an ' offering of blood ' for the dead." Among the sounds was one of loud wailing coming out of... | |
 | J L. Nye - 1882 - 146 sider
...near, you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic expressions of grief, such as rending the garments, tearing the hair, thumping the face and...head with stones till the blood runs, and this they call an ' offering of blood ' for the dead." ix. 25. — He 1went in, and took her by the hand. RV... | |
 | 1885 - 434 sider
...you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic ex. pressions of grief, such as rending the garments, tearing the hair, thumping the face and...head with stones till the blood runs, and this they call an " offering of blood" for the dead." ' AMONG the sounds was one of loud wailing coming out of... | |
 | Frank Byron Jevons - 1902 - 500 sider
...are 1 Turner, Polynesia, 93. 3 Ellis, Tshi-speaking Peoples, 268. 3 Supra, p. 76. * Supra, p. 103. * Supra, p. 171. accompanied by the most frantic expressions...Bible will here observe remarkable coincidences." * But offerings of the worshipper's blood are, as we have seen,2 made to gods, and the scars which... | |
 | 1855 - 500 sider
...doleful cries may be heard two hundred yards from the honse ; and, as you go near, you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic expressions of grief,...eyes, burning the body with small piercing firebrands, and beating the head with ttones tiU the blood rnns. Every one acquainted with the historical parts... | |
 | William Graham Sumner, Albert Galloway Keller, Maurice Rea Davie - 1927 - 1460 sider
...is survivalistic. The Samoans exhibited the most frantic expressions of grief, such as rending the garments, tearing the hair, thumping the face and...firebrands, beating the head with stones till the blood ran. This they called an "offering of blood" for the dead. "While a dead body was in the house no food... | |
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