 | George Alexander Wilken - 1912 - 600 sider
...equally its reward ; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its...and, to confirm this doctrine, the Fiji people can show you a sort of natural well, or deep hole in the ground, at one of their islands, across the bottom... | |
 | Robert Vane Russell - 1916 - 570 sider
...equally its reward ; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men and hogs and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its...part will find a situation on the plains of Bolotoo. The Finns believed that all inanimate objects had their haltia or soul." 2 The Malays think that animals,... | |
 | Lewis Spence - 1920 - 516 sider
...equally its reward ; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods. The Fijians can further show you a sort of natural well, or deep hole in the ground, at one of their... | |
 | William Graham Sumner, Albert Galloway Keller, Maurice Rea Davie - 1927 - 894 sider
...equally its reward; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its...part will find a situation on the plains of Bolotoo." The Bering Strait Eskimo have an elaborate "bladder-festival" to propitiate the souls of slain animals;211... | |
 | 1872 - 898 sider
...other contemporary savages, when questioned, expressly declare that this is their belief. "If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods." The Algonquins told Charlevoix that since hatchets and kettles have shadows, no less than men and women,... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1996 - 106 sider
...shadows must pass along with human shadows into the spirit-land " ; or, as the Fijians say, " if an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods." Logically, the savage who believes that in the other world The huiitor still the doer pursues, The... | |
 | 1881 - 964 sider
...Fijians and other contemporary savages expressly declare that this is their belief : " If an axe or chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods." In this, as I have elsewhere urged, we see how simple and consistent is the logic which guides the... | |
 | 1881 - 888 sider
...Fijians and other contemporary savages expressly declare that this is their belief : " If an axe or chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods." In this, as I have elsewhere urged, we see how simple and consistent is the logic which guides the... | |
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If an animal or a plant die, its soul immediately goes to Bolotoo; if a stone or any other substance is broken, immortality is equally its reward; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn... 
