 | John Fiske - 1882 - 276 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,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1882 - 728 sider
...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 sendee of the gods. If a house is taken ' down, or any way destroyed, its immortal part will ' find... | |
 | C. E. van Kesteren, R. A. van Sandick, J. E. de Meyier - 1884 - 896 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... | |
 | C. E. van Kesteren, R. A. van Sandick, J. E. de Meyier - 1884 - 842 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...immortal part will find a situation on the plains ol Bolotoo; and, to confirm this doctrine, the Fiji people can show you a sort of natural well, or... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1885 - 308 sider
...is broken, it has its reward there ; nay, has 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." Logically, the savage who believes that in the other world " The hunter still the deer pursues, The... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1898 - 470 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... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 380 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 Burnett Tylor - 1903 - 536 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...find a situation on ' the plains of Bolotoo ; and, to confirn this doctrine, the Fiji people can show you a sort of natural well, or deep hole in the ground,... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1905 - 114 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 hunter still the doer pursues, The hunter... | |
 | Alfred Ernest Crawley - 1909 - 324 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 1 See above, pp. 9, 93. well, or deep hole in the ground, at one of their... | |
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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... 
