Custom and MythLongmans, Green, and Company, 1893 - 312 pages |
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... woman of a man's own family . Slaves and captured brides would bring their native legends among alien peoples . But there is another possible way of explaining the resemblance ( granting that it is proved ) of the Greek and Australian ...
... woman of a man's own family . Slaves and captured brides would bring their native legends among alien peoples . But there is another possible way of explaining the resemblance ( granting that it is proved ) of the Greek and Australian ...
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... women into the families — all these things favoured the migration of myth . But the process lies behind history : we can only guess at it , we can seldom trace a popular legend on its travels . In the case of the cultivated ancient ...
... women into the families — all these things favoured the migration of myth . But the process lies behind history : we can only guess at it , we can seldom trace a popular legend on its travels . In the case of the cultivated ancient ...
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... women to keep out of the way . Just as Pentheus was killed ( with the approval of Theocritus ) because he profaned the rites of the women - worshippers of Dionysus , so , among the Australian blacks , men must , at their peril , keep ...
... women to keep out of the way . Just as Pentheus was killed ( with the approval of Theocritus ) because he profaned the rites of the women - worshippers of Dionysus , so , among the Australian blacks , men must , at their peril , keep ...
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... women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe , who call it bribbun , have a custom that , if seen by a woman , or shown by a man to a woman , the punishment to both is death . " ' Among the Kurnai , the sacred mystery of the turndun ...
... women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe , who call it bribbun , have a custom that , if seen by a woman , or shown by a man to a woman , the punishment to both is death . " ' Among the Kurnai , the sacred mystery of the turndun ...
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... women attach great sacredness to the very name of the turndun . They are much less instructed in their own theology than the men of the tribe . One woman believed she had heard Pundjel , the chief supernatural being , descend in a ...
... women attach great sacredness to the very name of the turndun . They are much less instructed in their own theology than the men of the tribe . One woman believed she had heard Pundjel , the chief supernatural being , descend in a ...
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