 | American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...only by two of them, the figure of a relative, left ill at home ; they exclaimed, the figure vanished, and on the return of the party it appeared that the sick man had died about the time of the * In Knv.ii the souls of the dead are supposed to be embodied in pigeons or crows. " Thus when the... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1874 - 528 pages
...only by two of them, the figure of a relative left ill at home; they exclaimed, the figure vanished, and on the return of the party it appeared that the sick man had died about the time of the vision. 3 Examining the position of the doctrine of wraiths among the higher races, we find it especially prominent... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pages
...only by two of them, the figure of a relative, left ill at home ; they exclaimed, the figure vanished, and on the return of the party it appeared that the sick man had died about the time of the vision." Folk-lore examples, says the same writer, abound in Silesia and the Tyrol, where the gift of wraithseeing... | |
 | John Fiske - Folklore - 1882 - 276 pages
...only by two of them, the figure of a relative, left ill at home ; they exclaimed, the figure vanished, and on the return of the party it appeared that the...who " thought she saw her own father look in at the church- window at the moment he was dying in his own house." The belief in the " death-fetch," like... | |
 | Literature - 1893 - 942 pages
...only by two of them, the figure of a relative left ill at home ; they exclaimed, the figure vanished, and, on the return of the party, it appeared that...the sick man had died about the time of the vision." J It is superfluous to add that hundreds of living, civilised English men and women tell similar tales... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Folklore - 1894 - 410 pages
...only by two of them, the figure of a relative left ill at home. They exclaimed, the figure vanished, and, on the return of the party, it appeared that...the sick man had died about the time of the vision.' A traveller in New Zealand illustrates the native belief in the death-wraith by an amusing anecdote.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1894 - 906 pages
...only by two of them, the figure of a relative left ill at home ; they exclaimed, the figure vanished, and, on the return of the party, it appeared that the sick man had died • Tylor, " Primitive Culture." i. 440. " Proceedings of the Society of Psychical Research, 1892."... | |
 | American literature - 1894 - 880 pages
...only by two of them, the figure of a relative left ill at home ; they exclaimed, the figure vanished, and, on the return of the party, it appeared that the sick man had died »Tylor, " Primitive Culture," i. 440. "Proceedings of the Society of Psychical Research, 1892." f... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 380 pages
...on the return of the party it appeared that the sick man had died about the time of the vision." 1 The belief in wraiths has survived into modern times,...who " thought she saw her own father look in at the church window at the moment he was dying in his own house." The belief in the " death-fetch," like... | |
 | 1914 - 404 pages
...relative left ill at home ; they cried out, the figure vanished, and they returned home to discover that the sick man had died about the time of the vision. 1 A Maori chief had been long absent on the war-path. One day he entered his wife's hut and sat mute... | |
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... expected, but if the face be seen he is dead already. A party of Maoris (one of whom told the story) were seated round a fire in the open air, when there appeared, seen only by two of them, the figure of a relative, left ill at home ; they exclaimed,... 
