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The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiry

Note 482 — Chapter XX · ART AND MAGIC

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As regards this almost universal practice see the collection of instances in Tylor, Early History, pp. 277-279; and Primitive Culture, ii. p. 146; Peschel, Völkerkunde, p. 274; Stoll, Suggestion und Hypnotismus, pp. 166, 167. Further instructive instances in Brinton, Nagualism, p. 11 (Modern Mexico); Castréu, Nordiska Resor. i. p. 137 (Russian Lapps); Casalis, The Basutos, p. 280; Lumholtz, Among Cannibals, p. 281 (Australia). Winterbottom, Native Africans of Sierra Leone, i. pp. 252, 253, adduces some ethnological examples, and refers for comparison to Paracelsus.

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