 It is a thin unsubstantial human image, in its nature a sort of vapour, film, or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal owner, past or present;...  Calcutta Review - Page 2441872Full view - About this book
 | 1912 - 772 pages
...image, in its nature a sort of vapor, film or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal...especially appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantom separate from the body of which it bears the likeness; continuing to exist and appear to men... | |
 | 1912 - 772 pages
...image, in its nature a sort of vapor, film or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates ; independently possessing the personal...especially appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantom separate from the body of which it bears the likeness; continuing to exist and appear to men... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - 532 pages
...soul, or ghost soul, — an unsubstantial human image or shadow, — the cause of life and thought, independently possessing the personal consciousness...volition of its corporeal owner, past or present, and able to leave the body and flash swiftly from place to place. This conception of spiritual beings... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - 552 pages
...soul, or ghost soul, — an unsubstantial human image or shadow, — the cause of life and thought, independently possessing the personal consciousness...volition of its corporeal owner, past or present, and able to leave the body and flash swiftly from place to place. This conception of spiritual beings... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1880 - 408 pages
...in its nature a sort of vapor, film, or shadow — the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal...manifesting physical power, and especially appearing to man waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness ; able to... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 408 pages
...in its nature a sort of vapor, film, or shadow — the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal...mostly impalpable and invisible, yet also manifesting phj-sical power, and especially appearing to man waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1889 - 532 pages
...image, in its nature a sort of vapour, film, or shadow ; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates ; independently possessing the personal...swiftly from place to place ; mostly impalpable and in- • visible, yet also manifesting physical power, and especially • appearing to men waking or... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - 1889 - 252 pages
...apparitional soul, or ghost-soul — an unsubstantial human image or shadow — the cause of life and thought, independently possessing the personal consciousness...volition of its corporeal owner, past or present, and able to leave the body and flash swiftly from place to place. This conception of spiritual beings... | |
 | Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1892 - 636 pages
...sort of vapor, film, or shadow ; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates ; . . . capable of leaving the body far behind, to flash swiftly...place to place ; mostly impalpable and invisible, yet appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantasm . . . . ; continuing to exist and to appear to men... | |
 | 1893 - 454 pages
...image, in its nature a sort of vapour film or shadow : the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates : independently possessing the personal...owner, past or present : capable of leaving the body f«i behind, to flash swiftly from place to place : mostly impalpable and invisible, yet also manifesting... | |
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