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The fountain : with jets of new meanings (1870)

Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Boston : William White & Co. ; New York : American News Co. · leaf 245

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e.If one of them falls aprey to the divinitysappetite for humanflesh, the rest of thefamily are forthwith tabooed as displeasing to the ob-ject of their reverent dread, and must expiate theiroffence by costly sacrifices, which may leave them pen-niless but will restore them to their caste-rights.… … BAD DREAMS OF ONE NOT A TEE-TOTALLER. OMENS AND SIGNS. 241 dictates of truth, while with abhorrence we hear theprayers of superstition. A firm believer in spiritualintercourse, I know, is not exempt from the bitterstruggles and horrible notions fixed in the religiousimagination by having once…

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