Gods and devils of mankind : the whole dark picture strikingly contrasted with the beauty and purity of revealed religion / by Frank S. Dobbins ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams (1897)
Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton), 1855-1916 · [S.l.] · leaf 349
air is full of them, the earth teems with them;fire is not free from their presence, and human beingsare possessed by them. To them, also, they attribute the sorrows and thesufferings, themis fortunes,and, in mostcases, the deathsof mankind. As elsewhere,there are menwho take advan-tage of the… … THE DARK CONTINENT. <,aq an idol out of the ground, and would do it the next day.During the night they dug a hole, in which they placed alot of dried peas and an idols head and shoulders. Theycovered all up carefully. Just before daylight they tooksome water and poured it upon the peas. The…
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