 | Robert Henry Codrington - Ethnology - 1891 - 456 pages
...the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature ; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation. When one has got it he can use it and direct it, but its force may break... | |
 | Folklore - 1891 - 690 pages
...the ordinary power of man outside the common process of nature'1 ; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation. When one has got it he can use it and direct it, but its force may break... | |
 | Henry Hutchinson Montgomery - Melanesia - 1896 - 332 pages
...the ordinary power of men outside the common processes of nature ; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation. When one has got it he can use it and direct it, but its force may break... | |
 | Paul Carus - Philosophy - 1905 - 750 pages
...effect everything which is beyond the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation." And again :ia "It is a power or influence not physical and in a way supernatural... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - Fetishism - 1906 - 128 pages
...the ordinary power of man, outside the common processes of nature; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation. When one has got it he can use it and direct it, but its force may break... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1907 - 1060 pages
...outside the common processes of nature ; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself ta persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation.' And again : ' It is a power or influence not physical, and in a way supernatural... | |
 | Robert Wood Williamson - Ethnology - 1914 - 366 pages
...the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature ; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation. All spirits1 have it, as also do most ghosts and some men. If a man has... | |
 | Robert Wood Williamson - Ethnology - 1914 - 368 pages
...the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature ; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation. All spirits1 have it, as also do most ghosts and some men. If a man has... | |
 | Karl Böhm - Ethnology - 1914 - 398 pages
...the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature ; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation. All spirits1 have it, as also do most ghosts and some men. If a man has... | |
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The Melanesian mind is entirely possessed by the belief in a supernatural power or influence, called almost universally mana. This is what works to effect everything which is beyond the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature ; it... 
