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Science with its measuring instruments would "prove" the exact opposite. It is impossible to exaggerate the formative power of this living pulse, this strong inward feeling for the perfection of one's own type. The feeling for race-beauty—so opposite to the conscious taste of ripe urbans for intellectual-individual traits of beauty—is immensely strong in primitive men, and for that very reason never emerges into their consciousness. But such a feeling is race-forming. It undoubtedly molded the warrior- and hero-type of a nomad tribe more and definitely on
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noun meaning "inadvertence" or as a verb "to provide") as it is usually called, is the belief that a sudden fear of some object or animal in a pregnant woman can cause her child to bear the mark of it.
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1366:Rainmaking
1269:First-foot
1229:Cramp-ring
1219:Bullroarer
1061:Wolfssegen
1055:Witch post
949:Cornicello
873:Palad khik
853:Pagtatawas
277:References
246:Lamarckism
194:Aethiopica
187:Literature
181:postpartum
91:depression
1437:Apophenia
1401:Threshold
1204:Black cat
993:Need-fire
883:Nang Kwak
833:Albularyo
818:Feng shui
813:Fan death
758:Navaratna
728:Chhaupadi
576:Gris-gris
509:Talismans
356:1018-8665
266:Sooterkin
251:Mary Toft
64:emotional
1563:Folklore
1457:Debunker
988:Mooncalf
944:Cimaruta
898:Jin Chan
634:Curupira
619:Carranca
614:BrujerĂa
595:Americas
494:Evil eye
364:31362285
271:Telegony
256:Mooncalf
215:See also
165:Versehen
118:Versehen
114:folklore
108:Folklore
83:elephant
71:pregnant
67:stimulus
47:Medicine
18:Versehen
1430:Related
1163:27 Club
1071:General
808:Omamori
783:Akabeko
753:Muhurta
723:(ghost)
624:Cooties
201:and in
95:sadness
56:medical
1341:Nelson
917:Europe
878:Takrut
838:Barang
828:Agimat
733:Churel
559:Africa
489:Amulet
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122:German
1356:Penny
1234:Curse
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858:Pasma
843:Kulam
803:Ofuda
763:Nazar
721:Bhoot
664:Susto
639:Djucu
581:Sampy
523:Lists
151:satyr
75:fetus
1301:Jinx
863:Usog
848:Lihi
688:Asia
669:Veve
571:Buda
504:Omen
499:Luck
385:ISBN
360:PMID
352:ISSN
311:ISBN
221:Lihi
89:and
1306:Hex
1179:666
344:doi
340:236
207:by
197:of
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