manslayer
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The ceremony of consecrating a manslayer was elaborate.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
No manslayer then the wide world o’er When Mine and Thine are known no more.
From Poems By the Way by Morris, William
The temporary restrictions laid on a manslayer were probably dictated by a fear of his victim's ghost.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
Impecunious ghosts, hard fate of, 406 Impurity, ceremonial, of manslayer, 229 sq.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
No manslayer then the wide world o'er When Mine and Thine are known no more.
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William
