Gradually — as with Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness" — a seemingly primitive spirit of place infects the seemingly superior outsider.
His first reflection of the primitive spirit was parallel to that of the Fauves and may have depended on them, if only partially.
From wolves to whales, primitive cultures worshiped the spirits of powerful animals.
According to a primitive Slavic belief, a forest spirit, leshy, regulates and assigns prey to hunters.
The art that remained after these colossal excisions included such items as folk songs that peasants might sing in the fields as they worked and pictures and stories either illustrating the tenets of primitive Christianity or fostering the spirit of Christianity by promoting brotherhood.
In one of the work's most striking insights, Cohn claimed that Joachim of Fiore, a 12th-century Calabrian abbot, anticipated Marxism, with Joachim's successive ages of the Father, the Son and the Spirit reappearing as primitive communism, class society and the final withering away of the state.
Like the demons and evil spirits of nature in primitive religions, the fallen angels were viewed as the agents of famine, disease, war, earthquakes, accidental deaths, and various mental or emotional disorders.
The centuries of civilization fall away and the brutal kill or be killed spirit that supposedly characterized primitive man emerges.
Knowing that "it would be only a matter of weeks," the tree is "wound in jewels" to "keep my spirits up" and sustained by "a primitive IV".
In the spirit of speech act theory, each communication primitive is of a certain type: informing, requesting, offering, and so on.
