This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...Americans, after E. Seler. Cf. fig. 241. One must be struck by the great resemblance to fig. 245. Only instead of the snake we have now a quadruped which is not bitten by a man, nor on its part does it bite at the raven, s head, but seizes the man with its mouth. without his knowledge, to leave him and roam freely ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...Americans, after E. Seler. Cf. fig. 241. One must be struck by the great resemblance to fig. 245. Only instead of the snake we have now a quadruped which is not bitten by a man, nor on its part does it bite at the raven, s head, but seizes the man with its mouth. without his knowledge, to leave him and roam freely about independently of the body. But it may also be captured and carried off. Evil spirits may, perhaps, have induced it to leave the body, and then captured it.In that case the man falls ill, and if the soul does not return he dies. After death the soul divides into two parts--the soul's soul, and the soul's body. But the latter is again a compound being, consisting (1) of the soul's bony remains, (2) of the soul's hair-tips, and (3) of the soul's Figs 248 and 249. The front side of the raven, s rattle. Cf. figs. 241 and 243 after E. Seier. In each case the face represents the sun. finger-nails. The soul's soul has a specially interest-ing fate. As soon as the soul's soul and the soul's body have separated after the man's death, the former tries to reach the Levu-liau. But as it cannot do so until the tiwah, or feast of the dead, is celebrated, it diverts itself meanwhile after its fashion. Its first business is to appear in dreams to the widow, or to the widower, or to the brother or the parents. It does this, however, not after the sensible manner of a kindly-disposed appari-tion of the deceased. Anything but that! To the survivors the deceased appears as a cripple, a criminal, a craven; or it kills its relations, or it greatly enriches them, all in a dream, so that, on waking, the survivors wonder at the remarkable and quite new exhibition of the qualities of the deceased. Or, perhaps, sickness breaks out in the village, or a weird rattling is h.
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