. La storia dell'umanità . IT. Le visite pagate dai soulsof viventi sono spesso ostacolate da un puttingon una maschera, che taglierebbe il soulsreturn. Anime che non rimangono unitedwith la divinità, né possono essere propiziati bysacrifices, vagano intorno alle case di notte come fantasmi. Queste anime vagabondanti possono essere ascoltate nella ruggine delle foglie e nel thesurge delle onde, o viste da fantasmi asciti al chiaro di luna. Anime di persone che si sono ammalate a distanza sono state attirate da spalinga panno bianco, e se un gracopper o un'intravita alla chiamata, si è ritenuto che il fine era stato raggiunto. La vecchiaia spesso è ottaedre

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. The history of mankind . it. Visits paid by soulsof living people are often hindered by puttingon a mask, which would cut off the soulsreturn. Souls which neither remain unitedwith the deity, nor can be propitiated bysacrifices, roam about the houses at nightas ghosts. These wandering souls may beheard in the rustle of the leaves and thesurge of the waves, or seen by moonlight aswhite phantoms. Souls of persons who haddied at a distance were enticed by spreadinga white cloth, and if a grasshopper or an antcame to the call, it was deemed that the endhad been attained. Old age often obtainedreverence from a wish to be on good termswith the soul which was soon to depart.The deeper meaning of the widespreadcustom of sending wives and servants toaccompany the dead into eternity, lay in thewish to give the departed soul an escort, or to send at least one soul as protec-tion, in case it stood in need thereof. In this way a mother, grandmother, oraunt was strangled when a child died, that the infant soul might not be. ^ Child-mummy on the bier used for burial, fromTorres Straits—one-sixth real size. (BerlinMuseum.) THE HISTORY OF MANKIND unprotected. Provision also had to be made for the fights which, as we haveseen, take place on the road to Hades. It is only after several days, when itmay be assumed that the soul of the corpse has been turned into a spirit, thatthe mourning begins ; its object being even to this day to start the spirit uponthe road into the next world, which it is perhaps unwilling to take. In viewof the possibility of a periodic return, care is taken to renew the noise at statedtimes. Great variety prevails in modes of interment. In the west the body is keptat hand as long as possible ; and at least portions of it, especially the skull, andabove all the lower jaw, are prepared for permanent conservation. On the Maclaycoast of New Guinea the corpse has usually to be dried before the fire in the hut.In other islands it is hung up in mats between the br

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