The Primitive Ethics of a Savage People

john9221 · Wysłany: Czw 0:25, 10 Mar 2011

whose soul was supposed to leave the grave and
absorb the lingering vitality of a freshly dead person. There was a woman
some years ago
of whom the story is told that she made no secret of doing this
and that once on the death
of a neighbour she gave notice that she would go in the night and eat the vitality. The
friends of the deceased therefore kept watch in the house
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where the corpse lay
and at dead of night heard a scratching at the door
followed by a
rustling noise close by the body. One of them threw a stone and seemed to hit the unknown
thing; and in the morning the
talamaur
was found with a bruise on her arm
which she
confessed was caused by a stone thrown at her whilst she was eating the vitality. Such a
woman would feel a morbid delight in the dread which she inspired
and would also be
secretly rewarded by some whose covert spite she gratified.
In his Ashanti ProverbsTranslated from the Original (The Primitive Ethics of a Savage
People)
p. 48Mr. R. Sutherland Rattray speaks of the
Asasabonsama monster of
human shape
which living far in the depths of the forest
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