Ritual And Belief Studies in the History of Religion
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In one case in Tonga when a king died orders were issued that one hundred fingers should be cut ofF.^ In Montana, one of the north-western states of America, on the execution of four aborigines for murder in December 1890, they were mourned by two squaws, who scalped their children. One of them gashed her own face, while the other cut off two of her fingers and threw them into the grave.^ When a Charrua dies his widow and his married daughters and sisters amputate each of them a finger-joint, b...esides inflicting other wounds on themselves.^ The illustration of practices like these might be multi- plied indefinitely. The same reason holds good for them all. In the lower culture grief at a death is often in- tensified by fear — on the one hand, of an accusation of witchcraft — on the other hand, of the ill-will of the deceased himself, who is naturally disgusted to find himself dead. Against the latter danger at any rate the forlorn condition of the survivors, stiff with wounds, thrust like him from the company of their friends and fellow-tribesmen, made to wear a distinctive garb, often in rags or dirt, wailing, watching, fasting, would con- stitute an appeal that even the ghost of a savage would feel hard to resist.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In one case in Tonga when a king died orders were issued that one hundred fingers should be cut ofF.^ In Montana, one of the north-western states of America, on the execution of four aborigines for murder in December 1890, they were mourned by two squaws, who scalped their children. One of them gashed her own face, while the other cut off two of her fingers and threw them into the grave.^ When a Charrua dies his widow and his married daughters and sisters amputate each of them a finger-joint, b...esides inflicting other wounds on themselves.^ The illustration of practices like these might be multi- plied indefinitely. The same reason holds good for them all. In the lower culture grief at a death is often in- tensified by fear — on the one hand, of an accusation of witchcraft — on the other hand, of the ill-will of the deceased himself, who is naturally disgusted to find himself dead. Against the latter danger at any rate the forlorn condition of the survivors, stiff with wounds, thrust like him from the company of their friends and fellow-tribesmen, made to wear a distinctive garb, often in rags or dirt, wailing, watching, fasting, would con- stitute an appeal that even the ghost of a savage would feel hard to resist.
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