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That man was afraid of his own mother's ghost.
Upon returning to the hut, the man, together with several women, brought a bowl of water to the door, and requested me to wash my face and hands. Whilst at my ablutions the women commenced to beat me and brush me down with inao. Upon inquiring into the ideas which moved the people to act in this manner, I discovered that the washing was to purify me from all uncleanness contracted at the grave through contact with the ghost of the deceased, and tha...t the beating and brushing with inao was to drive away all evil influ- ences and diseases she may have aimed at me. The water and inao were the antidote against, and the cor- rective of, the evil intentions the spirit is supposed to have directed towards me out of her wicked spite for trespassing on her domain.
Now, looking at these facts and peculiar actions and ideas, we ask. What is their purport ? What is the under- lying principle? We find one fundamental article of religious belief at its very foundation — viz.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
That man was afraid of his own mother's ghost.
Upon returning to the hut, the man, together with several women, brought a bowl of water to the door, and requested me to wash my face and hands. Whilst at my ablutions the women commenced to beat me and brush me down with inao. Upon inquiring into the ideas which moved the people to act in this manner, I discovered that the washing was to purify me from all uncleanness contracted at the grave through contact with the ghost of the deceased, and tha...t the beating and brushing with inao was to drive away all evil influ- ences and diseases she may have aimed at me. The water and inao were the antidote against, and the cor- rective of, the evil intentions the spirit is supposed to have directed towards me out of her wicked spite for trespassing on her domain.
Now, looking at these facts and peculiar actions and ideas, we ask. What is their purport ? What is the under- lying principle? We find one fundamental article of religious belief at its very foundation — viz.
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