Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1918 — ALL HAVE DREADED GHOSTS [ARTICLE]

ALL HAVE DREADED GHOSTS

Spirits Play a Most Important Part In the Lives of Primitive Peoples , of the World. Ghosts are extremely anqfent. The people of old who dwelt in caves were well acquainted with them. : In the lives of primitive peoples of today a very Important part Is played by ghosts. Their world is thickly populated with tEem. When a man sleeps his phantasm, which cannot sleep, goes a-travellng. \ , With this phantasm he is quite familiar, because it visibly attends him ’in the daytime. It is his shadow. Savages are usually more or less afraid of shadows. ** To the savage, not only animate but even inanimate things have their ghosts., Concealed*withln every object Is a mystery —a noumenon lurking behind the phenomenon, as a psychologist wduld ‘express the idea. In any rock there is fire hidden. One has only to strike ft. with another piece of rock and sparks fly. . Among the most appalling spooks that hnunt the Iroquois is a carnivorous ghost that feeds on men. Echo, In theflr belief, is a phantom thaj xe'peats/their worfls mockingly among the -hills. Particularly malevolent are certain hnge heads, without bodies, that go flying about