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when the people returned from bathing, they found all the 

 meat eaten up.&quot; But by some peoples the ghost, conceived 

 as less material, is supposed to profit by the spirit of the 

 thing offered : instance the Mcaraguaris, by whom food &quot; was 

 tied to the boly before cremation;&quot; and instance the Ahts, 

 who &quot; burn blankets when burying their friends/ that they 

 may not be &quot; sent shivering to the world below.&quot; 



Ministrations to the double of the deceased, habitually 

 made at the funeral, are in many places continued here on 

 special occasions and here at regular intervals. For if the 

 ghost is not duly attended to, there may come mischief. 

 Men of various types visit their dead from time to time to 

 carry food, drink, etc. ; as the Gonds, by whom, at the graves 

 of honoured persons, &quot; offerings continue to be presented 

 annually for many years.&quot; Others, as the Ukiahs and Sanels 

 of California, &quot; sprinkle food about the favorite haunts of the 

 dead.&quot; Elsewhere, ghosts are supposed to come to places 

 where food is being prepared for them ; as instance Zululand. 

 Bishop Callaway quotes a Zulu as saying &quot; These dead men 

 are fools ! Why have they revealed themselves by killing 

 the child in this way, without telling me ? Go and fetch 

 the goat, boys.&quot; 



The habitats of these doubles of the dead, who are like the 

 living in their appetites and passions, are variously conceived. 

 Some peoples, as the Shillook of the White Nile, &quot; imagine 

 of the dead that they are lingering amongst the living and 

 still attend them.&quot; Other peoples, as for instance the 

 Santals, think that the ghosts of their ancestors inhabit the 

 adjacent woods. Among the Sonoras and the Mohaves 

 of North America, the cliffs and hills are their imagined 

 places of abode. &quot;The Land of the Blest&quot; says School- 

 craft, &quot; is not in the sky. We are presented rather . . . 

 with a new earth, or terrene abode.&quot; Where, as very 

 generally, the ghost is believed to return to the region 

 whence the tribe came, obstacles have to be overcome. 

 Some, as the Chibchas, tell of difficult rivers to be crossed 



