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the patient is sick or dying from its absence ? 6. What is the 
soul considered to be ? what is its form, substance, voice, power, 
&c. ? 7. Is there more than one kind of soul ? 8. Are souls 
ever driven away by beating &c., shut up, let out at holes, 
&c. ? 9. Can souls appear in more than one shape P 10. How 
are all the phenomena of dreams and visions accounted for ? 
11. Is there any belief in wraiths, i. e. apparitions of men seen 
at a distance at the time of their death ? 
12. Is there, or has there been, a practice of wives or slaves 
being put to death at the burial of a man ? 13. Is the purpose 
that their souls shall accompany him in the future state ? 
14. Are there any practices which seem derived from such a 
custom ? for instance, is there a pretence of killing attendants, 
a custom that a widow may not marry again, &c. ? 15. Are 
the lower animals considered to have souls ? and are these of 
the same nature as human souls? 16. Are animals treated 
and talked to as if human ? 17. Does any idea prevail of 
animals having human or even superhuman intelligence ? 
18. Are animals sacrificed at funerals ? and if so, is there a 
notion of their souls being transported, with their master’s, to 
the world after death ? 19. Are plants considered to have 
life and consciousness like animals ? 20. Have plants souls ? 
21. Is there any notion that objects, such as food, clothes, 
weapons, &c., have any thing of the nature of souls belonging 
to them, or phantoms separable from them, which continue to 
exist after the natural object is destroyed ? 22. What are the 
images of objects supposed to be which are seen in dreams, 
such as clothes, weapons, &c. ? 23. Are any funeral offerings 
given, that the souls of the dead may in any way become 
possessed of the objects or their phantoms ? 24. Are food, 
money, ornaments, &c. placed near the corpse or in the coffin 
with any such idea ? 25. Do the native notions of souls seem 
genuine, or have they adopted civilized ideas ? 
26. What becomes of the soul after death ? 27. Do some 
souls survive after death, but others perish ? 28. Can a 
surviving soul die a second death or be destroyed ? 29. What 
reason do the people give for believing that the soul does not 
perish with the body ? 30. Do they think that the souls of 
the dead visit the living ? 31. When the figures of the dead 
are seen in dreams or as apparitions, are these souls ? 32. Can 
only one person in a company see them, or all ? 33. Are 
survivors in fear of ghosts of the dead ? and do they take any 
means to get rid of them or keep them off ? 
34. Do ghosts of the dead haunt houses or burial-places ? 
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