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Souls .—i. Is something of the nature of a human soul 
believed in ? 2. What is its name ? is it associated with the 
breath, shadow, &c. ? 3. Does it depart when the body dies ? 
4. Does it go away from the body in sleep, trance, &c. ? 
5. Are any ceremonies performed to bring back the soul when 
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 ; has an 
individual several souls ? 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? 10. How are all the phe¬ 
nomena of dreams and visions accounted for? 11. Is there 
any belief in wraiths, apparitions of men seen at a dis¬ 
tance at the time of their death ? 
12. Are the lower animals considered to have souls? and 
are these of the same nature as human souls ? 13. Are 
animals treated and talked to as if human ? 14. Does any 
idea prevail of animals having human or even superhuman 
intelligence? 15. Are animals sacrificed at funerals ? and if 
so, is there a notion of their souls being transported, with 
their masters’, to the world after death ? 16. Are plants con¬ 
sidered to have life and consciousness like animals ? 17. Have 
plants souls ? 18. Is there any notion that objects, such as 
food, clothes, weapons, &c., have anything of the nature of 
souls belonging to them, or phantoms separable from them, 
which continue to exist after the natural object is destroyed ? 
19. What are the images of objects supposed to be which are 
seen in dreams, such as clothes, weapons, &c. ? 20. Are any 
funeral offerings given, that the souls of the dead may in any 
way become possessed of the objects or their phantoms ? 
21. Do the native notions of souls seem genuine, or have 
they adopted civilized ideas ? 
22. What becomes of the soul after death ? 23. Do some 
souls survive after death, but others perish ? 24. Can a 
surviving soul die a second death or be destroyed ? 25. What 
reason do the people give for believing that the soul does not 
perish with the body ? 26. Do they think that the souls of 
the dead visit the living? 27. When the figures of the dead 
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