are seen in dreams or as apparitions, are these souls ? 
28. Can only one person in a company see them, or all ? 
29. Are survivors in fear of ghosts of the dead ? and do they 
take any means to get rid of them or keep them off ? 
30. Do ghosts of the dead haunt houses or burial-places ? 
31. Does it matter whether the body was properly buried or 
not ? 32. Is food set out for the souls of the dead ? 33. Are 
there annual feasts in honour of the dead ? 34. If so, are 
the souls considered to consume the food ? and how, materially 
or spiritually ? 
Future Life. —35. Is there any doctrine of transmigration of 
souls ? 36. Are the souls of the dead supposed to be re-born 
in children ? 37. Do men live successive lives in different 
human bodies? 38. Do souls transmigrate into animals, 
vegetables, inert bodies ? 38a. Is the species of animals 
considered as kin to the family of which a member has thus 
transmigrated ? 39. Is there moral reward or punishment 
in such transmigration, the good man going up and the bad 
man down in the scale of existence ? 40. If transmigration 
is believed in, what do the people give as their reason for 
belief in it ? 41. Is there a special locality where the souls of 
the dead live in the future life ? 42. Are there stories of men 
going thither and returning to give an account of it ? 43. Is it 
a material or phantasmal region ? 44. Is there any particular 
road or starting-place where the souls set off? 45. Is any 
connection to be noticed between the West or Sunset and the 
Land of the Dead? any myth of a divine personage (such as 
Odysseus) descending into Hades and returning, like the Sun? 
46. Is the Land of the Dead in some distant country, moun¬ 
tain, or island ? has any water to be crossed ? and how, by 
boat, or bridge, or swimming? 47. Is there an under-world 
or Hades ? is it a cavernous region, gloomy, or fiery ? 48. Are 
volcanoes the mouths communicating with it? 49. Is there 
a heavenly region of the dead in or above the sky ? 
50. What is the fate of souls after death? 51. Is life in 
the next world much like this, with land, houses, and occupa¬ 
tions? 52. Is it looked forward to as dismal or beautiful? 
53. Is there a difference in men’s conditions in the next life? 
