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or inhabited by gods worshipped ? ioi. Are blocks of wood, 
stones, &c., considered such habitations of deity and wor¬ 
shipped ? 102. Are they prayed to? sacrificed to? have 
they temples and priests ? 
Idolatry. —103. Are images made to represent demons, 
and deities ? 104. Do they receive worship by prayer and 
sacrifice? 105. Have they temples and priests? 106. Do 
they consume food, give oracular answers, speak, nod, wink, 
bleed, walk about, and act otherwise ? and how do they do 
this ? 107. Are idols mere representations of spiritual beings ? 
108. Are the images treated well, or beaten and abused, 
according to their supposed behaviour to their worshippers ? 
109. Is there difference of opinion among priests and wor¬ 
shippers as to the nature of the idol, whether it is to be 
adored as a symbol only of the deity, or as itself divine ? 
Spirits and Demons. — no. Is the world full of spiritual 
beings? in. Are some good and some evil? 112. Does 
this mean that they are kind to friends and hostile to enemies ? 
113. Have some men, and not others, the gift of seeing spirits ? 
114. Do animals see them when men do not? 115. Are 
persons often troubled by apparitions of demons? 116. Do 
they come especially in the dark ? and is fire or light a means 
of driving them away? 117. Are they driven away from 
houses or villages by priests or with ceremonies ? and is there 
a periodical ceremony? 118. Have any persons familiar 
spirits ? and what do they do for them ? 119. Have some or 
all men guardian-spirits who attend them ? 120. Is each man 
specially attended by a good or evil spirit? 120^. Are 
disease and death thought to be caused by spirits ? 
Nature-Spirits. Worship of Plants and A nimals. — 121. Are 
there spirits specially attached to natural objects ? 122. Are 
there spirits of mountains, rocks, &c. ; are there spirits 
of pools, wells, springs and streams, rapids and cataracts, 
&c. ? 123. Do they drown men? 124. Are offerings given 
to them? 125. Are there spirits of trees? if so, are they 
like souls of the trees, or spirits who dwell in them ? 
126. Are groves and woods favourite places of worship 
or sacrifice ? if so, is the worship given to tree-spirits 
