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perish with the body ? 26. Do they think that the souls of 
the dead visit the living ? 27. When the figures of the dead 
are seem 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 ? 39. Is there moral reward or punish¬ 
ment in such transmigration, the good man going up and the 
bad man down in the scale of existence ? 40. If transmigra¬ 
tion 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 particu- i 
lar 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 j 
Odysseus) descending into Hades and returning, like the Sun ? ( j 
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 ? 
