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or inhabited by gods worshipped ? 101. 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. —110. Is the world full of spiritual 
beings? 111. 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? 120a. Are disease 
and death thought to be caused by spirits ? 
Nature-Spirits. Worship of Plants and Animals.- -121. Are 
there spirits especially 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 wor¬ 
ship or sacrifice ? if so, is the worship given to tree-spirits or 
