 Wysłany: Czw 0:25, 10 Mar 2011 Temat postu: The Primitive Ethics of a Savage
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absorb the lingering vitality of a freshly dead person. There was a woman some years ago of whom the story is told that she made no secret of doing this and that once on the death of a neighbour she gave notice that she would go in the night and eat the vitality. The friends of the deceased therefore kept watch in the house {p. 259} where the corpse lay and at dead of night heard a scratching at the door followed by a rustling noise close by the body. One of them threw a stone and seemed to hit the unknown thing; and in the morning the talamaur was found with a bruise on her arm which she confessed was caused by a stone thrown at her whilst she was eating the vitality. Such a woman would feel a morbid delight in the dread which she inspired and would also be secretly rewarded by some whose covert spite she gratified. In his Ashanti ProverbsTranslated from the Original (The Primitive Ethics of a Savage People) p. 48Mr. R. Sutherland Rattray speaks of the Asasabonsama monster of human shape which living far in the depths of the forest is only occa louisvuittonoutletbizcom-yilai: nike high heels nike heels for women louis vuitton outlet http://leetstreams.com/profile_blogs/yixian005/&action=view&id=193707 |
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