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The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 74 — Chapter III

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W. T. Pritchard, op. cit. p. 107. Similarly some people had pig's heart for their god, or the embodiment of their god, and they scrupulously avoided eating pigs' hearts lest pigs' hearts should grow in their bodies and so cause their death. See G. Turner, Samoa, p. 72.

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