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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 811 — Chapter VIII · THE IDEA OF THE SOUL

Joseph Ward Swain translation

Strehlow, I, pp. 53 f. In these stories, the ancestor begins by introducing himself into the body of the woman and causing there the troubles characteristic of pregnancy. Then he goes out, and only then does he leave his namatuna.

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