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Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1

Note 50 — LEGENDS OF THE HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS.

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They (the Chepewyans) have some faint notion of transmigration of the soul; so that if a child be born with teeth, they instantly imagine, from its premature appearance, that it bears a resemblance to some person who had lived to an advanced age, and that he has assumed a renovated life, with these extraordinary symptoms.—Mackenzie, cxix.

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