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Story: Snakes and spirits of the dead
Title
Snakes and spirits of the dead
Collection
Summary
People become spirits when they die. A dead man has a mere spirit as well as an other which is a snake. Spirit-animals live near graves. If a man dies he becomes a snake. Men also become snakes when bitten by them ('and his snake is a spirit'). If a woman dies she becomes a mere spirit unless she dies of a snakebite in which case she becomes a snake. Mere spirits go away.
Comments
1) See also A snake found near a grave and A certain snake, which, by lying upon its back, announces a death in the family; and must not, in these circumstances, be killed, 2) This story is found in Book XI & XII-12
Contributors
Date
Ocober 1881
Categories
Keywords
death (snakes and spirits of the dead) , death (different kinds of spirits) , death (different ways of dying) , death ('mere' spirits go away) , death (spirit-animals live near graves) , death (a dead man has a mere spirit as well as another which is a snake) , death (and spirits) , death (life after) , death (and spirit-animals) , death (from elephant) , death (from snakebite) , death (and the heart that aches) , death (and black snakes) , death (dead men become snakes) , death (women become mere spirits) , death (women become snakes if they die of snakebite) , snake (snakes and spirits of the dead) , snake (spirit-animals) , snake (black) , snake (a dead man has a mere spirit as well as other which is a snake) , snake (men become after death) , snake (women become snakes if they die of snakebite) , grave (snakes and spirits of the dead) , grave (a person's 'earth') , grave (spirit animals live near graves) , spirits (and snakes) , spirits (and graves) , spirits (mere) , spirits (animal-) , spirits (snake-) , spirits (of men) , spirits (of women) , spirits (that go away) , spirits (that stay at the grave) , animals (-spirit) , animals (spirit-animals are found near graves) , animals (of the dead) , animals (spirit-snake) , women (snakes and spirits of the dead) , women (become mere spirits) , women (become snakes if they die of snakebite) , men (a dead man has a mere spirit as well as another which is a snake) , men (dead, become snakes) , heart (that aches) , heart (and death) , heart (snakes and spirits of the dead)
Story Pages
9956v-9957v
