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Excerpt from The Golden Bough, Vol. 3 of 3: A Study in Magic and Religion
T be external Soul in Folk-tales, pp. 3 51-389. - Primitive notion that a person's life or soul can be deposited for safety somewhere outside of his body, p. 351 sq.; the external soul in Hindoo stories, pp. 352-358, in. Greek and Italian stories, pp. 358-363, in Slavonic stories, p. 363 sq., in German and Norse stories, pp. 364 369, in Celtic stories, pp. 369-375, in the stories of non-aryan peoples, pp. 37 5-389.
T lze external Soul in Folk-custom, pp. 389-446._soul temporarily removed from woman in childbed and from iron in hammering, p. 389 sq. Strength of people in their hair, p. 390 sq.; life of persons bound up with trees, pp. 391-394 sympathetic relation of this kind established by passing children through cleft trees as a cure for rupture, pp. 394-397 the passage of children for this purpose explained by parallel customs, pp. 397 406; some people related sympathetically to other things, but especially to animals, pp. 406-409 the z'a'filozz' serpent of the Zulu, p. 409 sq. The bush-soul of the Calabar negro, p. 410 sq.; the nagval of the Central American Indian, pp. 411-413; sex-totems among the Australians, pp. 413-416; a totem perhaps a sort of strong-box in which a savage keeps his soul or one of his souls, pp. 416-422; this theory would explain the common pretence of death and resurrection or a new birth at savage rites of initiation, pp. 422-445 totemism apparently intended to guard against a special danger, which only arises when sexual maturity has been attained.
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