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Show out 11a above the eartFi surface o-nd aooia beneath It Tbe latter art generally mora desirable, according to tbe Eskimo beliefs. Exchange. i ' Ethlmo$ Strong for ' Dominion of Spirit The Eskimos belle-In spirits inhabiting in-habiting auluials and inanimate objects, ob-jects, but their chief deity la an old woman who resides in tbe ocean and may cause storms or withhold seals and other marine animals if any of her taboos are Infringed. Per power over these animals, says the United States bureau of ethnology, arises trout the fact that they are sections of her Angers cut off by her father at the time whan she first took up bnr abode In the sea. The chief duty of the shamans or medicine men Is to find who has Infringed the tnhoos and thus brought down the wrath of the supernatural beings and to compel the offender to make atonement by public confession. The central Eskimos sup. pose two spirits to reside In man's body, one of which stays with It when It dies and may temporarily enter the body of some . child, who fa then named after the departed, while the other spirit goes to one of several lands of souls. Some of the lands of |