Show TiE INDWELLING SIWITS OF lIEN The Xavnjo believes that there are three entitle in man I The corporeal cor-poreal man 2 his soul the vehicle of Independent personal existence which at the death of the body survive and continues its career in the land spirits 3 lib spiritual hotly which Dr Matthews terms his third element The Tshl peaklng negroes of time Gold Coast that is the Athantis Fantis WasKiws Garnans and several other tb belIeve similarly in three entities I Tho corporeal man J his soul or ghost 3 the Indwelling spirit of the living man which they term his Ira Now though the Ira has frequently been confounded with the I soul or ghost it Is essentially distinct dis-tinct The soulor ghost only comes into being when tho corporeal man ceases to exit and so be s may considered con-sidered to b the Litter deprived of his material body but the LT the Tsilpcakiiig negro belIeves existed exist-ed inde > endently before the birth of the man and after his death will continue to exist equally Independently Indepen-dently of tIle Jul I or ghost A Ira may have and almost always has been a Ira in the bodies of other men since deceased and at the death of the individual wlicse hotly he Is now tenanting will seek to enter the body of some newborn human being Falling In this It enters time body of an animal anJ t unable to enter the body either of a human being or of an animal I becomes a aa Ira without a tenement tene-ment und wanders abut tho earth causlug sickne s to mankind The ghost or soul H tllch at the death of the corporeal man proceeds to Deadland and there continues the former vocations of the man and for whoso service in Dead land slaves and wins are f acrificcd and arm implements and clothing hurled hur-led with the corpse Is the vehicle of individual personal existence the t true dUnuI dl btefTr whose connection with the man commences with the birth and terminates at his death is sme ant thlngquitediirerent Time dilTerenc between the Ira and the soul is also well shown by the diilVrent erasmUs which ensue when they quit the body TheTa can and does quit the bo0 > at wl Usunliyltdovssu only I during theatres of tbe man who I unconscious of iU Departure and Its efrtuf adventures are the occurrence of which thermndreams Ifltshould leave while the man 1 awake tbe latter is only made conscious of 1 1 at all by a yawua mcczeashudder or sxjme such slight convulsion which indicates to him that his Ira Is going out In any ce whether eeeplng or waking he suffers n pain feels no inconvenience and Is subject t no apparent change consequent con-sequent the departure hlsZro The absence of the Ira Is however dangerous as 1 affords an opportunity oppr nity for a a or iru without a tenement to enter the vacant body for which the iaeua are believed to b always on the lookout The man Is not conscious of the entry ofSthe and nothing happens until Ue tel LT returns and attempts to eject ihointruderHlien the effect of the internal struggle Is I to throw the man into convulsions In this manner the West African negroes seek to account for epileptic and similar sdWres they r what nasal lobe I termed cases of possession but the r Dot directly attributable 1 to the departure of the T per te eprr hen however Ihe soul quit the body the latter falls at once Into a motionless and lifeless condition Sometime though buljarely the soul returns and then the man has been I n a swoon or trance more frequently fre-quently 1 does not return and then f tho man Is dead I I in tho hope that tho soul may return that appeals ap-peals to the dead to come back are always made and that the corpse 1 kept until the signs of corruption show that the soul is gone forever The difference then between tho results I II departure Is clear When the T departs there Is no direct and immediate result though Ihe departure may lead to mmpolonm but when the < oul tIeD the dirt and im mediate result is suspended animation anima-tion or death The II 1 speaking peoples of the Slave Coast the Jpl Mahis Awunas KrepK Dahomis llhla ciclteld exactly similar vlewstho third element or Indwelling spirit of man being by them termed a luiro Tho speaking peoples of the eastern districts of the Gold Coast have modified the more original conception and bellee that each Individvai l has two lla the Ga Term for Ira a male and n female tlie former being of a bid disposition and the latter of a good The negroes of the Goldand I Slave Coast like every other J 1le Inn in tbe sta eof civilization believe that Inanimate aa well as animate objects hare souls or ghostsa belief which is proved by time practice of burning arms implements utensils etc for the use of the dead in Deadland The soul or ghost of the dead hunter goes to Deadland anti Uic re continues con-tinues the former pursuit of the man using time souls or ghosts of the weapons buried with him but time negroes havugono beyond tills and jut a they believe man to possess thin element or Indwelling spirit s do they believe that ever natural object everything not madu by mao human hands hans in addition to its soul or ghost a third element or spiritual I n Ji ljIei hold I that just as when the man dies l the Ira of the man enters a newborn child and the soul or ghostman o to Deidland 6 when the tree dies tho ZTO s to speak of the tree enters a seedling and the ghottree goes to Join theranks of the showy fort in Dead land And Itlsthesc animating or rplritual temuts of natural objects and natural features that the negro fears and eniiFe quently worships ilaj A n Kilt tn April Tlte Popular Science JhnUity fo |