Show THE WHY of superstitions by COVERING MIRRORS I 1 SOME sections of the country it Is customary when a death has occurred in alie family to cover the clr bors and to keep them shrouded while the body remains in the houe gen orally however it Is only a mirror which happen to be in alie room where the body lies which Is veiled this custom Is traced by professor anzer to the belief of primitive man of which belief we still see vestiges remaining that the ghost the soul of a dead person hovers for a while about its late tenement A man s reflected image was considered to be a part of himself possibly his exterior soul and concerning the belief in ex gerior souls the professor a vat amount of data the idea in veiling the mirror was to obviate the chance of the lingering soul of the deceived taking away with it the exterior soul of any person reflected image appeared in the filis mirrors are very ancient and before mirrors were introduced there were pieces of bright metal in which an image might be reflected and which were covered upon occasions of deah a custom still observed by some sav age tribes whether the exterior soul idea ap plies here as the professor thinks or not it Is certain hat primitive man like the who Is the primitive man of today regarded ills reflection as something vitally pert lining to his personality and it was natural that he should protect it against any pos of contact with a lingering spirit by preventing its existence and whit was bagun ao a precaution Is practiced today beccue of an atavism which makes the superstitious feel it might be y not to do it by mcclure syndicate |