Show WHY of superstitions by H KINQ EMPTY ROCKING CHAIR IN MANY sections of the country it Is believed by the that when an apparently empty rocking chair Is seen to sway back and forth without any visible cause in that chair Is seated the spirit of some deceased member of the family come back to choose the one of his kin who shall next join him in the realm of shades in the of primitive man the spirit conceded conce hed of as retaining in the disembodied state the same habits needs and desires which it possessed while animating the flesh and thus it was to a large extent down through the classic ages and thus it Is among many savage tribes today soldiers were slaughtered upon the tumulus of a warrior slaves sacrificed upon the grave of their master and the east indian widow burned herself upon her lords funeral pyre in order that the spirit of the deceased might not be un attended and in its new state by familiar ghosts this an dent idea that the spirits of the mor tally dead seek companionship Is the basis of many funeral and death su today of which the empty rocking chair superstition Is one there Is something very naive about this superstition the disembodied spirit longing for the companionship of one of its kin after the manner of the flesh comes not in watches of the night and in form of terror but makes itself at home seats itself in the old familiar rocking chair and chooses with calmness and deliberation the one of the family who shall loin him on the other shore by mcclare newspaper Newe paper syndicate 0 |