Show SUPERSTITIONS WHY WH of I By 8 H. H KINQ DEAD MENS MEN'S CLOTHES I I IT I IC lIE clothes of ot the dead never T r wear long Is a common common soy saying In i all parts ports of the tho United States It Itans eons ans of at c course urse when the clothes are orn ern rn by hy the 1110 livIng The superstition entirely one of sympathetic e 5 first t principles In philosophy of r primitive e ancestors rs A mans man's was supposed to beco become Inv imp ed with lIh his Ilia personality In a a lesser les gr gree only than his hair and his Is us and his ids shadow shad partook of ot that Jl dh l duality The clothes absorbed a art art art rt of the mans man's ego go and thus be be- een n them and the man became es es- bushed such sudi a sympathetic relation at what was WIlS done to the clothes re- re ted on the man nuin and what happened the man necessarily reacted on his then Hies It u will 11 easily be seen then hy by iy The clothes of the dead never ar long The superstition Is II sympathetic sic In Its simplest form without any Ills rills and bears every entry evidence of eat at antiquity This ThIs belief In a close relationship ter-relationship ter between a man man and ands s clothes Is found today amon among th the thebes bes living In a n primitive state In any ny ay parts of the world Some South sorcerers' sorcerers are supposed to doy de do- y y their victims by getting posses posses- ii of or something that they have ha havern rn in II'S ays Cloth and adding cern 1 n II which they mix secret secret- nn anU CO t cry lIy Wh When n this dries s up the tim lu u Ul t s. s The belief Is so so strong Ira nu sa savage tribes that even ell f l' water wall r In H which clothes e have been Nied i is carefully thrown away lest me ime sorcerers should get hold of It W d w a k I black magic against th the tho ner II ut t the clothes 8 by J New Newspaper I er r Syndicate 1 O |