Snakes and spirits of the dead

Snakes and spirits of the dead

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

People become spirits when they die. A dead man has a mere spirit as well as an other which is a snake. Spirit-animals live near graves. If a man dies he becomes a snake. Men also become snakes when bitten by them ('and his snake is a spirit'). If a woman dies she becomes a mere spirit unless she dies of a snakebite in which case she becomes a snake. Mere spirits go away.

1) See also <i>A snake found near a grave</i> and <i>A certain snake, which, by lying upon its back, announces a death in the family; and must not, in these circumstances, be killed</i>, 2) This story is found in Book XI &amp; XII-12

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Ocober 1881

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