ghosts

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ghosts (Paper 87)
cults were insurance against hazards of bad luck (87:0.1)
early peoples associated g. with the sea (84:1.4)
fear of ghosts
disciplined and controlled primitives (68:3.3)
drove men into society (68:2.4,6) (68:3.1,4) (68:4.3)
fountainhead of ethics, religion (68:4.3) (87:1sec) (87:4.1)
prepared men’s minds for “fear of the Lord” (68:3.3)
produced dread of being alone (84:7.17)
savages lived in fear of g. (87:3.3)
senseless superstition (68:3.3)
illusory g. environment of primitive man (86:6sec)
Moses sought to uproot ghost cults (92:5.11)
most primitive idea of human souls (86:4.3)
nature and activities of ghosts
administered justice through medicine men (70:10.5)
angered g. caused misfortune, unhappiness (87:2.2)
caused disease by enticing soul out of body (90:3.4)
credited with supernatural powers, but not supernatural intelligence (87:1.2-5)
enjoyed unlimited rights but no duties (87:5.1)
expected at least one slave wife be buried alive with (87:2.7)
explained the unusual and the inexplicable (86:4.4)
frightened by noise (87:6.11)
good and bad ghosts (87:4sec)
levied continuous tribute for noninterference (87:5.1)
preferred to indwell objects they owned when alive (88:2.1)
punished those who disdained their rules (68:4.3)
took pleasure in discomfort of living (87:2.4) (89:0.2)
placation long preceded coercion and supplication (87:2.1)
rites designed to avoid, expel, or coerce (87:0.1)
savage believed g. to be breath minus body (86:4.4)
shamans howled away g. responsible for disease (90:4.3)
soul concept (86:5sec)
spirits of departed humans do not return or communicate (112:3.7) (146:7.2) (150:3.5)
stratagems to hoodwink (87:1.2,5) (87:6.3-10)
superghost doctrine not yet wholly rejected (87:5.8)
superstition of g. dream still persists (68:3.3)
supposed human origin of g. gods (85:6.4)

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