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Ist Taub Wie Gewohnlich" For There Is No Organised Cult For Anzam.
Accounts of apparitions abound in all the West Coast districts, and
although the African holds them all in high
Horror and terror, he
does not see anything supernatural in his "Duppy." It is a horrid
thing to happen on, but there is nothing strange about it, and he is
ten thousand times more frightened than puzzled over the affair. He
does not want to "investigate" to see whether there is anything in
it. He wants to get clear away, and make ju-ju against it, "one
time."
These apparitions have a great variety of form, for, firstly, there
are all the true spirits, nature spirits; secondly, the spirits of
human beings - these human spirits are held to exist before as well
as during and after bodily life; thirdly, the spirits of things.
Probably the most horrid of class one is the Tschwi's Sasabonsum.
Whether Sasabonsum is an individual or a class is not quite clear,
but I believe he is a class of spirits, each individual of which has
the same characteristics, the same manner of showing anger, the same
personal appearance, and the same kind of residence. I am a devoted
student of his cult and I am always coming across equivalent forms
of him in other tribes as well as the Tschwi, and I think he is very
early. As the Tschwi have got their religious notions in a most
tidy and definite state, we will take their version of Sasabonsum.
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