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Speeding the Ghost. Most Indians believe in a life after death. But among the Caingang tribe of Brazil the souls of the dead did not want to leave this earth, and offered stout resistance. When a man died, his relatives gathered food and liquor, heaped them around the grave. The neighbors marched round & round, blowing horns, shaking rattles, screaming, and helping themselves from the punchbowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Childhood of Man | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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