Word: fijis
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thought to change in the spirit world and Job's conception of a place where "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty, put his own mother to death when her strength and vigor were yet unimpaired, in order that she might enter the spirit life in full possession of her bodily faculties...