The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-10-30
]. ]. Dreams ana DreaislnersI.

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PANS are ii the main referred b,yys
tts wage either to the entrance 4. /, into
hin some 'ontsid spirit as among the
3Fea ms, who believe that The, spirit
!pf wing man viii leave the body rs;
tro1H sleeping folk Of to3 til, real.
long himself. When tie Green.
aande jeans Of hun ting \, 81 fishing 81
CON !, he believes that the soul OUTS
ths{ body; the ID yaks 81 Borneo think
tin during sleep the soul SON times
rei6 bins IN the bod travels far away
benz endowed whether present Or abs.4
sent with conditions which ii wa king
NOM IS are lacking hereyers We
|; find sK{ low state of .mentaF deye Iopment.
the Ill Re belief exists. In Mr., Thurnin1,s
club ate work on the hi ians Of Guiant.
We Have zorro alive evidence the (
more Aaluable because Of its freshness;
He tell us that the dreams which come
to the jan are to him as real az any:
of the eYeh Of his waking life. TO-
him DREAM acts and waking acts differ
only on in one espeot. namely that the for
mer are done only by the spirit, the lat
ter are lonP sby the spirit lin its bod vi;
Seeing other men asleep and afterward
hearing from them the things which
they suppose themselye to have done;
when asleep, the Inc ian has no difficult
5ty in ceiling that which he hears
with the fact that the bodies of 8 the.
Ssleepers were IN his sight ard notion
less Throughout the time Of supposed
action, because he never questions that
the spirits, leaving the sleepers, played
their partin dream I'D venture s.
IN: the; Scan inayian " tnsd aia Saga
there IS q curious acc count Of three Films
who were shut up iii hut three nights,
and ordered by Ingimund, 81 IN Norwegian +
Echief, to visit Iceland and in orm$ himof
the line of the country where he was to.
settle. Their bodies becane rigid and
they sent their sons on their err Fan
and on their aBaking at the end st \
d three = days. gave an ceurate account Of
the y 4 in which ginund sulti KS
mattel dWelt. No wonder that IN med
leyal times, when hes swept the air
and harried the cattle, swooning and
Other forms Of insenslbility were ad VI
duced IN support Of the heory of soul i
absence, or that we find among sayages
sas the Iejads of the Lnzbn Islam
sobiect lions to- waking q sleepe lest the !.
soul happ enss to be- ont Of the body, AS
lei ollary5 to this belief in soul alb.
;sence, fear arises lest; it be pro onRed to
the peril of the $owne and hence a.
rough-and read " theory Of the cause 81
disease is framed, for savages3 rarely
die in their beds, That disease
is derangement Of fun tio ne, ~ ID. Il
5terrupting their M ural action, and car
srying attendant pain as its ind ication, \
could not enter the head Of the unooiygil- Ii
lied and, indeed, among ourselves ii /
cold or fever is commonly honght Of as !
an entity il the bod which has stolen
il, and, having been caugh it, must be 3
somehow expell led With the universal
primitive belief IN spiritual agencies i
everywhere inhale ed with the breath or
swallowed with I he food or drink, all ]!
diseases were regarded as their work, Z!
whether as remark led above, through
undue absence of The RICH ful spirit or /
subtle entrance Of some hostile one
III these be the causes to which sickness
,es are dues obviously tie ONLY cnre IS to
get rid OF them, and hence the sorcerers 4
of the medicine man find their services
IN request ii casting out. the demon by 4
force, Or genticing him BY cal lery, or ID y
bringing beck the truhnt SOU.