Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-12-18
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ZuIus Believe the Bodily Shade is
 the Future Spirit.
TAKING AWAY ONES SHADOGi

Why Sone Races Are Forbidden tc
 Look Into Dark Pool of Water.
 The Way Donald Mckay Managed tc
 Escape the Clutches of the Devil.
 That mysterious counterpart of i human being which lengthens with .he day and disappears with the sun, to reappcar more faintly with the rising of the moon, which we call q shadow, has always struck the imasi nation of man. It has played a promi nent part in primitive superstition and in later folklore Shadows or shades was the classical name or figure for the spirits of the departed which still remains in use.
 This idea is not confined to civilized races. Among the Zulus the spirit is the shade. Bishop Galloway, whose knowledge of Zulu beliefs and modes of thought was unrivaled, says that the Zulus connect the bodily shade with the future disembodied spirit. They believe that the shadow cast by the body will ultimately become the 'itongo." or spirit, when the body dies, and they say that the long shadow shortens ''as man approaches his end and contracts into a very little thing. When they see the shadow of q man thus contracting. they know he will die The leng shadow gees away when a man is dead. and 1t is that which is meant when it is said, The shadow hes departed There is, how. ever. short shadow which remains with the body and is buried with it. The long shadow becomes an ances- tral spirit.
 Identification of the shadow in any mysterious or spiritual way with the person whose body casts it, naturally leads to respect for the strange second self To tread on the shadow of d In the Institutes of Manu, the ancient Hindu law giver. the law runs:
 Let him not Intentionally pass over the shadow of sacred images. of q natural or spiritual father of king, of Brahmin who keeps house. or of duy IcNtISEA pClSOudSCs Aoi OA oA' who has just performed sacrifice
 There are traces of the survival Of these primitive ways of regarding 6 mans shadow in the English country feeling that it is unlucky to cross the path of a newly married man as he leaves the altar: and in another rural belief that 1t is unlucky to cross the path of horses ploughing when the sun Is shining behind them.
 Association between Dhadows and mirrered representations of the human form is obviously natural. SO it is not surprising to find superstiticns about the shadow mingled with widely scat tered versions of the Narcissus legend. The story of the beautiful youth who became enamored A9 his own image. as he saw 1t represented in the water. and languished thereafter till he died. has its origin in the belief that trouble follows 1ren behslding the watery image.
 Let hin net lesk at his own image In water; that is . settled rule" com. maads AaAu. the Ainlu law givef.
 The rsasen fer the prohibition is to be found in the beliefs of nan in . primitive state of civilization. The Melanesians of the Pacific, says . learned observer, say; There is a stream in Saddle island. or, rather. q pool in stream, into which if any one looks he dies; the malignant spirit takes hold upon his life by means of bis reflection in the water." Some such idea as this was probably the root of the Narcissus legend.
 The zuius explain why it ts Fl to look into the water of pool by story of great beast in the water which can seize the shadow of a man and when his shadow is gone man no longer wishes to turn back. but de sires to enter the pool. He goes in, l dies. and is eaten by the great beast which inhabits it. So, says Bishop Caiiaway. men are forbidden to lean over and look into dark pool. 1t be- ing feared that their shadow should be taken away"
 There are other ways in which & man may lose his shadow. There was temple of Jupiter in Arcadia which if entered by those who were for bidden to do so. robbed them of theil l shadows.
 In the north of Scotland there are some quaint legends of folk who lost this usual attendant. In Sutherland they tell more than one story of g l wizard named Donald-l 'uival Mckay | Donald went to a schooI in Italy where the black art was tau&, by the devil. who sat in the professsr's chair. anG at the end of each term r~f3inled as his own the last scholar to o,sflsI. Break ing up at this academy ~as naturall. scramble. none wishins he last. On one occasion Dona,; ..,s really the last. but just as tl.s devil was about to seize him. t,i- ;;Spurceful Donald pointed to hss ,wr shadow. which fell behind hin >aNipe Take thou the hindmost!' \ ,r,i,!inrlv. his shadow was seized, wi !. h. himself escapes. ard after his f..tnrl to Scot land was never seen .o have . ehadoWs