Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-09-03

Illu UClACAS ~~~~.
 uos unrivaled, says that
 connect the bodily shade
 nmre disembodied spirit.
 that the shadow cast by N tu ultimately become the
 spirit, when the body dies, py that the long shadow
 q man approaches his end . ts into a very little thing.
 soc the shadow of a man av cting, they know he will VI long shadow goes away
 n is dead, and it is that 'n cant when it is said, The 1l departed There is, how
 rt shadow which remains
 ody and is buried with it. ,hadow becomes an ances- tion of the shadow in any
 or spiritual way with the
 ose body casts it. naturally
 Bpect for the strange second
 tread on the shadow of a
 insult to the chief himself.
 flutes of Manu, the ancient
 giver, the law runs:
 not intentionally pass over
 w of sacred images, of a spiritual father, of a king,
 min who keeps house, or of
 erd parsonage. nor of one us; performed a sacrifice"
 fe traces of the survival of nitive ways of regarding a
 dow in the English country
 Rt It is unlucky to cross the
 newly married man as he
 altar; and in another rural
 t 1t is unlucky to cross the brses ploughiag when the sun
 behind them.
 tioa between shadows and representations of the human bviously natural, so 1t is not
 to find superstitions about >w mingled with widely scat sions of the Narcissus legend.
 of the beautiful youth who enamored R his own image. Y 1t represented in the water. uished thereafter till he died. rigin in the belief that trouble from beholding the watery m not look at his own image that is a settled rule" com [anu, the Hindu law giver.
 |ason for the prohibition is to in the beliefs of man in a state of civilization. The lans of the Pacific, says a observer, say: "There is a In Saddle island. or, rather, a a stream. into which if any s he dies; the malignant spirit pld upon his life by means of ection in the water" Some ea as this was probably the the Narcissus legend.
 ulus explain why it is Ill to the water of a pool by a story eat beast in the water which Ee the shadow of a man and us shadow is gone a man no wishes to turn back. but de- enter the pool. He goes in. ld Is eaten by the great beast mnabits it. So, says Bishop y' men are forbidden to lean 10 look into a dark pool, it be- req that their shadow should be lway."
 are other ways in which a ay lose his shadow. There was le Of Jupiter )n, Arcadia which, ed by thosl$ who were for 2 so. robbed them of their ne north of Scotland there are quaint legends of folk who lost 'sual attendant. Ir Sutherland .eli more than one story of a named Donald-Duival Mckay. went to a school in Italy where a.A art was taught by the devil, at in the professors chair, and end Of each term claimed as his le ast scholar to depart. Break at this academy was naturally noie' none wishing to be last. 'ue occasion Donald was real!; s'' put just as the devil was 'o seize Him. the resourceful pointed alo His own shadow, leli behind him. saying. "Take ~ :. ninomosf'A4 Accordingly. his was seizfI while he himself s' anu after&his return to Scot. was never seen to have a illustration of "de'il talk @ost" from Aberdeenshire, is witch helped laird watch Napers. whose shadow was " satan. and who was ever suaoow'ess. In literature Cha 1amous tale of Peter schle- 2 well known example q s q tls sAaoowlaaA-oDew