Sir James George Frazer (18541941). The Golden Bough. 1922. call
him, as he lies, oiled and ornamented, on fine mats, saying,
Rise, sir, the chief, and let us be going. The day has come over
the land. Then they conduct him to the river side, where the
ghostly ferryman comes to ferry Nakelo ghosts across the stream.
As they thus attend the chief on his last journey, they hold
their great fans close to the ground to shelter him, because, as
one of them explained to a missionary, His soul is only a little
child. People in the Punjaub who tattoo themselves believe that
at death the soul, the little entire man or woman inside the
mortal frame, will go to heaven blazoned with the same tattoo
patterns which adorned the body in life. Sometimes, however, as
we shall see, the human soul is conceived not in human but in
animal form. 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul THE SOUL is
commonly supposed to escape by the natural openings of the body,
especially the mouth and nostrils. Hence in Celebes they
sometimes fasten fish-