Slamming a Door.
To slam a door may be an evidence of bad temper or bad manners* but. it ia also ii popular superstition that slara:uni3 ii door ia wicked. This belief is mdoubtedly due to a.supposition enter.aiucd by many nations that the souls ©f ; ; c departed hover about the place where Tify (kparled from their bodies. The iuiiuans of this country frequently howled . i .ab the air with brushwood in ori- to drivo away the spirit of the pris'cr they had just killed. The negroes of the Congo abstain from iY.-.^oping out their huts for a year after . ith has occurred for fear that the t . may interfere with the spirit of the p.vted. It is in northern Europe that ■ : nperstition concerning the slamming a, door arose, the fear being enter- : mcd that some spirit might Jb6 N caught •v the slamming.-
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Manawatu Herald, 21 May 1898, Page 4
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143Slamming a Door. Manawatu Herald, 21 May 1898, Page 4
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