For among the Zulus many Amatongo (ancestral spirits) are sacred.
Our author says 'when the chief or people sacrifice it is to God,' but he also says that they sacrifice to ancestral spirits.
Looking at ancestral spirits first, we find Mzimu, 'spirits of the departed, supposed to come in dreams.
My anthropological reading was scanty, but I was well acquainted with and believed in Mr. Herbert Spencer's 'Ghost theory' of the origin of religion in the worship of ancestral spirits.
This is the Arunta belief, and I must reckon it as not more primitive than the peculiar philosophy of reincarnation of ancestral spirits.
As a god, Karunga seems to have no sacrifices: these are made to ancestral spirits.
But prayer is worship, and the Dieri pray, whether to a good spirit or to ancestral spirits, potent over the sky, and dwelling therein.
So they naturally invent the fable that the Siboko, which are sacred, are sacred because they are the shrines of what to them are really sacred, namely, ancestral spirits.
The more pristine Australians, therefore, do not explain their totems as containing the souls of ancestral spirits.
Being an ancestor-worshipping people, the Bantu explain the circumstance, as they were certain to do, by a myth of ancestral spirits.
See also Ancestral Spirits and Dead Ghosts of animals, dread of, iii.
The Kafirs quite recognise that there are types of disease which are inherited, and have not been caused by magic or by ancestral spirits.
They would never dream of doing this if they thought they were being influenced by magic or by ancestral spirits.
Foreskins of young men offered to ancestral spirits in Fiji, ii.
Portions of the meat were then spread about for the use of the "imishologu," or ancestral spirits, and then the tribal song was sung.
The living cannot add to the number of the wives of ancestral spirits; but they can kill cattle in their honour and keep their praise and memory alive on earth.
We shall tell the people that, as for us, we have no ancestral spirits, and this will be to your shame.
Ancestral spirits on shoulders of medicine-men, i.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ancestral spirits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
