In Samoa a guardian spirit (conceived of as incarnate in some animal) is selected for a child at its birth.
This procedure is connected with the advance of individualism, the old totemic or other relation being superseded by an individual relation to a guardian spirit.
This adoption of a guardian spirit by the individual is the most definite early divergence from the totemistic clan organization.
They in that place him Genius did call Genius > "Guardian Spirit" (Latin; cf.
Each place also had its own genius or guardian spirit.
When the gate of the new city of Tavoy, in Tenasserim, was built, Mason was told by an eye-witness that a criminal was put in each post-hole to become a guardian spirit.
Among the Iban or Sea Dyaks of Borneo a man's guardian spirit (Tua) "has its external manifestation in a snake, a leopard or some other denizen of the forest.
A quantity of food is taken to the place every day, and if after a few days the body disappears, the deceased is said to have become a Tua or guardian spirit.
I believe in the existence and spirituality of Jesus Christ because of the biddings of my Guardian Spirit, and, for the very same reason, I attach credence to the tradition of the quivering of the aspen.
But the conception of a dead ancestor incarnate in a snake, on which the welfare or existence of one of his living descendants depends, is rather that of a guardian spirit than of an external soul.
Every family has its tee, or guardian spirit, whom they set up, and worship at the morai.
By placing cedar-wood charms in the hands of persons who had not yet received a guardian spirit he could impart to them his clairvoyant gifts, enabling them to visit the Spirit-land and make any observations required by him.
For no belief was more universal than that which assigned to each individual a guardian spirit.
Even among tribes like the Thompson, where it was the custom for every one of both sexes to acquire a guardian spirit at the period of puberty, we find the totem is in some instances hereditable.
He then chants something like the following: "May a guardian spirit be present at my side when I draw near unto the sick man, when I examine his muscles, when I compose his limbs, when I sprinkle the water of Ea upon him.
The Sedu appears to have been in some senses a guardian spirit and in others a being of evil propensities.
When satisfied that she had obtained a guardian spiritin the white stranger who haunted her dreams, she returned to her father's lodge, carrying green cedar boughs, which she threw on the ground, stepping on them as she went.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guardian spirit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
