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Chapter fourteen. Things That Go Bump in the Night. |
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Zemi explanation for haunting; burial ground for suicides and bad deaths |
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The Nagas' own theory was that the spur was haunted ground in any case. Laisong used it before we came as a burial-ground in the case of suicides or other accursed deaths, and claimed that curious lights were often seen moving there in the small hours. It was generally thought that in building the camp we must have disturbed a burial, or that the arrival of human beings had unsettled the supernatural powers in occupation. Nor was there an adolescent with whom the phenomena could be connected. The nearest approach was (113) Hozekiemba's thirteen-year-old son; but he only came to the camp at infrequent intervals, while the manifestations pursued their independent and very definite course. |
