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Updated: May 26, 2025
They reveal themselves in the form of the dead, and it appears to be supposed that the dead become 'good people, as the dead among the Amazulu become Amatongo; and in funeral processions of the 'good people' which some have professed to see, are recognised the forms of those who have just died, as Umkatshana saw his relatives amongst the Abapansi.
They are also, like the Abapansi, called ancestors. There are other points which make in the same direction. The soul is supposed by various races to be a little man, an idea which at once links the manes of the departed with Pigmy people. Thus Dr. Nansen tells us that amongst the Eskimo a man has many souls.
Closely connected with this is the idea of the underground world, peopled by the souls of the departed like the Abapansi, the widespread nature of which idea is shown by Dr. Tylor.
So also in the Highland tales, a boy who had been carried away by the fairies, on his return to his own home speaks of them as 'our folks, which is equivalent to abakwetu, applied to the Amatongo, and among the Highlands they are called the 'good people' and 'the folk. They are also said to 'live underground, and are therefore Abapansi or subterranean.
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