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According to the Bataks it is bound up with the child’s welfare, and seems, in fact, to be the seat of the transferable soul, of which we shall hear something later on.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

Pining, sickness, great fright, and death are ascribed by the Bataks of Sumatra to the absence of the soul from the body.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

The Karo Bataks even affirm that of a man’s two souls it is the true soul that lives with the placenta under the house; that is the soul, they say, which begets children.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

The Bataks of Sumatra offer either a red horse or a buffalo as a public sacrifice to purify the land and obtain the favour of the gods.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

The Bataks of Sumatra have a ceremony which they call “making the curse to fly away.”

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir