...characteristic speech at the military banquet of the Junior United Service in his brother's welcome, — " Has been to me a marvel and a wonder ; I had long...edge of the sword from which he never shrunk; and amid herculean labours exposed also to wasting pestilence, from which I knew he never would shrink...

...powerful than herself. She knew without any word from the young doctor that Robert wavered between two worlds, the world of the living and the world of the dead. She thought of his own curious expression, " the horizon beyond which there is everything," and it...

...be the wherewithal to pay his ferry-hire in crossing over a stream which marks the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and the bundle of rice to be his provision for the journey. After hovering about its old haunts for seven...

...see. Both, thus, have special powers in their role as intermediaries. The spiritists mediate between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and for this reason have bivalent characters, elements of both worlds. Cows mediate between the animal...

...baby is a dead-living or a half-alive person. It too, as tangible proof of the discontinuity between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and between diachrony and synchrony, and as an unstable signifier which can, at any moment, be transformed...

...explicit contrast to village ways of celebrating. Baléatu people emphasize the sharp divide between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and recognize only a thin strand of communication across it, mainly through prayer to God. Practices that...

...During mourning, the living mourners and the deceased constitute a special group, situated between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and how soon living individuals leave that group depends on the closeness of their relationship with the...

...relationship of spiritual exchange which ensures the continuity and indivisibility of life and death, the world of the living and the world of the dead, and of the past, present, and future. This continuity was expressively enacted through the different devotional...

...in waking, and in waking to dream with clear sight" (T, 67) — which enables her to hover between the world of the living and the world of the dead and to cut Mary loose to enter the latter. Minutes later, Pauline acquires the power of flight: "Twirling...

...understand that a birthing mother does not belong entirely to this world. This young mother lies between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and can be a source of harm to herself and us. Placate the gods on the Otherside and come back later —...