VII. SUCCESSION TO THE SOUL. Tendency of a custom of regicide to extinguish a royal family no bar to the observance of such a custom among peoples who set little value on human life, Transmission of the soul of the slain divinity to his successor, Transmission of the souls of chiefs and others in Nias, America, and elsewhere, Inspired representatives of dead kings in Africa, Right of succession to the kingdom conferred by the possession of corporeal relics of dead kings, such as their skulls, their teeth, or their hair, Souls of slain Shilluk kings transmitted to their successors.
