Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 28 | 266 | View more quotes about another">Another is that the individual who is slain at night may find the portals of the medicine world closed against him. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 28 | 263 | There are many theories connected with such things. |
| 28 | 264 | I shall mention two. |
| 28 | 265 | One is that if an individual is slain at night, he may, quite literally, have difficulty in the darkness in finding his way to the medicine world. |
| 28 | 266 | Another is that the individual who is slain at night may find the portals of the medicine world closed against him. |
| 28 | 267 | These beliefs, and others like them, it seems clear, serve to discourage night combat. |
| 28 | 268 | One may, as in many such cases, then, wonder whether night combat is discouraged because of such beliefs, or whether such beliefs may not have been instituted to discourage night fighting, with all of its confusions, alarms and terrors. |
| 28 | 269 | On the other hand, there is no doubt whatsoever that many red savages take such beliefs with great seriousness. |
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There are many theories connected with such things.
I shall mention two.
One is that if an individual is slain at night, he may, quite literally, have difficulty in the darkness in finding his way to the medicine world.
Another is that the individual who is slain at night may find the portals of the medicine world closed against him.
These beliefs, and others like them, it seems clear, serve to discourage night combat.
One may, as in many such cases, then, wonder whether night combat is discouraged because of such beliefs, or whether such beliefs may not have been instituted to discourage night fighting, with all of its confusions, alarms and terrors.
On the other hand, there is no doubt whatsoever that many red savages take such beliefs with great seriousness.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)