. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. ames of dead friends whose spirits were known tobe dwelling in gorillas. No wonder the poor Africandreads so terrible a being as his imagination thusconjures up.^ The ancient Egyptian may have hadsimilar ideas about the monster who ate hearts, andwhom the artist painted on the papyrus, and if he had, 1 On the Pongo (Mpungu) or gorilla, and the Engeco (Nsiku) orchimpanzi, see Pechuel-Loesche, Loango Expedition, Vol. Ill, p. Andrew Battells description of the Pongo see his StrangeAdventures (Hakluyt Society, 1901), p. 54. Battell lived in the seco

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. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. ames of dead friends whose spirits were known tobe dwelling in gorillas. No wonder the poor Africandreads so terrible a being as his imagination thusconjures up.^ The ancient Egyptian may have hadsimilar ideas about the monster who ate hearts, andwhom the artist painted on the papyrus, and if he had, 1 On the Pongo (Mpungu) or gorilla, and the Engeco (Nsiku) orchimpanzi, see Pechuel-Loesche, Loango Expedition, Vol. Ill, p. Andrew Battells description of the Pongo see his StrangeAdventures (Hakluyt Society, 1901), p. 54. Battell lived in the secondhalf of the sixteenth century. His reports were disbelieved by Burtonand Du Chaillu. 2 Adventures in Equatorial Africa, pp. 60, 61. Portions of thebrain of the gorilla are used as fetishes, which are thought to give aman success in hunting and with women. On the other hand, pregnantwomen carefully avoid the sight of a gorilla, for they think that if whenpregnant they see a gorilla they will have gorilla children.—Ibid.^pp. 260,

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