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With regards to a future state the ancient Cherokees had different views. Those who worshipped the sun supported that at death the soul assuming different appearances lingered about the place where the body died, as long as the body had lived there. Then went back to the place where the person had previously lived, and continued as long as the body had resided there; and so on to the place of birth and after a continuance there was long as the body had done, it took its final leave, wither into non existence, or to a place far in the west to be always miserable. Some however supposed that the soul at death entered a certain living body larger or smaller according to its own character. This body , every year grew less and less, less and less, till at length it vanished in air and ceased to be.