Soul calling two (koos plig) is perform once a year to one family in a household to remind their souls where they belong. The purpose of this ceremony is to keep the family away form sickness due to evil spirits. ... Keeping sickness away (sau sub) is perform to two to three families together, once a year to keep sickness (due to evil spirits) away. ... A split ox horn (kuam neeb) is use to communicate with the animals the shaman used to sacrifice for the individual's soul and to get answers to what is right and wrong. ...

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Feelings like this and when he is having a conversation about Jane with Stradlater "All I know is I got up from the bed, like I was going down to the can or something and then I tried to sock him, with all my might, right smack in the toothbrush, so it would split his god dam throat open"(43) make me think Holden should get back in touch with Jane and try to reconcile what ever relationship they had. ... His parents and other immediate family members should attend to try and uncover more of Holden's childhood. ... He has already been kicked out of numerous schools and there is no reason...

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Although Ray takes a lot of ribbing from his family for doing this, he meditates in the forest anyhow, resulting in several self-realizations that seem to truly enrich him. ... This is evident when he enthusiastically states, "Monahan will give us grocery bucks o fall a few trees in his big yard and buck and split em out for firewood and I'll teach you all about logging-(151). ...

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