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 * Southern Paiute people believe that supernatural power resides in all living things and in many inanimate objects found in nature as well as in the sun, moon, stars, wind, and so on**.


 * Religious Practitioners-** the principal religious practitioner was the shaman, who held power to cure illness. Native doctors could be either men or women. They cured the patient through a self-induced trance, and their powers revealed the cause of the illness (which was usually a ghost or object intrusion, or soul loss)


 * Ceremonies-** The principal ceremony today is the Mourning Ceremony, or "Cry".The ceremony is held today as a funeral, although in older times it might occur later than the time of a person's actual death.


 * Medicine-** Diseases cured by shamans or native doctors were thought to be due to supernatural causes.


 * Death and Afterlife-** Not a lot is known about the concepts of the afterlife, other than that ghosts and souls can remain in the vicinity and occasionally cause harm to the living. Some people feel that spirits of the deceased go underground to a world where everything is reversed.