It was believed that the soul/ghost of the victim would be forced to wander the earth, not allowed to go to the afterlife, unless harmony was restored.
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It opens with the eponymous protagonist wandering the earth, hopeless and troubled.
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When she left him for another, his arrogance was brought home to him, and he wandered the earth for three years, a broken man.
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