Neville Bell: Oh no, you can't take my photograph. Sue Charlton: Oh, I'm sorry, you believe it will take your spirit away. Neville Bell: No, you got lens-cap on it.
I'm not sure honestly WHERE the meme comes from. It's quite possible more than one culture has come up with it, or that one culture came up with it and then anthropologists all over the planet started using it as an explanation when locals objected to photography.
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Date: 2008-08-28 03:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-28 11:09 pm (UTC)Neville Bell: Oh no, you can't take my photograph.
Sue Charlton: Oh, I'm sorry, you believe it will take your spirit away.
Neville Bell: No, you got lens-cap on it.
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Date: 2008-08-28 04:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-28 09:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-28 10:08 pm (UTC)Anyway, it's offensive. So, obviously, I love it.