should not be dying like this!"[786]

[Footnote 785: See above, p. 77.]

[Footnote 786: Rev. John H. Weeks, "Stories and other Notes from the
Upper Congo," _Folk-lore_, xii. (1901) p. 461; _id._, _Among Congo
Cannibals_ (London, 1913), p. 218. The country of the Balolo lies five
miles south of the Equator, on Longitude 18 deg. East.]

INDEX

Abinal, Father, 49

Abipones, their belief in sorcery as a cause of death, 35

Abnormal mental states explained by inspiration, 15

Aborigines, magical powers attributed by immigrants to, 193

Abstinence from certain food in mourning, 198, 208, 209, 230, 314, 360,
452

Abundance of food and water favourable to social progress, 90 _sq._

Action as a clue to belief, 143

Actors personating ghosts and spirits, 176, 179 _sq._, 180 _sqq._, 185
_sqq._

Adiri, the land of the dead, 211, 212, 213, 214

Admiralty Islands, 393, 400, 401

---- Islanders, their myths of the origin of death, 71, 76 _sq._

Advance of culture among the aborigines of South-Eastern Australia, 141
_sq._, 148 _sq._

Africa, aborigines of, their ideas as to the cause of death, 49 _sqq._;
use of poison ordeal in, 50 _sqq._

----, British Central, 162

----, British East, 61, 66, 254

Agriculture, rise of, favourable to astronomy, 140 _sq._;
Fijian, 408

Akamba, their story of the origin of death, 61 _sq._

Akikuyu, resurrection and circumcision among the, 254

_Alcheringa_ or dream times, 96, 103, 114

---- ancestors, their marvellous powers, 103

---- home of the dead, 167

Alfoors of Celebes, 166

Alligators, ghosts in, 380

_Alols_, bachelors' houses, 221, 222

Altars, stones used as, 379

Amputation of fingers in mourning, 199, 426 _sq._, 451

Amulets consisting of relics of the dead, 332, 370

Ancestor, totemic, developing into a god, 113

Ancestor-worship possibly evolved from totemism, 114 _sq._

Ancestors, reincarnation of, 92 _sqq._;
marvellous powers ascribed to remote, 103, 114 _sq._;
totemic, traditions concerning, 115 _sqq._;
dramatic ceremonies to commemorate the doings of, 118 _sqq._;
possible evolution of worship of, in Central Australia, 125 _sq._;
worshipped, 221, 297 _sq._, 328 _sqq._, 338, 340;
ghosts of, appealed to for help, 258 _sq._;
offerings to, 298;
prayers to, 329 _sq._, 332 _sqq._
_See also_ Dead

Ancestral gods, foreskins of circumcised lads offered to, 427;
libations to, 430, 438

---- images, 307 _sqq._, 31