so_ Central Australia, Western Australia

----, the aborigines of, their ideas as to death from natural causes,
40 _sqq._;
their primitive character, 88, 91;
the belief in immortality among, 127 _sqq._;
thought to be reborn in white people, 130, 131 _sqq._;
their burial customs, 144 _sqq._;
their primitive condition, 217

----, South, beliefs as to the dead in, 134 _sqq._

Australia, South-Eastern, beliefs as to the dead in, 133 _sq._, 139;
burial customs among the aborigines of, 145 _sqq._

----, Western, burial customs in, 147, 150, 151

Authority of chiefs based on their claim to magical powers, 395

Avenging a death, pretence of, 282, 328

Bachelor ghosts, hard fate of, 464

Bachelors' houses, 221

Bad and good, different fate of the, after death, 354

Baganda, the, their ideas as to the causes of death, 56 _n._ 2;
their myth of the origin of death, 78 _sqq._
_See also_ Uganda

Bahaus, the, of Borneo, 459

Bahnars of Cochinchina, 74

Bakairi, the, of Brazil, 35

Bakerewe, the, of the Victoria Nyanza, 50

Bali, burial custom in, 460

Balking ghosts, 455 _sqq._

Balolo, of the Upper Congo, their myth of the continuance of death, 472

_Balum_, ghost or spirit of dead, 244;
name for bull-roarer, 250;
name for a ghost or monster who swallows lads at initiation, 251, 255,
260, 261;
soul of a dead man, 257, 261

Bamler, G., 291, 297 _sq._

Bananas in myths of the origin of death, 60, 70, 72 _sq._

Bandages to prevent entrance of ghosts, 396

Bandaging eyes of corpse, 459

Banks' Islands, 343, 353, 386;
myths of the origin of death in, 71, 83 _sq._

---- Islanders, funeral customs of the, 355 _sqq._

Bantu family, 60

Baronga, the, 61;
burial custom of the, 454

Bartle Bay, 206, 208

Basutos, the, 61;
burial custom of the, 454

Bat in myth of origin of death, 75

Bathing in sea after funeral, 207 _sq._;
as purification after a death, 314, 319

Battel, Andrew, 51 _sq._

Bechuanas, the, 61;
burial custom of the, 454

Beetles in myth of the origin of death, 70

Belep tribe of New Caledonia, 325

Belief, acts as a clue to, 143

Belief in immortality, origin of belief in, 25 _sqq._;
almost universal among races of mankind, 33;
among the aborigines of Central Australia, 87 _sqq._;
among the islanders of Torres Straits, 170 _sqq._;
among the natives of British New Guinea, 190 _sqq._;
among the natives of German New Guinea, 216