oints of fingers at incantation, 223

Creator, the, and the origin of death, 73

Crocodiles, transmigration of dead into, 245

Cromlechs, 438

Crops, ghosts expected to make the crops thrive, 259, 284, 288 _sq._

Cross-questioning a ghost by means of fire, 278

Cultivation of the ground, spirits of ancestors supposed to help in the,
259

Culture, advance of, among the aborigines of South-Eastern Australia,
141 _sq._, 148 _sq._;
advanced, of the Fijians, 407

Cursing enemies, 370, 403, 404

Cutting down trees of the dead, 208, 209

Cuttings of the flesh in honour of the dead, 154 _sqq._, 183, 184 _sq._,
196, 272, 327, 359

Dance of death, 185 _sqq._

Dances as funeral rites, 179 _sqq._, 200;
masked, of the Monumbo, 228;
masked, of a Secret Society, 233;
at deaths, 293 _sq._;
of masked men in imitation of spirits, 297;
at festivals, 316;
at festivals of the dead, 321;
at funeral feasts, 399

---- and games at festivals, 226

Dark, ghosts dreaded in the, 197, 283, 306, 467;
female mourners remain in the, 360

Daula, a ghost associated with the frigate-bird, 376

Dawson, James, 42, 142, 143

Dazing a ghost, 416

Dead, worship of the, 23 _sqq._, 31, 328 _sqq._, 338;
seen in dreams, 27;
belief in the reincarnation of the, 92 _sqq._, 107;
spirits of, associated with conspicuous features of the landscape,
115 _sqq._;
reincarnation of the, 124 _sq._, 127 _sqq._;
souls of the, supposed to go to the sky, 133 _sq._, 135, 138 _sq._,
141, 142;
souls of the, supposed to be in stars, 134, 140;
names of the, not mentioned, 135;
magical virtue attributed to the hair of the, 137 _sq._;
appear to the living in dreams, 139, 195, 213, 229;
attentions paid to the, in regard to food, fire, property, etc.,
144 _sqq._;
property of, deposited in grave, 145 _sqq._;
motive for destroying the property of the, 147 _sq._;
economic loss entailed by sacrifices to the, 149;
incipient worship of the, in Australia, 149, 150;
feared, 152 _sq._, 173 _sqq._, 196 _sq._, 201, 203, 244, 248;
cuttings of the flesh in honour of the, 154 _sqq._, 183, 184 _sq._,
196, 327, 359;
thought to be strengthened by blood, 159;
disposed of in different ways according to their age, manner of death,
etc., 161 _sqq._;
fear of the, 168;
germs of a worship of the, in Australia, 168 _sq._;
destruction of the property of the, 174;
land of the, 175 _sq._, 192, 193, 194 _s