rst-fruits offered to the dead, 259;
of canarium nuts offered to ghosts, 368 _sq._;
offered to deified spirits of dead chiefs, 369;
offered to ghosts, 373 _sq._;
of yams offered to the ancestral spirits, 429

Fish offered by fishermen to the dead, 226;
prayers for, 329;
ghost in, 379

---- totem, dramatic ceremony concerned with, 119 _sq._, 121

Fishermen pray to ghosts, 289

----, stones to help, 337

Fison, Lorimer, 407, 412, 416, 418, 428 _n._ 1, 434, 435 _sqq._, 438
_n._ 1, 445, 448

Fits ascribed to contact with ghosts, 283.
_See also_ Epilepsy

Florida, one of the Solomon Islands, 346, 347, 348, 349, 367, 368, 376,
377, 379, 380

Flutes, sacred, 221, 226, 233, 252

Flying-foxes, souls of the dead in, 405

Food placed on grave, 144;
offered to the dead, 183, 201, 208, 211, 214, 232, 241, 332, 338, 364
_sq._, 367 _sq._, 372 _sq._, 396 _sq._, 429, 442, 467;
abstinence from certain, in mourning, 198, 208, 209, 230, 314, 360,
452;
supply promoted by ghosts, 283;
offered to ancestral spirits, 316;
offered to the skulls of the dead, 339 _sq._, 352;
offered to ghosts, 348 _sq._;
of ghosts, the living not to partake of the, 355

---- not to be touched with the hands by gravediggers, 327;
not to be touched with hands by persons who have handled a corpse,
450 _sq._

---- and water, abundance of, favourable to social progress, 90 _sq._;
offered to the dead, 174

Fool and Death, 83

Footprints, magic of, 45

Foundation-sacrifice of men, 446

Fowlers pray to ghosts, 289

Frenzy a symptom of inspiration, 443, 444 _sq._

Frigate-bird, mark of the, 350;
ghost associated with the, 376

Frigate-birds, ghosts in, 380

Frog in stories of the origin of death, 61, 62 _sq._

Fruit-trees cut down for ghost, 246

---- of the dead cut down, 399

Funeral ceremonies intended to dismiss the ghost from the land of the
living, 174 _sq._

---- ceremonies of the Torres Straits Islanders, 176 _sqq._

---- customs of the Tami, 293 _sq._;
of the Central Melanesians, 347 _sqq._, 355 _sqq._;
based on fear of ghosts, 450 _sqq._

---- feasts, 348, 351, 358 _sq._, 360, 396;
orations, 355 _sq._

Forces, impersonal, the world conceived as a complex of, 21

Foreskins sacrificed in honour of the dead, 426 _sq._;
of circumcised lads presented to ancestral gods, 427

Gaboon, the, 54

Gajos of Sumatra, burial custom of the, 455

Gall used in divination, 54

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