me offered by hunters to the dead, 226

Ganindo, a warrior ghost, 363 _sq._

Gardens, ghosts of, 371

Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, 48, 69, 398, 405

Geelvink Bay, in Dutch New Guinea, 303, 307

Genital members of human victims hung on tree, 447 _n._ 1

German burial custom, 453, 458

Ghost appeased by sham fight, 137;
hunted into the grave, 164 _sq._;
thought to linger near body till flesh is decayed, 165 _sq._;
elaborate funeral ceremonies designed to get rid of, 174 _sq._;
driven away, 178, 197, 248;
extracted from body of patient, 271;
calls for vengeance, 278;
cursed and ill-treated, 285;
who causes sunshine and rain, 375

---- -posts, 375

---- -seer, 204 _sq._, 214, 229

---- -shooter, 387 _sq._

Ghostly ferry, 350, 412.
_See also_ Ferry

Ghosts, mischievous nature of, 28;
as causes of sickness, 54 _sqq._, 195, 197, 222, 300, 305, 322, 389;
feared, 134, 135, 147, 151 _sqq._, 158, 173 _sqq._, 195, 196 _sq._,
201, 203, 229 _sq._, 232, 237, 271 _sqq._, 276, 282 _sq._, 305, 321,
327, 347, 396, 414 _sq._, 449, 457, 467;
attentions paid to, in regard to food, fire, property, etc., 144
_sqq._;
feared only of recently departed, 151 _sq._;
of nearest relations most feared, 153;
represented dramatically by masked men, 176, 179 _sq._, 182 _sq._,
185 _sqq._;
should have their noses bored, 192, 194 _sq._;
return of the, 195, 198, 246, 300;
carry off the souls of the living, 197;
cause bad luck in hunting and fishing, 197;
identified with phosphorescent lights, 198, 258;
appear to seer, 204 _sq._;
of slain enemies especially dreaded, 205;
of the hanged specially feared, 212;
certain classes of ghosts specially feared, 212;
malignity of, 212, 381;
drowned, 224;
village of, 231 _sq._, 234;
give information, 240;
provided with fire, 246 _sq._;
feasts provided for, 247 _sq._;
thought to give good crops, 247 _sq._;
communicate with the living in dreams, 248;
diseases ascribed to action of, 257;
of the slain, special fear of, 258, 279, 306, 323;
of ancestors appealed to for help, 258 _sq._;
precautions taken against, 258;
expected to make the crops thrive, 259, 284, 288 _sq._;
natural death ascribed to action of, 268;
sickness ascribed to action of, 269 _sq._, 271, 279, 372, 375, 381
_sqq._;
deceived, 273, 280 _sqq._, 328;
thought to help hunters, 274, 284 _sq._;
in the form of animals, 282;
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