Ill-treatment of ghost who gives no help, 285

Illusion of the external world, 21

Images of the dead, wooden (_korwar_ or _karwar_), 307 _sqq._, 311, 315,
316 _sq._, 321, 322;
of sharks, 373;
in temples, 442

Imitation of totems by disguised actors, 119 _sqq._;
of totemic animals, 177

Imitative magic, 335, 336, 338, 376

Immortality, belief in, 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 _sqq._;
among the natives of Dutch New Guinea, 303 _sqq._;
among the natives of Southern Melanesia, 324 _sqq._;
among the natives of Central Melanesia, 343 _sqq._;
among the natives of Northern Melanesia, 393 _sqq._;
among the Fijians, 406 _sqq._;
strongly held by savages, 468

Immortality, limited sense of, 25;
origin of belief in, 25 _sqq._;
belief in human, almost universal among races of mankind, 33;
rivalry between men and animals for gift of, 74 _sq._;
question of the truth of the belief in, 469 _sqq._;
destruction of life and property entailed by the belief in, 468 _sq._

---- in a bundle, 77 _sq._

Impecunious ghosts, hard fate of, 406

Impurity, ceremonial, of manslayer, 229 _sq._

Im Thurn, Sir Everard F., 38 _sq._

Incantations or spells, 385

Inconsistencies and contradictions in reasoning not peculiar to savages,
111 _sq._

Inconsistency of savage thought, 143

Indians of Guiana, their ideas about death, 35 _sqq._;
their beliefs as to the dead, 165

---- of North-West America, burial custom of the, 455, 460

Indifference to death, 419;
a consequence of belief in immortality, 422 _sq._

Indo-European burial custom, 453

Infanticide as cause of diminished population, 40

Influence of European teaching on native beliefs, 142 _sq._

Initiation at puberty regarded as a process of death and resurrection,
254, 261

---- of young men, 233;
in Central Australia, 100;
among the Yabim, 250 _sqq._;
among the Bukaua, 260 _sq._;
among the Kai, 290 _sq._;
in Fiji, 429 _sqq._

Insanity, influence of, in history, 15 _sq._

---- and inspiration not clearly distinguished, 388

Insect in divination as to cause of death, 44, 46

Inspiration, theory of, 14 _sq._;
of medium by ancestral spirits, 308 _sqq._;
by spirits of the dead, 322;
by ghosts in Central Melanesia, 388 _sq._;
attest