unting, caused by ghosts, 197

Luck of a village dependent on ghosts, 198

_Lum_, men's clubhouse, 243, 250, 257

Mabuiag, island of, 174

Macassars, burial custom of the, 461

Macluer Gulf in Dutch New Guinea, 317, 318

Mad, stones to drive people, 335

Madagascar, ideas as to natural death in, 48 _sq._

Mafulu (Mambule), the, of British New Guinea, 198 _sqq._

Maggots, appearance of, sign of departure of soul, 292

Magic as a cause of death, 34 _sqq._;
Age of, 58;
attributed to aboriginal inhabitants of a country, 193;
homoeopathic or imitative, 288, 335, 336, 338, 376;
combined with religion, 111 _sq._, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 376;
Melanesian conception of, 380 _sq._;
working by means of personal refuse, 413 _sq._
_See also_ Sorcery _and_ Witchcraft

---- and religion compared in reference to their destruction of human
life, 56 _sq._

Magical ceremonies for increasing the food supply, 102;
ceremonies for the multiplication of totems, 124 _sq._;
intention of dramatic ceremonies in Central Australia, 122 _sq._, 126;
virtues attributed to sacred stones in New Caledonia, 334 _sqq._

Magician or priest, 336, 338.
_See also_ Sorcerer

Magicians, their importance in history, 16;
but no priests at Doreh, 306

Malagasy, their ideas as to natural death, 48 _sq._

Malanta, one of the Solomon Islands, 350

Malayalis, the, of Malabar, 162

Malignity of ghosts, 212, 381

Malo, island of, 48

Man creates gods in his own likeness, 19 _sq._

----, grandeur and dignity of, 469 _sq._;
pettiness and insignificance of, 470 _sq._

_Mana_, supernatural or spiritual power, 346 _sq._, 352, 371, 380

_Manoam_, evil spirits, 321

Manoga, a worshipful ghost, 368

Manslayers, precautions taken by, against the ghosts of their victims,
205 _sq._, 258, 279, 323;
secluded, 279 _sq._,
consecration of, 448 _sq._;
restrictions imposed on, 449.
_See also_ Homicides

_Mari_ or _mar_, ghost, 173

_Mariget_, "ghost-hand," 177

Mariner, William, 411

Mariners, stones to help, 337

Markets, native, 394

Marotse, burial custom of the, 454

Marquesas Islands, 417

Married and unmarried, different modes of disposing of their corpses,
162

Masai, their myth of the origin of death, 65 _sq._

Masked men, dramatic representation of ghosts and spirits by, 176, 179
_sq._, 180 _sqq._, 185 _sqq._

---- dances, 297;
of the Monumbo, 228

Masks worn by actors in sacred cere