_sq._

Property of dead deposited in grave, 145 _sqq._, 359, 397;
motive for destroying, 147 _sq._;
hung up on trees, 148;
destroyed, 327, 459;
burnt, 401 _sq._

Prophecy inspired by ghosts, 388

Prophets inspired by ghosts, 388 _sq._

----, Hebrew, 14

Propitiation of the dead, 201, 307, 338;
of ghosts and spirits, 226, 239, 348

Puberty, initiation at, 254 _sq._;
bodily mutilations at, 303

Public ghosts, 367, 369

Purification of homicides, 206, 229

---- by bathing and shaving, 208

---- of mourners by bathing, 314, 319

Queensland, belief in reincarnation of the dead among the aborigines of,
127 _sqq._;
burial customs in, 147

Rain sent by a mythical water-snake, 112, 114;
prayers for, 288;
stones to make, 336 _sq._

---- and sunshine caused by a ghost, 375

---- -ghost, 375

---- -making, 288;
by the bones of the dead, 341

Rat in myth of the origin of death, 67

Rationality of the savage, 264 _sqq._

Rebirth of the dead, 93 _sq._, 107, 127 _sq._
_See also_ Reincarnation

---- of parents in their children, 315

Recovery of lost souls, 194, 270 _sq._, 300 _sq._

Red, skulls painted, 178

Red bark in poison ordeals, 50, 52

---- paint, manslayers smeared with, 448, 449

---- roses, corpse crowned with, 233, 234

Reflection or shadow, soul associated with, 207, 267

Refuse, personal, magic working by means of, 413 _sq._

Reincarnation, widespread belief in, 29.
_See also_ Rebirth

---- doctrine of, unknown in Torres Straits, 172

---- of the dead, belief of Central Australians in, 92 _sqq._, 107

---- of the dead, 124 _sq._, 127 _sq._;
of Australian aborigines in white people, 130, 131 _sqq._;
of parents in their children, 315;
of grandfather in grandchild, 417, 418

Relics of the dead as amulets, 332, 370;
preserved, 348

Religion, importance of the history of, 3;
embryology of, 88

Religion and magic compared in reference to their destruction of human
life, 57 _sq._;
combined in ritual, 111 _sq._, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 376

---- and theology, how related, 9

Resemblance of children to the dead, a source of belief in the
transmigration of souls, 28 _sq._

Restrictions observed by mourners, 313 _sq._;
ceremonial, laid on gravediggers, 327;
imposed on manslayers, 449

Resurrection, ceremony of, among the Akikuya, 254

---- from the dead after three days, 67 _sq._;
of the dead, steps taken to prev