31 _sqq._;
disbelief in death from natural causes, 33 _sqq._;
thought vague and inconsistent, 143

---- religion, the study of, 7

Savagery, importance of the study of, 6 _sq._;
a case of arrested or retarded development, 88 _sq._;
rise of monarchy essential to emergence from, 142

Savages pay little attention to the stars, 140;
strength and universality of belief in immortality among, 468

Savo, one of the Solomon Islands, 347

Scarf, soul caught in a, 412 _sq._

Scenery of Fiji, 409 _sq._

Schomburgk, Richard, 38

Schuermann, C. W., 42 _sq._

Scientific conception of the world as a system of impersonal forces, 20
_sq._

Scotland, burial custom in, 453, 458

Sea, land of the dead at the bottom of the, 307, 326

---- -burial, 397

---- -burial and land-burial, 347 _sq._

---- -ghosts and land-ghosts, 348

Seclusion of widow and widower, 204, 248 _sq._, 259, 275;
of relatives at grave, 209;
of mourners, 223 _sq._, 313 _sq._, 360;
of novices at circumcision, 251 _sq._, 260 _sq._, 302;
of manslayers, 279 _sq._;
of gravediggers, 327, 451;
of female mourners, 398

Seclusion and purification of manslayer, 229 _sq._

Second death of the dead, 195, 287, 299, 345, 350, 351, 354

Secret societies, 395

---- Society (_Asa_), 233

Seemann, Berthold, 439 _sq._

Seer describes ghosts, 204 _sq._

Seget Sele, the, of Dutch New Guinea, 317

Seligmann, Dr. C. G., 47, 191, 197, 206

Selwyn, Bishop, 363

Serpent and his cast skin in myths of the origin of death, 60, 69
_sqq._, 74 _sq._, 83

----, god in form of, 445, 462

Serpents, souls of the dead in the form of, 300

Setting sun, ghosts attracted to the, 175 _sq._

Sexual licence following initiation, 433, 434 _n._ 1, 436 _sq._

Shadow or reflection, human soul associated with, 129, 130, 173, 207,
267, 395, 412

Shadows of people seized by ghosts, 378, 383

Shaking of medium a symptom of inspiration, 308, 309, 311

Sham attack on men engaged in attending to a corpse, 177, 178

---- burial, 356

---- fight to appease ghost, 136 _sq._;
as a funeral ceremony, 235 _sq._, 327 _sq._;
as a ceremony to promote the growth of yams, 330.
_See also_ Pretence

Sharks animated by ghosts, 348

----, ghosts incarnate in, 373, 380;
images of, 373

Shaving heads of mourners, 208

Sheep in story of the origin of death, 64

Shell-money, 394;
laid on corpse and buried with it, 398

Shortlands Islands, 71

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