ne of warrior ghost, 365

Shrines for ancestral spirits, 316, 317

Siamese, burial custom of the, 456

Siasi Islands, 244

Sick and old buried alive in Fiji, 420 _sqq._

Sickness caused by demons, 194;
caused by ghosts, 56 _sq._, 195, 197, 222, 269 _sq._, 271, 279, 300,
305, 322, 372, 381 _sqq._, 389

---- supposed to be an effect of witchcraft, 35 _sqq._

Sickness and death set down to sorcery, 240, 257

---- and disease recognised by some savages as due to natural causes,
55 _sq._
_See also_ Disease

Sido, his journey to the land of the dead, 211 _sq._

Sins, confession of, 201

Skin cast as a means of renewing youth, 69 _sqq._, 74 _sq._, 83

Skull-shaped stones in rain-making, 336 _sq._

Skulls, spirits of the dead embodied in their, 338

---- and arm-bones, special treatment of the, 199 _sq._;
carried by dancers at funeral dance, 200

---- of the dead preserved, 199 _sqq._, 209, 249, 318, 328, 339, 347,
351 _sq._, 398, 400 _sq._, 403;
preserved and consulted as oracles, 176, 178 _sq._, 179;
used in divination, 213;
kept in men's clubhouses, 221, 225;
inserted in wooden images, 311 _sq._, 321;
religious ceremonies performed with the, 329 _sq._;
food offered to the, 339 _sq._, 352;
used to fertilise plantations, 340;
used in conjurations, 402

Sky, souls of the dead thought to be in the, 133 _sq._, 135, 138 _sq._,
141, 142

Slain, ghosts of the, especially dreaded, 205, 258, 279, 306, 323

Sleep, soul thought to quit body in, 257, 291, 395, 412

Smith, E. R., 53

Smyth, R. Brough, 43 _sq._

Snakes, ghosts in, 380

Sneezing, omens from, 194

Social progress stimulated by favourable natural conditions, 141 _sq._,
148 _sq._

---- ranks, gradation of, in Fiji, 408

Solomon Islands, 343, 346 _sqq._;
sacrificial ritual in the, 365 _sq._

Somosomo, one of the Fijian islands, 425, 441, 442

Sorcerers, their importance in history, 16

---- catch and detain souls, 267, 268 _sq._, 270

---- put to death, 35, 35 _sq._, 37 _sq._, 40 _sq._, 44, 50, 136, 250,
269, 277, 278 _sq._, 341 _sq._
_See also_ Magician

Sorcery as the supposed cause of natural deaths, 33 _sqq._, 136, 268,
270, 402;
sickness and death ascribed to, 257

---- a cause of keeping down the population, belief in, 38, 40, 46
_sq._, 51 _sqq._

---- Fijian dread of, 413 _sq._;
_See also_ Magic _and_ Witchcraft

Sores ascribed to action of ghosts, 257

_Soro_, atonement, 427