Soul, world-wide belief in survival of soul after death, 24, 25, 33

Soul of sleeper detained by enemy, 49;
human, associated with shadow or reflection, 173, 267, 395, 412;
pretence of carrying away the, 181 _sq._;
detained by demon, 194;
recovery of a lost, 194, 270 _sq._;
thought to quit body in sleep, 257, 291, 395, 412;
resides in the eye, 267;
thought to pervade the body, 267;
two kinds of human, 267 _sq._;
caught and detained by sorcerer, 267, 268 _sq._, 270;
long soul and short soul, 291 _sq._;
of offering consumed by deity or spirit, 297, 298;
thought to reside in the blood, 307;
Melanesian theory of the, 344 _sq._;
of sick tied up by ghost, 374;
North Melanesian theory of the, 395 _sq._;
in form of animals, 396;
Fijian theory of the, 410 _sqq._;
caught in a scarf, 412 _sq._;
of grandfather reborn in grandchild, 417;
of offerings consumed by gods, 443

---- -stuff or spiritual essence, 267 _sq._, 270, 271, 279.
_See also_ Spirit

Souls, recovery of lost, 300 _sq._;
River of the, 462;
the killer of, 464 _sq._

---- of animals, sacrifices to the, 239;
of animals offered to ghosts, 246

---- attributed by the Fijians to animals, vegetables, and inanimate
things, 410 _sq._

---- of the dead identified with spirits of nature, 130;
turned into animals, 229;
as falling stars, 229;
live in trees, 316

---- carried off by ghosts, 197, 383;
of sorcerers in animals, 39

---- of noblemen only saved, 33;
of those who died from home called back, 311

Spells or incantations, 385

Spencer and Gillen, 46 _sq._, 91 _sq._, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 116
_sqq._, 123 _sq._, 140, 148, 156, 157, 158

Spider and Death, 82 _sq._

Spirit, human, associated with the heart, 129;
associated with the shadow, 129, 130.
_See also_ Soul

Spirits, ancestral, help hunters and fishers, 226;
worshipped in the _Nanga_, 428 _sq._;
cloth and weapons offered to, 430 _sq._;
novices presented to, at initiation, 432 _sq._, 434

---- of animals go to the spirit land, 210

---- consume spiritual essence of sacrifices, 285, 287, 297, 298

---- of the dead thought to be strengthened by blood, 159;
reborn in women, 93 _sq._;
give information to the living, 240;
give good crops, 247 _sq._;
thought to be mischievous, 257

Spirits and ghosts, distinction between, in Central Melanesia, 343, 363

---- and gods, no certain demarcation between, 441

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