q._

_Tapum_, guardian spirits, 227

Taro, prayer for good crop of, 289

Tasmanians, the, 89

Tattooing as sign of mourning, 314

Teeth of dead worn by relatives, 314 _sq._, 400, 404;
used as amulets, 332;
preserved as relics, 339;
used to fertilise plantations, 340

Temples (_paraks_) in Tumleo, 220 _sq._

----, Fijian, 439, 441 _sq._

Terer, a mythical being, 181

Thapauerlu, a pool, 105, 108

Theology, natural, defined, 1, 8

---- and religion, how related, 9

Thomson, Basil, 408, 414, 428 _n._ 1, 429 _n._ 1, 434 _n._ 1, 436

Threats of the dying, 273

Three days, resurrection after, 67 _sq._

Threshold, the dead carried out under the, 453, 457;
movable, 457

Thrush in story of the origin of death, 61 _sq._

Thunder the voice of a mythical being, 112, 114, 143

_Tindalo_, a powerful ghost, 346

Tinneh or Dene Indians, their ideas as to death, 39 _sq._

Tlaloc, Mexican rain-god, 163

Tlingit Indians, 163;
burial custom of the, 455

To Kambinana, 69

To Korvuvu, 69

Togoland, West Africa, 81

Toll exacted from ghosts, 224

Tollkeeper, ghostly, 224

Tonga, 406, 411

Tongans, their limited doctrine of immortality, 33

Torres Islands, 343, 353

---- Straits Islanders, their ideas as to sickness and death, 47;
their belief in immortality, 170 _sqq._;
their ethnological affinity and social culture, 170 _sqq._;
funeral ceremonies of the, 176 _sqq._

Totem, a dominant, 113;
design emblematic of, 168

Totemic ancestor developing into a god, 113;
ancestors, traditions concerning, 115 _sqq._

---- animals, imitation of, 177

---- clans, 104;
animals and plants eaten, 120 _sq._;
animals and plants dramatically represented by actors, 121 _sq._

Totemism, 95;
possibly developing into ancestor worship, 114 _sq._;
in Torres Straits, 172

Totems, dramatic ceremonies connected with, 119 _sqq._;
eaten, 120 _sqq._;
magical ceremonies for the multiplication of, 124 _sq._

Tracking a ghost, 277 _sq._

Traditions of the dead associated with conspicuous features of the
landscape, 115 _sqq._

Transmigration, widespread belief in, 29;
of dead into animals, 242, 245;
of souls, 322;
Fijian doctrine of, 467

Travancore, burial custom in, 456

Tree of immortality, 74

Tree-burial, 161, 166, 167, 199, 203;
of young children, 312 _sq._

---- -tops, spirits in, 313

Trees, property of dead hung up on, 148;
as monuments of the dead, 225;