sqq._,
108 _sqq._, 125;
ceremonies in honour of the, 108 _sqq._

Woman, old, in myths of the origin of death, 64, 71 _sq._

----, the Great, 464

Women thought not to have immortal spirits, 92;
cut and burn their bodies in mourning, 154 _sqq._, 196, 203;
excluded from circumcision ground, 291, 301;
dance at deaths, 293;
drink juices of putrefying corpse, 355;
not allowed to be present at sacrifices, 367;
whip men in mourning, 452;
burial of childless, 458;
the cause of death, 472

---- dying in childbed, special treatment of their ghosts, 358;
their ghosts specially feared, 212, 458 _sqq._

Wordsworth on immortality, 26 _n._ 1

Worship of ancestors, 221, 328 _sqq._, 338;
predominance of the, 297 _sq._;
possibly evolved from totemism, 114 _sq._
_See also_ Worship of the dead.

---- of ancestors in Central Australia, possible evolution of, 125
_sq._;
of ancestral spirits in the _Nanga_, 428 _sq._

---- of the dead, 23 _sqq._, 328 _sqq._, 338;
in part based on a theory of dreams, 27 _sq._;
elements of it widespread, 31;
in British New Guinea, 201 _sq._;
predominance of the, 297 _sq._

---- of the dead, incipient, in Australia, 149, 150, 168 _sq._

---- of the dead in Torres Straits, elements of a, 189;
among the Yabim, elements of a, 255

Worshipful ghosts, 362 _sq._

Wotjobaluk, the, 67, 139

Wraiths, 396

Wurunjerri, the, 146

Yabim, the, of German New Guinea, 242 _sqq._;
their ideas as to death, 47

Yams, prayers for, 330;
stones to make yams grow, 337 _sq._

Young children buried on trees, 312 _sq._

Young and old, difference between the modes of burying, 161, 162 _sq._

Youth supposed to be renewed by casting skin, 69 _sqq._, 74 _sq._, 83

Ysabel, one of the Solomon Islands, 350, 372, 379, 380

Yule Island, 196 _n._ 2, 197

Zahn, Heinrich, 242, 244

Zend-Avesta, 453

Zulus, their story of the origin of death, 60 _sq._

END OF VOL. I

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