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Title: The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead
Vol. II

Author: James George Frazer

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THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY
VOL. II

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THE
BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY
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SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER, F.R.S., F.B.A.

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

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VOL. II
THE BELIEF AMONG THE POLYNESIANS

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PREFACE

The first volume of this work, which comprised the Gifford Lectures
given by me at St. Andrews in the years 1911 and 1912, dealt with the
belief in immortality and the worship of the dead, as these are found
among the aborigines of Austra