Belief in
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共 51 段- The Tami Islanders of Huon Gulf (continued), their doctrine
- But how can this be done? how can we investigate the ideas o
- In the first place, then, men in many lands and many ages ha
- When we ask how it comes about that dead men have so often b
- Speaking of the Indians of Guiana, an English missionary, wh
- Speaking of the tribes of Central Australia, Messrs. Spencer
- [Footnote 7: M. Dobrizhoffer, _Historia de Abiponibus_ (Vien
- Another story of the origin of death which belongs to this t
- The Wemba of Northern Rhodesia relate how God in the beginni
- [Footnote 83: H. Sundermann, "Die Insel Nias und die Mission
- [Sidenote: Traditionary origin of the local totem centres
- [Footnote 108: On the zoological peculiarities of Australia
- To illustrate at once the nature and the abundance of these
- [Footnote 147: Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Centr
- It deserves to be noted, that while the Narrinyeri nominally
- The difference in this respect between the practice of the C
- In these mourning customs, wild and extravagant as the expre
- [Footnote 219: (Sir) G. Grey, _Journals of Two Expeditions o
- When a death had taken place, the corpse was carried out of
- To sum up the foregoing evidence, we may say that if the bel
- Common people among the Mafulu are buried in shallow graves
- In the south-eastern part of New Guinea the fear of the dead
- The island of Tumleo lies in 142° 25" of East Longitude and
- Leaving Potsdam Harbour and the Monumbo, and moving still ea
- [Sidenote: Funeral and mourning customs.]
- The place where the operation is performed on the lads is a
- [Sidenote: The Kai tribe of Saddle Mountain in German New Gu
- A civilised observer who witnessed such a scene of boisterou
- Sometimes the worthy soul who thus for a valuable considerat
- However, the restless spirit returns from time to time to ha
- Towards the western end of the Dutch possession there is on
- The family in which a death has taken place is subject for a
- [Footnote 511: A. F. R. Wollaston, _Pygmies and Papuans_ (Lo
- We may assume with some probability that in the mind of the
- [Sidenote: Distinction between ghosts of power and ghosts of
- We will now consider the various modes in which the Eastern
- [Footnote 569: R. H. Codrington, _op. cit._ pp. 261 _sq._]
- The natives of Aneiteum, one of the Southern New Hebrides, w
- Unfortunately, however, an adept in the black art can work h
- In New Ireland the dead were rolled up in winding-sheets mad
- Like the other peoples of the Melanesian stock the Fijians s
- [Footnote 654: Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ iii. 46, 363. As to th
- The meaning of such orgies is very obscure, but from what we
- [Footnote 691: Rev. Lorimer Fison, "The Nanga, or Sacred Sto
- Perhaps the same theory of immortality partially accounts fo
- Sometimes, while the custom continues to be practised, the i
- [Footnote 706: Ch. Wilkes, _Narrative of the United States E
- Bull-roarers, 243;
- Ghosts, mischievous nature of, 28;
- _Physostigma venenosum_ in poison ordeal, 52
- Worship of ancestors, 221, 328 _sqq._, 338;