anthropological hypothesis, 160
primitive logic of the savage, 161
regarded as a spirit, 162
idea of spiritual beings framed on the human soul, 164
deified ancestors, 164
the Zulu first ancestor, 164
fetishes, 165
great gods in savage systems of religion, 165
the Lord of the Dead, 165
conception of an idealised divine First Ancestor, 188
hostile Good and Bad Beings, 166
the Supreme Being of savage creeds, 166
mediating 'Sons,' 167
Christian and Islamite influence on savage conceptions, 167
probable germs of the savage idea of a Supreme Being, 168
animistic conceptions, 168
ghosts, and Beings who never were human, 169
recognition by savages of our God in theirs, 169
the hypothesis of degeneracy, 170
the moral, friendly creative Being of low savage faith, 171
food offerings to a Universal Power, 171
the High Gods of low races, 173
intrusion of European ideas into savage religions, 173
the Fuegian Big Man, 174
ghosts of dead medicine man, 175
the Bora, or Australian tribal mysteries, 176, 177, 179
possible evolution of the Australian god, 178
mythology and theology of Darumulun, the highest Australian god, 178,
179, 183
religious sanction of morals, 179
selflessness the very essence of goodness, 180
precepts of Darumulan, 181, 182
argument from design, 184
Supreme Gods not necessarily developed out of 'spirits,' 185
distinction between deities and ghosts, 185
human beings adored as gods, 186
deathlessness of the Supreme Being of savage faith, 186, 188
idealisation of the savage himself, 187
negation of the ghost-theory, 188, 189
high creative gods never wore mortal men, 189
low savage distinction between gods, 189
propitiation by food and sacrifice, 190
'magnified non-natural men,' 190
gods to talk about, not to adore, 190
higher gods prior to the ghost theory, 191
See Supreme Beings; American Creators; Jehovah
Greeks, the, beliefs of, 302
Greenlanders, the, 144, 182
Gregory, Dr., cited, 86
Griesinger, Dr., cited, 132
Grinnell, Mr., on Pawnee beliefs, 234-237
Guiana Indians, religious beliefs of, 202-206, 256
Guinea, North and South, religious beliefs in, 220
Gurney, Mr., his experiments in hypnotism, 85, 86
cited, 107, 114, 117
Guyau, M., cited, 12, 24, 25
Hallucinations. See Anthropology and Hallucinations
Hamilton, Sir William, cited, 12
Hammond, Dr., on demoniacal possession, 131
Harteville, Madame, case of, 26
Hearne, on the Aurora Borealis, 3
on cure by suggestion, 21, 22
Hebrews. See Israelites
Hegel, cited, 30-34, 50, 56, 58, 78, 111, 152
Higgs, Police Constable, statement of, on the disturbances at Mr.
White's house, 326-328
Highland second-sight, 143-145
Hodgson, Dr., report on Mrs. Piper, 137, 140, 141
cited, 135, 325
Home, David Dunglas, his powers as a medium, 324, 325, 334-339
Howitt, Mr., cited, 128, 177-182
Hume, David, attitude towards miracles, 16
definition of a miracle, 16
self-contradictions, 17
refuses to examine miracle of the Abbé Paris, 18, 19, 22-25
alternative definition of a miracle, 25
cited, 297
Huxley, Professor, on savage religious cults, 42, 43, 48, 162, 163, 171,
176, 177, 182
on the evolution of Jehovah, 270, 271, 277, 279, 282, 286
cited, 17 _note_, 296, 324
Hypnotism, 6, 24, 29, 32, 34, 35, 37, 75, 76
Iamblichus, cited, 14, 336, 337, 339
Ibn Khaldoun, cited, 341
Im Thurn, on the religious ideas of the Indians of Guiana, 50, 160,
202-207, 256, 298
Incas, the, 85, 240-247, 258
Iroquois, the, 84, 85
Islam, influence of, on African beliefs, 221
Israelites, development of their religious ideas, 258, 260, 268-284, 302
James, Professor William, quoted, 23, 59, 73, 107, 110, 132, 137, 156,
294
Janet, Dr. Pierre, on 'willing' sleep, 36
on demoniacal possession, 134, 135
cited, 73, 294, 340, 341
Jeanne d'Arc, 34, 73, 115, 128, 276
Jehovah, theories of, 258, 260, 268
as a Moral Supreme Being, 268
anthropological theory of the origin of Jehovah-worship, 270
absence of ancestor-worship from the Hebrew tradition, 270-273
alleged evidence for ancestor-worship in Israel, 273-277
evolution from ghost-cult to the cult of Jehovah, 277
the term Elohim, 277
human shape assumed, 278
considered as a ghost-god, 279
sacrifices to, 280
suggestion of a Being not yet named Jehovah, 281
traditional emergence of Jehovah as the god of Israel, 281
as a deified ancestor, 282
moral element in the idea of Jehovah, 282, 286
a mere tribal god, 283
a Kenite god, 283, 284
inconsistencies of theorists concerning, 285
the moral element a survival of primitive ethics in the savage ancestors
of the Israelites, 287
verity of the Biblical account, 287
cited, 299
Jeraeil, mysteries of the Kurnai, 180
Jevons, Mr., cited, 186, 255, 300, 302
Jugglery, Pawnee, 235
Jung-Stilling, cited, 30, 63
Kaloc, Fijian name for gods, 200, 201
Kamschatkans, 166
Kant, inquires into Swedenborg's visions, 26, 59
disappointed with Swedenborg's 'Arcana Coelestia', 26, 27
on the metaphysics of 'spirits,' 27
discusses the subconscious, 28
cited, 125
Karens, beliefs of, 60, 73, 151
Karr, Alphonse, cited, 336
Kelvin, Lord, on hypnotism, 37
Kenites, the, 284
Kingsley, Miss, cited, 175, 211, 220, 328
Kirk, cited, 144
Kohl, cited, 148
Kulin, Australian tribe, 49
Kurnai, Australian tribe, their religious conceptions, 49, 180, 181, 187,
215, 262, 263, 287, 291
Laing, Mr. Samuel, cited, 12 _note_
Langlois, M., the case of, 75, 76
Lapps, beliefs of, 58, 71, 81
Latukas, the, 42
Laverterus, telepathic hypothesis of, 15
Le Loyer, cited, 15
Leaf, Mr., cited, 112 _note_
Leeward Isles, ideas of a god in, 251
Lefèbure, M., cited, 84, 149, 341
Legge, Dr., on the teaching of Confucius, 290
Lejean, M., on the Dinkas, 212
Lejeaune, Père, cited, 74, 83
Leng, Mr., cited, 133
Leon, Cieza de, cited, 241, 244
Léonie, the case of her hypnotisation, 75, 76
Leslie, David, on Zulu clairvoyance, 68
on ghosts, 128
Levitation, 334
Littré, M., cited, 136
Livingstone, Dr., cited, 6, 135, 170
Lloyd, Dr., cited, 327, 328
Loan-god, a, Tshi theory of, 222-229
Lourdes, cures at, 19
Lubbock, Sir John, cited, 42
Macalister, Professor, his opinion of Mrs. Piper, 140
MacCulloch, Dr., on second-sight, 58
Macdonald, Duff, cited, 150, 213, 215, 218
Macgregor, Dr. Alastair, gives instances of second-sight, 79-81
Madagascar, 84
Magnetism, 29, 34, 35
Malagasies, beliefs of, 84
Malays of Keeling Island, fetishism in, 141
Man, Mr., on Andamanese religion and mythology, 194, 195
Mans, magical rapport, 199, 200
Mandans, the, 188
Manganjah, practice of sorcery in, 149
Manning, Mr., cited, 146
Maoris, religious beliefs of, 83, 113-115, 118, 119, 150, 166, 188
Marawa, Banks Islands deity, 198, 199
Mariner, cited, 278
Markham, Mr., cited, 243, 246
Marson, Madame, case of, 71
Mason, Dr., on familiar spirits, 130
Mather, Cotton, cited, 16, 55
Maudsloy, Dr., cited, 23 _note_
Mani, Maori deity, 166, 188
Mayo, Dr., cited, 86
Medici, Catherine de', cited, 66
Medicine-men, 84
Mediums, 324-339
Melanesians, religious beliefs of, 150, 169, 189, 197, 199, 200
Menestrier, le Père, uses the divining-rod, 154
Menzies, Professor, cited, 257
Mesmer, his theory of magnetism, 29, 34
Millar, cited, 40, 41
Miracles, regarded from the standpoint of science, 14
early tests, 14
and more modern research, 15
witchcraft, 15, 16
Hume's essay on, 16
and his definitions of a miracle, 16, 25
cures at the tomb of the Abbè Paris, 18-20, 23
Binet and Fèrè's explanation of these cures, 20
cures by suggestion, 20, 21
Dr. Charcot's views, 20
faith cures, 20-22
science opposed to systematic negation, 22
refusal to examine evidence, 23-25
'marvellous facts,' 24
suggestion à distance, 24
Kant's researches, 26-29
Swedenborg's clairvoyance, 26, 27
thought-transference and hypnotic sleep, 29, 30, 32, 35
water-finding, 39
phenomena of clairvoyance, 31
Hegel's 'magic tie,' 31
Dr. Max Dessoir's views, 31, 32
hallucinations, 32
animal magnetism, 34
hypnotism, 35
'willing,' 36
facts and phenomena confronting science, 37
'Miss X,' on crystal-gazing, 87, 315, 316, 340, 341
Mlungu, Central African deity, 213-218
Molina, Christoval de, on Inca beliefs, 242, 243
Moll, Herr, cited, 314
Montgeron, M., cited, 19, 20
More, Henry, cited, 15
Moses, founder of the Hebrew religion, 283-286
Mtanga, African deity, 213-217
Müller, Max, cited, 41, 43, 46, 265, 266, 289
Mungan-ngaur, Kurnai Supreme Being, 181, 188, 190, 205, 217, 259
Mwetyi, Shekuni Great Spirit, 220
Myers, Frederic, on hypnotic slumber, 30, 33
cited, 15 _note_
Nana Nyankupon, Gold Coast Supreme Being, 225-228, 232, 280
Nà-pi, American Indian deity, 237-239, 241
Ndengei, Fijian Supreme Being, 200-202, 228, 248
Nevius, Dr., on demoniacal possession, 131-135
Newbold, Professor W. Romaine, 135
Nezahuati, erects a bloodless fane to the Unknown God, 258
Nicaraguans, the, 60
North, Major, on Pawnee jugglery, 235, 236
Nzambi Mpungu, Bantu Supreme Being, 226, 228, 242
Okeus (Oki), American Indian deity, 231, 232
Okey, the sisters, case of, 37 _note_
Ombwiri, South Guinea god, 220
Orpen, Mr., cited, 193
Oxford, Rev. A.W., on ancient Israel, 275-277, 283-285
Pachacamac, Inca, Supreme Being, 230, 239-247, 258
Pachayachachi, Inca god, 242, 246
Paladino, Eusapia, case of, 325
Palmer, Mr., cited, 179
Paris, Abbè miracles wrought at his tomb, 18-20, 23
Parish, Herr, criticism of his reply to the arguments for telepathy,
307-323
cited, 8, 86, 107
Park, Mungo, on African beliefs, 221, 223
Pawnees, religious beliefs and practices of, 212, 224, 230, 233-236, 263
Payne, Mr., cited, 160, 161, 246
Peden, Rev. Mr., cited, 66
Pelippa, Captain, cited, 173
Pendulum experiment, a form of the, 151
Pepys, cited, 15
Peruvians, religious ideas and practices of, 75, 239-247
Phantasms of the Dead, 128
Phinuit, Dr. See Mrs. Piper
Piper, Mrs., the case of, 132, 136-141
Pliny, cited, 15
Plotinus, cited, 66
Plutarch, cited, 15
Podmore, Mr., on psychical research, 111, 325, 326, 328, 330-336, 338, 339
Poltergeist, the, and his explainers, 334-339
Polynesians, religious beliefs of, 7, 83, 251, 252, 256
Polytheism, 289, 291, 303
Porphyry, cited, 14
Powhattan, Virginian chief, 231, 232
Puluga, Andamanese Supreme Being, 195, 205, 228, 258, 262
Pundjel, Australian god, 258, 261, 262
Puységur, de, his discovery of hypnotic sleep, 29,
cited, 76
Qat, Banks Islands deity, 189, 198, 199
Qing, Bushman, his ideas of the god Cang, 193, 196
Ravenwood, Master of, instanced, 126
Red Indians, beliefs and practices of, 3, 5, 6, 21, 22, 83, 104 _note_,
128, 142, 143, 203
Regnard, M., cited, 71
Renan, M., cited, 285
Révillo, M., cited, 291, 293
Reynolds, Dr. Russell, cited, 22
Rhombos, use of the, 84
Ribot, M., cited, 132
Richet, Professor Charles, hypnotises Léonie, 75, 76
cited, 64, 73, 82, 154, 294
Ritter, Dr., believes in Siderism, 29
Romans, religious ideas of, 302
'Rose, Miss,' her experience of crystal-gazing, 90,91
Rose, Eliza, the case of, 326-330
Roskoff, cited, 42
Rowley, Mr., cited, 149
Russegger, cited, 212
Salcamayhua, cited, 246
Samoyeds, 58, 72
Sand, George, cited, 86
Santos, cited, 214
Saul and the Witch of Endor, 14
Scheffer, cited, 66, 70, 71, 81
Schoolcraft, Mr., cited, 236
Schrenck-Notzing, von, cited, 55 _note_
Scot, Reginald, cited, 15
Scott, Rev. David Clement, cited, 49 _note_, 106, 217, 218
Scott, Sir Walter, his attitude towards clairvoyance, 27
cited, 121, 126
Sebituane, case of, 135, 136
Second-sight, 56, 66, 78-81
Seer-binding, 143
Seers, 72
Shang-ti, Chinese Supreme Being, 245, 290, 291
Shortland, Mr., quoted, 113
Sidgwick, Professor, cited, 318, 332
Sioux, the, 236
Skidi or Wolf Pawnees, the, 233, 234
Smith, Mrs. Erminie, on crystal-gazing, 84
Smith, historian of Virginia, cited, 231, 232
Smith, Robertson, cited, 259, 261, 262, 281 _note_, 298
Smyth, Brough, cited, 42, 178, 182, 293
Society for Psychical Research, 116, 118
Spencer, Herbert, on early religious ideas, 42, 43
ghosts, 47
Animism, 48 _note_, 53, 54
limits of savage language, 49
the Fuegian Big Man, 174
Australian marriage customs, 175
Australian religion, 182
men-gods, 186
religion of Bushmen, 193
ancestor-worship, 212, 213, 271-273
cited, 162, 167, 170, 216, 218, 292
Spiritualism, 324-339.
See Fetishism
Stade, Herr, cited, 276, 284, 285
Stanley, Hans, cited, 12
Starr, cited, 104 _note_
Stoll, cited, 72
Strachey, William, cited, 229-232
Suetonius, cited, 15
Sully, Mr., cited. 295
Sun-worship, 238-245
Supreme Beings of savages, regarded as eternal, moral, and powerful, 193
Cagn, the Bushman god, 193
Puluga, the Andamanese god, 195
savage mysteries and rites, 196
alliance of ethics with religion, 196
the Banks Islanders' belief in Tamate (ghosts) and Vui (Beings who never
had been human), 197
corporeal and incorporeal Vuis, 198
sacrificial offerings to ghosts and spirits, 199
the soul the complex of real bodiless after-images, 200
Fijian belief, 200
Ndengei, the Fijian chief god, 200, 201
the idea of primeval Eternal Beings, 202
the Great Spirit of North American tribes, 203
dream origin of the ghost theory, 203
Guiana Indian names indicating a belief in a Great Spirit, 203-206
the God-cult abandoned for the Ghost-cult, 205
Unkulunkulu, the Zulu Creator, 207-210
the notion of a dead Maker, 208
preference for serviceable family spirits, 209
the Dinka Creator, 211
African ancestor-worship, 212
Mlungu, a deity formed by aggregation of departed spirits, 213
ethical element in religious mysteries, 215
the position of Mtanga, 216
religious beliefs in the Blantyre region, 217, 218
negro tendency to monotheism, 218
beliefs in North and South Guinea, 220
Mungo Park's observation of African beliefs, 221
Islamic influence, 221
the Tshi theory of a loan-god,' borrowed from Europeans, 222-228
varieties of Tshi gods, 224, 225
fetishes, 225
Nana Nyankupon, the 'God of the Christians,' 225-229
American Creators (see under), 230-252
the Polynesian cult, 251, 252
Chinese conceptions, 290-292
Swedenborg, Emanuel, visions of, 26
recovers Mme. Harteville's receipt, 26
his 'Arcana Coelestia,' 27
noticed by Kant, 28, 29, 59
Taa-Roa, Polynesian deity, 251, 252, 256, 280, 308
Table-turning, 151
Tahitians, 251
Taine, M., cited, 57
Ta-li-y-Tooboo, Tongan deity, 278, 279, 282
Tamate, Banks Islands ghosts, 197-199
Tamoi, the 'ancient of heaven,' 188
Tando, Gold Coast god, 225
Tanner, John, case of, 57, 128
Teed, Esther, the Amherst mystery, 333
Telepathy, oppositions of science to, 307
hallucination of memory, 307
presentiments, 308
dreams, 308, 309, 312
veridical hallucinations, 309, 311
coincidence in S.P.R.'s Census cases, 310
non-coincidental cases, 311
condition to beget hallucination, 312
hallucinations mere dreams, 312
crystal-gazing, 314-316
number of coincidences no proof, 316
association of ideas, 316
coincidental collective hallucinations, 317-323
See Crystal visions
Thomson, Basil, cited, 200 _note_, 248, 249, 339
Thought-transference, 4, 29-32, 35
illustrative cases, 88-103
Thouvenel, M., cited, 152
Thyraeus on ghosts, 15
Tien, Chinese heaven, 290, 291
Ti-ra-wá, American Indian god, 234-236, 239
Tlapané, African wizard, 135
Tongans, religious beliefs of, 278-280
Tonkaways, American tribe, 233
Torfaeus, cited, 71
Totemism, 239, 241, 262, 263, 269, 270, 276
Tregear, Mr., on Maori ghost-seeing, 113
Tshi theory of a loan-god, 223-227
Tuckey, Dr. Lloyd, cited, 36
Tui Laga, Fijian deity, 249
Tundun, ancestor of the Kurnai, 181
Tylor, Mr., his test of recurrence, 41
on anthropological origin of religion, 43
on savage philosophy of super-normal phenomena, 45, 53
disproves the assertion about 'godless' tribes, 47
his term Animism, 48, 49
theory of metaphysical genius in low savages, 51
ghost-seers, 54
on psychical conditions of contemporary savages, 54-56
on the influence of Swedenborg, 59
savage names for the ghost-soul, 60
second-sight, 66
mediums, 73
dreams, 106
hallucinations, 110-113, 117, 118
demoniacal possession, 131
fetishism, 148, 149, 165
divining-rod, 153
evolution of gods from ghosts, 163, 164
fetish deities, 165
dualistic idea, 166
Supreme Being of savage creeds, 166, 167
the degeneration theory, 170, 254
confusion of thought upon religion, 182
list of first ancestors deified, 188
savage mysteries, 201
savage Animism, 204
Okeus and his rites, 231
Pachacamac, 245
Confucius's teaching, 290
the mystagogue Home, 325
levitation, 334
cited, 50, 52, 53, 58, 59, 61-63, 78, 151, 161, 162, 170, 173, 184, 185,
203, 231, 232, 246, 257, 293, 297
Tyndall, Professor, cited, 324
Uiracocha, Inca Creator, 242-246
Umabakulists, diviners by sticks, 151
Unkulunkulu, Zulu mythical first ancestor, 164, 168, 188, 202, 207, 220
Vincent, Mr., 29
on clairvoyance, 34, 36, 37
Virchow, cited, 19
Vui, non-ghost gods, 169, 197-200
Wabose, Catherine, Red Indian seeress, experience of, 73, 74
Waltz, cited, 177, 194 _note_, 218-220, 222, 243
Wallace, Alfred Basset, on Hume's theory of 'miracles,' 17, 18
on Ritter, 29
on clairvoyance, 31
Wayao, Supreme Being of the, 213, 214
Wellhausen, cited, 277, 283, 285, 286, 298
Welton, Thomas, on the divining-rod, 154
Wesley, John, cited, 16
White, Joseph, spirit manifestations at his house, 326-331
Wierus, cited, 15
Williams, Mr., cited, 201, 248
Wilson, Mr., cited, 50, 219, 220
Windward Isles, ideas of a God in, 251
Witch of Endor, the, 14, 277, 278
Witchcraft, 14-16
Wodrow, Mr., cited, 16
Wolf tribes, 233
Wynne, Captain, cited, 335
Yama, Vedic-Aryan ghost-god, 188
Yaos, religious beliefs of, 150, 213, 214-216
Yerri Yuppon, good spirit of the Chonos, 175
York, a Fuegian, cited, 174
Yuncus, a Peruvian race, worship of, 240, 246
Zarate, Augustin de, cited, 240
Zoller, M., disturbances in the house of, 156, 157
Zulus, religious beliefs and customs of, 65, 66, 68, 70, 72, 85, 128,
141, 142, 150, 152, 207-210
Zuñis, hymns of the, 248, 251