CHAPTER XV. Domestic life: Medicine, sickness, and death

Medicine and disease

Natural medicines and diseases

Magic ailments and means of producing them

The composition of a few "Kometán"

Other magic means

Bodily ailments proceeding from supernatural causes

Sickness due to capture of the "soul" by an inimical spirit

Epidemics attributed to the malignancy of sea demons

Propitiation of the demons of contagious diseases

Sickness and death

The theory of death

Fear of the dead and of the death spirits

Incidents accompanying deaths

Preparation of the corpse

The funeral

Certain mourning taboos are observed

Death and burial of one killed by an enemy, of a warrior chief,

and of a priest

The after world

The death feast

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