The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I | Page 5

skulls of the dead, 221;
spirits of the dead as the causes of sickness and disease, 222 sq.; burial
and mourning customs, 223 sq.; fate of the human soul after death, 224;
monuments to the dead, 225; disinterment of the bones, 225;
propitiation of ghosts and spirits, 226; guardian-spirits in the temples,
226 sq.
The Monumbo of Potsdam Harbour, 227 sq.; their beliefs concerning
the spirits of the dead, 228 sq.; their fear of ghosts, 229; their treatment
of manslayers, 229 sq.
The Tamos of Astrolabe Bay, 230; their ideas as to the souls of the
dead, 231 sq.; their fear of ghosts, 232 sqq.; their Secret Society and
rites of initiation, 233; their preservation of the jawbones of the dead,

234 sq.; their sham fights after a death, 235 sq.; these fights perhaps
intended to throw dust in the eyes of the ghost, 236 sq.
Lecture XI.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of German
New Guinea (continued)
The Papuans of Cape King William, pp. 238 sq.; their ideas as to spirits
and the souls of the dead, 239 sq.; their belief in sorcery as a cause of
death, 240 sq.; their funeral and mourning customs, 241 sq.; the fate of
the soul after death, 242.
The Yabim of Finsch Harbour, their material and artistic culture, 242
sq.; their clubhouses for men, 243; their beliefs as to the state of the
dead, 244 sq.; the ghostly ferry, 244 sq.; transmigration of human souls
into animals, 245; the return of the ghosts, 246; offerings to ghosts, 246;
ghosts provided with fire, 246 sq.; ghosts help in the cultivation of land,
247 sq.; burial and mourning customs, 248 sq.; divination to discover
the sorcerer who has caused a death, 249 sq.; bull-roarers, 250;
initiation of young men, 250 sqq.; the rite of circumcision, the novices
supposed to be swallowed by a monster, 251 sq.; the return of the
novices, 253; the essence of the initiatory rites seems to be a simulation
of death and resurrection, 253 sqq.; the new birth among the Akikuyu
of British East Africa, 254.
Lecture XII.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of German
New Guinea (continued)
The Bukaua of Huon Gulf, their means of subsistence and men's
clubhouses, pp. 256 sq.; their ideas as to the souls of the dead, 257;
sickness and death caused by ghosts and sorcerers, 257 sq.; fear of the
ghosts of the slain, 258; prayers to ancestral spirits on behalf of the
crops, 259; first-fruits offered to the spirits of the dead, 259; burial and
mourning customs, 259 sq.; initiation of young men, novices at
circumcision supposed to be swallowed and afterwards disgorged by a
monster, 260 sq.
The Kai, a Papuan tribe of mountaineers inland from Finsch Harbour,
262; their country, mode of agriculture, and villages, 262 sq.;

observations of a German missionary on their animism, 263 sq.; the
essential rationality of the savage, 264-266; the Kai theory of the two
sorts of human souls, 267 sq.; death commonly thought to be caused by
sorcery, 268 sq.; danger incurred by the sorcerer, 269; many hurts and
maladies attributed to the action of ghosts, 269 sq.; capturing lost souls,
270 sq.; ghosts extracted from the body of a sick man or scraped from
his person, 271; extravagant demonstrations of grief at the death of a
sick man, 271-273; hypocritical character of these demonstrations,
which are intended to deceive the ghost, 273; burial and mourning
customs, preservation of the lower jawbone and one of the lower arm
bones, 274; mourning costume, seclusion of widow or widower, 274
sq.; widows sometimes strangled to accompany their dead husbands,
275; house or village deserted after a death, 275.
Lecture XIII.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of German
New Guinea (continued)
The Kai (continued), their offerings to the dead, p. 276; divination by
means of ghosts to detect the sorcerer who has caused a death, 276-278;
avenging the death on the sorcerer and his people, 278 sq.; precautions
against the ghosts of the slain, 279 sq.; attempts to deceive the ghosts
of the murdered, 280-282; pretence of avenging the ghost of a
murdered man, 282; fear of ghosts by night, 282 sq.; services rendered
by the spirits of the dead to farmers and hunters, 283-285; the journey
of the soul to the spirit land, 285 sq.; life of the dead in the other world,
286 sq.; ghosts die the second death and turn into animals, 287; ghosts
of famous people invoked long after their death, 287-289; possible
development of ghosts into gods, 289 sq.; lads at circumcision
supposed to be swallowed and disgorged by a monster, 290 sq.
The Tami Islanders of Huon Gulf, 291; their theory of a double human
soul, a long one and a short one, 291 sq.; departure of the short soul for