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account, 345 sq.; supernatural power (mana) acquired through
ghosts, 346 sq.
Burial customs in the Western Islands (Solomon Islands), 347 sqq.;
land-burial and sea-burial, land-ghosts and sea-ghosts, 347 sq.; funeral
feasts and burnt-offerings to the dead, 348 sq.; the land of the dead and
the ghostly ferry, 350 sq.; ghosts die the second death and turn into the
nests of white ants, 350 sq.; preservation of the skull and jawbone in
order to ensure the protection of the ghost, 351 sq.; human heads
sought in order to add fresh spiritual power (mana) to the ghost of a
dead chief, 352.
Beliefs and customs concerning the dead in the Eastern Islands (New
Hebrides, Banks' Islands, Torres Islands), 352 sqq.; Panoi, the
subterranean abode of the dead, 353 sq.; ghosts die the second death,
354; different fates of the souls of the good and bad, 354 sq.; descent of
the living into the world of the dead, 355; burial customs of the Banks'
Islanders, 355 sqq.; dead sometimes temporarily buried in the house,
355; display of property beside the corpse and funeral oration, 355 sq.;
sham burial of eminent men, 356; ghosts driven away from the village,
356-358; deceiving the ghosts of women who have died in child-bed,
358; funeral feasts, 358 sq.; funeral customs in the New Hebrides, 359
sqq.; the aged buried alive, 359 sq.; seclusion of mourners and
restrictions on their diet, 360; sacrifice of pigs, 360 sq.; the journey of
the ghost to the spirit land, 361 sq.; provisions made by the living for
the welfare of the dead, 362.
Only ghosts of powerful men worshipped, 362 sq.; institution of the
worship of a martial ghost, 363 sq.; offerings of food and drink to the
dead, 364 sq.; sacrifice of pigs to ghosts in the Solomon Islands, 365
sq.
Lecture XVII.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of Central
Melanesia (concluded)

Public sacrifices to ghosts in the Solomon Islands, pp. 367 sq.; offering
of first-fruits to ghosts, 368 sq.; private ghosts as distinguished from
public ghosts, 369 sq.; fighting ghosts kept as spiritual auxiliaries, 370;
ghosts employed to make the gardens grow, 370 sq.; human sacrifices
to ghosts, 371 sq.; vicarious and other sacrifices to ghosts at Saa in
Malanta, 372 sq.; offerings of first-fruits to ghosts at Saa, 373 sq.;
vicarious sacrifices offered for the sick to ghosts in Santa Cruz, 374;
the dead represented by stocks in the houses, 374; native account of
sacrifices in Santa Cruz, 374 sq.; prayers to the dead, 376 sq.;
sanctuaries of ghosts in the Solomon Islands, 377-379; ghosts lodged in
animals, birds, and fish, especially in sharks, 379 sq.
The belief in ghosts underlies the Melanesian conception of magic, 380
sq.; sickness commonly caused by ghosts and cured by ghost-seers,
381-384; contrast between Melanesian and European systems of
medicine, 384; weather regulated by ghosts and spirits and by
weather-doctors who have the ear of ghosts and spirits, 384-386;
witchcraft or black magic wrought by means of ghosts, 386-388;
prophets inspired by ghosts, 388 sq.; divination operating through
ghosts, 389 sq.; taboos enforced by ghosts, 390 sq.; general influence
which a belief in the survival of the soul after death has exercised on
Melanesian life, 391 sq.
Lecture XVIII.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of
Northern and Eastern Melanesia
The natives of Northern Melanesia or the Bismarck Archipelago (New
Britain, New Ireland, etc.), their material culture, commercial habits,
and want of regular government, pp. 393-395; their theory of the soul,
395 sq.; their fear of ghosts, 396; offerings to the dead, 396 sq.; burial
customs, 397 sq.; preservation of the skulls, 398; customs and beliefs
concerning the dead among the Sulka of New Britain, 398-400, among
the Moanus of the Admiralty Islands, 400 sq. and among the natives of
the Kaniet Islands, 401 sq.; natural deaths commonly attributed to
sorcery, 402; divination to discover the sorcerer who caused the death,
402; death customs in the Duke of York Island, cursing the sorcerer,
skulls preserved, feasts and dances, 403; prayers to the dead, 403 sq.;

the land of the dead and the fate of the departed souls, hard lot of
impecunious ghosts, 404-406.
The natives of Eastern Melanesia (Fiji), their material culture and
political constitution, 406-408; means of subsistence, 408; moral
character, 408 sq.; scenery of the Fijian islands, 409 sq.; the Fijian
doctrine of souls, 410-412; souls of rascals caught in scarves, 412 sq.;
fear of sorcery and precautions against it, 413 sq.; beneficial effect of
the fear in enforcing habits of personal cleanliness, 414; fear of ghosts
and custom of driving them away, 414 sq.; killing a ghost, 415 sq.;
outwitting grandfather's ghost, 416; special relation of grandfather to
grandchild, 416; grandfather's soul reborn in his grandchild, 417 sq.
Lecture XIX.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of Eastern
Melanesia (Fiji)