huts built in, 263;
souls of the dead live in, 316
Tremearne, Major A. J. N., 28 _n._ 1
Truth of the belief in immortality, question of the, 469 _sqq._
Tsiabiloum, the land of the dead, 326
Tube inserted in grave, 277
Tubes, magical, 269, 270
Tubetube, island of, 206, 209, 210
Tugeri or Kaya-Kaya, the, of Dutch New Guinea, 255
Tully River in Queensland, 130
Tulmeng, lord of the nether world, 286
Tumleo, island of, 218 _sqq._
Tumudurere, a mythical being, 207
Tumupasa, burial custom of the Indians of, 457
Turner, Dr. George, 325, 339, 369
Turrbal tribe, 146
Tuski of Alaska, burial custom of the, 456
Two Messengers, the, myth of the origin of death, 60 _sqq._
Uganda, first man in, 78;
dead kings of, worshipped, 151;
jawbones of dead kings of, preserved, 235;
war-god of, 366.
_See also_ Baganda
Unburied dead, ghosts of the, 349
Unfruitful wife, mode of impregnating, 417
Unkulunkulu, 60
Unmarried ghosts, hard fate of, 464
Umatjera tribe, 68, 166
Urabunna, the, of Central Australia, 95
Vagueness and inconsistency of savage thought, 143
_Vale tambu_, the Sacred House, 438
Vanigela River, 202, 203
Vanua Lava, mountain, 355
---- -levu, one of the Fijian Islands, 416, 417, 418, 426
Vate or Efat, one of the New Hebrides, 359, 376
Vengeance taken on enemies by means of a ghost, 258;
ghost calls for, 278, 310, 468
Vetter, Konrad, 242, 244, 245, 248, 255
Vicarious sacrifices of pigs for the sick, 372, 374, 375
Victoria, aborigines of, their ideas as to natural death, 40 _sq._, 42;
their beliefs as to the dead, 142;
their burial customs, 145, 145 _sq._;
cuttings for the dead among the, 154 _sq._
Views of human nature, two different, 469 _sqq._
Village of ghosts, 231 _sq._, 234
---- deserted after a death, 275
Viti Levu, one of the Fijian Islands, 419, 428, 435, 445
Vormann, Franz, 228 _sq._
Vuatom, island, 70
Wagawaga, in British New Guinea, 206 _sqq._
Wainimala in Fiji, 436
Wakelbura, the, 152
Wallace, Alfred Russel, on death, 85 _sq._
War, ancestral images taken to, 310, 315;
perpetual state of, 339
---- -god of Uganda, 366
Warramunga, the, of Central Australia, 94;
their totem the Wollunqua, 103 _sqq._, 108 _sqq._;
dramatic ceremonies connected with totems among the, 123 _sq._;
cuttings for the dead among the, 156 _sqq._;
burial customs of the, 167 _sq._
Warrior ghost, 363 _sq._
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