The second volume continues an examination of animistic belief, tracing doctrines about souls, their persistence after death, and forms of rebirth or transmigration into human, animal, vegetal, and object bodies. It surveys scarce belief in bodily resurrection, widespread notions of a continued but mortal soul, ghosts attached to corpses and funerary rites, and legends of journeys to lands of the dead with varied localizations. It then broadens animism into spirit-theory, treating embodiment, possession, fetishes, idols, and spirit-caused illness, and considers spirits as agents in dreams, visions, and everyday phenomena while noting parallels with emerging scientific explanations.