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

Vaté 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.

Warriors pray to ghosts, 288

Wars among savages undertaken to appease angry ghosts, 468

Wa-Sania, tribe of E. Africa, 66

Washing body a rain-charm, 375

Watch-an-die, tribe of W. Australia, 41

Watch at the grave, 293

—— of widow or widower on grave, 241

Water as a barrier against ghosts, 152;
  poured as a rain-charm, 375 sq.

—— great, to be crossed by ghosts, 224

—— -snake, great mythical (Wollunqua), 104 sqq., 108 sqq.

Way to the land of the dead, 212 sq.

Weakening of religious faith, 4

Weapons deposited with the dead, 145 sqq.;
  deposited at grave, 211;
  of dead broken, 399

Weather regulated by ghosts and spirits, 384 sq.

—— -doctors, 385 sq.

Weaving in New Guinea, 305

Weismann, August, on death, 84 sq.

Wemba, the, of Northern Rhodesia, 77

Western Australia, beliefs as to death among the natives of, 41 sq.

Whale's teeth as offerings, 420, 421, 429, 443, 444

Whip of souls, 270

Whipping men in mourning, 452

White ants' nests, ghosts turn into, 351

—— clay smeared on mourners, 158, 177

—— men identified with the spirits of the dead, 342

—— people, souls of dead Australian aborigines thought to be reborn in, 130, 131 sqq.

Whitened with chalk, bodies of lads after circumcision, 302

Widow, mourning costume of, 184, 204;
  seclusion of, 204;
  killed to accompany the ghost of her husband, 249, 275;
  drinks juices of putrefying corpse, 313

Widower exposed to attacks of his wife's ghost, 197;
  costume of, 204;
  seclusion of, 204, 248 sq., 259

Widows cut and burn their bodies in mourning, 176

Wigs worn by Fijians, 451

Wiimbaio tribe, 145

Wilkes, Charles, 424 sq.

Williams, Thomas, 408, 412, 413, 452, 467

Williamson, R. W., 201

Wind, ghosts float down the, 176

Windessi, in Dutch New Guinea, burial customs at, 318 sq.

Wingara, early mythical times, 116

Witchcraft, fear of, 244;
  death ascribed to, 277, 402;
  Fijian terror of, 413 sq.;
  benefits derived from, 414

Witchcraft or black magic in Central Melanesia, 386 sq.

—— as a cause of death, 34 sqq.
  See also Sorcery

Witchetty grub totem, dramatic ceremonies concerned with, 121 sq., 123

Wives of the dead killed, 399;
  strangled or buried alive at their husbands' funerals in Fiji, 424 sq.

Woibu, the land of the dead, 211

Wolgal tribe, 146

Wollunqua, mythical water-snake, totem of the Warramunga, 103 sqq., 108 sqq., 125;
  ceremonies in honour of the, 108 sqq.

Woman, old, in myths of the origin of death, 64, 71 sq.

——, the Great, 464

Women thought not to have immortal spirits, 92;
  cut and burn their bodies in mourning, 154 sqq., 196, 203;
  excluded from circumcision ground, 291, 301;
  dance at deaths, 293;
  drink juices of putrefying corpse, 355;
  not allowed to be present at sacrifices, 367;
  whip men in mourning, 452;
  burial of childless, 458;
  the cause of death, 472

—— dying in childbed, special treatment of their ghosts, 358;
  their ghosts specially feared, 212, 458 sqq.

Wordsworth on immortality, 26 n. 1

Worship of ancestors, 221, 328 sqq., 338;
  predominance of the, 297 sq.;
  possibly evolved from totemism, 114 sq.
  See also Worship of the dead.

—— of ancestors in Central Australia, possible evolution of, 125 sq.;
  of ancestral spirits in the Nanga, 428 sq.

—— of the dead, 23 sqq., 328 sqq., 338;
  in part based on a theory of dreams, 27 sq.;
  elements of it widespread, 31;
  in British New Guinea, 201 sq.;
  predominance of the, 297 sq.

—— of the dead, incipient, in Australia, 149, 150, 168 sq.

—— of the dead in Torres Straits, elements of a, 189;
  among the Yabim, elements of a, 255

Worshipful ghosts, 362 sq.

Wotjobaluk, the, 67, 139

Wraiths, 396

Wurunjerri, the, 146

Yabim, the, of German New Guinea, 242 sqq.;
  their ideas as to death, 47

Yams, prayers for, 330;
  stones to make yams grow, 337 sq.

Young children buried on trees, 312 sq.

Young and old, difference between the modes of burying, 161, 162 sq.

Youth supposed to be renewed by casting skin, 69 sqq., 74 sq., 83

Ysabel, one of the Solomon Islands, 350, 372, 379, 380

Yule Island, 196 n. 2, 197

Zahn, Heinrich, 242, 244

Zend-Avesta, 453

Zulus, their story of the origin of death, 60 sq.

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