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tions laid on them, probably from fear of the ghosts of their victims,
448 sq. ; certain funeral customs based apparently on the fear of ghosts,
450 sqq. ; persons who have handled a corpse forbidden to touch food
with their hands, 450 sq. ; seclusion of gravediggers, 451 ; mutilations,
brandings, and fasts in honour of the dead, 451 sq. ; the dead carried out
of the house by a special opening to prevent the return of the ghost, 452 -
461 ; the other world and the way thither, 462 sq. ; the ghostly ferry,
462 sq. ; the ghost and the pandanus tree, 463 sq. ; hard fate of the
unmarried dead, 464 ; the Killer of Souls, 464 sq. ; ghosts precipitated
into a lake, 465 sq. ; Marimuria, an inferior sort of heaven, 466 ; the
Fijian Elysium, 466 sq. ; transmigration and annihilation, the few that
are saved, 467.
Concluding observations, 467 - 471 ; strength and universality of the
belief in immortality among savages, 468 ; the state of war among savage
and civilised peoples often a direct consequence of the belief in immor-
tality, 468 sq. ; economic loss involved in sacrifices to the dead, 469 ; how
does the savage belief in immortality bear on the truth or falsehood of that
belief in general ? 469 ; the answer depends to some extent on the view
we take of human nature, 469 - 471 ; the conclusion left open, 471.
NOTE. -- Myth of the Continuance of Death. . . P. 472
INDEX Pp. 473 - 495

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead. Volume: 1. Contributors: J. G. Frazer - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1913. Page Number: xxi.
    
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