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The Belief in Immortality and the Wors.h.i.+p of the Dead.by Sir James George Frazer.PREFACE The following lectures were delivered on Lord Gifford's Foundation before the University of St. Andrews in the early winters of 1911 and 1912. They are printed n
- 34 And in Mota, when an oven is opened, they throw in a leaf of cooked mallow for a ghost, saying to him, "This is a lucky bit for your eating; they who have charmed your food or clubbed you (as the case may be), take hold of their hands, drag them away to
- 33 [Footnote 579: R. H. Codrington, _The Melanesians_, pp. 271 _sq._][Footnote 580: G. Turner, _Samoa a Hundred Years Ago and long before_ (London, 1884), pp. 335 _sq._ This account is based on information furnished by Sualo, a Samoan teacher, who lived for
- 32 [Sidenote: Ghosts driven away from the village. Expulsion of the ghosts of persons who suffered from sores and ulcers.]In these islands the ghost does not at once leave the neighbourhood of his old body; he shews no haste to depart to the nether world. In
- 31 [Footnote 541: Lambert, _op. cit._ p. 298.][Footnote 542: Lambert, _op. cit._ p. 300.][Footnote 543: Lambert, _op. cit._ pp. 301 _sq._][Footnote 544: Lambert, _op. cit._ pp. 217 _sq._, 300.][Footnote 545: George Turner, LL.D., _Samoa a Hundred Years Ago a
- 30 Again, the natives have a stone in the shape of a canoe, which they employ in ceremonies for the purpose of favouring or hindering navigation. If the sorcerer desires to make a voyage prosperous, he places the canoe-shaped stone before the ancestral skull
- 29 [Footnote 515: J. L. D. van der Roest, _op. cit._ pp. 164-166.][Footnote 516: J. L. D. van der Roest, _op. cit._ pp. 157 _sq._]LECTURE XV THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF SOUTHERN MELANESIA (NEW CALEDONIA) [Sidenote: Melanesia and the Melane
- 28 According to their ancient creed, every man and every woman has two spirits, and in the nether world, called _sarooka_, is a large house where there is room for all the people of Windessi. When a woman dies, both her spirits always go down to the nether w
- 27 Now it is significant that among these comparatively advanced savages the fear of ghosts and the reverence entertained for them have developed into something which might almost be called a systematic wors.h.i.+p of the dead. As to their fear of ghosts I w
- 26 [Footnote 458: Ch. Keysser, _op. cit._ pp. 148 _sq._][Footnote 459: Ch. Keysser, _op. cit._ p. 149.][Footnote 460: Ch. Keysser, _op. cit._ p. 147.][Footnote 461: Ch. Keysser, _op. cit._ p. 145.][Footnote 462: Ch. Keysser, _op. cit._ p. 145.][Footnote 463:
- 25 Sometimes the worthy soul who thus for a valuable consideration consents to waive all his personal feelings, will even carry his self-abnegation so far as to be present and look on at the murder of his kinsman. But true to his principles he will see to it
- 24 [Footnote 426: S. Lehner, _op. cit._ pp. 430, 470, 472 _sq._, 474 _sq._][Footnote 427: S. Lehner, _op. cit._ p. 403.][Footnote 428: S. Lehner, _op. cit._ pp. 402-410.][Footnote 429: S. Lehner, _op. cit._ pp. 410-414.][Footnote 430: Ch. Keysser, "Aus dem
- 23 The meaning of the whole rite, as I pointed out in dealing with the similar initiatory rite of the Yabim, appears to be that the novices are killed and then restored to a new and better life; for after their initiation they rank no longer as boys but as f
- 22 [Sidenote: General summary as to the Yabim.]On the whole we may say that the Yabim have a very firm and practical belief in a life after death, and that while their att.i.tude to the spirits of the departed is generally one of fear, they nevertheless look
- 21 [Sidenote: The Papuans of Cape King William.]In my last lecture I gave you some account of the beliefs and practices concerning the dead which have been recorded among the Papuans of German New Guinea. To-day I resume the subject and shall first speak of
- 20 When death has taken place, the corpse is first exposed on a scaffold in front of the house, where it is decked with ornaments and surrounded with flowers. If the deceased was rich, a dog is hung on each side of the scaffold, and the souls of the animals
- 19 I feel that I cannot begin my second course of lectures without referring to the loss which the study of primitive religion has lately sustained by the death of one of my predecessors in this chair, one who was a familiar and an honoured figure in this pl
- 18 [Footnote 315: C. G. Seligmann, _op. cit._ pp. 189-191.][Footnote 316: C. G. Seligmann, _op. cit._ pp. 185 _sq._][Footnote 317: C. G. Seligmann, _op. cit._ p. 192.][Footnote 318: C. G. Seligmann, _op. cit._ pp. 190-192. As to the desertion of the house af
- 17 Common people among the Mafulu are buried in shallow graves in the village, and pigs are killed at the funeral for the purpose of appeasing the ghost. Mourners wear necklaces of string and smear their faces, sometimes also their bodies, with black, which
- 16 Tylor_, p. 180.][Footnote 286: A. C. Haddon, _l.c._][Footnote 287: A. C. Haddon, _op. cit._ pp. 182 _sq._; _Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits_, vi. 127.][Footnote 288: A. C. Haddon, _op. cit._ p. 183.][Footnote 289: T. C. Hodson, _The
- 15 according to Dr. Haddon, "that the Torres Straits Islanders feared the ghosts but believed in the general friendly disposition of the spirits of the departed."[282] Similarly we saw that the Australian aborigines regard with fear the ghosts of those who
- 14 [Footnote 240: Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes_, p. 510.][Footnote 241: Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes_, p. 507.][Footnote 242: Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes_, p. 511.][Footnote 243: F. Bonney, "On some Customs of the Aborigines of the Rive
- 13 We naturally ask, What motive have these savages for inflicting all this voluntary and, as it seems to us, wholly superfluous suffering on themselves? It can hardly be that these wounds and burns are merely a natural and unfeigned expression of grief. We
- 12 [Footnote 187: Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 628.][Footnote 188: As to the place occupied by the Pleiades in primitive calendars, see _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, i. 309-319.][Footnote 189: A. W. Howitt, _Native
- 11 [Sidenote: Creed of the South-eastern Australians touching the dead.]But to return to the ideas of the Australian aborigines concerning the dead, we may say of the natives of the south-eastern part of the continent, in the words of Dr. Howitt, that "ther
- 10 [Footnote 151: Spencer and Gillen, _op. cit._ p. 320.][Footnote 152: Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, pp. 199-204.][Footnote 153: Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, pp. 179 _sq._][Footnote 154: Spencer a
- 9 [Sidenote: The rite aims both at pleasing and at coercing the mythical snake.]This remarkable rite is supposed, we are informed, "in some way to be a.s.sociated with the idea of persuading, or almost forcing, the Wollunqua to remain quietly in his home u
- 8 Whenever the sacred store-house is visited and its contents examined, the old men explain to the younger men the marks incised on the sticks and stones, and recite the traditions a.s.sociated with the dead men to whom they belonged;[130] so that these rud
- 7 [Footnote 97: Th. Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_, Second Edition (London, 1860), i. 204 _sq._ For another Fijian story of the origin of death, see above, p. 67.][Footnote 98: Josef Meier, "Mythen und Sagen der Admiralitatsinsulaner,"_Anthropos_, iii.
- 6 [Sidenote: Similar view expressed by Alfred Russel Wallace.]A similar suggestion that death is not a natural necessity but an innovation introduced for the good of the breed, has been made by our eminent English biologist, Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace. He sa
- 5 [Sidenote: III. Story of the Serpent and his Cast Skin. New Britain story of immortality, the serpent, and death. Annamite story of immortality, the serpent, and death. Vuatom story of immortality, the lizard, the serpent, and death.]Another type of stori
- 4 [Footnote 41: A. Grandidier, "Madagascar," _Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie_ (Paris), Sixieme Serie, iii. (1872) pp. 399 _sq._ The talismans (_ahouli_) in question consist of the horns of oxen stuffed with a variety of odds and ends, such as sand,
- 3 [Sidenote: Some savages dissect the corpse to ascertain whether death was due to natural causes or to sorcery.]In the first place, certain savage tribes are reported to dissect the bodies of their dead in order to ascertain from an examination of the corp
- 2 But before I address myself to the description of particular races, I wish in this and the following lecture to give you some general account of the beliefs of savages concerning the nature and origin of death. The problem of death has very naturally exer
- 1 The Belief in Immortality and the Wors.h.i.+p of the Dead.by Sir James George Frazer.PREFACE The following lectures were delivered on Lord Gifford's Foundation before the University of St. Andrews in the early winters of 1911 and 1912. They are printed n