CHAPTER XII.

MAGIC.

Mana a supernatural power or influence and equivalent terms. Native belief in magic. (1) Sickness: causes. Solomon Islands. Treatment with charms; medicine. Ghosts fighting; Sea-ghosts. Santa Cruz. Banks Islands. New Hebrides now Vanuatu. (2) Weather: weather doctoring; Banks Islands, charms. (3) Witchcraft: fragments of food; bones; 'ghost-shooter' a bamboo tube used to "shoot" a ghost's power at an enemy; Metamorphosis shape-shifting. (4) Dreams: dreamers. (5) Prophecy: possession by ghosts; prophets. (6) Divination: methods in the Solomon Islands and Banks Islands. (7) Ordeals. (8) Poison. (9) Tapu original: Tapu, or taboo: Curses; Oaths . . . 191-217

CHAPTER XIII.

POSSESSION. INTERCOURSE WITH GHOSTS.

Madness believed to be possession by spirits or ghosts. Other forms of possession. Omens. Vampires. Tricks played by ghosts on men; by men on ghosts. Forms of possession in the Torres Islands. Tricks. Sneezing . . . . . . . . . 218-227

CHAPTER XIV.

BIRTH. CHILDHOOD. MARRIAGE.

Couvade a custom where the father of a newborn observes rituals or physical restrictions to ensure the child’s health; abortion; infanticide; twins. Birth. Weaning; nose-piercing; clothing. Social reserve. Separation of the sexes. Initiation at Saa. Circumcision; tattooing. Sexual relations; harlots. Betrothal and marriage. Adultery. Divorce. Levirate the practice of a man marrying his deceased brother's widow. Widowhood; mourning. Polygamy, Polyandry the practice of a woman having more than one husband . . . . . . . . . 228-246

CHAPTER XV.

DEATH. BURIAL. AFTER DEATH.

Death. The soul described as a "shadow." Native words translated as "soul" in Florida Island, the Banks Islands, and the New Hebrides. Ghosts: two classes. Burial customs in Florida and Bugotu. The underworld; the ship and bridge of the dead. San Cristoval now Makira, Sea-ghosts. Saa: ghosts; the underworld; burial; relics; memorials. Santa Cruz. Torres Islands. Banks Islands: Panoi the realm of the dead in the Banks Islands. Origin of death; burial; driving away the ghost; funeral feasts; death-days; the state of the dead; judgment. Descents to Panoi. Aurora now Maewo. The journey of the dead; funeral; death-meals. Lepers' Island now Ambae. Origin of death; burial; the underworld. Pentecost Island. Burying people alive . . . . 247-289