[154] Smith, Virginia, p. 36.
[155] Will and Spinden, The Mandans (Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology, Harvard University), p. 133.
[156] So among the Betsileos and the Zulus (Marillier, op. cit.)
[157] So in Madagascar. Cf. Ezek. xxxii, 18 ff.; Isa. xiv, 4 ff.
[158] Journal of the American Oriental Society, iv, 312 f.
[159] S. St. John, The Far East, 2d ed., i, 182 f.; cf., i, 184.
[160] Marillier, op. cit. Here suicide appears to be regarded as a heroic act, and the women in question perish in doing a service to the tribe.
[161] Dixon, The Northern Maidu, p. 261; Westermarck, Moral Ideas, Index, s. v. Future Life; Hobhouse, Morals in Evolution, ii, 271 ff.; Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii, 83 ff.
[162] Castrén, Finnische Mythologie, p. 126; Turner, Samoa, p. 259; Lawes, "New Guinea," in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, viii, 370; Rochas, Nouvelle Calédonie (Bulletin de la Société d'anthropologie, 1860), p. 280; Lister, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxi, 51; Dixon, op. cit., p. 262; Müller, Amerikanische Urreligionen, p. 289 (Brazil).
[163] See Westermarck, loc. cit.