[354] For elaborate Sioux ceremonies on the death of a child see Miss Fletcher, Indian Ceremonies (the Shadow or Ghost Lodge).
[355] On the disposal of the corpse, by inhumation, cremation, exposure, etc., see article "Funérailles" cited above; O. Schrader, in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, ii, 16 ff.
[356] This may be in part a hygienic precaution.
[357] Haddon, Head-hunters, p. 91. Cf. G. L. Kittredge, "Disenchantment by Decapitation," in Journal of American Folklore, vol. xviii, no. 68 (January, 1905).
[358] De Groot, Religion of the Chinese, chap. iii.
[359] Cf. Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, chap. xxxvii ff.; Saussaye, Science of Religion (Eng. tr.), chap. xviii; and the references given in these works.
[360] See below, on removal of taboos.
[361] Fraser, Golden Bough, 2d ed., i, 306 f.
[362] Cf. Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, index, s.v. Homicide.
[363] See below, § 201; cf. the Athenian Anthesteria and Thargelia.