[7] Shakespear, The Lushai Kuki Clans, p. 64. [↑]
[8] All Naga tribes that I know hold these two conflicting beliefs as to the life after death, regarding the soul as inhabiting a butterfly or other insect, and also as continuing an anthropomorphic existence. The discrepancy does not seem to occur to them till pointed out, and not to worry them much then. “Who knows?” is all they say.—J. H. H. [↑]
[9] The Angami differs in sending the souls of the “good” to the sky and the rest only to the underworld.—J. H. H. [↑]
[10] On this road the spirit, Etchhilivanthamo, lies in wait for passers-by to catch and destroy them if he can. To appease him every dead Lhota has a bead tied to his wrist when buried, so that he can give it to this spirit and get by.—J. H. H. [↑]
[11] The Angamis regard the shrew mouse as the wild boar of the dead.—J. H. H. [↑]
[12] Probably in the under-world or as insects; cf. the Angami belief (The Angami Nagas, Part IV.). [↑]
[13] In Phiro and Saki the term Puki is used to denote not only the religious officials of the village, but anyone who has performed all the social “gennas,” a use closely resembling that of the title Kemovo among the Angamis (of the Kohima group only, where Pitsü is used = Puthi in its usual sense, other Angamis using Kemovo = Puthi, and Pitsü for the oldest male in the village).—J. H. H. [↑]
[14] Cf. The Oraons of Nagpur, p. 111, note.—J. H. H. [↑]
[15] In Morakcho I was told that anyone who speared the opya in the “head” would die within the year.—J. H. H. [↑]