The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) / The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

by James George Frazer

Footnote 439:[ (return) ]

Ch. Keysser, op. cit. pp. 140 sq.

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Mr. Keysser indeed affirms that in the mind of the Kai sorcery "is regarded as the cause of all deaths" (op. cit. p. 102), and again that "all men without exception die in consequence of the baneful acts of these sorcerers and their accomplices" (p. 134); and again that "even in the case of old people they assume sorcery to be the cause of death; to sorcery, too, all misfortunes whatever are ascribed" (p. 140). But that these statements are exaggerations seems to follow from Mr. Keysser's own account of the wounds, sicknesses, and deaths which these savages attribute to ghosts and not to sorcerers.

Footnote 441:[ (return) ]

Ch. Keysser, op. cit. p. 141.

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Ch. Keysser, op. cit. pp. 133 sq.

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Ch. Keysser, op. cit. pp. 141 sq.

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Ch. Keysser, op. cit. pp. 80 sq., 142.

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Ch. Keysser, op. cit. p. 142.

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Ch. Keysser, op. cit. pp. 82, 83.

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Ch. Keysser, op. cit. pp. 82, 142 sq.

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Ch. Keysser, op. cit. pp. 83 sq., 143.