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 610:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 178-180.

Footnote 611:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, op. cit. p. 191.

Footnote 612:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, op. cit. p. 194.

Footnote 613:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 194-196.

Footnote 614:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, op. cit. p. 196.

Footnote 615:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 208 sq. As to sickness supposed to be caused by trespass on the premises of a ghost see further id., pp. 194, 195, 218.

Footnote 616:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 184.

Footnote 617:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 200.

Footnote 618:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 200, 201. The spirit whom the Florida wizard appeals to for good or bad weather is called a vigona; and the natives believe it to be always the ghost of a dead man. But it seems very doubtful whether this opinion is strictly correct. See R. H. Codrington, op cit. pp. 124, 134.

Footnote 619:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, op. cit. p. 201. The Santa Cruz name for such a ghost is duka (ibid. p. 139).