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 640:[ (return) ]

R. Parkinson, op. cit. pp. 441 sq.

Footnote 641:[ (return) ]

G. Brown, op. cit. pp. 176, 183, 385 sq. As to the wide-spread belief in New Britain that what we call natural deaths are brought about by sorcery, see further P. Rascher, M.S.C., "Die Sulka, ein Beitrag zur Ethnographic Neu-Pommern," Archiv für Ethnographie, xxix. (1904) pp. 221 sq.; R. Parkinson, Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee, pp. 117 sq. 199-201; P. A. Kleintitschen, Die Küsten-bewohner der Gazellehalbinsel (Hiltrup bei Münster, N.D.), p. 215.

Footnote 642:[ (return) ]

G. Brown, op. cit. pp. 387-390.

Footnote 643:[ (return) ]

G. Brown, op. cit. pp. 35, 89, 196, 201.

Footnote 644:[ (return) ]

G. Brown, op. cit. pp. 177, 183, 184.

Footnote 645:[ (return) ]

G. Brown, op. cit. pp. 192-195.

Footnote 646:[ (return) ]

P. A. Kleintitschen, Die Küstenbewohner der Gazellehalbinsel, pp. 225 sq. Compare R. Parkinson, Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee, p. 79.

Footnote 647:[ (return) ]

Lorimer Fison, Tales from Old Fiji (London, 1904), p. xiv.

Footnote 648:[ (return) ]

Thomas Williams, Fiji and the Fijians, Second Edition (London, 1860), i. 22-26.

Footnote 649:[ (return) ]

Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, New Edition (New York, 1851), iii. 77; Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 18.