ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in, [251] sqq.
African stories of the external soul, ii. [148] sqq.;
Balders, [312] sqq.
Afterbirth buried under a tree, ii. [160] sq., [162], [163], [164], [165];
of child animated by a ghost and sympathetically connected with a banana-tree, [162];
regarded as brother or sister of child, [162] n. 2;
regarded as a second child, [162] n. 2;
regarded as a guardian spirit, [223] n. 2;
and navel-string regarded as guardian angels of the man, ii. [162] n. 2
Agaric growing on birch-trees, superstitions as to, i. 148