epidemic of, in Russia, iv. 44 sq.;

as a mode of revenge, iv. 141;

by hanging, iv. 282

——, hand of, cut off, iv. 220 n.

——, religious, iv. 42 sqq., 54 sqq.;

in India, iv. 54 sq.

Suicides, ghosts of, feared, iv. 220 n., v. 292 n. 3, ix. 17 sq.;

custom observed at graves of, v. 93

Suk, the, of British East Africa, power of medicine-men among the, i. 344 sq.;

their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 85;