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;