torn to pieces and devoured raw in religious rites, vii. 17, 18, 19, 20 sqq.;
regarded as unclean were originally sacred, viii. 24;
belief in the descent of men from, viii. 25;
spirits of ancestors in, viii. 123;
language of, acquired by eating serpent's flesh, viii. 146;
resurrection of viii. 200 sq., 256 sqq.;
and men, savages fail to distinguish accurately between, viii. 204 sqq.;
wild, propitiation of, by hunters, viii. 204 sqq.;
apologies offered by savages to animals for killing them, viii. 221 sqq.;
bones of, not to be broken, viii. 258 sq.;