Bantiks of Celebes, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1
Banting in Sarawak, rules observed by women during absence of warriors at, i. 127, 128
Bantu tribes, ancestor-worship among the, ii. 221, vi. 174 sqq.;
their small regard for the ghosts of women, ii. 224 n. 4;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82 sqq.;
their worship of dead chiefs or kings, vi. 175 sqq., 191 sqq.;
cohabitation of husband and wife enjoined as a matter of ritual on certain occasions among the, viii. 70 n. 1
—— tribes of Kavirondo, custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 176 sq.;
their belief as to the effect of eating a totemic animal, viii. 26
—— tribes of South Africa, their ideas as to the virulent infection spread by a woman who has had a miscarriage, iii. 152 sqq.;