[372] See the present writer’s Immortality and the Unseen World, pp. 9, 21 f.

[373] I.e. “sacred,” the first month of the Musulman year.

[374] Jaʿfar Sharif, Islam in India, or the Qānūn-i-Islam: The Customs of the Musulmans of India, translated by G. A. Herklots, pp. 161-174 (1921).

[375] Frazer, GB, The Magic Art, II. 183.

[376] J. M. Brown, Maori and Polynesian, p. 203. “Funeral dances and death-bed dances are a world-wide custom. We hear of them in Patagonia, in Abyssinia, in North America, in the East Indian isles and in the Highlands of Scotland; we read about them in ancient Egypt, and we can see them to-day in Spain, in Ireland, and in the centre of France,” Lilly Grove, op. cit. p. 4.

[377] ERE, IV. 434 b.

[378] Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, pp. 358 ff., 716 (1910).

[379] Frazer, The Belief in Immortality, I. 200 (1913).

[380] Frazer, op. cit. I. 399.

[381] The Indian Tribes of Guiana, pp. 154 f. (1868).