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CHAPTER I. | No evidence of belief in a Supreme Being | 117 |
II. | Tribal heroes | 120 |
III. | Traces of spirit, idol, and fetish cult | 137 |
IV. | Creation of man, plants, and animals | 141 |
V. | The body and its associated spirits | 149 |
VI. | Dreams; idiocy | 165 |
VII. | Familiar spirits | 167 |
VIII. | The spirits of the bush: Natural history | 170 |
IX. | The spirits of the bush: Animals as sentient human beings | 199 |
X. | The spirits of the bush: Associated with particular plants | 228 |
XI. | The spirits of the mountain | 235 |
XII. | The spirits of the water | 241 |
XIII. | The spirits of the sky | 254 |
XIV. | Omens, charms, talismans | 271 |
XV. | Restrictions on game and food, vision, arts and crafts, nomenclature | 292 |
XVI. | Sexual life | 308 |
XVII. | The medicine-man | 327 |
XVIII. | Kanaima; the invisible or broken arrow | 354 |
XIX. | Miscellaneous Indian beliefs concerning men and animals | 363 |
XX. | Animism and folk-tales of recent introduction; mixed foreign and indigenous beliefs | 372 |
XXI. | Miscellaneous folk-lore, independent of animism | 380 |
Glossary | 385 |