CONTENTS
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| 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 |