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CHAPTER III 



TRANSFORMATION AND METEMPSYCHOSIS 



Birth is often a new manifestation of a previously existing personage. 

 Ballads and stories in which the dead manifest themselves as 

 trees. Corresponding beliefs and practices. Transformation after 

 death into brute-form. The converse transformation of brutes and 

 vegetables into human beings by birth. Buddhist doctrine of 

 Transmigration. Celtic doctrine. New birth of human beings. 

 Belief in multiple souls. Rites to ascertain which of the ancestors 

 has returned. Naming a child after a deceased member of the 

 family. Rites to secure a transfer of life. Australian beliefs in 

 re-birth. Warehouse of children. Relation between Transforma- 

 tion and Transmigration Pp. 156-252 



CHAPTER IV 

 MOTHERRIGHT 



Ignorance in the lower culture on the physiology of birth. Such 

 ignorance was once greater and more widespread than now. For 

 many ages the social organisation of mankind would not have 

 necessitated the concentration of thought on the problem of 

 paternity. Descent was and by many peoples still is reckoned 

 exclusively through the mother. The social organisation implied by 

 motherright. Kinship is founded on a community of blood actual 

 or imputed. The Blood-Covenant. The father not recognised 

 in motherright as belonging to the kin. His alien position and its 

 consequences. The Nayars Combat between father and son. 

 The Blood-feud. Children the property of the kin. The potestas 

 in motherright. Evolution of the family. The mutual rights and 

 duties of the children and their mother's brother. Father a wholly 

 subordinate person. The origin of motherright not to be found in 

 uncertainty of paternity. Paternity in patrilineal societies 



Pp. 253-325 



