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suicide," the kin group cries, because such marriages often cause the 

 complete extinction of the lineage. The voluntary victim of a witch 

 realizes that his or her ghost will cohabit with the witch in dream, 

 thus arousing in the witch a longing for his victim, which will cause 

 him to incite his victim's relatives to kill him. The vicarious suicide 

 of a warrior usually induces one of his young admirers to persuade 

 the tribe to make a retaliatory raid. If he succeeds in mobilizing 

 such an expedition, the dead brave's admirer will recklessly expose 

 himself, in the hope of being slain, so as to be able to join his admired 

 mentor in that part of the land of the ghosts which is reserved for 

 braves (Fathauer, 1952). In funeral suicide the nexus between the 

 death of a spouse or close relative and the attempted funeral suicide 

 of the survivor is equally explicit. As regards actual suicides, several 

 of them were directly due to the death (or suicide) of a beloved 

 person, usually a brother (Case 113, etc.). 



Summing up, the dead are, by definition, eager to lure the survivors 

 to the land of the dead. The survivors succumb to this lure either by 

 contracting a ghost disease (pt. 4, pp. 128-186) , or else by killing them- 

 selves in one way or the other. In this respect the Mohave myth of 

 the origin of death, various eschatological beliefs concerning the 

 seductiveness of the dead, and the actual fact that genuine suicides 

 often occur after the death (or suicide) of a loved person are perfect 

 cultural expressions of the basic psychic mechanism of mourning 

 (Freud, 1925 d), of which suicidalness is but the most extreme 

 manifestation. 



Significantly, the most insightful and unequivocal statement con- 

 cerning the nexus between killing and suicide was obtained in responst 

 to a general question regarding the causes of suicide. 



Hivsu:Tupo:ma's statement (1936). — It is hard to explain in a general way 

 just why people kill themselves. Let me try to give you an imaginary example. 

 You know that your interpreter is as devoted to her husband as he is to her. 

 Suppose, now, that your interpreter suddenly became promiscuous. Well, her 

 husband would not kill her ... he would kill himself. 



The point of Hivsu : Tupo : ma's fictitious example seems to be that 

 only a man accustomed to the exemplary loyalty and devotion of his 

 wife has an understandable^ or justifiahle, reason for killing himself. 

 As the main informant on matters pertaining to suicide, Hivsu: 

 Tupo : ma knew, of course, that some men killed themselves over 

 women who had not been devoted wives to begin with, but felt that 

 such suicides only proved the men in question to have been fools and 

 weaklings. It is also noteworthy that every single suicide that was 

 preceded by an attempted murder involved an unreasonable attach- 

 ment to a woman who was "worthless" to begin with. In brief, actual 

 killings seem to occur only where jealous anger is the chief motivating 



