CONTEXTS 



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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. Croat ion of man, plants, and animals 141 



V. The body and its associated spirits 149 



VI. Dreams; idiocy 1G5 



VII. Familiar spirits 167 



VIII. Thespiritsof the bush: Natural histori,' 170 



IX. The spirits of the bush: Animals as sentient human beings 199 



X. The spirits of the bush: Associated vrith 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 



Glossarv 385 



MYTHS AND FOLK-Ti\J.ES 



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Hariwali and the wonderful tree 120 



The story of Haburi 122 



The adventures of Kororomanjia 126 



The sun, the frog, and the firesticks (Warrau) 130 



The sun, the frog, and the firesticks (Carib) 133 



The sun, the frog, and the firesticks (Makusi) 135 



The origin of the Caribs (Warrau) 143 



The origin of the I'aribs (Carib) 144 



The first fruit trees (Arawak) 146 



The first fruit trees (Carib) 147 



The man with a bad temper 150 



The sorcerer's daughter 151 



The idiot who wanted to Qy 166 



The MaUiisikiri changes the woman into a bush spirit 172 



The man who always hunted scrub-turkey 173 



The shrewd little boy and the hebu 174 



The spirit's brain and the goat-sucker 175 



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