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ARAWAK DOCTORS' BENCHES
FROM UPPER MORUCA RIVER
A.—WITH ALLIGATOR AND TIGER (JAGUAR) HEADS
B.—WITH HEAD AND TAIL OF MACAW; REMAINDER OF BODY PAINTED ON SEAT

An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians

By Walter E. Roth

from the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1908-1909, pp. 103-386

[Washington D.C., 1915]
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note to the hypertext transcription
Title Page
Dedication
PREFACE
CONTENTS
MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES
ILLUSTRATIONS
WORKS OF REFERENCE
I.NO EVIDENCE OF BELIEF IN A SUPREME BEING
II.TRIBAL HEROES
III.TRACES OF SPIRIT, IDOL, AND FETISH CULT
IV.CREATION OF MAN, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS
V.THE BODY AND ITS ASSOCIATED SPIRITS
VI.DREAMS; IDIOCY
VII.FAMILIAR SPIRITS
VIII.THE SPIRITS OF THE BUSH: NATURAL HISTORY
IX.THE SPIRITS OF THE BUSH: ANIMALS AS SENTIENT HUMAN BEINGS
X.THE SPIRITS OF THE BUSH: ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICULAR PLANTS
XI.THE SPIRITS OF THE MOUNTAIN
XII.THE SPIRITS OF THE WATER
XIII.THE SPIRITS OF THE SKY
XIV.OMENS, CHARMS, TALISMANS
XV.RESTRICTIONS ON GAME AND FOOD, VISION, ARTS AND CRAFTS, NOMENCLATURE (TABOOS)
XVI.SEXUAL LIFE
XVII.THE MEDIClNE-MAN
XVIII.KANAIMA; THE INVISIBLE OR BROKEN ARROW
XIX.MISCELLANEOUS INDIAN BELIEFS CONCERNING MAN AND ANIMALS
XX.ANIMISM AND FOLK-TALES OF RECENT INTRODUCTION; MIXED FOREIGN AND INDIGENOUS BELIEFS
XXI.MISCELLANEOUS FOLK-LORE, INDEPENDENT OF ANIMISM
GLOSSARY