[217.1] C. S. Myers and A. C. Haddon, _Torres Str. Rep._, vi. 153, 158, 160; Haddon, _ibid._ (1912), iv. 60. In the Murray Islands “the ghost of a recently deceased person is particularly feared; it haunts the neighbourhood for two or three months.” But whether it specially attacks the widow the members of the expedition do not seem to have learned (_ibid._, vi. 253). The peculiarity of the dress, however, speaks for itself. [218.1] Frazer, _Taboo_, 144, citing Father Guis, _Les Missions Catholiques_ (1902), xxxiv, 208. Among the Abarambo of the Congo basin, north of the Wele, the husband or wife disappears in the bush for a time, the latter until she finds a new husband. The widow or widower blackens the face, binds a cord round the waist, wears nothing but an old garment and only eats raw food (Johnston, _Grenfell_, ii. 650). [219.1] Teit, _Jes. Exped._, i. 332. Compare the Bella Coola tale cited above (p. 200). [219.2] Peter Martyr, _The Decades of the New World_, in Arber, 100. [219.3] Lumholtz, _Unk. Mexico_, i. 384 _sqq._ Four feasts are given for a woman. “She cannot run so fast, and it is therefore harder to chase her off.” [221.1] Hobley, _J. A. I._, xli. 418. Among the neighbouring Atharaka and Akamba the duty of sleeping with the widow on the fifth night after the death is performed by a brother of the deceased (Champion, _ibid._, xlii. 84). [222.1] Stannus, _J. A. I._, xl. 315. [222.2] Compare the accounts of Anyanja funerals in Rattray, 92 (this account is by a native), and Werner, 165. In neither of these is the custom in question referred to. [223.1] Rattray, 187. [223.2] Georgi, iii. 89. The information is perhaps derived from the old travellers, Steller and Krasheninnikoff, both of whom mention the custom. See _Jesup. Exped._, vi. 752. [224.1] Pechuël-Loesche, 330. _Cf._ Weeks, 300. [224.2] _F. L._, xix. 413. [225.1] Roscoe, _The Baganda_ (London, 1911), 357 n., 48. Of the King of Nri in Nigeria we are told: “No man is allowed to step over his wives’ legs, nor may anyone commit adultery with them” (Thomas, _Ibo_, i. 53). This collocation of prohibitions is hardly accidental. [225.2] Roscoe, 205. [226.1] I suspect that the requirement mentioned by Professor Frazer (_Dying God_, 183), of some of the Kaffir tribes, not specified, that the first child born after the second marriage of a widow of a man killed in battle, whether by her first or her second husband, must be put to death, is to be referred to the same cycle of ideas. But I have no access to the authority he cites, which is partly unpublished. [227.1] Lieut. Hans Kaufmann, _Mitteil. aus den Deutschen Schutzgeb_. (Berlin, 1910), xxiii. 168. [228.1] _Zeits. v. Rechtsw._, xxv. 101, 97, 105. [228.2] Gouldsbury and Sheane, 171. [229.1] Gouldsbury and Sheane, 168 _sqq._ [230.1] _Cens. Ind. Rep._, 1901, ix. 208; W. Crooke, _Encyc. Rel._, iv. 603.