315 Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_ (London, 1911), pp. 46 _sq._ Women adopted a like precaution at the grave of twins to prevent the ghosts of the twins from entering into them and being born again (_id._, pp. 124 _sq._). The Baganda always strangled children that were born feet first and buried their bodies at cross-roads. The heaps of sticks or grass thrown on these graves by passing women and girls rose in time into mounds large enough to deflect the path and to attract the notice of travellers. See J. Roscoe, _op. cit._ pp. 126 _sq._, 289. 316 Rev. J. Roscoe, _op. cit._ pp. 126 _sq._ In the Senegal and Niger region of Western Africa it is said to be commonly believed by women that they can conceive without any carnal knowledge of a man. See Maurice Delafosse, _Haut-Sénégal-Niger, Le Pays, les Peuples, les Langues, l’Histoire, les Civilisations_ (Paris, 1912), iii. 171. 317 Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_, pp. 47 _sq._; _Totemism and Exogamy_, ii. 506 _sq._ As to the custom of depositing the afterbirths of children at the foot of banana (plantain) trees, see J. Roscoe, _op. cit._ pp. 52, 54 _sq._ M71 Reincarnation of the dead in India. Means taken to facilitate the rebirth of dead children. 318 W. Crooke, _Natives of Northern India_ (London, 1907), p. 202. As to the Hindoo custom of burying infants but burning older persons, see _The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead_, i. 162 _sq._ _ 319 Census of India, 1911_, vol. xiv. _Punjab_, Part i., Report, by Pandit Harikishan Kaul (Lahore, 1912), p. 299. 320 E. M. Gordon, _Indian Folk Tales_ (London, 1908), p. 49. Other explanations of the custom are reported by the writer, but the original motive was probably a desire to secure the reincarnation of the dead child in the mother. 321 E. M. Gordon, _op. cit._ pp. 50 _sq._ 322 E. Thurston, _Ethnographic Notes in Southern India_ (Madras, 1906), p. 155; _id._, _Castes and Tribes of Southern India_ (Madras, 1909), iv. 52. 323 W. Crooke, _Natives of Northern India_, p. 202; _Census of India, 1901_, vol. xvii. _Punjab_, Part i., Report, by H. A. Rose (Simla, 1902), pp. 213 _sq._ M72 Bringing back the soul of the dead in a fish or insect. Stories of the Virgin Birth. Reincarnation of the dead among the South Slavs. _ 324 Census of India, 1901_, vol. xiii. _Central Provinces_, Part i., Report, by R. V. Russell (Nagpur, 1902), p. 93.