112 Brasseur de Bourbourg, _Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique et de l’Amérique-Centrale_ (Paris, 1857-1859), iii. 23 _sq._; H. H. Bancroft, _Native Races of the Pacific States_ (London, 1875-1876), ii. 623. Similar customs are still practised by the Indians of a great part of Mexico and Central America (Brasseur de Bourbourg, _op. cit._ iii. 24, note 1). 113 “Lettre du curé de Santiago Tepehuacan àson évêque,” _Bulletin de la Société de Géographie_ (Paris), IIme Série, ii. (1834) p. 179. M45 Annual festival of the dead in Sumba. 114 S. Roos, “Bijdrage tot de kennis van taal, land en volk op het eiland Soemba,” _Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen_, xxxvi. (1872) pp. 63-65. M46 Annual festival of the dead in Kiriwina. Festival of the dead among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo. 115 Rev. S. B. Fellows, quoted by George Brown, D.D., _Melanesians and Polynesians_ (London, 1910), p. 237. 116 E. H. Gomes, _Seventeen Years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo_ (London, 1911), pp. 216-218. For another and briefer account of this festival see _The Scapegoat_, p. 154. M47 Annual festival of the dead among the Nagas of Manipur. 117 Rev. Wm. Pettigrew, “Kathi Kasham, the ‘Soul Departure’ feast as practised by the Tangkkul Nagas, Manipur, Assam,” _Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal_, N.S. vol. v. 1909 (Calcutta, 1910), pp. 37-46; T. C. Hodson, _The Naga Tribes of Manipur_ (London, 1911), pp. 153-158. M48 Annual festival of the dead among the Oraons of Bengal. 118 Rev. P. Dehon, S.J., “Religion and Customs of the Uraons,” _Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal_, vol. i. No. 9 (Calcutta, 1906), p. 136. Compare Rev. F. Hahn, “Some Notes on the Religion and Superstition of the Orāōs,” _Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal_, lxxii. Part iii. (Calcutta, 1904) pp. 12 _sq._ According to the latter writer the pots containing the relics of the dead are buried, not in the sand of the river, but in a pit, generally covered with huge stones, which is dug for the purpose in some field or grove. M49 Annual festival of the dead in Bilaspore. 119 E. M. Gordon, _Indian Folk Tales_ (London, 1908), p. 18. According to Mr. W. Crooke, the Hindoo Feast of Lamps (_Diwálî_) seems to have been based on “the idea that on this night the spirits of the dead revisit their homes, which are cleaned and lighted for their reception.” See W. Crooke, _The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India_ (Westminster, 1896), ii. 295 _sq._ M50 Annual festival of the dead among the Bghais and Hkamies.