ABSTRACT
The clannishness of the ghosts of Central Australia is most apparent. Invariably we find the members of a special totemic clan congregated in one place. The souls of the Arunta dead of the plum-tree totem assemble at a certain stone in the mulga scrub and the spirits of the dead among the Warramunga who are identified with the black snake totem gather about particular gum trees. * This applies to every totem, even if it is a hawk, a fly, a bee, a bat, the moon, the sun. Each individual is identified with the totem which had been his during his lifetime. However, this exclusiveness is not characteristic of the Urabunna tribe, for their ghosts associate with the individuals of other totems. But we do find even here that a group of granite rocks represents people of the pigeon-totem.s
The fate of a married Fijian ghost, whoae wives have not been murdered, is depicted as beset with dangers.' However, nothing could be worse than the punishment meted out to bachelor ghosts. A terrible being called the Great Woman, who is concealed in a shady spot, lies in wait to seize him, and if he escapes this awful creature, it is only to fall into the hands of a much more terrible monster, Nangganangga, from whom no escape seems possible. This dreadful goblin is ever on his guard to snatch the souls of bachelors and so wary is he that no unmarried Fijian ghost is said to have reached the blessed realms.5
