CHAPTER IX

CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH ILLNESS AND DEATH

Belief that Illness is due to Evil Ottofu--Ministrations of the Priestess--A Seventeenth-century Dutch Record of the Treatment of the Dying by the Formosan Aborigines--The “Dead Houses” of the Taiyal--Burial of the Dead by the Ami, Bunun, and Paiwan Tribes beneath the Hearth-stone of the Home--“Green” and “Dry” Funerals pp. 163-172