Sea spirits of the dead

Collective spirit-class (the sea dead), entered as deity-class per the schema instruction for spirit-classes. Paired with the lau (forest dead); together they exhaust the destinations of the Andamanese dead. 'Juruwin' is the plural/locative form; singular jurua/juru. Sex varies. Term is a Latin transcription (Andamanese unwritten).

Domains

• spirits of the dead
• sea and tides

Powers

• dwell in the sea and endanger the living

Sources

• A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, The Andaman Islanders, Cambridge University Press, 1922