CONTENTS

[MAGIC]
I.SYMPATHETIC MAGIC.
A. Contagious Magic.
Hair, nail-pairings, etc. ([3]), scalp-lock ([4]), saliva ([5]), luck-ball ([5]), footprints ([6]), clothes ([7]), rag bushes and pin-wells ([8]), personal ‘ornaments’ ([9]), food ([10]), cannibalism ([10]), sympathetic relations between persons ([11]), couvade ([13]).
B. Homœopathic Magic.
Plants ([15]), rain-making ([16]), wind-making ([18]), increase of plants ([18]), and of animals ([19]), luring animals to be caught ([19]), human effigies to injure or kill people ([20]).
II.MAGICAL POWER OF NAMES AND WORDS.
Objection to names being mentioned of people, fairies, and animals ([22]), names of power ([24]), satire ([26]), geis ([27]), tabu ([28]).
III.TALISMANS AND AMULETS.
Stones and metals ([30]), colour ([31]), bones, teeth, claws, etc. ([32]), lucky pig ([33]), amulets against the evil eye ([33]), luck-bone ([39]).
IV.DIVINATION—([40]).
V.PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MAGIC.
A. Public Magic.
Australian intichiuma totem ceremonies ([41]), corn-planting dance of the Musquakie ([45]).
B. Private Magic.
Folk-remedies ([46]), love-charms ([47]), nefarious magic ([48]).
VI.MAGICIANS.
Training of sorcerers and societies of magicians ([51]).
VII.PSYCHOLOGY OF MAGICAL PRACTICES.
Nervous instability ([53]), suggestion ([53]), make-believe ([55]), tabu ([55]), mana ([58]), projective will-power or telepathy ([60]), from spell to prayer ([61]), the impossible not undertaken ([62]), loopholes in case of failure ([63]).
[FETISHISM]
I.DEFINITION.
1. Etymological ([66]), 2. Historical ([66]), 3. Dogmatic ([67]).
II.ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS OF FETISHISM.
May be any object ([72]), a symbolic charm with sympathetic properties ([74]), a sign or token representing an ideal notion or being ([76]), habitation of a spiritual being ([77]), vehicle for communication of a spirit ([79]), instrument by which spirit acts ([80]), possesses personality and will ([83]), may act by own will or by foreign spirit ([84]), spirit and material object can be dissociated ([87]), worshipped, sacrificed to, talked with ([89]), petted and ill-treated ([90]).
III.FETISHISM AS A FORM OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP—([91]).