Index.
Abdication of kings in favour of their infant children, [19], [20]
Abduction of souls by demons, [58] sqq.
changes in their language, [360]
Abnormal mental states accounted inspiration, [248]
Abortion, superstition as to woman who has procured, [153]
Absence and recall of the soul, [30] sqq.
Achilles, [261]
Acts, tabooed, [101] sqq.
Adivi or forest Gollas, the, [149]
Aetolians, the, [311]
Africa, fetish kings in West, [22] sqq.;
names of animals and things tabooed in, [400] sq.
Agutainos, the, [144]
Air, prohibition to be uncovered in the open, [3], [14]
Akamba, the, [204]
Akikuyu, the, [175], [204], [286];
auricular confession among the, [214]
Albanians of the Caucasus, [349]
Alberti, L., [220]
Alcmena and Hercules, [298] sq.
Alfoors of Celebes, [33];
of Minahassa, [63] sq.
Amenophis III., his birth represented on the monuments, [28]
American Indians, their fear of naming the dead, [351] sqq.
Ammon, Hanun, King of, [273]
Amoy, [59]
Amulets, knots used as, [306] sqq.;
rings as, [314] sqq.
Ancestors, names of, bestowed on their reincarnations, [368] sq.;
reborn in their descendants, [368] sq.
Ancestral spirits, cause sickness, [53];
sacrifices to, [104]
Andaman Islanders, [183] n.
Andania, mysteries of, [227] n.
Angakok, Esquimaux wizard or sorcerer, [211], [212]
Angoni, the, [174]
Animals injured through their shadows, [81] sq.;
propitiation of spirits of slain, [190], [204] sq.;
atonement for slain, [207];
dangerous, not called by their proper names, [396] sqq.;
thought to understand human speech, [398] sq., [400]
Animism passing into religion, [213]
Anklets as amulets, [315]
Annamites, the, [235]
Anointment of priests at installation, [14]
Antambahoaka, the, [216]
Ants, bites of, used in purificatory ceremony, [105]
Apaches, the, [182], [184], [325], [328]
Apollo, purification of, [223] n.1
Apuleius, [270]
Arab mode of cursing an enemy, [312]
Ares, men sacred to, [111]
Arikaras, the, [161]
Aristeas of Proconnesus, [34]
Army under arms, prohibition to see, [13]
Arrows to keep off death, [31]
Arunta, their belief as to the ghosts of the slain, [177] sq.;
ceremonies at the end of mourning among the, [373] sq.
Arval Brothers, [226]
Aryans, the primitive, their theory of personal names, [319]
Ashes strewn on the head, [112]
Ash-tree, parings of nails buried under an, [276]
Assam, taboos observed by headmen in, [11];
hill tribes of, [323]
Astarte at Hierapolis, [286]
Aston, W. G., [2] n.2
Astrolabe Bay, [289]
Athens, kings at, [21] sq.;
ritual of cursing at, [75]
Atonement for slain animals, [207]
Attiuoindarons, the, [366]
Atua, ancestral spirit, [134], [265]
Augur's staff at Rome, [313]
Auricular confession, [214]
Aurohuaca Indians, [215]
Australian aborigines;
their conception of the soul, [27];
personal names kept secret among the, [320] sqq.;
their fear of naming the dead, [349] sqq.
Aversion of spirits and fairies to iron, [229], [232] sq.
Avoidance of common words to deceive spirits or other beings, [416] sqq.
Aymara Indians, the, [97]
Aztecs, the, [249];
their priests, [259]
Babylonian witches and wizards, [302]
Bad Country, the, [109]
Badham, Dr., [156] n.
Baduwis, the, of Java, [115] sq., [232]
Bag, souls collected in a, [63] sq.
—— fishermen, taboos observed by, [194] sq. See also [Uganda]
Bagba, a fetish, [5]
Bageshu, the, [174]
Bagobos, the, [31], [315], [323]
Bahima, the, [183] n.;
names of their dead kings not mentioned, [375]
Bahnars of Cochin-China, [52], [58]
Baking, continence observed at, [201]
Balder, Norse god, [305] n.1
Ba-Lua, the, [330]
Banana-trees, fruit-bearing, hair deposited under, [286]
Bandages to prevent the escape of the soul, [32], [71]
Bangala, the, [195] sq., [330]
Bangkok, [90]
Baoules, the, [70]
Ba-Pedi, the, [141], [153], [163], [202]
Baron, R., [380]
Baronga, the, [272]
Basagala, the, [361]
Basket, souls gathered into a, [72]
Basutos, burial custom of the, [107];
purification of warriors among the, [172]
Bathing (washing) as a ceremonial purification, [141], [142], [150], [153], [168], [169], [172], [173], [175], [179], [183], [192], [198], [219], [220], [222], [285], [286]
Ba-Thonga, the, [141], [154], [163], [202]
Battas or Bataks of Sumatra, [34], [45], [46], [65], [116], [296]
Bavili, the, [78]
Bawenda, the, [243]
Bayazid, the Sultan, and his soul, [50]
Beans, prohibition to touch or name, [13] sq.
Bear, the polar, taboos concerning, [209];
customs observed by Lapps after killing a, [221]
Bears not to be called by their proper names, [397] sq., [399], [402]
Bechuanas, purification of manslayers among the, [172] sq., [174]
Bed, feet of, smeared with mud, [14];
prohibition to sleep in a, [194]
Beef and milk not to be eaten at the same meal, [292]
Beer, continence observed at brewing, [200]
Bells as talismans, [235]
Bentley, R., [33] n.3
Besisis, the, [87]
Beveridge, P., [363] sq.
Bird, soul conceived as a, [33] sqq.
Birds, ghosts of slain as, [177] sq.;
cause headache through clipped hair, [270] sq., [282]
Birth from a golden image, pretence of, [113];
premature, [213]. See [Miscarriage]
Bismarck Archipelago, [128]
Bites of ants used as purificatory ceremony, [105]
Blackening faces of warriors, [163];
of manslayers, [169], [178], [181]
Blackfoot Indians, [159] n.
Black Mountain of southern France, [42]
—— ox or black ram in magic, [154]
Bladders, annual festival of, among the Esquimaux, [206] sq., [228]
“Blessers” or sacred kings, [125] n.
Blood put on doorposts, [15];
of slain, supposed effect of it on the slayer, [169];
smeared on person as a purification, [104], [115], [219];
drawn from bodies of manslayers, [176], [180];
tabooed, [239] sqq.;
not eaten, [240] sq.;
soul in the, [240], [241], [247], [250];
of game poured out, [241];
royal, not to be shed on the ground, [241] sqq.;
unwillingness to shed, [243], [246] sq.;
received on bodies of kinsfolk, [244] sq.;
drops of, effaced, [245] sq.;
horror of, [245];
of chief sacred, [248];
of women, dread of, [250] sq.
—— of childbirth, supposed dangerous infection of, [152] sqq.;
received on heads of friends or slaves, [245]
—— -lickers, [246]
Blowing upon knots, as a charm, [302], [304]
Boa-constrictor, purification of man who has killed a, [221] sq.
Boars, wild, not to be called by their proper names, [411], [415]
Boas, Dr. Franz, [210] sqq., [214]
Bodia or Bodio, a West African pontiff or fetish king, [14] sq., [23]
Bodies, souls transferred to other, [49]
Bodos, the, of Assam, [285]
Boiled flesh tabooed, [185]
Bolang Mongondo, a district in Celebes, [53], [279], [341]
Bonds, no man in bonds allowed in priest's house, [14]
Bones of human bodies which have been eaten, special treatment of, [189] sq.;
of the dead, their treatment after the decay of the flesh, [372] n.5;
of dead disinterred and scraped, [373] n.
Boobies, the, [8] sq.
Born again, pretence of being, [113]
Bornu, Sultan of, [120]
Bourke, Captain J. G., [184]
Box, strayed soul caught in, [45], [70], [76]
Bracelets as amulets, [315]
Brahman student, his cut hair and nails, [277]
Brahmans, their common and secret names, [322]
Branches used in exorcism, [109]
Breath of chief sacred, [136], [256]
Breathing on a person as a mode of purification, [149]
Brewing, continence observed at, [200], [201] sq.
Bribri Indians, their ideas as to the uncleanness of women, [147], [149]
Bride and bridegrooms, all knots on their garments unloosed, [299] sq.
Bronze employed in expiatory rites, [226] n.6;
priests to be shaved with, [226]
—— knife to cut priest's hair, [14]
Brother and sister not allowed to mention each other's names, [344]
Brothers-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, [338], [342], [343], [344], [345]
Buddha, Footprint of, [275]
Building shadows into foundations, [89] sq.
Bukuru, unclean, [147]
Bulgarian building custom, [89]
Burghead, [230]
Burial under a running stream, [15]
—— customs to prevent the escape of the soul, [51], [52]
Burials, customs as to shadows at, [80] sq.
Burma, kings of, [375]
Burmese conception of the soul as a butterfly, [51] sq.
Burning cut hair and nails to prevent them being used in sorcery, [281] sqq.
Buryat shaman, his mode of recovering lost souls, [56] sq.
Butterfly, the soul as a, [29] n.1, [51] sq.
Cacongo, King of, [115], [118]
Caffre customs at circumcision, [156] sq.
Caffres, “women's speech” among the, [335] sq.
Calabar, fetish king at, [22] sq.
Calabashes, souls shut up in, [72]
Calchaquis Indians, [31]
Californian Indians, [352]
Cambodia, kings of, [376]
Camden, W., [68]
Campbell, J., [384]
Camphor, special language employed by searchers for, [405] sqq.
Canelos Indians, [97]
Cannibalism at hair-cutting, [264]
Cannibals, taboos imposed on, among the Kwakiutl, [188] sqq.
Canoe, fish offered to, [195]
Canoes, continence observed at building, [202]
Captives killed and eaten, [179] sq.
Carayahis, the, [348]
Caribou, taboos concerning, [208]
Caribs, difference of language between men and women among the, [348]
Caroline Islands, [25], [193], [290], [293]
Caron's Account of Japan, [4] n.2
Catat, Dr., [98]
Catlin, G., [182]
Cats with stumpy tails, reason of, [128] sq.
Cattle, continence observed for sake of, [204];
protected against wolves by charms, [307]
Caul-fat extracted by Australian enemies, [303]
“Cauld airn,” [233]
Cazembes, the, [132]
hooking souls in, [30]
Celibacy of holy milkmen, [15], [16]
Ceremonial purity observed in war, [157]
Ceremonies at the reception of strangers, [102] sqq.;
at entering a strange land, [109] sqq.;
purificatory, on return from a journey, [111] sqq.;
observed after slaughter of panthers, lions, bears, serpents, etc., [219] sqq.;
at hair-cutting, [264] sqq.
Cetchwayo, King, [377]
Change of language caused by taboo on the names of the dead, [358] sqq., [375];
caused by taboo on names of chiefs and kings, [375], [376] sqq.
—— of names to deceive ghosts, [354] sqq.
Charms to facilitate childbirth, [295] sq.
Chastity. See [Continence]
Chegilla, taboo, [137]
Cheremiss, the, [391]
Cherokee sorcery with spittle, [287] sq.
Chiefs, foods tabooed to, [291], [292];
names of, tabooed, [376] sq., [378] sq., [381], [382]
—— and kings tabooed, [131] sqq.
—— sacred, not allowed to leave their [pg 430] enclosures, [124];
regarded as dangerous, [138]
Child and father, supposed danger of resemblance between, [88] sq.
Child's nails bitten off, [262]
Childbed, taboos imposed on women in, [147] sqq.
Childbirth, precautions taken with mother at, [32], [33];
women tabooed at, [147] sqq.;
confession of sins as a means of expediting, [216] sq.;
women after, their hair shaved and burnt, [284];
homoeopathic magic to facilitate, [295] sqq.;
knots untied at, [294], [296] sq., [297] sq.
Children, young, tabooed, [262], [283];
parents named after their, [331] sqq.
Chiloe, Indians of, [287], [324]
China, custom at funerals in, [80];
Chitomé or Chitombé, a pontiff of Congo, [5] sq., [7]
Chittagong, [297]
Choctaws, the, [181]
Chuckchees, the, [358]
Circumcision customs among the Caffres, [156] sq.;
performed with flints, not iron, [227];
in Australia, [244]
Circumlocutions adopted to avoid naming the dead, [350], [351], [354], [355];
employed by reapers, [412]
Cities, guardian deities of, evoked by enemies, [391]
Clasping of hands forbidden, [298]
Clavie, the, at Burghead, [229] sq.
Cleanliness fostered by superstition, [130];
personal, observed in war, [157], [158] n.1
Clippings of hair, magic wrought through, [268] sqq., [275], [277], [278] sq.
Clotaire, [259]
Clothes of sacred persons tabooed, [131]
Cloths used to catch souls, [46], [47], [48], [52], [53], [64], [67], [75] sq.
Clotilde, Queen, [259]
Cobra, ceremonies after killing a, [222] sq.
Coco-nut oil made by chaste women, [201]
Codjour, a priestly king, [132] n.1
Coins, portraits of kings not stamped on, [98] sq.
Comanches, the, [360]
Combing the hair forbidden, [187], [203], [208], [264];
thought to cause storms, [271]
Combs of sacred persons, [256]
Common objects, names of, changed when they are the names of the dead, [358] sqq., [375], or the names of chiefs and kings, [375], [376] sqq.
—— words tabooed, [392] sqq.
Concealment of miscarriage in childbed, supposed effects of, [152] sqq.
Concealment of personal names from fear of magic, [320] sqq.
Conciliating the spirits of the land, [110] sq.
Conduct, standard of, shifted from natural to supernatural basis, [213] sq.
Confession of sins, [114], [191], [195], [211] sq., [214] sqq.;
originally a magical ceremony, [217]
Connaught, kings of, [11] sq.
Consummation of marriage prevented by knots and locks, [299] sqq.
Contagious magic, [246], [268], [272]
Continence enjoined on people during the rounds of sacred pontiff, [5];
of Zapotec priests, [6];
of priests, [159] n.
—— observed on eve of period of taboo, [11];
by those who have handled the dead, [142];
during war, [157], [158] n.1, [161], [163], [164], [165];
after victory, [166] sqq., [175], [178], [179], [181];
by cannibals, [188];
by fishers and hunters, [191], [192], [193], [194], [195], [196], [197], [198], [207];
by workers in salt-pans, [200];
at brewing beer, wine, and poison, [200] sq., [201] sq.;
at baking, [201];
at making coco-nut oil, [201];
at building canoes, [202];
at house-building, [202];
at making or repairing dams, [202];
on trading voyages, [203];
after festivals, [204];
on journeys, [204];
while cattle are at pasture, [204];
by lion-killers and bear-killers, [220], [221];
before handling holy relics, [272];
by tabooed men, [293]
Cooking, taboos as to, [147] sq., [156], [165], [169], [178], [185], [193], [194], [198], [209], [221], [256]
Coptic church, [235], [310] n.5
Cords, knotted, in magic, [302], [303] sq.
Corea, clipped hair burned in, [283]
—— kings of, [125];
not to be touched with iron, [226]
Corpses, knots not allowed about, [310]
Cousins, male and female, not allowed to mention each other's names, [344]
Covenant, spittle used in making a, [290]
Covering up mirrors at a death, [94] sq.
Cow bewitched, [93]
Cowboy of the king of Unyoro, [159] n.
Creek Indians, the, [156];
their war customs, [161]
Crevaux, J., [105]
Criminals shaved as a mode of purification, [287]
Crocodiles not called by their proper names, [403], [410], [411], [415] sq.
Crossing of legs forbidden, [295], [298] sq.
Crown, imperial, as palladium, [4]
Crystals used in divination, [56]
Curr, E. M., [320] sq.
Cursing at Athens, ritual of, [75]
—— an enemy, Arab mode of, [312]
Curtains to conceal kings, [120] sq.
Cut hair and nails, disposal of, [267] sqq.
Cuts made in the body as a mode of expelling demons or ghosts, [106] sq.;
in bodies of manslayers, [174], [176], [180];
in bodies of slain, [176]. See also [Incisions]
Cutting the hair a purificatory ceremony, [283] sqq.
Cynaetha, people of, [188]
Cyzicus, council chamber at, [230]
Dacotas, the, [181]
Dahomey, the King of, [9];
royal family of, [243];
kings of, their “strong names,” [374]
Dairi, the, or Mikado of Japan, [2], [4]
Dairies, sacred, of the Todas, [15] sqq.
Dairymen, sacred, of the Todas, [15] sqq.
Damaras, the, [247]
Dams, continence at making or repairing, [202]
Dance of king, [123];
of successful head-hunters, [166]
Dances of victory, [169], [170], [178], [182]
Danger of being overshadowed by certain birds or people, [82] sq.;
supposed, of portraits and photographs, [96] sqq.;
supposed to attend contact with divine or sacred persons, such as chiefs and kings, [132], [138]
Darfur, [81];
Sultan of, [120]
Dassera, festival of the, [316]
Daughter-in-law, her name not to be pronounced, [338]
David and the King of Moab, [273]
Dawson, J., [347] sq.
Dead, sacrifices to the, [15], [88];
taboos on persons who have handled the, [138] sqq.;
souls of the dead all malignant, [145];
names of the dead tabooed, [349] sqq.;
to name the dead a serious crime, [352];
names of the dead not borne by the living, [354];
reincarnation or resurrection of the dead in their namesakes, [365] sqq.;
festivals of the, [367], [371]
—— body, prohibition to touch, [14]
Death, natural, of sacred king or priest, supposed fatal consequences of, [6], [7];
kept off by arrows, [31];
mourners forbidden to sleep in house after a death, [37];
custom of covering up mirrors at a, [94] sq.;
from imagination, [135] sqq.
Debt of civilisation to savagery, [421] sq.
Defiled hands, [174]. See [Hands]
De Groot, J. J. M., [390]
Demons, abduction of souls by, [58] sqq.;
of disease expelled by pungent spices, pricks, and cuts, [105] sq.;
and ghosts averse to iron, [232] sqq.
Devils, abduction of souls by, [58] sqq.
Dido, her magical rites, [312]
Diet of kings and priests regulated, [291] sqq.
Dieterich, A., [369] n.3
Difference of language between husbands and wives, [347] sq.;
between men and women, [348] sq.
Diminution of shadow regarded with apprehension, [86] sq.
Dio Chrysostom, on fame as a shadow, [86] sq.
Diodorus Siculus, [12] sq.
Dionysus in the city, festival of, [316]
Disease, demons of, expelled by pungent spices, pricks, and cuts, [105] sq.
Disenchanting strangers, various modes of, [102] sqq.
Dishes, effect of eating out of sacred, [4];
of sacred persons tabooed, [131]. See [Vessels]
Disposal of cut hair and nails, [267] sqq.
Divination by shoulder-blades of sheep, [229]
Divinities, human, bound by many rules, [419] sq.
Divorce of spiritual from temporal power, [17] sqq.
Dobrizhoffer, Father M., [328], [360]
Dog, prohibition to touch or name, [13]
Dogs, bones of game kept from, [206];
unclean, [206];
tigers called, [402]
Dolls or puppets employed for the restoration of souls to their bodies, [53] sqq., [62] sq.
Doorposts, blood put on, [15]
Doors opened to facilitate childbirth, [296], [297];
to facilitate death, [309]
Doubles, spiritual, of men and animals, [28] sq.
Doutté, E., [390]
Dreams, absence of soul in, [36] sqq.;
belief of savages in the reality of, [36] sq.;
omens drawn from, [161]
Drinking and eating, taboos on, [116] sqq.;
modes of drinking for tabooed persons, [117] sqq., [120], [143], [146], [147], [148], [160], [182], [183], [185], [189], [197], [198], [256]
Drought supposed to be caused by a concealed miscarriage, [153] sq.
Dugong fishing, taboos in connexion with, [192]
Dyaks, the Sea, [30];
their modes of recalling the soul, [47] sq., [52] sq., [55] sq., [60], [67];
taboos observed by head-hunters among the, [166] sq.
Eagle, soul in form of, [34]
—— -hunters, taboos observed by, [198] sq.
Eagle-wood, special language employed by searchers for, [404]
Eating out of sacred vessels, supposed effect of, [4]
—— and drinking, taboos on, [116] sqq.;
fear of being seen in the act of, [117] sqq.
Eggs offered to demons, [110];
reason for breaking shells of, [129] sq.
Egypt, rules of life observed by ancient kings of, [12] sq.
Egyptian magicians, their power of compelling the deities, [389] sq.
Egyptians, the ancient, their conception of the soul, [28];
their practice as to souls of the dead, [68] sq.;
personal names among, [322]
Elder brother, his name not to be pronounced, [341]
Elder-tree, cut hair and nails inserted in an, [275] sq.
Elephant-hunters, special language employed by, [404]
Eleusinian priests, their names sacred, [382] sq.
Elfin race averse to iron, [232] sq.
Emetic as mode of purification, [175], [245];
pretended, in auricular confession, [214]
Emin Pasha, [108]
Epidemics attributed to evil spirits, [30]
Epimenides, the Cretan seer, [50] n.2
Esquimaux, their conception of the soul, [27];
their dread of being photographed, [96];
or Inuit, taboos observed by hunters among the, [205] sq.;
namesakes of the dead among the, [371]
Esthonians, the, [41] sq., [240]
Ethical evolution, [218] sq.
—— precepts developed out of savage taboos, [214]
Ethiopia, kings of, [124]
Euphemisms employed for certain animals, [397] sqq.;
for smallpox, [400], [410], [411], [416]
Europe, south-eastern, superstitions as to shadows in, [89] sq.
Evil eye, the, [116] sq.
Ewe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast, [9];
rebirth of ancestors among the, [369]
Execution, peculiar modes of, for members of royal families, [241] sqq.
Executioners, customs observed by, [171] sq., [180] sq.
Exorcising harmful influence of strangers, [102] sqq.
Eye, the evil, [116] sq.
Eyeos, the, [9]
Faces veiled to avert evil influences, [120] sqq.;
of warriors blackened, [163];
of manslayers blackened, [169]
Fàdy, taboo, [327]
Fafnir and Sigurd, [324]
Fairies averse to iron, [229], [232] sq.
Fasting, custom of, [157] n.2, [159] n., [161], [162], [163], [182], [183], [189], [198], [199]
Father and child, supposed danger of resemblance between, [88] sq.
—— and mother, their names not to be mentioned, [337], [341]
—— in-law, his name not to be pronounced by his daughter-in-law, [335] sqq., [343], [345], [346];
by his son-in-law, [338], [339], [340], [341], [342], [343], [344]
Fathers named after their children, [331] sqq.
Faunus, consultation of, [314]
Feast of Yams, [123]
Feathers worn by manslayers, [180], [186] n.1
Feet, not to wet the, [159]. See also [Foot]
Fernando Po, taboos observed by the kings of, [8] sq., [115], [123], [291]
Festival of the Dead among the Hurons, [367]
Fetish or taboo rajah, [24]
—— kings in West Africa, [22] sqq.
Fever, euphemism for, [400]
“Field speech,” a special jargon employed by reapers, [410] sq., [411] sq.
Fiji, catching away souls in, [69];
War King and Sacred King in, [21];
custom as to remains of food in, [117]
Fijian chief, supposed effect of using his dishes or clothes, [131]
—— conception of the soul, [29] sq., [92]
—— custom of frightening away ghosts, [170]
—— notion of absence of the soul in dreams, [39] sq.
Fingers cut off as a sacrifice, [161]
Finnish hunters, [398]
Fire, rule as to removing fire from priest's house, [13];
prohibition to blow the fire with the breath, [136], [256];
in purificatory rites, [108], [109], [111], [114], [197];
tabooed, [178], [182], [256] sq.;
new, made by friction, [286]
—— and Water, kingships of, [17]
Firefly, soul in form of, [67]
First-fruits, offering of, [5]
Fish-traps, continence observed at making, [202]
Fishermen, words tabooed by, [394] sq., [396], [408] sq., [415]
Fishers and hunters tabooed, [190] sqq.
Fison, Rev. Lorimer, [30] n.1, [40] n.1, [92] n.3, [131] n.2
Fits and convulsions set down to demons, [59]
Flamen Dialis, taboos observed by the, [13] sq., [239], [248], [257], [275], [291], [293], [315] sq.
Flaminica, rules observed by the, [14]
Flannan Islands, [392]
Flesh, boiled, not to be eaten by tabooed persons, [185];
diet restricted or forbidden, [291] sqq.
Flints, not iron, cuts to be made with, [176];
use of, prescribed in ritual, [176];
sharp, circumcision performed with, [227]
Fly, soul in form of, [39]
Food, remnants of, buried as a precaution against sorcery, [118], [119], [127] sq., [129];
magic wrought by means of refuse of, [126] sqq.;
taboos on leaving food over, [127] sqq.;
not to be touched with hands, [138] sqq., [146] sqq., [166], [167], [168], [169], [174], [203], [265];
objection to have food over head, [256], [257]
Foods tabooed, [291] sqq.
Foot, custom of going with only one foot shod, [311] sqq. See also [Feet]
Footprint in magic, [74];
of Buddha, [275]
Forgetfulness, pretence of, [189]
Forks used in eating by tabooed persons, [148], [168], [169], [203]
Fors, the, of Central Africa, [281]
Foundation sacrifices, [89] sqq.
Fowl used in exorcism, [106]
Fowlers, words tabooed by, [393], [407] sq.
Foxes not to be mentioned by their proper names, [396], [397]
Frankish kings, their unshorn hair, [258] sq.
Fresh meat tabooed, [143]
Fumigation as a mode of ceremonial purification, [155], [177]
Funerals in China, custom as to shadows at, [80]. See also [Burial], [Burials]
Furfo, [230]
Gabriel, the archangel, [302], [303]
Gangas, fetish priests, [291]
Garments, effect of wearing sacred, [4]
Gates, sacrifice of human beings at foundations of, [90] sq.
Gatschet, A. S., [363]
Gauntlet, running the, [222]
Genitals of murdered people eaten, [190] n.2
Getae, priestly kings of the, [21]
Ghost of husband kept from his widow, [143];
fear of evoking the ghost by mentioning his name, [349] sqq.;
chased into the grave at the end of mourning, [373] sq.
Ghosts, sacrifices to, [56], [247];
draw away the souls of their kinsfolk, [51] sqq.;
draw out men's shadows, [80];
as guardians of gates, [90] sq.;
kept off by thorns, [142];
and demons averse to iron, [232] sqq.;
fear of wounding, [237] sq.;
swept out of house, [238];
names changed in order to deceive ghosts or to avoid attracting their attention, [354] sqq.
Ghosts of animals, dread of, [223]
—— of the slain haunt their slayers, [165] sqq.;
fear of the, [165] sqq.;
sacrifices to, [166];
scaring away the, [168], [170], [171], [172], [174] sq.;
as birds, [177] sq.
Gilyaks, the, [370]
Ginger in purificatory rites, [105], [151]
Gingiro, kingdom of, [18]
Girls at puberty obliged to touch everything in house, [225] n.;
their hair torn out, [284]
Goat, prohibition to touch or name, [13];
transference of guilt to, [214] sq.
—— -sucker, shadow of the, [82]
God, “the most great name” of, [390]
—— -man a source of danger, [132];
bound by many rules, [419] sq.
Gods, their names tabooed, [387] sqq.;
Xenophanes on the, [387];
human, bound by many rules, [419] sq. See also Myths
Gold excluded from some temples, [226] n.8
—— and silver as totems, [227] n.
—— mines, spirits of the, treated with deference, [409] sq.
Goldie, H., [22]
Gollas, the, [149]
Good Friday, [229]
Goorkhas, the, [316]
Gordian knot, [316] sq.
Gran Chaco, Indians of the, [37], [38], [357]
Grandfathers, grandsons named after their deceased, [370]
Grandidier, A., [380] sq.
Grandmothers, granddaughters named after their deceased, [370]
Grass knotted as a charm, [305], [310]
Grave, soul fetched from, [54]
—— -clothes, no knots in, [310]
—— -diggers, taboos observed by, [141], [142]
Graves, food offered on, [53];
water poured on, as a rain-charm, [154] sq.
Great Spirit, sacrifice of fingers to the, [161]
Grebo people of Sierra Leone, [14]
Greek conception of the soul, [29] n.1
—— customs as to manslayers, [188]
Grey, Sir George, [364] sq.
Grihya-Sûtras, [277]
Grimm, J., [305] n.1
Ground, prohibition to touch the, [3], [4], [6];
not to sit on the, [159], [162], [163];
not to set foot on, [180];
royal blood not to be shed on the, [241] sqq.
Guardian deities of cities, [391]
Guaycurus, the, [357]
Guiana, Indians of, [324]
Gypsy superstition about portraits, [100]
Haida medicine-men, [31]
Hair, mode of cutting the Mikado's, [3];
cut with bronze knife, [14];
of manslayers shaved, [175], [176];
of slain enemy, fetish made from, [183];
not to be combed, [187], [203], [208], [264];
tabooed, [258] sqq.;
of kings, priests, and wizards unshorn, [258] sqq.;
regarded as the seat of a god or spirit, [258], [259], [263];
kept unshorn at certain times, [260] sqq.;
offered to rivers, [261];
of children unshorn, [263];
magic wrought through clippings of, [268] sqq., [275], [277], [278] sq.;
cut or combed out may cause rain and thunderstorms, [271], [272], [282];
clippings of, used as hostages, [272] sq.;
infected by virus of taboo, [283] sq.;
cut as a purificatory ceremony, [283] sqq.;
of women after childbirth shaved and burnt, [284];
loosened at childbirth, [297] sq.;
loosened in magical and religious ceremonies, [310] sq.
—— and nails of sacred persons not cut, [3], [4], [16]
—— and nails, cut, disposal of, [267] sqq.;
deposited on or under trees, [14], [275] sq., [286];
deposited in sacred places, [274] sqq.;
stowed away in any secret place, [276] sqq.;
kept for use at the resurrection, [279] sqq.;
burnt to prevent them from falling into the hands of sorcerers, [281] sqq.
—— -cutting, ceremonies at, [264] sqq.
Hands tabooed, [138], [140] sqq., [146] sqq., [158], [159] n., [265];
food not to be touched with, [138] sqq., [146] sqq., [166], [167], [168], [169], [174], [265];
defiled, [174];
not to be clasped, [298]
Hanun, King of Moab, [273]
customs as to chiefs and shadows in, [255]
Head, stray souls restored to, [47], [48], [52], [53] sq., [64], [67];
prohibition to touch the, [142], [183], [189], [252] sq., [254], [255] sq.;
plastered with mud, [182];
the human, regarded as sacred, [252] sqq.;
tabooed, [252] sqq.;
supposed to be the residence of spirits, [252];
objection to have any one overhead, [253] sqq.;
washing the, [253]
—— -hunters, customs of, [30], [36], [71] sq., [111], [166] sq., [169] sq.
Headache caused by clipped hair, [270] sq., [282]
Heads of manslayers shaved, [177]
Hearne, S., quoted, [184] sqq.
Hebesio, god of thunder, [257]
Hercules and Alcmena, [298] sq.
Herero, the, [151], [177], [225] n.
Hermotimus of Clazomenae, [50]
Hidatsa Indians, taboos observed by eagle-hunters among the, [198] sq.
Hierapolis, temple of Astarte at, [286]
Hiro, thief-god, [69]
Historical tradition hampered by the taboo on the names of the dead, [363] sqq.
Holiness and pollution not differentiated by savages, [224]
Hollis, A. C., [200] n.3
Holy water, sprinkling with, [285] sq.
Homicides. See [Manslayers]
Homoeopathic magic, [151], [152], [207], [295], [298]
Honey-wine, continence observed at brewing, [200]
Hooks to catch souls, [30] sq., [51]
Horse, prohibition to see a, [9];
prohibition to ride, [13]
Hos of Togoland, the, [295], [301]
Hostages, clipped hair used as, [272] sq.
Hottentots, the, [220]
House, ceremony at entering a new, [63] sq.;
taboos on quitting the, [122] sqq.
—— building, custom as to shadows at, [81], [89] sq.;
continence observed at, [202]
Howitt, A. W., [269]
Huichol Indians, [197]
Human gods bound by many rules, [419] sq.
—— sacrifices at foundation of buildings, [90] sq.
Humbe, a kingdom of Angola, [6]
Hunters use knots as charms, [306];
words tabooed by, [396], [398], [399], [400], [402], [404], [410]
—— and fishers tabooed, [190] sqq.
Hurons, the, [366];
their conception of the soul, [27];
their Festival of the Dead, [367]
Husband's ghost kept from his widow, [143]
—— name not to be pronounced by his wife, [335], [336], [337], [338], [339]
Husbands and wives, difference of language between, [347] sq.
Ilocanes of Luzon, [44]
Imagination, death from, [135] sqq.
Imitative or homoeopathic magic, [295]
Impurity of manslayers, [167]
Incas of Peru, [279]
Incisions made in bodies of warriors as a preparation for war, [161];
in bodies of slain, [176];
in bodies of manslayers, [174], [176], [180].
See also [Cuts]
Incontinence of young people supposed to be fatal to the king, [6]
India, names of animals tabooed in, [401] sqq.
Indians of North America, their customs on the war-path, [158] sqq.;
their fear of naming the dead, [351] sqq.
Infants tabooed, [255]
Infection, supposed, of lying-in women, [150] sqq.
Infidelity of wife supposed to be fatal to hunter, [197]
Initiation, custom of covering the mouth after, [122];
taboos observed by novices at, [141] sq., [156] sq.;
new names given at, [320]
Injury to a man's shadow conceived as an injury to the man, [78] sqq.
Inspiration, primitive theory of, [248]
Intercourse with wives enjoined before war, [164] n.1;
enjoined on manslayers, [176]. See also [Continence]
Intoxication accounted inspiration, [248], [249], [250]
Inuit. See [Esquimaux]
Ireland, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, [11] sq.
Irish custom as to a fall, [68];
as to friends' blood, [244] sq.
Iron not to be touched, [167];
used as a charm against spirits, [232] sqq.
—— instruments, use of, tabooed, [205], [206]
—— rings as talismans, [235]
Isis and Ra, [387] sqq.
Israelites, rules of ceremonial purity observed by the Israelites in war, [157] sq., [177]
Issini, the, [171]
Itonamas, the, [31]
Ivy, prohibition to touch or name, [13] sq.
Ja-Luo, the, [79]
Jackals, tigers called, [402], [403]
Jackson, Professor Henry, [21] n.3
Japan, the Mikado of, [2] sqq.;
Kaempfer's history of, [3] n.2;
Caron's account of, [4] n.2
Jars, souls conjured into, [70]
Jason and Pelias, [311] sq.
Jebu, the king of, [121]
Jewish hunters, their customs as to blood of game, [241]
Jinn, the servants of their magical names, [390]
Journey, purificatory ceremonies on return from a, [111] sqq.;
continence observed on a, [204];
hair kept unshorn on a, [261]
Jumping over wife or children as a ceremony, [112], [164] n.1
Juno Lucina, [294]
Junod, H. A., [152] sqq., [420] n.1
Jupiter Liber, temple of, at Furfo, [230]
Ka, the ancient Egyptian, [28]
Kachins of Burma, [200]
Kaempfer's History of Japan, [3] sq.
Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh, [13] n.6, [14] n.2
Kalamba, the, a chief in the Congo region, [114]
Kami, the Japanese word for god, [2] n.2
Kamtchatkans, their attempts to deceive mice, [399]
Karaits, the, [95]
Karen-nis of Burma, the, [13]
Karens, the Red, of Burma, [292];
their recall of the soul, [43];
their customs at funerals, [51]
Karo-Bataks, [52]. See also [Battas]
Katikiro, the, of Uganda, [145] n.4
Kavirondo, [176]
Kayans of Borneo, [32], [47], [110], [164], [239]
Kei Islanders, [53]
Kenyahs of Borneo, [43], [415]
Key as symbol of delivery in childbed, [296]
Keys as charms against devils and ghosts, [234], [235], [236];
as amulets, [308]. See also [Locks]
Khonds, rebirth of ancestors among the, [368] sq.
Kickapoos, the, [171]
Kidd, Dudley, [88] n.
King not to be overshadowed, [83]
—— of the Night, [23]
King's Evil, the, [134]
Kings, supernatural powers attributed to, [1];
beaten before their coronation, [18];
forbidden to see their mothers, [86];
portraits of, not stamped on coins, [98] sq.;
guarded against the magic of strangers, [114] sq.;
forbidden to use foreign goods, [115];
not to be seen eating and drinking, [117] sqq.;
concealed by curtains, [120] sq.;
forbidden to leave their palaces, [122] sqq.;
compelled to dance, [123];
punished or put to death, [124];
not to be touched, [132], [225] sq.;
their hair unshorn, [258] sq.;
foods tabooed to, [291] sq.;
names of, tabooed, [374] sqq.;
taboos observed by, identical with those observed by commoners, [419] sq.
Kings and chiefs tabooed, [131] sqq.;
their spittle guarded against sorcerers, [289] sq.
—— fetish or religious, in West Africa, [22] sqq.
Kingsley, Miss Mary H., [22] n.3, [71], [123] n.2, [251]
Klallam Indians, the, [354]
Knife as charm against spirits, [232], [233], [234], [235]
Knives not to be left edge upwards, [238];
not used at funeral banquets, [238]
Knot, the Gordian, [316] sq.
Knots, prohibition to wear, [13];
untied at childbirth, [294], [296] sq., [297] sq.;
thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, [299] sqq.;
thought to cause sickness, disease, and all kinds of misfortune, [301] sqq.;
used to cure disease, [303] sqq.;
used to win a lover or capture a runaway slave, [305] sq.;
used as protective amulets, [306] sqq.;
used as charms by hunters and travellers, [306];
as a charm to protect corn from devils, [308] sq.;
on corpses untied, [310]
—— and locks, magical virtue of, [310], [313]
—— and rings tabooed, [293] sqq.
Koita, the, [168]
Koryak, the, [32]
Kruijt, A. C., [319]
Kublai Khan, [242]
Kukulu, a priestly king, [5]
Kwakiutl, the, [53];
customs observed by cannibals among the, [188] sqq.;
change of names in summer and winter among the, [386]
Kwun, the spirit of the head, [252];
supposed to reside in the hair, [266] sq.
Lafitau, J. F., [365] sq.
Lampong in Sumatra, [10]
Lamps to light the ghosts to their old homes, [371]
Language of husbands and wives, difference between, [347] sq.;
of men and women, difference between, [348] sq.
—— change of, caused by taboo on the names of the dead, [358] sqq., [375];
caused by taboo on the names of chiefs and kings, [375], [376] sqq.
—— special, employed by hunters, [396], [398], [399], [400], [402], [404], [410];
employed by searchers for eagle-wood and lignum aloes, [404];
employed by searchers for camphor, [405] sqq.;
employed by miners, [407], [409];
employed by reapers at harvest, [410] sq., [411] sq.;
employed by sailors at sea, [413] sqq.
Laos, [306]
Lapps, the, [294];
their customs after killing a bear, [221];
rebirth of ancestors among the, [368]
Latuka, the, [245]
Leaning against a tree prohibited to warriors, [162], [163]
Leavened bread, prohibition to touch, [13]
Leaving food over, taboos on, [126] sqq.
Leavings of food, magic wrought by means of, [118], [119], [126] sqq.
Legs not to be crossed, [295], [298] sq.
Leinster, kings of, [11]
Leleen, the, [129]
Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco, [38], [357]
Leonard, A. G., Major, [136] sq.
Lesbos, building custom in, [89]
Lewis, Rev. Thomas, [420] n.1
Life in the blood, [241], [250]
Limbs, amputated, kept by the owners against the resurrection, [281]
Lion-killer, purification of, [176], [220]
Lions not called by their proper names, [400]
Lithuanians, the old, their funeral banquets, [238]
Liver, induration of the, attributed to touching sacred chief, [133]
Lizard, soul in form of, [38]
Loango, taboos observed by kings of, [8], [9];
taboos observed by heir to throne of, [291]
—— king of, forbidden to see a white man's house, [115];
not to be seen eating or drinking, [117] sq.;
confined to his palace, [123];
refuse of his food buried, [129]
Locks unlocked at childbirth, [294], [296];
thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, [299];
unlocked to facilitate death, [309]
—— and knots, magical virtue of, [309] sq. See also [Keys]
Lolos, the, [43]
Look back, not to, [157]
Loom, men not allowed to touch a, [164]
Loss of the shadow regarded as ominous, [88]
Lovers won by knots, [305]
Lucan, [390]
Lucky names, [391] n.1
Lycaeus, sanctuary of Zeus on Mount, [88]
Lycosura, sanctuary of the Mistress at, [227] n., [314]
Lying-in women, dread of, [150] sqq.;
sacred, [151]
Mack, an adventurer, [19]
Macusi Indians, [36], [159] n.
Madagascar, names of chiefs and kings tabooed in, [378] sqq.
Magic wrought by means of refuse of food, [126] sqq.;
sympathetic, [126], [130], [164], [201], [204], [258], [268], [287];
homoeopathic, [pg 437] [151], [152], [207], [295], [298];
contagious, [246], [268], [272];
wrought through clippings of hair, [268] sqq., [275], [277], [278] sq.;
wrought on a man through his name, [318], [320] sqq.
Magicians, Egyptian, their power of compelling the deities, [389] sq.
Mahafalys of Madagascar, the, [10]
Makalaka, the, [369]
Makololo, the, [281]
Malagasy language, dialectical variations of, [378] sq., [380]
Malanau tribes of Borneo, [406]
Malay conception of the soul as a bird, [34] sqq.
—— miners, fowlers, and fishermen, special forms of speech employed by, [407] sqq.
—— Peninsula, art of abducting human souls in the, [73] sqq.
Maldives, the, [274]
Mandan Indians, [97]
Mandelings of Sumatra, [296]
Mangaia, separation of religious and civil authority in, [20]
Mangaians, the, [87]
Manipur, hill tribes of, [292]
Mannikin, the soul conceived as a, [26] sqq.
Manslayers, purification of, [165] sqq.;
secluded, [165] sqq.;
tabooed, [165] sqq.;
haunted by ghosts of slain, [165] sqq.;
their faces blackened, [169];
their bodies painted, [175], [178], [179], [180], [186] n.1;
their hair shaved, [175], [177]
Maori chiefs, their sanctity or taboo, [134] sqq.;
their heads sacred, [256]
—— language, synonyms in the, [381]
Maoris, persons who have handled the dead tabooed among the, [138] sq.;
tabooed on the war-path, [157]
Marianne Islands, [288]
Mariner, W., quoted, [140]
Mariners at sea, special language employed by, [413] sqq.
Marquesans, the, [31];
their regard for the sanctity of the head, [254] sq.;
their customs as to the hair, [261] sq.;
their dread of sorcery, [268]
Marquesas Islands, [178]
Marriage, the consummation of, prevented by knots and locks, [299] sqq.
Masai, the, [200], [309], [329], [354] sq., [356], [361]
Matthews, Dr. Washington, [385]
Meal sprinkled to keep off evil spirits, [112]
Measuring shadows, [89] sq.
—— -tape deified, [91] sq.
Mecca, pilgrims to, not allowed to wear knots and rings, [293] sq.
Medes, law of the, [121]
Mekeo district of New Guinea, [24]
Men injured through their shadows, [78] sqq.
—— and women, difference of language between, [348] sq.
Menedemus, [227]
Menstruation, women tabooed at, [145] sqq.
Menstruous women, dread of, [145] sqq., [206];
avoidance of, by hunters, [211]
Mentras, the, [404]
Merolla da Sorrento, [137]
Mice thought to understand human speech, [399];
not to be called by their proper names, [399], [415]
Midas and his ass's ears, [258] n.1;
king of Gordium, [316]
Mikado, rules of life of the, [2] sqq.;
supposed effect of using his dishes or clothes, [131];
the cutting of his hair and nails, [265]
Mikados, their relations to the Tycoons, [19]
Miklucho-Maclay, Baron N. von, [109]
Milk, custom as to drinking, [119];
prohibition to drink, [141];
not to be drunk by wounded men, [174] sq.;
wine called, [249] n.2;
and beef not to be eaten at the same meal, [292]
Milkmen of the Todas, taboos observed by the holy, [15] sqq.
Miller, Hugh, [40]
Minahassa, a district of Celebes, [99];
the Alfoors of, [63]
Minangkabauers of Sumatra, [32], [36], [41]
Miners, special language employed by, [407], [409]
Mirrors, superstitions as to, [93];
covered after a death, [94] sq.
Miscarriage in childbed, dread of, [149], [152] sqq.;
supposed danger of concealing a, [211], [213]
Moab, Arabs of, [280];
their custom of shaving prisoners, [273]
Moabites, King David's treatment of the, [273] sq.
Mohammed bewitched by a Jew, [302] sq.
Mongols, their recall of the soul, [44];
sacred books of the, [384]
Montezuma, [121]
Mooney, J., [318] sqq.
Moquis, the, [228]
Moral guilt regarded as a corporeal pollution, [217] sq.
Morality developed out of taboo, [213] sq.;
shifted from a natural to a supernatural basis, [213];
survival of savage taboos in civilised, [218] sq.
Morice, A. G., [146] sq.
Mosyni or Mosynoeci, the, [124]
Mother-in-law, the savage's dread of his, [83] sqq.;
her name not to be mentioned by her son-in-law, [338], [339], [340], [341], [342], [343], [344], [345], [346]
Mothers, African kings forbidden to see their, [86];
named after their children, [332], [333]
Mourners, customs observed by, [31] sq., [159] n.;
tabooed, [138] sqq.;
bodies of, smeared with mud or clay, [182] n.2;
hair and nails of, cut at end of mourning, [285] sq.
Mourning of slayers for the slain, [181]
Mouse, soul in form of, [37], [39] n.2
Mouth closed to prevent escape of soul, [31], [33];
soul in the, [33];
covered to prevent entrance of demons, etc., [122]
Muata Jamwo, the, [118], [290]
Mud smeared on feet of bed, [14];
plastered on head, [182]
Munster, kings of, [11]
Murderers, taboos imposed on, [187] sq.
Murrams, the, of Manipur, [292]
Muysca Indians, [121]
Myths of gods and spirits to be told only in spring and summer, [384];
to be told only in winter, [385] sq.;
not to be told by day, [384] sq.
Nails, prohibition to cut finger-nails, [194];
of children not pared, [262] sq.
—— and hair, cut, disposal of, [267] sqq.;
deposited in sacred places, [274] sqq.;
stowed away in any secret place, [276] sqq.;
kept for use at the resurrection, [279] sqq.;
burnt to prevent them from falling into the hands of sorcerers, [281] sqq.
Nails, iron, used as charms against fairies, demons, and ghosts, [233], [234], [236]
—— parings of, used in rain-charms, [271], [272];
swallowed by treaty-makers, [246], [274]
Name, the personal, regarded as a vital part of the man, [318] sqq.;
identified with the soul, [319];
the same, not to be borne by two living persons, [370]
Names of relations tabooed, [335] sqq.;
changed to deceive ghosts, [354] sqq.;
of common objects changed when they are the names of the dead, [358] sqq., [375], or the names of chiefs and kings, [375], [376] sqq.;
of ancestors bestowed on their reincarnations, [368] sq.;
of kings and chiefs tabooed, [374] sqq.;
of supernatural beings tabooed, [384] sqq.;
of gods tabooed, [387] sqq.;
of spirits and gods, magical virtue of, [389] sqq.;
of Roman gods not to be mentioned, [391] n.1;
lucky, [391] n.1;
of dangerous animals not to be mentioned, [396] sqq.
Names, new, given to the sick and old, [319];
new, at initiation, [320]
—— of the dead tabooed, [349] sqq.;
not borne by the living, [354];
revived after a time, [365] sqq.
—— personal, tabooed, [318] sqq.;
kept secret from fear of magic, [320] sqq.;
different in summer and winter, [386]
Namesakes of the dead change their names to avoid attracting the attention of the ghost, [355] sqq.;
of deceased persons regarded as their reincarnations, [365] sqq.
Naming the dead a serious crime, [352], [354];
of children, solemnities at the, connected with belief in the reincarnation of ancestors in their namesakes, [372]
Namosi, in Fiji, [264]
Nandi, the, [175], [273], [310], [330]
Nanumea, island of, [102]
Narbrooi, a spirit or god, [60]
Narcissus and his reflection, [94]
Narrinyeri, the, [126] sq.
Natchez, customs of manslayers among the, [181]
Nats, demons, [90]
Natural death of sacred king or priest, supposed fatal consequences of, [6], [7]
Navajo Indians, [112] sq., [325], [385]
Navel-string used to recall the soul, [48]
Nazarite, vow of the, [262]
Nets to catch souls, [69] sq.;
New Britain, [85]
—— everything, excites awe of savages, [230] sqq.
—— fire made by friction, [286]
—— names given to the sick and old, [319];
at initiation, [320]
—— Zealand, sanctity of chiefs in, [134] sqq.
Nias, island of, conception of the soul in, [29];
custom of the people of, [107];
special language of hunters in, [410];
special language employed by reapers in, [410] sq.
Nicknames used in order to avoid the use of the real names, [321], [331]
Nicobar Islands, customs as to shadows at burials in the, [80] sq.
Nicobarese, the, [357];
changes in their language, [362] sq.
Nieuwenhuis, Dr. A. W., [99]
Night, King of the, [23]
Nine knots in magic, [302], [303], [304]
Noon, sacrifices to the dead at, [88];
superstitious dread of, [88]
Nootka Indians, their idea of the soul, [pg 439] [27];
customs of girls at puberty among the, [146] n.1;
their preparation for war, [160] sq.
North American Indians, their dread of menstruous women, [145];
their theory of names, [318] sq.
Norway, superstition as to parings of nails in, [283]
Nose stopped to prevent the escape of the soul, [31], [71]
Nostrils, soul supposed to escape by the, [30], [32], [33], [122]
Novelties excite the awe of savages, [230] sqq.
Novices at initiation, taboos observed by, [141] sq., [156] sq.
Nubas, the, [132]
Nufoors of New Guinea, [332], [341], [415]
Obscene language in ritual, [154], [155]
O'Donovan, E., [304]
Oesel, island of, [42]
Ojebways, the, [160]
Oldfield, A., [350]
Omahas, customs as to murderers among the, [187]
Omens, reliance on, [110]
One shoe on and one shoe off, [311] sqq.
Ongtong Java Islands, [107]
Onitsha, the king of, [123]
Opening everything in house to facilitate childbirth, [296] sq.
Orestes, the matricide, [188], [287]
Oro, war god, [69]
Orotchis, the, [232]
Ot Danoms, the, [103]
Ottawa Indians, the, [78]
Ovambo, the, [227]
Overshadowed, danger of being, [82] sq.
Ovid, on loosening the hair, [311]
Ox, purification by passing through the body of an, [173]
Padlocks as amulets, [307]
Painting bodies of manslayers, [175], [178], [179], [180], [186] n.1
Palaces, kings not allowed to leave their, [122] sqq.
Pantang, taboo, [405]
Panther, ceremonies at the slaughter of a, [219]
Parents named after their children, [331] sqq.
—— -in-law, their names not to be pronounced, [338], [339], [340], [341], [342]
Partition of spiritual and temporal power between religious and civil kings, [17] sqq.
Patagonians, the, [281]
Paton, W. R., [382] n.4, [383] n.1
Pawnees, the, [228]
Peace, ceremony at making, [274]
Pelias and Jason, [311]
Pentateuch, the, [219]
Pepper in purificatory rites, [106], [114]
Perils of the soul, [26] sqq.
Perseus and the Gorgon, [312]
Persian kings, their custom at meals, [119]
Persons, tabooed, [131] sqq.
Philosophy, primitive, [420] sq.
Phong long, ill luck caused by women in childbed, [155]
Photographed or painted, supposed danger of being, [96] sqq.
Pictures, supposed danger of, [96] sq.
Pig, the word unlucky, [233]
Pigeons, special language employed by Malays in snaring, [407] sq.
Pilgrims to Mecca not allowed to wear knots and rings, [293] sq.
Pimas, the purification of manslayers among the, [182] sqq.
Plataea, Archon of, forbidden to touch iron, [227];
escape of besieged from, [311]
Pliny on crossed legs and clasped hands, [298];
on knotted threads, [303]
Plutarch, [249]
Poison, continence observed at brewing, [200]
—— ordeal, [15]
Polar bear, taboos concerning the, [209]
Polemarch, the, at Athens, [22]
Pollution or sanctity, their equivalence in primitive religion, [145], [158], [224]
—— and holiness not differentiated by savages, [224]
Polynesia, names of chiefs tabooed in, [381]
Polynesian chiefs sacred, [136]
Pons Sublicius, [230]
Port Moresby, [203]
Porto Novo, [23]
Portraits, souls in, [96] sqq.;
supposed dangers of, [96] sqq.
Powers, S., [326]
Pregnancy, husband's hair kept unshorn during wife's, [261];
conduct of husband during wife's, [294], [295];
superstitions as to knots during wife's, [294] sq.
Pregnant women, their superstitions about shadows, [82] sq.
Premature birth, [213]. See Miscarriage
Pricking patient with needles to expel demons of disease, [106]
Priests to be shaved with bronze, [226];
their hair unshorn, [259], [260];
foods tabooed to, [291]
Prisoners shaved, [273];
released at festivals, [316]
Propitiation of the souls of the slain, [166];
of spirits of slain animals, [190], [204] sq.;
of ancestors, [197]
Prussians, the old, their funeral feasts, [238]
Puppets or dolls employed for the restoration of souls to their bodies, [53] sqq.
Purge as mode of ceremonial purification, [175]
Purification of city, [188];
of Pimas after slaying Apaches, [182] sqq.;
of hunters and fishers, [190] sq.;
of moral guilt by physical agencies, [217] sq.;
by cutting the hair, [283] sqq.
—— of manslayers, [165] sqq.;
intended to rid them of the ghosts of the slain, [186] sq.
Purificatory ceremonies at reception of strangers, [102] sqq.;
on return from a journey, [111] sqq.
Purity, ceremonial, observed in war, [157]
Pygmies, the African, [282]
Pythagoras, maxims of, [314] n.2
Python, punishment for killing a, [222]
Quartz used at circumcision instead of iron, [227]
Queensland, aborigines of, [159] n.
Ra and Isis, [387] sqq.
Rabbah, siege of, [273]
Rain caused by cut or combed out hair, [271], [272];
word for, not to be mentioned, [413]
—— -charm by pouring water, [154] sq.
—— -makers, their hair unshorn, [259] sq.
Rainbow, the, a net for souls, [79]
Ramanga, [246]
Raven, soul as a, [34]
Raw flesh not to be looked on, [239]
—— meat, prohibition to touch or name, [13]
Reapers, special language employed by, [410] sq., [411] sq.
Reasoning, definite, at the base of savage custom, [420] n.1
Rebirth of ancestors in their descendants, [368] sq.
Recall of the soul, [30] sqq.
Red, bodies of manslayers painted, [175], [179];
faces of manslayers painted, [185], [186] n.1
Reflection, the soul identified with the, [92] sqq.
Reflections in water or mirrors, supposed dangers of, [93] sq.
Refuse of food, magic wrought by means of, [126] sqq.
Regeneration, pretence of, [113]
Reincarnation of the dead in their namesakes, [365] sqq.;
of ancestors in their descendants, [368] sqq.
Reindeer, taboos concerning, [208]
Relations, names of, tabooed, [335] sqq.
Relationship, terms of, used as terms of address, [324] sq.
Release of prisoners at festivals, [316]
Religion, passage of animism into, [213]
Reluctance to accept sovereignty on account of taboos attached to it, [17] sqq.
Remnants of food buried as a precaution against sorcery, [118], [119], [127] sq., [129]
Resemblance of child to father, supposed danger of, [88] sq.
Resurrection, cut hair and nails kept for use at the, [279] sq.
—— of the dead effected by giving their names to living persons, [365] sqq.
Rhys, Professor Sir John, [12] n.2;
on personal names, [319]
Rice used to attract the soul conceived as a bird, [34] sqq., [45] sqq.;
soul of, not to be frightened, [412]
—— -harvest, special language employed by reapers at, [410] sq., [411] sq.
Ring, broken, [13];
on ankle as badge of office, [15]
Rings used to prevent the escape of the soul, [31];
as spiritual fetters, [313] sqq.;
as amulets, [314] sqq.;
not to be worn, [314]
—— and knots tabooed, [293] sqq.
Rivers, Dr. W. H. R., [17]
Rivers, prohibition to cross, [9] sq.
Robertson, Sir George Scott, [14] notes
Roepstorff, F. A. de, [362] sq.
Roman gods, their names not to be mentioned, [391] n.1
—— superstition about crossed legs, [298]
Romans, their evocation of gods of besieged cities, [391]
Rome, name of guardian deity of Rome kept secret, [391]
Roscoe, Rev. J., [85] n.1, [145] n.4, [195] n.1, [254] n.5, [277] n.10
Roth, W. E., [356]
Rotti, custom as to cutting child's hair in the island of, [276], [283];
custom as to knots at marriage in the island of, [301]
Roumanian building superstition, [89]
Royal blood not to be shed on the ground, [241] sqq.
Royalty, the burden of, [1] sqq.
Rules of life observed by sacred kings and priests, [1] sqq.
Runaways, knots as charm to stop, [305] sq.
Russell, F., [183] sq.
Sabaea or Sheba, kings of, [124]
Sacred chiefs and kings regarded as dangerous, [131] sqq., [138];
their analogy [pg 441] to mourners, homicides, and women at menstruation and childbirth, [138]
Sacred and unclean, correspondence of rules regarding the, [145]
Sacrifices to ghosts, [56], [166];
to the dead, [88];
at foundation of buildings, [89] sqq.;
to ancestral spirits, [104]
Sagard, Gabriel, [366] sq.
Sahagun, B. de, [249]
Sailors at sea, special language employed by, [413] sqq.
Sakais, the, [348]
Sakalavas of Madagascar, the, [10], [327];
customs as to names of dead kings among the, [379] sq.
Salish Indians, [66]
Salmon, taboos concerning, [209]
Salt not to be eaten, [167], [182], [184], [194], [195], [196];
name of, tabooed, [401]
—— -pans, continence observed by workers in, [200]
Samoyeds, [353]
Sanctity of the head, [252] sqq.
—— or pollution, their equivalence in primitive religion, [145], [158], [224]
Sankara and the Grand Lama, [78]
Saragacos Indians, [152]
Satapatha Brahmana, [217]
Saturday, persons born on a, [89]
Saturn, the planet, [315]
Savage, our debt to the, [419] sqq.
—— custom the product of definite reasoning, [420] n.1
—— philosophy, [420] sq.
Saxons of Transylvania, [294]
Scapegoat, [214] sq.
Scarification of warriors, [160] sq.;
of bodies of whalers, [191]
Scaring away the ghosts of the slain, [168], [170], [171], [172], [174] sq.
Schoolcraft, H. R., [325]
Scotch fowlers and fishermen, words tabooed by, [393] sqq.
Scotland, common words tabooed in, [392] sqq.
Scratching the person or head, rules as to, [146], [156], [158], [159] n., [160], [181], [183], [189], [196]
Scrofula thought to be caused and cured by touching a sacred chief or king, [133] sq.
Sea, horror of the, [10];
offerings made to the, [10];
prohibition to look on the, [10];
special language employed by sailors at, [413] sqq.
—— -mammals, atonement for killing, [207];
myth of their origin, [207]
Seals, supposed influence of lying-in women on, [152];
taboos observed after the killing of, [207] sq., [209], [213]
Seclusion of those who have handled the dead, [138] sqq.;
of women at menstruation and childbirth, [145] sqq., [147] sqq.;
of tabooed persons, [165];
of manslayers, [166] sqq.;
of cannibals, [188] sqq.;
of men who have killed large game, [220] sq.
Secret names among the Central Australian aborigines, [321] sq.
Sedna, an Esquimau goddess, [152], [207], [208], [209], [210], [211], [213]
Semangat, Malay word for the soul, [28], [35]
Semites, moral evolution of the, [219]
Seoul, capital of Corea, [283]
Serpents, purificatory ceremonies observed after killing, [221] sqq.
Servius, on Dido's costume, [313]
Seven knots in magic, [303], [304], [308]
Sewing as a charm, [307]
Shades of dead animals, fear of offending, [205], [206], [207]
Shadow, the soul identified with the, [77] sqq.;
injury done to a man through his, [78] sqq.;
diminution of shadow regarded with apprehension, [86] sq.;
loss of the, regarded as ominous, [88];
not to fall on a chief, [255]
Shadows drawn out by ghosts, [80];
animals injured through their, [81] sq.;
of trees sensitive, [82];
of certain birds and people viewed as dangerous, [82] sq.;
built into the foundations of edifices, [89] sq.;
of mourners dangerous, [142];
of certain persons dangerous, [173]
Shamans among the Thompson Indians, [57] sq.
—— Buryat, their mode of recovering lost souls, [56] sq.
—— Yakut, [63]
Shark Point, priestly king at, [5]
Sharp instruments, use of, tabooed, [205]
—— weapons tabooed, [237] sqq.
Shaving prisoners, reason of, [273]
Sheep used in purificatory ceremony, [174], [175];
shoulder-blades of, used in divination, [229]
Shetland fishermen, their tabooed words, [394]
Shoe untied at marriage, [300];
custom of going with one shoe on and one shoe off, [311] sqq.
Shoulder-blades, divination by, [229]
Shuswap Indians, the, [83], [142]
names of kings of, concealed from fear of sorcery, [375]
Siamese children, ceremony at cutting their hair, [265] sqq.
—— view of the sanctity of the head, [252] sq.
Sick man, attempts to prevent the escape of the soul of, [30] sqq.
Sick people not allowed to sleep, [95];
sprinkled with pungent spices, [105] sq.
—— -room, mirrors covered up in, [95]
Sickness explained by the absence of the soul, [42] sqq.;
caused by ancestral spirits, [53]
Sierra Leone, priests and kings of, [14] sq., [18]
—— Nevada of Colombia, [215], [216]
Sigurd and Fafnir, [324]
Sikhim, kings of, [20]
Silkworms, taboos observed by breeders of, [194]
Simpson, W., [125] n.3
Sin regarded as something material, [214], [216], [217] sq.
Singhalese, [297]; their fear of demons, [233] sq.
Sins, confession of, [114], [191], [195], [211] sq., [214] sqq.;
originally a magical ceremony, [217]
Sisters-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, [338], [342], [343]
Sit, Egyptian god, [68]
Sitting on the ground prohibited to warriors, [159], [162], [163]
Skull-cap worn by girls at their first menstruation, [146];
worn by Australian widows, [182] n.2
Skulls of ancestors rubbed as a propitiation, [197];
of dead used as drinking-cups, [372]
Slain, ghosts of the, fear of the, [165] sqq.
Slave Coast, the, [9]
Slaves, runaway, charm for recovering, [305] sq.
Sleep, absence of soul in, [36] sqq.;
sick people not allowed to, [95];
forbidden in house after a death, [37] sq.;
forbidden to unsuccessful eagle-hunter, [199]
Sleeper not to be wakened suddenly, [39] sqq.;
not to be moved nor his appearance altered, [41] sq.
Smallpox not mentioned by its proper name, [400], [410], [411], [416]
Smearing blood on the person as a purification, [104], [115];
on persons, dogs, and weapons as a mode of pacifying their souls, [219]
—— bodies of manslayers with porridge, [176]
—— porridge or fat on the person as a purification, [112]
—— sheep's entrails on body as mode of purification, [174]
Smith, W, Robertson, [77] n.1, [96] n.1, [243] n.7, [247] n.5
Smith's craft regarded us uncanny, [236] n.5
Snakes not called by their proper names, [399], [400], [401] sq., [411]
Snapping the thumbs to prevent the departure of the soul, [31]
Snares set for souls, [69]
Son-in-law, his name not to be pronounced, [338] sq., [344], [345]
Sorcerers, souls extracted or detained by, [69] sqq.;
make use of cut hair and other bodily refuse, [268] sq., [274] sq.;
[278], [281] sq. See also [Magic]
Soul conceived as a mannikin, [26] sqq.;
the perils of the, [26] sqq.;
ancient Egyptian conception of the, [28] sq.;
representations of the soul in Greek art, [29] n.1;
as a butterfly, [29] n.1, [41], [51] sq.;
absence and recall of the, [30] sqq.;
attempts to prevent the soul from escaping from the body, [30] sqq.;
sickness attributed to the absence of the, [32], [42] sqq.;
tied by thread or string to the body, [32] sq., [43], [51];
conceived as a bird, [33] sqq.;
absent in sleep, [36] sqq.;
in form of mouse, [37], [39] n.2;
in form of lizard, [38];
in form of fly, [39];
caught in a cloth, [46], [47], [48], [52], [53], [64], [67], [75] sq.;
identified with the shadow, [77] sqq.;
identified with the reflection in water or a mirror, [92] sqq.;
supposed to escape at eating and drinking, [116];
in the blood, [240], [241], [247], [250];
identified with the personal name, [319];
of rice not to be frightened, [412]
Souls, every man thought to have four, [27], [80];
light and heavy, thin and fat, [29];
transferred to other bodies, [49];
impounded in magic fence, [56];
abducted by demons, [58] sqq.;
transmigrate into animals, [65];
brought back in a visible form, [65] sqq.;
caught in snares or nets, [69] sqq.;
extracted or detained by sorcerers, [69] sqq.;
in tusks of ivory, [70];
conjured into jars, [70];
shut up in calabashes, [72];
transferred from the living to the dead, [73];
gathered into a basket, [72];
wounded and bleeding, [73];
supposed to be in portraits, [96] sqq.
—— of beasts respected, [223]
—— of the dead all malignant, [145];
cannot go to the spirit-land till the flesh has decayed from their bones, [372] n.5
—— of the slain, propitiation of, [166]
Sovereignty, reluctance to accept the, on account of its burdens, [17] sqq.
Spells cast by strangers, [112];
at hair-cutting, [264] sq.
Spenser, Edmund, [244] sq.
Spices used in exorcism of demons, [105] sq.
Spirit of dead apparently supposed to decay with the body, [372]
Spirits averse to iron, [232] sqq.
—— of land, conciliation of the, [110] sq.
Spiritual power, its divorce from temporal power, [17] sqq.
Spitting forbidden, [196];
as a protective charm, [279], [286];
upon knots as a charm, [302]
Spittle effaced or concealed, [288] sqq.;
tabooed, [287] sqq.;
used in magic, [268], [269], [287] sqq.;
used in making a covenant, [290]
Spoil taken from enemy purified, [177]
Spoons used in eating by tabooed persons, [141], [148], [189]
Sprained leg, cure for, [304] sq.
Spring and summer, myths of divinities and spirits to be told only in, [384]
Sprinkling with holy water, [285] sq.
St. Sylvester's Day, [88]
Stabbing reflections in water to injure the persons reflected, [93]
Stade, Hans, captive among Brazilian Indians, [231]
Standard of conduct shifted from natural to supernatural basis, [213]
Stepping over persons or things forbidden, [159] sq., [194], [423] sqq.;
over dead panther, [219].
See also [Jumping]
Stone knives and arrow-heads used in religious ritual, [228]
Stones on which a man's shadow should not fall, [80]
Storms caused by cutting or combing the hair, [271], [282]
Strange land, ceremonies at entering a, [109] sqq.
Strangers, taboos on intercourse with, [101] sqq.;
suspected of practising magical arts, [102];
ceremonies at the reception of, [102] sqq.;
dread of, [102] sqq.;
spells cast by, [112];
killed, [113]
String or thread used to tie soul to body, [32] sq., [43], [51]
Strings, knotted, as amulets, [309].
“Strong names” of kings of Dahomey, [374]
Sultan Bayazid and his soul, [50]
Sultans veiled, [120]
Sumba, custom as to the names of princes in the island of, [376]
Summer, myths of gods and spirits not to be told in, [385] sq.
—— and winter, personal names different in, [386]
Sun not allowed to shine on sacred persons, [3], [4], [6]
—— -god draws away souls, [64] sq.
Sunda, tabooed words in, [341], [415]
Supernatural basis of morality, [213] sq.
Supernatural beings, their names tabooed, [384] sqq.
Superstition a crutch to morality, [219]
Swaheli charm, [305] sq.
Sweating as a purification, [142], [184]
Swelling and inflammation thought to be caused by eating out of sacred vessels or by wearing sacred garments, [4]
Sympathetic connexion between a person and the severed parts of his body, [267] sq., [283]
—— magic, [164], [201], [204], [258], [268], [287]
Synonyms adopted in order to avoid naming the dead, [359] sqq.;
in the Zulu language, [377];
in the Maori language, [381]
Taboo of chiefs and kings in Tonga, [133] sq.;
of chiefs in New Zealand, [134] sqq.;
Esquimaux theory of, [210] sqq.;
the meaning of, [224]
—— rajah and chief, [24] sq.
Tabooed acts, [101] sqq.
—— hands, [138], [140] sqq., [146] sqq., [158], [159] n.
—— persons, [131] sqq.;
secluded, [165]
—— things, [224] sqq.
—— words, [318] sqq.
Taboos, royal and priestly, [1] sqq.;
on intercourse with strangers, [101] sqq.;
on eating and drinking, [116] sqq.;
on shewing the face, [120] sqq.;
on quitting the house, [122] sqq.;
on leaving food over, [126] sqq.;
on persons who have handled the dead, [138] sqq.;
on warriors, [157] sqq.;
on manslayers, [165] sqq.;
imposed on murderers, [187] sq.;
imposed on hunters and fishers, [190] sqq.;
transformed into ethical precepts, [214];
survivals of, in morality, [218] sq.;
as spiritual insulators, [224];
on sharp weapons, [237] sqq.;
on blood, [239] sqq.;
relating to the head, [252] sqq.;
on hair, [258] sqq.;
on spittle, [287] sqq.;
on foods, [291] sqq.;
on knots and rings, [293] sqq.;
on words, [318] sqq., [392] sqq.;
on personal names, [318] sqq.;
on names of relations, [335] sqq.;
on the names of the dead, [349] sqq.;
on names of kings and chiefs, [374] sqq.;
on names of supernatural beings, [384] sqq.;
on names of gods, [387] sqq.
—— observed by the Mikado, [3] sq.;
by headmen in Assam, [11];
by ancient kings of Ireland, [11] sq.;
by the Flamen Dialis, [13] sq.;
by the Bodia or Bodio, [15];
by sacred milkmen among the Todas, [16] sqq.
Tahiti, [255]
Tahiti, kings of, [226];
abdicate on birth of a son, [20];
their names not to be pronounced, [381] sq.
Tails of cats docked as a magical precaution, [128] sq.
Tales, wandering souls in popular, [49] sq.
Tara, the old capital of Ireland, [11]
Tartar Khan, ceremony at visiting a, [114]
Teeth, loss of, supposed effect of breaking a taboo, [140];
loosened by angry ghosts, [186] n.1;
as a rain-charm, [271];
extracted, kept against the resurrection, [280].
See also [Tooth]
Temple at Jerusalem, the, [230]
Temporary reincarnation of the dead in their living namesakes, [371]
Tendi, Batta word for soul, [45].
See also [Tondi]
Tepehuanes, the, [97]
Terms of relationship used as terms of address, [324] sq.
Thakambau, [131]
Thebes in Egypt, priestly kings of, [13]
Theocracies in America, [6]
Thesmophoria, release of prisoners at, [316]
Thessalian witch, [390]
Things tabooed, [224] sqq.
Thompson Indians of British Columbia, [37] sq.;
customs of mourners among the, [142] sq.
Thomson, Joseph, [98]
Thorn bushes to keep off ghosts, [142]
Thread or string used to tie soul to body, [32] sq., [43], [51]
Threads, knotted, in magic, [303], [304] sq., [307]
Three knots in magic, [304], [305]
Thumbs snapped to prevent the departure of the soul, [31]
Thunderstorms caused by cut hair, [271], [282]
Thurn, E. F. im, [324] sq.
Tigers not called by their proper names, [401], [402], [403] sq., [410], [415];
called dogs, [402];
Timines of Sierra Leone, [18]
Timor, fetish or taboo rajah in, [24];
customs as to war in, [165] sq.
Tin ore, Malay superstitions as to, [407]
Tinneh or Déné Indians, [145] sq.
Toboongkoos of Celebes, [48], [78]
Todas, holy milkmen of the, [15] sqq.
Togoland, [247]
Tolampoos, the, [319]
Tolindoos, the, [78]
Tondi, Batta word for soul, [35].
See also [Tendi]
Tonga, divine chiefs in, [21];
the taboo of chiefs and kings in, [133] sq.;
taboos connected with the dead in, [140]
Tonquin, division of monarchy in, [19] sq.;
kings of, [125]
Tooitonga, divine chief of Tonga, [21]
Tooth knocked out as initiatory rite, [244].
See also [Teeth]
Toradjas, tabooed names among the, [340];
their field-speech, [411] sqq.
Touching sacred king or chief, supposed effects of, [132] sqq.
Trading voyages, continence observed on, [203]
Tradition, historical, hampered by the taboo on the names of the dead, [363] sqq.
Transference of souls from the living to the dead, [73];
of souls to other bodies, [49];
of sins, [214] sqq.
Transgressions, need of confessing, [211] sq.
See also [Sins]
Transmigration of souls into animals, [65]
Transylvania, the Germans of, [296], [310]
Traps set for souls, [70] sq.
Travail, women in, knots on their garments untied, [294].
See also [Childbirth]
Travellers, knots used as charms by, [306]
Tree-spirits, fear of, [412] sq.
Trees, the shadows of trees sensitive, [82];
cut hair deposited on or under, [14], [275] sq., [286]
Tuaregs, the, [117], [122]; their fear of ghosts, [353]
Tumleo, island of, [150]
Tupi Indians, their customs as to eating captives, [179] sq.
Turtle catching, taboos in connexion with, [192]
Tusks of ivory, souls in, [70]
Twelfth Night, [396]
Twins, water poured on graves of, [154] sq.
—— father of, taboos observed by the, [239] sq.;
his hair shaved and nails cut, [284]
Tycoons, the, [19]
Tying the soul to the body, [32] sq., [43]
Tylor, E. B., on reincarnation of ancestors, [372] n.1
Uganda, [84], [86], [112], [145], [164] n.1, [239], [243], [254], [263], [277], [330], [369].
See also [Baganda]
Ulster, kings of, [12]
Unclean and sacred, correspondence of the rules regarding the, [145]
Uncleanness regarded as a vapour, [152], [206];
of manslayers, of menstruous and lying-in women, and of persons who have handled the dead, [169];
of lion-killer, [220];
of bear-killers, [221]
Uncovered in the open air, prohibition to be, [3], [14]
Unyoro, king of, his custom of drinking milk, [119];
cowboy of the king of, [159] n.;
diet of the king of, [291] sq.
Vapour thought to be exhaled by lying-in women and hunters, [152], [206];
supposed, of blood and corpses, [210] sq.;
supposed to be produced by the violation of a taboo, [212]
Varuna, festival of, [217]
Veiling faces to avert evil influences, [120] sqq.
Venison, taboos concerning, [208] sq.
Vermin from hair returned to their owner, [278]
Vessels used by tabooed persons destroyed, [4], [131], [139], [145], [156], [284]
—— special, employed by tabooed persons, [138], [139], [142], [143], [144], [145], [146], [147], [148], [160], [167], [185], [189], [197], [198]
Victims, sacrificial, carried round city, [188]
Vine, prohibition to walk under a, [14], [248]
Virgil, the enchantress in, [305];
on rustic militia of Latium, [311]
Vow, hair kept unshorn during a, [261] sq., [285]
Wabondei, the, [272]
Wadai, Sultan of, [120]
Wakan, mysterious, sacred, taboo, [225] n.
Wakelbura, the, [31]
Wallis Island, [140]
Walrus, taboos concerning, [208] sq.
Wanigela River, [192]
Wanika, the, [247]
Wanyoro (Banyoro), the, [278]
War, continence in, [157], [158] n.1, [161], [163], [164], [165];
rules of ceremonial purity observed in, [157] sqq.;
hair kept unshorn in, [261]
—— chief, or war king, [20], [21], [24]
—— -dances, [169], [170], [178], [182]
Warm food tabooed, [189]
Warramunga, the, [384]
Warriors tabooed, [157] sqq.
Washing the head, [253]. See [Bathing]
Water poured as a rain-charm, [154] sq.;
holy, sprinkling with, [285] sq.
—— -spirits, danger of, [94]
Wax figure in magic, [74]
Weapons of manslayers, purification of, [172], [182], [219]
Wedding ring, an amulet against witchcraft, [314]
Were-wolf, [42]
Whale, solemn burial of dead, [223]
Whalers, taboos observed by, [191] sq., [205] sqq.
Wheaten flour, prohibition to touch, [13]
White, faces and bodies of manslayers painted, [175], [186] n.1;
lion-killer painted, [220]
—— clay, Caffre boys at circumcision smeared with, [156]
Whydah, king of, [129]
Widows and widowers, customs observed by, [142] sq., [144] sq., [182] n.2
Wied, Prince of, [96]
Wife's mother, the savage's dread of his, [83] sqq.;
her name not to be pronounced by her son-in-law, [337], [338], [343]
—— name not to be pronounced by her husband, [337], [338], [339]
Wild beasts not called by their proper names, [396] sqq.
Wilkinson, R. J., [416] n.4
Willow wands as disinfectants, [143]
Windessi, in New Guinea, [169]
Winds kept in jars, [5]
Wine, the blood of the vine, [248];
called milk, [249] n.2
Wing-bone of eagle used to drink through, [189]
Winter, myths of gods and spirits to be told only in, [385] sq.
Wirajuri, the, [269]
Witch's soul departs from her in sleep, [39], [41], [42]
Witches make use of cut hair, [270], [271], [279], [282]
Wollunqua, a mythical serpent, [384]
Wolofs of Senegambia, [323]
Wolves, charms to protect cattle from, [307];
not to be called by their proper names, [396], [397], [398], [402]
Women tabooed at menstruation and childbirth, [145] sqq.;
abstinence from, during war, [157], [158] n.1, [161], [163], [164];
in childbed holy, [225] n.;
blood of, dreaded, [250] sq.
Women's clothes, supposed effects of touching, [164] sq.
“Women's speech” among the Caffres, [335] sq.
Words tabooed, [318] sqq.;
savages take a materialistic view of words, [331]
—— common, changed because they are the names of the dead, [358] sqq., [375],
or the names of chiefs and kings, [375], [376] sqq.;
tabooed, [392] sqq.
Wounded men not allowed to drink milk, [174] sq.
Wrist tied to prevent escape of soul, [32], [43], [51]
—— bands as amulets, [315]
Wurunjeri tribe, [42]
Xenophanes, on the gods, [387]
Yabim, the, [151], [306], [354], [386]
Yakut shaman, [63]
Yams, Feast of, [123]
Yaos, the, [97] sq.
Yawning, soul supposed to depart in, [31]
Yewe order, secret society in Togo, [383]
Yorubas, rebirth of ancestors among the, [369]
Zapotecs of Mexico, the pontiff of the, [6] sq.
Zend-Avesta, the, on cut hair and nails, [277]
Zeus on Mount Lycaeus, sanctuary of, [88]
Zulu language, its diversity, [377]
Zulus, names of chiefs and kings tabooed among the, [376] sq.;
their superstition as to reflections in water, [91]