Introduction to the History of Religions / Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

by Crawford Howell Toy

[1034] Kidd, The Essential Kafir, Index.

[1035] Boas, in Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Bulletin XV, American Museum of Natural History.

[1036] Lev. xii-xv.

[1037] Deut. xiv; Lev. xi; Diogenes Laertius, Pythagoras, xvii.

[1038] On tabu (or tapu) see E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary; W. Ellis, Polynesian Researches, iv, 385.

[1039] Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 215.

[1040] A. van Gennep, Tabou et totémisme à Madagascar.

[1041] R. H. Nassau, Fetichism in West Africa, p. 211.

[1042] The taboo sense proper is not found in ἄγιος (ἄγος), ἐναγής, and Latin sacer which rather mean what is accursed, detestable on account of wrong committed.

[1043] Sacred books "defile the hands."