fire-stealers, [47].
heaven and earth, [34].
lightning, [47].
Milky Way, [31].
moon, [20], [27].
Northern Lights, [31].
rainbow, [32], [33].
stars, [30].
sun, [19], [21].
swallowing, [36].
wind, [42-45].
Names, savage dread of, [104].
savage confusion about, [154-159].
Napoleon III., will of, [113].
New Zealanders, [13], [15], [30], [158], [164].
Niebuhr, [65].
Nightmare, [171].
Non-Aryan, brain of, [144].
races, languages of, [201].
Norse, Tales from the, [192].
Northern Lights, [31].
Odin, [30], [44], [202].
Ogres, [44].
Ojibways, [42], [110], [155], [209], [212], [217].
Old Deccan Days, [188].
Omens, dreams as, [236-242].
Oracles, [240].
Origin of gender, [22].
moon, [20].
myth, [7].
religion, [111].
sun, [19].
Orion, [30].
Ormuzd, [54].
Other self, barbaric theory of, [183].
conceived as breath, [187], [199].
passage from within to without, [185].
Ottawas, [31].
Ouranos, [74].
Ovid, [85].
Paget, Sir J., [230].
Panchatantra, [129].
Papa, [19], [34].
Papuan, brain of, [145].
Patagonians, [31].
Persians, [25], [33], [57].
Picture-writing, [107].
Plant, descent from, [99].
Plants, souls in, [208].
Pleiades, [30].
Pocahontas, [158].
Polynesians, [38], [163].
Prithivî, [36].
Prytaneum, [15].
Psychical Research, Society of, [217].
Punchkin, [188] ff.
Quiches, [42], [199].
Ra, [21].
Rae, Dr., [153].
Rain, gender in, [25].
Rainbow, [32].
Ralston, [194].
Rangi, [34].
Religion, origin of, [111].
Rénan, [132].
Réville, [214].
Reynard the fox, [97], [181].
Rig-Veda, [44], [49], [72], [74], [76], [78], [80].
Rink, Dr., [165].
Road of the dead, [32].
Roman notion of soul, [202].
Rossetti, [17], [202].
Russian Folk-Tales, [194].
St. George, [53].
Saliva, virtue in, [16], [163].
Samoan moon myth, [27].
Samoyed folk-tale, [196].
Samson, myth of, [137].
San Graal, [126].
Sanskrit, [72].
Satan, [57].
Savage and civilised man, [144].
belief in dreams, [168-174].
confusion between living and not living, [13], [160-168].
confusion between names and things, [105], [155].
cures for disease, [179].
interpretation of nature, [10].
languages, [23], [150].
mode of counting, [152].
theory of disease, [89], [174-182].
theory of soul, [182-187].
theory of soul’s abode, [215-222].
theory of soul’s nature, [198-207].
Science, progress of, [230].
Seminoles, [203].
Semitic languages, [159].
myth, [132].
Senses, illusions of the, [39], [226].
Servian folk-tale, [195].
Shadow, soul as, [184].
Shawnee name myth, [157].
Sheol, [206], [220].
Sioux, [47], [162].
Skulls, capacity of, [145].
Slavonic sun myth, [26].
Sleeping heroes, [124].
Smith, Adam, [151].
Sneezing, [177].
Society Islanders, [150].
Solar theory of myth, [61-81].
Sonora Indians, [185].
Sorcerers, [163].
Soul, absence in disease, [178].
absence in dreams, [171].
as breath, [187], [199] ff.
as shadow, etc., [184].
barbaric theory of, [182-187], [225], [234].
dwelling-place of, [215-222].
in brutes, plants, etc., [207].
occupation of, [216].
tales of, apart from body, [188] ff.
theories of nature of, [198-207], [234].
transfer of, [203].
weight of, [207].
South Sea Islanders, [158], [163], [185].
Spencer, Herbert, [110], [149], [183], [214].
Spirit as breath, [200].
Spirits, offerings to, [213] (see also [Soul]).
Star myths, [30].
Stars as persons, [20], [25].
Storm-gods, [44].
Sun as ancestor, [19], [20].
as father, [25].
capture of, [21].
myths, [10], [19], [51].
Swedenborgians, [234].
Swift, Dean, [73], [166].
Taboo of names, [158].
Tacitus, [16], [106].
Tahitians, [158].
Tákahlis, [203].
Talmud, [178].
Tasmanians, [150].
Tatar folk-tale, [196].
Tell myth, [116] ff.
Tertullian, [241].
Thor, [46], [52], [60].
Thunder-bird, [46].
To be, the verb, [151].
Tools, primitive, [147].
Toothache, [175], [179].
Totemism, [99], [102], [237].
Totems as badge, [107].
as crest, [108].
Red Indian, [100].
worship of, [110].
Tongans, [19], [201], [234].
Tonkanays, [92].
Transformation, [85], [91].
Treacle, [16].
Tree, criminality of, [15].
Trees, soul in, [209].
Trench, Archbishop, [137].
Troyes, Courts of, [15].
Tylor, [14], [25], [65], [165], [199], [202], [205], [207].
Tyrolese, [164].
Underworld, [220].
Unseen Universe, [233].
Uranus, [35].
Varuna, [74].
Vatea, [19].
Vatnsdæla Saga, [173].
Veda (see [Rig-Veda]).
Vinaya Pitaka, [129].
Vritra, [49], [53], [60].
Waitz, [205].
Wandering Jew, [31].
Water between earth and heaven, [219].
Watling Street, [32].
Werewolves, [84], [86], [91].
West, soul abode in, [219].
Whitney, [151].
Wind, myths of, [42-45].
soul as, [199].
Witchcraft, [58].
Witches, [83], [91].
World as egg, [38].
Worship of ancestors, [110], [214].
Xomanes, [167].
Yahweh, [55], [57], [159].
Zend-Avesta, [54].
Zeus, [33], [36], [55], [74], [85].
Zoroaster, [56].
Zulu, [170], [184].
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Footnotes:
[1] Buckle’s work appeared in 1857, Darwin’s in 1859.
[2] Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna.
[3] Countess Cesaresco’s Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs, p. 183.
[4] The Folk-Lore of China, p. 52.
[5] Mark vii. 33, John ix. 6. Cf. Tacitus, Hist. iv. 81—“A certain man of the Alexandrian populace afflicted with wasted eyes kept imploring the prince to deign to spatter saliva on his cheek and eyeballs.” In Finnish myth the demon Hiisi forms a huge snake from the spittle of a fellow-demon. Cf. also Thomson’s Masai Land, pp. 288-290.