Ritual and belief

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

^[60.3] Rev. H. E. Mabille, Journ. Afr. Soc., v. 352.

^[62.1] Van Gennep, Tabou, 184.

^[62.2] Turner, Samoa, 186. Compare a number of similar taboos on the previous and subsequent pages.

^[62.3] Codrington, 215.

^[63.1] W. Bogoras, Amer. Anthr., N.S., iii. 97.

^[64.1] See Golden Bough³, passim, especially the volume on Taboo. It is needless to say that Professor Frazer does not write from the point of view here adopted, and that his interpretations frequently diverge from those which I should be inclined to.

^[65.1] F. L., xii. 186. Elsewhere Mr Weeks says: “No stigma attaches to the man who is proved guilty [of witchcraft] by the ordeal, for ‘one can have witchcraft without knowing it’” (Cannibals, 189). Presumably likundu is here included under the general term of witchcraft. In another place he says: “The general belief is that only one in the family can bewitch a member of the family” (ibid., 311). Hence the evil influence of the possessor of likundu extends no further.

^[67.1] Jevons, Introd., 178, 7, 390 sqq.

^[67.2] Tylor, Prim. Cul., i. 383.

^[67.3] Avebury, Marriage, 142. I cannot find that he commits himself to a definition of religion, though his view may perhaps be inferred from the above quotation (cf. his Origin of Civilization, 205 sqq.).