Father-in-law avoided ceremonially by his daughter-in-law, [82]; avoided ceremonially by his son-in-law, [82], [83]
Fear of ghosts, [111] sqq.; salutary effect of, [111], [113], [149] sqq.; of women who die in pregnancy or childbed, [133] sqq.
Fertility of women and cattle, supposed power of chiefs and kings over the, [14], [16]; of land supposed to be impaired by sexual offences, [44] sqq.
——, Diana a goddess of, [61] sq.
Fetishes in Guinea, [41]
Fetters put on the dead, [137]
Fidelity, test of conjugal, [107]
Fig-tree, sacred, among the Akikuyu, [128] sq.
Fiji, authority of chiefs in, [7]; taboo in, [27]; orgies at circumcision in, [60] n. 1
Fijians, their custom of driving away ghosts, [131] sq.