Ropes used to keep off demons, ix. 120, 149, 154 n.;
used to exclude ghosts, ix. 152 sq., 154 n.
Roro district of British New Guinea, women after childbirth tabooed in the, iii. 148
—— -speaking tribes of British New Guinea, seclusion of homicides among the, iii. 168;
taboos observed before a hunt among the, iii. 193
Roscher, Dr. W. H., on the Sacred Marriage, ii. 137 n. 1, 143 n. 1;
on Janus as the god of doors, ii. 383 n. 3;
on the death of the Great Pan, iv. 7 n. 2;
on Pan, viii. 2 n. 9;
on the beating of Mamurius Veturius, ix. 231 n. 3;