sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15

Venison, taboos concerning, iii. 208 sq.;

Esquimaux rules as to eating, viii. 84;

eaten as a protection against fever, viii. 143;

not eaten by young men lest it make them timid like deer, viii. 144;

not brought into hut by door, viii. 242 sq.;

not eaten because the souls of the dead are believed to be in deer, viii. 286, 293

Ventriloquism a basis of political power, i. 347

Ventriloquist as chief of his tribe, i. 347

Venus (Aphrodite) and Adonis, i. 21, 25, 40, 41, ix. 406.