Eagle-wood, ideas about, [206]–212
Ear-boring ceremony, [45], [46], [359]
Earth, creation of the, [1]–5;
navel of the, [3];
theories of the shape and position of the, [5], [6];
legend about the heart of the, [19]–21
Earthquakes, cause of, [5]
Earth-spirit, propitiating the, [230]–233, [506], [507]
Eclipses, cause of, [11]–13;
precautions taken by pregnant women during, [350]–352
Eel, origin of the, [308]
Elephant, tusks, the royal right to, [35];
superstitious dread of the, [149]–151;
towns, [151]–153;
princess, [152], [153];
ghost or sacred, [153];
other ideas about the, [153], [154];
hunting the, [155], [156]
Evil eye, [534]
Evil influences, see Badi, Spirits