Index.

Abdication of kings in favour of their infant children, 19, 20
Abduction of souls by demons, 58 sqq.
Abipones, the, 328, 350;
changes in their language, 360
Abnormal mental states accounted inspiration, 248
Abortion, superstition as to woman who has procured, 153
Absence and recall of the soul, 30 sqq.
Achilles, 261
Acts, tabooed, 101 sqq.
Adivi or forest Gollas, the, 149
Aetolians, the, 311
Africa, fetish kings in West, 22 sqq.;
names of animals and things tabooed in, 400 sq.
Agutainos, the, 144
Air, prohibition to be uncovered in the open, 3, 14
Akamba, the, 204
Akikuyu, the, 175, 204, 286;
auricular confession among the, 214
Albanians of the Caucasus, 349
Alberti, L., 220
Alcmena and Hercules, 298 sq.
Alfoors of Celebes, 33;
of Minahassa, 63 sq.
Amboyna, 87, 105
Amenophis III., his birth represented on the monuments, 28
American Indians, their fear of naming the dead, 351 sqq.
Ammon, Hanun, King of, 273
Amoy, 59
Amulets, knots used as, 306 sqq.;
rings as, 314 sqq.
Ancestors, names of, bestowed on their reincarnations, 368 sq.;
reborn in their descendants, 368 sq.
Ancestral spirits, cause sickness, 53;
sacrifices to, 104
Andaman Islanders, 183 n.
Andania, mysteries of, 227 n.
Angakok, Esquimaux wizard or sorcerer, 211, 212
Angoni, the, 174
Animals injured through their shadows, 81 sq.;
propitiation of spirits of slain, 190, 204 sq.;
atonement for slain, 207;
dangerous, not called by their proper names, 396 sqq.;
thought to understand human speech, 398 sq., 400
Animism passing into religion, 213
Anklets as amulets, 315
Annamites, the, 235
Anointment of priests at installation, 14
Antambahoaka, the, 216
Ants, bites of, used in purificatory ceremony, 105
Apaches, the, 182, 184, 325, 328
Apollo, purification of, 223 n.1
Apuleius, 270
Arab mode of cursing an enemy, 312
Arabs of Moab, 273, 280
Araucanians, the, 97, 324
Ares, men sacred to, 111
Arikaras, the, 161
Aristeas of Proconnesus, 34
Army under arms, prohibition to see, 13
Arrows to keep off death, 31
Aru Islands, 37, 276
Arunta, their belief as to the ghosts of the slain, 177 sq.;
ceremonies at the end of mourning among the, 373 sq.
Arval Brothers, 226
Aryans, the primitive, their theory of personal names, 319
Ashes strewn on the head, 112
Ash-tree, parings of nails buried under an, 276
Assam, taboos observed by headmen in, 11;
hill tribes of, 323
Astarte at Hierapolis, 286
Aston, W. G., 2 n.2
Astrolabe Bay, 289
Athens, kings at, 21 sq.;
ritual of cursing at, 75
Atonement for slain animals, 207
Attiuoindarons, the, 366
Atua, ancestral spirit, 134, 265
Augur's staff at Rome, 313
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Auricular confession, 214
Aurohuaca Indians, 215
Australian aborigines;
their conception of the soul, 27;
personal names kept secret among the, 320 sqq.;
their fear of naming the dead, 349 sqq.
Aversion of spirits and fairies to iron, 229, 232 sq.
Avoidance of common words to deceive spirits or other beings, 416 sqq.
Aymara Indians, the, 97
Aztecs, the, 249;
their priests, 259
Babylonian witches and wizards, 302
Bad Country, the, 109
Badham, Dr., 156 n.
Baduwis, the, of Java, 115 sq., 232
Bag, souls collected in a, 63 sq.
Baganda, the, 78, 87
—— fishermen, taboos observed by, 194 sq. See also Uganda
Bagba, a fetish, 5
Bageshu, the, 174
Bagobos, the, 31, 315, 323
Bahima, the, 183 n.;
names of their dead kings not mentioned, 375
Bahnars of Cochin-China, 52, 58
Baking, continence observed at, 201
Balder, Norse god, 305 n.1
Ba-Lua, the, 330
Banana-trees, fruit-bearing, hair deposited under, 286
Bandages to prevent the escape of the soul, 32, 71
Bangala, the, 195 sq., 330
Bangkok, 90
Baoules, the, 70
Ba-Pedi, the, 141, 153, 163, 202
Baron, R., 380
Baronga, the, 272
Basagala, the, 361
Basket, souls gathered into a, 72
Bastian, A., 252, 253
Basutos, burial custom of the, 107;
purification of warriors among the, 172
Bathing (washing) as a ceremonial purification, 141, 142, 150, 153, 168, 169, 172, 173, 175, 179, 183, 192, 198, 219, 220, 222, 285, 286