Captives killed and eaten, 179 sq.

Carayahis, the, 348

Caribou, taboos concerning, 208

Caribs, difference of language between men and women among the, 348

Caroline Islands, 25, 193, 290, 293

Caron's Account of Japan, 4 n.2

Carrier Indians, 215, 367

Catat, Dr., 98

Catlin, G., 182

Cats with stumpy tails, reason of, 128 sq.

Cattle, continence observed for sake of, 204;

protected against wolves by charms, 307

Caul-fat extracted by Australian enemies, 303

“Cauld airn,” 233

Cazembes, the, 132

Celebes, 32, 33, 35;

hooking souls in, 30

Celibacy of holy milkmen, 15, 16

Ceremonial purity observed in war, 157

Ceremonies at the reception of strangers, 102 sqq.;

at entering a strange land, 109 sqq.;

purificatory, on return from a journey, 111 sqq.;

observed after slaughter of panthers, lions, bears, serpents, etc., 219 sqq.;

at hair-cutting, 264 sqq.

Cetchwayo, King, 377

Chams, the, 202, 297

Change of language caused by taboo on the names of the dead, 358 sqq., 375;

caused by taboo on names of chiefs and kings, 375, 376 sqq.

—— of names to deceive ghosts, 354 sqq.

Charms to facilitate childbirth, 295 sq.

Chastity. See Continence

Chegilla, taboo, 137

Cheremiss, the, 391

Cherokee sorcery with spittle, 287 sq.

Chiefs, foods tabooed to, 291, 292;

names of, tabooed, 376 sq., 378 sq., 381, 382

—— and kings tabooed, 131 sqq.

—— sacred, not allowed to leave their [pg 430] enclosures, 124;

regarded as dangerous, 138

Child and father, supposed danger of resemblance between, 88 sq.

Child's nails bitten off, 262

Childbed, taboos imposed on women in, 147 sqq.

Childbirth, precautions taken with mother at, 32, 33;

women tabooed at, 147 sqq.;

confession of sins as a means of expediting, 216 sq.;

women after, their hair shaved and burnt, 284;

homoeopathic magic to facilitate, 295 sqq.;

knots untied at, 294, 296 sq., 297 sq.

Children, young, tabooed, 262, 283;

parents named after their, 331 sqq.

Chiloe, Indians of, 287, 324

China, custom at funerals in, 80;

Emperor of, 125, 375 sq.

Chitomé or Chitombé, a pontiff of Congo, 5 sq., 7

Chittagong, 297

Choctaws, the, 181

Chuckchees, the, 358

Circumcision customs among the Caffres, 156 sq.;

performed with flints, not iron, 227;

in Australia, 244

Circumlocutions adopted to avoid naming the dead, 350, 351, 354, 355;

employed by reapers, 412

Cities, guardian deities of, evoked by enemies, 391

Clasping of hands forbidden, 298

Clavie, the, at Burghead, 229 sq.

Cleanliness fostered by superstition, 130;

personal, observed in war, 157, 158 n.1

Clippings of hair, magic wrought through, 268 sqq., 275, 277, 278 sq.

Clotaire, 259

Clothes of sacred persons tabooed, 131

Cloths used to catch souls, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 64, 67, 75 sq.

Clotilde, Queen, 259

Cobra, ceremonies after killing a, 222 sq.

Coco-nut oil made by chaste women, 201

Codjour, a priestly king, 132 n.1

Coins, portraits of kings not stamped on, 98 sq.

Comanches, the, 360

Combing the hair forbidden, 187, 203, 208, 264;

thought to cause storms, 271

Combs of sacred persons, 256

Common objects, names of, changed when they are the names of the dead, 358 sqq., 375, or the names of chiefs and kings, 375, 376 sqq.

—— words tabooed, 392 sqq.

Concealment of miscarriage in childbed, supposed effects of, 152 sqq.

Concealment of personal names from fear of magic, 320 sqq.

Conciliating the spirits of the land, 110 sq.

Conduct, standard of, shifted from natural to supernatural basis, 213 sq.

Confession of sins, 114, 191, 195, 211 sq., 214 sqq.;

originally a magical ceremony, 217

Connaught, kings of, 11 sq.

Consummation of marriage prevented by knots and locks, 299 sqq.

Contagious magic, 246, 268, 272

Continence enjoined on people during the rounds of sacred pontiff, 5;

of Zapotec priests, 6;

of priests, 159 n.

—— observed on eve of period of taboo, 11;

by those who have handled the dead, 142;

during war, 157, 158 n.1, 161, 163, 164, 165;

after victory, 166 sqq., 175, 178, 179, 181;

by cannibals, 188;

by fishers and hunters, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 207;

by workers in salt-pans, 200;

at brewing beer, wine, and poison, 200 sq., 201 sq.;

at baking, 201;

at making coco-nut oil, 201;

at building canoes, 202;

at house-building, 202;

at making or repairing dams, 202;

on trading voyages, 203;

after festivals, 204;

on journeys, 204;

while cattle are at pasture, 204;

by lion-killers and bear-killers, 220, 221;

before handling holy relics, 272;

by tabooed men, 293