Jars, souls conjured into, 70

Jason and Pelias, 311 sq.

Java, 34, 35

Jebu, the king of, 121

Jewish hunters, their customs as to blood of game, 241

Jinn, the servants of their magical names, 390

Journey, purificatory ceremonies on return from a, 111 sqq.;

continence observed on a, 204;

hair kept unshorn on a, 261

Jumping over wife or children as a ceremony, 112, 164 n.1

Juno Lucina, 294

Junod, H. A., 152 sqq., 420 n.1

Jupiter Liber, temple of, at Furfo, 230

Ka, the ancient Egyptian, 28

Kachins of Burma, 200

Kaempfer's History of Japan, 3 sq.

Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh, 13 n.6, 14 n.2

Kaitish, the, 82, 295

Kalamba, the, a chief in the Congo region, 114

Kami, the Japanese word for god, 2 n.2

Kamtchatkans, their attempts to deceive mice, 399

Karaits, the, 95

Karen-nis of Burma, the, 13

Karens, the Red, of Burma, 292;

their recall of the soul, 43;

their customs at funerals, 51

Karo-Bataks, 52. See also Battas

Katikiro, the, of Uganda, 145 n.4

Kavirondo, 176

Kayans of Borneo, 32, 47, 110, 164, 239

Kei Islanders, 53

Kenyahs of Borneo, 43, 415

Key as symbol of delivery in childbed, 296

Keys as charms against devils and ghosts, 234, 235, 236;

as amulets, 308. See also Locks

Khonds, rebirth of ancestors among the, 368 sq.

Kickapoos, the, 171

Kidd, Dudley, 88 n.

King not to be overshadowed, 83

—— of the Night, 23

King's Evil, the, 134

Kings, supernatural powers attributed to, 1;

beaten before their coronation, 18;

forbidden to see their mothers, 86;

portraits of, not stamped on coins, 98 sq.;

guarded against the magic of strangers, 114 sq.;

forbidden to use foreign goods, 115;

not to be seen eating and drinking, 117 sqq.;

concealed by curtains, 120 sq.;

forbidden to leave their palaces, 122 sqq.;

compelled to dance, 123;

punished or put to death, 124;

not to be touched, 132, 225 sq.;

their hair unshorn, 258 sq.;

foods tabooed to, 291 sq.;

names of, tabooed, 374 sqq.;

taboos observed by, identical with those observed by commoners, 419 sq.

Kings and chiefs tabooed, 131 sqq.;

their spittle guarded against sorcerers, 289 sq.

—— fetish or religious, in West Africa, 22 sqq.

Kingsley, Miss Mary H., 22 n.3, 71, 123 n.2, 251

Kiowa Indians, 357, 360

Klallam Indians, the, 354

Knife as charm against spirits, 232, 233, 234, 235

Knives not to be left edge upwards, 238;

not used at funeral banquets, 238

Knot, the Gordian, 316 sq.

Knots, prohibition to wear, 13;

untied at childbirth, 294, 296 sq., 297 sq.;

thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, 299 sqq.;

thought to cause sickness, disease, and all kinds of misfortune, 301 sqq.;

used to cure disease, 303 sqq.;

used to win a lover or capture a runaway slave, 305 sq.;

used as protective amulets, 306 sqq.;

used as charms by hunters and travellers, 306;

as a charm to protect corn from devils, 308 sq.;

on corpses untied, 310

—— and locks, magical virtue of, 310, 313

—— and rings tabooed, 293 sqq.

Koita, the, 168

Koryak, the, 32

Kruijt, A. C., 319

Kublai Khan, 242

Kukulu, a priestly king, 5

Kwakiutl, the, 53;

customs observed by cannibals among the, 188 sqq.;

change of names in summer and winter among the, 386

Kwun, the spirit of the head, 252;

supposed to reside in the hair, 266 sq.

Lafitau, J. F., 365 sq.

Lampong in Sumatra, 10

Lamps to light the ghosts to their old homes, 371

Language of husbands and wives, difference between, 347 sq.;

of men and women, difference between, 348 sq.

—— change of, caused by taboo on the names of the dead, 358 sqq., 375;

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

—— special, employed by hunters, 396, 398, 399, 400, 402, 404, 410;

employed by searchers for eagle-wood and lignum aloes, 404;

employed by searchers for camphor, 405 sqq.;

employed by miners, 407, 409;

employed by reapers at harvest, 410 sq., 411 sq.;

employed by sailors at sea, 413 sqq.

Laos, 306

Lapps, the, 294;

their customs after killing a bear, 221;

rebirth of ancestors among the, 368

Latuka, the, 245

Leaning against a tree prohibited to warriors, 162, 163

Leavened bread, prohibition to touch, 13

Leaving food over, taboos on, 126 sqq.

Leavings of food, magic wrought by means of, 118, 119, 126 sqq.

Legs not to be crossed, 295, 298 sq.

Leinster, kings of, 11

Leleen, the, 129

Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco, 38, 357