Leonard, A. G., Major, 136 sq.

Lesbos, building custom in, 89

Lewis, Rev. Thomas, 420 n.1

Life in the blood, 241, 250

Limbs, amputated, kept by the owners against the resurrection, 281

Lion-killer, purification of, 176, 220

Lions not called by their proper names, 400

Lithuanians, the old, their funeral banquets, 238

Liver, induration of the, attributed to touching sacred chief, 133

Lizard, soul in form of, 38

Loango, taboos observed by kings of, 8, 9;

taboos observed by heir to throne of, 291

—— king of, forbidden to see a white man's house, 115;

not to be seen eating or drinking, 117 sq.;

confined to his palace, 123;

refuse of his food buried, 129

Locks unlocked at childbirth, 294, 296;

thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, 299;

as amulets, 308, 309;

unlocked to facilitate death, 309

—— and knots, magical virtue of, 309 sq. See also Keys

Lolos, the, 43

Look back, not to, 157

Loom, men not allowed to touch a, 164

Loss of the shadow regarded as ominous, 88

Lovers won by knots, 305

Lucan, 390

Lucian, 270, 382

Lucina, 294, 398 sq.

Lucky names, 391 n.1

Lycaeus, sanctuary of Zeus on Mount, 88

Lycosura, sanctuary of the Mistress at, 227 n., 314

Lying-in women, dread of, 150 sqq.;

sacred, 151

Mack, an adventurer, 19

Macusi Indians, 36, 159 n.

Madagascar, names of chiefs and kings tabooed in, 378 sqq.

Magic wrought by means of refuse of food, 126 sqq.;

sympathetic, 126, 130, 164, 201, 204, 258, 268, 287;

homoeopathic, [pg 437] 151, 152, 207, 295, 298;

contagious, 246, 268, 272;

wrought through clippings of hair, 268 sqq., 275, 277, 278 sq.;

wrought on a man through his name, 318, 320 sqq.

Magicians, Egyptian, their power of compelling the deities, 389 sq.

Mahafalys of Madagascar, the, 10

Makalaka, the, 369

Makololo, the, 281

Malagasy language, dialectical variations of, 378 sq., 380

Malanau tribes of Borneo, 406

Malay conception of the soul as a bird, 34 sqq.

—— miners, fowlers, and fishermen, special forms of speech employed by, 407 sqq.

—— Peninsula, art of abducting human souls in the, 73 sqq.

Maldives, the, 274

Mandalay, 90, 125

Mandan Indians, 97

Mandelings of Sumatra, 296

Mangaia, separation of religious and civil authority in, 20

Mangaians, the, 87

Manipur, hill tribes of, 292

Mannikin, the soul conceived as a, 26 sqq.

Manslayers, purification of, 165 sqq.;

secluded, 165 sqq.;

tabooed, 165 sqq.;

haunted by ghosts of slain, 165 sqq.;

their faces blackened, 169;

their bodies painted, 175, 178, 179, 180, 186 n.1;

their hair shaved, 175, 177

Maori chiefs, their sanctity or taboo, 134 sqq.;

their heads sacred, 256

—— language, synonyms in the, 381

Maoris, persons who have handled the dead tabooed among the, 138 sq.;

tabooed on the war-path, 157

Marco Polo, 242, 243

Marianne Islands, 288

Mariner, W., quoted, 140

Mariners at sea, special language employed by, 413 sqq.

Marquesans, the, 31;

their regard for the sanctity of the head, 254 sq.;

their customs as to the hair, 261 sq.;

their dread of sorcery, 268

Marquesas Islands, 178

Marriage, the consummation of, prevented by knots and locks, 299 sqq.

Masai, the, 200, 309, 329, 354 sq., 356, 361

Matthews, Dr. Washington, 385

Meal sprinkled to keep off evil spirits, 112

Measuring shadows, 89 sq.

—— -tape deified, 91 sq.

Mecca, pilgrims to, not allowed to wear knots and rings, 293 sq.

Medes, law of the, 121

Mekeo district of New Guinea, 24

Men injured through their shadows, 78 sqq.

—— and women, difference of language between, 348 sq.

Menedemus, 227

Menstruation, women tabooed at, 145 sqq.

Menstruous women, dread of, 145 sqq., 206;

avoidance of, by hunters, 211

Mentras, the, 404

Merolla da Sorrento, 137

Mice thought to understand human speech, 399;

not to be called by their proper names, 399, 415

Midas and his ass's ears, 258 n.1;

king of Gordium, 316

Mikado, rules of life of the, 2 sqq.;

supposed effect of using his dishes or clothes, 131;

the cutting of his hair and nails, 265

Mikados, their relations to the Tycoons, 19

Miklucho-Maclay, Baron N. von, 109

Milk, custom as to drinking, 119;

prohibition to drink, 141;

not to be drunk by wounded men, 174 sq.;

wine called, 249 n.2;

and beef not to be eaten at the same meal, 292

Milkmen of the Todas, taboos observed by the holy, 15 sqq.

Miller, Hugh, 40

Minahassa, a district of Celebes, 99;

the Alfoors of, 63

Minangkabauers of Sumatra, 32, 36, 41