Index. (continued 1)
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Frazer, James George
Divination by shoulder-blades of sheep, 229
Divinities, human, bound by many rules, 419 sq.
Divorce of spiritual from temporal power, 17 sqq.
Dobrizhoffer, Father M., 328, 360
Dog, prohibition to touch or name, 13
Dogs, bones of game kept from, 206;
unclean, 206;
tigers called, 402
Dolls or puppets employed for the restoration of souls to their bodies, 53 sqq., 62 sq.
Doorposts, blood put on, 15
Doors opened to facilitate childbirth, 296, 297;
to facilitate death, 309
Doubles, spiritual, of men and animals, 28 sq.
Doutté, E., 390
Dreams, absence of soul in, 36 sqq.;
belief of savages in the reality of, 36 sq.;
omens drawn from, 161
Drinking and eating, taboos on, 116 sqq.;
modes of drinking for tabooed persons, 117 sqq., 120, 143, 146, 147, 148, 160, 182, 183, 185, 189, 197, 198, 256
Drought supposed to be caused by a concealed miscarriage, 153 sq.
Dugong fishing, taboos in connexion with, 192
Dyaks, the Sea, 30;
their modes of recalling the soul, 47 sq., 52 sq., 55 sq., 60, 67;
taboos observed by head-hunters among the, 166 sq.
Eagle, soul in form of, 34
—— -hunters, taboos observed by, 198 sq.
Eagle-wood, special language employed by searchers for, 404
Eating out of sacred vessels, supposed effect of, 4
—— and drinking, taboos on, 116 sqq.;
fear of being seen in the act of, 117 sqq.
Eggs offered to demons, 110;
reason for breaking shells of, 129 sq.
Egypt, rules of life observed by ancient kings of, 12 sq.
Egyptian magicians, their power of compelling the deities, 389 sq.
Egyptians, the ancient, their conception of the soul, 28;
their practice as to souls of the dead, 68 sq.;
personal names among, 322
Elder brother, his name not to be pronounced, 341
Elder-tree, cut hair and nails inserted in an, 275 sq.
Elephant-hunters, special language employed by, 404