Index. (continued 1)
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Frazer, James George
Feathers worn by manslayers, 180, 186 n.1
Feet, not to wet the, 159. See also Foot
Fernando Po, taboos observed by the kings of, 8 sq., 115, 123, 291
Festival of the Dead among the Hurons, 367
Fetish or taboo rajah, 24
—— kings in West Africa, 22 sqq.
Fever, euphemism for, 400
“Field speech,” a special jargon employed by reapers, 410 sq., 411 sq.
Fiji, catching away souls in, 69;
War King and Sacred King in, 21;
custom as to remains of food in, 117
Fijian chief, supposed effect of using his dishes or clothes, 131
—— conception of the soul, 29 sq., 92
—— custom of frightening away ghosts, 170
—— notion of absence of the soul in dreams, 39 sq.
Fingers cut off as a sacrifice, 161
Finnish hunters, 398
Fire, rule as to removing fire from priest's house, 13;
prohibition to blow the fire with the breath, 136, 256;
in purificatory rites, 108, 109, 111, 114, 197;
tabooed, 178, 182, 256 sq.;
new, made by friction, 286
—— and Water, kingships of, 17
Firefly, soul in form of, 67
First-fruits, offering of, 5
Fish-traps, continence observed at making, 202
Fishermen, words tabooed by, 394 sq., 396, 408 sq., 415
Fishers and hunters tabooed, 190 sqq.
Fison, Rev. Lorimer, 30 n.1, 40 n.1, 92 n.3, 131 n.2
Fits and convulsions set down to demons, 59
Flamen Dialis, taboos observed by the, 13 sq., 239, 248, 257, 275, 291, 293, 315 sq.
Flaminica, rules observed by the, 14
Flannan Islands, 392
Flesh, boiled, not to be eaten by tabooed persons, 185;
diet restricted or forbidden, 291 sqq.
Flints, not iron, cuts to be made with, 176;
use of, prescribed in ritual, 176;
sharp, circumcision performed with, 227
Fly, soul in form of, 39
Food, remnants of, buried as a precaution against sorcery, 118, 119, 127 sq., 129;