Index. (continued 2)
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Frazer, James George
Impurity of manslayers, 167
Incas of Peru, 279
Incisions made in bodies of warriors as a preparation for war, 161;
in bodies of slain, 176;
in bodies of manslayers, 174, 176, 180.
See alsoCuts
Incontinence of young people supposed to be fatal to the king, 6
India, names of animals tabooed in, 401 sqq.
Indians of North America, their customs on the war-path, 158 sqq.;
their fear of naming the dead, 351 sqq.
Infants tabooed, 255
Infection, supposed, of lying-in women, 150 sqq.
Infidelity of wife supposed to be fatal to hunter, 197
Initiation, custom of covering the mouth after, 122;
taboos observed by novices at, 141 sq., 156 sq.;
new names given at, 320
Injury to a man's shadow conceived as an injury to the man, 78 sqq.
Inspiration, primitive theory of, 248
Intercourse with wives enjoined before war, 164 n.1;
enjoined on manslayers, 176. See also Continence
Intoxication accounted inspiration, 248, 249, 250
Inuit. See Esquimaux
Ireland, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, 11 sq.
Irish custom as to a fall, 68;
as to friends' blood, 244 sq.
Iron not to be touched, 167;
tabooed, 176, 225 sqq.;
used as a charm against spirits, 232 sqq.
—— instruments, use of, tabooed, 205, 206
—— rings as talismans, 235
Iroquois, the, 352, 385
Isis and Ra, 387 sqq.
Israelites, rules of ceremonial purity observed by the Israelites in war, 157 sq., 177
Issini, the, 171
Itonamas, the, 31
Ivy, prohibition to touch or name, 13 sq.
Ja-Luo, the, 79
Jackals, tigers called, 402, 403
Jackson, Professor Henry, 21 n.3
Japan, the Mikado of, 2 sqq.;