Index. (continued 1)
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Frazer, James George
Eleusinian priests, their names sacred, 382 sq.
Elfin race averse to iron, 232 sq.
Emetic as mode of purification, 175, 245;
pretended, in auricular confession, 214
Emin Pasha, 108
Epidemics attributed to evil spirits, 30
Epimenides, the Cretan seer, 50 n.2
Esquimaux, their conception of the soul, 27;
their dread of being photographed, 96;
or Inuit, taboos observed by hunters among the, 205 sq.;
namesakes of the dead among the, 371
Esthonians, the, 41 sq., 240
Ethical evolution, 218 sq.
—— precepts developed out of savage taboos, 214
Ethiopia, kings of, 124
Euphemisms employed for certain animals, 397 sqq.;
for smallpox, 400, 410, 411, 416
Europe, south-eastern, superstitions as to shadows in, 89 sq.
Evil eye, the, 116 sq.
Ewe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast, 9;
rebirth of ancestors among the, 369
Execution, peculiar modes of, for members of royal families, 241 sqq.
Executioners, customs observed by, 171 sq., 180 sq.
Exorcising harmful influence of strangers, 102 sqq.
Eye, the evil, 116 sq.
Eyeos, the, 9
Faces veiled to avert evil influences, 120 sqq.;
of warriors blackened, 163;
of manslayers blackened, 169
Fàdy, taboo, 327
Fafnir and Sigurd, 324
Fairies averse to iron, 229, 232 sq.
Fasting, custom of, 157 n.2, 159 n., 161, 162, 163, 182, 183, 189, 198, 199
Father and child, supposed danger of resemblance between, 88 sq.
—— and mother, their names not to be mentioned, 337, 341
—— in-law, his name not to be pronounced by his daughter-in-law, 335 sqq., 343, 345, 346;
by his son-in-law, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344
Fathers named after their children, 331 sqq.
Faunus, consultation of, 314
Feast of Yams, 123