Index. (continued 2)
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Frazer, James George
—— mines, spirits of the, treated with deference, 409 sq.
Goldie, H., 22
Gollas, the, 149
Good Friday, 229
Goorkhas, the, 316
Gordian knot, 316 sq.
Gran Chaco, Indians of the, 37, 38, 357
Grandfathers, grandsons named after their deceased, 370
Grandidier, A., 380 sq.
Grandmothers, granddaughters named after their deceased, 370
Grass knotted as a charm, 305, 310
Grave, soul fetched from, 54
—— -clothes, no knots in, 310
—— -diggers, taboos observed by, 141, 142
Graves, food offered on, 53;
water poured on, as a rain-charm, 154 sq.
Great Spirit, sacrifice of fingers to the, 161
Grebo people of Sierra Leone, 14
Greek conception of the soul, 29 n.1
—— customs as to manslayers, 188
Grey, Sir George, 364 sq.
Grihya-Sûtras, 277
Grimm, J., 305 n.1
Ground, prohibition to touch the, 3, 4, 6;
not to sit on the, 159, 162, 163;
not to set foot on, 180;
royal blood not to be shed on the, 241 sqq.
Guardian deities of cities, 391
Guaycurus, the, 357
Guiana, Indians of, 324
Gypsy superstition about portraits, 100
Haida medicine-men, 31
Hair, mode of cutting the Mikado's, 3;
cut with bronze knife, 14;
of manslayers shaved, 175, 176;
of slain enemy, fetish made from, 183;
not to be combed, 187, 203, 208, 264;
tabooed, 258 sqq.;
of kings, priests, and wizards unshorn, 258 sqq.;
regarded as the seat of a god or spirit, 258, 259, 263;