Index. (continued 3)
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Frazer, James George
Magicians, Egyptian, their power of compelling the deities, 389 sq.
Mahafalys of Madagascar, the, 10
Makalaka, the, 369
Makololo, the, 281
Malagasy language, dialectical variations of, 378 sq., 380
Malanau tribes of Borneo, 406
Malay conception of the soul as a bird, 34 sqq.
—— miners, fowlers, and fishermen, special forms of speech employed by, 407 sqq.
—— Peninsula, art of abducting human souls in the, 73 sqq.
Maldives, the, 274
Mandalay, 90, 125
Mandan Indians, 97
Mandelings of Sumatra, 296
Mangaia, separation of religious and civil authority in, 20
Mangaians, the, 87
Manipur, hill tribes of, 292
Mannikin, the soul conceived as a, 26 sqq.
Manslayers, purification of, 165 sqq.;
secluded, 165 sqq.;
tabooed, 165 sqq.;
haunted by ghosts of slain, 165 sqq.;
their faces blackened, 169;
their bodies painted, 175, 178, 179, 180, 186 n.1;
their hair shaved, 175, 177
Maori chiefs, their sanctity or taboo, 134 sqq.;
their heads sacred, 256
—— language, synonyms in the, 381
Maoris, persons who have handled the dead tabooed among the, 138 sq.;
tabooed on the war-path, 157
Marco Polo, 242, 243
Marianne Islands, 288
Mariner, W., quoted, 140
Mariners at sea, special language employed by, 413 sqq.
Marquesans, the, 31;
their regard for the sanctity of the head, 254 sq.;
their customs as to the hair, 261 sq.;
their dread of sorcery, 268
Marquesas Islands, 178
Marriage, the consummation of, prevented by knots and locks, 299 sqq.
Masai, the, 200, 309, 329, 354 sq., 356, 361