Index. (continued 4)
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Frazer, James George
to ancestral spirits, 104
Sagard, Gabriel, 366 sq.
Sahagun, B. de, 249
Sailors at sea, special language employed by, 413 sqq.
Sakais, the, 348
Sakalavas of Madagascar, the, 10, 327;
customs as to names of dead kings among the, 379 sq.
Salish Indians, 66
Salmon, taboos concerning, 209
Salt not to be eaten, 167, 182, 184, 194, 195, 196;
name of, tabooed, 401
—— -pans, continence observed by workers in, 200
Samoyeds, 353
Sanctity of the head, 252 sqq.
—— or pollution, their equivalence in primitive religion, 145, 158, 224
Sankara and the Grand Lama, 78
Saragacos Indians, 152
Satapatha Brahmana, 217
Saturday, persons born on a, 89
Saturn, the planet, 315
Savage, our debt to the, 419 sqq.
—— custom the product of definite reasoning, 420 n.1
—— philosophy, 420 sq.
Saxons of Transylvania, 294
Scapegoat, 214 sq.
Scarification of warriors, 160 sq.;
of bodies of whalers, 191
Scaring away the ghosts of the slain, 168, 170, 171, 172, 174 sq.
Schoolcraft, H. R., 325
Scotch fowlers and fishermen, words tabooed by, 393 sqq.
Scotland, common words tabooed in, 392 sqq.
Scratching the person or head, rules as to, 146, 156, 158, 159 n., 160, 181, 183, 189, 196
Scrofula thought to be caused and cured by touching a sacred chief or king, 133 sq.
Sea, horror of the, 10;
offerings made to the, 10;
prohibition to look on the, 10;
special language employed by sailors at, 413 sqq.
—— -mammals, atonement for killing, 207;
myth of their origin, 207
Seals, supposed influence of lying-in women on, 152;