Index. (continued 1)
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Frazer, James George
—— words tabooed, 392 sqq.
Concealment of miscarriage in childbed, supposed effects of, 152 sqq.
Concealment of personal names from fear of magic, 320 sqq.
Conciliating the spirits of the land, 110 sq.
Conduct, standard of, shifted from natural to supernatural basis, 213 sq.
Confession of sins, 114, 191, 195, 211 sq., 214 sqq.;
originally a magical ceremony, 217
Connaught, kings of, 11 sq.
Consummation of marriage prevented by knots and locks, 299 sqq.
Contagious magic, 246, 268, 272
Continence enjoined on people during the rounds of sacred pontiff, 5;
of Zapotec priests, 6;
of priests, 159 n.
—— observed on eve of period of taboo, 11;
by those who have handled the dead, 142;
during war, 157, 158 n.1, 161, 163, 164, 165;
after victory, 166 sqq., 175, 178, 179, 181;
by cannibals, 188;
by fishers and hunters, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 207;
by workers in salt-pans, 200;
at brewing beer, wine, and poison, 200 sq., 201 sq.;
at baking, 201;
at making coco-nut oil, 201;
at building canoes, 202;
at house-building, 202;
at making or repairing dams, 202;
on trading voyages, 203;
after festivals, 204;
on journeys, 204;
while cattle are at pasture, 204;
by lion-killers and bear-killers, 220, 221;
before handling holy relics, 272;
by tabooed men, 293
Cooking, taboos as to, 147 sq., 156, 165, 169, 178, 185, 193, 194, 198, 209, 221, 256
Coptic church, 235, 310 n.5
Cords, knotted, in magic, 302, 303 sq.
Corea, clipped hair burned in, 283
—— kings of, 125;
not to be touched with iron, 226
Corpses, knots not allowed about, 310