CHAPTER VI.—MAGICIANS AS KINGS • Pp. 332–372

Magic not the only road to a throne, 332 _sq._; danger of too simple and comprehensive theories, 332 _sq._; discredit which such theories have brought on mythology, 333 _sq._; magic only a partial explanation of the rise of kings, 334; social importance of magicians among the aborigines of Australia, 334–337; social importance of magicians in New Guinea, 337 _sq._; magical powers of chiefs and others in Melanesia, 338–342; evolution of chiefs or kings out of magicians, especially out of rain-makers, in Africa, 342–352; kings in Africa and elsewhere punished for drought and dearth, 352–355; power of medicine-men among the American Indians, 355–360; power of medicine-men among the pagan tribes of the Malay Peninsula, 360 _sq._; development of kings out of magicians among the Malays, 361 _sq._; magical virtue of regalia, 362–365; magical powers of kings among the Aryan races, 366–368; touching for the King’s Evil, 368–371; general conclusion, 371 _sq._