The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)

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Tâ-uz (Tammuz), mourned by Syrian women in Harran, v. 230

Taanach, in Palestine, burial of children in jars at, v. 109 _n._ 1

Taara, the thunder-god of the Esthonians, ii. 367

Tabali, in South Nigeria, precaution as to the spittle of chiefs at, iii. 289

Tabari, Arab chronicler, his story how King Sapor took the city of Atrae, x. 82 _sq._

Tabaristan, rain-producing cave in, i. 301

Table, leaping from, a charm to make crops grow high, i. 138, 139 _n._

Tablets of destiny wrested by Marduk from Ningu, iv. 110

Taboo, or negative magic, i. 111 _sqq._, 143; of chiefs and kings in Tonga, iii. 133 _sq._; of chiefs in New Zealand, iii. 134 _sqq._; Esquimau theory of, iii. 210 _sqq._; the meaning of, iii. 224; conceived as a dangerous physical substance which needs to be insulated, x. 6 _sq._

——, sanctity, and uncleanness, their equivalence in primitive thought,