iii. 285;

sanctity and uncleanness not differentiated in the notion of, viii. 23

Taboo rajah and chief, iii. 24 _sq._

Tabooed acts, iii. 101 _sqq._

—— hands, iii. 133, 134, 138, 140 _sqq._, 146 _sqq._, 158, 159 _n._, 174, 265

—— men at festival of wild mango in New Guinea, x. 7 _sq._

—— persons, iii. 131 _sqq._; fed by others, iii. 133, 134 _n._ 1, 138, 138 _n._ 1, 139, 140, 141, 142, 147, 148 _n._ 1, 166, 167, 265; secluded, iii. 165; kept from contact with the ground, x. 2 _sqq._

—— things, iii. 224 _sqq._; kept from contact with the ground, x. 7 _sqq._

—— village, viii. 122

—— women at festival of wild mango in New Guinea, x. 8

—— words, iii. 318 _sqq._

Taboos, homoeopathic, i. 116; contagious, i. 117; on food, i. 117 _sqq._, iii. 291 _sqq._; laid on the parents of twins, i. 262, 263 _sq._, 266; royal and priestly, iii. 1 _sqq._; on intercourse with strangers, iii. 101 _sqq._; on eating and drinking, iii. 116 _sqq._; on showing the face, iii. 120 _sqq._; on quitting the house, iii. 122 _sqq._; on leaving food over, iii. 126 _sqq._; on persons who have handled the dead, iii. 138 _sqq._; on mourners, iii. 138 _sqq._; on lads at initiation, iii. 141 _sq._, 156 _sq._; on warriors, iii. 157 _sqq._; on man-slayers, iii. 165 _sqq._; on murderers, iii. 187 _sq._; on hunters and fishers, iii. 190 _sqq._; transformed into ethical precepts, iii. 214; survivals of, in morality, iii. 218 _sq._; as spiritual insulators, iii. 224; on sharp weapons, iii. 237 _sqq._; on blood, iii. 239 _sqq._; relating to the head, iii. 252 _sqq._; on hair, iii. 258 _sqq._; on spittle, iii. 287 _sqq._; on knots and rings, iii. 293 _sqq._; on words, iii. 318 _sqq._, 392 _sqq._; on personal names, iii. 318 _sqq._; on names of relations, iii. 335 _sqq._; on the names of the dead, iii. 349 _sqq._; on names of kings and chiefs, iii. 374 _sqq._; on names of supernatural beings, iii. 384 _sqq._; on names of gods, iii. 387 _sqq._; on common words, iii. 392 _sqq._; on common words based on a fear of spirits or of animals supposed to be endowed with human intelligence, iii. 416 _sqq._; communal, vii. 109 _n._ 2; agricultural, vii. 187; relating to milk, viii. 83 _sq._; regulating the lives of divine kings, x. 2

Taboos observed in fishing and hunting on the principle of sympathetic magic, i. 113 _sqq._; by children in the absence of their fathers, i. 116, 119, 122, 123, 127, 131; by wives in the absence of their husbands, i. 116, 119, 120, 121, 122 _sqq._, 127 _sqq._; by sisters in the absence of their brothers, i. 122, 123, 125, 127; by parents of twins, i. 262, 263 _sq._, 266; after house-building, ii. 40; for the sake of the crops, ii. 98, 105 _sqq._; by fathers of twins, ii. 102, iii. 239 _sq._; by Brahman fire-priests, ii. 248; by the Flamen Dialis, ii. 248, iii. 13 _sq._; by herd-boys while watching the herds, ii. 331; by the Mikado, iii. 3 _sq._; by headmen in Assam, iii. 11; by ancient kings of Ireland, iii. 11 _sq._; by the Bodia or Bodio, iii. 15; by sacred milkmen among the Todas, iii. 16 _sqq._; by a priest in Celebes, iii. 129; by mourners, iii. 235 _sq._; by searchers for _lignum aloes_, iii. 404; at the sowing festival among the Kayans, vii. 94, 187; by enchanters of crops among the Kai, vii. 100; at the sanctuary of Alectrona in Rhodes, viii. 45; at the sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura, viii. 46; after the capture of a ground seal, walrus, or whale among the Esquimaux, viii. 246; by priest of Earth in Southern Nigeria, x. 4

Tabor, in Bohemia, custom of “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 237 _sq._

Tacitus, Germans in the time of, ii. 285; on the sacred groves of the Germans, ii. 363 _n._ 6; as to German observation of the moon, vi. 141; on human sacrifices offered by the ancient Germans, xi. 28 _n._ 1; on the goddess Nerthus, xi. 28 _n._ 1

Taenarum in Laconia, Poseidon worshipped at, v. 203 _n._ 2

Tagales of the Philippines, their excuse to tree-spirit for felling the tree, ii. 36 _sq._

Tagalogs of the Philippines, their reverence for flowers and trees, ii. 18 _sq._

Tagbanuas of the Philippines, their custom of sending spirits of disease away in little ships, ix. 189

Tahiti, seclusion of women after childbirth in, iii. 147; kings and queens of, not to be touched, iii. 226; sanctity of the head in, iii. 255 _sq._; remarkable rule of succession in, iv. 190; funeral custom to prevent return of ghost in, viii. 97; offerings of first-fruits in, viii. 132; transference of sins in, ix. 45 _sq._; king and queen of, not allowed to set foot on the ground, x. 3; the fire-walk in, xi. 11. _See also_ Tahitians

——, kings of, deified, i. 388; abdicate on birth of a son, iii. 20; their names not to be pronounced, iii. 381 _sq._

Tahitians buried their cut hair at temples, iii. 274; burned or buried their shorn hair for fear of witchcraft, iii. 281; their notions as to eclipses of the sun and moon, iv. 73 _n._ 2; their belief in the action of spirits, ix. 80 _sq._; the New Year of the, xi. 244

Tahuata, human god in the island of, i. 387 _n._ 1

Tai-chow, district of China, voluntary martyrdom of Buddhist monks in, iv. 42

Tâif, custom of polling the hair after a journey at, iii. 261

Taigonos Peninsula, the Koryaks of the, ix. 126

Tail of corn-spirit, vii. 268, 272, 300, viii. 10, 43; of sacrificial horse cut off, viii. 42, 43. _See also_ Tails

“Tail-money” given to herdsmen on St. George’s Day, ii. 331

Tailltenn, pagan cemetery at, iv. 101

Tailltiu or Tailltin, in County Meath, now Teltown, the fair of, iv. 99, 101; pagan cemetery at, iv. 101

Tailltiu, foster-mother of Lug, iv. 99

Tails of cats docked as a magical precaution, iii. 128 _sq._

Tails of cattle, fire tied to, in rain-charm, i. 302

Tain tribe of Dinkas, influence of rain-maker over the, iv. 32

Taiping rebellion, i. 414

Tajan, the Dyaks of, forbidden to mention the names of parents and grandparents, iii. 340

—— and Landak, districts of Dutch Borneo, bride and bridegroom not allowed to touch the earth among the Dyaks of, x. 5; birth-trees among the Dyaks of, xi. 164

Tak, mountain in Tabaristan, rain-making cave on, i. 301

Takhas, the, worship the cobra, i. 383 _n._ 4; on border of Cashmeer, inspired prophets among, i. 383

Takilis or Carrier Indians, succession to the soul among the, iv. 199. _See_ Carrier Indians

Takitount, in Algeria, rain-making at, i. 250

Talaga Bodas, volcano in Java, sulphureous exhalations at, v. 204

Talaings, the, of Lower Burma, their customs as to the last sheaf at rice-harvest, vii. 190 _sq._

Talbot, P. Amaury, on self-mutilation among the Ekoi, v. 271 _n._; on external human souls in animals in West Africa, xi. 208 _n._ 1, 209 _n._ 1

_Talegi_, Motlav word for external soul, xi. 198

Taleins, the, of Burma, their worship of demons, ix. 96

Tales, wandering souls in popular, iii. 49 _sq._; told as charms, vii. 102 _sqq._; the resurrection of the body in popular, viii. 263 _sqq._; of maidens forbidden to see the sun, x. 70 _sqq._; the external soul in popular, xi. 95 _sqq._

_Tāli_ tied to bride, Hindoo marriage symbol, ii. 57 _n._ 4

Talismans possessed by the Fire King of Cambodia, ii. 5; crowns and wreaths as, vi. 242 _sq._; of cities, x. 83 _n._ 1 _See also_ Amulets

——, public, iii. 317 _n._ 1; in antiquity, i. 365 _n._ 7

Talmud, the, on Purim, ix. 363; on menstruous women, x. 83

Talos, a bronze man, perhaps identical with the Minotaur, iv. 74 _sq._

Tamanachiers, Indian tribe of the Orinoco, their story of the origin of death, ix. 303

Tamanaks of the Orinoco, their treatment of girls at puberty, x. 61 _n._ 3

_Tamanawas_ or _tamanous_, guardian spirits, ix. 376 _n._ 3; dramatic performances of myths, ix. 376, 377

_Tamaniu_, external soul in the Mota language, xi. 198 _sq._, 220

Tamara, island off New Guinea, belief in the transmigration of human souls into pigs in, viii. 296

Tamarind married to a mango in India, ii. 25

Tamarind-trees sacred, ii. 42, 44, 46

Tamarisk, sacred to Osiris, vi. 110 _sq._; Isfendiyar slain with a branch of a, x. 105

Tamarisk branches used to beat people ceremonially, ix. 263

_Tambaran_, demons, among the Melanesians of New Britain, ix. 82, 83

Tami, the, of German New Guinea, their theory of earthquakes, v. 198; their rites of initiation, xi. 239 _sqq._

Tamil temples, dancing-girls in, v. 61

Tamirads, a family of diviners in Cyprus, v. 42

Tammuz or Adonis, v. 6 _sqq._; in the East perhaps replaced by St. George, ii. 346; the summer lamentations for, iv. 7; his relation to Adonis, v. 6 _n._ 1; his worship of Sumerian origin, v. 7 _sq._; “true son of the deep water,” v. 8, 246; laments for, v. 9 _sq._; mourned for at Jerusalem, v. 11, 17, 20, ix. 400; as a corn-spirit, v. 230; his bones ground in a mill, v. 230, vii. 258; perhaps represented by the mock king of the Sacaea, vii. 258 _sq._; the lover of Ishtar, ix. 371, 373; annual death and resurrection of, ix. 398. _See also_ Adonis

—— and Ishtar, v. 8 _sq._, ix. 399, 406

Tammuz, a Babylonian month, v. 10 _n._ 1, 230, vii. 259

Tana (Tanna), one of the New Hebrides, contagious magic of clothes in, i. 206; power of the disease-makers in, i. 341; magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 127 _sq._; dead ancestors worshipped as gods in, viii. 125; first-fruits offered to ancestors in, viii. 125 _sq._

Tanala, the, of Madagascar, their custom at circumcision, iii. 227; their mode of averting ill-luck from children, vii. 9; believe that the souls of the dead transmigrate into animals, viii. 290

Tanaquil, the Queen, wife of Tarquin, story of the birth of Servius Tullius in connexion with, ii. 195

Tanatoa, deified king of Raiatea, i. 387 _sq._

Tang dynasty of China, custom of marrying girls to the Yellow River under the, ii. 152

Tanga Coast of East Africa, belief as to mischievous spirits of trees on the, ii. 34

Tanganyika, Lake, Urua to the west of, i. 395; human victims thrown into, ii. 158; Winamwanga tribe to the south of, ii. 293, viii. 112; the Awemba to the west of, vii. 115; custom of carriers on the plateau between Lake Nyassa and, ix. 10; seclusion of girls at puberty among the tribes of the plateau to the west of, x. 24

—— plateau, custom as to the planting of bananas among the natives of the,