The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)
iv. 60;
belief of the natives as to conception without sexual intercourse, v. 102
_Tulsi_ plant, its miraculous virtue, xi. 5
Tum of Heliopolis, an Egyptian sun-god, i. 419, vi. 123
Tumbucas of South Africa, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331 _n._ 2
Tumleo, island of, treatment of spilt blood and rags in, i. 205; contagious magic of bodily impressions in, i. 213; seclusion of women after childbirth in, iii. 150; annual fight in, ix. 142 _sq._
Tummel, the valley of the, Hallowe’en fires in, x. 231
Tuña, a spirit, expulsion of, among the Esquimaux, ix. 124 _sq._
Tundja River, the Orotchis of the, viii. 197
Tung ak, a powerful spirit, dreaded by the Esquimaux, ix. 79 _sq._
_Tunghät_, wandering genii of the Esquimaux, ix. 379
Tunguzian people, the Gilyaks a, viii. 190; the Orotchis a, viii. 197
Tunis, New Year fires at, x. 217; gold sickle and fillet said to be found in, xi. 80 _n._ 3
Tunja, capital of the Chibchas, in Colombia, i. 416
Tunnel, creeping through a, as a remedy for an epidemic, x. 283 _sq._
Tupi Indians of Brazil, their customs as to eating captives, iii. 179 _sq._; cut off the thumbs of dead enemies, viii. 272
Tupinambas of Brazil, their superstition as to planting earth-almonds, i. 142; woman’s share in agriculture among the, vii. 122
Turban, soul caught in a, iii. 75
Turcoman cure of fever by means of knotted thread, iii. 304
Turf, sick children and cattle passed through holes in, xi. 191
Turiks of Borneo, soul hooked fast to body among the, iii. 30
Turkana, the, of British East Africa, the power of medicine-men among, i. 344 _sq._
Turkestan, human scapegoat in, ix. 45; Ferghana in, ix. 184
Turkey, feathers of a, in homoeopathic magic, i. 155; soul in form of, iii. 42 _n._
Turkish tribes of Central Asia, girls propound riddles to their wooers among the, ix. 122 _n._
—— village, oak-tree worshipped in, ii. 16
Turks, exorcism practised by the, iii. 102; preserve their nail-parings for use at the resurrection, iii. 280; their belief as to the bones of Scanderbeg, viii. 154
—— of Armenia, their rain-charm by means of pebbles, i. 305
—— of Central Asia give birds’ tongues to backward child to eat, viii. 147
—— of Siberia, marriage custom of the, x. 75
Turmeric cultivated, vii. 245, 250
Turner, Dr. George, on the power of the disease-makers in Tana, i. 341 _sq._; on sacred stones, v. 108 _n._ 1
Turner, L. M., on the fear of demons among the Esquimaux of Labrador, ix. 79 _sq._
Turner’s picture of “The Golden Bough,” i. 1
Turning or whirling round, custom of, observed by mummers, i. 273, 275,