Fire-making:—Tasmanians and Australians said to have no means of, 236; methods of, in different countries, 237–61; stick-and-groove, 237; striking fire with bamboo, 238; fire-drill, 233–46; striking fire with iron pyrites, 247, 260; with stones, etc., 248; flint and steel, 248; burning-lens, 248; burning-mirror, 248–52; lucifer matches, 253; wooden friction-apparatus, kept up to modern times, 253; evidence of early use of, in different countries, 253–61.
Fire-syringe, 246.
Flamen Dialis, 137.
Flint and steel, 248.
Floating gardens, etc., 171.
Food superstitions, 131.
Footmarks, in Mexican picture-writings, 183.
Footprints, mythic, 114–6.
Fork, eating-, 173–5.
Fossil bones, shells, etc., myths of observation connected with, 316–31.
Fountain of Youth, 363–65.
Fox, Col. A. Lane, on boomerangs, 175.
Fuegians, 162, 247, 260, 263, etc.
Gauchos, 241.
Gesture-language, 14–81; of deaf-and-dumb, 16–33; nature of, 15, etc.; arbitrary signs, 22; epithets, 24; absence of grammatical categories, 24, 62; grammar and syntax, 25–82; g. l. of savage tribes. 34–40; syntax, 39; g. l. of Cistercian monks, 40–2; the Pantomime, 42–4; g. l. as an accompaniment to speech, 44, etc.; common to mankind, 54; evidence of mental similarity, 54; compared with speech, 58–71; its dualism compared with that of speech, 59–63; prepositions, 61; theory that g. l. was the original utterance of man, 64; for numerals, 79.
Gesture-signs, 38, 43–53; translated in language, 37; nodding and shaking head, 37, 52; kissing hand, 38; sign of benediction, 38; beckoning, etc., 45, 50; snapping fingers, 45; grasping and shaking hands, 45–7; crouching, bowing, kneeling, etc., 47; gestures of prayer, 48; uncovering head, feet, and body, 48–51; rubbing noses, kissing, blowing, etc., 51; signs of contempt, etc., 52; against evil eye, 53.
Giants, 316–25.
Glass, legend of invention of, 150; substituted for stone in making knives, etc., 219.
Gold work of Mexico, 206.
Gourds, etc., plastered with clay, 272.
Griffins, 319.
Grinding and polishing stone implements, 197–203, 380.
Guanches, 229.
Guano, 178.
Hair, bewitching by locks of, etc., 127–9.
Hammers, stone, 192–4, 200, 225.
Hammock, 175.
Harpocrates, 41.
Heads, preserved, of New Zealand, 266.
Hebrides, inhabitants of, 270.
Heyse, on thought and speech, 67.
Horns, used to point weapons, etc., 221.
Hot stones, baking with, 261; boiling with, 263–70.
Humboldt, A. v., on connexion of Mexicans with Asia, 91, 270, 339; on human degeneration, 187; on Mexican elephant-like head, 313.
Husband, name of, not mentioned by wife, 141.
Ichthyophagi, 210.
Ideas, association of, with images and words, 106–49.
Idiots, use of gesture-language in education of, 79.
Idols, 109–12.
Images, etc., 106–22.
Incubi and Succubi, 7.
India, stone implements in, 212; fire-making, 239, 255; marriage, 46, 280, 286.
Indians of N. America: gesture-language, 35–39; picture-writing, 82–91.
Individuals, not held to be physically separate by lower races, 295.
Inventors and civilizers, legends of, 150–4; 208, 231, 254, 307, etc.
Irish, stone-boilers, etc., 270.
Iron, meteoric, used by Indians of La Plata and Esquimaux, 205.
Irrigation, decline in art of, 184.
Island, monster mistaken for, 342.
Jack and the Beanstalk, 349–61.
Japan, stone implements in, 211.
Jews, their use of stone knives, 214–19.
Jonah, 345.
Jo-hua, stone knives in tomb of 214.
Jupiter Lapis, 226.
