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Bridge, River, etc. of Dead, 358–63; Fountain of Youth, 363–5; Tail-fisher, 365–9; Moon taken for cheese, 366; stumpy-tailed animals, 366; Diable Boiteux, 369; value of myths as historical evidence, 378. See also Myths of Observation, Beast-Fables and Traditions.

Myths of Observation, 306–32:—petrified lentils, 315; sun hissing in sea, 315; rain of stones, 316; connected with fossil remains, 316–32; mammoths, mastodons, etc., 316–23; rhinoceros horns, 318–20; griffins, 318–20; animals coming out of caves, 321; creatures which die on seeing daylight, 318, 321; giants, 322–5; degeneration of man's stature, 324; bearing of fossils and remains of boats on Deluge-traditions, 325-32; bones of whales on high mountains, 327.

Nails, bewitching by, 128.

Names:—their association with objects, 124; their use in magic, etc., 124–7; concealed, 125; changed to deceive evil spirits, 125; exchanged in token of amity, 126; avoidance of use of certain personal names, own, of others, of husbands, of parents- and children-in-law, of other connexions, of kings and chiefs, of dead, of spirits, of superhuman beings, 139–49, 288–91.

Needfire, 253, 256-61.

New Zealanders, 161, 189, 202, 266, etc.

North-American Indians, their picture-writing, 82, 91, calendars, 91; syllabarium of Cherokees, 102.

Numa Pompilius, 250.

Numerals, by gesture, 79; Roman, etc., 104.

 

Objective and subjective impressions and connexions confused, 117–49, 295, 304, 381.

Ornamentation of urns, 273.

Ostyaks, images of dead, 109.

 

Parentage from father, 297.

Parents-in-law and children-in-law, observances concerning, 141–7; restrictions to intercourse of, 288–91.

peru:—metal-work of, 206; New Fire, 250; Virgins of the Sun compared with Vestal Virgins of Rome, 251.

Phonetic characters, 92–105; of Mexicans, 92–7: Egyptian hieroglyphs, 96–100; of Chinese, 99; of Central America, 98; alphabets and syllabaria, 100–5.

Picture-writing, etc., 82–105, 159; of North American Indians, 81–91; of Mexicans, 91–7; numerals, 104.

Plants, sympathetic, 132.

Polynesians, 142–5, 161, 173, 237, 265, 307, 346, etc.

Pottery, 174, 179, 264–8; Goguet's theory of origin of, 270–4; transition vessels, 269–74: gourd-shapes, 272; ornamentation, 273.

Prometheus, 229, 255.

Puris and Coroados, 76–8.

Pygmies, 236.

Pyrites striking fire with, 248, 260.

 

Quaternary deposits, 194; possible traditions of animals of, 311–14.

Quetzalcohuatl, 116, 151–4.

Quipus, 154–8.

 

Rabbinical law as to circumcision, 215.

Rainbow, bridge or ladder, 361.

Rainmakers, 133.

Rattles, 138.

Reindeer-tribes of Central France, 197.

Reynard, the Fox, 11, 365.

Rice, traditions of introduction of, 309–11, 355.

River of Death, 360.

Roasting and broiling food, 261.

Rukh, 319.

 

Sago, 179.

Samovar, 165.

Samson, 347, 352.

Sanchoniathon, cosmogony of, 254.

Semitic race, their alphabet, 101; stone implements, 215–19.

Shell heaps, stone implements of, 194, 198.

Signatures, doctrine of, 122.

Similarity in arts, customs, beliefs, etc., in distant regions, arguments from, 5, 139, 169, 201–3, 261, 275, 302, 331, etc., 370–2.

Sneezing, customs relating to. 379.

Sorcerers:—their arts, 127–39; rattles and drums, 138; cure by sucking, etc., 277–9.

Soul, future life of, 5–10, 206, 358–63.

Sound and colour, comparison of, 71.

Spartan marriage, 286.

Spindle, 190.

Spirits:—of dead, affected through remains of bodies, 128; names of s. not mentioned, 143.