Africa, superstitious veneration for kings in, 12 _sqq._; superstition as a support of property in, 38 _sqq._; disastrous effects supposed to flow from sexual immorality in, 54 _sqq._; British Central, 66, 79, 105; British East, 77, 81, 92, 105, 115, 123; German East, 92, 105, 106; North, 119 Akamba, the, of British East Africa, 77 _sq._, 105 Akikuyu, the, of British East Africa, 92, 105, 115, 128 Aleutian hunters, 106 Algonquin Indians, their modes of keeping off ghosts, 139 Amboyna, taboo in, 27 _sq._ America, Indians of North, 130 _sq._; the discovery of, 173 Amulets for the protection of fruit-trees, 29 _sqq._ Analogy between the reproduction of men, animals, and plants, 99 _sqq._ Ancestor-worship, 7 Anger of gods or spirits at sexual offences, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 54, 55 _sq._, 57, 61, 63, 107 Angola, 108; Cazembes of, 11 Angoni, the, of British Central Africa, 79, 132 Annam, savages of, 46 Annamites, the, 33 Anne, Queen, 18 Anointing the nail instead of the wound, 166 Antambahoaka, the, of Madagascar, 59 Anthropology, social, the scope of, 157 _sqq._ Anyanja, the, of British Central Africa, 66, 79, 105 Arab merchant in Darfur, 39 Araucanians of Chili, 84 Arawaks of British Guiana, 83 Areopagus, trials for murder before the, 156 Argos, massacre at, 115 Aricara Indians, 118 Armenians, their mutilation of the dead, 133 Assam, tribes of, 45 Attic law as to homicides, 114 _Atua_, guardian spirit, 118 _Atua tonga_, divinity, 8 Aunt, incest with, 50, 51 Australia, aborigines of, the severity with which they punish sexual offences, 71 _sqq._ ----, Western, 74 Australian aborigines, their precautions against ghosts, 137 Avebury, Lord, 159 Avoidance, ceremonial, of relations by marriage, 75 _sqq._; a precaution against incest, 75, 84 _sqq._, 93; of wife’s mother, 75 _sqq._, 86 _sq._, 90 _sq._; between father-in-law and daughter-in-law, 76; between various relations, 76 _sq._; between father and daughter, 78, 85, 87; between father-in-law and son-in-law, 79 _sq._; of wife of wife’s brother, 80; of brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, 81; of future parents-in-law, 81, 83; between woman and her father-in-law, 82; between a man and his father-in-law, 82, 83; of blood relations, 84 _sqq._; between brother and sister, 85, {178} 86, 87, 88, 90; between mother and son, 85, 86, 87 Awemba, the, of Northern Rhodesia, 66, 79, 103 _sq._, 120 Babylonian code of Hammurabi, 64 ---- kings, their curses, 37 _sq._ Baddat Dyaks of Borneo, 48 Baganda, punishment of sexual offences among the, 64 _sq._; rules of ceremonial avoidance among the, 90 _sq._; their ideas as to adultery, 102 _sq._; their ideas as to effect of wife’s infidelity on absent husband, 106 _sq._ Bakerewe, a Bantu people, 78 Bali, punishment of incest and adultery in, 68 Balkan peninsula, the Slavs of the, 97 Balonda, the, 38 Bangala, the, of the Upper Congo, 107 Banggai Archipelago, 54 Banishment of homicides, 113 _sqq._ Banks’ Islands, 6, 86