Ceylon, modes of protecting property in, 33 Chad, Lake, 109 Charms to protect property, 25 _sqq._, 38 _sq._, 41 _sqq._; for the protection of fruit-trees, 29 _sqq._ Chastity required of those who handle corn or enter a granary, 56 _sq._ Chiefs, supernatural powers attributed to, 6 _sqq._ Children supposed to suffer for the adultery of their father or mother, 102 _sqq._ Chili, 84 Chinese, their faith in ghosts, 149 _sqq._ Chinook Indians, their purification of homicides, 126 _sq._ Chins of Burma, their burial customs, 138 _sq._ Chitomé, the sacred pontiff of Congo, 108 Circumcision, orgies at, in Fiji, 60 _n._ 1 Civilization evolved from savagery, 162; endangered by superstition, 170 Clan, marriage within the, forbidden, 45, 65, 71; marriage within mother’s clan forbidden, 55 Claudius, the emperor, 61 Clytemnestra, ghost of, 118 Codrington, Dr. R. H., 6, 85 _n._ 1, 86 Communism, era of sexual, 164 _sq._ Comparative Method in anthropology, legitimacy of the, 172 Condon, Father M. A., quoted, 76 _sq._ Confession of sin, 45, 57, 61, 62, 64 _sq._, 103, 104, 107, 109 Congo, the, 39, 75, 107, 108, 124 Consanguineous marriages, question as to the results of, 95 _sq._ Continence required at certain times, 106 _sq._, 108 Corc and Cormac, Irish legend of, 62 _sq._ Corn, chastity required of persons who handle, 56 _sq._ Corpses mutilated in order to disable the ghosts, 132 _sq._, 134, 136, 137 Cousins, marriage of, 88 _sq._, 91; expiation for, 47 _sq._, 92 _sq._; forbidden, 47, 48, 53, 67, 72, 89, 90, 91, 92; punished, 67; supposed to be unfruitful, 92 ----, mutual avoidance between male and female, 88 _sqq._ Cow’s dung as a detergent of ghosts, 123 Cowper, the poet, 174 Crawford, Raymond, 17 _n._ 5 Criminals, precautions against the ghosts of executed, 132 Crops, chiefs and kings thought to have power over the, 11 _sq._, 15, 16 _sq._; supposed to be blighted by sexual immorality, 44 _sq._, 46, 48, 49, 50 _sqq._ Cross-stick taboo, 25 Cumana in South America, 33 Curses as modes of protecting property, 24 _sq._, 28, 29, 31 _sq._, 34 _sqq._, 40 _sq._ Cycles in human affairs, 165 _sq._ Cynaetha in Arcadia, 115 _Damzogs_, guardian-spirits of property, 39 _sq._ Darfur, 39, 81 Daughter, incest with, 49, 51, 54, 58, 67, 68; and father, mutual avoidance of, 78 David, his sin, 107 Dawson, James, quoted, 71 _sq._ Dead, the fear of the, 111 _sq._; carried out of house by a special opening, 135 De Groot, Professor J. J. M., quoted, 150 _sq._ Delagoa Bay, 57, 80, 92, 104, 121 Delphic oracle, 61 Demeter and Persephone, 36 Destruction of the property of the dead, 111 _sq._, 135 Deuteronomy, 37 Development of moral theory, hypothetical, 102 “Devil going on his wife,” 54 _n._ 2 Devils, exorcism of, 116 _sq._ Diana, sacred grove of, 61 Dinkas, the, of the Upper Nile, 57 Divinity of Maori chiefs, 7 _sqq._; of kings, 10 _sqq._ Donaglas, the, 81 d’Orbigny, A., quoted, 111 _sqq._ Doreh in Dutch New Guinea, 131