Dos Santos, J., Portuguese historian, 13, 14 Drinking water as test of wife’s fidelity, 107 Drowning as a punishment for sexual offences, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 65, 66, 67, 68 Dunvegan, 17 Durham, Miss M. Edith, 97 Dyaks of Borneo, 47 _sq._, 51, 137; curses among the, 34 _sqq._ ---- of Sarawak, 11 Early history of mankind, the imperfection of the record, 171 _sq._ Earthquakes thought to be caused by sexual immorality, 54 East Indies, sexual offences severely punished in, 67 _sqq._ Edward the Confessor, 18 Egypt, divinity of kings in ancient, 14 _sq._ Ekoi, the, of Southern Nigeria, 39 Epidemics supposed to be caused by incest, 46, 51 Eruptions of volcanoes supposed to be caused by incest, 54 {180} Esquimaux of Bering Strait, 132 Evolution, a scale of mental, 172 Ewe negroes of Togoland, 142 ---- speaking tribes of the Slave Coast, 41 Executioners taste the blood of their victims, 119 Exorcism of devils, 116 _sq._ Expiation for sexual immorality, 44 _sqq._, 57, 61, 62 _sq._; for marriage of cousins, 92 _sq._; for incest, 105 _sq._; for homicide, 128 _sq._ Extinction of the savage, 174 _sq._ _Fady_, or taboo, in Madagascar, 31 _sq._ Fairy banner, 17 ---- changeling, 166 Father, incest with, 106 ---- and daughter, mutual avoidance of, 78, 85, 87 Father-in-law avoided ceremonially by his daughter-in-law, 82; avoided ceremonially by his son-in-law, 82, 83 Fear of ghosts, 111 _sqq._; salutary effect of, 111, 113, 149 _sqq._; of women who die in pregnancy or childbed, 133 _sqq._ Fertility of women and cattle, supposed power of chiefs and kings over the, 14, 16; of land supposed to be impaired by sexual offences, 44 _sqq._ ----, Diana a goddess of, 61 _sq._ Fetishes in Guinea, 41 Fetters put on the dead, 137 Fidelity, test of conjugal, 107 Fig-tree, sacred, among the Akikuyu, 128 _sq._ Fiji, authority of chiefs in, 7; taboo in, 27; orgies at circumcision in, 60 _n._ 1 Fijians, their custom of driving away ghosts, 131 _sq._ Finger, sacrifice of, 117 First-fruits offered to chiefs, 7 Fish sacred, 36 Floods supposed to be caused by incest, 49 Folklore, a department of Social Anthropology, 166, 169 Food-supply supposed to be affected by improper relations between the sexes, 100 _sq._ Fornication, expiation for, 44 _sq._; disastrous effects supposed to flow from, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 55, 57, 63, 65, 96; punishment of, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 55, 57, 63, 65, 66, 96 _sqq._ Frenzy caused by sight or thought of blood, 122 _sq._ Fruit-trees, charms for the protection of, 29 _sqq._ Furies of Clytemnestra, 117 Galelareese, the, of Halmahera, 54 Galton, Sir Francis, 159 Garcilasso de la Vega, quoted, 15 _sq._; on the Incas, 173 Gardens, superstition as to, 57 Gennep, A. van, 31 Ghostly power ascribed to chiefs, 6 _sq._