Ghosts as protectors of property, 26; the fear of, 111 _sqq._; salutary effect of belief in, 111, 113, 149 _sqq._; of all who have died violent deaths accounted dangerous, 130; of bad people, precautions against the, 132 _sq._; disabled by the mutilation of their corpses, 132 _sq._, 134, 136, 137; blinded, 133 ---- and goblins outlast the high gods, 170 _sq._ ---- of slain especially dreaded by their slayers, 113 _sqq._; thought to drive their slayers mad, 117 _sqq._; precautions taken by slayers against the, 117 _sqq._, 123 _sqq._; scared or driven away, 126, 130 _sqq._; especially dreaded by their kinsfolk and neighbours, 127 _sqq._ ---- of women dying in pregnancy or childbed especially feared, 133 _sqq._ Girdle of red feathers, badge of royalty, 10 Girschner, Max, quoted, 87 _sq._ Goat, expiatory sacrifice of, 92 Gods or spirits angry at sexual offences, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 54, 55 _sq._, 57, 61, 63, 107; the creations of man’s fancy, 99; the stalking-horses of savages, 101; the high, ephemeral compared to ghosts and goblins, 170 _sq._ Government, superstition as a prop of, 6 _sqq._; of mankind essentially aristocratic, 167 Governors, supernatural powers attributed to, 6 Granaries, superstitions concerning, 56 _sq._ Gran Chaco, Indians of the, 140 Granddaughter, incest with, 48 Grave, the road from the, barred against the ghost, 138 _sq._ Greasing the hands of the dead, 137 _sq._ Greece, superstitious veneration for kings in Homeric, 16 _Greegrees_, charms, 42 Greek purification of homicides, 116, 120, 123 _sq._ Greeks, the ancient, their use of curses, 36 _sq._; their ideas as to incest, 61; their customs as to homicide, 113 _sq._ Grimm, the brothers, 169 _sq._ Guiana, British, 83; Indians of, their notion as to homicides, 117 _sq._ Guinea, fetishes in, 41 Gula, Babylonian goddess, 38 Haida Indians of Queen Charlotte Islands, 107 {181} Hair of homicides shaved, 123 _sq._, 128 Halmahera, East Indian island, 54 Hammurabi, code of, 64 Hanging as punishment for incest, 90 Hebrews, their ideas as to adultery, 60 _sq._ Heraclitus on purification for homicide, 117 Herbert River in Queensland, 137 Herero, the, of South Africa, 133 Herzegovina, 98 Hindoos of the Punjaub, 133; ancient, burial custom of the, 137 Hippopotamus hunters, superstitions of, 57 _sqq._ History regulated by general laws, 160; of mankind, imperfection of the early records, 171 _sq._ Hlengoues, the, of South-East Africa, 57 Hobley, C. W., 105 _n._ 2; quoted, 115 _n._ 5 Homicide, purification for, 114, 115 _sqq._, 120 _sqq._, 123 _sqq._; expiation for, 128 _sq._ Homicides fear the ghosts of their victims, 113 _sqq._; secluded, 114 _sq._, 120, 121 _sq._, 124, 125 _sqq._; taste the blood of their victims, 118 _sq._ Horror of sexual irregularities among savages, suggested reason for, 101 Hose, Ch., and McDougall, W., quoted, 49 _sq._ Hottentots forbid marriage of cousins, 67 Howitt, A. W., 75 _n._ 1, 85 _n._ 1