Men Aziottenos, 37 Men naturally unequal, 166 _sq._ Mental evolution, a scale of, 172 Meteors, superstition as to, 141 Milky Way, 141 Mimic warfare, 129 Mimicry in magic, 100 Minority, mankind dominated by an enlightened, 167 _sq._ Montenegrin peasantry, their strict views of sexual immorality, 97 Moral theory, hypothetical development of, 102 {183} Morality, sexual, enforced by superstition, 44 _sqq._; change in the theoretical basis of, 101 _sq._; basis of, shifted from supernatural to natural, 153 Morocco, superstitions concerning granaries in, 56 _sq._ Mosaic law, punishments for sexual offences under the, 64 Mother, incest with a, 51, 61; and son, ceremonial avoidance between, 85, 86, 87 Mother-in-law, ceremonial avoidance of, 75 _sqq._, 86 _sq._, 90 _sq._ Mount Elgon, 123 Mourning customs of widows and widowers, 142 _sqq._ Moxos Indians of Bolivia, 106 Mukjarawaint tribe of Victoria, 74 Murderer, rules observed by pardoned, 126 Murderers, their precautions against the ghosts of their victims, 117 _sqq._ Mutilation of corpses in order to disable the ghosts, 132 _sq._, 134, 136, 137; of the dying or dead, 141 Nails used to prevent ghosts from walking, 133 Names of kings sacred, 10 Nandi, the, of British East Africa, 14, 56, 66, 118; curses among the, 40 _sq._ Natchez Indians of North America, 124 Natural inequality of men, 166 _sq._ Nature, why illicit relations between the sexes are thought to disturb the balance of, 99 _sqq._ ---- the Sphinx, 102 Nebuchadnezzar, the king, quoted, 37 _sq._ Nepal, 138 Nets to catch ghosts, 139 New Britain, 109; taboo in, 26 _sq._ ---- Guinea, British, 125, 147; Dutch, 131; German, 82, 124, 127, 131 ---- Hebrides, 86 ---- Ireland, 89, 90 ---- Mecklenburg, 89 ---- South Wales, 74 ---- Zealand, authority of chiefs in, 7 _sqq._ Nias, the island of, 46 _sq._; curses in, 34 Niece, incest with, 51, 53 Niger, tribes of the Lower, 119 Nile, the Upper, 57 Ninib, Babylonian god, 38 _Nuru_, the spirit of the slain, 121 Nusku, Babylonian god, 38 Oaths and imprecations as preservers of property, 24 _sqq._ _See also_ Curses _Obeah_ man, magician, 42 _Obi_, magic, 42 Oedipus, the incest of, 61 Ojèbways, their modes of keeping off ghosts, 139 _sq._ Omaha Indians, 132 _sq._; their customs as to pardoned murderers, 126 Opinion and action, their relative values for society, 155 Orang Glai, the, savages of Annam, 46 Oraons of Bengal, their fear of the ghosts of women dying in childbed or pregnancy, 134 Oregon, Chinook Indians of, 126 Orestes, the matricide, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 126 Orinoco, the, 112 Ottawa Indians, 131 Ovakumbi, a tribe of Angola, 108 Ovambo, a Bantu people of South-West Africa, 80 _sq._ Pacific, first exploration of the, 173 Paestum, the temples at, 170 Paint-house, the, 55 _Pamali_, taboo, 27 Papuans of New Guinea, 131; of Issoudun, 147 Parents-in-law, ceremonial avoidance by man of his future, 81, 83