Risley, Sir Herbert H., quoted, 138 Road from the grave barred against the ghost, 138 _sq._ Robert the Pious, 18 Roman custom as to incest, 61 _sq._ ---- punishment of parricide, 52 Roscoe, Rev. J., quoted, 64 _sq._, 90 _sq._, 102 _sq._ Ruanda, a district of Central Africa, 96 Sacred chiefs, 7 _sqq._ ---- fig-tree among the Akikuyu, 128 _sq._ ---- fish, 36 Sacredness of chiefs in Polynesia, 7 _sqq._ Sahagun on the natives of Mexico, 173 St. Patrick, canon of, 17 Samoa, superstition as a preserver of property in, 24 _sqq._ Samoan taboos, 25 _sq._ Sarah and Abraham, 60 _sq._ Sarawak, Hill Dyaks of, 11 _sq._, 48 Savage, the, a human document, 172 _sq._; the passing of the, 174 _sq._ Savage horror of sexual irregularities, suggested reason for, 101 Savagery, civilization evolved out of, 162; importance of the study of, 162 _sq._, 172 _sqq._; intellectual, of European peasantry, 170 Savages of to-day primitive only in a relative sense, 163 _sq._ Saxons, their punishment of sexual offences, 97 Scapegoat for ghosts, 141 _sq._ Scarecrows for ghosts, 139 Scepticism, religious, undermines foundations of society, 7 Science of man, 159 _sq._ ----, the temple of, 161 Scrofula, touching for, 17 _sq._ Scythians drank the blood of friends and foes, 118 Sea-pike taboo, 25 Seclusion of homicides, 114 _sq._, 120, 121 _sq._, 124, 125 _sqq._ Semendo, a district of Sumatra, 68 Servius Tullius, King, 61 Sexual communism, era of, 164 _sq._ ---- immorality supposed to be injurious to the culprits themselves and to their relations, 102 _sqq._; superstitions as to, 110 ---- morality enforced by superstition, 44 _sqq._; change in the theoretical basis of, 101 ---- offences punished severely, 63 _sqq._, 96 _sqq._; reason why savages punish these offences severely, 99 _sqq._ “Shaking tubercule,” 32 Shans, the, of Burma, 119, 134 {185} Sheep, expiatory sacrifice of, 92, 93 Shushwap Indians of British Columbia, mourning customs of the, 142 _sq._ Siam, 32 Sibuyaus, the, of Sarawak, 48 Sibylline Books, 173 Sickness caused by evil spirits or sorcerers, 141 “Sickness of relationship,” 76 _sq._ Sierra Leone, 42 Similarity of the human mind in all races, 172 Sister, incest with a, 51, 54, 59, 60 _n._ 1, 62, 67, 68, 105 Sisters and brothers, mutual avoidance of, 77 Slave Coast, the, 41 Slavery in England, 169 Slavs, punishment of sexual offences among the Southern, 97 _sq._ Slayers fear the ghosts of their victims, 113 _sqq._ _Sle_, pollution incurred by unchastity, 109 Smyrna, 36 Social anthropology, the scope of, 157 _sqq._ Society, concerned with conduct, not opinion, 155; ultimately controlled by knowledge, 167; sapped by superstition, 170; its surface in perpetual motion, 171 Sociology, 160 Sofala, the king of, 13, 14 Son-in-law, ceremonial avoidance of, 79 _sq._ Sophocles on Oedipus, 61 Sphinx, riddles of the, 102 State, duty of the, in regard to anthropology, 175 _sq._ Stinks to keep off ghosts, 139