Stoning as a punishment of sexual offences, 64, 97 _sq._ Sulka, the, of New Britain, 109 Sumatra, 46, 67, 68, 69, 82, 109 Sun, Yncas descended from the, 15 Supernatural powers attributed to chiefs, 6 _sqq._ Superstition, baneful effects of, 3; a plea for, 3 _sq._, 154 _sq._; as a prop of government, 6 _sqq._; as a prop of private property, 20 _sqq._; as a prop of marriage, 44 _sqq._; as a prop to the security of human life, 111 _sqq._; heavy toll paid to, 113; services which superstition has rendered to humanity, 154 _sq._; at the bar, 155 _sq._; the creed of the laggards in the march of intellect, 168 _sq._; a danger to society, 170; the religion of a past generation, 170 _sq._ Superstitions either public or private, 169; the crudest, survive longest, 170 _sq._ Superstitious fear of contact with Maori chiefs, 9 _sq._ Surface of society in perpetual motion, 171 Survivals of savagery in civilization, 166 Swedes, the ancient, 16 Taboo as a support of chiefs, 7 _sqq._; as a prop of private property, 20 _sqq._; (_tambu_) in Melanesia, 26 _sq._ Tabooed, homicides, 121 Tahiti, sacredness of kings of, 10 _sq._ Tamanaques, the, of the Orinoco, 112 _Tambu_ (taboo) in Melanesia, 26 _sq._ _Tapu_ (taboo) among the Maoris, 20 _sqq._ Tattooing of homicides, 121 Taylor, Rev. Richard, 8 Ternate, 54 _Thahu_, ceremonial pollution, 93, 105, 115, 128 Theal, G. McCall, quoted, 91 Theoretical basis of sexual morality, 101 Thieves cursed, 34 _sqq._ Thompson Indians of British Columbia, mourning customs of the, 144 _sq._ Thomson, Basil, quoted, 7 Thomson, J. Arthur, quoted, 95 _sq._ Thonga tribe of South-East Africa, 57, 80, 92, 104; their purification of homicides, 121 _sq._ Thorn bushes to keep off ghosts, 142 _sq._, 144, 145 Thunder taboo, 26 Tigers, plague of, a punishment for sexual offences, 45, 46 Timor, taboo in, 27 Togoland, 142 Tololaki, the, of Central Celebes, 53 Tomori, the, of Central Celebes, 52 Tonga, sacredness of chiefs in, 10; taboo in, 26 Tonquin, 33 Toradjas of Central Celebes, 12, 29, 30, 122; their fear of the ghosts of the slain, 129 Torture to extract confession, 64 _sq._ Touched, chiefs and kings not to be, 9, 11 Touching for scrofula, 17 _sq._ Traitors disembowelled in England, 169 Travail pangs supposed to be aggravated by adultery, 104 Travancore, 132 Trembling thought to be caused by contact with certain relations, 77, 90 Troezen, purification of Orestes at, 115 Tsetsaut Indians of British Columbia, mourning customs of the, 143 Tubercule, the shaking, 32 Tunguses, their burial customs, 137, 138 Turner, Dr. George, quoted, 24 _sq._, 26 {186} Tylor, Sir E. B., 159 Ulcer taboo, 25 _sq._ Unchastity, supposed physical infection of, 109 United States of America, their Bureau of Ethnology, 175 Universities, the function of the, 175 Unmarried persons, disastrous effects supposed to flow from sexual intercourse between, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 55, 57, 63, 65, 96 Vancouver Island, 143