M5 Sacred or tabooed persons apparently thought to be charged with a mysterious virtue like a fluid, which will run to waste or explode if it touches the ground. M6 Things as well as persons can be charged with the mysterious quality of holiness or taboo; and when so charged they must be kept from contact with the ground. 21 Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1899), pp. 364, 370 _sqq._, 629; _id._, _Across Australia_ (London, 1912), ii. 280, 285 _sq._ M7 Festival of the wild mango tree in British New Guinea. M8 The wild mango tree not allowed to touch the ground. M9 Final disposition of the wild mango tree. 22 C. G. Seligmann, M.D., _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_ (Cambridge, 1910), pp. 589-599. M10 The ceremony apparently intended to fertilize the mango trees. M11 Sacred objects of various sorts not allowed to touch the ground. 23 George Brown, D.D., _Melanesians and Polynesians_ (London, 1910), pp. 60 _sq._, 64. As to the Duk-duk society, see below, vol. ii. pp. 246 _sq._ 24 John Keast Lord, _The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia_ (London, 1866), ii. 237. 25 Edwin James, _Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains_ (London, 1823), ii. 47; Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, “Omaha Sociology,” _Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_ (Washington, 1884), p. 226. 26 James Adair, _History of the American Indians_ (London, 1775), pp. 161-163. 27 (Sir) Henry Babington Smith, in _Folk-lore_, v. (1894) p. 340. 28 Miss C. F. Gordon Cumming, _In the Hebrides_ (London, 1883), p. 211. 29 W. Gregor, “Quelques coutumes du Nord-est du Comté d’Aberdeen,” _Revue des Traditions populaires_, iii. (1888) p. 485 B. Compare _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, i. 158 _sq._ M12 Sacred food not allowed to touch the earth. 30 R. Brough Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_ (Melbourne and London, 1878), i. 450. 31 E. Gerard, _The Land beyond the Forest_ (Edinburgh and London, 1888), ii. 7. 32 F. Grabowsky, “Der Distrikt Dusson Timor in Südost-Borneo und seine Bewohner,” _Das Ausland_, 1884, No. 24, p. 470. _ 33 Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall_, edited by Prof. J. E. Nourse (Washington, 1879), pp. 110 _sq._ 34 See _Taboo and Perils of the Soul_, pp. 207 _sqq._ M13 Magical implements and remedies thought to lose their virtue by contact with the ground.