Africa, treatment of the navel-string and afterbirth in, i. 195 _sq._; rise of magicians, especially rain-makers, to chieftainship and kingship in, i. 342 _sqq._, 352; human gods in, i. 392 _sqq._; belief in, that sexual crimes disturb the course of nature, ii. 111 _sq._; the diffusion of round huts in, ii. 227 _n._ 3; corpulence as a beauty in, ii. 297; rules of life or taboos observed by kings in, iii. 5 _sq._, 8 _sqq._; detention of souls by sorcerers in, iii. 70 _sq._; fear of being photographed in, iii. 97 _sq._; cleanliness from superstitious motives in, iii. 158 _n._ 1; smith’s craft regarded as uncanny in, iii. 236 _n._ 5; reluctance of people to tell their own names in, iii. 329 _sq._; the Bogos of, iii. 337; names of animals and things tabooed in, iii. 400 _sq._; belief as to transmigration of the dead into serpents in, iv. 84; succession to the soul in, iv. 200 _sq._; serpents as reincarnations of the dead in, v. 82 _sqq._; infant burial in, v. 91 _sq._; reincarnation of the dead in, v. 91 _sq._; annual festivals of the dead in, vi. 66; worship of dead kings and chiefs in, vi. 160 _sqq._; supreme gods in, vi. 165, 173 _sq._, 174, 186, with _n._ 5, 187 _n._ 1, 188 _sq._, 190; worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantu tribes of, vi. 174 _sqq._; inheritance of the kingship under mother-kin in, vi. 211; cat’s cradle in, vii. 103 _n._ 1; woman’s share in agriculture among the tribes of, vii. 113 _sqq._; observation of the Pleiades by agricultural tribes in, vii. 315 _sqq._; sacrifice of first-fruits in, viii. 109 _sqq._; belief as to the homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet in, viii. 140 _sqq._; crocodiles respected in, viii. 213 _sq._; sickness transferred to animals in, ix. 31 _sq._; girls secluded at puberty in, x. 22 _sqq._; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, x. 79 _sqq._; birth-trees in, xi. 160 _sqq._; use of bull-roarers in, xi. 229 _n._, 232 Africa, British Central, the tribes of, their custom of carrying about fire, ii. 259; the Yaos of, iii. 97 _sq._, viii. 111; customs observed after a death in, iii. 286; the Angoni of, iv. 156 _n._ 2, viii. 149; the Nyanja-speaking tribes of, viii. 26; crops guarded against baboons and wild pigs in, viii. 32; flesh and hearts of lions eaten to make eaters brave in, viii. 142; parts of brave enemies eaten to make the eaters brave in, viii. 149; the Anyanja of, x. 81 ——, British East, the Akikuyu (Kikuyu) of, ii. 44, iii. 175, 214, vii. 317, ix. 32, x. 81, xi. 262 _sq._; the Nandi of, ii. 112, iii. 141, 175, 423, vii. 117, 317, viii. 64, xi. 229 _n._; the Ketosh of, iii. 176; the En-jemusi of, vii. 118; the Suk of, vii. 118, viii. 84, 142, x. 81; observation of the Pleiades by tribes in, vii. 317; the Akamba of, viii. 113, ix. 122 _n._; ceremony of new fire in, x. 135 _sq._