——, West, rain-making in, i. 249 _sq._; magical functions of chiefs in, i. 349 _sq._; the Banjars of, i. 353; the Yorubas of, i. 364, iv. 41, viii. 98; reverence for silk-cotton trees in, ii. 14 _sq._; kings forced to accept office in, iii. 17 _sq._; fetish kings in, iii. 22 _sqq._; traps set for souls by wizards in, iii. 70 _sq._; the Bavili of, iii. 78; purification after a journey in, iii. 112; custom as to blood shed on ground in, iii. 245, 246; hair, nails, and teeth as rain-charms in, iii. 271; shorn hair burnt or buried for fear of witchcraft in, iii. 281; the Kru negroes of, iii. 322 _sq._; Human Leopard Societies of, iv. 83; human sacrifices at king’s funeral in, iv. 117; stories of the type of Beauty and the Beast in, iv. 128 _sq._, 130 _n._ 1; sacrificial blood smeared on doorways in, iv. 176 _n._ 1; sacred men and women in, v. 65 _sqq._; human sacrifices in, vi. 99 _n._ 2; human sacrifices for the crops in, vii. 239; the Kimbunda of, viii. 152; the Beku of, viii. 163; propitiation of dead leopards in, viii. 228 _sqq._; bones of sacrificial victims not broken in, viii. 258 _n._ 2; belief in demons among the negroes of, ix. 74 _sqq._; dances at sowing in, ix. 234; theory of an external soul embodied in an animal prevalent in, xi. 200 _sqq._; ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in, xi. 251 _sqq._ African stories of the external soul, xi. 148 _sqq._; Balders, xi. 312 _sqq._ —— hunters, ceremonies of purification observed by, iii. 220 _sq._ —— kings forbidden to see their mothers, iii. 86; thought to render themselves immortal by their sorceries, iv. 9 —— tribes, household fires extinguished after a death in, ii. 267 _n._ 4; descent of property and power to sister’s children among, ii. 285; combination of the elective with the hereditary principle in regulating the descent of kingships or chiefships among, ii. 292 _sqq._; believe that their dead kings turn into lions, leopards, pythons, etc., iv. 84