——, Central, ceremony to promote the growth of hair in, i. 83; magical ceremonies for the supply of food in, i. 85 _sqq._; charm to promote the growth of beards in, i. 153 _sq._; charm to ensure wakefulness in, i. 154; _churinga_ (sacred sticks or stones) in, i. 199; contagious magic of wounds in, i. 204; the Arunta of, i. 259; headmen of the totem clans are public magicians in, i. 335; the Kaitish of, ii. 105, iii. 82, iv. 60; the Warramunga of, ii. 156, ix. 2; the Urabunna of, ii. 209; the tribes of, do not let women see men’s blood, iii. 252 _n._; the aboriginal tribes of, make no magical use of shorn hair, iii. 268 _n._ 1; concealment of personal names among the aborigines of, iii. 321 _sq._; avoidance of the names of the dead among the tribes of, iii. 351; the Luritcha tribe of, iv. 180 _n._ 1, viii. 260; magical rites for the revival of nature in, iv. 270; the Dieri of, vii. 106, viii. 151, ix. 110; use of a species of Claytonia as food in, vii. 128; the aborigines of, their ceremonies for the multiplication of kangaroos, viii. 165; the Tjingilli tribe of, ix. 2; pointing sticks or bones in, x. 14 _n._ 3; its desert nature, xi. 230 _n._ 2 Australia, Northern, the Anula of, i. 253, 287; the Tjingilli of, i. 288; homoeopathic magic of flesh diet in, viii. 145 ——, North-West, fat about heart of great warrior eaten to acquire his courage in, viii. 150 _sq._ ——, South, custom as to the placenta in, i. 183; the Dieri of, ii. 29; the Narrinyeri of, iii. 126 _sq._, 372, viii. 259 _n._; the Encounter Bay tribe of, iii. 127, 251, 355, 359, 372, vii. 126; the Booandik tribe of, iii. 251, 346; the Adelaide tribe of, iii. 355; the Port Lincoln tribe of, iii. 365; first-born children destroyed among some tribes of, iv. 180 ——, South-Eastern, contagious magic of footprints in, i. 207 _sq._; contagious magic of bodily impressions among the aborigines of, i. 213; belief as to the connexion of frogs with rain in, i. 292 _sq._; the Theddora and Ngarigo tribes of, viii. 151; sex totems among the natives of, xi. 214 _sqq._ ——, South-Western, medicine-men (doctors) in, i. 336 ——, Western, belief as to the placenta in, i. 183; belief as to water-serpents in, ii. 156; names of the dead not mentioned in, iii. 364; native women dig for yam roots in, vii. 126 _sq._; the aborigines of, call certain flowering plants “Mothers,” vii. 130