Australian aborigines, magical images among the, i. 62; ceremonies of initiation among the, i. 92 _sqq._; contagious magic of teeth among the, i. 176; magic of navel-string and afterbirth among the, i. 183 _sq._; magic universally practised but religion nearly unknown among the, i. 234; their custom of carrying fire with them, ii. 257; their conception of the soul, iii. 27; dread of a wife’s mother among the, iii. 83 _sq._; die from effects of imagination, iii. 136; their fear of menstruous women, iii. 145; of Queensland burn women’s cut hair, iii. 282; burn women’s hair after childbirth, iii. 284; personal names kept secret among the, iii. 320 _sqq._; their fear of naming the dead, iii. 349 _sqq._; namesakes of the dead change their names among the, iii. 355 _sq._; changes in their languages caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 358 _sqq._; their fear of a woman stepping over them, iii. 424; their beliefs as to shooting stars, iv. 60 _sq._, 64; their custom of destroying first-born children, iv. 179 _sq._; their custom of killing and eating children, iv. 180 _n._ 1; infanticide among the, iv. 187 _n._ 6; their preparation for marriage, v. 60; their belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 99 _sqq._; their cuttings for the dead, v. 268; division of labour between the sexes in regard to the collection of food among, vii. 126 _sqq._; worshipped the Pleiades as the givers of rain, vii. 307; their belief that the Pleiades were once women, vii. 308 _n._; anoint themselves with the fat of the dead in order to acquire their qualities, viii. 162 _sq._; their objection to breaking the bones of the native bear, viii. 258 _n._ 2; their custom of burning the bones of the animals which they eat, viii. 259 _n._ 1; their mutilations of the dead, viii. 272; their totemism the most primitive known to us, viii. 311; said to propitiate the kangaroos which they have killed, viii. 312 _n._; their cure for toothache, ix. 6; their belief in demons, ix. 74 Australian blacks afraid of passing under a leaning tree, iii. 250 _n._ 1 —— custom of placing stones in trees, i. 318; as to blood shed at initiatory rites, rain-making, etc., iii. 244 —— funeral custom, iv. 92 —— languages, words for fire and wood in, xi. 296 —— magic wrought on cut hair, iii. 269 —— medicine-man, his recovery of a lost soul, iii. 54 —— mode of magically tying up the inside of an enemy, iii. 303 —— tribes, their custom of knocking out teeth of boys at initiation, i. 176 —— way of detaining the sun, i. 318; of hastening the descent of the sun, i. 318 _sq._ Australians, the Central, their ceremony for multiplying kangaroos, viii. 165