Chibisa, an African chief, killed by a sand-bullet, xi. 314 _Chica_ or _chicha_, a native American intoxicant, ii. 105, iii. 250 _n._ 1, x. 57, 58 Chi-chi Mama, “the Drenched Mother,” in rain-making, in Armenia, i. 276 Chicken bones, omens from, ii. 70 Chickens, sickness transferred to, ix. 31; as scapegoats, ix. 190 Chicomecohuatl, Mexican goddess of maize, vii. 176, ix. 286 _n._ 1, 291, 292; girl annually sacrificed in the character of, ix. 292 _sqq._ Chicory, the white flower of, opens all locks, xi. 71 Chidley, Cape, spirit of reindeer in cave at, viii. 245 Chief, power of divination possessed by, i. 344; as priest, ii. 215 _sqq._; ancestral, reincarnate in snakes, v. 84; the divinity of a, supposed to reside in his eyes, viii. 153. _See also_ Chiefs Chiefs daughter, ceremonies observed by her at puberty, x. 30, 43 —— head not to be touched, i. 344 Chiefs, sorcerers regarded as, in New Guinea, i. 337 _sq._; in Melanesia, supernatural power of, i. 338 _sqq._; evolved out of magicians, especially out of rain-makers, in Africa, i. 342 _sqq._; magical powers ascribed to, i. 349; not allowed to leave their premises, i. 349; punished for drought and dearth, i. 352 _sqq._; as priests, ii. 215 _sq._, viii. 126; chosen from several families in rotation, ii. 292 _sqq._; foods tabooed to, iii. 291, 292; names of, tabooed, iii. 376 _sq._, 378 _sq._, 381, 382 ——, dead, worshipped, vi. 175, 176, 177, 179, 181 _sq._, 187; thought to control the rain, vi. 188; sacrifices to, vi. 191, viii. 113; spirits of, prophesy through living men and women, vi. 192 _sq._; spirits of, give rain, viii. 109; deified after death, viii. 125; souls of, in lions, viii. 287 _sq._ —— and kings tabooed, iii. 131 _sqq._ —— in the Pelew Islands, custom of slaying, vi. 266 _sqq._ ——, sacred, viii. 28; not allowed to leave their enclosures, iii. 124; regarded as dangerous, iii. 138 Chiefs’ daughters entrusted with the sacred fire among the Herero, ii. 215, 228 Chieftainship and kingship in Africa fully developed, i. 342 Chikumbu, a Yao chief, xi. 314 Chilblains, the Yule log a preventive of, x. 250 Chilcotin Indians of North-West America, their ceremony at an eclipse of the sun, i. 312, iv. 77 Child, carried by sower to ensure fertility, i. 142; under puberty employed by Ba-Ronga women to light the potter’s kiln, ii. 205; placed in bride’s lap as a fertility charm, ii. 230 _sq._; born on harvest-field, pretence of, vii. 150 _sq._ _See also_ Children “—— of the assegai,” iv. 183 —— and father, supposed danger of resemblance between, iii. 88 _sq._, iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression) “Child-stones,” where souls of dead await rebirth, v. 100 Child’s life bound up with the tree with or under which its navel-string or after-birth was planted, i. 182, 184, 194 —— nails bitten off, iii. 262