[12] But the father, who is a Kangaroo, is free--at least under this
prohibition--to commit incest with his daughters, who are Emu. In the
case of paternal inheritance of the totem the father would be Kangaroo
as well as the children; then incest with the daughters would be
forbidden to the father and incest with the mother would be left open to
the son. These consequences of the totem prohibition seem to indicate
that the maternal inheritance is older than the paternal one, for there
are grounds for assuming that the totem prohibitions are directed first
of all against the incestuous desires of the son.
[13] Second edition, 1902.
[14] _The Native Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1899).
[15] The number of totems is arbitrarily chosen.
[16] Article _Totemism_ in _Encyclopedia Britannica_, eleventh edition,
1911 (A. Lang).
[17] Storfer has recently drawn special attention to this point in his
monograph: _Parricide as a Special Case._ _Papers on Applied Psychic
Investigation_, No. 12 (Vienna, 1911).
[18] R. H. Codrington, _The Melanesians_, also Frazer _Totemism and
Exogamy_, Vol. I, p. 77.
[19] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 124, according to Kleintischen: _The
Inhabitants of the Coast of the Gazelle Peninsula_.
[20] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 131, according to P. G. Peckel in
_Anthropes_, 1908.
[21] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 147, according to the Rev. L. Fison.
[22] Frazer, _l.c._, II. p. 189.
[23] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 388, according to Junod.
[24] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 424.
[25] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 76.
[26] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 113, according to C. Ribbe: _Two Years among
the Cannibals of the Solomon Islands_, 1905.
[27] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 385.
[28] Frazer, _l.c._, II, p. 461.
[29] _v._ Crawley: _The Mystic Rose_ (London, 1902), p. 405.
[30] Crawley, _l.c._, p. 407.
[31] Crawley, _l.c._, p. 401, according to Leslie: _Among the Zulus and
Amatongas_, 1875.
[32] _Voelkerpsychologie_, II. Band: _Mythus und Religion_, 1906, II, p.
308.
[33] Eleventh Edition; this article also gives the most important
references.
[34] This application of the taboo can be omitted as not originally
belonging in this connection.
[35] _Voelkerpsychologie_, Vol. II: _Religion und Mythus_, p. 300.
[36] _l.c._, p. 237.
[37] Comp. Chapter I.
[38] _l.c._, p. 307.
[39] _l.c._, p. 313.
[40] Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, II: _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_,
1911, p. 136.
[41] Both the pleasure and the prohibition referred to touching one’s
own genitals.
[42] The relation to beloved persons who impose the prohibition.
[43] To use an excellent term coined by Bleuler.
[44] See Chapter IV; _Totemism, etc._
[45] Third Edition, Part II: _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, 1911.
[46] Frazer, _l.c._, p. 166.
[47] Paulitschke, _Ethnography of North-east Africa_.
[48] Frazer, _Adonis, Attis, Osiris_, p. 248, 1907. According to Hugh
Low, _Sarawak_ (London, 1848).
[49] J. O. Dorsay, see Frazer, _Taboo_, etc., p. 181.
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