564 GuNNAK Landtman. 



garden, no. 261 A. Means by lühich magie is wrouglit : blood (for promoting the growth of 

 trees), no. 450; bones and other parts of dead bodie«, no. 112, 122; pièces of human tlesh 

 used as „poisons" or „medicines", p. 343, 346; footprints, no. 29, 263; hair, p. 129, 1.30, 

 201; a person's Perspiration, no. 454 B; urine, no. 83, 105, 2(_")6, 414 A; semen, no. 261, 

 p. 340; gestures, p. 121, 122, no. 129; the string of a vvoman's grass petticoat, p. 166, 

 272, 487, 485, no. 454 B; the tongue of a person who has hanged himself and the rope 

 vvith which this has been done, p. 216; the sexual properties of women and female ani- 

 mais are a common source of magie, no. 22, p. 122, 125, no. 261, 265, 268; objects which 

 have been used in certain cérémonies, no. 286, p. 340, 343, 344; the tongue of a certain 

 bird of quiet habits is given as a „medicine" to a boy in order to inculcate a quiet character, 

 no. 441; names and words, p. 102, no. 44, p. 148, 160, no. 279 B, p. 471; pièces of 

 mythical objects used in magic, no. 4 C, p. 121, 341, 343; eggs associated vvith fertility or 

 used as garden „medicines", no. 99, 414 A. Causing harm to befall eneuiies: people killed 

 by sorcery, no. 4 E, p. 83, no. 91, 180, 184, 254, 285, p. 343 (bis) no. 289, p. 392, no. 

 339 B, p. 410, no. 389, 395, p. 471, no. 472 B, 485; „mauamo", the magic method used 

 by the bushmen for killing people, no. 472 A; injuring people, 410, no. 403; causing harm 

 from a distance, no. 28; causing a crocodile or pig to catch a person, no. 47 A, 57, 123, 

 p. 470, no. 486; causing people to perish on the sea; no. 307. p. 392; ruining a persons 

 teeth, no. 124; destroying other people's gardens, see Agriculture. Sorcerers, p. 187, 258, 

 no. 174—184, 285, 339 B, 389, 409 A, 420, p. 470, no. 487. People transformed into 

 animais by magical means, see Animais; ideas regarding dead bodies, see Burial; magic 

 in canoe-building, see Canoës; in house-building, see Houses; people's lives bound up with 

 the existence of certain things, see Death; magic „medicines" applied to ornaments, see Dress; 

 to various implements, see Implements; magic etfect of certain kinds of food upon people, 

 * see Food; love „medicines", see Marriage; see also Agriculture, Hunting, Sickness, War. 



Marriage (and courtship); narratives of courtship and marriage, no. 18, 22, p. 117, no. 44, 45,48, 

 p. 163, no. 134, 150, 151, 159, 160, 194—216; 222, 228, 259,332, 462, 464, 466, 468; 

 the introduction of marriage, n<j. 7, p. 78, 343; love „medicines", no. 22, 279 B, 453, 454, 

 some men dance before a girl in order to find out which of them she prefers, no. 22 B, 

 44, J, 457; heads captured from the enemy given in payment for a wife, no. 203, 346, 

 466; marriage by capture, no. 369 B, 350, 429; a man who marries gives his sister in 

 exchange for his bride, no. 150, u. 234, 503; marriage between brother and sister, no. 

 459 A; polygamy, p. 7: the man who married another man's wives, no. 57; marriage 

 between men and mythical beings, see Mythical beings; between men and female animais, 

 see Sexual life; between a snake and a fish, no. 415; husbands who abandon their wives 

 or send them back to the parents, no. 139, p. 244; wives who abandon their husbands, 

 no. 249, 250, 251; a widow should not marry agam without asking the permission of her 

 brother-in4aw, no. 370 A; the woman who pretended to have a husband, no. 214; the 

 man who pretended to be married, no. 220. See Family, Sexual life, Women. 



Messages, see Signs. 



Meteorology; rain- and wind-making, raising the sea, no. 23, p. 121, 129, 131, 132 (bis), 145, 

 186, no. 295 A, 298, 301, 302, p. 374, 483, 499; a great flood, no. 495; stopping the 



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