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my. and Sioux Indians. 8 Caffre children are 

 threat. -n. -d with the XomgOgwana monster.' Tin- <;ineet (lin.vt 

 of th<> Knahlayi tribe of New South Wales is alert to catch bad 

 children in his Q< 



In initiation oenmouiei the social hold upon the n<.\ 



:thene<l by taboo. Boys and girls i.t't In- Lower Murry trilie.s 

 in Australia arc told that to eat emu. wild duck, twins, geese, 

 black duck, or the eggs of any of these birds will cause their hair 

 to become prematurely irray and their muscles to shrink.' 1 If a 

 Urabunna initiate should allow a woman to see one of the secret 

 sticks, he and his mother and sisters would drop dead. 7 



Those who commit incest among the Omeo tribe of Victoria are 

 beaten by the "jidjigongs" or snak v Anyone who married into 

 prohibited subclasses of the < t >uern^l;in<l sava;_'.-s would die be- 

 cause his behavior was offensive to Kohin. an earth-roamim: spirit 

 of the Milky Way. 8 The islanders of the Malay Arehip.-lau'n 

 b.-lieve that sickness will follow the eating of stolen food from 

 tabooed fields.' Batak thieves are cursed by the magic of the 

 great priest of Baglige. 10 Iconoclasts amoni: the Dakota. Ainu, 

 and in the Malay Archipelago will be punished by supernatural 

 powers. 11 



tralian blackfellows are educated from their infancy to 

 believe that departure from the ens' ihe tribe will in- 



evitably be followed by such evils as becoming prematurely gray, 

 being afflicted with ophthalmia, skin eruptions, or sickness, and 



J. Teit, "The Thompson River Indians," Mem. Amer. Mus. \</f. 

 II. 108. 

 D. Kidd, Savage Children (London, 1000), pp. 90-97. 



U Parker, The Ev ibe (London. 1 :::. 



P. Beveridge, Jour, and Proc. Roy. 8oc. t flew So. Wales, XVII 

 27. 



*B. Spencer and F. J. C.illen, The Northern Tribes of Central Aus- 

 tralia (London and New York. HKIJ I, p. 498. 



A. \V. Hmvitt. The W* <outh-Kast Australia (London and New 

 York, 1904), p. 498. 



tM. Bartefc, Die Medicin der IWwrfUMf (Leipcig, 1893), p, 29. 



10 J. von Brenner, Besuch bei den Knnnihnhn Xumatmt l\\iir/bcrp. 

 1894), p. 226. 



11 M. Eastman, Dacotah (New York, 1849), p. 87; H. R. Schoolcraft, 



