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Eiver, Kootenay, and Sioux Indians.^ CafEre children are 

 threatened with the Nomgogwana monster.* The Gineet-Gineet 

 of the Euahlayi tribe of New South Wales is alert to catch bad 

 children in his net.^ 



In initiation ceremonies the social hold upon the novice is 

 strengthened by taboo. Boys and girls of the Lower Murry tribes 

 in Australia are told that to eat emu, wild duck, swans, geese, 

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

 to become prematurely gray and their muscles to shrink.'' If a 

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

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



Those who commit incest among the Omeo tribe of Victoria are 

 beaten by the " jidjigongs" or snakes. Anyone who married into 

 prohibited subclasses of the Queensland savages w'ould die be- 

 cause his behavior was offensive to Kohin, an earth-roaming spirit 

 of the i\Iilky Way.- The islanders of the Malay Archipelago 

 believe that sickness will follow the eating of stolen food from 

 tabooed tields." Batak thieves are cursed by the magic of the 

 great priest of Baglige.^" Iconoclasts among the Dakota, Ainu, 

 and in the Malay Archipelago will be punished by supernatural 

 powers.^^ 



Australian blackfellows are educated from their infancy to 

 believe that departure from the customs of the tribe will in- 

 evitably be followed by such evils as becoming prematurely gray, 

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



3 J. Teit, "The Thompson River Indians," Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 II, 108. 



4D. Kidd, lavage Children (London, 1906), pp. 96-07. 



5K. L. Parker, The Euahlayi Tribe (London, 1905), p. 137. 



•■•P. Beveridge, Jour, and Proc. Roy. Sac, Neiv So. Wales, XVII (1883), 

 27. 



" B. Spencer and F. J. Gillen, The Northern Tribes of Central Aus- 

 tralia (London and New York, 1904), p. 498. 



8 A. W. Howitt, The Natives of South-East Australia (London and New 

 York, 1904), p. 498. 



9M. Bartels, Die Medicin der Naturvolker (Leipzig, 1893), p. 29. 



10 J. von Brenner, Besuch bei den Kannibalen Sumatres (Wiirzberg, 

 1894), p. 220. 



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



