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INDEX. 



208; lightning-stones, 208; stone 

 arrow-heads of Tun2;uz, 208 ; of 

 Egyptians, 209 ; of the field of Ma- 

 rathon, etc., 209 ; stone implements 

 of Ichthyophagi, 209 ; of W. and N. 

 Asia, 210 ; Japan, 210 ; Java, Malay 

 Peninsula, etc., 211; India, 212; 

 Em-ope, 212; Ai-yans, 212 ; evidence 

 of language as "to, 212-4; use of 

 stone implements by Jews and Al- 

 najah, 213-8 ; used for circumcising, 

 214-8 ; for slaughtering beasts, 216, 

 222, 226 ; for incision of corpse to 

 be embalmed in Egy]5t, 217 ; for ex- 

 tracting balsam of Judaea, 217 ; stone 

 implements in Aft-iea, 219-222 ; Ca- 

 nary Islands, 222 ; thought to be 

 thunderbolts, 222-7; to be natural 

 stones, 208, 224 ; used to sacrifice 

 victims with in Afi'ica, 222 ; in Rome, 

 226. 



Stumpy-tailed animals, myths relating 

 to, 355. 



Sugar, 178. 



Sun-myths, 151-4, 338-43, 354. 



Supernatural beings, 110 ; names of, 

 not mentioned, 143, 147. 



Superstitions, 131-48, 218, 296, 369 ; 

 relating to thimderbolt, 225 ; need- 

 fh-e, 256 ; albino elephant, 274 ; seeds 

 put with gold-dust, etc., 274 ; toixch- 

 ing fire with knife, etc., 275. See also 

 Customs. 



Swan-coat, 346. 



Swiss lake-dwellers, 188, 197. 



SymboUc offerings, 122. 



Tabu, 130, 142-5, 287. 



Tail-fishing, etc., 355-8. 



Tally, 166. 



Tasmanians, 77-9, 195, 234, 327. 



Tea-urn, 165. 



Teeth, artificial, 173 ; stopping teeth 



with gold, 173. 

 Textile fabrics, 188-90. 

 Thunderbolt, 208, 211, 222-7. 



Toddy, 178. 



Toltecs, 152-4. 



Tom Thumb, 336-40. 



Tortoise-myth, 305, 332-6. 



Totem, 281. 



Traditions, 298-306 ; of inventors and 

 civilizers, 150-4 ; of quipu in China, 

 154, 299 ; of Polynesia, 299 ; Cen- 

 tral America, 300 ; in tropics, appa- 

 rently belonging to high latitudes, 

 300 ; of introduction of rice, 301 ; 

 first appearance of white men among 

 N.W. American tribe, 302; possible 

 recoUectiou of mammoth, colossal 

 tortoise, great ape, etc., 303-6 ; de- 

 luge, 317-24. 



Tribes said to be deficient in speech, 

 75-9 ; degraded, 184 ; said to have 

 no fire or no means of fire-making, 

 228-36. 



Utterance, not by speech only, 14 ; its 

 relation to thought, 68-75. 



Veddahs, 77-9, 238. 



Vei syllabarium, 104. 



Vessels :— for stone-boOing, 262-7, 302 ; 

 of bark, paunch, hide, bamboo, etc., 

 for setting over fire, 267-9 ; of pot- 

 stone, 268 ; pottery, 269-72 ; gourds, 

 etc., plastered with clay, 270. 



Vestal virgins, 248-50. 



Wattled cloth, 188-90. 



Weaving, 178, 188. 



Whately, Archbishop, his theory of 



civilization, 160-2. 

 Wild fire, 252. 

 Words, superstitions concerning, 124-7, 



139-49. 

 World, conception of, among lower 



races, 333, 349. 

 Writing, see Picture-writing, Phonetic 



characters ; use of, in magic, etc., 



126. 



Z-D. 



JOHN EDWAED TAYLOR, PEIKTEE, 

 IITTLI; QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS. 



