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fire-stealers,47.heaven and earth,34.lightning,47.Milky Way,31.moon,20,27.Northern Lights,31.rainbow,32,33.stars,30.sun,19,21.swallowing,36.wind,42-45.Names, savage dread of,104.savage confusion about,154-159.Napoleon III., will of,113.New Zealanders,13,15,30,158,164.Niebuhr,65.Nightmare,171.Non-Aryan, brain of,144.races, languages of,201.Norse, Tales from the,192.Northern Lights,31.Odin,30,44,202.Ogres,44.Ojibways,42,110,155,209,212,217.Old Deccan Days,188.Omens, dreams as,236-242.Oracles,240.Origin of gender,22.moon,20.myth,7.religion,111.sun,19.Orion,30.Ormuzd,54.Other self, barbaric theory of,183.conceived as breath,187,199.passage from within to without,185.Ottawas,31.Ouranos,74.Ovid,85.Paget, Sir J.,230.Panchatantra,129.Papa,19,34.Papuan, brain of,145.Patagonians,31.Persians,25,33,57.Picture-writing,107.Plant, descent from,99.Plants, souls in,208.Pleiades,30.Pocahontas,158.Polynesians,38,163.Prithivî,36.Prytaneum,15.Psychical Research, Society of,217.Punchkin,188ff.Quiches,42,199.Ra,21.Rae, Dr.,153.Rain, gender in,25.Rainbow,32.Ralston,194.Rangi,34.Religion, origin of,111.Rénan,132.Réville,214.Reynard the fox,97,181.Rig-Veda,44,49,72,74,76,78,80.Rink, Dr.,165.Road of the dead,32.Roman notion of soul,202.Rossetti,17,202.Russian Folk-Tales,194.St. George,53.Saliva, virtue in,16,163.Samoan moon myth,27.Samoyed folk-tale,196.Samson, myth of,137.San Graal,126.Sanskrit,72.Satan,57.Savage and civilised man,144.belief in dreams,168-174.confusion between living and not living,13,160-168.confusion between names and things,105,155.cures for disease,179.interpretation of nature,10.languages,23,150.mode of counting,152.theory of disease,89,174-182.theory of soul,182-187.theory of soul’s abode,215-222.theory of soul’s nature,198-207.Science, progress of,230.Seminoles,203.Semitic languages,159.myth,132.Senses, illusions of the,39,226.Servian folk-tale,195.Shadow, soul as,184.Shawnee name myth,157.Sheol,206,220.Sioux,47,162.Skulls, capacity of,145.Slavonic sun myth,26.Sleeping heroes,124.Smith, Adam,151.Sneezing,177.Society Islanders,150.Solar theory of myth,61-81.Sonora Indians,185.Sorcerers,163.Soul, absence in disease,178.absence in dreams,171.as breath,187,199ff.as shadow, etc.,184.barbaric theory of,182-187,225,234.dwelling-place of,215-222.in brutes, plants, etc.,207.occupation of,216.tales of, apart from body,188ff.theories of nature of,198-207,234.transfer of,203.weight of,207.South Sea Islanders,158,163,185.Spencer, Herbert,110,149,183,214.Spirit as breath,200.Spirits, offerings to,213(seealsoSoul).Star myths,30.Stars as persons,20,25.Storm-gods,44.Sun as ancestor,19,20.as father,25.capture of,21.myths,10,19,51.Swedenborgians,234.Swift, Dean,73,166.Taboo of names,158.Tacitus,16,106.Tahitians,158.Tákahlis,203.Talmud,178.Tasmanians,150.Tatar folk-tale,196.Tell myth,116ff.Tertullian,241.Thor,46,52,60.Thunder-bird,46.To be, the verb,151.Tools, primitive,147.Toothache,175,179.Totemism,99,102,237.Totems as badge,107.as crest,108.Red Indian,100.worship of,110.Tongans,19,201,234.Tonkanays,92.Transformation,85,91.Treacle,16.Tree, criminality of,15.Trees, soul in,209.Trench, Archbishop,137.Troyes, Courts of,15.Tylor,14,25,65,165,199,202,205,207.Tyrolese,164.Underworld,220.Unseen Universe,233.Uranus,35.Varuna,74.Vatea,19.Vatnsdæla Saga,173.Veda(seeRig-Veda).Vinaya Pitaka,129.Vritra,49,53,60.Waitz,205.Wandering Jew,31.Water between earth and heaven,219.Watling Street,32.Werewolves,84,86,91.West, soul abode in,219.Whitney,151.Wind, myths of,42-45.soul as,199.Witchcraft,58.Witches,83,91.World as egg,38.Worship of ancestors,110,214.Xomanes,167.Yahweh,55,57,159.Zend-Avesta,54.Zeus,33,36,55,74,85.Zoroaster,56.Zulu,170,184.


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