——, West, rain-making in, i. 249 _sq._; magical functions of chiefs in, i. 349 _sq._; the Banjars of, i. 353; the Yorubas of, i. 364, iv. 41, viii. 98; reverence for silk-cotton trees in, ii. 14 _sq._; kings forced to accept office in, iii. 17 _sq._; fetish kings in, iii. 22 _sqq._; traps set for souls by wizards in, iii. 70 _sq._; the Bavili of, iii. 78; purification after a journey in, iii. 112; custom as to blood shed on ground in, iii. 245, 246; hair, nails, and teeth as rain-charms in, iii. 271; shorn hair burnt or buried for fear of witchcraft in, iii. 281; the Kru negroes of, iii. 322 _sq._; Human Leopard Societies of, iv. 83; human sacrifices at king’s funeral in, iv. 117; stories of the type of Beauty and the Beast in, iv. 128 _sq._, 130 _n._ 1; sacrificial blood smeared on doorways in, iv. 176 _n._ 1; sacred men and women in, v. 65 _sqq._; human sacrifices in, vi. 99 _n._ 2; human sacrifices for the crops in, vii. 239; the Kimbunda of, viii. 152; the Beku of, viii. 163; propitiation of dead leopards in, viii. 228 _sqq._; bones of sacrificial victims not broken in, viii. 258 _n._ 2; belief in demons among the negroes of, ix. 74 _sqq._; dances at sowing in, ix. 234; theory of an external soul embodied in an animal prevalent in, xi. 200 _sqq._; ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in, xi. 251 _sqq._
African stories of the external soul, xi. 148 _sqq._; Balders, xi. 312 _sqq._
—— hunters, ceremonies of purification observed by, iii. 220 _sq._
—— kings forbidden to see their mothers, iii. 86; thought to render themselves immortal by their sorceries, iv. 9
—— tribes, household fires extinguished after a death in, ii. 267 _n._ 4; descent of property and power to sister’s children among, ii. 285; combination of the elective with the hereditary principle in regulating the descent of kingships or chiefships among, ii. 292 _sqq._; believe that their dead kings turn into lions, leopards, pythons, etc., iv. 84
Afterbirth (placenta), portion of a man’s spirit supposed to reside in his, i. 100; contagious magic of, i. 182-201; part of child’s spirit in, i. 184; buried under a tree, i. 186, 187, 188, 194, 195, xi. 160 _sq._, 162, 163, 164, 165; hung on a tree, i. 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 198, 199; thrown into the sea, i. 187, 190; regarded as brother or sister of child, i. 189, 191, 192, 193, xi. 162 _n._ 2; seat of external soul, i. 193 _sq._, 200 _sq._; regarded as a second child, i. 195, xi. 162 _n._ 2; of cows, treatment of the, i. 198 _sq._; regarded as a person’s double or twin, vi. 169 _sq._; of child animated by a ghost and sympathetically connected with a banana-tree, xi. 162; and navel-string regarded as guardian angels of the man, xi. 162 _n._ 2; regarded as a guardian spirit, xi. 223 _n._ 2 _See also_ Afterbirths _and_ Placenta