Kings and chiefs tabooed, 131 _sqq._; their spittle guarded against sorcerers, 289 _sq._
—— fetish or religious, in West Africa, 22 _sqq._
Kingsley, Miss Mary H., 22 _n._3, 71, 123 _n._2, 251
Knife as charm against spirits, 232, 233, 234, 235
Knives not to be left edge upwards, 238; not used at funeral banquets, 238
Knots, prohibition to wear, 13; untied at childbirth, 294, 296 _sq._, 297 _sq._; thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, 299 _sqq._; thought to cause sickness, disease, and all kinds of misfortune, 301 _sqq._; used to cure disease, 303 _sqq._; used to win a lover or capture a runaway slave, 305 _sq_.; used as protective amulets, 306 _sqq._; used as charms by hunters and travellers, 306; as a charm to protect corn from devils, 308 _sq._; on corpses untied, 310
—— and locks, magical virtue of, 310, 313
Kwakiutl, the, 53; customs observed by cannibals among the, 188 _sqq._; change of names in summer and winter among the, 386
_Kwun_, the spirit of the head, 252; supposed to reside in the hair, 266 _sq._
Lamps to light the ghosts to their old homes, 371
Language of husbands and wives, difference between, 347 sq.; of men and women, difference between, 348 _sq._
—— change of, caused by taboo on the names of the dead, 358 _sqq._, 375; caused by taboo on the names of chiefs and kings, 375, 376 _sqq._
—— special, employed by hunters, 396, 398, 399, 400, 402, 404, 410; employed by searchers for eagle-wood and _lignum aloes_, 404; employed by searchers for camphor, 405 _sqq._; employed by miners, 407, 409; employed by reapers at harvest, 410 _sq._, 411 _sq._; employed by sailors at sea, 413 _sqq._
Lapps, the, 294; their customs after killing a bear, 221; rebirth of ancestors among the, 368
Leaning against a tree prohibited to warriors, 162, 163
Leavings of food, magic wrought by means of, 118, 119, 126 _sqq._
Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco, 38, 357
Limbs, amputated, kept by the owners against the resurrection, 281
Lions not called by their proper names, 400
Lithuanians, the old, their funeral banquets, 238
Liver, induration of the, attributed to touching sacred chief, 133
Loango, taboos observed by kings of, 8, 9; taboos observed by heir to throne of, 291
—— king of, forbidden to see a white man’s house, 115; not to be seen eating or drinking, 117 _sq._; confined to his palace, 123; refuse of his food buried, 129