fire constantly burning in their hand, no. 273, 276 A; animals which had fire before people had, no. 273; people unaccustomed to fire fall in a swoon when first seeing it, no. 15 B, 272, 273, 468; rites connected with fire, pp. 350 sq., no. 286. Fire-signals, see Signs.

Fishing, see Hunting.

Food; people who eat earth, bad fruit, larvae, excrements, the pith of palms, etc., p. 87, 88, no.

16, 43, 56 F, 337, 368 B, 414 A, p. 521, no. 477; drying fish and meat in the sun, no. 2 A, 42, 52, 57 L, 60 A, 102 B, 135, 153 B, 163, 252, 272-274; other methods of preparing food, no. 23 A, p. 189, 229, 235, 388; fabulous baking method, no. 383; people who fall in a swoon when tasting food to which they are unaccustomed (see also Character), p. 83, 95, no. 43, 60 A, 263, 273; teaching people to eat fish, no. 129; dogs were eaten formerly but not nowadays, no. 362; the children who died when eating a snake, no. 409; people who eat snakes, no. 413, 423, 424, 428; the inland tribes are forbidden to eat kangaroo, p. 79, no. 9 A, B, 14; a man was forbidden by a mythical being to eat certain kinds of food, p. 210, no. 126; varieties of forbidden food, no. 416; the women not allowed to cook food for their husbands, no. 7 C; cannibalism, p. 130, no. 57 H, I, J, no. 154-157, 267, 356, 408, 410, 414 B, p: 470, no. 465; human flesh used as a "poison", p. 343; taken as a magic medicine", p. 343, 346; the woman who fed exclusively on cassowary meat and subsequently gave birth to a boy with one leg like that of a cassowary, no. 369; the men who were changed into an éterari after eating an animal of this kind, no. 472; people transformed into pigs after eating the pith of a palm, p. 521; the tongue of a certain bird of quiet habits is given as a ,,medicine" to a boy in order to make him quiet no. 441; drugging people with sadi, p. 133, no. 465; preparing food for tame pigs, no. 365. See Gámoda.

Footprints, no. 29, 263.

Games; kokádi or páru (akin to hockey), no. 152, 256, 294, 454, 468; using swings, no. 184; cat's

cradles. no. 150; race with toy canoes, no. 294; a sailing match between canoes, no. 307 C; children racing in order to find out who is the quickest in catching fish, no. 463; dancing contests, no. 22 B, 44 J, 457; a running race, p. 166.

Gestures, see Signs.

Gámoda (Piper methysticum), p. 14, 73, 78, 79, 83, 87, 98, 119, no. 150, 170, 197, 243, p. 321,

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Genealogies, p. 2, 87, no. 283.

Gestures, see Signs.

The kárea rite (sprinkling gámoda or water with a twig, or squirting it out from the mouth), p. 14; performed with reference to fighting, no. 81, 357; for promoting the growth in gardens, p. 83, no. 261 A, no. 269; for hunting, p. 521; when appealing to mythical beings or spirits of the dead, no. 122, 476; when addressing the people on certain occasions, p. 87.

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Hair; smearing the hair with oil, no. 4 A, B, 121 A, p. 321; with ashes, p. 104; magic wrought by means of hair, p. 129, 130, 201; women cut their hair at pregnancy, no. 157 A, no. 216.

History; legendary history, wanderings of the people, chapter II (no. 1-20), p. 521; see also War and fighting, chapter XIII (no. 332-364); superstitious fear cause the people to leave their old home, p. 471. See Travelling.

Houses, pp. 5 sq.; people and beings living in the ground, p. 67, no. 43, 58, 162, 170, p. 272, no. 272 D, 450; living under the protruding root of a tree, no. 59; inside large trees, no. 16, 45, 48, 56 G, 109, p. 234, 241, no. 161, 163, 172 B, 197, 477; in rocks, no. 48, 52, 54, 102, p. 521; people build houses on tall posts or take refuge in trees in order to put themselves beyond the reach of their pursuers, no. 102, 135, 154, 163, 172, 367, 459, 459 A; the ancient Máubo people still live in their house inside the water, no. 279 B, C; the building of houses, no. 1 A, p. 66, no. 3, p. 78, 79, 87, 88, no. 43, 58, 483; putting up shelters for temporary use, no. 3, p. 85, no. 58; magic in house-building, no. 26; the ordinary doors are not used for certain purposes, p. 351; the name of a house, no. 43 C; association of a house with a pig, no. 43 C; fabulously large houses, p. 115, 143; the men's house (dárimo), p. 6, 12, 68, 73, 76, 77, 78, 79, no. 22, p. 166, no. 256, p. 339, no. 279, 350; the erection of a men's house, no. 57 L; several men's houses in one and the same village, no. 470.

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Hunting and fishing, general description, pp. 10 sq.; hunting incidents, no. 7, 62, 175, 312-321,

p. 521; harpooning incidents, no. 86, 89, 277, 288, 299, 327-331, 334, 399; adventure with a shark and sting-ray, no. 292; adventures with crocodiles, ses Animals; famous hunters, no. 15, 45-50; the first harpooner of dugong, no. 61; hunting methods, no. 317, 320, 478; methods of catching birds, no. 370, 371; of spearing dugong, no. 55; of catching crabs, no. 442; of fishing, no. 23, 24, 40, p. 133, no. 117, p. 205, no. 123, p. 228, no. 154, 163, 168, 176, 181, p. 318, no. 323, 348, 382, 465; fabulous methods of fishing, no. 374-377; teaching the people hunting and fishing methods, see Teaching; hunting and fishing implements, see Implements. Magic: medicines" used for making people successful harpooners, p. 343; given to dogs, p. 85, no. 50 A, p. 216, p. 341; magic used in hunting and shooting, p. 125, 133, 148, 521; in harpooning dugong, p. 122, no. 283, 286, p. 352, 287, 486; in spearing turtle, no. 253, 284, 286; in catching crabs, no. 103; in fishing, no. 129, 287.

Images, human; used in certain ceremonies, p. 13, no. 57 L, 256, p. 350 sq., no. 286.Implements, objects; general description, pp. 7 sq. Methods of work: sawing wood with a twisted bamboo rope, p. 83; felling a tree by making a fire round it and cutting off the charred parts, no. 23 D; carrying things in the arm-guard, p. 312, no. 248; the making of stone axes, no. 49; using shells and bamboo knives for cutting meat, no. 464; a swimmer carries certain things with him by tying them on to his body or hair, no. 464. Drums: the making of a drum, and magic medicine" applied to it, no. 22; the first drum ever made, no. 278; a drum made out of a human body, no. 47 C, D, 56 A, B, D; Mérave's famous drum, no. 56; a drum when being beaten calls out a certain name, no. 22, p. 117, 118, no. 56 E. Other sound-producing instruments: pan-pipe, no. 412; bullroarer and me

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dicine" applied to it, no. 261; sounding trumpet-shells at the mogúru, no. 279, p. 346; for the purpose of signalling to people, no. 252 F, p. 357, no. 290 A, no. 339, 475; after a fight, no. 296, p. 389; for summoning pigs to destroy people's gardens, no. 486; keeping time at a dance by beating two shells together, no. 287 B. Various implements: gópe, p. 115; coconut huskers, pp. 321 sq.; hoboro, covers in rain, no. 492; masks, no. 178, 339 B; wind-rose, no. 294. Weapons: roughly-made spears were in use before bows and arrows were invented, no. 450; wooden spears (bágari), p. 409; making bows and arrows,p. 83, 492 sq.; different kinds of bows and arrows and magic medicine" applied to them, no.50, p. 139; shooting birds and fish with many-pronged arrow's, no. 18, p. 318, no. 263, 348, p. 493; a curled bamboo leaf used as arm-guard, p. 83; a throwing stick used by Kúiamo, pp. 153 sq.; a stick with shark's teeth used as a weapon, p. 161; cutting off head with the sharp stem of a creeper, no. 6 A; the introduction of beheading knives, no. 6, 121; head carriers, no. 6; dugong harpoons, no. 59 A, 399; the first iron harpoon-head, no. 277.

people in dreams, no. 26.

Inanimate things; which talk, no. 4, 41, 44 B, 120, p. 239, no. 368 B, 443, 448, 449; speak to 262, 263, 264, 283; appear, or act as living beings, no. 290 A, p. 362, 425; take part in a song, no. 256; make signs to people, p. 328; responsibility attributed to, no. 112, 155; a drum devours a boy, no. 56; a rolled-up mat is decorated like a man at a ceremony, no. 279. Inanimate things changing into animals, see Animals; see also Plants.

Initiation of the young men, p. 186; at the mogúru ceremony, pp. 339 sq., no. 280, 485; at the mimia ceremony, pp. 350 sq.; in the Másingára tribe, p. 79, no. 9 A; the young men are taught the use of bullroarers at initiation, p. 317; they are given medicines" in order to be made great warriors, no. 121, p. 342, 343, 346, 390, no. 342, 466 C. See Teaching. Karéa, see Gámoda.

Language, pp. 4 sq.; the origin of the different pronunciations in Dorópodai and Iása, no. 4; invectives, no. 212; phrases from certain tales are sometimes intentionally copied in ordinary conversation, p. 486. See Magic (power of words).

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Magic; Miscellaneous: general description, p. 13; the magical means used by different groups of people vary to a great extent, p. 122, 197, no. 105; they vary among different totemic groups, no. 414 A; they are changed when the people do not think them efficient any longer no. 105; omens, p. 157, no. 192, 193, no. 257 A, p. 343, no. 387; omens in dreams, see Dreams; magic influence felt by people from some evil thing happening in another place, no. 4, 47, p. 130, no. 55, 120, p. 229, no. 243, 306, 349, p. 426; under certain circumstances people when travelling must not stop on the way, or something evil will befall them, no. 56, p. 232; a flood caused by magic, no. 495; precautions taken at the distribution of presents so that the donor should not part with his own good luck, no. 290 A; precautions taken by some men who had sexual intercourse with a dead woman, p. 398; the blood from the death-wound of a person who is going to be killed appears in the form of a light beforehand, no. 338; causing people or things to become diminutive in size for a certain time, p. 98, 124, 125, 126, 128; islands made or destroyed by magic means, no. 17, 53, 112; preventing people from awakening, p. 503; preventing an animal from leaving a certain place, p. 387; bullroarers are used at the east side of a

garden, no. 261 A. Means by which magic is wrought: blood (for promoting the growth of trees), no. 450; bones and other parts of dead bodies, no. 112, 122; pieces of human flesh used as poisons" or "medicines", p. 343, 346; footprints, no. 29, 263; hair, p. 129, 130, 201; a person's perspiration, no. 454 B; urine, no. 83, 105, 266, 414 A; semen, no. 261, p. 340; gestures, p. 121, 122, no. 129; the string of a woman's grass petticoat, p. 166, 272, 487, 485, no. 454 B; the tongue of a person who has hanged himself and the rope with which this has been done, p. 216; the sexual properties of women and female animals are a common source of magic, no. 22, p. 122, 125, no. 261, 265, 268; objects which have been used in certain ceremonies, no. 286, p. 340, 343, 344; the tongue of a certain bird of quiet habits is given as a ,,medicine" to a boy in order to inculcate a quiet character, no. 441; names and words, p. 102, no. 44, p. 148, 160, no. 279. B, p. 471; pieces of mythical objects used in magic, no. 4 C, p. 121, 341, 343; eggs associated with fertility or used as garden,,medicines", no. 99, 414 A. Causing harm to befall enemies: people killed by sorcery, no. 4 E, p. 83, no. 91, 180, 184, 254, 285, p. 343 (bis) no. 289, p. 392, no. 339 B, p. 410, no. 389, 395, p. 471, no. 472 B, 485;,,mauamo", the magic method used by the bushmen for killing people, no. 472 A; injuring people, 410, no. 403; causing harm from a distance, no. 28; causing a crocodile or pig to catch a person, no. 47 A, 57, 123, p. 470, no. 486; causing people to perish on the sea; no. 307, p. 392; ruining a person's teeth, no. 124; destroying other people's gardens, see Agriculture. Sorcerers, p. 187, 258, no. 174-184, 285, 339 B, 389, 409 A, 420, p. 470, no. 487. People transformed into animals by magical means, see Animals; ideas regarding dead bodies, see Burial; magic in canoe-building, see Canoes; in house-building, see Houses; people's lives bound up with the existence of certain things, see Death; magic,,medicines" applied to ornaments, see Dress; to various implements, see Implements; magic effect of certain kinds of food upon people, see Food; love medicines", see Marriage; see also Agriculture, Hunting, Sickness, War. Marriage (and courtship); narratives of courtship and marriage, no. 18, 22, p. 117, no. 44, 45, 48,

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Messages, see Signs.

Meteorology; rain- and wind-making, raising the sea, no. 23, p. 121, 129, 131, 132 (bis), 145, 186, no. 295 A, 298, 301, 302, p. 374, 483, 499; a great flood, no. 495; stopping the