The origin of man and of his superstitions / by Carveth Read.

  • Read, Carveth, 1848-1931.
Date:
1920
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    Reflection and ghost, 154, 158 Reinach, S., on sex-taboo, 56 Reincarnation, 174 Relations in savage thought, 101 Religion, 69; meaning of word, 184; and Magic, 193-7; and Totemism, 321-5 Retrogradation, Ch. VI. § 4 (203-7) Rigveda, 152, 168, 219 Rivers, W. H. R., on suggestibility in savages, 86 ; on savage thought, 89, 100; on Totemic gods, 167, 321—2; on Toda prayers, 205; blindness of savages to deceit, 283; on a custom at Mota, 301, 303 Roosevelt on dogs, 44, 45; elephant and bear, 147 Roth, W. E., on prayer to Totem, 319 Roy, S. C., on Oraon rain-rites, 202 S Sanderson, G. P., on Indian wild dogs, 43 Scapulomancy, 239 Schopenhauer on female beauty, 15 Scientists in barbarism, 339 Secret of the Totem, 305 Seligman on sex-taboo, 131; on departmental experts, 257, 284 Selous, F. C., on the hunter’s joy, 41 Seneca on Omens, 249 Seton, Thompson, on Indians’ love of killing, 41; on wolves, 42, 44, 56 Sexual selection as cause of naked skin, 14 Shadow and ghost, 154, 158 Shaman derivation of word, 274 Shamanism, 217-8, 254 Skeat and Blagden on the Semang, 149, 168; on Malay Magic, 172, 261 Skin naked, 14-18 Skull changes in, 7; capacity of, 50 Social life of Primates, 7, 32; of Man, 8, 34-5, 37-8 Social Origins, 305 Societies of Wizards, 256 Sollas on geological time, 3 n., 49 n. Sorcerer and Magician, 252; and Priest, 254 Sorcery, 129; defined, 189 Soul and soul-stuff, 147, 151, 154, 165, 161-3, 171; how many, 172; origin and destiny of, 174-7; of Totem and clansman, 312, 313 Southey, R., The Curse of Kehama Species of Man, 31 Speech in apes and men, 9, 54, 55 Speisser on Animism in Ambrym Spell, 68, 111, 113, 130; tends to personify, 152, 156; and prayer, 200, 201 ' Spencer, H., Pol. Institutions, 8, 59; on Laughter, 60; Sociology, 108; on Animism, 153, 165, 167, 183; on Totemism, 298 Spencer and Gillen on savage imagina¬ tion, 83; on Guanjis, 146; on magic stones, 120-1, 263 n.; emo¬ tions of Australians, 244; foreign Magic, 270; account of a Wizard, 285; list of Totems, 296 Spirits and ghosts. Chap. V. §§ 6-7 (164-73); power of, 212-3; con¬ trolled by Magic, 216-24; and Omens, 234-8 Stages in development of Magic, 129 Stanbridge, W., on aborigines’ scep¬ ticism, 279 Standard of truth for savages, 89 Stefanson on Esquimo, 160 Stigand, G. H., on the Masai, 146 Stoics and divination, 248 Stoll, Otto, on self-suggestion, 274 Struggle over prey, 45-6 Substitution in Magic, 141 Suggestibility, 84, 275 Superstition, Chap. III., see Contents ; utility of, 69; its dark side, 107; innate disposition to, 114, 163 Syllogism and savage thinking, 92-7 Symbols, 139;!may fulfil Omens, 246 Sympathy, perceptive, contagious, effective in the pack, 48; and moral sense, 63-4 T Taboo, 68; on persons and things, 131-2; on words, 133; names of dead and of spirits, 201; on kings, 219; connected with Totemism, 315, 316 Talisman, 68, 131, etc. Testimony, 80, 82 Thompson, Basil, on Tongan rejection of coincidence, 291 Thum, E. F. im, on savage belief, 116, 151, 165; on the peaiman, 260 Torday, E., on Bahuana, 150; dead cast no shadow, 154 n. Totemism, 68, 151, 166, 167, 173; Chap. IX. (293-325), see Contents Transmigration, 171, 175 Trotter on herd-instinct, 64 Turner, G., on Samoan gods, 322 Turner (Am. B. of Ethn.) on Esquimo Angoqok, 328