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CIRCUMCISION. Circumcision:—with stone knives among Jews, 214–19; Rabbinical law as to instrument, 216; among Alnajah in Ethiopia, 216; in Fiji islands, 216; in Australia, 219.

Cistercians, their gesture-language, 40–2.

Civilization, progress of, 2, 117, 136, 148, 150, etc., 198, 295, 372, etc., decline of, 181–90, 375.

Clan-names:—in China, 280; Australia, 282; persons of same, may not marry, 280–84.

Climbing by hoops, etc., 170.

Cloth of bundles of fibre, 188–91.

Cock and Bull stories, 10.

Colour of feathers changed in live birds, 177.

Cooking, 261–70; en papillote, 173; roasting and broiling, 261; baking, 261; underground ovens, 261; bucaning or barbecuing, 262; boiling, 263–70; stone-boiling, 263–7.

Copper, native, used by stone-age races in North America, 205.

Cord, hand-twisting of, 189.

Corsicans, 303.

Couvade, 291, 305, 380; in South America and West Indies, 292, etc.; North America, Africa, and Eastern Archipelago, 300; Asia, 300; Europe, 301; its ethnological value, 302.

Customs, 275, 305, 378; tying clothes of couple in wedding, 46; kissing, rubbing noses, etc., 51; fire not touched with sharp instrument, 277; sucking-cure, etc., 277–9, 302; restrictions from marriage of kindred, 279–88; Spartan marriage, 286; restrictions to intercourse of parents-in-law and children-in-law, 288-91; tabued relationships, 291; couvade, 291, etc., 379; usages concerning sneezing, 379.

Cybele, priests of, 218.

Dasent, Dr., his argument from Beast-Fables, 10, 365.

Dead, names of, not mentioned, 142, 145.

Dead, Bridge of, 358–63; River or Gulf of, 362.

Deaf and dumb, their mental condition and education, 17, 65–75; of themselves utter words, 71–4; their lip-imitation of words, 72.

Decline of culture, 161, 181–8, 375; Dr. Von Martius's theory of, 135, 375; A. von Humboldt on, 187.

Deluge, 88, 325–32, 337, 348.

Devil painted white, 112; attributes of Fire-god, etc., given to, 369.

Diable Boiteux, 369.

Digger Indians, 186.

Divination, 130.

Doing, in sense of practising magic, 135.

Dolls and toys, 106–9.

Dreams and phantasms, argument from, 5–10.

Drift gravels, stone implements in, 194–8; Mr. Prestwich on age of, 195; extinct animals of, 311–14.

Drills for boring holes and for fire-making, 188, 240–6.

Drink=river, 37.

Drum, 138.

Dumb, becomes term for foreign, barbarian, stupid, young, 34, 64.

Earrings, etc., 1.

Eclipse, 164.

Effigies, 122.

Eggs, artificial hatching of, 181.

Egypt: hieroglyphics. 96–100; Coptic alphabet, 100; decline in arts, 181; stone arrow-heads, 210; stone embalmer's knives, etc., 217.

Elephant, white, 276.

Erman, on rukh and griffin, 319.

Esquimaux, 166, 205, 242, 287, 327, etc.

Evans, Mr. J., on wattled cloth of Swiss lake-dwellings, 189.

Evil eye, 53, 134.

Father put to bed, etc., on birth of child, see Couvade, 291–305, 379; parentage ascribed only to, 299.

Fergusson, Mr., on wooden forms in architecture, 166.

Fetish, 135.

Finns, stone-boilers, 268.

Fire, myths of origin of, 229, etc., 254–6.

Fire; new, 250–60;—Vestal, 250; in Peru, 250; in India, 255; on Easter eve, 257; in Russia, 259; see also Needfire.

Fire, not touched with sharp instrument, 277.

Fire, races reported to be destitute of, 229–36; Guanches, 229; Islanders of Los Jardines, 231; of Fakaafo, 231; of the Ladrones and Philippines, 232; tribe in French Guiana, 233; Ethiopian tribes, 234.

Fire-drill:—simple, 238–41, 251–61; as carpenter's brace, 241; thong-