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    Title: The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol.
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    Author: James George Frazer

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    ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOLDEN BOUGH: A STUDY IN MAGIC AND RELIGION (THIRD EDITION, VOL. 12 OF 12)***

The Golden Bough

A Study in Magic and Religion

By

James George Frazer, Kt., D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D.

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Liverpool

Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged

Vol. XII. of XII.

Bibliography and General Index

New York and London

MacMillan and Co.

1920

# Contents

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# Preface

The following Bibliography aims at giving a complete list of the authorities cited in the third edition of The Golden Bough. Such a list may be of use to readers who desire to have further information on any of the topics discussed or alluded to in the text. It has been compiled by Messrs. R. & R. Clark's Press Reader from the references in my footnotes to the volumes, and it has been revised and corrected by me in proof. The titles of works which I have not seen but have cited at second hand are distinguished by an asterisk prefixed to them. Throughout the book I have endeavoured to indicate the distinction clearly by the manner of my citation, but lest any ambiguity should remain I have thought it well to mark the difference precisely in the Bibliography. In the case of Greek and Latin authors the editions which I have commonly used are generally noted in the Bibliography; they are for the most part those which I possess in my own library and have consulted for the sake of convenience.

The General Index incorporates the separate indices to the volumes, but as some of these, especially in the earlier volumes, were somewhat meagre, I have made large additions to them in order to bring up the whole to a uniform standard and to facilitate the use of the book as a work of reference. With this clue in his hand the student, I hope, will be able to find his way through the labyrinth of facts. All the entries have been made by me, but the arrangement of [pg vi] them is in the main due to the Press Reader, whom I desire to thank for the diligence and accuracy with which he has performed his laborious task. The whole Index has been repeatedly revised and freely corrected by me in proof.

In conclusion it is my duty as well as pleasure to thank my publishers, Messrs. Macmillan & Company, for the never-failing confidence, courtesy, and liberality with which they have treated me during the many years in which The Golden Bough has been in progress. From first to last they have laid me under no restrictions whatever, but have left me perfectly free to plan and execute the work on the scale and in the manner I judged best. Their patience has been inexhaustible and their courage in facing the pecuniary risks unwavering. My printers also, Messrs. R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh, have done their part to my entire satisfaction; they have promptly responded to every call I have made on them for increased speed, and with regard to accuracy I will only say that in the scrutiny to which I have subjected the book for the purpose of the Index I have detected many errors of my own, but few or none of theirs. Publishers and printers can do much to help or hinder an author's work. Mine have done everything that could be done to render my labours as light and as pleasant as possible. I thank them sincerely and gratefully for their help, and I reflect with pleasure on the relations of unbroken cordiality which have existed between us for more than a quarter of a century.

J. G. Frazer.

1 Brick Court, Temple,
25th January 1915.

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# General Index

The Roman numerals (i., ii., iii., etc.) refer to the volumes; the Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) refer to the pages. The volumes of the work are cited by the following numerals:—

i. = The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, vol. i.
ii. = " " " vol. ii.
iii. = Taboo and the Perils of the Soul.
iv. = The Dying God.
v. = Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Third Edition, vol. i.
vi. = " " " vol. ii.
vii. = Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, vol. i.
viii. = " " " vol. ii.
ix. = The Scapegoat.
x. = Balder the Beautiful, vol. i.
xi. = " " vol. ii.
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Aachen, effigy burnt on Ash Wednesday at, x. 120, xi. 25
Aargau, Swiss canton of, the Whitsuntide Basket in, ii. 83;
Lenten fire-custom in, x. 119;
superstition as to oak-mistletoe in, xi. 82;
mistletoe called “thunder-besom” in, xi. 85, 301;
birth-trees in, xi. 165
Ab, a Jewish month, equivalent to August, i. 14, vii. 259 n. 1
Ababa, a tribe of the Congo region, believe that their souls transmigrate at death into animals, viii. 288 sq.
Ababua, the, of the Congo valley, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65
Aban, a Persian month, vi. 68
Abbas Effendi, divine head of the Babites, i. 402
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia, temporary substitute for, iv. 157
Abbehausen, fever transferred to dog and cat at, ix. 51
Abbeville, huge trunks of oak in the peat-bog near, ii. 351
Abbot of Folly in France, ix. 334
—— of Unreason in Scotland, ix. 312, 331
Abchases of the Caucasus, their ceremony of rain-making, i. 282 n. 4;
their worship of the thunder-god, ii. 370;
their memorial feasts, iv. 98, 103;
their use of effigies as substitutes to save the lives of people, viii. 105;
their sacrament of shepherds, viii. 313;
their sacrifice of white ox, viii. 313 n. 1
Abd-Hadad, priestly king of Hierapolis, v. 163 n. 3
Abdera, human scapegoats at, ix. 254
Abdication of kings in favour of their infant children, iii. 19, 20;
during the reign of their substitutes, iv. 115;
annual, of kings, iv. 148;
of father when his son is grown up, iv. 181;
of the king on the birth of a son, iv. 190;
temporary, of chief, viii. 66, 68
Abduction of souls by demons, iii. 58 sqq.
Abeghian, Manuk, on the belief of the Armenians in demons, ix. 107 sq.;
on creeping through cleft trees in Armenia, xi. 172
Abensberg in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, x. 144
Abeokuta, in West Africa, the Alake (king) of, iv. 203;
his head kept and delivered to his successor, iv. 203;
use of bull-roarers at, xi. 229 n.
Aber, the Lake of, in Upper Austria, xi. 189
Aberdeenshire, All Souls' Day in, vi. 79 sq.;
harvest customs in, vii. 158 sqq., 215 sq., x. 12;
need-fire in, x. 296;
holed rock used by childless women in, xi. 187
Aberdour, parish of, in Aberdeenshire, the cutting of the clyack sheath in, vii. 158 sqq.
Aberfeldy, Hallowe'en fires near, x. 232
Abi-baal, “father of Baal,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-el, “father of El,” v. 51 n. 4
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Abi-jah, King, his family, v. 51 n. 2;
“father of Jehovah,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-melech, “father of a king,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-milk (Abi-melech), king of Tyre, v. 16 n. 5
Abimelech massacres his seventy brothers, v. 51 n. 2
Abingdon in Berkshire, May carols and garlands at, ii. 60
Abipones, the, of South America thought it sinful to mention their own names, iii. 328;
the dead not named among the, iii. 352;
changes in their language caused by the fear of naming the dead, iii. 360;
their belief as to meteors, iv. 63;
their worship of the Pleiades, v. 258 n. 2, vii. 308;
ate jaguars to become brave, viii. 140
Abjuration, form of, imposed on Jewish converts, ix. 393
Abnormal mental states accounted inspiration, iii. 248
Abolition of the kingship at Rome, ii. 289 sqq.
Abomey, the old capital of Dahomey, iv. 40
Abonsam, an evil spirit on the Gold Coast, ix. 132
Aborigines retained as priests of the local gods by conquering races, ii. 288;
of Victoria, their custom as to emu fat, x. 13
Abortion, superstition as to woman who has procured, iii. 153
Abougit, Father X., S.J., on the ceremony of the new fire at Jerusalem, x. 130
Abraham, his attempted sacrifice of Isaac, iv. 177, vi. 219 n. 1
—— and Sarah, ii. 114
——, the Pool of, at Ourfa, i. 285
Abrahams, Israel, on the Purim bonfires, ix. 393 n. 2
Abruzzi, barren fruit-trees threatened in the, ii. 22;
belief as to falling stars in the, iv. 66, 67;
burning an effigy of the Carnival in the, iv. 224;
seven-legged effigy of Lent in the, iv. 244 sq.;
gossips of St. John in the, v. 245 n. 2;
marvellous properties attributed to water on St. John's Night in the, v. 246;
Easter ceremonies in the, v. 256;
the feast of All Souls in the, vi. 77 sq.;
rules as to sowing seed and cutting timber in the, vi. 133 n. 3;
Epiphany in the, ix. 167 n. 2;
new Easter fire in the, x. 122;
water consecrated at Easter in the, x. 122 sqq.;
Midsummer rites of fire and water in the, x. 209 sq.
Absalom, his intercourse with his father's concubines, ix. 368
Absence and recall of the soul, iii. 30 sqq.
Absites, the, iii. 312
Absrot, village of Bohemia, precaution against witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 161
Abstinence, periods of, observed before sowing, ii. 98, 105;
as a charm to promote the growth of the seed, ix. 347 sqq.
Abstract notions, the personification of, not primitive, iv. 253
Abu 'Ilberecat, a Berber, ii. 153 sq.
Abu Rabah, resort of childless wives in Palestine, v. 78, 79
Abuse (vituperation), beneficial virtue ascribed to, i. 279 sq.
Abydos, head of Osiris at, vi. 11;
the favourite burial-place of the Egyptians, vi. 18 sq.;
specially associated with Osiris, vi. 18, 197;
tombs of the ancient Egyptian kings at, vi. 19;
the ritual of, vi. 86;
hall of the Osirian mysteries at, vi. 108;
representations of the Sed festival at, vi. 151;
inscriptions at, vi. 153;
temple of Osiris at, vi. 198;
ancient shrine of Osiris at, vii. 260 n. 2
Abyssinia, rain-making in, i. 258;
rain-making priests among tribes on the borders of, ii. 2 sq.;
Tigre-speaking tribes to the north of, ii. 19;
fear of the evil eye in, iii. 116;
severed hands and feet preserved against the resurrection in, iii. 281;
personal names concealed in, iii. 322;
the Kamants of, iv. 12;
sacrifice of first-born children among tribes on the borders of, iv. 181 sq.;
the Faleshas of, viii. 266 n. 1
Abyssinian festival of Mascal or the Cross, ix. 133 sq.
Acacia, Osiris in the, vi. 111;
the heart in the flower of the, xi. 135 sq.
—— -tree, worshipped in Patagonia, ii. 16;
sacred in Arabia, ii. 42
Acacia albida, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210
—— catechu, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 249
—— Suma, ii. 250 n.
Academy at Athens, funeral games held in the, iv. 96
Acagchemem tribe of California, their worship of the sacred buzzard, viii. 170 sq.
Acaill, Book of, on kings of Ireland, iv. 39
Acarnanian story of Prince Sunless, x. 21
Acatay mita, festival to make alligator pears ripen, ii. 98
Accession of a Shilluk king, ceremonies at the, iv. 23 sq.
Accoleian family, coins of the, ii. 185
Accusations of ritual murders brought against the Jews, ix. 394 sqq.
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Achaia, subject to earthquakes, v. 202
Acharaca, cave of Pluto at, v. 205 sq.
Acharnae, Attic township, Dionysus Ivy at, vii. 4
Achelous and Dejanira, ii. 161 sq.
Achern, St. John's fires at, x. 168
Achilles at the court of Lycomedes, ii. 278;
his hair devoted to the river Sperchius, iii. 261
Achinese, the, of northern Sumatra, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 315
Achinese fishermen, special vocabulary employed by, at sea, iii. 409
Achterneed, in Ross-shire, Beltane cakes at, x. 153
Acilisena, in Armenia, temple and worship of Anaitis at, v. 38, ix. 369 n. 1
Acireale, in Sicily, Midsummer fires at, x. 210
Acorns as an attribute of Artemis, i. 38 n. 1;
shamans responsible for crop of edible, i. 358;
found in the lake-dwellings of Europe, ii. 353;
as food, ii. 353, 355 sq.;
as fodder for swine, ii. 354, 356
Acosta, J. de, early Spanish historian of Peru and Mexico, ix. 276 n. 1;
on the Peruvian Mother of the Maize, vii. 171 sq.;
on the sacramental eating of bread among the ancient Mexicans, viii. 86 sqq.;
on the annual expulsion of evils in Peru, ix. 131 n.;
on Aztec custom of sacrificing human representatives of the gods, ix. 275 sqq.;
on the sacrifice of the human representative of Quetzalcoatl, ix. 281 sqq.
Acre, in Syria, residence of the head of the Babites, i. 402
Acropolis of Athens, the sacred serpent on the, iv. 86 sq.;
Sacred Ploughing at foot of the, vii. 108 n. 4, 109 n. 1;
annual sacrifice of a goat on the, viii. 41
Actium, games celebrated at, vii. 80, 85
Acts, tabooed, iii. 101 sqq.
Açvina, an Indian month, iv. 124
Adad, Syrian king, v. 15;
Babylonian and Assyrian god of thunder and lightning, v. 163
Adad-Nirari, king of Assyria, ix. 370 n. 1
Adair, James, on the self-inflicted mortifications of the Creek Indians in war, iii. 161 sqq.;
on the refusal of American Indians to taste blood, iii. 240;
on Indian belief in homoeopathic magic of animal flesh, viii. 139;
on American Indian custom of cutting out the sinew of the thigh of deer, viii. 264;
his discovery of the Ten Lost Tribes in America, viii. 264 n. 4
Adaklu, Mount, in West Africa, evils sent away to, ix. 135 sq., 206 sq.
Adam, man in Lent called, ix. 214
—— and Eve, suggested explanation of their aprons of fig-leaves, ix. 259 n. 3
—— of Bremen, on the thunder-god Thor, ii. 364
Adams, J., on divinity of king of Benin, i. 396
Adana in Cilicia, v. 169 n. 3
Adar, a Jewish month, vii. 259 n. 1, ix. 361, 394, 397, 398, 415
Adder stones among the Celts, x. 15
Addison, Joseph, on the Italian opera, ii. 299;
on the grotto dei cani at Naples, v. 205 n. 1;
on witchcraft in Switzerland, xi. 42 n. 2
Adelaide tribe of South Australia, namesakes of the dead change their names in the, iii. 355
Adeli, the, of the Slave Coast, their festival of new yams, viii. 116
Adhar, a Persian month, vi. 68
Adivi or forest Gollas of Southern India, seclusion of women at childbirth among the, iii. 149 sq.
Adom-melech or Uri-melech, king of Byblus, v. 14, 17
Adon, a Semitic title, v. 6 sq., 16 sq., 20, 49 n. 7
Adonai, title of Jehovah, v. 6 sq.
Adoni, “my lord,” Semitic title, v. 7;
names compounded with, v. 17
Adoni-bezek, king of Jerusalem, v. 17
Adoni-jah, elder brother of King Solomon, v. 51 n. 2
Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, v. 17
Adonis at Byblus, i. 30;
myth of, v. 3 sqq.;
Greek worship of, v. 6;
in Greek mythology, v. 10 sqq.;
in Syria, v. 13 sqq.;
monuments of, v. 29;
in Cyprus, v. 31 sqq., 49;
identified with Osiris, v. 32;
mourning for, at Byblus, v. 38;
said to be the fruit of incest, v. 43;
his mother Myrrha, v. 43;
son of Theias, v. 43 n. 4, 55 n. 4;
the son of Cinyras, v. 49;
the title of the sons of Phoenician kings in Cyprus, v. 49;
his violent death, v. 55;
music in the worship of, v. 55;
sacred prostitution in the worship of, v. 57;
inspired prophets in worship of, v. 76;
human representatives of, perhaps burnt, v. 110;
doves burned in honour of, v. 147;
personated by priestly kings, v. 223;
the ritual of, v. 223 sqq.;
his death and resurrection represented in his rites, v. 224 sq., ix. 398;
festivals of, v. 224 sqq.;
flutes played in the laments for, v. 225 n. 3;
the ascension of, v. 225;
images of, thrown into the sea or springs, v. 225, 227 n. 3, 236;
born from a myrrh-tree, v. 227, vi. 110;
bewailed by Argive women, v. 227 n.;
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analogy of his rites to Indian and European ceremonies, v. 227;
his death and resurrection interpreted as representations of the decay and revival of vegetation, v. 227 sqq.;
interpreted as the sun, v. 228;
interpreted by the ancients as the god of the reaped and sprouting corn, v. 229;
as a corn-spirit, v. 230 sqq.;
hunger the root of the worship of, v. 231;
perhaps originally a personification of wild vegetation, especially grass and trees, v. 233;
the gardens of, v. 236 sqq.;
rain-charm in the rites of, v. 237;
resemblance of his rites to the festival of Easter, v. 254 sqq., 306;
worshipped at Bethlehem, v. 257 sqq.;
and the planet Venus as the Morning Star, v. 258 sq.;
sometimes identified with Attis, v. 263;
swine not eaten by worshippers of, v. 265;
rites of, among the Greeks, v. 298;
lamented by women at Byblus, vi. 23;
and Linus, vii. 216, 258;
at Alexandria, vii. 263, ix. 390;
and the boar, viii. 22 sq.;
his marriage with Ishtar (Aphrodite), ix. 401.
See also Tammuz
Adonis and Aphrodite, v. 11 sq., 29, 280, xi. 294 sq.;
their marriage celebrated at Alexandria, v. 224;
perhaps personated by human couples, ix. 386
—— and Attis identified with Dionysus, vi. 127 n.
——, Attis, Osiris, their mythical similarity, v. 6, vi. 201
—— and Osiris, similarity between their rites, vi. 127
—— or Tammuz, ii. 346;
the summer lamentations for, iv. 7
—— and Venus (Aphrodite), i. 21, 25, 40, 41
——, the river, its valley, v. 28 sqq.;
annual discoloration of the, v. 30, 225
Adoption, pretence of birth at, i. 74 sq.
Adrammelech, burnt sacrifice of children to, iv. 171
Adultery of wife thought to spoil the luck of her absent husband, i. 123, 124 sq., 128;
supposed to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 sq., 114
Aeacus, the son of Zeus by Aegina, ii. 278, 359 n. 1;
king of Aegina, the dispersal of his descendants, ii. 278;
obtains rain from his father Zeus, ii. 359
Aedepsus, hot springs of Hercules at, v. 211 sq.
Aedesius, Sextilius Agesilaus, dedicates altar to Attis, v. 275 n. 1
Aegina, daughter of Asopus and mother of Aeacus, ii. 359 n. 8
——, island, Panhellenian Zeus worshipped on the peak of, ii. 359
Aegipan and Hermes, v. 157
Aegira in Achaia, inspired priestess of Earth at, i. 381 sq.
Aegis, Athena and the, viii. 40, 41
Aegisthus, the murder of, i. 12 n.;
at Mycenae, his marriage with the widow of his predecessor, ii. 281
—— and Agamemnon, ix. 19
Aegosthena, annual kingship at, i. 46
Aelian, on impregnation of Judean maid by serpent, v. 81;
on a Babylonian king Gilgamus, ix. 372 n. 1
Aelst, Peter van, painter, xi. 36
Aenach, Irish fair, iv. 100 n. 1
Aeneas and the Golden Bough, i. 11, ii. 379, xi. 285, 293 sq.;
his vision of the glories of Rome, ii. 178;
his disappearance in a thunderstorm, ii. 181;
worshipped after death as Jupiter Indiges, ii. 181;
and the Game of Troy, iv. 76
—— and Dido, iii. 312, 313, v. 114 n. 1
Aeolus, King of the Winds, i. 326
Aeschines, spurious epistles of, ii. 162 n. 2
Aeschylus, on Typhon, v. 156
Aesculapius brings Hippolytus or Virbius to life, i. 20, iv. 214;
horses dedicated by Hippolytus to, i. 21 n. 2, viii. 41 n. 5;
at Cos, ii. 10;
in relation to serpents, v. 80 sq.;
reputed father of Aratus, v. 80 sq.;
his shrines at Sicyon and Titane, v. 81;
his dispute with Hercules, v. 209 sq.;
said to have raised Hippolytus from the dead, viii. 41 n. 5;
at Pergamus, viii. 85;
at Epidaurus, ix. 47
Aeson and Medea, v. 181 n. 1, viii. 143
Aetna, Latin poem, v. 221 n. 4
Aetolians, the, shod only on one foot, iii. 311
Afars. See Danakils
Afghanistan, ceremony at the reception of strangers in, iii. 108
Africa, treatment of the navel-string and afterbirth in, i. 195 sq.;
rise of magicians, especially rain-makers, to chieftainship and kingship in, i. 342 sqq., 352;
human gods in, i. 392 sqq.;
belief in, that sexual crimes disturb the course of nature, ii. 111 sq.;
the diffusion of round huts in, ii. 227 n. 3;
corpulence as a beauty in, ii. 297;
rules of life or taboos observed by kings in, iii. 5 sq., 8 sqq.;
detention of souls by sorcerers in, iii. 70 sq.;
fear of being photographed in, iii. 97 sq.;
cleanliness from superstitious motives in, iii. 158 n. 1;
smith's craft regarded as uncanny in, iii. 236 n. 5;
reluctance of people to tell their own names in, iii. 329 sq.;
the Bogos of, iii. 337;
names of animals and things tabooed [pg 151] in, iii. 400 sq.;
belief as to transmigration of the dead into serpents in, iv. 84;
succession to the soul in, iv. 200 sq.;
serpents as reincarnations of the dead in, v. 82 sqq.;
infant burial in, v. 91 sq.;
reincarnation of the dead in, v. 91 sq.;
annual festivals of the dead in, vi. 66;
worship of dead kings and chiefs in, vi. 160 sqq.;
supreme gods in, vi. 165, 173 sq., 174, 186, with n. 5, 187 n. 1, 188 sq., 190;
worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantu tribes of, vi. 174 sqq.;
inheritance of the kingship under mother-kin in, vi. 211;
cat's cradle in, vii. 103 n. 1;
woman's share in agriculture among the tribes of, vii. 113 sqq.;
observation of the Pleiades by agricultural tribes in, vii. 315 sqq.;
sacrifice of first-fruits in, viii. 109 sqq.;
belief as to the homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet in, viii. 140 sqq.;
crocodiles respected in, viii. 213 sq.;
sickness transferred to animals in, ix. 31 sq.;
girls secluded at puberty in, x. 22 sqq.;
dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, x. 79 sqq.;
birth-trees in, xi. 160 sqq.;
use of bull-roarers in, xi. 229 n., 232
Africa, British Central, the tribes of, their custom of carrying about fire, ii. 259;
the Yaos of, iii. 97 sq., viii. 111;
customs observed after a death in, iii. 286;
the Angoni of, iv. 156 n. 2, viii. 149;
the Nyanja-speaking tribes of, viii. 26;
crops guarded against baboons and wild pigs in, viii. 32;
flesh and hearts of lions eaten to make eaters brave in, viii. 142;
parts of brave enemies eaten to make the eaters brave in, viii. 149;
the Anyanja of, x. 81
——, British East, the Akikuyu (Kikuyu) of, ii. 44, iii. 175, 214, vii. 317, ix. 32, x. 81, xi. 262 sq.;
the Nandi of, ii. 112, iii. 141, 175, 423, vii. 117, 317, viii. 64, xi. 229 n.;
the Ketosh of, iii. 176;
the En-jemusi of, vii. 118;
the Suk of, vii. 118, viii. 84, 142, x. 81;
observation of the Pleiades by tribes in, vii. 317;
the Akamba of, viii. 113, ix. 122 n.;
ceremony of new fire in, x. 135 sq.
—— Central, the Banyoro of, i. 348;
the Lendu of, i. 348;
the Basoga of, ii. 19, 112;
the Baganda of, ii. 246, 269, iii. 78, vii. 118;
the pygmies of, ii. 255, iii. 282;
the Monbuttu of, ii. 297, iii. 118, vii. 119;
reception of strangers in, iii. 108;
the Latuka of, iii. 245, 284;
the Madi or Moru tribe of, iii. 277, viii. 314, ix. 217;
the Wahoko of, iii. 278;
the Wanyoro (Banyoro) of, iii. 278;
the Fors of, iii. 281;
Unyoro in, iii. 291 sq., iv. 34;
the Akamba of, iii. 353;
the Nandi of, iii. 353;
the Bahima of, iii. 375, viii. 288, ix. 32;
the Niam-Niam of, vii. 119;
the Wanyamwesi of, viii. 227
Africa, East, the Wambugwe of, i. 290, 342, iv. 65;
the Wataturu of, i. 342 sq., viii. 84;
the Wanika of, ii. 12, iii. 247;
the Tanga coast of, ii. 34;
the Wakamba of, ii. 46;
the Wabondei of, ii. 47, iii. 272, viii. 142;
the Masai of, ii. 210;
the Winamwanga of, ii. 256 n. 1;
the Wiwa of, ii. 256 n. 1;
the Jaggas of, ii. 259;
the Bogos of, ii. 267 n. 4;
avoidance of parents-in-law in, iii. 85;
the Wa-teita of, iii. 98;
custom of elephant-hunters in, iii. 107;
the Nubas of, iii. 132;
the Bageshu of, iii. 174;
the Akamba of, iii. 204;
the Akikuyu of, iii. 204;
the Warundi of, iii. 225 n.;
the Wajagga of, iii. 286, 290;
the Barea of, iii. 337;
the Masai of, iii. 354;
the Waziguas of, iii. 400;
infanticide in, iv. 196;
the Danakils or Afars of, iv. 200;
the Arabs of, viii. 164;
propitiation of dead lions in, viii. 228;
ceremony of the new fire in, x. 135;
the Swahili of, xi. 160
——, German East, viii. 142;
the Wagogo of, i. 343, iii. 186 n. 1, viii. 26, 149, 276, ix. 6;
the Wahehe of, iii. 86 n., viii. 26;
the Wageia of, iii. 177;
continence of hunters in, iii. 196 sq.;
the Wadowe of, vii. 118;
the Waheia of, viii. 26;
the Wajagga of, viii. 276, xi. 160;
the Washamba of, ix. 29, xi. 183;
the Bondeis of, xi. 263;
the Wadoe of, xi. 312
——, German South-West, the Ovambo of, xi. 183
——, North, magical images in, i. 65 sq.;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210;
the Arabs of, i. 277;
artificial fertilization of fig-trees in, ii. 314;
charms to render bridegrooms impotent in, iii. 300 sq.;
festivals of swinging in, iv. 284;
custom of bathing at Midsummer among the Mohammedan peoples of, v. 249;
cairns in, ix. 21;
Mohammedan reverence for living saints in, ix. 22;
popular cure for toothache in, ix. 62;
tribes of, their expulsion of demons, ix. 110 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 213 sqq.
——, South, use of rat's hair as a charm in, i. 151;
the Herero of, i. 209;
stopping rain by means of a rabbit in, i. 295;
the Bechuanas of, i. 313;
way of retarding the sun in, i. 318;
the [pg 152] Caffres of, i. 321, iii. 87;
frightening away a storm in, i. 327;
the Chevas of, i. 331 n. 2;
the Tumbucas of, i. 331 n. 2;
chiefs as rain-makers in, i. 350 sqq.;
the Mashona of, i. 393;
the Maraves of, ii. 31, ix. 19;
the Ovambo of, ii. 264, iii. 176;
the Ba-Pedi of, iii. 141, 148, 163, 202;
the Ba-Thonga of, iii. 141, 148, 163, 202;
Bantu tribes of, iii. 152, viii. 111, ix. 77 sq.;
seclusion and purification of manslayers in, iii. 174 sq.;
disposal of cut hair and nails in, iii. 278;
magic use of spittle in, iii. 288;
the Makalaka of, iii. 369;
belief as to stepping over persons or things among the tribes of, iii. 423;
the Baronga of, iv. 61;
crops devastated by wild pigs in, viii. 32;
the Matabele of, viii. 70;
Caffre remedy for caterpillars in, viii. 280;
heaps of sticks or stones to which passers-by add, in, ix. 11;
dread of demons in, ix. 77 sq.;
sacrificial fire in, ix. 391 n. 4;
the Thonga of, xi. 297
Africa, South-East, the Hlubies and Swazies of, i. 249;
the Baronga of, i. 267;
many tribes of, will not cut down timber while the corn is green, ii. 49;
the Bantu tribes of, ii. 210;
the Barotse of, iii. 107;
custom of infanticide in some tribes of, iv. 183;
flesh of lions and leopards eaten by warriors in, viii. 142;
rites of initiation in, viii. 148;
inoculation of warriors in, viii. 159;
hunters cut out right eye of game in, viii. 268;
prayers at cairns in, ix. 29
——, South-West, the Herero of, i. 211;
the Ovambo of, iii. 227, viii. 109
——, 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
Afterbirths buried in banana groves, v. 93;
regarded as twins of the children, v. 93;
Shilluk kings interred where their afterbirths are buried, vi. 162
Agamemnon, sceptre of, worshipped as a god, i. 365;
said to have reigned in his wife's home, Lacedaemon, ii. 279
—— and Aegisthus, ix. 19
Agar Dinka, rain-makers killed among the, iv. 33
Agaric growing on birch-trees, superstitions as to, x. 148
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Agariste, daughter of Clisthenes, the wooing of, ii. 307
Agathias, on the identification of Anaitis and Aphrodite, ix. 369 n. 1;
on Sandes, ix. 389
Agathocles, his siege of Carthage, iv. 167
Agbasia, West African god, sacred slaves of, v. 79;
prayers to, viii. 59, 60
Agdestis, a man-monster in the myth of Attis, v. 269
Age of Magic, i. 235, 237
Agesipolis, king of Sparta, his conduct in an earthquake, v. 196
Aglu, New Year fires at, x. 217
Agni, Indian god, viii. 120, ix. 410, x. 99 n. 2;
the fire-god, ii. 230, 249, xi. 1, 296;
addressed at marriage, ii. 230
Agnihotris, Brahman fire-priests, ii. 247 sqq.
Agnus castus strewed by married women under their beds at the Thesmophoria, vii. 116 n. 2;
used in ceremony of beating, ix. 252, 257
Agome, in Togoland, ceremonies observed by hunters at, viii. 229
Agraulus, daughter of Cecrops, worshipped at Salamis in Cyprus, v. 145, 146
Agricultural peoples worship the moon, vi. 138 sq.
—— stage of society, the, viii. 35, 37
—— year determined by observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313 sqq.;
expulsions of demons timed to coincide with seasons of the, ix. 225
Agriculture, religious objections to, v. 88 sqq., vii. 93, 108;
in the hands of women in the Pelew Islands, vi. 206 sq.;
its tendency to produce a conservative character, vi. 217 sq.;
magical significance of games in primitive, vii. 92 sqq.;
origin of, vii. 128 sq.;
woman's part in primitive, vii. 113 sqq.
Agriculture of the Nabataeans, ii. 100, 346 n. 3
Agrigentum, Empedocles at, i. 390;
Phalaris of, iv. 75
Agrionia, a festival at Orchomenus, iv. 163
Agrippa, king of Judea, his mockery at Alexandria, ix. 418
Agrippina, her marriage with Claudius, ii. 129 n. 1
Agu, Mount, in Togo, wind-fetish on, i. 327;
fetish priest on, iii. 5
Ague, transferred to trees, ix. 56, 57 sq.;
Suffolk cure for, ix. 68;
Midsummer bonfires deemed a cure for, x. 162;
leaps across the Midsummer bonfires thought to be a preventive of, x. 174
Agutainos of the Philippines, customs observed by widows among the, iii. 144
Agweh on the Slave Coast, custom at end of mourning at, iii. 286;
custom of widows at, xi. 18 sq.
Agylla, in Etruria, funeral games at, iv. 95
Ahasuerus, King, ix. 397, 401;
the Hebrew equivalent of Xerxes, ix. 360
Ahaz, King, his sacrifice of his children, iv. 169 sq.
Ahlen, in Munsterland, the Yule log at, x. 247
Ahne-bergen, near Stade, thresher of last corn called Corn-pug at, vii. 273
Ahriman, the devil of the Persians, x. 95
Ahts or Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island regard the moon as the husband of the sun, vi. 139 n. 1;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 43 sq.
Ahura Mazda, the supreme being of the Persians, x. 95
Ai San Bushmen, their fire-sticks, ii. 218 n. 1
Aijaruc, a Tartar princess, ii. 306
Ain, de l', French department, leaf-clad mummer on May Day in, ii. 81 n. 3;
Lenten fires in, x. 114
Aino fishermen, their ways of making rain, i. 288
—— hunters, their custom at killing a fox, viii. 267
—— type of animal sacrament, viii. 312 sq.
—— women may not mention their husbands' names, iii. 337
Ainos, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212;
their rain-making, i. 251, 253;
their fear of whirlwinds, i. 331 n. 2;
their ceremony at eating new millet, viii. 52;
their custom as to eating the heads of otters and the hearts of water-ousels, viii. 144;
their worship of bears, viii. 180 sqq.;
their worship of eagle-owls, eagles, and hawks, viii. 199 sq.;
thank the sword-fish which they kill, viii. 251;
their customs in regard to the first fish of the season, viii. 255 sq.;
their propitiation of mice, viii. 278;
their ambiguous attitude towards the bear, viii. 310 sq.
—— of Japan, their use of magical images, i. 60;
reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
their custom of killing bears ceremonially, viii. 180 sqq.;
their mourning caps, x. 20;
their use of mugwort in exorcism, xi. 60;
their veneration for mistletoe, xi. 79
—— of Saghalien, pregnant women forbidden to spin among the, i. 114;
their bear-festivals, viii. 188 sqq.
Aiora, festival of swinging, at Athens, i. 46 n. 1
Air, prohibition to be uncovered in the open, iii. 3, 14;
thought to be poisoned at eclipses, x. 162 n.
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Airi, a deity of North-West India, his worshippers inspired, v. 170
Airu, Assyrian month corresponding to May, ii. 130
Aïsawa or Isowa, order of saints in Morocco, devour live goats, vii. 21 sq.
Aisne, Midsummer fires in the department of, x. 187
Ait Sadden, a tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 182
—— Warain, a Berber tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 178 sq.
—— Yusi, a tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 182
Aitan, a Khasi goddess, ix. 173
Aivilik, the Esquimaux of, i. 121
Aix, squibs at Midsummer at, x. 193;
Midsummer king at, x. 194, xi. 25
Aiyar, N. Subramhanya, on Indian dancing-girls, v. 63 sqq.
Ajax and Teucer, names of priestly kings of Olba, v. 144 sq., 161
Ajumba hunter, his apologies to the hippopotamus which he had killed, viii. 235
Akamba of British East Africa, believe that every woman has a spiritual husband who fertilizes her, ii. 317;
continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204;
their offerings of first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 113;
riddles asked at circumcision among the, ix. 122 n.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 23
—— of Central Africa, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353
Akawés, a tribe of Garos, their harvest festival, viii. 337
Akhetaton (Tell-el-Amarna), the capital of Amenophis IV., vi. 123 n. 1
Akikuyu, the, of British East Africa, ceremony of the new birth among the, i. 75 sq., 96 sq., xi. 262 sq.;
worship fig-trees, ii. 44 sq.;
worship a snake, and marry girls to the snake-god, ii. 150, v. 67 sq.;
believe that barren women can be fertilized by the wild fig-tree, ii. 316;
purification of manslayers among the, iii. 175 sq.;
continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204;
auricular confession among the, iii. 214;
use of scapegoats among the, iii. 214 sq.;
their women purified after a miscarriage in childbirth, iii. 286;
their treatment of premature and unusual births, iii. 286, 287 n. 6;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 85;
transfer guilt to a goat, ix. 32;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 81.
See also Kikuyu
Akurwa, a village of the Shilluk, iv. 19, 23, 24
Alabama, harvest festival of the Indians of, viii. 72 n. 3
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Roman version of, xi. 105
Alafin of Oyo, paramount king of Yoruba land, iv. 203
Alake, the, of Abeokuta, custom of cutting off the head of his corpse, iv. 203
Alaska, the Esquimaux of, i. 121, 328, iii. 145, vi. 51, ix. 124, xi. 155;
the Aleuts of, iii. 207;
the Kaniagmuts of, iii. 207;
the Koniags of, i. 121, vi. 106;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, x. 45 sq.
Alaskan hunters, their respect for dead sables and beavers, viii. 238
—— islanders mistook the Russians for cuttle-fish, viii. 206
Alastir and the Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of, xi. 129 sq.
Alba, Vestal fire and Vestal virgins at, i. 13
—— Longa, the kings of, ii. 178 sqq., 268 sq.;
perhaps mimicked Latian Jupiter, ii. 187
Alban dynasty descended from a Vestal, ii. 197
—— Hills, i. 2, ii. 178
—— kings, iv. 76
—— Lake, i. 2;
tradition of a submerged city in the, ii. 180, 181 n.
—— League, religious centre of the, ii. 187
—— Mountain, the, ii. 187 sq., 202, 387
Albania, bloodstones in, i. 165;
milk-stones in, i. 165;
fear of portraiture in, iii. 100;
expulsion of Kore on Easter Eve in, iv. 265, ix. 157;
marriage custom in, vi. 246;
mock lamentations for locusts and beetles in, viii. 279;
Midsummer fires in, x. 212;
the Yule log in, x. 264
Albanian custom of beating men and beasts in March, ix. 266
—— story of the external soul, xi. 104 n. 3
Albanians of the Caucasus, did not mention the names of the dead, iii. 349;
their worship of the moon, v. 73;
their use of human scapegoats, ix. 218
Albano, ancient necropolis near, ii. 201
Albert, Lake, Lendu tribe of, i. 348
—— Nyanza, Lake, the Wahuma of the, i. 250;
crocodiles in the, viii. 213;
the Wakondyo of the, xi. 162 sq.
Alberti, L., on Caffre purification of lion-killer, iii. 220
Albigenses worshipped each other, i. 407
Albino sacrificed to river, ii. 158;
head of secret society on the Lower Congo, xi. 251
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Albinoes the offspring of the moon, v. 91
Albirûni, Arab geographer, on the Persian festival of the dead, vi. 68;
on the burning of effigies of Haman at Purim, ix. 393
Alchemy leads up to chemistry, i. 374
Alcheringa, remote legendary time of the Arunta, i. 88, 98, 102
Alcibiades of Apamea, his vision of the Holy Ghost, iv. 5 n. 3
Alcidamus wins Barce in a foot-race, ii. 300 sq.
Alcman on dew, vi. 137
Alcmena, her long travail with Hercules, iii. 298 sq.
Alcyonian Lake, Dionysus at the, vii. 15
Alder branches, sacrificial, viii. 232
Alders free from mistletoe, xi. 315
Alectrona, daughter of the Sun, taboos observed at her sanctuary in Rhodes, viii. 45
Alençon, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337 n. 1
Aleutian Islands, Atkhans of the, ix. 3;
cairns in the, ix. 16
—— hunter injured by unchastity of absent wife or sister, i. 123
Aleutians, effeminate sorcerers among the, vi. 254
Aleuts of Alaska, seclusion of successful whaler among the, iii. 207
Alexander the Great, his fiery cresset, ii. 264;
cuts the Gordian knot, iii. 316;
funeral games in his honour, iv. 95;
expels a king of Paphos, v. 42;
his fabulous birth, v. 81;
assumes costumes of deities, v. 165;
sacrifices to Megarsian Athena, v. 169 n. 3
Alexander Severus, at festival of Attis, v. 273
Alexandria, festival of Adonis at, v. 224, ix. 390;
the Serapeum at, vi. 119 n., 217;
mockery of King Agrippa at, ix. 418
Alexandrian calendar, used by Plutarch, vi. 84;
used by Theophanes, ix. 395 n. 1
—— year, the fixed, vi. 28, 92;
Plutarch's use of the, vi. 49
Alfai, title of rain-making priest among the Barea and Kunama, ii. 3
Alfoors of Buru, names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 341
—— or Toradjas of Central Celebes, their custom at child-birth, iii. 33;
taboos observed by their priest, iii. 129;
priest with unshorn hair among the, iii. 260;
riddles among the, ix. 122 n.;
their custom at the smelting of iron, xi. 154;
their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 222.
See also Toradjas
—— of Ceram, their high-priest regarded as a demigod, i. 400
Alfoors of Halmahera, name of wife's father tabooed among the, iii. 341;
their expulsion of the devil, ix. 112
—— of Minahassa, inspired priest among the, i. 382 sq.;
ceremony at house-warming among the, iii. 63 sq.;
names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340 sq.;
their custom as to the first rice sowed and reaped, viii. 54;
attempt to deceive demons of sickness, viii. 100
—— of Poso, in Central Celebes, their belief as to demons of trees, ii. 35;
abduction of souls by demons among the, iii. 62 sq.;
will not pronounce their own names, iii. 332;
names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340
Algeds, rain-maker among the, ii. 3
Algeria, rain-making in, i. 250;
the Aisawa sect in, vii. 22 n. 1;
fever transferred to tortoise in, ix. 31;
popular cure by knocking nails in, ix. 60;
Midsummer fires in, x. 213
——, the Arabs of, avoid using the proper name for lion, iii. 400;
tale of, iv. 130 n. 1
Algidus, Mount, its oak forests, ii. 187, 380;
a haunt of Diana, ii. 380
Algiers, the Moors of, light no fires after a death, ii. 268 n.
Algonquin Indians caught souls in nets, iii. 69 sq.
Algonquins or Algonkins, the, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 197;
marry their fishing-nets to girls, ii. 147 sq.;
their women seek to be impregnated by the souls of the dying, iv. 199
Alice Springs in Central Australia, i. 259, xi. 238;
magical stones at, i. 162
Aline, Loch, fishing magic on, i. 110
All-healer, name applied to mistletoe, xi. 77, 79, 82
All Saints, Feast of, perhaps substituted for an old pagan festival of the dead, vi. 82 sq.
All Saints' Day, November 1st, old Celtic New Year's Day, x. 225;
omens on, x. 240;
bonfires on, x. 246;
sheep passed through a hoop on, xi. 184
All Souls, Festival of, iv. 98, vi. 51 sqq., vii. 30, x. 223 sq., 225 n. 2;
originally a pagan festival of the dead, vi. 81;
instituted by Odilo, abbot of Clugny, vi. 82
All Souls' College, Oxford, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
Allallu bird beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371
Allan, John Hay, on the Hays of Errol, xi. 283
Allandur temple, at St. Thomas's Mount, Madras, fire-festival at, xi. 8 n. 1
Allatu, Babylonian goddess, v. 9
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Allerton, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
Allhallow Even, the thirty-first of October, Lords of Misrule on, ix. 332
All-Hallows (All Saints' Day), iii. 11, 12
Allifae in Samnium, baths of Hercules at, v. 213 n. 2
Alligator pears, Peruvian ceremony to make them ripen, ii. 98
Alligators, souls of dead in, viii. 297
Allumba, in Central Australia, magic tree at, i. 145 sq.
Almagest, the, vii. 259 n. 1
Almo, procession to the river, in the rites of Attis, v. 273
Almond causes virgin to conceive, v. 263;
the father of all things, v. 263 sq.
—— -trees, mistletoe on, xi. 316
Almora, in Kumaon, ix. 197
A-Louyi, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28 n. 5
Alpach, valley in Tyrol, the Wheat-bride or Rye-bride at harvest in, vii. 163
Alpheus, the sacred, ii. 8
Alqamar, tribe of nomads in Hadramaut, their way of stopping rain, i. 252
Alsace, May-trees in, ii. 64;
the Little May Rose in, ii. 74;
stuffed goat or fox at threshing in, vii. 287, 297;
Midsummer fires in, x. 169;
cats burnt in Easter bonfires in, xi. 40
Alt Lest, in Silesia, the binder of the last sheaf called the Beggar-man at, vii. 231
—— -Pillau, in Samland, harvest custom at, vii. 139
Altars, bloodless, ix. 307
Altdorf and Weingarten, in Swabia, the Carnival Fool on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 232
Althenneberg, in Bavaria, Easter fires at, x. 143 sq.
Altisheim, in Swabia, the last sheaf called the Old Woman at, vii. 136
Altmark, custom with birch branches at Whitsuntide in the, ii. 64;
the May Bride at Whitsuntide in the, ii. 95;
the He-goat at reaping in the, vii. 287;
Easter bonfires in the, x. 140, 142
Alum burnt at Midsummer, x. 214
Alungu, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 24 sq.
Alur, a tribe of the Upper Nile, bury their cut hair and nails, iii. 277 sq.;
their fear of crocodiles, viii. 214;
their treatment of insanity, x. 64
Alus, sanctuary of Laphystian Zeus at, iv. 161, 164;
custom of sacrificing princes at, vii. 25
Alvarado, Pedro de, Spanish general, kills a nagual, xi. 214
Alyattes, king of Lydia, v. 133 n. 1
Alynomus, king of Paphos, v. 43 n. 1
Amadhlozi, Zulu ancestral spirits in serpent form, xi. 211 n. 2
Ama-terasu, Japanese goddess of the Sun, vii. 212
Amambwe, a Bantu tribe of Northern Rhodesia, believe that their head chief at death turns into a lion, vi. 193, viii. 287;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 24 sq.
Amapondo country, cairn to which passers-by added stones in the, ix. 30 n. 2
Amasis, king of Egypt, substitutes images for human victims, iv. 217;
his body burnt by Cambyses, v. 176 n. 2
Amata, “Beloved,” title of Vestals, ii. 197
Amata, wife of King Latinus, ii. 197
Amathus, in Cyprus, Adonis and Melcarth at, v. 32, 117;
statue of lion-slaying god found at, v. 117
Amatongo, ancestral spirits (Zulu term), v. 74 n. 4, vi. 184, xi. 212 n.
Amaxosa Caffres propitiate the elephants which they kill, viii. 227
Amazon, Indians at the mouth of the, ix. 264;
ordeals of young men among the Indians of the, x. 62 sq.
Amazons set up a statue of Artemis under an oak, i. 38 n. 1
—— of Dahomey ate the hearts of brave foes to make themselves brave, viii. 149
Amazulu, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 316
Ambabai, an Indian goddess, v. 243
Ambala District, Punjaub, rebirth of children in the, v. 94
Ambamba, in West Africa, death, resurrection, and new birth in, xi. 256
Ambarvalia, cattle crowned at the, ii. 127 n. 2;
an agricultural festival of ancient Italy, ix. 359
Amboin, in Angola, new fire at, ii. 262
Amboyna, custom as to children's cast teeth in, i. 179;
rice in bloom treated like a pregnant woman in, ii. 28;
ceremony to fertilize clove-trees in, ii. 100;
recovery of lost souls in, iii. 66 sq.;
abduction of souls by doctors in, iii. 73;
fear to lose the shadow at noon in, iii. 87;
sick people sprinkled with pungent spices in, iii. 105;
new fruits offered to the gods in, viii. 123;
belief in spirits in, ix. 85;
disease-transference in, ix. 187;
hair of criminals cut in, xi. 158
Ambras, Midsummer customs at, x. 173
Amedzowe, the spirit land, viii. 105
Amei Awa, a Kayan god, vii. 93
Amélineau, E., discovers the tomb of Egyptian King Khent, vi. 21 n. 1
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Amelioration in the character of the gods, iv. 136
Amenophis III., king of Egypt, birth of, ii. 131 sqq.;
his birth represented on the monuments, iii. 28
Amenophis IV., king of Egypt, his attempt to abolish all gods but the sun-god, vi. 123 sqq.
Ameretât, a Persian archangel, ix. 373 n. 1
America, treatment of the navel-string and afterbirth in, i. 195 sqq.;
the breach of England with, i. 216;
association of the frog with rain in, i. 292 n. 3;
reincarnation of the dead in, v. 91;
the moon worshipped by the agricultural Indians of tropical, vi. 138;
cat's cradle in, vii. 103 n. 1;
the Corn-mother in, vii. 171 sqq.
——, Central, the Pipiles of, ii. 98;
the Indians of, practise continence for the sake of the crops, ii. 105;
the Quiches of, viii. 134;
the Mosquito Indians of, viii. 258 n. 2;
the Mosquito territory in, x. 86
——, North, the Natchez of, i. 249;
the Omahas of, i. 249;
power of medicine-men in, i. 356 sqq.;
the Hidatsa Indians of, ii. 12;
Indians of, their dread and avoidance of menstruous women, iii. 145 sq., x. 87 sqq.;
Indians of, will not eat blood, iii. 240;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
Indians of, not allowed to sit on bare ground in war, x. 5;
Indians of, seclusion of girls at puberty among, x. 41 sqq.;
Indians of, stories of the external soul among, xi. 151 sq.;
Indians of, religious associations among, xi. 267 sqq.
See also North American Indians
——, North-West, contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210;
the Chilcotin Indians of, i. 312;
the Loucheux of, i. 356;
artificial elongation of the head among the Indian tribes of, ii. 298;
the Carrier Indians of, iv. 199;
the Salish Indians of, viii. 80;
the Tinneh Indians of, viii. 80;
Indian tribes of, their masked dances, ix. 375 sqq.;
Secret Societies among the Indians of, ix. 377 sqq.
——, South, the Guarani of, i. 145;
the Payaguas of, i. 330;
power of medicine-men in, i. 358 sqq.;
the Itonamas of, iii. 31;
custom of swallowing ashes of dead kinsfolk in, viii. 156 sq.;
the Palenques of, viii. 221;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, x. 56 sqq.;
effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 128;
Midsummer fires in, x. 212 sq.
See also South America
American Indians, power of medicine-men among the, i. 355 sqq.;
drive away the ghosts of the slain, iii. 170 sq.;
confession of sins among the, iii. 215 sq., 216 n. 2;
personal names kept secret among the, iii. 324 sqq., 327 sq.;
their fear of naming the dead, iii. 351 sqq.;
relations of the dead change their names among the, iii. 357;
changes in their languages caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 360 sq.;
their Great Spirit, iv. 3;
women's agricultural work among the, vii. 120 sqq.;
their personification of maize, vii. 171 sqq.;
do not sharply distinguish between animals and men, viii. 204 sqq.;
their ceremonies at hunting bears, viii. 224 sqq.;
treat elans, deer, and elks with ceremonious respect, viii. 240;
cut out the sinew of the thigh of deer which they kill, viii. 264.
See also North American Indians and South American Indians
American prairies, skulls of buffaloes awaiting resurrection on, viii. 256
Amestris, wife of Xerxes, her sacrifice of children, vi. 220 sq.
Amethysts thought to keep their wearers sober, i. 165;
in rain-charms, i. 345
Amiens, “killing the Cat” at harvest near, vii. 281
Amisus, in Pontus, ix. 421 n. 1
Ammerland, in Oldenburg, cart-wheel used as charm against witchcraft in, x. 345 n. 3
Ammon, the god, married to the queen of Egypt, ii. 130 sqq.;
human wives of, ii. 130 sqq., v. 72;
regarded as the father of Egyptian gods, ii. 131;
costume of, ii. 133;
king of Egypt masqueraded as, ii. 133;
high priests of, their usurpation of regal power, ii. 134;
identified with the sun, vi. 123;
rage of King Amenophis IV. against, vi. 124;
at Thebes in Egypt, ram annually sacrificed to, viii. 41, 172;
the Theban, represented with the body of a man and the head of a ram, viii. 172 sq.
—— -Ra, king of the gods, ii. 132
Ammon (country), Hanun, king of, iii. 273;
conquered by King David, iii. 273
——, Milcom, the god of, v. 19
Ammonite, fossil, regarded as an embodiment of Vishnu, ii. 26, 27 n. 2
Amoor River, the Manegres of the, iii. 323;
the Gilyaks of the, v. 278 n. 2, viii. 103, 267, ix. 101;
the Goldi of the, viii. 103;
bears in the valley of the, viii. 191;
the Orotchis of the, viii. 197
Amorgos, the month of Cronion in, ix. 351 n. 2
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Amorites, their law as to fornication, v. 37 sq.
Amoy, fear of tree-spirits in, ii. 14;
spirits who draw away the souls of children at, iii. 59;
euphemism for fever among the Chinese of, iii. 400;
puppets as substitutes among the Chinese of, viii. 104
Ampasimene, in Madagascar, viii. 40 n.
Amphictyon, king of Athens, married the daughter of his predecessor, ii. 277
Amphipolis, death of Brasidas at, iv. 94
Amphitryo besieges Taphos, xi. 103
Amsanctus, the valley of, v. 204 sq.
Amshaspands, Persian archangels, ix. 373 n. 1
Amsterdam, “dew-treading” at Whitsuntide at, ii. 104 n. 2
Amulets, hair and teeth of sacred kings preserved as, ii. 6;
knots used as, iii. 306 sqq.;
rings and bracelets as, iii. 314 sqq., x. 92;
crowns and wreaths as, vi. 242 sq.;
against demons, ix. 95;
as soul-boxes, xi. 155;
degenerate into ornaments, xi. 156 n. 2.
See also Talismans
Amulius Silvius, his rivalry with Jupiter, ii. 180
Amyclae, ancient capital of Lacedaemon, Agamemnon buried at, ii. 279;
in the vale of Sparta, v. 313;
tomb of Hyacinth at, v. 314;
festival of Hyacinthia at, v. 315
Amyclas, father of Hyacinth, v. 313
Anabis, in Egypt, human god at, i. 390
Anacan, a month of the Gallic calendar, ix. 343
Anacreon, on Cinyras, v. 55
Anacyndaraxes, father of Sardanapalus, v. 172
Anadates, at Zela, ix. 373 n. 1
Anaitis, Persian goddess, afterwards equivalent to Ishtar, i. 16 sq., ix. 369, 389;
identified with Artemis, i. 37 n. 2;
served by prostitutes at Acilisena, in Armenia, ii. 282 n. 3, v. 38, ix. 369 n. 1;
her sanctuary at Zela, ix. 370, 421 n. 1;
associated with the Sacaea, ix. 355, 368, 369, 402 n. 1;
identified with Aphrodite, ix. 369 n. 1, 389
Anammelech, burnt sacrifice of children to, iv. 171
Anansa, tutelary god of Old Calabar, ii. 42
Anassa, “Queen,” title of goddess, v. 35 n. 2
Anatomie of Abuses, ii. 66
Anazarba or Anazarbus, in Cilicia, the olives of, ii. 107;
Zeus at, v. 167 n. 1
Ancestor, wooden image of, xi. 155
—— -worship among the Bantu peoples, ii. 221, vi. 176 sqq.;
in relation to fire-worship, ii. 221;
among the Khasis of Assam, vi. 203;
combined with mother-kin tends to a predominance of goddesses over gods in religion, vi. 211 sq.;
in Fiji, xi. 243 sq.
Ancestors, prayers to, i. 285, 286, 287, 345, 352, vii. 105;
skulls of, in rain-charm, i. 285;
sacrifices to, i. 290 sq., 339;
souls of, in trees, ii. 29, 30, 31, 32, 317;
represented by sacred fire-sticks, ii. 214, 216, 222 sqq.;
dead, regarded as mischievous beings, ii. 221;
souls of, in the fire on the hearth, ii. 232;
propitiation of, by rubbing their skulls, iii. 197;
names of, bestowed on their reincarnations, iii. 368 sq.;
reborn in their descendants, iii. 368 sq.;
propitiation of deceased, v. 46;
images of, viii. 53;
offerings of first-fruits to spirits of, viii. 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125;
worshipped as guardian spirits, viii. 121, 123;
spirits of, take up their abode in their skulls or in images, viii. 123;
images of, viii. 124;
dead, worshipped as gods, viii. 125;
fear of the spirits of, ix. 76 sq.
Ancestral Contest at the Haloa, vii. 61;
at the Eleusinian Games, vii. 71, 74, 77;
at the Festival of the Threshing-floor, vii. 75
—— skulls used in magic, i. 163
—— spirits worshipped at the hearth, ii. 216 sq., 221 sq.;
cause sickness, iii. 53;
sacrifices to, iii. 104, vi. 175, 178 sq., 180, 181 sq., 183 sq., 190;
on shoulders of medicine-men, v. 74 n. 4;
incarnate in serpents, v. 82 sqq., xi. 211;
in the form of animals, v. 83;
worshipped by the Bantu tribes of Africa, vi. 174 sqq.;
prayers to, vi. 175 sq., 178 sq., 183 sq.;
on the father's and on the mother's side, the two distinguished, vi. 180, 181;
propitiation of, ix. 86.
See also Ancestors and Dead
—— tree, fire kindled from, ii. 221, 223 sq.
Anchiale in Cilicia, v. 144;
monument of Sardanapalus at, v. 172
Ancient deities of vegetation as animals, viii. 1 sqq.
Ancona, sarcophagus of St. Dasius at, ii. 310 n. 1, ix. 310
Ancus Martius, Roman king, said to have murdered his predecessor, ii. 181 n. 5;
his maternal descent, ii. 270 n. 4;
his death, ii. 320
Andalusia, guisers in, ix. 173
Andaman Islanders, said to be ignorant of the art of making fire, ii. 253;
perhaps first got fire from volcano, ii. 256 n. 2;
regard their reflections as their souls, iii. 92;
their ideas as to shooting stars, iv. 60;
boar's fat poured [pg 159] on novice at initiation among the, viii. 164
Andaman Islands, mourning custom in the, iii. 183 n.;
cat's cradle in the, vii. 103 n. 1
Andania in Messenia, grove of the Great Goddesses at, ii. 122;
mysteries of, iii. 227 n.;
sacred men and women at, v. 76 n. 3
Anderida, forest of, ii. 7
Anderson, J. D., on the winds of Assam, ix. 176 n. 3
Anderson, Miss, of Barskimming, ix. 169 n. 2, x. 171 n. 3
Andes, the Colombian, i. 416
——, the Peruvian, net to catch the sun in, i. 316;
the Indians of, their thunder-god, ii. 370;
Indians of, their fear of the sea, iii. 10;
cairns in, to which passing Indians add stones, ix. 9, 10;
effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 128
Andjra, a district of Morocco, magical virtue of rain-water in, x. 17;
Midsummer fires in, x. 213 sq.;
Midsummer rites of water in, x. 216;
animals bathed at Midsummer in, xi. 31
Andreas, parish of, in the Isle of Man, x. 224, 305, 307 n. 1
Andree, Dr. Richard, ix. 246 n. 1;
on the Pleiades in primitive calendars, vii. 307
—— -Eysn, Mrs., on the processions and masquerades of the Perchten, ix. 245 sq., 249
Andriamasinavalona, a Hova king, vicarious sacrifice for, vi. 221
Andromeda and Perseus, ii. 163
Anemone, the scarlet, sprung from the blood of Adonis, v. 226
Ang Teng, in Burma, sacred fish at, viii. 291
Angakok, Esquimaux wizard or sorcerer, iii. 211, 212
Angamis (Angami), a Naga tribe of Assam, death custom among the, iv. 13;
their human sacrifices, vii. 244;
spare butterflies, viii. 291
Angass, the, of Manipur, their rain-making, i. 252;
a tribe of the Brahmapootra, their custom of stabbing those who die a natural death, iv. 13;
believe that the souls of the dead are in butterflies, viii. 291
——, the, of Northern Nigeria, their belief in external human souls lodged in animals, xi. 210
Angel, need-fire revealed by an, x. 287
—— dance, the, viii. 328
—— of Death, iv. 177 sq.
Angel, the Destroying, over Jerusalem, v. 24
—— -man, effigy of, burnt at Midsummer, x. 167
Angelus bell, the, x. 110, xi. 47
Angla, on the Slave Coast, prohibition to ride on horseback in, viii. 45
Angola, the Matiamvo of, iv. 35
——, the Ovakumbi of, i. 318 n. 6;
the Mucelis of, ii. 262;
the Bangalas of, ii. 293;
Humbe in, iii. 6;
the negroes of, speak respectfully of lions, iii. 400;
Cassange in, iv. 56, 203
Angoni, the, of British Central Africa, their way of stopping rain, i. 263;
their sacrifices for rain and fine weather, i. 291;
drive away the ghosts of the slain, iii. 174;
purification of manslayers among the, iii. 176;
custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 n. 1;
ceremony of standing on one leg among the, iv. 156 n. 2;
sham burial to deceive demons among the, viii. 99;
eat parts of enemies to acquire their qualities, viii. 149
Angoniland, British Central Africa, rain-making in, i. 250;
the Nyanja-speaking tribes of, viii. 26;
customs as to girls at puberty in, x. 25 sq.;
customs as to salt in, x. 27
Angoulême, poplar burned on St. Peter's day in, ii. 141
Angoy, the king of, must have no bodily defect, iv. 39
Angus, belief as to the weaning of children in, vi. 148;
superstitious remedy for the “quarter-ill” in, x. 296 n. 1
Anhalt, custom at sowing in, i. 139, v. 239;
harvest customs in, vii. 226, 233, 279;
Easter bonfires in, x. 140
Anhouri, Egyptian god, the mummy of, iv. 4 sq.
Animal, corn-spirit as an, vii. 270 sqq.;
killing the divine, viii. 169 sqq.;
worshipful, killed once a year and promenaded from door to door, viii. 322;
bewitched, or part of it, burnt to compel the witch to appear, x. 303, 305, 307 sq., 321 sq.;
sickness transferred to, xi. 181;
and man, sympathetic relation between, xi. 272 sq.
—— embodiments of the corn-spirit, on the, vii. 303 sqq.
—— enemy of god originally identical with god, vii. 23, viii. 16 sq., 31
—— familiars of wizards and witches, xi. 196 sq., 201 sq.
—— form, god killed in, vii. 22 sq.
—— food, supposed acquisition of virtues or vices through, viii. 139
—— god, two types of the custom of killing the, viii. 312 sq.
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Animal masks worn by Egyptian kings and others, ii. 133, iv. 72, vii. 260 sq.;
worn by mummers at Carnival, viii. 333
—— sacrament, types of, viii. 310 sqq.
Animals, homoeopathic magic of, i. 150 sqq.;
association of ideas common to the, i. 234;
rain-making by means of, i. 287 sqq.;
spirits of plants in shape of, ii. 14;
injured through their shadows, iii. 81 sq.;
propitiation of spirits of slain, iii. 190, 204 sq.;
atonement for slain, iii. 207;
blood of, not allowed to fall on ground, iii. 247;
dangerous, not called by their proper names, iii. 396 sqq.;
thought to understand human speech, iii. 398 sq., 400;
sacred to kings, iv. 82, 84 sqq.;
transformations into, iv. 82 sqq., xi. 207;
sacrificed by being hanged, v. 289 sq., 292;
and plants, edible, savage lamentations for, vi. 43 sq.;
dead kings and chiefs incarnate in, vi. 162, 163 sq., 173, 193;
sacrificed to prolong the life of kings, vi. 222;
torn to pieces and devoured raw in religious rites, vii. 17, 18, 19, 20 sqq.;
regarded as unclean were originally sacred, viii. 24;
belief in the descent of men from, viii. 25;
spirits of ancestors in, viii. 123;
language of, acquired by eating serpent's flesh, viii. 146;
resurrection of viii. 200 sq., 256 sqq.;
and men, savages fail to distinguish accurately between, viii. 204 sqq.;
wild, propitiation of, by hunters, viii. 204 sqq.;
apologies offered by savages to animals for killing them, viii. 221 sqq.;
bones of, not to be broken, viii. 258 sq.;
bones of, not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, viii. 259;
savage faith in the immortality of, viii. 260 sqq.;
transmigration of human souls into, viii. 285 sqq.;
two forms of the worship of, viii. 311;
processions with sacred, viii. 316 sqq.;
transference of evil to, ix. 31 sqq., 49 sqq.;
as scapegoats, ix. 31 sqq., 190 sqq., 208 sqq., 216 sq.;
guardian spirits of, ix. 98;
prayed to, ix. 236;
dances taught by, ix. 237;
imitated in dances, ix. 376, 377, 381, 382;
burnt alive as a sacrifice in England, Wales, and Scotland, x. 300 sqq.;
witches transformed into, x. 315 sqq., xi. 311 sq.;
bewitched, buried alive, x. 324 sqq.;
live, burnt at Spring and Midsummer festivals, xi. 38 sqq.;
the animals perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, xi. 41 sq., 43 sq.;
the language of, learned by means of fern-seed, xi. 66 n.;
external soul in, xi. 196 sqq.;
helpful, in fairy tales.
See Helpful
Animism, the Buddhist, not a philosophical theory, ii. 13 sq.;
passing into polytheism, ii. 45;
passing into religion, iii. 213
Aninga, aquatic plant in Brazil, ix. 264
Anitos, spirits of ancestors, in Luzon, ii. 30, viii. 124
Anjea, mythical being, who causes conception in women, i. 100, 184, v. 103
Ankenmilch bohren, to make the need-fire, x. 270 n.
Anklets, as amulets, iii. 315;
made of human sinews, worn by king of Uganda, vi. 224 sq.
Ankole, in Central Africa, the Bahima of, vi. 190, viii. 288, x. 80
Anna, sister of Dido, v. 114 n. 1
Anna Kuari, an Oraon goddess, human sacrifices to, vii. 244
Annals of Tigernach and Ulster, ii. 286
Annam, rain-making ceremonies in caves of, i. 301 sq.;
the Chams of, ii. 159;
dangers apprehended from women in childbed in, iii. 155;
ceremonies observed when a whale is washed ashore in, iii. 223;
wild beasts spoken of respectfully in, iii. 403;
natives of, their indifference to death, iv. 136 sq.;
offerings to the dead in spring in, v. 235 n. 1;
annual festivals of the dead in, vi. 62 sqq.;
inauguration of spring by means of an effigy of an ox in, viii. 13 sq.;
mountaineers of, sacrifice to their nets, viii. 240 n. 1;
demons of sickness transferred to fowls in, ix. 33;
demon of cholera sent away on a raft from, ix. 190;
explanation of human mortality in, ix. 303;
dread of menstruous women in, x. 85;
use of wormwood to avert demons in, xi. 61 n. 1
Annamite tale of a bleeding tree, ii. 33
Annamites, their belief as to demons, iii. 58;
their way of protecting infants from demons, iii. 235
Annandale, Nelson, as to H. Vaughan Stevens, ii. 237 n.
Anne, Queen, touches for scrofula, i. 370
Anno, in West Africa, use of magical dolls at, i. 71
Annual abdication of kings, iv. 148
—— death and resurrection of gods, v. 6
—— renewal of king's power at Babylon, iv. 113
—— sacrifice of a sacred animal, viii. 31
—— tenure of the kingship, iv. 113 sqq.
Anodynes based on the principle of sympathetic magic, i. 93 sq.
Anointed, human scapegoat, ix. 218
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Anointing a stone in a rain-charm, i. 305
—— stones in order to avert bullets from absent warriors, i. 130
Anointment, of weapon which caused wound, i. 202 sqq.;
of priests at installation, iii. 14;
as a ceremony of consecration, v. 21 n. 2 and 3, 68, 74;
of sacred stones, custom of, v. 36;
of the body as a means of acquiring certain qualities, viii. 162 sqq.
Anpu and Bata, ancient Egyptian story of, xi. 134 sqq.
Ant-hill, insane people buried in an, x. 64
Antaeus, grave of the giant, i. 286
——, king of Libya, and his daughter Barce, ii. 300 sq.
Antagonism of religion to magic, i. 226
Antaimorona, the, of Madagascar, their chiefs held responsible for failure of the crops, i. 354
Antambahoaka, the, of Madagascar, confession of sins among the, iii. 216 sq.
Antandroy, the, of Madagascar, their custom at circumcision, iii. 227
Antankarana tribe of Madagascar believe that their souls at death pass into animals, viii. 290
Antelope (Antilope leucoryx), ceremony after killing a, viii. 244
Antelopes, soul of a dead king incarnate in, vi. 163
Anthemis nobilis, camomile, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 63
Anthesteria, dramatic death and resurrection of Dionysus perhaps acted at the, iv. 32;
festival of the dead at Athens, v. 234 sq., ix. 152 sq.;
an Athenian festival of Dionysus, compared with a modern Thracian celebration of the Carnival, vii. 30 sqq.
Anthesterion, Attic month, corresponding to February, ii. 137, ix. 143 n., 352
Anthropomorphism of the spirits of nature, vii. 212
Antiaris toxicaria, poison tree, superstition of the Kayans as to the, ii. 17
Antibes, Holy Innocents' Day at, ix. 336 sq.
Antichrist, expected reign of, iv. 44 sq.
Antigone, the execution of, ii. 228 n. 5
Antigonus, King, v. 212;
deified by the Athenians, i. 390, 391 n. 1
Antilope leucoryx, ceremony of Ewe hunter after killing a, viii. 244
Antimachia in Cos, priest of Hercules dressed as woman at, vi. 258
Antimores of Madagascar, their chiefs held responsible for the operation of the laws of nature, i. 354
Antinmas, the twenty-fourth day after Christmas, ix. 167
Antinous, games in honour of, at Mantinea, vii. 80, 85
Antioch, destroyed by an earthquake, v. 222 n. 1;
festival of Adonis at, v. 227, 257 sq.;
how it was freed from scorpions, viii. 280 sq.
Antiochus, Greek calendar of, v. 303 n. 3
Antiquity, of the cultivation of the cereals in Europe, vii. 79;
human scapegoats in classical, ix. 229 sqq.
Antoninus Liberalis, on the birth of Hercules, iii. 299 n. 1
—— Marcus, plague in his reign, ix. 64
Antonius Mountain, in Thuringia, Christmas bonfire on the, x. 265 sq.
Antrim, harvest customs concerning the last corn cut in, vii. 144, 154 sq.;
“Winning the Churn” in, vii. 154 sq.
Ants, bites of, used in purificatory ceremony, iii. 105;
eaten to make the eater brave, viii. 147;
superstitious precaution against the ravages of, viii. 276;
jealousy transferred to, ix. 33;
stinging people with, ix. 263, x. 61, 62 sq.
Antwerp, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70;
wicker giants at, xi. 35 sq.
Anu, Babylonian god, visit of Ishtar to, ix. 399 n. 1
Anubis, Egyptian jackal-headed god, vi. 15, 18 n. 3, 22 n. 2;
represented by a masked man, ii. 133;
finds the body of Osiris, vi. 85;
personated by a priest wearing the mask of a dog or a jackal, vi. 85 n. 3
Anula tribe of Northern Australia, their disposal of foreskins at circumcision, i. 95;
burial customs of the, i. 102 sq.;
their way of stopping rain, i. 253;
their mode of making rain, i. 287 sq.;
their rites of initiation, xi. 235
Anyanja of British Central Africa, their dread of menstruous women, x. 81 sq.
Anzikos, the, of West Africa, iii. 271
Aola, village of Guadalcanar, viii. 126
Apaches, the, iii. 182, 183, x. 21;
their way of procuring rain, i. 306;
avoidance of wife's mother among the, iii. 85;
custom observed by them on the war-path, iii. 160;
purify themselves after the slaughter of foes, iii. 184;
keep their names from strangers, iii. 325, 328;
propitiated the animal gods before hunting deer, antelope, or elk, viii. 242;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 n.
Apachitas, heaps of stones in Peru, ix. 9
Apala cured by Indra in the Rigveda, xi. 192
Apamea in Syria, Alcibiades of, iv. 5 n. 3;
worship of Poseidon at, v. 195
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Ape in homoeopathic magic, i. 156;
a Batta totem, xi. 223.
See also Apes
Apepi, Egyptian fiend, i. 67
Apes, thought to be related to twins, i. 265;
voices of, imitated as a charm, ii. 23;
ceremony of Yuracares after killing, viii. 235 sq.
Aphaca in Syria, sanctuary of Astarte at, v. 28, 259;
meteor as signal for festival at, v. 259
Ap-hi, Abchase god of thunder and lightning, ii. 370
Aphrodite, represented as mother of Demetrius Poliorcetes, i. 391;
the grave of, iv. 4;
human sacrifices to, iv. 166 n. 1;
her sacred doves, v. 33, 147;
sanctuary of, at Paphos, v. 33 sqq.;
the month of, v. 145;
her blood dyes white roses red, v. 226;
name applied to summer, vi. 41
—— and Adonis, i. 25, v. 11 sq., 29, 280, ix. 386, xi. 294 sq.;
their marriage celebrated at Alexandria, v. 224
—— Askraia, i. 26
—— and Cinyras, v. 48 sq.
—— of the Lebanon, the mourning, v. 29 sq.
—— the Oriental, ix. 369 n. 1
—— and Pygmalion, v. 49 sq.
Aphtha or thrush transferred to a frog, ix. 50
Api, female hippopotamus goddess of Egypt, ii. 133
Apinagos Indians of Brazil, their dances and presentation of children to the moon, vi. 145 sqq.
Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, vi. 11, 119 n., viii. 34 sqq., ix. 217;
mourning for the death of, v. 225;
held to be an image of the soul of Osiris, vi. 130;
drowned in a holy spring, viii. 36;
not suffered to outlive a certain term of years, viii. 173
Apodtho, the ancestor of all men, iii. 79
Apollo at Delos, i. 32, 34 sq., ii. 135;
prophetess of, inspired by laurel, i. 384, iv. 80;
image of, in sacred cave at Hylae, i. 386;
at Patara, ii. 135;
purification of, iii. 223 n. 1;
servitude of, iv. 70 n. 1, 78;
and the laurel, iv. 78 sqq.;
at Thebes, iv. 79;
purged of the dragon's blood in the Vale of Tempe, iv. 81;
dedication of a tithe-offering to, iv. 187 n. 5;
the friend of Cinyras, v. 54;
music in the worship of, v. 54 sq.;
his musical contest with Marsyas, v. 55, 288;
reputed father of Augustus, v. 81;
purified at Tempe, vi. 240;
temple of, at the Lover's Leap, ix. 254;
temple of, at Cumae, x. 99;
identified with the Celtic Grannus, x. 112
Apollo and Artemis, birthdays of, i. 32;
the birth of, ii. 58;
their priesthood at Ephesus, vi. 243 sq.;
cake with twelve knobs offered to, ix. 351 n. 3
—— at Delphi, hair offered by boys at puberty to, i. 28;
first-fruits offered to, i. 32;
grave of, at Delphi, i. 34, 35, iv. 4;
seems to have usurped the place of an older god or hero at Delphi and Thebes, ii. 88;
and the Dragon at Delphi, iv. 78, 79, 80 sq., vi. 240;
sacrifices of Croesus to, v. 180 n. 1
——, the Cataonian, v. 147 n. 3
——, the Clarian, iv. 80 n. 1
—— Diradiotes, inspired priestess at temple of, i. 381
—— Erithasean, ii. 121
—— the Four-handed, vi. 250 n. 2
—— of the Golden Sword, v. 176
—— surnamed Locust and Mildew, viii. 282
—— the Mouse, his temple in the Troad, viii. 283
—— Soranus, xi. 14, 15 n. 3
——, the Wolf-slayer, viii. 283 sq.
Apollonia, festival at Delos, i. 32 n. 2
——, a city in Macedonia, ix. 143 n.
Apollonius of Tyana, how he rid Antioch of scorpions, viii. 280 sq.;
how he rid Constantinople of flies, viii. 281
Apologies offered to trees for cutting them down, ii. 18 sq., 30, 36 sq.;
for trespass on sacred groves, ii. 328;
offered by savages to the animals they kill, viii. 215, 217, 218, 221, 222 sqq., 235 sqq., 243
Apotheosis by being burnt alive, v. 179 sq.
Apoyaos, tribe in Luzon, their human sacrifices, vii. 241
Appam, a town on the Gold Coast, family descended from a fish at, iv. 129
Appian, on the costume of a priest of Isis, vi. 85 n. 3
Apple, offered instead of ram or ox to Hercules, viii. 95 n. 2;
divination by a sliced, at Hallowe'en, x. 238;
and candle, biting at, x. 241, 242, 243, 245
—— -tree, afterbirth of cow hung in an, i. 198 sq.;
straw-man placed on oldest, viii. 6;
as life-index of boy, xi. 165
—— -trees, barren women roll under, to obtain offspring, ii. 57;
torches thrown at, x. 108;
mistletoe on, xi. 315, 316 n. 5
Apples at festival of Diana, i. 14, 16;
forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, v. 280 n. 7;
dipping for, at Hallowe'en, x. 237, 239, 241, 242, 243, 245
Apricot-trees, mistletoe on, xi. 316
April, religious rites performed by the [pg 163] Vestals in, ii. 229;
the first Sunday of, custom observed at Naples on, iv. 241;
Siamese festival of the dead in, ix. 150;
ceremony of the new fire in, x. 136 sq., xi. 3;
Chinese festival of fire in, xi. 3
April 2nd, annual sacrifice of wild boars in Cyprus on, viii. 23 n. 3
—— 15th, sacrifice on, ii. 229, 326
—— 21st, date of the Parilia, ii. 325, 326;
ceremony performed by the Vestals on, viii. 42
—— 23rd, St. George's Day, ii. 75, 76, 330 sqq.
—— 24th, in some places St. George's Day, ii. 337, 343;
the great mondard made on, viii. 6
—— 27th, in popular superstitions of Morocco, x. 17 sq.
—— 30th, Walpurgis Day, ix. 163
Apuleius, as to the love-charm of a Thessalian witch, iii. 270;
his story of Cupid and Psyche, iv. 131 n. 1;
on the worship of Isis, vi. 119 n.;
on a cure for scorpion bite, ix. 50 n. 1
Aquaelicium and Jupiter, ii. 184 n.
Aquilex, rain-maker, i. 310 n. 4
Arab belief that a game of ball may cause rain, ix. 179
—— charm to forget sorrow, i. 150;
to bring back a runaway slave, i. 152;
to ensure birth of strong children, i. 153;
to fertilize a barren woman, i. 157;
of the setting sun, i. 165 sq.;
to get good teeth, i. 181;
to make rain, i. 303
—— commentator as to the fig and the olive, ii. 316;
on the Koran as to knots in magic, iii. 302
—— cure by means of knotted thread, iii. 304;
cure for melancholy, ix. 4
—— legend of king bled to death, iii. 243 n. 7
—— love-charm by means of knots, iii. 305
—— mode of cursing an enemy, iii. 312
—— name for the scarlet anemone, v. 226
—— sacrifice for rain, i. 289
—— women, their custom of muffling their faces, iii. 122;
in North Africa give their male children the hearts of lions to eat, viii. 142 sq.;
in Morocco, their superstitions as to plants at Midsummer, xi. 51
—— writer on the death of the King of the Jinn, iv. 8;
on talismans against locusts and murrain, viii. 281
Arabia, sacred acacia-tree in, ii. 42;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
use of camel as scapegoat for plague in, ix. 33
Arabia, ancient, taboos observed by incense-growers in, ii. 106 sq.;
belief as to shadows in, iii. 82;
Sabaea or Sheba in, iii. 124;
tree-spirits in snake form in, xi. 44 n. 1
Arabian, modern, story of the external soul, xi. 137 sq.
Arabian Nights, story of the external soul in the, xi. 137
Arabic treatise on magic, i. 65;
writer on the mourning for Tâ-uz (Tammuz) in Harran, v. 230
Arabs believe the soul to be in the blood, iii. 241;
avoid using the proper names for lion, leprosy, etc., iii. 400;
ancient, supposed to know the language of birds, viii. 146;
their custom as to widows, ix. 35;
their custom in regard to murder, ix. 63;
beat camels to deliver them from jinn, ix. 260
—— of Algeria, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1
—— of East Africa, their faith in an unguent of lion's fat, viii. 164
——, the heathen, their custom as to a boy's cast teeth, i. 181;
their way of procuring rain, i. 303;
their treatment of a man stung by a scorpion, iii. 95 n. 8
—— of Moab, their charm against scorpions, i. 153;
their charm to ensure the birth of children, i. 157;
their rain-making ceremony, i. 276;
their use of shorn hair as a hostage, iii. 273;
preserve their nail-parings against the resurrection, iii. 280;
resort to the springs of Callirrhoe, v. 215 sq.;
their custom at harvest, vi. 48, 96, vii. 138;
their remedies for ailments, vi. 242
—— of Morocco, their custom at the Great Feast, ix. 265;
their Midsummer customs, x. 214
—— of North Africa, their rain-charm, i. 277;
jinn invoked by their names among the, iii. 390
Aracan, ix. 117;
the Mrus of, ix. 12 n. 1;
dances for the crops in, ix. 236
Arachnaeus, Mount, altars of Zeus and Hera on, ii. 360
Arad, in Hungary, thresher of last corn wrapt in a cow's hide at, vii. 291
Araguaya River in Brazil, iii. 348
Aran, in the valley of the Garonne, Midsummer fires at, x. 193
Aran Islands, off Galway, St. Eany's well in the, ii. 161
Aratus of Sicyon, sacrifices to, i. 105;
deemed a son of Aesculapius, v. 81
Araucanians of South America, the, ix. 12;
their idea as to toads, i. 292 n. 3;
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their belief that thunder-storms are caused by the spirits of the dead, ii. 183;
afraid of having their portraits taken, iii. 97;
keep their names secret, iii. 324;
eat fruit of Araucanian pine, v. 278 n. 2
See also Aucas
Araunah, the threshing-floor of, v. 24
Arawak Indians of British Guiana, murderers taste the blood of their victims among the, viii. 154 sq.;
their explanation of human mortality, ix. 302 sq.
Arcadia, the oak forests of, ii. 354 sq.
Arcadian boys offer their hair to a river, i. 31
—— custom of beating Pan's image, ix. 256
Arcadians ate and eat acorns, ii. 355, 356;
sacrifice to thunder and lightning, v. 157
Arch to shut out plague, ix. 5;
creeping through, as a cure, ix. 55;
child after an illness passed under an, xi. 192;
young men at initiation passed under a leafy, xi. 193;
triumphal, suggested origin of the, xi. 195.
See also Arches, Archways
Archangel, worship of Leschiy in the Government of, ii. 125
Archangels, Persian, ix. 373 n. 1
Archbishop of Innocents, ix. 334
Archer (Tirant), effigy of, xi. 36
Archery, contest of, for a bride, ii. 306
Arches made over paths at expulsion of demons, ix. 113, 120 sq.;
novices at initiation passed under arches in Australia, xi. 193 n. 1
See also Arch, Archways
Archigallus, high-priest of Attis, v. 268, 279;
prophesies, v. 271 n.
Archways, passing under, as a means of escaping evil spirits or sickness, xi. 179 sqq.
See also Arch, Arches
Arctic origin, alleged, of the Aryans, v. 229 n. 1
—— regions, ceremonies at the reappearance of the sun in the, ix. 124 sq., 125 n. 1
Arcturus, Greek vintage timed by, vii. 47 n. 2;
Greek festival before, 51, 52
Arden, Forest of, ii. 7
Ardennes, May Day custom in the, ii. 80;
Arduinna, goddess of the, ii. 126;
effigies of Carnival burned in the, iv. 226 sq.;
precautions against rats in the, viii. 277;
the King of the Bean in the, ix. 314;
the Eve of Epiphany in the, ix. 317;
bonfires on the first Sunday of Lent in the, x. 107 sq.;
the French, Lenten fires and customs in, x. 109 sq.;
Midsummer fires in the, x. 188;
the Yule log in the, x. 253;
cats burnt alive in Lenten bonfires in the, xi. 40
Ardrishaig, in Argyleshire, the harvest Maiden at, vii. 155 sq.
Arduinna, goddess of the Ardennes, ii. 126
Aren palm-tree, superstition as to, ii. 22
Arenna or Arinna, the Hittite sun-goddess of, v. 136, with n. 1
Arensdorf, custom at sowing in, v. 239
Ares, men sacred to, iii. 111;
the grave of, iv. 4
Argaeus, Mount, in Cappadocia, v. 190 sq.
Argentina and Bolivia, passes of, ix. 9
Argenton, in Berry, Mid-Lenten custom at, iv. 241 sq.
Argive brides wore false beards, vi. 260
—— maidens sacrificed their hair to Athena, i. 28
—— tradition as to descent of Dionysus into Hades, vii. 15
—— women bewailed Adonis, v. 227 n.
Argo, tree of which the ship was made, xi. 94 n. 1
Argolis, Eastern, physical features of, ii. 360
Argos, titular kings at, i. 47 n.;
Apollo Diradiotes at, i. 381;
Flowery Hera at, ii. 143 n. 2;
new fire after a death in, ii. 267 n. 4;
altar of Rainy Zeus at, ii. 360 n. 8
Argus, Hermes tried for the murder of, ix. 24
Argyleshire, locks unlocked at childbirth in, iii. 296;
use of knotted threads as a cure in, iii. 304;
last corn cut at harvest called the Maiden in, vii. 155 sq.;
the last corn cut at harvest called the Old Wife (Cailleach) in, vii. 164
—— stories of the external soul, xi. 127 sqq.
Argyrus, temple of Hercules at, x. 99 n. 3
Ari or totem, mode of determining a young man's, i. 99
Ariadne, Cyprian worship of, vii. 209 n. 2
—— and Dionysus, ii. 138
—— and Theseus, iv. 75
Ariadne's crown, ii. 138
—— Dance, iv. 75, 77
Ariccia, the modern descendant of Aricia, i. 3, xi. 309
Aricia, sacred grove at, i. 3, viii. 95;
the beggars of, i. 4;
Orestes at, i. 10;
“many Manii at,” i. 22, viii. 94 sqq.;
its distance from the sanctuary, ii. 2;
the priest of, ix. 273;
King of the Wood at, ix. 409;
the priest of, and the Golden Bough, x. 1;
the priest of Diana at, perhaps a personified Jupiter, xi. 302 sq.
Arician grove, the sacred, i. 20, 22, ii. 115, ix. 274, 305;
horses excluded from, i. 20, viii. 40 sqq.;
ritual of, iv. 213;
perhaps the scene of a [pg 165] common harvest celebration, viii. 44;
said to have been founded by Manius, viii. 95;
the Midsummer festival of fire in, xi. 285;
the priest of, a personification of an oak-spirit, xi. 285.
See also Nemi
Arician priesthood, ix. 305
—— slope, the, i. 4 n. 5
Aries, the constellation, the sun in, ix. 361 n. 1, 403
Arikara Indians, their rule as to breaking marrow bones, i. 115 sq.;
their preparation for war by fasting and lacerating themselves, iii. 161
Ariminum, triumphal arch of Augustus at, xi. 194 n. 4
Aristeas of Proconnesus, his soul as a raven, iii. 34
Aristides, the rhetorician, on first-fruit offerings, vii. 56;
on Eleusinian Games, vii. 71
Aristomenes, Messenian hero, his fabulous birth, v. 81
Aristophanes, Strepsiades in, i. 285;
on the Spartan envoy, v. 196 n. 4;
on Hercules as patron of hot springs, v. 209
Aristotelian philosophy, revival of the, v. 301
Aristotle, on death at ebb-tide, i. 167;
on the marriage of the Queen to Dionysus, ii. 137;
his Constitution of Athens, ii. 137 n. 1, vii. 79;
on the political institutions of Cyprus, v. 49 n. 7;
on earthquakes, v. 211 n. 3;
on the trial of lifeless objects by the King at Athens, viii. 5 n. 1;
on men of genius, viii. 302 n. 5;
his statement of the principle of the survival of the fittest, viii. 306
Arizona, the aridity of, i. 306;
the Moquis of, iii. 228;
mock human sacrifices in, iv. 215;
the Pueblo Indians of, vii. 312;
and New Mexico, use of bull-roarers in, xi. 230 n., 231
Arjun and Draupadi, ii. 306
Arkansas Indians, their offerings of first-fruits to the Master of Life, viii. 134
Arkon, in Rügen, sacred shrine at, ii. 241 n. 4
Arks, sacred, of the Cherokees, x. 11 sq.
Armadillos not to be shot with poisoned arrows, i. 116
Armengols, in the Pelew Islands, vi. 265
Armenia, rain-making in, i. 275 sq., 277, 282, 285;
rain-charm by means of pebbles in, i. 305;
rain-charms by means of rocks in, i. 306;
the Paulicians of, i. 407;
barren fruit-trees threatened in, ii. 22;
new fire after a death in, ii. 267 n. 4;
worship of Anaitis in, ii. 282 n. 3, ix. 369 n. 1;
sacred prostitution of girls before marriage in, v. 38, 58;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
were-wolves in, x. 316;
sick people creep through cleft trees in, xi. 173
Armenian charms by means of knots and locks, iii. 308
—— church, the day of the Virgin in the, i. 16;
bonfires at Candlemas in the, x. 131
—— custom as to extracted teeth, i. 182
—— idea of the sun as a wheel, x. 334 n. 1
Armenians, their belief that lightning is produced by means of flints, ii. 374;
preserve their cut hair and nails and extracted teeth for use at the resurrection, iii. 280;
their festivals of the dead, vi. 65 sq.;
their opinion of the baleful influence of the moon on children, vi. 148;
their belief in demons, ix. 107 sq.
Arms of youths punctured to make them good hunters, x. 58
Army under arms, Flamen Dialis forbidden to see, iii. 13
Arnobius on the Roman custom of keeping perpetual fires, ii. 260
Arnold, Matthew, on the English middle class, iv. 146
Arnstadt, witches burnt at, x. 6
Arran, magical stone in, i. 161;
the need-fire in, x. 293
Arrephoroi at Athens, the, ii. 199
Arriaga, J. de, on the Peruvian Maize-mothers, Coca-mothers, and Potato-mothers, vii. 173 n.
Arrian, on sacrifices to Artemis, ii. 125 sq.;
on Attis, v. 282
Arrows, poisoned, not to be used against certain animals, i. 116;
in homoeopathic magic, i. 143;
in contagious magic, i. 201, 202;
fire-tipped, shot at sun during an eclipse, i. 311;
shot as a rain-charm, i. 396;
shot at sacred trees as mark of respect, ii. 11;
to keep off death, iii. 31;
invisible, of demons, ix. 101, 126;
used as a love-charm, x. 14
Arsacid house, divinity of Parthian kings of the, i. 417 sq.
Art, sylvan deities in classical, ii. 45;
Demeter and Persephone in, vii. 43 sq.
Artaxerxes II., his promotion of the worship of Anaitis, ix. 370
Artemis at Ephesus, i. 7;
temple dedicated to her by Xenophon, i. 7;
the Asiatic, i. 7;
vineyards dedicated to, i. 15;
at Delos, i. 28;
hair of maidens sacrificed to, before marriage, i. 28 sq.;
birthday of, i. 32, ii. 125;
a goddess of the wild life of nature, i. 35 sq.;
mated with a male consort, i. 35 [pg 166] sq.;
not originally a virgin goddess, i. 35 sq.;
the patroness of childbirth, i. 37;
identified with lewd Asiatic goddesses of love and fertility, i. 37;
the birth of, ii. 58;
sacrifices to, ii. 125;
the Huntress, first-fruits of the chase offered to, ii. 125 sq.;
worshipped by the Celts, ii. 125 sq.;
at Perga, v. 35;
name given by Greeks to Asiatic Mother Goddesses, v. 169
Artemis, Aetolian, her sacred grove among the Veneti, i. 27
—— and Apollo, birthdays of, i. 32;
the birth of, ii. 58;
their priesthood at Ephesus, vi. 243
——, Brauronian, sacrifice of a goat to, viii. 41 n. 3
—— of Ephesus, i. 7, 37 sq., ii. 128, 136;
her image, i. 37 sq.;
in relation to the Virgin Mary, i. 38 n. 1;
served by eunuch priests, v. 269
—— the Hanged, v. 291
—— and Hippolytus, i. 19 sq., 24 sqq.
——, Laphrian, at Patrae, v. 126 n. 2
——, Munychian, sacrifice to, iv. 166 n. 1;
mock human sacrifice in the ritual of, iv. 215 sq.
—— Parthenos, i. 36
——, Perasian, at Castabala in Cappadocia, v. 115, 167 sqq., xi. 14
——, Sarpedonian, in Cilicia, v. 167, 171
——, Savonian, i. 26
——, the Tauric, human sacrifices to, v. 115
—— Tauropolis, v. 275 n. 1
——, Wolfish, i. 26 sq.
Artemisia founds Mausoleum, iv. 94 sq.;
drinks ashes of her husband Mausolus, viii. 158
Artemisia absinthium, wormwood, xi. 58 n. 3, 61 n. 1
—— laciniata, garlands of, ix. 284
—— vulgaris, mugwort, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 58 sqq.
Artemision, a Greek month, vi. 239 n. 1, viii. 8
Artictis, the bear-cat, associated with the spirits of the dead, viii. 294
Artificers, worship of the, viii. 60 sq.
Artocarpus integrifolia, jack wood burnt in exorcism, iv. 216
Artois, mugwort at Midsummer in, xi. 59
Arts and crafts, use of spells or incantations in, ix. 81
Aru Archipelago, riddles propounded while a corpse is uncoffined in the, ix. 121 n. 3
—— Islands, custom of not sleeping after a death in the, iii. 37, 95;
children's hair deposited on a banana-tree in the, iii. 276;
dog's flesh eaten to make eater brave in the, viii. 145
Arum acaule, forbidden as food to the king of Fernando Po, iii. 291
Arunta of Central Australia, magical ceremonies among the, i. 85 sqq.;
custom observed by women during operation of subincision, i. 93 sq.;
the rain or water totem among the, i. 98;
burial customs of the, i. 102;
cannibalism among the, i. 106;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 183;
their rain-making ceremonies, i. 259 sqq.;
their belief as to the ghosts of the slain, iii. 177 sq.;
their fear of women's blood, iii. 251;
ceremonies at the end of mourning among the, iii. 373 sq.;
their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 99, 100;
their sacred pole, x. 7;
their dread of women at menstruation, x. 77;
legend that the ancestors kept their spirits in their churinga, xi. 218 n. 3;
rites of initiation among the, xi. 233 sq.;
initiation of medicine-men among the, xi. 238
Arval Brothers, their holy pots, ii. 203 sq.;
expiation for bringing an iron tool into the sacred grove of the, iii. 226;
their wreaths of corn, v. 44 n., ix. 232;
a Roman college of priests charged with the performance of rites for the crops, vi. 239, ix. 230, 232;
their song, ix. 238.
See also Fratres Arvales
Aryan custom of leading a bride thrice round the hearth of her new home, ii. 230;
of counting by nights instead of days, ix. 326 n. 2
—— family, custom of putting the old and sick to death in several branches of the, iv. 14 n. 3;
marriage customs of the, vi. 235
—— god of the oak and thunder, ii. 356 sqq., x. 265;
god of the sky, ii. 374 sq.
—— languages, names for moon and month in, ix. 325
—— peoples, descent of kingship through women among, ii. 280;
their correction of the lunar year, ix. 342;
stories of the external soul among, xi. 97 sqq.
—— stock, tree-worship among all the great European families of the, ii. 9
—— tribes of Gilgit revere the chili, a species of cedar, ii. 49
Aryans, magical powers ascribed to kings among the, i. 366 sqq.;
perpetual fires among the, ii. 260;
female kinship among the, ii. 283 sqq.;
importance of cattle and milk among the ancient, ii. 324 n. 1;
the primitive, their theory of personal names, iii. 319;
their alleged Arctic origin, v. 229 n. 1;
annual festivals of the dead among the, vi. 67 sqq.
—— of Europe, their oak forests and use [pg 167] of oak-wood, ii. 372, 378;
agriculture among the early, vii. 129 sq.;
totemism not proved for the, viii. 4;
importance of the Midsummer festival among the, xi. 40;
the oak the chief sacred tree of the, xi. 89 sq.
Aryans of India, transubstantiation among the, viii. 89 sq.
—— of the Vedic age, ix. 324;
their calendar, ix. 325, 342
Aryenis, daughter of Alyattes, v. 133 n. 1
Asa, a branch of the Masai, how they dispose of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278
Asaba, on the Lower Niger, chiefs eat in privacy at, iii. 118
Asada, name of a month in Bali, vii. 315
Asakusa, in Tokio, expulsion of the devil on the last day of the year at, ix. 213
Ascalon, the goddess Derceto at, v. 34 n. 3, ix. 370 n. 1
Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, ii. 197;
and the Game of Troy, iv. 76
Ascension of Adonis, v. 225
—— Day, the May-tree in Saxony on, ii. 69;
annual pardon of a criminal at Rouen on, ii. 165, 166, 168, 169, ix. 215 sq.;
the “Carrying out of Death” on, at Braller, iv. 222 n. 1, 247 sqq.;
cures on Eve of, ix. 54;
annual expulsion of the devil on, ix. 214 sq.;
bells rung to make flax grow on, ix. 247 sq.;
parasitic rowan should be cut on, xi. 281
Ascent of Persephone, viii. 17
Ascetic idealism of the East, ii. 117
Asceticism not primitive, x. 65
Aschbach, in Bavaria, the Old Man at reaping and threshing at, vii. 219 sq.
Asclepias gigantea, man married to, in Barar, ii. 57 n. 4
Ash-tree, parings of nails buried under an, iii. 276;
in popular cure, ix. 57
—— -trees, children passed through cleft ash-trees as a cure for rupture or rickets, xi. 168 sqq.
—— Wednesday, death of Caramantran on, iv. 220;
burial of the Carnival on, iv. 221;
effigies of Carnival or of Shrove Tuesday burnt or buried on, iv. 226, 228 sqq., x. 120;
effigy of the Queen of Lent fashioned on, iv. 244;
pea-soup and pigs' bones eaten on, vii. 300
Ashantee, licence accorded to king's sisters in, ii. 274 sq.;
royal criminals drowned in, iii. 242 sq.;
precaution as to the spittle of the king of, iii. 289;
kings of, addressed as “Elephant” and “Lion,” iv. 86;
kings of, take one of their titles from borri, a venomous snake, iv. 86;
human sacrifices at earthquakes in, v. 201;
kings of, their human sacrifices, vi. 97 n. 7;
annual period of licence in, ix. 226 n. 1
Ashantees, the, sanctity of the king's throne among, i. 365;
their festivals of new yams, viii. 62 sq.;
ate Sir Charles McCarthy to acquire his bravery, viii. 149
Asherim (singular asherah), sacred poles, in Canaan, iv. 169, v. 18, 18 n. 2, 107, 108
Ashes from a pyre used to cause sleep, i. 148;
of serpents in homoeopathic magic, i. 152 sq.;
of spiders in homoeopathic magic, i. 152;
of wasps in homoeopathic magic, i. 152;
of a blind cat in homoeopathic magic, i. 153;
of the dead turned into rain, i. 287;
scattered as a rain-charm, i. 304;
scattered to make sunshine, i. 314;
of holy fire rubbed on foreheads of warriors, ii. 215;
of unborn calves used in a fertility charm, ii. 229, 326;
strewn on the head, iii. 112;
as manure, vii. 117;
of human victims scattered on fields, vii. 258;
of the dead swallowed as a mode of communion with them, viii. 156 sqq.;
in divination, x. 243, 244, 245.
See also Sticks, Charred
—— of bonfires put in fowls' nests, x. 112, 338;
mixed with seed at sowing, x. 121;
increase fertility of fields, x. 141, 337;
make cattle thrive, x. 141, 338;
placed in a person's shoes, x. 156;
administered to cattle to make them fat, xi. 4
—— of dead smeared on mourner, viii. 164;
disposal of the, x. 11
—— of Hallowe'en fires scattered, x. 233
—— of holy fires a protection against demons, xi. 8, 17
—— of human victim scattered with winnowing-fans, vi. 97, 106, vii. 260, 262;
scattered on earth to fertilize it, vii. 240;
scattered on fields, vii. 249, 250, 251
—— of Midsummer fires strewed on fields to fertilize them, x. 170, 190, 203;
a protection against conflagration, x. 174, 196;
a protection against lightning, x. 187, 188;
a protection against thunder, x. 190;
put by people in their shoes, x. 191 sq.;
a cure for consumption, x. 194 sq.;
rubbed by people on their hair or bodies, x. 213, 214, 215;
good for the eyes, x. 214
—— of the need-fire strewn on fields to protect the crops against vermin, x. 274;
used as a medicine, x. 286
—— of New Year's fire used to rub sore eyes, x. 218
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Ashes of Yule log strewed on fields, x. 250;
used to heal swollen glands, x. 251
Ashintilly, Spalding of, bewitched, iii. 299
Ashira, the, of West Africa, make fetishes out of clipped hair, iii. 271 sq.;
women the agricultural labourers among, vii. 120
Ashtaroth, Babylonian goddess, ix. 365 sq.
Ashtoreth (Astarte), v. 18 n. 2
See Astarte
Ashur, Arab New Year's Day, x. 217, 218
Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, marries daughter of Sanda-sarme, v. 144;
confused with the legendary Sardanapalus, v. 173 sq., ix. 387 sq.;
carries off the bones of the kings of Elam, vi. 103
Ashwin (Ashvin), Indian month, iv. 55, v. 243
Asia, North-Eastern, the Chuckchees of, ii. 225;
the Koryaks of, ii. 225, iii. 32 sq.
——, Western, Saturnalia in, ix. 354 sqq.
Asia Minor, pontiffs in, i. 47;
the Yourouks of, ii. 43;
priestly dynasties of, v. 140 sq.;
subject to volcanic forces, v. 190;
subject to earthquakes, v. 202;
the Caunians of, ix. 116;
use of human scapegoats by the Greeks of, ix. 255;
rapid diffusion of Christianity in, ix. 420 sq.;
the Celts in, xi. 89;
cure for possession by an evil spirit in, xi. 186;
creeping through rifted rocks in, xi. 189
Asiatic goddesses of love and fertility, their lewd worship, i. 37;
served by eunuch priests, v. 269 sq.
Asin, Indian month, iv. 279
Asongtata, an annual ceremony performed by the Garos of Assam, ix. 208
Asopus, the river, ii. 140, 141, v. 81
“A-souling,” custom of, in England, vi. 79
Aspalis, a form of Artemis, v. 292
Aspens, fevers transferred to, ix. 57;
mistletoe on, xi. 315
Aspidium filix mas, the male fern, superstitions as to, xi. 66 sq.
Ass in rain-making ceremony, i. 282 n. 4;
son of a god in the form of an, iv. 124 sq.;
the crest or totem of a royal family, iv. 132, 133;
in cure for scorpion's bite, ix. 49 sq.;
introduced into church at Festival of Fools, ix. 335 sq.;
triumphal ride of a buffoon on an, ix. 402 sq.;
child passed under an, as a cure for whooping-cough, xi. 192 n. 1
See also Asses
Assam, viii. 116;
the hill tribes of, taboos in respect of food observed by headmen and their wives among, iii. 11;
taboos observed by warriors among, iii. 165;
concealment of personal names among, iii. 323;
genna in, vii. 109 n. 2;
agriculture in, vii. 123;
head-hunting in, vii. 256
Assam, the Khasis of, i. 194, ii. 114 n. 1, 294, v. 46, vi. 202 sqq., ix. 173, xi. 146;
the Garos of, i. 291, viii. 43 n. 1, 116, ix. 208 sq.;
the Miris of, ii. 39, 267 n. 4, vii. 123, viii. 145;
the Padams of, ii. 39;
the Mundaris of, ii. 46;
the Bodos of, iii. 285;
the Dhimals of, iii. 285;
the Kacha Nagas of, iii. 333;
the Kukis of, iii. 333;
the Zemis of, iii. 333;
the Tangkul Nagas of, vi. 57 sqq., ix. 177;
the Nagas of, viii. 100, 290, ix. 177;
the Kochs of, viii. 116;
the Kacharis of, ix. 93;
the Lushais of, ix. 94, xi. 185 sq.;
the Tangkuls of, ix. 177
“Assegai, child of the,” iv. 183
Assembly of the gods at the New Year in Babylon, ix. 356
Asses crowned at Vesta's festival in June, ii. 127 n. 2;
excluded from sanctuary of Alectrona, viii. 45;
transmigration of sinners into, viii. 299, 308.
See also Ass
—— and men, redemption of firstling, among the Hebrews, iv. 173
Assiga, tribe of South Nigeria, xi. 204
Assimilation of rain-maker to water, i. 260 sqq.;
of Egyptian kings to gods, ii. 133;
of victims to gods, vii. 261 sq.;
of men to their totems or guardian animals, viii. 207 sq.;
of human victims to trees, ix. 257, 259 n. 3
Assiniboins, their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 225
Assinie, West African kingdom, custom as to eating the new yams in, viii. 63
Association of ideas, magic based on a misapplication of the, i. 53, 174, 221 sq.;
common to the animals, i. 234
Associations, religious, among the Indian tribes of North America, xi. 267 sqq.
Assumption of the Virgin in relation to the festival of Diana, i. 14-16, v. 308, 309
Assusa, king of Fazoql, iv. 16 sq., 17 n. 1
Assyria, kings of, their annual homage to Marduk, iv. 113;
festival of Zagmuk in, iv. 116;
Ashurbanipal, king of, ix. 387 sq.
Assyrian cavalry, v. 25 n. 3
—— eponymate, iv. 116 sq.
—— kings took into their harem the daughters of the vanquished princes, ix. 368 n. 1
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Assyrian monarchs, conquerors of Babylonia, ix. 356
—— monuments, illustrative of the artificial fertilization of the date-palm, ii. 25 n., ix. 273 n. 1
—— ritual, use of golden axe in, xi. 80 n. 3
—— settlers in Israel petition for an Israelitish priest, ii. 288 n. 1
Assyrians, their use of knotted cords in magic, iii. 303 sq.;
forbidden to mention the mystic names of their cities, iii. 391;
in Cilicia, v. 173;
the ancient, their belief in demons, ix. 102
Astarte or Ishtar, a great Babylonian goddess, ix. 365;
the moon-goddess, iv. 92;
at Byblus, hair offerings to, i. 30, v. 13 sq.;
her temple at Hierapolis, iii. 286;
and the asherim, v. 18;
kings as priests of, v. 26;
at Paphos, v. 33 sqq.;
doves sacred to, v. 147;
identified with the planet Venus, v. 258;
of the Syrian Hierapolis served by eunuch priests, v. 269 sq.;
called by Lucian the Assyrian Hera, v. 280 n. 5;
the Heavenly Goddess, v. 303;
the planet Venus her star, vi. 35.
See also Ishtar
—— Aphrodite, v. 304 n.
—— and Semiramis, ix. 369 sqq.
Asteria, mother of the Tyrian Hercules (Melcarth), v. 112
Asthma transferred to a mule, ix. 50
Asti, a Thracian tribe, vii. 26
Aston, W. G., on the Japanese word for god, iii. 2 n. 2;
on the annual expulsion of demons in Japan, ix. 212 sq.;
on Japanese and Chinese ceremonies of purification, ix. 213 n. 1;
on Japanese ceremony for averting pestilence, x. 137 sq.;
on the fire-walk in Japan, xi. 10 n. 1
Astral spirit of a witch, x. 317
Astrolabe Bay, in New Guinea, ii. 255 n. 1;
precaution as to spittle in, iii. 289
Astronomical considerations determining the early Greek calendar, iv. 68 sq.
Astronomy, origin of, vii. 307
Astyages, king of the Medes, v. 133 n. 1
Asuras, the rivals of the Indian gods, viii. 120
Asvattha tree, v. 82
Aswang, an evil spirit, exorcism of, ix. 260
Atai, external soul in the Mota language, xi. 197 sq.
Atalante and her wooers, ii. 301
Atargatis, Syrian goddess, v. 34 n. 3, 137;
worshipped at Hierapolis-Bambyce, v. 162 sq.;
derivation of the name, v. 162;
her husband-god, v. 162 sq.
Ates, a Phrygian, v. 286
Ath, in Hainaut, procession of giants at, xi. 36
Athamanes of Epirus, women tilled the ground among the, vii. 129
Athamas, king of Alus, vii. 24, 25;
and his children, legend of, iv. 161 sqq.;
sentenced to be sacrificed as expiatory offering for the country, iv. 162;
said to have reigned at Orchomenus, iv. 164;
the dynasty of, v. 287
Athanasius, on the mourning for Osiris, vi. 217
Athboy, in County Meath, rath near, x. 139
'Atheh, Cilician goddess, v. 162
Athena, hair offered by maidens before marriage to, i. 28;
mother of Erichthonius, ii. 199;
perpetual lamp of, in the Erechtheum, ii. 199;
at Troy, Locrian maidens in the sanctuary of, ii. 284;
served by maidens on the Acropolis at Athens, iii. 227 n.;
sacrifices to, iv. 166 n. 1, vii. 56;
temple of, at Salamis in Cyprus, v. 145;
and hot springs, v. 209, 210;
and the aegis, viii. 40, 41;
priestess of, uses a white umbrella, x. 20 n. 1
——, Magarsian, a Cilician goddess, v. 169 n. 3
—— Sciras, sanctuary of, vi. 238
Athenaeus, on Celtic and Roman indifference to death, iv. 143
Athenian boys, race of, at the vintage, vi. 238;
boy carrying an olive-branch in procession, vi. 238
—— custom of keeping a sacred serpent on the Acropolis, iv. 86
—— festival of swinging, iv. 281
—— sacrifice of the bouphonia, viii. 4 sqq.
—— sacrifices to the Seasons, i. 310
Athenians decree divine honours to Demetrius Poliorcetes and his father Antigonus, i. 390 sq.;
prayed to Zeus for rain, ii. 359;
their tribute of youths and maidens to Minos, iv. 74;
their superstition as to an eclipse of the moon, vi. 141;
sacrifice to Dionysus for the fruits of the land, vii. 4;
the first to receive corn from Demeter, vii. 54;
claimed to be the first to spread the knowledge of corn among mankind, vii. 54 sqq.;
sacrifice an apple to Hercules, viii. 95 n. 2;
their annual festival of the dead at the Anthesteria, ix. 152 sqq.;
their use of human scapegoats, ix. 253 sq.;
their mode of reckoning a day, ix. 326 n. 2;
their religious dramas, ix. 384;
offer cakes to Cronus, x. 153 n. 3
Athens, barrow of Hippolytus at, i. 25;
sacred new fire brought from Delphi to, i. 32 sq.;
King and Queen at, i. [pg 170] 44 sq.;
stone of swearing at, i. 160;
the Eudanemi at, i. 325 n. 1;
titular king at, ii. 1;
marriage of Dionysus at, ii. 136 sq.;
sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera at, ii. 143 n. 1;
female kinship at, ii. 277;
sacred spots struck by lightning at, ii. 361;
sacrificial hearth of Lightning Zeus at, ii. 361;
kings at, iii. 21 sq.;
ritual of cursing at, iii. 75;
Athena served by maidens on the Acropolis at, iii. 227 n.;
Mid-summer rites of Adonis at, iv. 7;
the Laurel-bearing Apollo at, iv. 79 n. 3;
funeral games at, iv. 96;
hand of suicide cut off at, iv. 220 n.;
sacred serpent at, v. 87;
the Commemoration of the Dead at, v. 234;
sacrifice of an ox at, v. 296 sq.;
marriage custom at, vi. 245;
Dionysus of the Black Goatskin at, vii. 17;
Queen of, married to Dionysus, vii. 30 sq.;
sacred ceremony of ploughing at, vii. 31;
the Prytaneum at, vii. 32;
sanctuary of Green Demeter at, vii. 42, 89 n. 2;
first-fruits of the corn sent to, vii. 51, 56, 71;
called “the Metropolis of the Corn,” vii. 58;
Demeter worshipped as Fruit-bearer at, vii. 63 n. 14;
sanctuary of Earth the Nursing-Mother at, vii. 89 n. 2;
Sacred Ploughing at, vii. 108 n. 4, 109 n. 1;
annual sacrifice of a goat on the Acropolis of, viii. 41;
ceremony of killing a wolf at, viii. 221;
the Lyceum at, viii. 283, 284;
fever transferred to pillar at, ix. 53;
Cronus and the Cronia at, ix. 351 sq.;
ceremony of the new fire at Easter in, x. 130
Athis, in Normandy, Christmas bonfires at, x. 266
Athletic competitions among harvesters, vii. 76 sq.
Athos, Mount, mistletoe at, xi. 319, 320 n.
Athribis, heart of Osiris at, vi. 11
Athyr, Egyptian month, vi. 8, 41, 49 n. 1;
Osiris murdered on the seventeenth day of, vi. 8, 84;
festival of Osiris in the month of, vi. 84 sqq., 91
Atkhans, the, of the Aleutian Islands, transference of sin to weeds among, ix. 3
Atkinson, J. C., on the treatment of the placentas of mares, i. 199
Atlas, Berbers of the Great, ix. 178
Atlatatonan, Mexican goddess of lepers, ix. 292;
woman annually sacrificed in the character of, ix. 292
Atomic disintegration, viii. 305
Atonement for slain animals, iii. 207;
to animals for wrong done to them, viii. 310 sq.
See also Expiation
Atonement, the Jewish day of, ix. 210
Atonga, the, of British Central Africa, their custom after a death, iii. 286;
tribe of Lake Nyassa, their theory of earthquakes, v. 199
Atrae, city in Mesopotamia, x. 82
Atreus, king of Mycenae, ii. 279
—— and Thyestes, i. 365
Attacking the wind, i. 327 sqq.
Attacks on kings permitted, iv. 22, 48 sqq.
Attic months lunar, vii. 52
Attica, traces of female kinship in, ii. 284;
tradition of sexual communism in, ii. 284;
Sacred Ploughings in, iii. 108;
summer festival of Adonis in, v. 226;
Flowery Dionysus in, vii. 4;
time of threshing in, viii. 4;
the killing of an ox formerly a capital crime in, viii. 6;
vintage custom in, viii. 133
Atticus, his villa on the Quirinal, ii. 182 n. 1
Attis, vii. 2, 14, 214;
priests of Cybele called, v. 140, 285, 287;
sometimes identified with Adonis, v. 263;
myth and ritual of, v. 263 sqq.;
beloved by Cybele, v. 263, 282;
legends of his death, v. 264;
his legend at Pessinus, v. 264;
his self-mutilation, v. 264 sq.;
and the pine-tree, v. 264, 265, 267, 271, 277 sq., 285, vi. 98 n. 5;
his eunuch priests, v. 265, 266;
festival of his death and resurrection in March, v. 267 sqq., 272 sq., 307 sq.;
violets sprung from the blood of, v. 267;
the mourning for, v. 272;
bath of bull's blood in the rites of, v. 274 sqq.;
mysteries of, v. 274 sq.;
as a god of vegetation, v. 277 sqq., 279;
as the Father God, v. 281 sqq.;
identified with Zeus, v. 282;
as a sky-god, v. 282 sqq.;
emasculation of, suggested explanation of myth, v. 283;
his star-spangled cap, v. 284;
identified with Phrygian moon-god Men Tyrannus, v. 284;
human representatives of, v. 285 sqq.;
his relation to Lityerses, vii. 255 sq.;
killed by a boar, viii. 22
Attis, Adonis, Osiris, their mythical similarity, v. 6, vi. 201
—— and Cybele (Mother of the Gods), i. 18, 21, 40, 41;
perhaps personated by human couples, ix. 386
Attiuoindarons, Indian tribe of Canada, their custom of resuscitating the dead in their namesakes, iii. 366 sq.
Attraction and repulsion in the physical universe, viii. 303 sqq.
Atua, Polynesian term for god or guardian-spirit, i. 387 n. 1, viii. 153, 156;
ancestral spirit, iii. 134, 265
Atys, son of Croesus, his death, v. 286
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Atys, early king of Lydia, v. 286
Aubrey, John, on soul-cakes, vi. 78;
on sin-eating, ix. 43 sq.;
on the Midsummer fires, x. 197
Aucas (Araucanians), their custom of bleeding themselves to relieve fatigue, ix. 12.
See Araucanians
Auch, the archbishop of, i. 232 sq.
Aufkirchen in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, x. 144
Augsburg, harvest custom near, vii. 298
Augur's staff at Rome, iii. 313
August, procession of wicker giants in, xi. 36
—— 1st, Festival of the Cross on the, x. 220
—— 6th, festival of St. Estapin, xi. 188
——, the Ides (13th) of, Diana's day, i. 12, 14-17
—— 15th, the day of the Assumption of the Virgin, i. 14-16
—— 18th, feast of Florus and Laurus, x. 220
Augustine, on the one God, i. 121 n. 1;
on the effeminate priests of the Great Mother, v. 298;
on the heathen origin of Christmas, v. 305;
on the discovery of corn by Isis, vi. 116;
on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, vi. 233;
on the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 88;
on Roman deities of the corn, vii. 210 n. 3
Augustodunum (Autun), worship of Cybele at, v. 279
Augustus as a ruler, i. 216;
granted the oak crown, ii. 176 sq.;
reputed a son of Apollo, v. 81;
celebrates games at Actium, vii. 80;
triumphal arch of Augustus at Ariminum, xi. 195 n. 4
Aulus Gellius on the influence of the moon, vi. 132.
See also Gellius
Aun, or On, King of Sweden, sacrifices his sons to save his life, iv. 57, 160 sq., 188, vi. 220
Aunis, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 69 sq.;
wonderful herbs gathered on St. John's Eve in, xi. 45;
St. John's wort in, xi. 55;
vervain gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 62 n. 4;
four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63
—— and Saintonge, Midsummer fires in, x. 192.
See Saintonge
Aunts named after their nieces, iii. 332
Aunund, King, in Norse legend, viii. 146
Aurelia Aemilia, a sacred harlot, v. 38
Aurich, in East Friesland, “cutting the hare's tail off” at harvest at, vii. 268, 280
Auricular confession, iii. 214.
See Confession
Aurohuaca Indians of Colombia, auricular confession among the, iii. 215 sq., v. 23 n. 2
Aurora, one of the New Hebrides, rain-making by means of a stone in, i. 308;
magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 127;
tamaniu in, xi. 198
Aurora Australis, fear entertained by the Kurnai of the, iv. 267 n. 1
Ausonius, on the Ides of August, i. 12 n. 2
Aust, E., on the marriage of the Roman gods, vi. 236 n. 1
Australia, use of magical images among the aborigines of, i. 62;
cave-paintings in, i. 87 n. 1;
rain-making in, i. 251 sq., 254-261, 287 sq., 304;
dust-columns in, thought to be spirits, i. 331 sq.;
government of old men in aboriginal, i. 334 sq.;
influence of magicians in aboriginal, i. 334 sqq.;
ceremony observed at approaching the camp of another tribe in, iii. 109;
custom of personal cleanliness observed from superstitious motives among the aborigines of, iii. 158 n. 1;
names of relations tabooed among the aborigines of, iii. 345 sq.;
belief as to the reincarnation of the dead in, v. 99 sqq.;
totemism in, viii. 311;
demons in, ix. 74;
annual expulsion of ghosts in, ix. 123 sq.;
dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, x. 76 sqq.;
passing under an arch as a rite of initiation in, xi. 193 n. 1;
initiation of young men in, xi. 227, 233 sqq.;
use of bull-roarers in, xi. 289 n. 2
See also Australian aborigines, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
——, Central, ceremony to promote the growth of hair in, i. 83;
magical ceremonies for the supply of food in, i. 85 sqq.;
charm to promote the growth of beards in, i. 153 sq.;
charm to ensure wakefulness in, i. 154;
churinga (sacred sticks or stones) in, i. 199;
contagious magic of wounds in, i. 204;
the Arunta of, i. 259;
headmen of the totem clans are public magicians in, i. 335;
the Kaitish of, ii. 105, iii. 82, iv. 60;
the Warramunga of, ii. 156, ix. 2;
the Urabunna of, ii. 209;
the tribes of, do not let women see men's blood, iii. 252 n.;
the aboriginal tribes of, make no magical use of shorn hair, iii. 268 n. 1;
concealment of personal names among the aborigines of, iii. 321 sq.;
avoidance of the names of the dead among the tribes of, iii. 351;
the Luritcha tribe of, iv. 180 n. 1, viii. 260;
magical rites for the revival of nature in, iv. 270;
the Dieri of, vii. 106, viii. 151, ix. 110;
use of a species [pg 172] of Claytonia as food in, vii. 128;
the aborigines of, their ceremonies for the multiplication of kangaroos, viii. 165;
the Tjingilli tribe of, ix. 2;
pointing sticks or bones in, x. 14 n. 3;
its desert nature, xi. 230 n. 2
Australia, Northern, the Anula of, i. 253, 287;
the Tjingilli of, i. 288;
homoeopathic magic of flesh diet in, viii. 145
——, North-West, fat about heart of great warrior eaten to acquire his courage in, viii. 150 sq.
——, South, custom as to the placenta in, i. 183;
the Dieri of, ii. 29;
the Narrinyeri of, iii. 126 sq., 372, viii. 259 n.;
the Encounter Bay tribe of, iii. 127, 251, 355, 359, 372, vii. 126;
the Booandik tribe of, iii. 251, 346;
the Adelaide tribe of, iii. 355;
the Port Lincoln tribe of, iii. 365;
first-born children destroyed among some tribes of, iv. 180
——, South-Eastern, contagious magic of footprints in, i. 207 sq.;
contagious magic of bodily impressions among the aborigines of, i. 213;
belief as to the connexion of frogs with rain in, i. 292 sq.;
the Theddora and Ngarigo tribes of, viii. 151;
sex totems among the natives of, xi. 214 sqq.
——, South-Western, medicine-men (doctors) in, i. 336
——, Western, belief as to the placenta in, i. 183;
belief as to water-serpents in, ii. 156;
names of the dead not mentioned in, iii. 364;
native women dig for yam roots in, vii. 126 sq.;
the aborigines of, call certain flowering plants “Mothers,” vii. 130
Australian aborigines, magical images among the, i. 62;
ceremonies of initiation among the, i. 92 sqq.;
contagious magic of teeth among the, i. 176;
magic of navel-string and afterbirth among the, i. 183 sq.;
magic universally practised but religion nearly unknown among the, i. 234;
their custom of carrying fire with them, ii. 257;
their conception of the soul, iii. 27;
dread of a wife's mother among the, iii. 83 sq.;
die from effects of imagination, iii. 136;
their fear of menstruous women, iii. 145;
of Queensland burn women's cut hair, iii. 282;
burn women's hair after childbirth, iii. 284;
personal names kept secret among the, iii. 320 sqq.;
their fear of naming the dead, iii. 349 sqq.;
namesakes of the dead change their names among the, iii. 355 sq.;
changes in their languages caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 358 sqq.;
their fear of a woman stepping over them, iii. 424;
their beliefs as to shooting stars, iv. 60 sq., 64;
their custom of destroying first-born children, iv. 179 sq.;
their custom of killing and eating children, iv. 180 n. 1;
infanticide among the, iv. 187 n. 6;
their preparation for marriage, v. 60;
their belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 99 sqq.;
their cuttings for the dead, v. 268;
division of labour between the sexes in regard to the collection of food among, vii. 126 sqq.;
worshipped the Pleiades as the givers of rain, vii. 307;
their belief that the Pleiades were once women, vii. 308 n.;
anoint themselves with the fat of the dead in order to acquire their qualities, viii. 162 sq.;
their objection to breaking the bones of the native bear, viii. 258 n. 2;
their custom of burning the bones of the animals which they eat, viii. 259 n. 1;
their mutilations of the dead, viii. 272;
their totemism the most primitive known to us, viii. 311;
said to propitiate the kangaroos which they have killed, viii. 312 n.;
their cure for toothache, ix. 6;
their belief in demons, ix. 74
Australian blacks afraid of passing under a leaning tree, iii. 250 n. 1
—— custom of placing stones in trees, i. 318;
as to blood shed at initiatory rites, rain-making, etc., iii. 244
—— funeral custom, iv. 92
—— languages, words for fire and wood in, xi. 296
—— magic wrought on cut hair, iii. 269
—— medicine-man, his recovery of a lost soul, iii. 54
—— mode of magically tying up the inside of an enemy, iii. 303
—— tribes, their custom of knocking out teeth of boys at initiation, i. 176
—— way of detaining the sun, i. 318;
of hastening the descent of the sun, i. 318 sq.
Australians, the Central, their ceremony for multiplying kangaroos, viii. 165
Austria, dancing or leaping as a charm to make flax grow tall in, i. 138;
gipsy mode of stopping rain in, i. 295 sq.;
meal offered to the wind in, i. 329 n. 5;
peasants of, their belief in the sensitiveness of trees, ii. 18;
belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424;
leaping over Midsummer fires in, v. 251;
children warned against the Corn-cock in, vii. 276;
mythical Calf in corn in, vii. 292;
cure for warts in, ix. 48;
dances or leaps to make the crops [pg 173] grow high in, ix. 238;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268 sq.;
custom of young people beating each other on Holy Innocents' Day in, ix. 270;
weather of the twelve months thought to be determined by the weather of the Twelve Days in, ix. 322;
weather forecasts in, ix. 323;
the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day in, ix. 329;
Midsummer fires in, x. 172 sqq.;
the Yule log among the Servians of, x. 262 sqq.;
fern-seed at Midsummer in, xi. 65;
mistletoe used to prevent nightmare in, xi. 85
Austria, Lower, presages as to shadows on St. Sylvester's Day in, iii. 88
——, Upper, processions round fields on St. George's Day in, ii. 344;
need-fire in, x. 279
Austrian charm to make fruit-trees bear, i. 140 sq.
Autumn, ceremony of the Esquimaux in late, ix. 125
—— fires, x. 220 sqq.
Autun, procession of goddess at, ii. 144;
the Festival of Fools at, ix. 335
Auvergne, milk bewitched at Corrèze in, iii. 93;
Lenten fires in, x. 111 sq.;
story of a were-wolf in, x. 308 sq.
Auxerre, the last sheaf called the Corn-mother near, vii. 135;
“killing the Bull” at threshing at, vii. 291
Auxesia and Damia, female powers of fertility at Troezen, i. 39
Ave Maria bell on Midsummer Eve, xi. 47
Avebury, Lord, on the distinction between religion and magic, i. 225 n.;
on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 146 n., 273
Avengers of blood, ceremony performed by, before starting, i. 92
Aventine, Diana on the, ii. 128;
oaks on the, ii. 185
Avernus, Lake, and the Golden Bough, xi. 285 n. 2
Aversion of spirits and fairies to iron, iii. 229, 232 sq.;
to innovation among savages, iii. 230 sqq.
Averting ill-luck at marrying a second, third, or fourth wife, ii. 57 n. 4
Avestad, in Sweden, heaps of sticks and stones on graves at, ix. 20 sq.
Avoidance of the wife's mother, iii. 83 sqq.;
of common words to deceive spirits or other beings, iii. 416 sqq.
“Awakening of Hercules,” festival at Tyre, v. 111
Awa-nkonde, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28
“Awasungu, the house of the,” x. 28
Awe, Loch, vii. 165;
the Old Wife at harvest on, vii. 142
Awemba, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, their belief in a supreme being, vi. 174;
their worship of ancestral spirits, vi. 175;
their prayers to dead kings before going to war, vi. 191 sq.;
woman's part in agriculture among the, vii. 115;
among them murderers mutilate their victims in order to disable their ghosts, viii. 272 sq.
Awka in South Nigeria, taboos observed by priest at, x. 4
Awujale, title of chief of the Ijebu tribe, in South Nigeria, iv. 112
Awuna tribes of the Gold Coast, their belief as to the sacredness of their heads, iii. 257
Axe, emblem of Hittite god of thundering sky, v. 134;
as divine emblem, v. 163;
symbol of Asiatic thunder-god, v. 183;
that slew the ox, trial and condemnation of the, viii. 5
——, double-headed, symbol of Sandan, v. 127;
carried by Lydian kings, v. 182;
a palladium of the Heraclid sovereignty, v. 182;
figured on coins, v. 183 n.
Axim, on the Gold Coast, annual expulsion of the devil at, ix. 131
Ayambori, in Dutch New Guinea, woman's share in agriculture among the Papuans of, vii. 123
Aymara Indians of Peru and Bolivia, their rain-charm by means of frogs, i. 292;
afraid of being photographed, iii. 97;
their use of a black llama as a scapegoat in time of plague, ix. 193
Ayrshire, mode of cutting the last corn in, vii. 154;
“cutting the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 279
Azadirachta Indica in a rain-charm, i. 293
Azazel, a bad angel, in connexion with the Jewish scapegoat, ix. 210 n. 4
Azemmour, in Morocco, cairns reared by pilgrims near, ix. 21;
Midsummer fires at, x. 214
Azores, bonfires and divination on Midsummer Eve in the, x. 208 sq.;
fern-seed at Midsummer in the, xi. 66
Aztec mode of keeping sorcerers from houses, iii. 93
—— priests, their hair unshorn, iii. 259
Aztecs, their view of intoxication as inspiration, iii. 249 sq.;
their priests, iii. 259;
their festival at end of fifty-two years, vii. 310 sq.;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 310 sq.;
their sacred new fire, vii. 310 sq.;
eating the god among the, viii. 86 sqq.;
their custom of sacrificing human representatives of gods, ix. 275;
their five supplementary [pg 174] days, ix. 339;
their punishment of witches and wizards, xi. 159
Azur, the month of March, ix. 403
Azyingo, Lake, in West Africa, viii. 235
Ba-Bwende, a tribe of the Congo, v. 271 n.
Ba-Lua, in the Congo region, will not pronounce name of their tribe, iii. 330
—— -Mbala, a Bantu tribe, woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 119
—— -Pedi, the, of South Africa, grave-diggers not allowed to handle food among, iii. 141;
women in childbed not allowed to handle food, iii. 148 sq.;
their superstitions as to miscarriage in childbed, iii. 153 sq.;
their continence in war, iii. 163;
continence at building a new village among the, iii. 202;
their belief as to a woman stepping over their legs, iii. 424
—— -Ronga, the, of South Africa, their women employ a child under puberty to light the potter's kiln, ii. 205.
See Baronga
—— -Sundi, a tribe of the Congo, v. 271 n.
—— -Thonga, the, of South Africa, grave-diggers not allowed to handle food among the, iii. 141;
women in childbed not allowed to handle food, iii. 148 sq.;
attribute drought to concealed miscarriage in childbed, iii. 154;
their continence in war, iii. 163;
continence at building a new village among the, iii. 202;
their belief as to a woman stepping over their legs, iii. 424.
See also Thonga
—— -Yaka, tribe of the Congo State, power of magicians among the, i. 348;
custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 n. 1;
their use of nail-parings in making treaties, iii. 274
—— -Yanzi, tribe of the Congo State, the chief as a magician among the, i. 348 sq.
Baal, Semitic god, in relation to Minos and Minotaur, iv. 75;
the prophets of, their cutting themselves with knives, i. 258;
human sacrifices to, iv. 167 sqq., 195, ix. 353, 354;
kings claiming affinity with, v. 15;
royal names compounded with, v. 16;
as the god of fertility, v. 26 sq.;
conceived as god who fertilizes land by subterranean water, v. 159
—— and Beltane, x. 149 n. 1, 150 n. 1, 157
—— of the Lebanon, v. 32
—— and Sandan at Tarsus, v. 142 sq., 161
Baal of Tarsus, v. 117 sqq., 162 sq.
Baalath or Astarte, v. 26, 34
—— and Baal, v. 27
—— Gebal, v. 14
Baalbec (Heliopolis), in Syria, v. 28;
the ruins at, i. 30 n. 3;
sacred prostitution at, v. 37;
image of Hadad at, v. 163
Baalim, the, lords of underground waters, ii. 159;
firstlings and first-fruits offered to the, v. 27;
called lovers, v. 75 n.
Baba or Boba, name given to last sheaf, vii. 144 sq.;
“the Old Woman,” at the Carnival, viii. 332, 333
Babalawo, a Yoruba priest, ix. 212
Babar Archipelago, ceremony to obtain a child for a barren woman in the, i. 72;
chastity and fasting of women during absence of warriors in the, i. 131;
treatment of the afterbirth in the, i. 186;
saturnalia at the marriage of the Sun and Earth in the, ii. 99;
recovery of lost souls in the, iii. 67;
souls as shadows in the, iii. 78;
fatigue transferred to stones in the, ix. 8 sq.;
sickness expelled in a boat from the, ix. 187
Babaruda, girl as rain-maker in Roumania, i. 273
Babine Lake in British Columbia, x. 47
Babites, a Persian sect, their divine head, i. 402
Baboons, their depredations on crops, viii. 32;
sent by evil spirits, ix. 110 sq.
Baby, effigy of, used to fertilize women, ix. 245, 249
Babylon, magical images in ancient, i. 66 sq.;
theocratic despotism of ancient, i. 218;
sanctuary of Bel at, ii. 129 sq.;
festival of Zagmuk at, iv. 110, 113, 115 sqq.;
festival of the Sacaea at, iv. 113 sqq., ix. 354 sqq.;
early kings of, worshipped as gods, v. 15;
worship of Mylitta at, v. 36;
religious prostitution at, v. 58;
human wives of Marduk at, v. 71;
sanctuary of Serapis at, vi. 119 n.
Babylonia, worship of Tammuz in, v. 6 sqq.;
the moon-god took precedence of the sun-god in ancient, vi. 138 sq.;
belief in demons in ancient, ix. 102 sq.;
the star-gazers of, ix. 326;
conquered by Assyria, ix. 356;
the feast of Purim in, ix. 393
Babylonian calendar, ix. 398 n. 2
—— Genesis, ix. 410
—— gods, mortality of the, iv. 5 sq.
—— hymns to Tammuz, v. 9
—— kings, divinity of the early, i. 417
—— legend of creation, iv. 105 sq., 110
—— myth of Marduk and Tiamat, iv. 105 sq., 107 sq.
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Babylonian witches and wizards, their use of knotted cords, iii. 302
Bacchanalia, Purim a Jewish, ix. 363
Bacchanals of Thrace chew ivy, i. 384;
tore Pentheus in pieces, vi. 98, vii. 24, 25;
wore horns, vii. 17
Bacchic frenzy, iv. 164;
orgies suppressed by Roman Government, v. 301 n. 2
Bacchus, his legendary connexion with the Athenian festival of swinging, iv. 281, 283
—— or Dionysus, vii. 2.
See Dionysus
Bacchylides as to Croesus on the pyre, v. 175 sq.
Bachofen, J. J., on Roman kings and the Saturnalia, ii. 313 n. 1;
on the Nonae Caprotinae and the Saturnalia, ii. 314 n. 1
Backache at reaping, leaps over the Midsummer bonfire thought to be a preventive of, x. 165, 168, 189, 344 sq.;
set down to witchcraft, x. 343 n., 345;
at harvest, mugwort a protection against, xi. 59;
creeping through a holed stone to prevent backache at harvest, xi. 189
Backbone of Osiris represented by the ded pillar, vi. 108 sq.
Bacon, Francis, on anointing weapon that caused wound, i. 202
Bad Country, the, in Victoria, ceremonies observed at entering, iii. 109 sq.
Badache, double-axe, Midsummer King of the, x. 194
Badagas, the, of the Neilgherry Hills, their customs as to sowing and reaping the first grain, viii. 55;
transfer the sins of the dead to a buffalo calf, ix. 36;
their fire-walk, xi. 8 sq.
Baddeley, Mr. St. Clair, i. 5 n. 2
Baden, homoeopathic magic at sowing in, i. 138;
St. George's Day in, ii. 337;
Feast of All Souls in, vi. 74;
customs as to the last sheaf at harvest in, vii. 283, 292, 298;
the Corn-goat at threshing in, vii. 286;
Lenten fire-custom in, x. 117;
Easter bonfires in, x. 145;
Midsummer fires in, x. 167 sqq.
Badham, Rev. Charles, D.D., his proposed emendation of Euripides, iii. 156 n.
Badham Court oak, in Gloucestershire, xi. 316
Badi, performer at a tight-rope ceremony in India, ix. 197
Badnyak, Yule log, in Servia, x. 259, 263
Badnyi Dan, Christmas Eve, in Servia, x. 258, 263
Badonsachen, King of Burma, claims divinity, i. 400
Badumar, in West Africa, ii. 293
Baduwis, an aboriginal race in the mountains of Java, seclusion of their hereditary ruler, iii. 115 sq.;
use no iron in husbandry, iii. 232
Baethgen, F., on goddess 'Hatheh, v. 162 n. 2
Baffin Land, the Esquimaux of, i. 113, iii. 32 n. 2, 152, 207, 399, viii. 257, ix. 125
Bag, souls of persons deposited in a, iii. 63 sq., xi. 142, 153, 155;
soul of dying chief caught in a, iv. 199
Baganda, the, of Central Africa, their belief as to the sterilizing influence of barren women, i. 142, ii. 102;
their treatment of the afterbirth and navel-string, i. 195 sq., xi. 162;
spirits of their dead kings preserved in their navel-strings and jawbones, i. 196;
their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331 n. 2;
their incarnate human god of the Lake Nyanza, i. 395;
their belief in the influence of the sexes on vegetation, ii. 101 sq.;
their customs in regard to twins, ii. 102 sq.;
their fire-drill, ii. 210;
their Vestal Virgins, ii. 246;
their list of kings, ii. 269;
their mode of fertilizing women by means of a wild banana-tree, ii. 318;
stabbed the shadows of enemies, iii. 78;
their superstition as to shadows, iii. 87;
their belief as to women stepping over a man's weapons, iii. 423;
their belief as to the state of the spirits of the dead, iv. 11;
their worship of the python, v. 86;
rebirth of the dead among the, v. 92 sq.;
their belief in impregnation by the flower of the banana, v. 93;
their theory of earthquakes, v. 199;
their presentation of infants to the new moon, vi. 144, 145;
ceremony observed by the king at new moon, vi. 147;
their worship of dead kings, vi. 167 sqq.;
their veneration for the ghosts of dead relations, vi. 191 n. 1;
their pantheon, vi. 196;
human sacrifices offered to prolong the life of their kings, vi. 223 sqq.;
woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 118;
their ceremony at eating the new beans, viii. 64;
significance of stepping over a woman among the, viii. 70 n. 1;
their offerings of first-fruits, viii. 113;
their precaution against the ghosts of the elephants, which they kill, viii. 227 sq.;
dread the ghosts of sheep, viii. 231;
propitiate the ghosts of slain buffaloes, viii. 231;
treat ceremonially the first fish caught, viii. 252 sq.;
their custom of mutilating dead enemies, viii. 271 sq.;
their transference of plague to a plantain-tree, ix. 4 sq.;
their transference of sickness to effigies, ix. 7;
their precautions against the ghosts of [pg 176] suicides and other unfortunates, ix. 17 sq.;
throw sticks or grass on graves or places of execution of certain persons, ix. 18;
their worship of the river Nakiza, ix. 27;
transfer sickness to animals, ix. 32;
human scapegoats among the, ix. 42;
children live apart from their parents among the, x. 23 n. 2;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 23 sq.;
their superstition as to women who do not menstruate, x. 24;
abstain from salt in certain cases, x. 27 sq.;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 80 sq.
See also Uganda
Baganda fishermen, taboos observed by, iii. 194 sq.
Bagba, a wind-fetish, i. 327, iii. 5
Bagdad, death of the King of the Jinn reported at, iv. 8
Bageshu (Bagishu), the, of Mount Elgon, in East Africa, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, i. 103, v. 92;
seclusion and purification of manslayers among, iii. 174
Bagobos of Mindanao, one of the Philippines, their human sacrifices at sowing, vii. 240;
their way of detaining the soul in the body, iii. 31, 315;
never utter their own names, iii. 323 sq.;
their theory of earthquakes, v. 200;
their custom of hanging and spearing human victims, v. 290 sq.;
their pretence of feeding their agricultural implements at harvest, viii. 124
Baharutsis, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, their worship of ancestors, vi. 179
Bahaus. See Kayans
Bahima of Central Africa, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 75;
custom of herdsmen at watering their cattle among the, iii. 183 n.;
names of their dead kings not mentioned, iii. 375;
their belief as to dead kings and chiefs, v. 83 n. 1;
their worship of the dead, vi. 190 sq.;
their belief in a supreme god Lugaba, vi. 190;
their belief in transmigration, viii. 288;
believe that at death their kings turn into lions, and their queens into leopards, viii. 288;
their transference of abscesses, ix. 6;
their use of scapegoats to cure disease among their cattle, ix. 32;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 80
—— of Kiziba, vi. 173
—— of the Uganda Protectorate, ix. 6, 32
Bahnars of Cochin-China, their recall of lost souls, iii. 52, 58 sq.
Bahr-el-Ghazal province, the Golos of the, i. 318;
ceremony of the new fire in the, x. 134 sq.
Baiga, aboriginal priest in Mirzapur, ix. 27
Baigas, Dravidian tribe of India, their objection to agriculture, v. 89
Bailey, Mabel, on the May Queen, ii. 88 n. 1
Bailly, J. S., French astronomer, on the Arctic origin of the rites of Adonis, v. 229
Bairu, the, of Kiziba, vi. 173
Baisâkh, Indian month (April), iv. 265
Bakairi, the, of Brazil, call bull-roarers “thunder and lightning,” xi. 231 sq.
Bakara, a village of Sumatra, i. 398, 399
Baker, F. B., on relic of tree-worship at Magnesia, i. 386 n. 2
Bakers, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 sq., 205
Baking, continence observed at, iii. 201
—— -forks, witches ride on, xi. 73, 74
Bakongs, the, of Borneo, associate the souls of the dead with bear-cats and other animals, viii. 294
Baku, on the Caspian, perpetual fires at, ii. 256, v. 192
Bakuba or Bushongo of the Congo, rule as to persons of royal blood among the, x. 4.
See Bushongo
Bakundu of the Cameroons, burial custom of the, viii. 99
Balabulan, a person of the Batta Trinity, ix. 88 n. 1
Bald-headed widow, transference of fever to a, ix. 38
Balder, the Norse god, and his lame foal, iii. 305 n. 1;
his body burnt, x. 102;
worshipped in Norway, x. 104;
camomile sacred to, xi. 63;
burnt at Midsummer, xi. 87;
Midsummer sacred to, xi. 87;
a tree-spirit or deity of vegetation, xi. 88 sq.;
his invulnerability, xi. 94;
why Balder was thought to shine, xi. 293;
perhaps a real man deified, xi. 314 sq.
—— and the mistletoe, x. 101 sq., xi. 76 sqq., 302;
interpreted as a mistletoe-bearing oak, xi. 93 sq.;
his life or death in the mistletoe, xi. 279, 283
——, the myth of, x. 101 sqq.;
reproduced in the Midsummer festival of Scandinavia, xi. 87;
perhaps dramatized in ritual, xi. 88;
Indian parallel to, xi. 280;
African parallels to, xi. 312 sqq.
Balder's Balefires, name formerly given to Midsummer bonfires in Sweden, x. 172, xi. 87
—— Grove, x. 104, xi. 315
Balders-brâ, Balder's eyelashes, a name for camomile, xi. 63
Baldness a supposed effect of breaking a taboo, iii. 140
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Bâle, statuette of the Mexican god Xipe at, ix. 291 n. 1;
Lenten fire-custom in the canton of, x. 119
Balefires, Balder's, at Midsummer in Sweden, x. 172
Bali, inspired mediums in, i. 378 sq.;
special forms of speech used in addressing social superiors in, i. 402 n.;
the rice personified as husband and wife in, vii. 201 sqq.;
observation of the Pleiades in, vii. 314 sq.;
propitiation of mice to induce them to spare the fields in, viii. 278;
belief in demons in, ix. 86;
periodical expulsion of demons in, ix. 140;
filing of teeth in, x. 68 n. 2;
birth-trees in, xi. 164
Balinese, their conduct in an earthquake, v. 198
Balkan Peninsula, the Slavs of the, ii. 237, 241;
need-fire in the, x. 281
Ball, Valentine, on hook-swinging, iv. 279
Ball, game of, played as a rite, viii. 76, 79;
played as a magical ceremony, ix. 179 sq.;
in Normandy, ix. 183 sq.;
played to determine the King of Summer, x. 195
—— -players, homœopathic charms employed by, i. 144, 155
Balli Atap, the God of the Roof, among the Kenyahs, ii. 385
Ballinasloe, in County Galway, Candlemas custom at, ii. 95 n.
Balls, gold and silver, to imitate the sun and moon, ii. 63
Ballymagauran, in County Cavan, ancient idol near, iv. 183
Ballymote, the Book of, iv. 100
Ballyvadlea, in Tipperary, woman burnt as a witch at, x. 323 sq.
Balnagown Loch, in Lismore, witch-hare at, x. 316
Baloi, mythical beings of the Basutos, i. 177;
witches and wizards, vi. 104
Balolo, a sea-slug, ix. 141.
See also Palolo veridis
Balong of the Cameroons, their external souls in animals, xi. 203
Balquhidder, in Perthshire, the harvest Maiden at, vii. 157;
hill of the fires at, x. 149;
Hallowe'en bonfires at, x. 232
Balsam plants, wild, as representatives of the harvest goddess, vii. 207
Balsamorrhiza sagittata, Nutt., the sunflower root, superstitions of Thompson Indians concerning the, viii. 81
Balthasar, one of the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 sqq.
Balum, a mythical being of German New Guinea, iii. 306
Balum, spirits, vii. 104, ix. 83, xi. 242
Balwe in Westphalia, Burying the Carnival at, iv. 232
Bâm-Margi, Hindoo sect, their use of magical images, i. 65
Bambaras of the Niger, their sacred trees, ii. 42
Bamboo-rat sacrificed for riddance of evils, ix. 208 sq.
Bampton-in-the-Bush in Oxfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 62
Banana, women impregnated by the flower of the, v. 93;
shoots beaten to make them grow, ix. 264
—— -tree, supposed to fertilize barren women, ii. 318;
child's hair deposited on a, iii. 276;
afterbirth of child buried under a, xi. 162, 163, 164
—— -trees, fruit-bearing, hair deposited under, iii. 286
Bananas, homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 142;
sown by young children, vii. 115;
cultivated by women, vii. 115, 118;
cultivated in South America, vii. 120, 121;
cultivated in New Britain, vii. 123;
cultivated in New Guinea, vii. 123;
soul of dead man in, viii. 298;
mode of fertilizing, ix. 264;
the cause of human mortality, ix. 303
Banars of Cambodia, their prayers for the crops, viii. 33
Bancroft, H. H., on the external souls of the Zapotecs, xi. 212
Bandages to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 32, 71
Bandiagara, Mount, in Nigeria, iii. 124
Bandicoot in rain-making, i. 288
Bangala, the, of the Upper Congo, continence observed by fishers and hunters among, iii. 195 sq.;
names of fishermen not mentioned among, iii. 330 sq.;
rebirth of dead among, v. 92;
women's share in agriculture among, vii. 119.
See also Boloki
Bangalas of Angola, elective chieftainship among the, ii. 293
Bangerang, an Australian tribe, iii. 321
Bangkok, ix. 150;
human foundation sacrifices at, iii. 90
Bangweolo, Lake, custom as to sowing on the islands of, vii. 115
Banished prince, charm to restore a, i. 145
Banishment of homicide, iv. 69 sq.;
of evil spirits, ix. 86
Banivas of the Orinoco, their scourging of girls at puberty, x. 66 sqq.
Banjars in West Africa punish their king for drought or excessive rain, i. 353
Banks' Islanders, their ways of making sunshine, i. 314;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
their story of the origin of death, ix. 304
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Banks' Islands, magical stones in the, i. 164;
supernatural power of chiefs in the, i. 338;
ghosts in stones in the, iii. 80;
Vanua Lava in the, iii. 85;
names of relations by marriage tabooed in the, iii. 344 sq.;
burial of women who have died in childbed in the, viii. 97 sq.;
fatigue transferred to stones, sticks, or leaves in the, ix. 9
Banksia, used as fuel by Australian aborigines, ii. 257
Banmanas of Senegambia, their custom at the death of an infant, ix. 261 sq.
Banna, a tribe accustomed to strangle their first-born children, iv. 181 sq.
Banner, Macleod's Fairy, i. 368
Banquets in honour of the spirits of disease, ix. 119
Bantiks of Celebes, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1
Banting in Sarawak, rules observed by women during absence of warriors at, i. 127, 128
Bantu tribes, ancestor-worship among the, ii. 221, vi. 174 sqq.;
their small regard for the ghosts of women, ii. 224 n. 4;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82 sqq.;
their worship of dead chiefs or kings, vi. 175 sqq., 191 sqq.;
cohabitation of husband and wife enjoined as a matter of ritual on certain occasions among the, viii. 70 n. 1
—— tribes of Kavirondo, custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 176 sq.;
their belief as to the effect of eating a totemic animal, viii. 26
—— tribes of South Africa, their ideas as to the virulent infection spread by a woman who has had a miscarriage, iii. 152 sqq.;
their rule as to eating the new corn, viii. 111;
their fear of demons, ix. 77 sq.
—— tribes of South-East Africa, their fire-drill, ii. 210 sq.
—— tribes of West Africa, their belief in demons, ix. 74
Banyai, chieftainship among the, ii. 292
Banyan-trees revered by the Chinese, ii. 14
Banyoro, the, of Central Africa, foes of the Baganda, ix. 42, 194;
the king as rain-maker among, i. 348;
succession to the throne determined by mortal combat among, ii. 322;
their worship of serpents, v. 86 n. 1
See also Unyoro
Baobab-trees thought to be inhabited by mischievous spirits, ii. 34;
worshipped, ii. 46;
goats sacrificed to, ii. 47
Baoules of the Ivory Coast, extraction of chief's soul among the, iii. 70
Baperis or Malekootoos, a Bechuana tribe, their customs as to their totem the porcupine, viii. 164 sq.
Baptism of bull's blood in the rites of Cybele, v. 274 sqq.
Baptist, St. John the, day of, i. 277.
See St. John
Bar-rekub, king of Samal, v. 15 sq.
Bar-tree (Ficus Indica), married to a mango in India, ii. 25;
sacred in India, ii. 43
Bara, a tribe of Madagascar, names of dead kings not pronounced among the, iii. 380
—— country in Madagascar, fear of being photographed in the, iii. 98
Barabbas and Christ, ix. 417 sqq.
Baraka, blessed or magical virtue, in North Africa, ix. 23 n., x. 216, 218, xi. 51;
of saints, ix. 22;
of skins of sacrificed sheep, ix. 265
Baram River, in Sarawak, tree-worship on the, ii. 38 sq.;
in Borneo, magical stones on the, iii. 30
Barar, third marriage deemed unlucky in, ii. 57 n. 4
Barat, a ceremony performed in Kumaon, ix. 196
Barber, Rev. Dr. W. T. A., on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 145 n., 275
Barbosa, Duarte, on the suicide of the kings of Quilacare, iv. 46 sq.
Barce or Alceis, daughter of Antaeus, ii. 300 sq.
Barcelona, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, iv. 242
Barclay, Sheriff, on Hallowe'en fires, x. 232
Bardney bumpkin, on witch as hare, x. 318
Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of the, xi. 129 sq.
Barea, of East Africa, rain-making priest among the, ii. 3;
women will not name their husbands, iii. 337
—— and Kunama, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 66
Barenton, the fountain of, used in rain-making, i. 306, 307
Bari, the, of the Upper Nile, rain-makers as chiefs among, i. 345, 346 sq.;
Rain Kings among, ii. 2
Barito, the, of Borneo, sacrifice cattle instead of human victims, iv. 166 n. 1
——, river in Borneo, worship of spirits on the, ix. 87
Bark of sacred tree used to make garments for pregnant women, ii. 58
Barker, W. G. M. Jones, on need-fire in Yorkshire, x. 286 sq.
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Barking a tree, old German penalty for, ii. 9
Barley forced for festival, v. 240, 241, 242, 244, 251 sq.;
awarded as a prize in the Eleusinian games, vii. 73, 74, 75;
oldest cereal cultivated by the Aryans, vii. 132
—— Bride among the Berbers, vii. 178 sq.
—— -cow at harvest, vii. 289, 290
—— -harvest, time of, in ancient Greece, vii. 48, 77
—— loaf eaten by human scapegoat before being put to death, ix. 255
—— -meal and water drunk as a form of communion with the Barley-Goddess at Eleusis, vii. 161
—— -mother, the, vii. 131;
the last sheaf called the, vii. 135
—— plant, external soul of prince in a, xi. 102
—— seed used to strengthen weakly children, vii. 11
—— -sow at threshing, vii. 298
—— -water, draught of, as a form of communion in the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 38
—— and wheat discovered by Isis, vi. 116
—— -wolf in the last sheaf, vii. 271, 273
Barolongs, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, their worship of ancestors, vi. 179;
their custom of inoculation, viii. 159 n. 4
Baron, R., on the reverence for dead kings in Madagascar, iii. 380
Baron, S., on annual expulsion of demons in Tonquin, ix. 147 sq.
Baronga, the, of South Africa, their charm against worms, i. 152;
their charm against snake-bite, i. 153;
their beliefs and customs as to twins, i. 267 sq.;
preserve the hair and nails of dead chiefs, iii. 272;
their belief as to the state of the spirits of the dead, iv. 10 sq.;
their custom as to falling stars, iv. 61;
women's part in agriculture among the, vii. 114 sq.;
their mode of freeing the fields from beetles, viii. 280;
their story of a clan whose external souls were in a cat, xi. 150 sq.
See also Ba-Ronga
Barotse or Marotse, a Bantu tribe of the Zambesi, rain-making among the, i. 310 n. 7;
regard their chief as a demi-god, i. 392 sq.;
exorcism after a funeral among the, iii. 107;
their belief in a supreme god Niambe, vi. 193;
their worship of dead kings, vi. 194 sq.;
woman's part in agriculture among the, vii. 115;
inoculation among the, viii. 159;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28, 29
Barren cattle driven through fire, x. 203, 338
—— fruit-trees threatened in order to make them bear fruit, ii. 20 sqq.
—— women, charms to procure offspring for, i. 70 sqq.;
sterilizing influence ascribed to, i. 142;
embrace a tree to obtain offspring, i. 182;
thought to conceive through eating nuts of a palm-tree, ii. 51;
fertilized by trees, ii. 56 sq., 316 sq.;
thought to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 102;
fertilized by water-spirits, ii. 159 sqq., v. 213 sq., 216;
resort to graves in order to get children, v. 90;
entice souls of dead children to them, v. 94;
hope to conceive through fertilizing influence of vegetables, xi. 51.
See also Childless
Barrenness of women cured by passing through holed stone, v. 36, with n. 4;
removed by serpent, v. 86;
children murdered as a remedy for, v. 95
Barricading the road against a ghostly pursuer, xi. 176
“Barring the fire,” i. 231 n. 3
Barringtonia, offerings made under a, in Guadalcanal, viii. 126
Barros, De, Portuguese historian, on custom of regicide at Passier, iv. 51 sq.
Barrows of Halfdan, vi. 100
Barsana, in North India, Holi bonfires at, xi. 2, 5
Barsom, bundle of twigs used by Parsee priests, v. 191 n. 2
Barth, H., on sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 133 n. 1
Bartle Bay, in British New Guinea, power of magicians at, i. 338;
festival of the wild mango tree at, x. 7 sqq.
Barwan, river in Australia, annual expulsion of ghosts on the, ix. 123
Bas Doda, in India, marriage of girls to the god at, ii. 149
Basagala, the, of Central Africa, changes in their language caused by their fear of naming the dead, iii. 361
Bashada, a tribe accustomed to strangle their first-born children, iv. 181 sq.
Bashilange, a tribe of the Congo Basin, reception of subject chiefs by head chief among the, iii. 114
Bashkirs, their horse-races at funerals, iv. 97
Basil, curses at sowing, i. 281;
the Holy, plant worshipped in India, ii. 25 sqq.;
pots of, on St. John's Day in Sicily, v. 245.
See also Tulasi
Basilai, officials at Olympia, i. 46 n. 4
Basis, physical, of magic, i. 174 sq.;
for the theory of an external soul, i. 201
Basket, souls gathered into a, iii. 72
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Basoga, the, of Central Africa, form blood-brotherhood with the trees which they fell, ii. 19 sq.;
their punishment of the seduction of a virgin, ii. 112;
their abhorrence of incest in cattle, ii. 112 sq.;
their pretended human sacrifice, iv. 215
Basque hunter transformed into bear, xi. 226, 270
—— story of the external soul, xi. 139
Bassa tribe, of the Cameroons, reputed to be magicians, ix. 120
Bassareus, a title of Dionysus, viii. 282 n. 5
Bassari, the, of Togoland, their superstition as to the mothers of twins, ii. 102 n. 1;
their offerings of new yams, viii. 116
Bassia latifolia worshipped, viii. 119
Bassus, Roman officer, ix. 309
Bastar, province of India, treatment of witches in, xi. 159
Bastard, traveller in Madagascar, iii. 103
——, name applied to the last sheaf in West Prussia, vii. 150
Bastian, Adolf, on extinguishing fires after a death, ii. 268;
as to sanctity of head in Siam and Burma, iii. 252 sq.;
on animal sacraments among pastoral tribes, viii. 313;
on the worship of nats in Burma, ix. 96 n. 3;
on rites of initiation in West Africa, xi. 256 sq.
Basutoland, attempts to regulate the calendar in, vii. 116 sq.;
inoculation in, viii. 158 sq., 160
Basutos, use of magical dolls among the, i. 71;
their custom as to extracted teeth, i. 177;
their contagious magic of bodily impressions, i. 214;
keep all defiled persons from the sight of corn, ii. 112;
their belief as to the spirits of waterfalls, ii. 157;
their custom of kindling a new fire after a birth, ii. 239;
abhor the sea, iii. 10;
avoidance of wife's mother among the, iii. 85;
their superstition as to reflections in water, iii. 93;
their burial custom, iii. 107;
their purification of warriors, iii. 172;
purification of cattle among the, iii. 177;
their chiefs buried secretly, vi. 104;
their worship of the dead, vi. 179 sq.;
their customs as to the new corn, viii. 110;
their sacrifice of first-fruits, viii. 110;
eat the hearts of brave men to make themselves brave, viii. 148;
their custom of placing stones on cairns, ix. 30 n. 2;
their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 31
Bata and Anpu, ancient Egyptian story of, xi. 134 sqq.
Bataks or Battas of Sumatra, their theory of earthquakes, v. 199 sq.;
their tondi, the soul of human beings and of rice, vii. 182.
See Battas
Batang Lupar, in Borneo, the Dyaks of, their “lying heaps,” ix. 14
—— -Lupars of Borneo, the foes of the Kayans, vii. 96
Bataraguru, a person of the Batta Trinity, v. 199 sq., ix. 88 n. 1
Batari Sri, a goddess in Lombok, vii. 202
Batavia, rain-making by means of a cat in, i. 289
Batchelor, Rev. J., on the Aino ceremony with the new millet, viii. 52;
on the Aino kamui, viii. 180 n. 2;
on the bear as a totem or god of the Ainos, viii. 180, 198;
on the suckling of bears by the Aino women, viii. 182 n. 2;
on the bear-festivals of the Ainos, viii. 183 sq.;
on the inao of the Ainos, viii. 186 n.;
on the Aino belief in the resurrection of animals, viii. 201;
his purification after visiting an Aino grave, ix. 261
Bath before marriage, intention of, ii. 162;
of ox blood, iv. 35, 201;
in river at the rites of Cybele, v. 273, 274 n.;
of bull's blood in the rites of Attis, v. 274 sqq.;
of image of Cybele perhaps a rain-charm, v. 280
—— of Aphrodite, v. 280
—— of Demeter, v. 280
—— of Hera in the river Burrha, v. 280;
in the spring of Canathus, v. 280
Bathing and washing forbidden to rain-doctor when he wishes to prevent rain from falling, i. 271, 272;
bathing as a rain-charm, i. 277 sq.;
(washing) as a ceremonial purification, iii. 141, 142, 150, 153, 168, 169, 172, 173, 175, 179, 183, 192, 198, 219, 220, 222, 285, 286;
forbidden, vii. 94
—— on St. John's Day or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), v. 246 sqq.;
pagan origin of the custom, v. 249
—— at Easter, x. 123;
at Midsummer, x. 208, 210, 216, xi. 29 sqq.;
thought to be dangerous on Midsummer Day, xi. 26 sq.
Baths of Hercules, v. 212
—— of Solomon in Moab, v. 215
Baton of Sinope, on the Thessalian festival Peloria, ix. 350
Batoo Bedano, an earthquake god in Nias, v. 202
Bats, souls of dead in, viii. 287;
the lives of men in, xi. 215 sq., 217;
called men's “brothers,” xi. 215, 216, 218
Batta magicians exorcize demons by means of images, viii. 102
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Battambang, a province of Siam, ceremony to procure rain in, i. 299
Battas or Bataks of Sumatra, magical images among the, i. 71 sq.;
their belief as to the placenta, i. 193;
fight the storm, i. 330;
worship a prince as a deity, i. 398 sq.;
revere the Sultan of Minangkabau, i. 399;
their sacred trees, ii. 41;
think that fornication and incest injure the crops, ii. 108;
their use of rice to prevent the soul from wandering, iii. 34 sq.;
their recall of lost souls, iii. 45 sqq.;
their belief in the transmigration of souls, iii. 65;
afraid of being photographed, iii. 99;
ceremony at the reception of a traveller among the, iii. 104;
their custom as to eating, iii. 116;
untie things to facilitate childbirth, iii. 296 sq.;
names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 338 sq.;
use a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 405 sq.;
their personification of the rice, vii. 196;
their observation of Orion and the Pleiades, vii. 315;
their ceremonies at killing a tiger, viii. 216 sq.;
believe that the souls of the dead often transmigrate into tigers, viii. 293;
their use of swallows as scapegoats, ix. 34 sq.;
their belief in demons, ix. 87 sq.;
their belief in a Trinity, ix. 88 n. 1;
their use of human scapegoats, ix. 213;
their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 223;
their totemic system, xi. 224 sqq.
See also Bataks
Battel, Andrew, on the king of Loango, iii. 117 sq.;
on the colour of negro children at birth, xi. 251 n. 1
Battle, purificatory ceremonies after a, iii. 165 sqq., vi. 251 sq.;
mock, viii. 75;
annual, among boys in Tumleo, ix. 143
—— of the gods and giants, v. 157
—— of Summer and Winter, iv. 254 sqq.
Battle-axe, sacred golden, i. 365
Battus, king of Cyrene, i. 47
Baudissin, W. W. Graf von, on Tammuz and Adonis, v. 6 n. 1;
on Adonis as the personification of the spring vegetation, v. 228 n. 6;
on summer festival of Adonis, v. 232 n.;
on Linus song, vii. 216 n. 4
Baumeister, A., on the date of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, vii. 35 n. 1
Bautz, Dr. Joseph, on hell fire, iv. 136 n. 1
Bavaria, custom as to cast teeth in, i. 178;
greasing the weapon instead of the wound which it inflicted, in, i. 204;
green bushes placed at doors of newly-married pairs in, ii. 56;
the Maypole renewed every few years in, ii. 70;
the Walber in, ii. 75;
drama of the Slaying of the Dragon at Furth in, ii. 163 sq.;
Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 206 sq.;
carrying out Death in, iv. 233 sqq.;
dramatic contests between Summer and Winter in, iv. 255 sq.;
gardens of Adonis in, v. 244;
Dinkelsbühl in, vii. 133;
Weiden in, vii. 139;
harvest customs in, vii. 147, 148, 150, 219 sq., 221 sq., 223, 232, 282, 286, 287, 289, 296, 298, 299;
the thresher of the last corn obliged to “carry the Pig” in, vii. 299;
cure for fever in, ix. 49;
annual expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night in, ix. 159 sq.;
old Mrs. Perchta (a mythical old woman) in, ix. 240 sq.;
mode of reckoning the Twelve Days in, ix. 327;
Easter bonfires in, x. 143 sq.;
belief as to eclipses in, x. 162;
Midsummer fires in, x. 164 sqq.;
leaf-clad mummer at Midsummer in, xi. 26;
the divining-rod in, xi. 67 sq.;
peasants' belief as to hazel in, xi. 69 n.;
creeping through a holed stone or narrow opening in, xi. 188 sq.
Bavaria, Rhenish, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 198;
homoeopathic treatment of a broken leg in, i. 205;
leaf-clad mummer at Whitsuntide in, ii. 81;
gout transferred to willow-bush in, ix. 56
——, Upper, the bride-race in, ii. 304;
ceremonies on Ascension Day in villages of, ix. 215;
use of mistletoe in, xi. 85 n. 4
Bavarian charm at sowing wheat, i. 137;
to make fruit-trees bear, i. 140 sq.
—— farmers will not name the fox, iii. 396
—— peasants, their homoeopathic magic as to fruit-trees, i. 143
—— saying as to crossed legs, iii. 299
Bavili, the, of Loango, their belief that certain unlawful marriages are punished by God with drought, ii. 112;
tampering with people's shadows among, iii. 78;
seclusion of girls at puberty among, x. 31
Bawenda, tribe of the Transvaal, their chief a rain-maker, i. 351;
special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal among the, i. 401 n. 3;
blood of princes not to be shed among the, iii. 243;
their custom of placing stones in the forks of trees, ix. 30 n. 2;
the positions of their villages hidden, vi. 251
Bayazid, the Sultan, and his soul, iii. 50
Bayfield, M. A., on the punishment of unfaithful Vestals, ii. 228 n. 5
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Beal-fires on Midsummer Eve in Yorkshire, x. 198
Bealltaine, May Day, iii. 11.
See Beltane
Bean, sprouting of, in superstitious ceremony, i. 266;
the budding of a, as an omen, ii. 344
——, King of the, ix. 313 sq., x. 153 n. 1;
Queen of the, ix. 313, 315
—— clan among the Baganda, ix. 27
—— -cock at harvest, vii. 276
—— -goat among the beans, vii. 282
Beans in ceremony performed by parents of twins in Peru, i. 266, ii. 102 n. 1;
not to be touched or named by the Flamen Dialis, ii. 248, iii. 13 sq.;
in magical rite, vii. 9 sq.;
the Spirit of, conceived by the Iroquois as a woman, vii. 177;
cultivated in Burma, vii. 242;
ceremony at eating the new, viii. 64;
forbidden as food by Empedocles, viii. 301;
thrown about the house at the expulsion of demons, ix. 143 sq.;
thrown about the house at the expulsion of ghosts, ix. 155;
divination by, on Midsummer Eve, x. 209
Bear, customs observed by Lapps after killing a, iii. 221;
ambiguous attitude of the Ainos towards the, viii. 180 sqq., 310 sq.;
importance of the, for people of Siberia, viii. 191;
the corn-spirit as a, viii. 325 sqq.;
external soul of warrior in a, xi. 151;
Basque hunter transformed into a, xi. 226, 270;
simulated transformation of novice into a, xi. 274 sq.
See also Bears
——, the Great, constellation, vii. 315;
the soul of Typhon in, iv. 5
——, the polar, taboos, concerning, iii. 209
—— -cats, souls of dead in, viii. 294
—— clan of the Moquis, descended from bears, viii. 178;
of the Otawa Indians, their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 224 sq.;
of the Niska Indians, xi. 271, 272 n. 1
—— -dance of man who pretends to be a bear, xi. 274
—— -dances, viii. 191, 195
—— -festivals of the Ainos, viii. 182 sqq.;
of the Gilyaks, viii. 190 sqq.;
of the Goldi, viii. 197;
of the Orotchis, viii. 197
—— -hunting, continence before, iii. 197, 198
—— -skin worn by woman dancer, viii. 223
Bear's bile and heart eaten to make the eater brave, viii. 146
—— flesh, a person who has eaten of, obliged to abstain from fish for a year, viii. 251
Bear's heart eaten, viii. 146
—— “little tongue” removed by American Indian hunters, viii. 269
—— liver, as a medicine, viii. 187 sq.
—— skin, Lapp women shoot blindfold at a, xi. 280 n.
“Beard of Volos,” vii. 233
Beard, the first, consecrated, i. 29
Bearded Venus, in Cyprus, v. 165, vi. 259 n. 3
“Beardless One, the Ride of the,” a Persian ceremony, ix. 402 sq.
Beards, homoeopathic magic to promote the growth of, i. 153 sq.;
not pulled out by chiefs and sorcerers, iii. 260
Bearers to carry royal personages, x. 3 sq.
Bears sacrificed by the Gilyaks of Saghalien, iii. 370;
not to be called by their proper names, iii. 397 sq., 399, 402;
killed ceremonially by the Ainos, viii. 180 sqq.;
souls of dead in, viii. 286 sq.;
processions with, in Europe, viii. 326 n. 3
——, slain, propitiated by Kamtchatkans, Ostiaks, Koryaks, Finns, and Lapps, viii. 222 sqq.;
by American Indians, viii. 224 sqq.
See also Bear
Beast, the number of the, iv. 44
Beasts, sacred Egyptian, offerings to the, i. 29 sq.;
sacred, held responsible for the course of nature in ancient Egypt, i. 354
Beathag, the lucky well of, i. 323
Beating as a mode of purification, ix. 262, x. 61, 64 sqq.
—— the air to drive away demons or ghosts, iii. 373, ix. 109, 111, 115, 122, 131, 152, 156, 234
—— boys with leg-bone of eagle-hawk, viii. 165 n. 2
—— cattle to make them fat or fruitful, iv. 236
—— effigy of ox with rods in China, viii. 11 sq.
—— floors or walls of houses to drive away ghosts, iii. 168, 170
—— frogs as a rain-charm, i. 292
—— girls at puberty, x. 61, 66 sq.
—— human scapegoats, ix. 196, 252, 255, 256 sq., 272 sq.
—— a man clad in a cow's hide on last day of year, viii. 322 sqq.
—— a man's garments instead of the man, i. 206 sq.
—— people for good luck, vii. 309;
as a mode of conveying good qualities, ix. 262 sqq.;
with skins of sacrificial victims, ix. 265;
with green boughs, ix. 270 sqq.;
to stimulate the reproductive powers, ix. 272
—— persons, animals, or things to [pg 183] deliver them from demons and ghosts, ix. 259 sqq.
Beating with rods in rain-making, i. 257 sq.
—— the sea with rods as a rain-charm, i. 301
Beauce, the great mondard in, viii. 6;
festival of torches in, x. 113;
story of a were-wolf in, x. 309
Beauce and Perche, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 198;
conflagrations supposed to be extinguished by priests in, i. 231 n. 3;
belief as to falling stars in, iv. 67;
fever transferred to an aspen in, ix. 57;
cure for toothache in, ix. 62;
Midsummer fires in, x. 188
Beaufort, F., on perpetual flame in Lycia, v. 222 n.
Beauty and the Beast type of tale, iv. 125 sqq.
Beauvais, the Festival of Fools at, ix. 335 sq.
Beaver asked to give a new tooth, i. 180;
the Great, prayers offered by beaver-hunters to, viii. 240
—— clan of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273
Beavers, their bones not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, viii. 238 sqq.;
their blood not allowed to fall on ground, viii. 240
Bechuana charms, i. 150 sq.
—— king, cure of, ix. 31 sq.
Bechuanas, the, of South Africa, their homoeopathic charms made from animals, i. 150 sq.;
their sacrifice for rain, i. 291;
their ceremony to cause the sun to shine, i. 313;
the hack-thorn sacred among the, ii. 48 sq.;
their purification after a journey, iii. 112, 285;
their purification of manslayers, iii. 172 sq., 174;
will not tell their stories before sunset, iii. 384;
think it unlucky to speak of the lion by his proper name, iii. 400;
their fear of meteors, iv. 61;
their ritual at founding a new town, vi. 249;
their sacrifice of a blind bull on various occasions, vi. 249, 250 sq.;
human sacrifices for the crops among the, vii. 240;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 316;
of the Crocodile clan, their fear of meeting or seeing a crocodile, viii. 28;
their ceremonies before eating the new fruits, viii. 69 sq.;
the Baperis, a tribe of, viii. 164;
their custom of mutilating an ox after a battle, viii. 271;
their belief as to sympathetic relation of man to wounded crocodile, xi. 210 sq.
Bed of absent hunter or warrior not to be used, i. 123, 127, 128, 129;
feet of, smeared with mud, iii. 14;
prohibitionto sleep in a, iii. 194.
See also Beds
Bed-clothes, contagious magic of bodily impressions on, i. 213
Bedding at home not to be raised in the absence of hunters, i. 121
Bede, on the succession of Pictish kings, ii. 286;
on the Feast of All Saints, vi. 83
Bedouins of East Africa attack whirlwinds, i. 331;
regard an acacia-tree as sacred, ii. 42;
fire-drill of the ancient, ii. 209;
annual festival of the Sinaitic, iv. 97
Bedriacum, the battle of, iv. 140, ix. 416
Beds of absent hunters, children not to play on, i. 123
Bee, external soul of an ogre in a, xi. 101.
See also Bees
Beech, M. W. H., on serpent-worship among the Suk, v. 85
Beech or fir used to make the Yule log, x. 249
—— -tree in sacred grove of Diana, i. 40;
burnt in Lenten bonfire, x. 115 sq.
—— -woods of Denmark, ii. 351
Beeches of Latium, ii. 188;
struck by lightning, proportion of, xi. 298 sq.;
free from mistletoe, xi. 315
Beef and milk not to be eaten at the same meal, iii. 292
Beena marriage, ii. 271; in Ceylon, vi. 215
Beer, continence observed at brewing, iii. 200;
in relation to Dionysus, vii. 2 n. 1;
drunk out of dead king's skull as means of inspiration, viii. 150
Bees on image of Artemis at Ephesus, i. 37;
the King Bees (Essenes) at Ephesus, ii. 135 sq.;
the sting of, a popular cure for rheumatism, iii. 106 n. 2;
transmigration of quiet people into, viii. 308;
thought to be killed by menstruous women, x. 96;
ashes of bonfires used to cure ailments of, x. 142
Beetle, in magic, i. 152;
external soul in a, xi. 138, 140
Beetles, superstitious precautions against, viii. 279, 280
Befana at Rome and elsewhere, ix. 167
Begbie, General, v. 62 n.
Begetting novices anew at initiation, pretence of, xi. 248
Beggar, name given to last sheaf, vii. 231 sq.
—— -man, the binder of the last sheaf called the, vii. 231
Behanzin, king of Dahomey, represented with the head and body of a fish, iv. 85
Behar district of India, virtue ascribed to abuse in, i. 279;
rain-charm by means of a stone in, i. 305;
“wives of the snake” in, ii. 149;
custom of swinging in, iv. 279;
bullocks let loose on [pg 184] eleventh day of mourning in, ix. 37 n. 4;
the fire-walk in, xi. 5
Beheading the King, a Whitsuntide pageant in Bohemia, iv. 209 sq.
—— Whitsuntide mummers, pretence of, iv. 206 sqq.
Beifuss, German name for mugwort, xi. 60 n. 6
Bekes, in Hungary, mode of fertilizing women in, ix. 264
Beku, dwarf tribe of West Africa, their magical ointment for acquiring the power of the dead, viii. 163 sq.
Bel or Marduk, a Babylonian deity, v. 71;
his human wife, ii. 129 sq.;
identified with Zeus, ix. 389;
created the world by cleaving the monster Tiamat in two, ix. 410;
the fires of, x. 147, 157, 158 sq.
Belep, the, of New Caledonia, their charm to disable an enemy, i. 150
Beleth, John, his Rationale Divinorum Officiorum quoted, x. 161 n. 2
Belethus, J., on “Easter Smacks,” ix. 270 n.
Belfast, the last sheaf called Granny near, vii. 136
Belford, in Northumberland, the Yule log at, x. 256
Belgian cure for fever, ix. 56 n. 1
Belgium, mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95;
cut hair burnt in, iii. 283;
belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424;
belief as to meteors in, iv. 67;
Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70;
fox's tongue a remedy for erysipelas in, viii. 270;
the King of the Bean in, ix. 313;
the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day in, ix. 329;
Lenten fires in, x. 107 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 194 sq.;
the Yule log in, x. 249;
bathing on Midsummer Day in, xi. 30;
divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 53;
mugwort gathered on St. John's Day or Eve in, xi. 59 sq.;
vervain gathered on St. John's Day in, xi. 62;
four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63;
the witches' Sabbath in, xi. 73
Bell-ringing as a charm to dispel evil influences, ii. 343 sq.
See Bells
Bella Coola (Bilqula) Indians of British Columbia, their conception of the soul as a bird, iii. 34;
their cannibal rites, vii. 20;
their masked dances, ix. 376 n. 2;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 46;
custom of mourners among the, xi. 174
Bellerophon and Pegasus, v. 302 n. 4
Belli-Paaro society in West Africa, rites of initiation in the, xi. 257 sqq.
Bellochroy, enchanter at, x. 290
Bellona and Mars, vi. 231
Bells, carried by leaf-clad mummers, ii. 83, 84 sq.;
worn by father of twins, ii. 102;
rung to drive away witches, ii. 127;
hung on cattle on St. George's Day, ii. 332;
used in exorcism, iii. 102;
rung to conjure spirits, iii. 120;
worn as amulets, iii. 235;
worn by mummers, vii. 26, 28, viii. 332, 333, ix. 242, 243, 244, 246 sqq., 250 sq.;
attached to hobby-horse, viii. 337 sq.;
on animal used as scapegoat, ix. 37;
rung to expel demons, ix. 117, 118;
rung as a protection against witches, ix. 157, 158, 159, 161, 165, 166;
used in the expulsion of evils, ix. 196, 200;
used at the expulsion of demons, ix. 204, 214, 246 sq., 251;
worn by dancers, ix. 242, 243, 246 sqq., 250 sq.;
used to exorcize storm fiend, ix. 246;
rung to make grass and flax grow, ix. 247 sq.;
golden, worn by human representatives of gods in Mexico, ix. 278, 280, 284;
worn by priest in exorcism, x. 5;
on priest's legs, xi. 8
——, church, silenced in Holy Week, x. 123, 125 n. 1;
rung on Midsummer Eve, xi. 47 sq.;
rung to drive away witches, xi. 73
Beltana, in South Australia, first-born children destroyed among the tribes about, iv. 180
Beltane, the Celtic May Day, x. 146 sqq.;
popularly derived from Baal, x. 149 n. 1, 150 n. 1;
the need-fire at, x. 293;
the Yellow Day of, x. 293;
sheep passed through a hoop at, xi. 184
—— cakes, x. 148 sq., 150, 152, 153, 154, 155
—— carline, x. 148, 153
—— Eve (the Eve of May Day), precautions against witchcraft on, ii. 53;
a witching time, x. 295
—— fire, pretence of throwing a man into the, x. 148, xi. 25;
kindled by the friction of oak-wood, x. 148, 155, xi. 91
—— fires in Scotland, x. 146 sqq.;
in Wales, x. 155 sq.;
in Ireland, x. 157 sq.;
in Nottinghamshire, x. 157
—— and Hallowe'en the two chief fire-festivals of the British Celts, xi. 40 sq.
Belty, the parish of, sacred trees in, ii. 44
Ben Cruachan on Loch Awe, vii. 142
Ben-hadad, king of Damascus, v. 15
Benametapa, the king of, in East Africa, x. 135
Benares, the clod festival at, i. 279;
Hindoo gentleman worshipped as a god at, i. 404;
serpent in likeness of Brahman at, iv. 132
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Bendall, Professor C., v. 229 n. 1
Beneficent powers of tree-spirits, ii. 45 sqq.
Benefit of clergy, v. 68
Benefits conferred by magic, i. 218 sq.
Benfey, Th., on Buddhist animism, ii. 13;
on story of Pururavas and Urvasi, iv. 131
Bengal, rain-making in, i. 278, 283, 284 n.;
the Maghs of, ii. 38;
marriage ceremony at the digging of wells in, ii. 146;
the Oraons of, ii. 148, viii. 117;
mourners touch a coral ring in, iii. 315;
Bengalee women, their euphemisms for snakes and thieves, iii. 402;
kings of, their rule of succession, iv. 51;
the Oraons and Mundas of, v. 46, 240, xi. 311;
the Korwas of, vii. 123;
the Hos of, viii. 117;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 68;
stories of the external soul in, xi. 101 sq., 102
Bengkali, East Indian island, swinging as a religious rite in, iv. 277 sq.
Bengweolo, Lake, in Central Africa, state governed by a queen near, ii. 277
Beni Ahsen, a tribe in Morocco, their Midsummer fires, x. 215 sq.;
their precaution at bathing on Midsummer Day, xi. 31
—— -Chougran tribe of North Africa, their rain-charm by means of a black cow, i. 290
—— Mgild, a Berber tribe of Morocco, their Midsummer fires, x. 215
—— Snous, the, of Morocco, their Midsummer rites, x. 216
Benin, belief as to twins in, i. 265;
rule as to the Queen-mother of, iii. 86;
ceremony at the reception of strangers in. iii. 108;
kings of, not allowed to quit their palace, iii. 123;
kings of, put their brothers to death, iii. 243;
human victims crucified at, v. 294 n. 3;
human sacrifices for the crops at, vii. 240;
festival of the new yams at, viii. 63 sq.;
time of the “grand devils” in, ix. 131 sq.
——, king of, worshipped as a god, i. 396, iii. 123;
represented with panther's whiskers, iv. 85 sq.;
human sacrifices at the burial of a, iv. 139 sq.
Bennett, George, on the placenta in New Zealand, i. 182 sq.
Bennisch district of Silesia, custom at threshing in the, vii. 148
Benomotapa, king of, his sacred fire, ii. 264
Benson, E. F., on May Day custom in Cornwall, ii. 52
Bent, J. Theodore, discovers ruins of Olba, v. 151;
identifies site of Hieropolis-Castabala, v. 168 n. 1;
on passing sick children through a cleft oak, xi. 172
Bentley, Richard, as to the soul on the lips, iii. 33 n. 3
Benue River, tributary of the Niger, the Jukos of the, iv. 34, viii. 160;
the Igbiras of the, viii. 115
Benvenuto Cellini, his alleged halo, ii. 197 n. 6
Benzoni, G., Italian historian, on Viracocchie, i. 57 n.
Bera Pennu, Earth Goddess of the Khonds, human sacrifices to, vii. 245
Berar, sacred groves in, ii. 41 sq.
Berawans of Sarawak, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 74 sq.
Berber belief as to water at Midsummer, xi. 31
—— tale, milk-tie in a, xi. 138 n. 1
Berbers of North Africa, the Barley Bride among the, vii. 178 sq.;
their Midsummer customs, x. 213 sqq., 219
Berecynthia, title of Cybele, v. 279 n. 4
Bérenger-Feraud, L. J. B., on the Festival of Fools, ix. 334 sq.
Berenice and Ptolemy, annual festival in their honour, vi. 35 n. 1
Bergell, in the Grisons, bells rung to make the grass grow at, ix. 247
Bergen, Midsummer bonfires at, x. 171
Bergkirchen, horse-races after harvest at, vii. 76
Bergslagshärad, in Sweden, the Yule Goat at, viii. 327
Bering Strait, the Esquimaux of, i. 9, 70, iii. 96, 205, 206, 228, 328, 371, 399, viii. 150, 247
Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire, ague transferred to oaks at, ix. 57 sq.
Berkshire, May garlands in, ii. 60
Berleburg, in Westphalia, the Yule log at, x. 248
Berlin, fox's teeth as an amulet in, i. 180;
treatment of the navel-string in, i. 198;
curses for good luck in, i. 281;
insignia of royal family of Hawaii at, i. 388 n. 3;
the Ethnological Museum at, i. 388 n. 3, ix. 70 n. 1;
the divining-rod at, xi. 68
Bern, Midsummer fires in the canton of, x. 172;
the Yule log in the canton of, x. 249;
witches put to death in the canton of, xi. 42 n. 2
Bernara, the harvest Cailleach in, vii. 166
Berneck, in Upper Franken, custom at threshing at, vii. 148
Bernera, on the west of Lewis, customs as to the last corn cut in, vii. 140 sq.
Bernkastel, on the Moselle, the harvest Goat at, vii. 285
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Berosus, Babylonian historian, on the festival of the Sacaea, iv. 113 sq., vii. 258 sq., ix. 355, 358, 359
Berries, the first of the season, ceremonies before eating, viii. 80 sqq.
Berry, province of France, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” in, iv. 241 sq.;
the calf at harvest in, vii. 292;
“seeing the Horse” at harvest in, vii. 294;
Lenten fire custom in, x. 115;
Midsummer fires in, x. 189;
the Yule log in, x. 251 sq.;
four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63
Bertat, a people on the Blue Nile, their orgiastic annual festivals, iv. 16 n. 2
Berwickshire, kirn-dollies of last corn at harvest in, vii. 153 sq.
Bes, grotesque Egyptian god, ii. 133, v. 118 n. 1
Besbau, near Luckau, races after harvest at, vii. 76
Besisis of the Malay Peninsula, their dread of noon, iii. 87;
their carnival at rice-harvest, ix. 226 n. 1
Besoms placed crosswise at doors of cattle-stalls as a protection against witches, ii. 127
——, burning, hurled against witches, ix. 162;
flung aloft to make the corn grow high, x. 340;
used to drive away witches, xi. 74
Bessy, one of the mummers on Plough Monday, viii. 329, 331
Bethlehem, worship of Adonis at, v. 257 sqq.;
fertility of the neighbourhood of, v. 257 n. 3;
the Star of, v. 259, ix. 330;
new Easter fire carried to, x. 130 n.
Betimor, woman turned into crocodile, viii. 212
Betsileo, the, of Madagascar, attribute divine powers to their chiefs, i. 397;
lickers of blood and eaters of nail-parings among the, iii. 246;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 83;
offer the first-fruits of all crops to their king, viii. 116;
their belief in the transmigration of souls, viii. 289 sq.
“Between the two Beltane fires,” x. 149
Beul, fire of, need-fire, x. 293
Bevan, Professor A. A., on the Arab fire-drill, ii. 210 n.;
on magical knots, iii. 302 n. 4;
on the change of m to v in Semitic, ix. 367 n. 2;
on a passage of Tabari, xi. 83 n. 1
Beveridge, P., on the suppression of the names of the dead among the aborigines of New South Wales, iii. 363 sq.
Beverley, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
Beverley, on the initiatory rites of the Virginian Indians, xi. 266 sq.
Bewitched animals burnt alive, x. 300 sqq.;
buried alive, x. 324 sqq.
—— cow, mugwort applied to, xi. 59
—— things burnt to compel the witch to appear, x. 322
Bezoar stone in rain-charms, i. 305
Bghais, a Karen tribe of Burma, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 60 sq.
Bhâdon, Indian month, i. 279, v. 243
Bhagats, mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 217 sq.
Bhagavati, goddess, her shrine at Cranganore, i. 280
Bhairava, Hindoo goddess, image of, i. 65;
temple of, iv. 219
Bharbhunjas of the Central Provinces, India, marriage custom of the, vi. 262
Bharias of the Central Provinces, India, exchange of costume between men and women at marriage among the, vi. 260 sq.
Bhars of India, their use of a scapegoat in time of cholera, ix. 190
Bhils, the, of Central India, worship of the peacock among, viii. 29;
their torture of witches, xi. 159
Bhímsen or Bhím Deo, an Indian deity, viii. 118
Bhootan, the Dhurma Rajah in, i. 410;
heaps of stones or sticks in, ix. 12;
offerings at cairns in, ix. 26
Bhotiyas of Juhar, their use of a scapegoat, ix. 209
Bhuiyars of Mirzapur will not speak of monkeys or bears by their proper names in the morning, iii. 403;
their dread of menstrual pollution, x. 84
Bhuiyas, the, of North-Eastern India, ceremony at the installation of a rajah among the, iv. 56;
fire-walk among the, xi. 5 sq.
Bhujariya, festival in the Central Provinces of India, v. 242
Bhumiya, Himalayan deity, viii. 117, 118 n.
Bhut, demon, xi. 312
Bhutan, demons diverted into images of animals in, viii. 103
Biajas of Borneo, their annual expulsion of evils in a little ship, ix. 200
Biak, island of, precautions against strangers in, iii. 104
Bibili, island off New Guinea, the natives reputed to make wind, i. 322
Bidasari and the golden fish, Malay story of, xi. 147 sq., 220
Biddulph, J., on custom at wheat-sowing in Gilgit, ii. 50 sq.
Biennial cycle, vii. 87
—— festivals, vii. 14, 86
Biggar, “Burning out the Old Year” at ix. 165
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Bikol, in Luzon, demon exorcized by beating in, ix. 260
Bilaspur or Bilaspore, twirling spindles forbidden in, while men are in council, i. 114;
way of stopping rain in, i. 253 sq.;
iron as an amulet in, iii. 234 sq.;
women's hair unknotted at childbirth in, iii. 298;
temporary rajah in, iv. 154;
infant burial in, v. 94 sq.;
annual festival of the dead in, vi. 60;
new-born children placed in winnowing-fans in, vii. 6 sq.;
cairns to which passers-by add stones in, ix. 27 n. 4;
the Rajah of, food eaten out of his dead hand by a Brahman, ix. 44 sq.
Bilda, in Algeria, nails knocked into olive-tree as a cure at, ix. 60
Bilqula. See Bella Coola
Bima, in Celebes, sacred horse at, i. 364
——, a district of Sambawa, human foundation-sacrifices in, iii. 90 sq.
Bin-Thuan, the Chams of, ii. 28, viii. 56
Binbinga tribe of Northern Australia, burial customs of the, i. 102 sq.;
cannibalism among the, i. 106 sq.;
their rites of initiation, xi. 234 sq.;
initiation of medicine-man in the, xi. 239
Binder of last sheaf represents the Corn-mother, vii. 150, 253;
tied up in straw or corn-stalks, vii. 220, 221;
called the Beggar-man, vii. 231;
called the Wolf, vii. 273 sq.;
called Goat, vii. 283
Binders of corn, contests between, vii. 136, 137, 138, 218 sq., 220, 221, 222, 253
Binding up a cleft stick or tree a mode of barricading the road against a ghostly pursuer, xi. 176
Bingfield, the Borewell near, ii. 161
Binsenschneider, vii. 230 n. 5
Binuas of the Malay Peninsula use a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 405
Bion, the atheist, his attempts to avert death, ii. 191
Bion, Greek poet, on the scarlet anemone, v. 226 n. 1
Bir, a tribal hero of the Bhuiyas, xi. 6
Birbhum district of Bengal, rain-making in the, i. 278
Birch, a protection against witches, ii. 54;
crowns of, ii. 64;
leaves of, girl clad in, ii. 80;
used to kindle need-fire, x. 291
——, branches of, on Midsummer Day, x. 177, 196;
a protection against witchcraft, xi. 185
—— and plane, fire made by the friction of, x. 220
Birch, sprigs of, a protection against witches, ix. 162;
used to beat people with at Easter and Christmas, ix. 269, 270
—— -tree dressed in woman's clothes, ii. 64, 141
—— -trees used to keep off witches, ii. 54, 55, xi. 20 n.;
gout transferred to, ix. 56 sq.;
set up at Midsummer, x. 177;
mistletoe on, xi. 315
—— -wreath at Whitsuntide, girls kiss each other through a, ii. 93
Bird, Miss I. L., on the bear-festivals of the Ainos, viii. 184 n. 1
Bird, soul conceived as a, iii. 33 sqq., vii. 181, 182 n. 1;
soul of a tree in a, vi. 111 n. 1;
corn-spirit as a, vii. 295 sq.;
disease transferred to, xi. 187;
brings first fire to earth, xi. 295
—— called “the soul of Osiris,” vi. 110
—— -chief of the Sea Dyaks, ix. 383, 384
—— -lime made from mistletoe, xi. 317
—— of prey, inoculation with a, viii. 162
——, soul of the rice as a, vii. 182 n. 1
—— -wife, Dyak story of the, iv. 127 sq.;
Indian story of, iv. 131
Birds, ghosts of slain as, iii. 177 sq.;
cause headache through clipped hair, iii. 270 sq., 282;
absent warriors called, iii. 330;
burnt in honour of Artemis, v. 126 n. 2;
ancestral spirits in, viii. 123;
tongues of, eaten, viii. 147;
souls of dead in, viii. 296;
as scapegoats, ix. 35 sq., 51 sq.;
external souls in, xi. 104, 111, 119, 142, 144, 150;
carry seed of mistletoe, xi. 316
——, language of, learned by means of serpents, i. 158;
known to Indian king, iv. 123;
learned by eating serpent's flesh, viii. 146;
learned by tasting dragon's blood, viii. 146
——, migratory, as representatives of a divinity, vii. 204 sq.
—— of omen, stories of their origin, iv. 126, 127 sq.
——, white, souls of dead kings incarnate in, vi. 162
Birk, in Transylvania, the harvest Hare at, vii. 280
Birks, Rev. E. B., on harvest custom at Orwell, v. 237 n. 4
Birseck, Lenten fires at, x. 119
Birth of children, magical images to ensure the, i. 70 sqq.;
pretence of, at adoption, i. 74 sq.,
at return of supposed dead man, i. 75,
at circumcision, i. 75 sq.;
a man's fortune determined by the day or hour of his, i. 173;
from the fire, ii. 195 sqq.;
new [pg 188] fire kindled by friction of wood after a, ii. 239;
from a golden image, iii. 113;
of child on harvest-field, vii. 150 sq., 209.
See also Births and Miscarriage
Birth, new i. 74 sqq.;
of Brahman sacrificer, simulation of, i. 380 sq.;
through blood in rites of Attis, v. 274 sq.;
of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 155 sq.;
of novices at initiation, xi. 247, 251, 256, 257, 261
——, premature, iii. 213.
See Miscarriage
Birth-names of Central American Indians, xi. 214 n. 1
—— -trees in Africa, xi. 160 sqq.;
in Europe, xi. 165
Birthday, Greek custom of sacrificing to a dead man on his, i. 105;
celebration in China, i. 169
—— of the Sun at the winter solstice, v. 303 sqq., x. 246
Birthdays of Apollo and Artemis, i. 32
“Birthplace of Rainy Zeus,” ii. 360
Births, premature, how treated by the Akikuyu, iii. 286, 286 n. 6
Bisa chiefs reincarnated in pythons, iv. 193
—— woman, her mode of sowing bananas, vii. 115
Bisaltae, a Thracian tribe, sanctuary of Dionysus among the, vii. 5
Bisection of the year, Celtic, x. 223
Bishnois of the Punjaub, infant burial among the, v. 94
Bishop, Mrs., on cairns in Corea, ix. 11 n. 5;
on the belief in demons in Corea, ix. 99 sq.
Bishop, the Boy, on Holy Innocents' Day, ix. 336 sqq.
—— of Fools, ix. 312
—— of Innocents, ix. 333
Bismarck Archipelago, iv. 61;
magical powers ascribed to chiefs in the, i. 340;
magic practised on refuse of food in the, iii. 128 sq.;
reluctance to mention personal names in the, iii. 329;
the Melanesians of the, their belief in demons, ix. 83
Bisons, the resurrection of, viii. 256
Bissagos Islands, natives of, their sacrifices to sacred trees, ii. 16
—— Archipelago, precaution as to spittle in the, iii. 289
Bistritz district of Transylvania, belief as to quail in last corn in the, vii. 295
Bitch, the last sheaf called the, vii. 272
Bites of ants used as purificatory ceremony, iii. 105.
See Ants
Bithynia, Arrian of, ii. 126;
mournful song of reapers in, vii. 216
—— and Pontus, rapid spread of Christianity in, ix. 420 sq.
Bithynians invoke Attis, v. 282
Biting bark of tree as mode of transferring a malady, ix. 54, 55
—— a sword as a charm, i. 160
Biyârs, the, of North-Western India, their ceremony of “burning the old year,” ix. 230 n. 7
Bizya (modern Viza), capital of old Thracian kings, vii. 26, 30
Black, Dr. J. Sutherland, on the burning of Winter at Zurich, iv. 260 sq.
Black animals in rain-charms, i. 250, 290 sqq., ii. 367;
as scapegoats, ix. 190, 192, 193
—— bull sacrificed to the dead, iv. 95
—— cats, witches turn into, ii. 334
—— colour in magic, i. 83;
in rain-making ceremonies, i. 269 sq., iii. 154
—— Corrie of Ben Breck, the giant of, in an Argyleshire tale, xi. 129 sq.
—— Demeter, vii. 263
—— drink, an emetic, viii. 76
—— Forest, Midsummer fires in the, x. 168
—— goat-skin, in relation to Dionysus, vii. 17
—— god and white god among the Slavs, ix. 92
—— hair, homoeopathic charm to restore, i. 154
—— Isle, Ross-shire, x. 301
—— Mountains, in France, ix. 166;
story of sleeping witch in the, iii. 42
—— ox in magic, iii. 154;
bath of blood of, iv. 201
—— poplars, mistletoe on, xi. 316, 318 n. 6
—— ram sacrificed to Pelops, ii. 300, iv. 92, 104;
in magic, iii. 154
—— -snake clan of the Warramunga, v. 100
—— spauld, a disease of cattle, cure for, x. 325
—— three-legged horse ridden by witches, xi. 74
—— victims in rain-making, iii. 154;
sacrificed to the dead, iv. 92, 95
—— and white in relation to human scapegoats, ix. 220, 253, 257, 272
Blackened faces, vii. 287, 291, 299, viii. 321, 332, ix. 247, 314, 330;
of actors, vii. 27
Blackening faces of warriors, iii. 163;
of manslayers, iii. 169, 178, 181, 186 n. 1;
of girls at puberty, x. 41, 60
Blackfoot Indians, taboos observed by eagle-trappers among the, i. 116;
taboos observed by the wives and children of eagle-hunters among the, i. 119;
their use of skulls as charms, i. 149 sq.;
their way of bringing on a storm of rain, i. 288;
their marriage of the Sun and Moon, ii. 146 sq.;
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taboos observed by man who kept the sacred pipe among the, iii. 159 n.;
unwilling to speak their names, iii. 326;
their worship of the Pleiades, vii. 311;
their propitiation of the eagles which they have killed, viii. 236
Bladders, annual festival of, among the Esquimaux, iii. 206 sq., 228;
of sea-beasts returned by the Esquimaux to the sea, viii. 247 sqq.
Bland, J. O. P., on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 274 sq.
Blankenfelde, in district of Potsdam, the Old Man at harvest at, vii. 221
Blankenheim in the Eifel, the King of the Bean at, ix. 313
Blay, men's clubhouse in the Pelew Islands, vi. 265
Bleeding trees, ii. 18, 20, 33
Blekinge, Swedish province, the Midsummer Bride and Bridegroom in, ii. 92, v. 251
Blemishes, bodily, a ground for putting kings to death, iv. 36 sqq.;
physical, transferred to witches, x. 160 n. 1
“Blessers” or sacred kings, iii. 125 n.
Blessing of maize, game, and fish by medicine-men among the Bororos, viii. 71 sq.
Blighting effect of illicit love on the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 sqq.
Blind bull sacrificed at the foundation of a town, vi. 249;
sacrificed before an army going to war, vi. 250
—— cat in homoeopathic magic, i. 153
—— Tree, the, i. 147
Blindfolded reapers, vii. 144, 153 sq.
Blindness, charm to cause, i. 147
—— of Hother, x. 279 n. 4
Block, the Yule, x. 247
Blocksberg, dance of the witches on the, ix. 163 n. 1;
the resort of witches, x. 171;
the Mount of the Witches, xi. 74
Blood shed at circumcision and subincision, uses of, i. 92, 94 sq.;
drawn from virgin bride, i. 94;
the flow of, arrested by blood-stones, i. 165;
sympathetic connexion between wounded person and his shed blood, i. 205;
of contracting parties sprinkled on their footprints in making a treaty, i. 211;
used to imitate rain, i. 256, 257 sq.;
smeared on regalia, i. 363;
smeared on king's throne, i. 365;
of sacrificial victim, inspiration by sucking the, i. 381 sq.;
offered to trees, ii. 13, 16, 19, 34, 44, 47, 367;
smeared on wood-work of house to appease the tree-spirits, ii. 39;
smeared on house as an expiatory rite, ii. 109 n. 1;
of incestuous persons, blighting effects attributed to the, ii. 110 sq.;
smeared on new fire-boards, ii. 225;
smeared on sacred trees, ii. 367;
put on doorposts, iii. 15;
smeared on person as a purification, iii. 104, 115, 219;
of slain, supposed effect of it on the slayer, iii. 169;
drawn from bodies of manslayers, iii. 176, 180;
tabooed, iii. 239 sqq.;
not eaten, iii. 240 sq.;
soul in the, iii. 240, 241, 247, 250;
of game poured out, iii. 241;
spilt on ground, covered up, iii. 241, 245, 246;
unwillingness to shed, iii. 243, 246 sq.;
received on bodies of kinsfolk, iii. 244 sq.;
drops of, effaced, iii. 245 sq.;
horror of, iii. 245;
spilt, used by magicians for evil purposes, iii. 246;
of chief sacred, iii. 248;
of women, dread of, iii. 250 sq.;
fetish priests allowed to drink fresh blood, iii. 291;
of sacrifice splashed on door-posts, house-posts, etc., iv. 97, 175, 176 n. 1;
remission of sins through the shedding of, v. 299;
used in expiation for homicide, v. 299 n. 2;
not to be shed in certain sacrifices, vi. 222 n. 2;
of sacrificial horse, use made of, viii. 42;
drawn from men as a religious rite, viii. 75, 91 sq.;
of men drunk to acquire their qualities, viii. 148, 150, 151, 152;
as a means of communion with a deity, viii. 316;
fatigue let out with, ix. 12;
of children used to knead a paste, ix. 129;
drawn from ears as penance, ix. 292;
girls at puberty forbidden to see, x. 46;
drawn from women who do not menstruate, x. 81
Blood, bath of ox, iv. 35, 201;
bath of bull's, in the rites of Attis, v. 274 sqq.
—— of bear drunk, viii. 146
—— of beavers not allowed to fall on ground, viii. 240 n. 2
—— of childbirth, supposed dangerous infection of, iii. 152 sqq.;
received on heads of friends or slaves, iii. 245
——, the Day of, in the festival of Attis, v. 268, 285
—— of dragon imparts knowledge of language of birds, viii. 146
——, human, strengthening and fertilizing virtue attributed to, i. 85 sqq., 90 sqq., 105;
offered at grave, i. 90 sq., 101;
given to sick people, i. 91;
used to knit men together, i. 92;
used in rain-making ceremonies, i. 256, 257 sq., xi. 232 sq.;
offered to the dead, iv. 92 sq., 104;
libations of, poured on grave of Pelops, iv. 92;
mixed with maize and eaten as a blessed food, viii. 91 sq.
—— of human victims in rain-making ceremonies, iv. 20;
smeared on faces [pg 190] of idols, iv. 185;
sprinkled on seed, vii. 239, 251;
scattered on field, vii. 244, 251
Blood of lamb sprinkled on people, viii. 315
——, menstruous, dread of, x. 76;
disastrous effect of seeing, x. 77;
deemed fatal to cattle, x. 80;
miraculous virtue attributed to, x. 82 sq.;
medicinal application of, x. 98 n. 1
—— of pigs in purificatory rites, ii. 107, 108, 109, v. 299 n. 2, ix. 262
——, royal, reluctance to spill, ii. 228;
not to be shed on the ground, iii. 241 sqq.
—— of St. John found on St. John's wort and other plants at Midsummer, xi. 56, 57
—— of sheep poured on image of god as a sin-offering, x. 82
—— of slain men tasted by their slayers, viii. 154 sqq.
Blood-brotherhood formed by woodman with the tree which he fells, ii. 19 sq.;
between men and animals among the Fans, xi. 201, 226 n. 1;
between men and animals among the Indians of Honduras, xi. 214, 226 n. 1
—— -covenant, iii. 130, viii. 154 sqq.;
by mixture of blood between husband and wife, viii. 69.
See also Blood-brotherhood
—— -lickers among the Betsileo, iii. 246
—— -stones thought to arrest the flow of blood, i. 81, 165
Bloodless altars, ix. 307
Bloomfield, Professor Maurice, on the magical nature of Vedic ritual, i. 229
—— River, Queensland, magical effigies on the, i. 62;
namesakes of the dead change their names on the, iii. 355 sq.
Blowing on a fire, forbidden to sacred chiefs, iii. 136, 256;
upon knots, as a charm, iii. 302, 304
—— of trumpets in the festival of Attis, v. 268
Blows to drive away ghosts, ix. 260 sqq.
Blue Spring, the, at Syracuse, v. 213 n. 1
Bluk, the bull-frog, i. 292
Blu-u Kayans of Borneo, iii. 104;
expiation for unchastity among the, ii. 109 sq.
Blydeuitzigt, in Cape Colony, ix. 16
Boa-constrictor, purification of man who has killed a, iii. 221 sq.;
need of appeasing the soul of a, viii. 296
Boa-constrictors, kings at death turn into, iv. 84, xi. 212 n.;
souls of dead in, viii. 289 sq.
Boanerges, “sons of thunder,” i. 266 n. 1
Boar, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151;
grunting like a wild, a charm against sore feet, ii. 22 sq.;
and Adonis, v. 11, viii. 22 sq.;
Attis killed by a, v. 264;
corn-spirit as, vii. 298 sqq.;
the Yule, vii. 300 sqq., 302 sq.
See also Boars
Boar's fat poured on novices at initiation in the Andaman Islands, viii. 164
—— head mask worn by actor at a sowing festival, vii. 95 sq.
—— skin, shoes of, worn by a king at inauguration, x. 4
Boars, evil spirits transferred to, ix. 31;
familiar spirits of wizards in, xi. 196 sq.;
lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 203, 205;
external human souls in, xi. 207
——, wild, hunted in Italy, i. 6;
in ancient Greece, i. 6 n. 6;
not to be called by their proper names, iii. 411, 415;
annually sacrificed in Cyprus, viii. 23 n. 3;
their ravages in the corn, viii. 31 sqq.;
eaten to make eater brave, viii. 140.
See also Swine
Boas, Dr. Franz, on the taboos observed by Esqimaux hunters, iii. 210 sqq.;
on the confession of sins, iii. 214;
on the masked dances of the Indians of North-Western America, ix. 375 sq.;
on seclusion of Shuswap girls at puberty, x. 53;
on customs observed by mourners among the Bella Coola Indians, xi. 174;
on initiation into the wolf society of the Nootka Indians, xi. 270 sq.;
on the relation between clans and secret societies, xi. 273 n. 1
Boba or Baba, “the Old Woman,” name given to the last sheaf, vii. 144 sq., 223
Bocage of Normandy, rule as to the clipping of wool in the, vi. 134 n. 3;
“catching the quail,” at harvest in the, vii. 295;
games of ball in the, ix. 183 sq.;
Eve of Twelfth Night in the, ix. 316 sq.;
weather of the twelve months predicted from the Twelve Days in the, ix. 323;
Midsummer fires in the, x. 185;
the Yule log in the, x. 252;
torchlight processions on Christmas Eve in the, x. 266
Bock, C., on birth-ceremonies in Laos, vii. 8;
on the fear of demons in Laos, ix. 97
Bodia or Bodio, a West African pontiff responsible for the fertility of the earth, i. 353;
taboos observed by him, iii. 14 sq., 23
Bodies, souls transferred to other, iii. 49
—— of the dead, magical uses made of the, vi. 100 sqq.;
guarded against mutilation, vi. 103;
thought to be endowed with magical powers, vi. 103, 104 sq.
Bodmin, in Cornwall, Lord of Misrule at, ii. 319 n. 1
Bodos, the, of Assam, mourners shaved among the, iii. 285
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Bodroum in Cilicia, ruins of, v. 167
Body-without-soul in a Ligurian story, xi. 107;
in a German story, xi. 116 sq.;
in a Breton story, xi. 132 sq.;
in a Basque story, xi. 139
Boedromion, an Attic month, vii. 52, 77, viii. 6 n.
Boemus, Joannes, on the “carrying out of Death,” iv. 234;
on the King of the Bean, ix. 315 n.
Boeotian festival of the Great Daedala, xi. 77 n. 1
—— sacrifice to Hercules, viii. 95 n. 2
Bogadjim, in German New Guinea, belief in wind-making at, i. 322;
charm to attract fish at, viii. 251
Boghaz-Keui, Hittite capital, excavations of H. Winckler at, v. 125 n.;
situation and remains of, v. 128 sqq.;
the gods of, v. 128 sqq.;
rock-hewn sculptures at, v. 129 sqq.
Bogle, George, envoy to Tibet, his account of a Tibetan New Year ceremony, ix. 203
Bogomiles, a Russian sect, worship each other as embodiments of Christ, i. 407 sq.
Bogos of East Africa allow no fire in a house after a death, ii. 267 n. 4;
women of the, will not mention their husbands' names, iii. 337
Bogota, capital of the Chibchas, i. 416;
rigorous training of the heir to the throne of, x. 19
Bohemia, customs as to children's cast teeth in, i. 180;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210 sq.;
Midsummer-tree burned in, ii. 66;
throwing Death into the water on the fourth Sunday in Lent in, ii. 73 sq.;
Whitsuntide King in, ii. 85;
girl called Queen on fourth Sunday in Lent in, ii. 87;
the soul as a white bird in, iii. 34;
belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424;
belief as to falling stars in, iv. 66;
“burying the Carnival” in, iv. 209;
Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 209 sqq.;
“Carrying out Death” in, iv. 237 sq.;
bringing in Summer in, iv. 246;
May-pole or Midsummer-tree in, v. 250;
Feast of All Souls in, vi. 72 sq.;
harvest customs in, vii. 138, 145, 149, 150, 225 sq., 232, 286, 289;
fox's tongue as amulet in, viii. 270;
snake's tongue cut on St. George's Eve confers eloquence in, viii. 270;
custom as to mice in, viii. 279, 283;
the Shrovetide or carnival Bear in, viii. 325 sq.;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night in, ix. 161;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268, 269;
the Three Kings of Twelfth Day in, ix. 330 sq.;
the Festival of Fools in, ix. 336 n. 1;
water and fire consecrated at Easter in, x. 123 sq.;
bonfires on May Day in, x. 159;
Midsummer fires in, x. 173 sqq.;
need-fire in, x. 278 sq.;
charm to make corn grow high in, x. 340;
offering to water-spirits on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 28;
simples gathered on St. John's Night in, xi. 49;
divination by means of flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 52 sq.;
mugwort at Midsummer in, xi. 59;
elder-flowers gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 64;
wild thyme gathered on Midsummer Day in, xi. 64;
magic bloom of fern-seed at Midsummer in, xi. 66;
“thunder besoms” in, xi. 85;
fern-seed on St. John's Day in, xi. 287, 288
Bohemia, the Germans of Western, their phrase for man who cuts last corn, vii. 138;
their custom at Christmas, ix. 270;
Twelfth Day among, ix. 331
Bohemian belief that serpents get their poison annually on St. George's Day, ii. 344 n. 4;
cures for fever, ix. 49, 51, 55 sq., 58, 59, 63;
remedy for jaundice, ix. 52
—— charm to make fruit-trees bear, i. 141
—— custom of “Shooting the Witches” on St. Sylvester's Day, ix. 164
—— love-charms on St. George's Day, ii. 345 sq.
—— poachers, their use of vervain, xi. 62;
their use of seeds of fir-cones, xi. 64
—— story of the external soul, xi. 110
—— superstition as to understanding the language of animals, viii. 146
Bohemians, their precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night, ii. 55
Bohlingen, in Baden, the last sheaf called the Oats-stallion at, vii. 292;
the last sheaf called the Rye-sow or the Wheat-sow at, vii. 298
Böhmerwald Mountains, the Oats-goat at harvest in the, vii. 284;
annual expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night in the, ix. 159 sq.
Bohus, Midsummer fires in, x. 172
Bohuslän, in Sweden, prehistoric rock-carving at, vii. 129 n. 1
Boidès, torches or bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 n. 1
Boiled flesh tabooed to manslayers, iii. 185
—— meat offered to the Seasons, i. 310
Boiling bewitched animal or part of it to compel witch to appear, x. 321 sq., 323
—— a thief's name, iii. 331
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Boiling milk, omens drawn from, xi. 8
—— resin, ordeal of, x. 311
Boils caused by magical stones, i. 147;
thought to be caused by eating or touching a totemic animal, viii. 25, 29;
crawling under a bramble as a cure for, xi. 180
Bolang Mongondo, a district of Celebes, recall of lost soul in, iii. 53 sq.;
disposal of child's first hair, iii. 279;
names of relations tabooed in, iii. 341;
rajahs of, their names not to be mentioned, iii. 376;
custom as to eating the new rice in, viii. 54;
belief in demons in, ix. 85 sq.;
riddles only asked when there is a corpse in the village in, ix. 121 n. 3
Bolbe in Macedonia, lake of, ix. 142 n. 1
Bolivia, the Moxos Indians of, i. 123;
Aymara Indians of, i. 292, iii. 97, ix. 193;
the Chiriguanos Indians of, vi. 143 n. 4, 145, viii. 140, 286, ix. 26, 193, x. 56;
Tarija in, vii. 173 n.;
the Guarayos of, viii. 157;
the Pechuyos of, viii. 157;
the Retoroños of, viii. 157;
the Yuracares Indians of, viii. 235 sq., 257, x. 57 sq.;
heaps of stones or sticks in, ix. 12;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
Indians of, their offerings at cairns, ix. 26 sq.;
fires on St. John's Eve in, x. 213;
La Paz in, xi. 50
Boloki, or Bangala, of the Upper Congo, their ceremonies at the new moon, vi. 143;
attempt to deceive spirit of disease, vi. 262;
their fear of demons, ix. 76 sq.;
birth-plants among the, xi. 161 sq.;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 229 n.
Bombay, belief as to absence of sleeper's soul in, iii. 41;
the Suni Mohammedans of, their customs as to mirrors, iii. 95;
burial custom in, viii. 100
Bomma, King of the Rain at, ii. 2
Bondeis of German East Africa, rites of initiation among the, xi. 263 sq.
Bonds, no man in bonds allowed in house of Flamen Dialis, iii. 14
Bone used to point with in sorcery, x. 14;
of bird (eagle or swan), women at menstruation obliged to drink out of, x. 45, 48, 49, 50, 73 n. 3, 90, 92;
incident of, in folk-tales, x. 73 n. 3
—— of old animals eaten to make the eater old, viii. 143
Bones, departing souls bottled up in hollow, iii. 31;
burnt in the Easter bonfires, x. 142;
burnt in Midsummer fires, x. 203
—— of animals not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, viii. 225, 238 sqq., 243, 259;
preserved in order that the animals may come to life again, viii. 256 sqq.;
burned or thrown into water, viii. 257;
not to be broken, viii. 258 sq.;
that have been eaten as a sacrament treated with ceremonious respect, viii. 313
Bones of the dead, in magic, i. 148, 150;
of dead shamans placed in trees, ii. 32;
their treatment after the decay of the flesh, iii. 372 n. 5;
disinterred and scraped, iii. 373 n., iv. 96;
used in rain-making ceremonies, v. 22;
of dead kings carried off or destroyed by enemies, vi. 103 sq.;
cakes baked in the shape of, and eaten as the bones of a god, viii. 87 sqq.;
virtues acquired by contact with the, viii. 153 sq.;
preserved to facilitate resurrection, viii. 259;
of dead enemies destroyed to prevent their resurrection, viii. 260;
of dead husbands carried by their widows, x. 91 n. 4
—— of deer not given to the dogs, viii. 241, 242, 243
—— of fish not burned, viii. 250, 251;
thrown into the sea or a river, viii. 250, 254;
not to be broken, viii. 255
——, fossil, source of myths about giants, v. 157 sq.
——, human, buried as rain-charm, i. 287;
burned as a charm against sorcery, ii. 330;
of bodies which have been eaten, special treatment of, iii. 189 sq.
——, marrow, not to be broken in a hut, i. 115 sq.
—— of sacrificial victim not broken, iv. 20
—— of salmon not to touch the ground, viii. 254
—— and skulls of enemies not destroyed, viii. 260
—— of white whale kept from dogs, iii. 206
Bonfire Day in County Leitrim, x. 203
Bonfires on St. John's Day (Midsummer Day) in Esthonia, iv. 280;
leaping over, iv. 262, ix. 159;
on St. John's Eve, dances round, v. 245;
on Walpurgis Night to keep off witches, ix. 163;
on the Eve of Twelfth Day, ix. 316 sqq.;
supposed to protect against conflagrations, x. 107, 108;
lit by the persons last married, x. 107, 109;
a protection against witchcraft, x. 108, 109, 154;
a protection against sickness, x. 108, 109;
a protection against sorcery, x. 156;
quickening and fertilizing influence of, x. 336 sqq.;
omens of marriage drawn from, x. 338 sq.;
protect fields against hail, x. 344;
protect houses against lightning and conflagration, x. 344;
at festivals in India, xi. 1 sqq.
See also Fires
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Bonfires, Midsummer, ii. 65;
intended to drive away dragons, x. 161;
protect cattle against witchcraft, x. 188;
thought to ensure good crops, x. 188, 336
Bongo, the, of the Upper Nile, magical powers of chiefs among, i. 347
Boni, Commendatore G., on the Vestal fire, ii. 186 n. 1
Boni, in Celebes, etiquette at the court of the king of, iv. 40
Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, x. 270
Bonnach stone in a Celtic story, xi. 126
Bonnets, special, worn by women at menstruation, iii. 146
Bonny River, human sacrifices at mouth of the, ii. 157 sq.
Bontoc, in Luzon, sacred trees of the natives of, ii. 30;
human sacrifices at planting and reaping rice in, vii. 240
Booandik tribe of South Australia, their fear of women's blood, iii. 251;
special form of speech used between relations by marriage in the, iii. 346 sq.
Boobies, the aborigines of Fernando Po, their sacred king, iii. 8 sq.
Booginese. See Buginese
Book of Acaill, ancient Irish work, iv. 39
—— of the Dead, the ancient Egyptian, vi. 13, vii. 215, ix. 103
—— of Rewards and Penalties, Chinese work, i. 61
—— of Rights, ancient Irish work, iii. 12 n. 2
Booth of Orestes, i. 26
Bor, the ancient Tyana, Hittite monument at, v. 122 n. 1
Bor tribe of Dinka, their rain-maker, iv. 32
Borâna Gallas, custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 n. 1
Borans, their custom of sacrificing their children to a sky-spirit, iv. 181
Bordeaux, May-poles at, ii. 69;
magical use of knotted cords at, iii. 299;
“killing the Bull” at threshing near, vii. 291
Bordes, torches carried on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 n. 1
Borewell, the, in Northumberland, resorted to by barren women, ii. 161
Borlase, William, on the Cornish custom of the Maypole, ii. 67;
on Midsummer fires in Cornwall, x. 199
Bormus, mournful song of Mariandynian reapers, vii. 216, 264;
compared to Lityerses, vii. 257
Born again, pretence of being, i. 74 sqq., iii. 113.
See also Birth, new
—— “of an oak or a rock,” i. 100 n. 1
—— thrice, said of Brahmans, i. 381
Borneo, use of magical images in, i. 59 sq.;
the Dyaks of, i. 73, iii. 52, ix. 14, 383, x. 5, xi. 222;
rules observed by camphor hunters in, i. 115;
telepathy in war in, i. 127;
the Mahakam Dyaks of, i. 159;
treatment of the afterbirth and navel-string in, i. 194;
gongs beaten in storms in, i. 328;
beliefs as to the blighting effect of sexual crime in, ii. 108 sqq.;
the Kenyahs of, ii. 385, iii. 110, 415;
hooks to catch souls in, iii. 30;
rice used to prevent the soul, conceived as a bird, from wandering, in, iii. 35;
recall of lost souls in, iii. 55 sq.;
the Ot Danoms of, iii. 103;
precautions against strangers in, iii. 103 sq.;
the Blu-u Kayans of, iii. 104;
exorcism of spirits by means of rice in, iii. 106;
the Dusuns of, iii. 230, ix. 200;
natives of, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
the Malanau tribes of, iii. 406;
the Sakarang Dyaks of, iii. 416;
the Barito of, iv. 166 n. 1;
custom of head-hunting in, v. 294 sqq.;
effeminate sorcerers in, vi. 253, 256;
division of agricultural work between the sexes in, vii. 124;
use of puppets as substitutes for living persons in, viii. 100 sq.;
custom in the search for camphor in, viii. 186 n.;
the Kalamantans of, viii. 293 sq.;
belief in demons in, ix. 87;
sickness expelled in a ship from, ix. 187;
the Biajas of, ix. 200;
festivals in, x. 13;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 35 sq.;
birth-custom in, xi. 154 sq.;
trees and plants as life-indices in, xi. 164 sq.;
the Madangs of, xi. 175;
creeping through a cleft stick after a funeral in, xi. 175 sq.;
giving the slip to an evil spirit in, xi. 179 sq.
Borneo, Central, the Kayans of, i. 330, ii. 17, 109, iii. 47, 99, 110, 113, 164, 239, 260, 286, 406, iv. 218, vii. 92, 184, viii. 54 sq., ix. 154 n., 236, 382 sq., x. 4 sq., xi. 175;
agricultural communities of, vii. 92
——, Eastern, Tengaroeng in, iv. 280, 281
——, Northern, the Dyaks of, vii. 188
——, South-Eastern, the Dyaks of, iii. 72 n. 1
——, Western, precautions against frightening the spirit of the rice in, ii. 28
Bornu, the Sultan of, hides himself from his people, iii. 120 sq.
Boroma, on the Zambesi, rain-maker with unshorn hair at, iii. 259 sq.
Bororos of Brazil, best singers chosen chiefs among the, ii. 298 sq.;
their conception of the soul as a bird, iii. 34;
their belief in dreams, iii. 36;
their belief and custom as to meteors, [pg 194] iv. 62 sq.;
consecration of maize, game, and fish by medicine-men among the, viii. 71 sq.;
their identification of themselves with parrots, viii. 207 sq.;
their use of bull-roarers, xi. 230 n.
Borrow, witches come to, x. 322, 323, xi. 73
Borsippa, temple of E-zida at, iv. 110
Bosanquet, Professor R. C., on the Four-handed Apollo, vi. 250 n. 2
Boscana, Father Geronimo, on the customs and superstitions of the Californian Indians, vii. 125, viii. 169
Bosco Sacro, the grove of Egeria, i. 18 n. 4
Bosman, W., on serpent-worship in Guinea, v. 67
Bosnia, hawthorn used as a protection against vampyres in, ix. 153 n. 1;
need-fire in, x. 286;
life-trees of children in, xi. 165
Bosnian Turks, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 74
Bossuet, Bishop, on the Midsummer bonfires, x. 182
Botocudos of Brazil, their reason for eating the flesh of their enemies, viii. 156
Bottesford, in Lincolnshire, mistletoe deemed a remedy for epilepsy at, xi. 83
Bottle, external soul of queen in a, xi. 138
Bouche, Abbé, on West African priestesses, v. 66 n. 3, 69
Bougainville Straits, the natives of, their observation of the Pleiades and Orion's belt, vii. 313;
their expulsion of demons, ix. 116;
use of bull-roarers in, xi. 229 n.
Bough, the Golden, xi. 279 sqq.;
plucked by Aeneas, i. 11, ii. 379;
and the King of the Wood, i. 11, x. 1;
the plucking of it not a piece of bravado, ii. 123 sq.;
grew on an evergreen oak, ii. 379;
a branch of mistletoe, xi. 284 sqq., 315 sqq.
See also Golden Bough
Boughs, green, a charm against witches, ii. 52-55, 127.
See also Branches
Boulia district of Queensland, magical pointing bones in the, x. 14
Bouphonia, “the murder of the ox,” ritual flight at the, ii. 309 n. 2;
an Athenian sacrifice, viii. 4 sqq.
Bouphonion, a Greek month, viii. 6 n.
Bourail, in New Caledonia, ceremony at eating the new yams at, viii. 53
Bourbonnais, the Fox in the corn in, vii. 296;
mistletoe a remedy for epilepsy in, xi. 83
Bourbourg, Brasseur de, on Mexican human sacrifices in connexion with the crops, vii. 237
Bourdifailles, bonfires on first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 n. 1
Bourges, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 242
Bourgogne, in Ain, the Fox in the last sheaf at, vii. 297
Bourke, Captain J. G., on the Pimas, iii. 184;
on mock human sacrifices in Arizona, iv. 215;
on the totem clans of the Zuni, viii. 178;
on the bull-roarer, xi. 231
Bourlet, A., on the belief of the Thay in spirits, ix. 97 sqq.
Bouzygai, “Ox-yokers,” priestly family at Eleusis, curses uttered by the, vii. 108 sq.
Bouzygios, epithet applied to the Sacred Ploughing at Athens, vii. 109 n. 1
Bovillae, King of the Sacred Rites at, i. 44 n. 1;
Vejovis at, ii. 179;
the Julian family at, ii. 179, 180 n.
Bowels, novice at initiation supplied by spirits with a new set of, xi. 235 sqq.
Bowes, in Yorkshire, need-fire at, x. 287
Box, strayed soul caught in, iii. 45, 70, 76;
external soul of king in a, xi. 102, 149;
external soul of cannibal in a, xi. 117.
See also Boxes
—— -tree, external soul of giant in a, xi. 133
Boxers at funerals, iv. 97
Boxes opened in house to facilitate childbirth, iii. 296;
or arks, sacred, x. 11 sq.
See also Box
Boxing, in the pancratium, vii. 71 n. 5, viii. 131
Boxwood blessed on Palm Sunday, x. 184, xi. 47
Boy and girl produce need-fire by friction of wood, xi. 281
—— Bishop on Holy Innocents' Day, ix. 336 sqq.
Boys of living parents in ritual, vi. 236 sqq.;
dressed as girls to avert the Evil Eye, vi. 260;
marriage customs to ensure the birth of, vi. 262;
at initiation thought to be swallowed by wizards, xi. 233;
at initiation thought to be born again, xi. 246 sqq.
Brabant, Whitsuntide custom in, ii. 80;
Midsummer fires in, x. 194;
St. Peter's bonfires in, x. 195;
wicker giants in, xi. 35
Bracelets as amulets, iii. 55, 315, x. 92
Bradbury, Professor J. B., on hemlock as an anaphrodisiac, ii. 139 n. 1
Braemar Highlanders, their Hallowe'en fires, x. 233 sq.
Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the Hindoo Trinity, i. 225
Brahman, the Hindoo creator, x. 95
Brahman, priest, derivation of name, i. 229;
not to blow a fire with his mouth, ii. 241;
called “twice born,” xi. 276.
See also Brahmans
[pg 195]
Brahman boys sacrificed, vii. 244;
forbidden to see the sun, x. 68 n. 2
—— charms by treading on a stone, i. 160
—— fire-priests, ii. 247 sqq.
—— householder supposed to become a deity through sacrifice, i. 380;
new birth of the, i. 380 sq.
—— marriage ceremony, i. 160
—— marriage in Southern India, bride dressed as a boy at, vi. 260
—— student, his cut hair and nails, iii. 277;
his observances at end of his studentship, x. 20
—— teachers, taboos observed by, iii. 239
—— theology, gods at first mortal in, i. 373 n. 1
—— women in rain-making ceremonies, i. 283
Brâhmanas, the magical nature of the sacrifices prescribed in the, i. 228 sq.
Brahmanic ritual at inauguration of a king, x. 4
Brahmanism akin to shamanism, i. 229;
vestiges of, under Mohammedanism, ix. 90 n. 1
Brahmans deemed superior to the gods, i. 226;
morning offerings of the, i. 314;
thrice-born, i. 381;
divinity of the, i. 403 sq.;
their common and secret names, iii. 322;
the ceremonial swinging of, iv. 150, 156 sq.;
on transubstantiation, viii. 89;
first-fruits of sugar-cane given to, viii. 119;
sacrificial custom of the, ix. 25;
as human scapegoats, ix. 42 sq., 44 sq.;
their theory of sacrifice, ix. 410 sq.
Brahmapootra, head-hunting tribes in the valley of the, iv. 13
Brain, drippings of, used to acquire wisdom of dead, viii. 163 sq.
Brains of enemies eaten to acquire their qualities, viii. 152
Braller in Transylvania, the hanging of Carnival at, iv. 230 sq.;
“Carrying out Death” at, iv. 247 sqq.;
the Harvest-cock at, vii. 276
Bramble, crawling under a, as a cure for whooping-cough, etc., xi. 180
Bran úa Faeláin, King of Leinster, saved by the voluntary death of fifty monks, iv. 159 n. 1
Branch of sacred cedar cut and brought home at wheat-sowing, ii. 50 sq.;
of hawthorn in bloom on May Day, ii. 52;
of oak dipped in a spring as a rain-charm, ii. 359;
lost soul brought back in a, iii. 67
Branches dipped in water as a rain-charm, i. 248, 250, 309, ii. 46 sq.;
not to be broken or cut in sacred groves, ii. 9, 10, 41 sqq.;
stuck in fields to ensure rain or an abundant crop, ii. 46, 47, 48;
stuck in flax-fields to make the flax grow tall, ii. 86;
used in exorcism, iii. 109;
fatigue transferred to, ix. 8;
sickness transferred to, ix. 186.
See also Bough, Boughs
Brand, John, on the Harvest Queen, vii. 146;
on the Yule log, x. 247, 255
Brandenburg, Mark of, fruit-trees girt with straw at Christmas in, ii. 17;
race of bride and bridegroom in, ii. 303;
race to a sheaf on harvest-field in, vii. 137;
cure for headache and giddiness in, ix. 52, 53;
cure for toothache in, ix. 60;
simples culled at Midsummer in, xi. 48
Brandons, the Sunday of the, first Sunday in Lent, x. 110;
torches carried about fields and streets, x. 111 n. 1
Brands of Midsummer fires a protection against lightning, conflagration, and spells, x. 183;
a protection against thunder, x. 191;
lighted, carried round cattle, x. 341.
See also Sticks, charred
Brandy, North American Indian theory of, viii. 147
Bras Basah, a village on the Perak river, ix. 199
Brasidas, funeral games in his honour at Amphipolis, iv. 94
Brass rings as amulets, iii. 31, 314;
instruments sounded to frighten away demons, ix. 147
Braunrode in the Harz Mountains, Easter fires at, x. 142
Braunsberg, in East Prussia, the Corn-goat at harvest at, vii. 282
Brauronia, festival of Brauronian Artemis, viii. 41 n. 3
Bray, Mrs., on Devonshire custom of “crying the neck,” vii. 265 sq.
Brazen serpent, the, viii. 281
Brazier, walking through a lighted, xi. 3 sqq.
Brazil, the Tupinambas of, i. 142, vii. 122;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210;
the Guayana Indians of, iv. 12;
the Apinagos of, vi. 145;
the Kaua and Kobeua Indians of, vii. 111, ix. 236, 381;
observation of the Pleiades by the Indians of, vii. 309 sq.;
the Bororos of, viii. 71, 207 sq., xi. 230 n.;
the Botocudos of, viii. 156;
the Passes of, viii. 157;
the Xomanas of, viii. 157;
the Chiambioa Indians of, viii. 208 n. 1;
the Tupi Indians of, viii. 272;
the Guaranis of, x. 56;
the Uaupes of, x. 61;
effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 128;
fires of St. John in, x. 213;
the Caripunas of, xi. 230;
the [pg 196] Nahuqua of, xi. 230;
the Bakairi of, xi. 231
Brazil, Indians of, their rule as to hamstringing deer, i. 115;
their charm to strengthen a girl's teeth, i. 153;
power of medicine-men among the, i. 358 sq.;
their explanation of headache, iii. 40;
death from imagination among the, iii. 136;
think that wind may be caused by reading, iii. 231;
their indifference to death, iv. 138;
their belief in the noxious influence of the moon on children, vi. 148;
play various games of cat's cradle, vii. 103 n. 1;
women's agricultural labours among the, vii. 122;
their belief in the homoeopathic magic of animal flesh, viii. 139;
their apologies to the ounces which they have caught in traps, viii. 235;
at mouth of Amazon, beat themselves with an aquatic plant to increase their generative force, ix. 264;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 56, 59 sq.;
ordeals undergone by young men among the, x. 62 sq.
——, Indians of North-Western, their masked dances, vii. 111 sq., ix. 236, 381
Bread, leavened, Flamen Dialis forbidden to touch, iii. 13;
fast from, in mourning for Attis, v. 272;
communion, baked from first corn cut, viii. 51;
eaten sacramentally as the body of a god, viii. 86 sqq.;
unleavened, baked with new corn, viii. 136;
the sacramental use of, viii. 167;
reverence for, x. 13
Bread-fruit, magical stones to promote the growth of, i. 162 sq., 164;
ceremony at eating the new, viii. 52 sq.;
tree planted over navel-string of child, xi. 163
Breadalbane, use of a scapegoat in, ix. 209;
“hill of the fires” in, x. 149;
treatment of mad cow in, x. 326
Breasted, Professor J. H., on the eye of Horus, vi. 121 n. 3;
on Amenophis IV., vi. 123 n. 1;
on the Sed festival, vi. 156 n. 1
Breath, holy fire not to be blown upon with the, ii. 241;
of chief sacred, iii. 136, 256;
of dying chief caught by his successor, iv. 198;
not to defile sacred flame, v. 191
“——, scoring above the,” cutting a witch on the forehead, x. 315 n. 2
Breathing on a person as a mode of purification, iii. 149
Breconshire, the sin-eater in, ix. 43
Breech-cloth worn by widow to keep off her husband's ghost, iii. 143
Breezes, magical means of securing, iv. 287
Breitenbrunn, the “Charcoal Man” at
Midsummer at, xi. 26 n. 2
Brekinjska, in Slavonia, need-fire at, x. 282
Brenner, J. von, on savage fear of being photographed, iii. 99
Bresse, the Mariée in May in, ii. 96;
“cutting off the fox's tail” at harvest in, vii. 268;
the King of the Bean in, ix. 315 n. 1;
Midsummer bonfires in, x. 189
Brest, Midsummer fire-custom at, x. 184
Bret Harte, Relieving Guard, iv. 66 n. 4;
on the Spanish missions in California, viii. 171 n. 1
Breteuil, canton of, Midsummer fires in the, x. 187
Brethren of the Free Spirit, i. 408
—— of the Ploughed Fields (Fratres Arvales), a Roman college of priests, ii. 122, vi. 239, ix. 232.
See also Arval Brothers
Breton belief that women can be impregnated by the moon, x. 76
—— peasants, their way of getting rain, i. 306 sq.;
throw knives at the wind, i. 329
—— stories of the external soul, xi. 132 sq.
—— superstitions as to the tides, i. 167
Bretons, their dread of noon, iii. 88
Brewing, continence observed at, iii. 200, 201 sq.;
water to be called by another name in, iii. 395
Brezina, in Slavonia, need-fire at, x. 282
Brhaspati, as a magician, i. 241
Briançon, in Dauphiné, the Bridegroom of the Month of May at, ii. 92 sq.;
“the Cat of the ball-skin” at harvest at, vii. 280 sq.
Briar-thorn, divination by, x. 242
Bribri Indians of Costa Rica, their ideas as to the uncleanness of women, iii. 147, 149;
seclusion of women at menstruation among the, x. 86
Bricknell, J., on a custom of the Carolina Indians, iv. 184 sq.
Bridal pair, the, at Whitsuntide in Saxony, ii. 91;
at rice-harvest in Java, vii. 200 sq.
Bride tied to tree at marriage, ii. 57;
the Whitsuntide, ii. 89, 96;
the May, ii. 95;
led to or round the hearth at marriage, ii. 221, 230, 231;
races for a, ii. 300 sqq.;
contests for a, ii. 305 sqq.;
fishing-net thrown over, iii. 307;
dressed as a man, vi. 260;
the last, privilege of, ix. 183;
not allowed to tread the earth, x. 5;
last married, made to leap over bonfire, xi. 22
—— and bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, ii. 91 sq.;
the Midsummer, in Sweden, ii. 92, v. 251;
all knots on their garments unloosed, iii. 299 sq.;
carry [pg 197] locked locks at marriage, iii. 308;
mock, at bonfires, x. 109 sq.
Bride of God, the, in a rain-making ceremony, i. 276
——, name given to last sheaf, vii. 162, 163
—— of the Nile, vi. 38
—— race among Teutonic peoples, ii. 303 sqq.
Bride, parish of, in the Isle of Man, x. 306, 307 n. 1
Bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, ii. 91;
girt with a net, iii. 307;
dressed as a woman, vi. 260 sq.;
disfigured in order to avert the evil eye, vi. 261;
not to touch the ground with his feet, x. 5
—— of May, ii. 91, 93, iv. 266
Bridget's bed on the night before Candlemas in the Highlands of Scotland and the Isle of Man, ii. 94 sq.
See also St. Bridget
Bridlington, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
Brie (Isle de France), the May-tree and Father May at, ii. 74 sq.;
farmer tied up in first sheaf at, vii. 221;
stranger tied up in sheaf at harvest at, vii. 226;
effigy of giant burnt on Midsummer Eve at, xi. 38
Brigit, a Celtic goddess, ii. 95, 240 sqq.;
her Christian namesake and successor at Kildare, ii. 240 sqq.
See also St. Brigit
Brihaspati, Hindoo deity, i. 166, x. 99 n. 2
Brimo and Brimos, in the mysteries of Eleusis, ii. 139
Brincker, Dr. P. H., on the sacred sticks representing ancestors among the Herero, ii. 224 n. 4
Bringing in Summer, iv. 233, 237, 238, 246 sqq.
Briony, wreaths of, at Midsummer, x. 210
Brisbane River in Queensland, use of bull-roarers on the, xi. 233 sqq.
British Columbia, Indians of, their dislike of telling their own names, iii. 328;
respect the animals and plants which they eat, vi. 44;
their address to the first fish of the season, viii. 253;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 46 sqq.;
dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the, x. 89 sq.;
rites of initiation among the, xi. 270 sqq.
——, Koskimo Indians of, xi. 229
——, the Kwakiutl of, i. 263, iii. 53, 188, 386, viii. 220, 250, xi. 152, 186
——, the Shuswap Indians of, i. 265, iii. 83, 142, viii. 226, 238, x. 53, xi. 174 n. 2, 276 n. 1, 297 n. 3
——, the Thompson Indians of, i. 132, ii. 208, viii. 81, 133, 140, 207, 226, 268, ix. 154 n., x. 49, 89 sq., 98 n. 1, xi. 275, 297
Britomartis and Minos, iv. 73
Brittany, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167 sq.;
the Veneti of, ii. 353;
belief as to falling stars in, iv. 66;
Burial of Shrove Tuesday or of the Carnival in, iv. 229 sq.;
Feast of All Souls in, vi. 69;
belief as to warts and the moon in, vi. 149;
Mother-sheaf at harvest in, vii. 135, 209;
custom of sticking pins into a saint's image in, ix. 70;
riddles asked after a burial in, ix. 121 sq., n.;
forecasting the weather for the year in, ix. 323 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 183 sqq.;
stones thrown into the Midsummer fires in, x. 240;
the Yule log in, x. 253;
mistletoe hung over doors of stables and byres in, xi. 287;
fern-seed used by treasure-seekers in, xi. 288
Broceliande, the wild woods of, i. 306
Brochs, prehistoric ruins, x. 291
Brockelmann, C., on the Assyrian eponymate, iv. 116
Brocken, in the Harz mountains, associated with witches, x. 160 n. 1, 171 n. 3
Brodek, in Moravia, drama of Summer and Winter at, iv. 257
Bromios, epithet of Dionysus, vii. 2 n. 1
Bromo, volcano in Java, worshipped, v. 220 sq.
Bronze employed in expiatory rites, iii. 226 n. 6;
priests to be shaved with, iii. 226
—— Age, in Denmark, ii. 351;
rock-carving of the, in Sweden, vii. 129 n. 1
—— knife to cut priest's hair, iii. 14
—— ploughs used by Etruscans at founding cities, iv. 157
Brooke, Rajah, of Sarawak, viii. 211;
supposed to fertilize the rice-crops, i. 361 sq.
Broom, a protective against witchcraft, x. 210
Brooms used to sweep misfortune out of house, ix. 5
Broomstick in rain-making, i. 275
Broomsticks, witches ride on, ix. 162, 163
Brother of a god, v. 51;
dead elder, worshipped, vi. 175
—— and sister not allowed to mention each other's names, iii. 344
“Brother” and “sister,” titles given by men and women to their sex totems, xi. 215, 216, 218
Brotherhood formed with trees by sucking their sap, ii. 19 sq.;
of the Green Wolf at Jumièges in Normandy, x. 185 sq.
See also Blood-brotherhood
Brothers reviled by sisters for good luck, i. 279;
of king put to death on his accession, iii. 243;
childless persons [pg 198] named after their younger, iii. 332, 333;
ancient Egyptian story of the Two, xi. 134 sqq.
Brothers and sisters, marriages of, in royal families, iv. 193 sq., v. 44;
in ancient Egypt, vi. 214 sqq.;
their intention to keep the property in the family, vi. 215 sq.
—— -in-law, their names not to be pronounced, iii. 338, 342, 343, 344, 345
Brown, A. R., as to the Andaman Islanders, ii. 254 n.;
on the beliefs of the West Australian aborigines as to the causes of childbirth, v. 104 sqq.
Brown, Dr. Burton, on a burial custom of the Nagas, viii. 100 n. 2
Brown, Dr. George, on the magical powers ascribed to chiefs in New Britain, i. 340;
on snakes as reincarnations of chiefs, v. 84;
on the annual appearance of the Palolo veridis in the Samoan Sea, ix. 142 n. 1;
on the seclusion of girls at puberty in New Ireland, x. 32 sqq.;
on external soul in Melanesia, xi. 199
Bruck in Styria, the last sheaf called the Corn-mother at, vii. 134
Bructeri, a German tribe, worship a woman, i. 391
Bruges, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70
Brughe, John, his cure for bewitched cattle, x. 324 sq.
Brugsch, H., on Egyptian names for a year, vi. 26 n. 1;
on the Sothic period, vi. 37 n.;
on the grave of Osiris at Philae, vi. 111;
on Isis as a personified corn-field, vi. 117
Bruguière, Mgr., on the fear of demons in Siam, ix. 97;
on the annual expulsion of the devil in Siam, ix. 150 sq.
Brund (or brand), the Christmas, the Yule log, x. 257
Brunhild, Queen of Iceland, the wooing of, ii. 306 sq.
Brunnen, Twelfth Night at, ix. 165
Brunshaupten, in Mecklenburg, the Wheat-wolf at harvest at, vii. 274
Brunswick, custom at Whitsuntide in, ii. 56 n. 3;
May King at Whitsuntide in, ii. 84, 85;
the May Bride at Whitsuntide in, ii. 96;
dramatic contest between Summer and Winter in, iv. 257;
toothache nailed into a wall or a tree in, ix. 62;
belief as to menstruous women in, x. 96;
Easter bonfires in, x. 140;
need-fire in, x. 277 sq.
Brushes used in magic, i. 132
Brutus, D. Junius, his mitigation of human sacrifices at graves, iv. 143 n. 4
——, L. Junius, one of the first consuls, ii. 290;
his feigned imbecility, ii. 291
Brutus, the assassin, his meeting with Cicero, i. 5
Bryant, Jacob, and Noah's ark, i. 334
Bubastis, shrine of, at Nemi, i. 5
Bubui River, in German New Guinea, viii. 295
Buch, Max, on a ceremony of the Wotyaks, ii. 146
Buchan, Hallowe'en fires in, x. 232 sq.
Buchanan, Francis, on Burmese nats, ix, 175 sq.
Bûche de Noël, the Yule log, x. 249
Buckie, names tabooed by fishermen in the village of, iii. 395
Buckthorn, a charm against witches on May Day, ii. 54;
a protection against thunderbolts, ii. 191 n. 1;
torch of, at a Roman marriage, ii. 191 n. 1;
a protection against witches, ii. 191, ix. 153 n. 1, 163;
used in making fire by friction, ii. 251;
chewed to keep off ghosts, ix. 153;
used to beat cattle, ix. 266
Buckwheat cultivated in Burma, vii. 242
Bucolium at Athens, vii. 30
Buddha appealed to for rain, i. 251, 299;
image of, whipped in drought, i. 297 n. 7;
images of, drenched as a rain-charm, i. 308;
imitated by a king of Burma, i. 400;
thought to be incarnate in the Grand Lamas, i. 411;
images of, iii. 253;
transmigrations of, viii. 299, 301, ix. 41;
date of his death, viii. 302 n. 7;
in relation to spirits, ix. 97;
offerings to, ix. 150
—— and Buddhism, vi. 159
—— and the crocodile, Indian story, xi. 102 n. 4
——, Footprint of, in Siam, iii. 275
Buddhas, living, i. 410 sq.
Buddhism, Tibetan form of, iii. 20;
spiritual declension of, v. 310 sq.;
in relation to lower religions, ix. 89, 90 n. 1, 94, 95 sqq.;
in Burma, ix. 95 sq.;
the pope of, ix. 223
Buddhist animism not a philosophical theory, ii. 13 sq.
—— Lent, the, ix. 349 sq.
—— monk, who sent his soul out of himself, ii. 49 sq.
—— monks, suicide of, iv. 42 sq.;
ceremony at the funeral of, ix. 175
—— priests expel demons, ix. 116
Buddhists of Ceylon, their propitiation of demons, ix. 90 n. 1;
the Laosians of Siam nominal, ix. 97
Budding of a bean an omen, ii. 344
Budge, E. A. Wallis, on trinities of Egyptian gods, iv. 5 n. 3;
on goddess Net, v. 282 n.;
on an Egyptian funeral rite, vi. 15 n. 2;
on Isis, vi. 115 sq.;
on the nature of Osiris, vi. 126 n. 2;
on the [pg 199] solar theory of Osiris, vi. 131 n. 3;
on the historical reality of Osiris, vi. 160 n. 1;
on Khenti-Amenti, vi. 198 n. 2;
on human sacrifices in ancient Egypt, vii. 259 n. 3;
on the shrines of Osiris, vii. 260 n. 2;
on the fear of demons among the ancient Egyptians, ix. 103 sq.
Buduna tribe of West Australia, their beliefs as to the birth of children, v. 104 sq.
Buecheler, F., his corruption of the text of Petronius, ix. 253 n. 2
Buffalo sacrificed for human victim, vii. 249;
external souls of a clan in a, xi. 151;
a Batta totem, xi. 223
Buffalo-bull, name given to the last sheaf, vii. 289
—— calf, sins of dead transferred to a, ix. 36 sq.
—— clan in Uganda, x. 3
—— dance to ensure a supply of buffaloes, ix. 171
—— Society among the Omahas, i. 249
Buffaloes not to be mentioned by their proper name, iii. 407, 408, 412;
sacrificed instead of young girls, iv. 124;
propitiation of dead, viii. 229, 231;
their death bewailed, viii. 242;
the resurrection of, viii. 256;
revered by the Todas, viii. 314;
as scapegoats, ix. 190, 191;
external human souls in, xi. 207, 208
Buffooneries at the Festival of Fools, ix. 335 sq.
Buginese of Celebes, their homoeopathic charm to ensure longevity, i. 158;
their use of the regalia as a remedy for plague or dearth, i. 363;
their belief as to the blighting effects of incestuous blood, ii. 110;
their custom of swinging at harvest, iv. 277;
ascribe a soul to rice, vii. 183
—— sailors, words tabooed to, iii. 413
Bugis of South Celebes, effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, vi. 253 sq.
Bühl, St. John's fires at, x. 168
Bühler, G., on the identity of the names Perkunas and Parjanya, ii. 367 n. 3;
on Parjanya, ii. 369
Building shadows into foundations, iii. 89 sq.
—— of a canoe, continence at the, iii. 202
—— a house, taboos observed after, ii. 40;
Malay custom as to shadows in, iii. 81
—— houses, magic art resorted to in, ix. 81
—— a new village, continence at, iii. 202
Buir, in district of Cologne, last sheaf shaped like wolf at, vii. 274
Bukaua, the, of German New Guinea, tell stories to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 103 sq., 105;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
their offerings of first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 124 sq.;
their belief in demons, ix. 83 sq.;
girls at puberty secluded among the, x. 35;
their rites of initiation, xi. 239 sqq.
Bukowina, the Ruthenians of, i. 198;
witches on St. George's Day in, ii. 335
Bu-ku-rú, ceremonial uncleanness, in Costa Rica, iii. 147, x. 65 n. 1, 86
Bulaa, village in New Guinea, iii. 192 n. 5
Bulawayo, capital of the Matabele, rain-making ceremony at, i. 351;
ceremony of the first-fruits at, viii. 70
Bulebane, in Senegambia, precaution as to the spittle of chiefs at, iii. 289
Buléon, Mgr., on the rite of blood-brotherhood with an animal, quoted by Father H. Trilles, xi. 202 n. 1
Bulgaria, ceremony of adoption in, i. 74;
rain-making in, i. 274;
rolling in the dew on St. George's morning in, ii. 333;
superstition as to milk and butter on St. George's Day in, ii. 339;
building custom in, iii. 89;
marriage customs in, vi. 246;
masquerade at Carnival in, viii. 333 sq.;
cure for fever in, ix. 55; the Yule log in, x. 264 n. 1;
need-fire in, x. 281, 285;
simples and flowers culled on St. John's Day in, xi. 50;
creeping through an arch of vines as a cure in, xi. 180;
creeping under the root of a willow as a cure for whooping-cough in, xi. 180 sq.
See also Bulgarian and Bulgarians
——, Simeon, prince of, xi. 156 sq.
Bulgarian charm for guarding cattle from wolves, iii. 307
—— peasants threaten fruit-trees to make them bear fruit, ii. 21
—— superstition as to crossed legs, iii. 299
—— women, their charm to hoodwink their husbands, i. 149;
their charm to procure offspring on St. George's Day, ii. 344
Bulgarians, their customs as to the last sheaf at harvest, vii. 146;
the Carnival among the, viii. 331 sqq.;
their way of keeping off ghosts, ix. 153 n. 1
Bull sacrificed to Poseidon, i. 46;
blood of, drunk by priestess to procure inspiration, i. 381 sq.;
as emblem of a thunder-god, ii. 368, v. 134 sqq., 136;
sacrificed to the dead, iii. 227;
Pasiphae and the, iv. 71;
as symbol of the sun, iv. 71 sq.;
as type of reproductive energy, iv. 72;
the brazen, of Phalaris, iv. 75;
perhaps the [pg 200] king's crest at Cnossus, iv. 111 sq.;
said to have guided the Samnites, iv. 186 n. 4;
as emblem of generative force, v. 123;
worshipped by the Hittites, v. 123, 132;
Hittite god standing on a, v. 135;
as symbol of thunder and fertility, v. 163 sq.;
the emblem of the Father God, v. 164;
worshipped at Euyuk, v. 164;
testicles of, used in rites of Cybele and Attis, v. 276;
in relation to Dionysus, vii. 16 sq., 31;
corn-spirit as, vii. 288 sqq., viii. 8;
sacrificed at Zulu festival of first-fruits, viii. 68 n. 3;
sacrificed to the dead, viii. 113.
See also Bulls
Bull, black, sacrificed to the dead at Plataea, iv. 95
—— and cow, represented by masked actors, iv. 71
——, live, torn to pieces in rites of Dionysus, vii. 15, 17, viii. 16
——, sacrifice of, at Egyptian funeral, vi. 15;
to prolong the life of a king, vi. 222;
to Zeus, the Saviour of the City, vi. 238;
at the foundation of a town, vi. 249;
at Magnesia, viii. 7 sq.;
in Mithraic religion, viii. 10;
at festival of new fruits, viii. 68 n. 3;
at tomb of dead chief, viii. 113.
See also Bulls
——, white, sacrificed, ii. 188 sq.;
soul of dead king incarnate in a, vi. 164
Bull-fights and athletic games at festival of new fruits, viii. 66
—— -headed image of the sun, iv. 75, 76, 78
—— -roarers, sacred, used in magical ceremonies to multiply totems, i. 88;
used to make fine weather, i. 265, with note 4;
sounded to make wind blow, i. 324, xi. 232;
whirled at tearing dogs to pieces, vii. 19 n. 1;
whirled to make the crops thrive and to multiply game, vii. 104, 106 sq., 110, xi. 230 sq., 232;
fertilizing virtue attributed to, by savages, vii. 106, xi. 230 sq.;
called the “mother of yams,” vii. 106;
swung at Greek mysteries, vii. 110;
sounded at initiation of lads, viii. 295, xi. 227, 228 sqq., 233 sqq., 240, 241;
swung at kindling of sacred fire, x. 133;
sound of, thought to resemble thunder, xi. 228 sqq.;
sounded at festivals of the dead, xi. 230 n.;
made from trees struck by lightning, xi. 231;
called “thunder and lightning,” xi. 232;
magical instrument for causing thunder, wind, and rain, xi. 233;
sound of, supposed to be the voice of a spirit, xi. 233, 234, 235;
not to be seen by women, xi. 234, 235, 242;
called by name which means a ghost or spirit of the dead, xi. 242;
called by the same name as the monster who swallows lads at initiation, xi. 242;
kept in men's clubhouse, xi. 242;
named after dead men, xi. 242 n. 1
Bull-shaped deities, vii. 3 sqq.
Bull's blood drunk as means of inspiration, i. 381 sq.;
as ordeal, i. 382 n. 1;
bath of, in the rites of Attis, v. 274 sq.
—— hide, bride seated on a, vi. 246;
cut in strips and pegged down round the site of a new town, vi. 249
—— skin, body of the dead placed in a, vi. 15 n. 2
Bullets, magical treatment of, i. 110;
magical modes of averting, i. 130;
blessed by St. Hubert used to shoot witches with, x. 315 sq.
Bullock, bewitched, burnt to cause the witch to appear, x. 303
Bullocks as scapegoats, ix. 34, 35
Bulloms, the, of Sierra Leone, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 318
Bulls sacrificed to water-spirits, ii. 157;
husband-god at Hierapolis seated on, v. 163;
sacrificed at caves of Pluto, v. 206;
sacrificed to Persephone, v. 213 n. 1;
sacrificed to dead chiefs, vi. 191;
eaten to make eater brave, viii. 140;
as scapegoats in Cashmeer, ix. 190 n. 5;
as scapegoats in ancient Egypt, ix. 216 sq.
——, sacred, of ancient Egypt, viii. 34 sqq.
Bulmer, J., on concealment of personal names among the aborigines of Victoria, iii. 321
Bundelcund, stopping rain in, i. 296
Bundles of sticks representing ancestors, ii. 214, 216
Bunjil Kraura, a wind-maker of the Kurnai, i. 324
Bunsen, Baron C. C. J., on St. Hippolytus, i. 21 n. 2
Bunyoro, in Central Africa, scapegoats sent to, ix. 195
Bunzlau, district of Silesia, last sheaf made up in shape of ox in, vii. 289 sq.
Burchard, Bishop of Worms, his condemnation of a heathen practice, xi. 191
Bures, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 110 n. 1, 111 n. 1
Burford, in Oxfordshire, Midsummer giant and dragon at, xi. 37
Burgebrach in Bavaria, straw-man burnt on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 232
Burghead, the burning of the Clavie at, iii. 229 sq., x. 266 sq.;
the old rampart at, x. 267 sq.
Burghers or Badagas. See Badagas
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Burglars, charms employed by, to cause sleep, i. 148 sq.
Burgundians deposed their kings for failure of the crops, i. 366
Burgundy, Firebrand Sunday in, x. 114
the Yule log in, x. 254
Burial at flood tide, i. 168
alive of unfaithful virgins in Rome and Peru, ii. 228, 244
alive, in other cases, ii. 228 n. 5
at night, iii. 15
of the aged, iv. 11 sq.
in jars, iv. 12 sq.
of Shrove Tuesday, iv. 228
—— of infants, ix. 45
to ensure their rebirth, iv. 199 sq., v. 91, 93 sqq.
—— under a running stream, iii. 15
at cross-roads, v. 93 n. 1
at Gezer, v. 108 sq.
of Osiris in his rites, vi. 88
—— of the wren in the Isle of Man, viii. 318 sq.
Burial customs, certain, perhaps designed to ensure reincarnation, i. 101 sqq.
to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 51,52
—— -grounds, magical stones kept in, i. 163
regarded as holy, ii. 31
deemed sacred, viii. 111
—— rites intended to deceive ghosts or demons, viii. 97 sqq.
Burials, customs as to shadows at, iii. 80 sq.
fictitious, to divert the attention of demons from the real burials, viii. 98 sqq.
passing through narrow openings after, xi. 175 sq., 177 sq., 178 sq.
Buring Une, a Kayan goddess, vii. 93
Burkitt, Professor F. C., on Jesus Barabbas, ix. 420 n. 1
Burlesques of ecclesiastical ritual, ix. 336 sq.
Burma, magical images in, i. 62 sq.
the Shans of, i. 128, 308
the Karens or Karennis of, i. 209, ii. 69, 107, iii. 13, 43, 250, 252, 292, iv. 130 n. 1, vii. 10, 189, xi. 157
rain-making by means of fish in, i. 288 sq.
king of, claims divinity, i. 400 sq.
the En of, ii. 41
Sagaing district of, ii. 46
Kengtung in, ii. 150
the Kachins of, ii. 237, iii. 200, viii. 120
fire on hearth extinguished after a death in, ii. 267 n. 4
kings of, screened from public gaze, iii. 125 sq.
the Sotih of, iii. 237
royal princes executed without bloodshed in, iii. 242
the Sgaus of, iii. 337
names of the kings of, not to be pronounced by their subjects, iii. 375
the Bghais of, vi. 60
securing the rice-soul in, vii. 189 sqq.
the Taungthu of, vii. 190
the Szis of Upper, vii. 203 sq.
custom of threshing rice in, vii. 203 sq.
head-hunting in, vii. 256
offering of first-fruits to the king of, viii. 116;
the Chins of, viii. 121;
ravages of rats in, viii. 282 n. 8;
sacred fish in, viii. 291;
heaps of stones or sticks in, ix. 12;
belief in demons in, ix. 95 sq.;
expulsion of demons in, ix. 116 sq.;
the tug-of-war in, ix. 175 sq.
Burmese, their conception of the soul as a butterfly, iii. 51 sq.;
their belief as to ghosts of men who have died a violent death, iii. 90;
their conduct during an earthquake, v. 201
—— cure by burying effigy of sick man, viii. 103
—— custom on return from a funeral, iii. 51
—— doctrine of nats, ix. 175
—— Lent, ix. 349 sq.
—— mode of rain-making, i. 284;
of disposing of cut hair and nails, iii. 277
—— recall of lost soul, iii. 51 sq.
—— superstitions as to the head, iii. 253
Burne, Miss C. S., on Devonshire custom of “crying the neck,” vii. 266
——, Miss C. S., and Miss G. F. Jackson, on “Souling Day” in Shropshire, vi. 78 sq.;
on the fear of witchcraft in Shropshire, x. 342 n. 4
Burning refuse of food as a magical means of causing the eater to fall ill, i. 341;
of sacred trees or poles, ii. 141 sq.;
of cut hair and nails to prevent them being used in sorcery, iii. 281 sqq.;
of Melcarth, v. 110 sqq.;
of Sandan and Hercules, v. 117 sqq., 388 sqq.;
of Cilician gods, v. 170 sq.;
of Sardanapalus, v. 172 sqq.;
of Croesus, v. 174 sqq.;
of a god, v. 188 sq.;
of last sheaf of corn, vii. 146;
of the Clavie at Burghead, x. 266 sq.;
of a bewitched animal or part of it to cause the witch to appear, x. 303, 305, 307 sq.;
of human beings in the fires, xi. 21 sqq.;
of live animals at spring and Midsummer festivals, xi. 38 sqq.;
the animals perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, xi. 41 sq., 43 sq.;
of human victims annually, xi. 286 n. 2
—— alive as a mode of executing royal criminals, iii. 243;
human victims to prolong king's life, vi. 226;
human victims of Fire-god, ix. 301;
animals to stay cattle-plague, x. 300 sqq.
—— effigies of the Carnival, iv. 223, 224, 228 sq., 229 sq., 232 sq.;
of Shrove Tuesday, iv. 227 sqq.;
of Winter at Zurich, iv. 260 sq.;
in the Midsummer fires, x. 195
—— the Easter Man, x. 144
“—— the Old Wife (Old Woman),” x. 116, 120
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Burning the Old Witch, vii. 224
“—— the Old Year,” at Biggar, ix. 165;
among the Biyars of North-Western India, ix. 230 n. 7
—— the Witches (invisible or represented by effigies) on May Day in the Isle of Man, ii. 54, x. 157, in the Tyrol, ix. 158 sq.;
on Walpurgis Night in Bohemia, ix. 161, x. 159, in Silesia and Saxony, ix. 161, x. 160;
on Twelfth Night in Herefordshire, ix. 319;
on the first Sunday in Lent in Luxemburg, the Tyrol, and Swabia, x. 116, in Switzerland, x. 118 sq.;
on Beltane (May Day) in Scotland, x. 154;
at Hallowe'en in Scotland, x. 232 sq.;
“Burning the Witches” name for fires of European festivals, xi. 43
—— witches (in flesh and blood) among the Baganda, ix. 19;
at Leith, ix. 165;
in Germany, x. 6;
after shaving them, xi. 158
Burning discs thrown into the air, x. 116 sq., 119, 143, 165, 166, 168 sq., 172
—— -glass or mirror, fire kindled by, ii. 207 n. 1, 243, 244 n. 1
—— wheels rolled down hill, x. 116, 117 sq., 119, 141, 143, 161, 162 sq., 163 sq., 166, 173, 174, 201, 328, 334, 337 sq.;
rolled over fields at Midsummer to fertilize them, x. 191, 340, sq.;
perhaps to burn witches, x. 345
Burnings for dead kings of Judah, v. 177 sq.;
for dead Jewish Rabbis at Meiron, v. 178
Burns, Robert, on John Barleycorn, v. 230 sq.;
“bonny woods and braes” of Loudon, x. 207;
on Hallowe'en, x. 234
Burnt alive, apotheosis by being, v. 179 sq.
—— Land of Lydia, v. 193 sq.
—— sacrifices to stay cattle-plague in England, Wales, and Scotland, x. 300 sqq.
Burrha, river, Hera's bath in the, v. 280
Burs, homoeopathic magic of, i. 144;
a preservative against witchcraft, x. 177
Buru, East Indian island, sacrifice of girl to crocodile in, ii. 152;
oil made by unmarried girls in, iii. 201;
natives of, forbidden to utter their own names, iii. 324;
names of relations tabooed among the Alfoors of, iii. 341;
unlawful to use words resembling the names of the dead in, iii. 361;
use of oil as a charm in, v. 21 n. 2;
the natives of, ascribe a soul to rice, vii. 183;
“eating the soul of the rice” in, viii. 54;
dog's flesh eaten to make eater brave in, viii. 145;
demons of sickness expelled in a proa from, ix. 186
Buryat shaman, his mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 56 sq.
Buryats of Siberia place the bones of dead shamans in trees, ii. 32
“Burying the Carnival,” iv. 209, 220 sqq.
—— bewitched animals alive, x. 324 sqq.
—— the evil spirit, ix. 110
—— girls at puberty in the ground, x. 38 sqq.
“—— the sheaf” in Ireland, i. 69
Bush negroes of Surinam set up two-headed idols at entrance of villages, ii. 385;
their belief that leprosy is caused by eating a certain animal, viii. 26
Bushes, ailments transferred to, ix. 54, 56
Bushmen, magical telepathy among the, i. 123;
of the Kalahari desert, their fire sticks, ii. 218 n. 1;
custom as to their shadows, iii. 83;
think it unlucky to speak of the lion by his proper name, iii. 400;
their rules of diet based on sympathetic magic, viii. 140 sq.;
will not let their children eat a jackal's heart, viii. 141;
unable to distinguish between animals and men, viii. 206;
will not eat the sinew in the thigh of a hare, viii. 266 n. 1;
throw stones on the devil's grave, ix. 16;
their prayers at a cairn, ix. 30;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 79;
their way of warming up the star Sirius, x. 332 sq.
Bushongo, royal persons among the, not allowed to set foot on the ground, x. 4;
their use of bull-roarers, xi. 229;
their rites of initiation, xi. 264 sqq.
Busiris, an Egyptian city, “the house of Osiris,” iii. 390, vii. 260;
backbone of Osiris at, vi. 11, 18;
ritual of Osiris at, vi. 86, 87 sq.;
festival of Osiris in the month of Khoiak at, vi. 108;
temple of Usirniri at, vi. 151
——, king of Egypt, his human sacrifices, vii. 259;
slain by Hercules, vii. 259
Busiro, district containing the graves and temples of the kings of Uganda, vi. 168, 169, 224
Busk, festival of first-fruits among the Creek Indians, viii. 72
Busoga, pretended human sacrifice in, iv. 215
Bust, double-headed, at Nemi, i. 41 sq.
Bustard totem of the Ingarda, v. 104
Butea frondosa worshipped, viii. 119;
its flowers offered, ix. 136
Butlers, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 sq., 205
Buto, city in Egypt, Horus and Isis at, vi. 10
Butter, time for making, i. 167;
stolen by witches on May Day, ii. 53;
stolen by witches on Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve, ii. 127;
thought to [pg 203] be improved by the Midsummer fires, x. 180;
bewitched, burnt at a crossroad, x. 322
“Butter-churning,” Swiss expression for kindling a need-fire, x. 279
Butterflies, souls of dead in, vi. 164, viii. 290, 291, 296 sq.;
annual expulsion of, ix. 159 n. 1
Butterfly, the soul as a, iii. 29 n. 1, 41, 51 sq.
—— of the rice, vii. 190
Butterfly dance in Brazil, ix. 381
—— god in Samoa, viii. 29
Buttmann, Ph., on Virbius and the King of the Wood, i. 40 n. 2;
on Janus as the god of doors, ii. 383 n. 3;
on the derivation of janua from Janus, ii. 384 n. 2
Büttner, C. G., on the firesticks of the Herero, ii. 218
Button-snake root used as a purgative, viii. 73, 75
Buzzard, the bald-headed, in homoeopathic magic, i. 155;
killing the sacred, viii. 169 sqq.
Byblus, hair offerings to Astarte at, i. 30;
Adonis at, v. 13 sqq.;
the kings of, v. 14 sqq.;
mourning for Adonis at, v. 38;
religious prostitution at, v. 58;
inspired prophets at, v. 75 sq.;
festival of Adonis at, v. 225;
Osiris and Isis at, vi. 9;
the queen of, vi. 9;
Osiris associated with, vi. 22 sq., 127;
its relation to Egypt, vi. 127 n. 1
Byrne, H. J., on Twelfth Night in Roscommon, ix. 321 sq.
Byron, Lord, and the oak, xi. 166
Byrsa, origin of the name, vi. 250
Cabag Head, witches at, i. 135
Cabbages, charm to make cabbages grow, i. 136 sq.;
divination by, at Hallowe'en, i. 242;
threatened by Esthonian peasants to make them grow, ii. 22.
See also Kail
Cabugatan, in the Philippine Islands, the Igorrots of, viii. 292
Cabunian, Mount, grave of the Creator on, iv. 3
Cachar, the Kookies of, i. 160 n. 3
Cacongo, in West Africa, rules observed by the king of, iii. 115, 118
Cactus, taboos observed by the Huichol Indians during their search for the sacred, i. 123 sq.;
hung at door of house where there is a lying-in woman, iii. 155
Cadiz, death at low tide at, i. 167;
custom of swinging at, iv. 284
Cadmea, the, at Thebes, named after Cadmus, iv. 79
Cadmus, servitude of, for the slaughter of the dragon, iv. 70 n. 1, 78;
the slayer of the dragon at Thebes, iv. 78 sq.;
seeks Europa and founds Thebes, iv. 88;
at Samothrace, iv. 89 n. 4;
turned into a snake, v. 86 sq.;
perhaps personated by the Laurel-bearer at Thebes vi. 241
Cadmus and Harmonia, their transformation into serpents, iv. 84;
marriage of, iv. 88, 89
——, Mount, v. 207
Cadys, king of Lydia, ii. 281;
his son Sadyattes, v. 183
Caeculus born from the fire, ii. 197;
son of the fire-god Vulcan, vi. 235
Caeles Vibenna, an Etruscan, ii. 196 n.
Caelian hill at Rome, ii. 185, 190
Caesar, Julius, robs Capitoline Jupiter, i. 4;
his villa at Nemi, i. 5;
his beneficent rule, i. 216;
on the Hercynian forest, ii. 7;
as to German observation of the moon, vi. 141;
his regulation of the calendar, vi. 37, vii. 83 sq., ix. 345;
on the fortification walls of the Gauls, x. 267;
on human sacrifices among the Celts of Gaul, xi. 32
Caesar, Lucius, his villa at Nemi, i. 5
Caesarea. See Everek
Caesars, their name derived from caesaries, ii. 180
Caffre boys at circumcision, customs observed by, iii, 156 sq.
—— girls, their remedy for a plague of caterpillars, viii. 280
—— hunters, their ceremonies after killing a lion, iii. 220;
their propitiation of the elephants which they kill, viii. 227
—— kings turn at death into boa-constrictors, iv. 84
—— villages, women's tracks at, x. 80
Caffres, their rule as to eating mice, i. 118;
corpulence a mark of rank among the, ii. 297;
race for a bride among the, ii. 303;
their superstitions as to their shadows, iii. 78 sq., 83, 87;
think that the shadows of trees are sensitive, iii. 82;
expiation performed by man who had killed a boa-constrictor among the, iii. 221 sq.;
their horror of the pollution of blood, iii. 245 sq.;
their custom as to the blood of sacrifice, iii. 247;
their disposal of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278;
their use of knots as a charm on a journey, iii. 306;
their custom of boiling a thief's name, iii. 331;
call brides after their future children, iii. 333;
“women's speech” among the, iii. 335 sq.;
their purificatory ceremonies after a battle, vi. 251 sq.;
their festival of new fruits, viii. 64 [pg 204] sqq.;
inoculation with powdered charcoal among the, viii. 159 sq.;
their custom of fumigating infants, viii. 166 sq.;
will not eat the sinew of the thigh, viii. 266 n. 1;
their custom of adding stones to heaps, ix. 11;
their prayers at cairns, ix. 30
Caffres of Natal, their rain-charm by means of a black sheep, i. 290;
their festival of first-fruits, viii. 64 sqq.
—— of Sofala, their dread of hollow things, i. 157 sq.
—— of South Africa, ix. 11, 30;
their way of stopping a high wind, i. 321 sq.;
their superstition as to shadows, iii. 87;
purified after battle, iii. 172, 174 sq.;
their belief and custom as to falling stars, iv. 65;
date their new year by observation of the Pleiades, vii. 116, 315 sq.;
woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 116;
transfer sickness from men to goats, ix. 31;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 30;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 229 n., 232
—— of the Zambesi region believe that human souls transmigrate after death into animals, viii. 288 sq.
Cages, girls at puberty confined in, x. 32 sqq., 44, 45
Caidu, a Tartar king, ii. 306
Caiem, the caliph, iv. 8
Cailleach (Old Wife), name given to last corn cut, vii. 140 sqq., 164 sqq.
—— beal-tine, the Beltane carline, x. 148
Caingua Indians of Paraguay, their fire customs, ii. 258 sq.;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 285 sq.
Cairns, cut hair buried in, iii. 274 sq.;
to which every passer-by adds a stone, ix. 9 sqq.;
near shrines of saints, ix. 21;
offerings at, ix. 26 sqq.
See also Heaps
Cairnshee, in Kincardineshire, Midsummer fires on, x. 206
Cairo, ceremony of cutting the dams at, vi. 38, 39 sq.;
the old south gate of, ix. 63;
cure for toothache and headache at, ix. 63
Caithness, the cutter of the last sheaf called Winter in, vii. 142;
need-fire in, x. 290 sqq.
Cajaboneros Indians of Central America, their period of abstinence before sowing, ii. 105
Cajanus Indicus, pulse, cultivated by the Korwas, vii. 123
Cake called the Christmas Boar, vii. 302 sq.;
with coin in it at Carnival, omens drawn from, viii. 332;
on Twelfth Night used to determine the King, ix. 313 sqq.;
put on horn of ox, ix. 318 sq.;
St. Michael's, x. 149, 154 n. 3;
salt, divination by, x. 238 sq.;
the Yule or Christmas, x. 257, 259, 261
Cakes rolled as a mode of divination on St. George's Day, ii. 338;
in obscene shapes, vii. 62;
in human form, vii. 149;
special, baked at threshing, vii. 150;
of dough at the Thesmophoria, viii. 17 sq.;
as substitutes for animal victims, viii. 25;
in the form of animals, viii. 95 n. 2;
sacrificial, baked of new barley or rice, viii. 120;
made at Christmas out of last sheaf in form of goats, rams, or boars, viii. 328;
special, at New Year, ix. 149 sq.;
with twelve knobs offered to Cronus and other deities, ix. 351, 351 n. 3;
Hallowe'en, x. 238, 241, 245;
Beltane, x. 148 sq., 150, 152, 153, 154, 155;
divination by, x. 242, 243
Calabar, fetish king at, iii. 22 sq.;
soul of chief in sacred grove at, xi. 161;
negroes of, their belief in external or bush souls lodged in animals, xi. 204 sqq., 220, 222 n. 5;
the fattening-house for girls in, xi. 259
—— district, heads of chiefs buried secretly in the, vi. 104
——, Old, sacred grove of, ii. 42;
annual expulsion of demons at, viii. 108;
biennial expulsion of demons at, ix. 203 sq.
—— River, iv. 197, ix. 28
Calabash, ceremony of breaking the, at festival of new fruits, viii. 68 n. 3
Calabashes, souls shut up in, iii. 72
Calabria, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” in, iv. 241;
custom of swinging in, iv. 284;
Easter custom in, v. 254;
murderers taste the blood of their victims in, viii. 156;
annual expulsion of witches in, ix. 157;
holy water at Easter in, x. 123
Calah, ancient capital of Assyria, annual marriage of the god Nabu at, ii. 130
Calamities, almost all, set down to witchcraft, xi. 19 sq.
Caland, Dr. W., on the magical nature of Vedic ritual, i. 229
Calauria, Poseidon worshipped in, v. 203 n. 2
Calbe, in the Altmark, the He-goat at harvest near, vii. 287
Calchaquis Indians of Paraguay, their way of keeping off death, iii. 31
Calcutta, keys as amulets in, iii. 236
Caldwell, Bishop R., on devil-dancers in Southern India, i. 382
Calenberg, holy oak near, ii. 371
Calendar, regulation of the early, an [pg 205] affair of religion, iv. 69, vii. 83;
the natural, vi. 25;
change in Chinese, x. 137;
the reform of the, in relation to floral superstitions, xi. 55 n. 1
Calendar, the Alexandrian, used by Plutarch, vi. 84;
used by Theophanes, ix. 395 n. 1
—— of the primitive Aryans, ix. 325
——, the Babylonian, ix. 398 n. 2
—— of the Celts of Gaul, ix. 342 sq.
——, the Coligny, i. 17 n. 2, ix. 342 sqq.
——, the Coptic, vi. 6 n. 3
——, the Egyptian, vi. 24 sqq.;
date of its introduction, vi. 36 n. 2
—— of the Egyptian farmer, vi. 30 sqq.
—— of Esne, vi. 49 sq.
——, the ancient Greek, determined by astronomical considerations, iv. 68 sq.;
regulated by the moon and of little use to the husbandman, vii. 52 sq., 80
—— of the Indians of San Juan Capistrano in California, vii. 125 sq.
——, the Julian, vi. 93 n. 1;
used by Mohammedans, x. 218 sq.
—— of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, vi. 29 n., ix. 171
—— of the ancient Mexicans, its mode of intercalation, vi. 28 n. 3
——, the Mohammedan, x. 216 sq., 218 sq.
—— of Philocalus, v. 303 n. 2, 304 n. 3, vi. 95 n. 1
——, the Roman, vii. 83 sq.
——, the Syro-Macedonian, iv. 116
Calendars, the Roman Rustic, vi. 95 n. 1;
the Pleiades in primitive, vii. 307 sqq.;
conflict of, x. 218
Calendeau, calignau, the Yule-log at Marseilles, x. 250
Calf shod in buskins sacrificed to Dionysus, vii. 33;
the genitals of, served up to man who gave last stroke at threshing, vii. 148;
killed at harvest, vii. 290;
mythical, in the corn, vii. 292;
name applied to bunch of corn on harvest-field, vii. 292;
sacrifice of buffalo, viii. 314;
burnt alive to stop a murrain, x. 300 sq.
See also Calves
Calica Puran, an Indian law-book, i. 63, iv. 217
Calicut, rule of succession observed by the kings of, iv. 47 sqq., 206;
ceremonies at sowing in, ix. 235
California, the Digger Indians of, viii. 164
——, the Karok Indians of, vi. 47, viii. 255
——, the Maidu Indians of, i. 122, 357, xi. 295, 298
——, the Nishinam tribe of, iii. 338
California, the Pomos of, ix. 170 sq.
——, the Senal Indians of, xi. 295
——, the Yuki Indians of, i. 133
Californian Indians, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331;
secrecy of personal names among the, iii. 326;
names of the dead not mentioned among the, iii. 352;
their custom as to meteors, iv. 62;
eat pine nuts, v. 278 n. 2;
their annual festivals of the dead, vi. 52 sq.;
their notion that the owl is the guardian of the “California big tree,” vi. 111 n. 1;
women's work among the Indians of San Juan Capistrano, vii. 125;
their calendar, vii. 125 sq.;
their custom of killing the sacred buzzard, viii. 169 sqq.;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 286 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 41 sqq.;
ordeals among the, x. 64
—— missions, the Spanish, viii. 171 n. 1
Caligula, his barges on the lake of Nemi, i. 5;
and the priest of Nemi, i. 11;
and King Agrippa, ix. 418
Callander, the parish of, Beltane fires in, x. 150 sqq.;
Hallowe'en fires in, x. 231
Callaway, Rev. Henry, on chiefs as medicine-men, i. 350 n. 2;
on the worship of the dead among the Zulus, vi. 184 sq.;
on the observation of the Pleiades by the Amazulu, vii. 316
Callias, the Eleusinian Torch-bearer, vii. 54, 73 n. 3
Callirrhoe, the springs of, in Moab, v. 214 sqq.
Callo, a holy spirit among the Gallas, i. 396
Calmucks, race for bride among the, ii. 301 sq.;
divine by shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 n. 4
See also Kalmucks
Calotropis gigantea, man married to, in Southern India, ii. 57 n. 4
—— procera, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 209
Calpurnius Piso, L., on the wife of Vulcan, vi. 232 sq.
Caltanisetta, in Sicily, violence done to St. Michael at, i. 300
Calves, unborn, sacrifice of, viii. 42;
burnt to stop disease in the herds, x. 301, 306.
See also Calf
Calycadnus River, in Cilicia, v. 167 n. 2
Calymnos, a Greek island, superstition as to menstruous women in, x. 96 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 212
Camasene and Janus, vi. 235 n. 6
Cambaita, custom of religious suicide at, iv. 54
Cambodia, mode of annulling evil omens in, i. 170 sqq.;
custom as to effacing impressions of pots in ashes in, i. 214;
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the Chams of, i. 280;
the regalia regarded as a palladium in, i. 365;
human incarnations of gods in, i. 385 sq.;
special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal in, i. 401 n. 3;
Kings of Fire and Water in, ii. 3 sqq., iii. 17, iv. 14;
the King of, sends presents to the Kings of Fire and Water, ii. 5;
sacred trees in, ii. 46;
use of fire kindled by lightning in, ii. 256 n. 1;
kings of, not to be touched, iii. 226;
the king of, ceremony at cutting his hair, iii. 265;
kings of, their names not to be mentioned, iii. 376;
annual temporary king in, iv. 148 sq.;
annual festival of the dead in, vi. 61 sq.;
the Banars of, viii. 33;
vicarious use of effigies to save sick people in, viii. 103;
the Stiens of, viii. 237;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 149;
palace of the kings of, annually purged of devils, ix. 172;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 70;
ritual at cutting a parasitic orchid in, xi. 81
Cambodian hunter, homoeopathic magic used by, i. 109 sq.
—— or Siamese story of the external soul, xi. 102
Cambodians, their superstitions as to the head, iii. 254
Cambridge, the May Lady at, ii. 62;
Jack-in-the-Green at, ii. 83 n. 1;
personal relics of Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, preserved at, vi. 197;
ancient customs in, vii. 146;
Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1;
Lord of Misrule at, ix. 330
Cambridgeshire, greasing the weapon instead of the wound in, i. 203;
permanent May-pole in, ii. 71 n. 1;
the Straw-bear in, viii. 329;
Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1;
witch as cat in, x. 317
Cambulac (Peking), Marco Polo as to, iii. 243 sq.
Cambus o' May, near Ballater, holed stone at, xi. 187
Cambyses, king of Persia, his treatment of Amasis, v. 176 n. 2
Camden, W., on Irish precautions against witches on May Day, ii. 53;
on custom observed by the Irish when they fall, iii. 68
Camel, plague transferred to, ix. 33
Camel-races in honour of the dead, iv. 97
Camels not called by their proper name, iii. 402;
infested by jinn, ix. 260
Cameron, Hugh E., on the harvest Maiden in Inverness-shire, vii. 162 n. 3
Cameron, V. L., on divinity claimed by an African chief, i. 395
Cameroon negroes, expiation for homicide among the, v. 299 n. 2
Cameroons, chiefs as fetish-men in the, i. 349;
the Ngumbu of the, ii. 210;
the Duala tribe of the, iv. 130 n. 1;
the Bakundu of the, viii. 99;
expulsion of the spirits of disease in the, ix. 120 sq.;
life of person bound up with tree in the, xi. 161;
theory of the external soul in the, xi. 200, 202 sq.
Camillus, his triumph, ii. 174 n. 2
Camomile (Anthemis nobilis) burnt in Midsummer fire, x. 213;
sacred to Balder, xi. 63;
gathered at Midsummer, xi. 63
Camp shifted after a death, iii. 353
Campbell, Rev. John, on Bechuana superstition as to trees and rain, ii. 49;
on refusal of Bechuanas to tell stories before sunset, iii. 384;
on Coranna treatment of the sick, xi. 192, 192 n. 1
Campbell, Major-General John, on Khond human sacrifices, vii. 248, 250
Campbell, Rev. J. G., on the Harvest Old Wife in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 140, 165 sq.;
on deiseal, x. 151 n.
Campe, near Stade, the Fox in the corn at, vii. 296
Camphor, taboos observed in search for, i. 114 sq.;
telepathy in search for, i. 124 sq.;
special language employed by searchers for, iii. 405 sqq.;
custom observed in the search for, viii. 186 n.
Camphor-trees, ceremonies at cutting down, iii. 406
Campo di Giove, in the Abruzzi, Easter candles at, x. 122
—— Santo at Pisa, contest between angels and devils in the, ix. 175
Camul, custom as to hospitality in, v. 39 n. 3
Canaanite kings of Jerusalem, v. 17
Canaanites, their custom of burning their children in honour of Baal, iv. 168
Canada, Indians of, their belief that winds are caused by a fish, i. 320;
capture of souls by wizards among the, iii. 73;
kept their names secret, iii. 326;
their ceremony for mitigating the cold of winter, iv. 259 sq.;
kept the bones of beavers from dogs, viii. 239 sq.;
would not eat the embryos of elks from fear of offending the mother-elks, viii. 243
Cañar (Cuenca), in Ecuador, human sacrifices at harvest in, vii. 236
Canarese of South India, their euphemisms for a tiger, iii. 402
Canarium nuts, first-fruits of, offered to ghosts in Solomon Islands, viii. 126
Canary Islands, rain-making in the, by beating the sea, i. 301
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Canathus, Hera's annual bath in the spring of, v. 280
Cancer, Tropic of, vii. 125
Candaules, king of Lydia, murdered by Gyges, ii. 281;
descended from Hercules, ii. 282;
and the double-headed axe, v. 182, 183
Candle sent by Fire King to the King of Cambodia, ii. 5 sq.;
virginity tested by flame of, ii. 240, x. 139 n.;
the Easter or Paschal, x. 121, 122, 125;
divination by the flame of a, at Hallowe'en, x. 229;
the Yule or Christmas, x. 255, 256, 260;
external soul in a, xi. 125 sq.
See also Candles
—— and apple, biting at, a Hallowe'en sport, x. 241, 242, 243, 245
Candlemas (February 2nd), dances at, to make flax grow tall, i. 138;
Bridget's bed on the night before, ii. 94, 242;
pea-soup and pigs' bones eaten at, vii. 300;
dances for the crops at, ix. 238;
Lord of Misrule at, ix. 332, 333;
in the Armenian church, bonfires at, x. 131;
the Yule log at, x. 256 n.
—— candles, x. 264 n. 4
Candles, Catholic practice of dedicating, i. 13;
magical, used by burglars to cause sleep, i. 148, 149;
made of human tallow and used by thieves, i. 236;
lighted, tied to sacred oak, ii. 372;
twelve, on Twelfth Night, ix. 321 sq.;
burnt at the Feast of Purim, ix. 394;
used to keep off witches, x. 245
Candy, sugar, in homoeopathic magic, i. 157
Canelos Indians of Ecuador, afraid of being photographed, iii. 97;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into jaguars, viii. 285
Canicular year, a Sothic period, vi. 36 n. 2
Cannibal banquets of the ancient Mexicans, viii. 92, ix. 279 n. 1, 283, 298
—— feast, legendary, at the Boeotian Orchomenus, iv. 164
—— orgies among the Indians of North-West America, vii. 18 sqq.
—— societies in ancient Greece and Africa, iv. 83;
among the Indians of North-West America, vii. 20 sq.
—— Spirit among the Haida Indians, vii. 21
Cannibalism, in Australia, perhaps intended to ensure the reincarnation of the dead, i. 106 sq.;
at hair-cutting in Fiji, iii. 264;
in certain cases perhaps intended to form a blood-covenant with the dead, viii. 156
Cannibals, taboos imposed on, among the Kwakiutl Indians, iii. 188 sqq.;
a secret society of the Kwakiutl Indians, vii. 20
Cannons, toy, as regalia, i. 364
Canoe, fish offered to, iii. 195
Canoes, continence observed at building, iii. 202
Canopus, town in Egypt, the decree of, vi. 27, 34 n. 1, 37 n., 88 n. 2
Canopus, star, observed by the aborigines of Victoria, vii. 308
—— and Sirius in Bushman lore, x. 333
Cantabrian coast of Spain, belief as to death at ebb-tide on the, i. 167
Cantabrians, mother-kin among the, ii. 285
Canton, the province of, the Hak-Ka in, ix. 144
——, violence done to the rain-god at, in time of drought or excessive rain, i. 299
Canute, King of England, his marriage with Emma, ii. 282 sq.
Capaneus and Evadne, v. 177 n. 3
Capart, Jean, on palettes found in Egyptian tombs, xi. 155 n. 3
Cape Bedford in Queensland, belief of the natives as to the birth of children, v. 102
—— Coast Castle, on the Gold Coast, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 132 sq.
—— Padron, in Guinea, priestly king near, iii. 5
—— Vancouver, iii. 228, viii. 249 n. 1
—— York Peninsula in Queensland, extraction of teeth among the natives of, i. 99, 100;
the Gudangs of, iii. 346, 359;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the natives of, x. 37, 38
Capena, the Porta, at Rome, i. 18
Caper-spurge (Euphorbia lathyris) burned on May Day as a protection against witches, ix. 158 sq.;
identified with mythical springwort, xi. 69
Capillary attraction in magic, i. 83
Capital of column, external soul in, xi. 156 sq.
Capital punishment among some peoples originally a sacrifice, v. 290 n. 2
Capitol at Rome, temple of Jupiter on the, ii. 174, 176, 184;
image of Jupiter on the, ii. 175;
built by Romulus, ii. 176;
Jupiter worshipped on the, ii. 361;
ceremonies at the rebuilding of the, vi. 244;
the oak of Jupiter on the, xi. 89
—— at Cirta, image of Jupiter on the, ii. 177
Capitoline hill, Jupiter on the, ii. 184;
hut of Romulus on the, ii. 200
Cappadocia, volcanic region of, v. 189 sqq.;
fire-worship in, v. 191 sq.;
the fire-walk at Castabala in, xi. 14
Capri, feast of the Nativity of the Virgin in, x. 220 sq.
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Capricorn, Tropic of, vii. 125;
time when the sun enters the, xi. 1
Caprificatio, ii. 314 n. 2
Caprification, the artificial fertilization of fig-trees, ix. 257.
See Fig-tree
Caprificus, the wild fig-tree, ii. 314 sq., ix. 258
Caps of clay worn by Australian widows in mourning, iii. 182 n. 2;
worn by Aino mourners, x. 20
Captives killed and eaten, iii. 179 sq.;
unbound in house of Flamen Dialis, iii. 316
Car Nicobar, charm to make sunshine in, i. 314;
exorcism in, v. 299 n. 2;
annual expulsion of devils in, ix. 201 sq.
Carabas and Barabbas, ix. 418 sq.
Caramantran, death of, on Ash Wednesday in Provence, iv. 226
Carayahis, tribe of Brazilian Indians, dialectical differences in the speech of men and women among the, iii. 348 sq.
Carberry Kinncat, king of Ireland, misfortunes of his reign, i. 367 sq.
Carcassone, hunting the wren at, viii. 320 sq.
Carceri, Father S., on the sacred king of the Nubas, iii. 132 n. 1
Carchemish, Hittite capital on Euphrates, v. 123, 137 n. 2, 138 n.
Carchi, a province of Ecuador, All Souls' Day in, vi. 80
Cardiganshire, Hallowe'en in, x. 226
Carew, R., on a Cornish custom, iv. 154 n. 1
Caria, Zeus Labrandeus in, v. 182;
poisonous vapours in, v. 205 sq.
Carian Chersonese, viii. 85
Carians, their mournings for Osiris, vi. 86 n. 1
Caribou, taboos concerning, iii. 208
Caribs, war custom of the, i. 134;
difference of language between men and women among the, iii. 348;
their worship of the moon in preference to the sun, vi. 138;
woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 120;
their belief in the homoeopathic magic of animal flesh, viii. 139 sq.;
young warriors among the, ate the heart of a bird of prey to acquire courage, viii. 162;
their theory of the plurality of souls, xi. 221
Carinthia, Green George in, ii. 75, 343;
bride-race in, ii. 304;
ceremony at the installation of a prince of, iv. 154 sq.;
harvest custom in, vii. 224 sq.;
new fire at Easter in, x. 124
Caripunas Indians of Brazil, use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 n.
Carley, the last bunch of corn at harvest in Antrim, vii. 144
Carlin or Carline, “the Old Woman,” female figure formed out of the last corn cut at harvest, vii. 140
Carlyle, Thomas, on the execution of the astronomer Bailly, v. 229 n. 1
Carman (Wexford), the fair of, iv. 100, 101
Carmichael, Alexander, on need-fire, x. 293 sqq.;
on snake-stones, xi. 311
Carmona, in Andalusia, annual ceremony observed by disguised boys at, ix. 173
Carn Brea, in Cornwall, Midsummer fires on, x. 199
Carna, nymph, won by Janus, ii. 190, vi. 235 n. 6
Carnac, in Egypt, temples at, vi. 124;
sculptures at, vi. 154.
See also Karnak
Carnarvonshire, the cutty black sow at Hallowe'en in, x. 240
Carniola, “Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 242
Carnival, dances at the, to make hemp grow tall, i. 137;
a sort of, at Fazoql on the Blue Nile, iv. 17;
burying the, iv. 209, 220 sqq.;
the burial and resurrection of the, an expression of the death and revival of vegetation, iv. 252;
swings taken down at, iv. 287;
at Rome in the rites of Attis, v. 273;
modern Thracian drama at the, vi. 99 sq., vii. 26 sqq., viii. 331 sqq.;
similar masquerade in Bulgaria at, viii. 333 sq.;
bell-ringing processions at the, ix. 247;
Senseless Thursday in, ix. 248;
in relation to the Saturnalia, ix. 312, 345 sqq.;
effigy burnt at end of, x. 120;
wicker giants at the, xi. 35
—— and Purim, ix. 394
—— or Shrovetide Bear in Bohemia, viii. 325 sq.
“—— (Shrovetide) Fool,” iv. 231
Carnmoor, in Mull, need-fire kindled on, x. 289 sq.
Carnwath, in Cornwall, Midsummer fires at, x. 199
Carolina, Indians of, king's son wounded among the, iv. 184 sq.;
their fear of harming snakes, viii. 217
Caroline Islands, treatment of the navel-string in the, i. 184 sq.;
Ponape in the, i. 401 n. 3, iii. 25, 259, 362;
Uap (Yap) in the, iii. 193, 227, 282, 290, 293, vi. 265, x. 36;
taboos on fishermen in the, iii. 193;
wizards in the, iii. 290;
traditionary origin of fire in the, xi. 295
Caron's Account of Japan, iii. 4 n. 2
Carp clan of the Otawa Indians, viii. 225 n. 1
Carpathian Mountains, the Huzuls of the, i. 113, 137, 280, iii. 270, 314, 396, 397, viii. 43 n. 1, 275, ix. 32 sq., xi. 49;
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Midsummer fires in the, x. 175;
need-fire in the, x. 281
Carpathus, fear of having one's likeness taken in, iii. 100;
laying out of corpses in, iii. 313 sq.
See also Karpathos
Carpenter, son of, as a human god, i. 376
Carpentras in Provence, rain-making at, i. 307
Carpet-snakes, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 90
Carpini, de Plano, on funeral customs of the Mongols, v. 293
Carrier Indians of North-Western America, their magic to snare martens, i. 110;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 210;
their chastity before hunting, iii. 197;
confession of sins among the, iii. 215;
their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, iii. 367 sq.;
succession to the soul among the, iv. 199;
their regard for the bones of martens and beavers, viii. 238 sq.;
funeral custom of the, x. 11;
their dread and seclusion of menstruous women, x. 91 sqq.;
their honorific totems, xi. 273 sqq.
“Carrying out Death,” iv. 221, 233 sqq., 246 sqq., ix. 227 sq., 230, 252
Carthage, Christians worshipping each other at, i. 407;
legend and worship of Dido at, v. 113 sq.;
Hamilcar worshipped at, v. 116;
the suffetes of, v. 116 n. 1;
rites of Cybele at, v. 274 n.;
the effeminate priests of the Great Mother at, v. 298;
legend as to the foundation of, vi. 250
Carthaginian sacrifice of children to Moloch, iv. 75;
to Baal, iv. 167 sq.
Carver, Captain Jonathan, on the rite of death and resurrection among the Naudowessies, xi. 267 sq.
Casablanca in Morocco, ix. 21;
Midsummer fires at, x. 214
Casalis, E., on purification of Basuto warriors, iii. 172;
on Zulu serpent-worship, v. 84;
on the worship of the dead among the Basutos, vi. 179 sq.
Cashmeer, the Takhas of, i. 383;
bulls as scapegoats in, ix. 190 n. 5
Cashmeer stories of the external soul, ix. 100 sq., 138 n. 1
Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, the Three Kings of Twelfth Day, ix. 329 sqq., xi. 68
Cassange Valley in Angola, the Bangalas of the, ii. 293;
human sacrifice at installation of king of, iv. 56 sq.;
kings of, their teeth preserved after death, iv. 203
Cassava or manioc cultivated by South American Indians, vii. 120 sq., 122
Cassel, in France, wicker giants on Shrove Tuesday at, xi. 35
Cassotis, oracular spring at Delphi, iv. 79
Cassowaries, souls of dead in, viii. 295;
imitated by masked dancers, ix. 382;
men disguised as, in Dukduk ceremonies, xi. 247
Cassowary totem in Mabuiag, viii. 207
Castabala in Cappadocia, the fire-walk at, v. 115, 168, xi. 14
—— in Cilicia, worship of Perasian Artemis at, v. 167 sqq.
Castabus, in the Carian Chersonese, sanctuary of Hemithea at, viii. 24 n. 5, 85
Castaly, the oracular spring of, at Delphi, iv. 79
Castel Gandolfo, on the Alban Lake, i. 2
Castellamare, seven-legged effigy of Lent at, iv. 245
Castelnau, F. de, on the reverence of the Apinagos for the moon, vi. 146 sq.
Castiglione a Casauria, in the Abruzzi, Midsummer customs at, v. 246, x. 210
Castilian peasants, their dances in May, ix. 280
Casting the skin supposed to be a mode of renewing youth, ix. 302 sqq.
Castle Ditches, in the Vale of Glamorgan, bonfires at, x. 156
Castor and Pollux thought to attend the Spartan kings, i. 49 sq.;
their appearance in battle, i. 50
Castor's tune, v. 196 n. 3
Castration, religious, in honour of Cybele, ii. 144 sq.;
practised by a modern sect in Russia, ii. 145;
of Cronus and Uranus, v. 283;
of sky-god, suggested explanation of, v. 283;
of priests, suggested explanation of, v. 283 sq.
Castres, in Southern France, xi. 187
Casuarina leptoclada in magic, i. 213
Cat, blind, in homoeopathic magic, i. 153;
wetted as a rain-charm, i. 262, 289;
black, in rain-charm, i. 291;
stone resembling a, used in rain-making, i. 308 sq.;
corn-spirit as, vii. 280 sq.;
killed at harvest, vii. 281;
fever transferred to a, ix. 51;
a representative of the devil, xi. 40;
story of a clan whose souls were all in one, xi. 150 sq.;
a Batta totem, xi. 223.
See also Cats
Cat's cradle forbidden to boys among the Esquimaux, i. 113;
as a charm to arrest the sun, i. 316 sq., vii. 103 n. 1;
as a charm to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 101, 103;
played by savages, vii. 103 n. 1
—— tail, name given to last standing corn, viii. 268
Catafalque burnt at funeral of king of Siam, v. 179
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Catalangans of Luzon offer first-fruits to the souls of their ancestors, viii. 124
Catalonia, funeral of Carnival in, iv. 225
Catania in Sicily, the vineyards of, v. 194;
gardens of Adonis at, v. 245
Catat, Dr., his difficulty in photographing in Madagascar, iii. 98
Caterpillars, superstitious precautions against, viii. 275 sq., 279, 280;
bonfires as a protection against, x. 114
Catgut plant in homoeopathic magic, i. 144
Catholic Church, ritual of the, v. 54;
ceremonies on Good Friday in the, v. 254, 255 sq.;
institutes feasts of All Saints and All Souls, vi. 83;
enjoins continence during Lent, ix. 348;
consecrates the Midsummer festival to St. John the Baptist, x. 181
—— custom of dedicating candles, i. 13;
as to partaking of the Eucharist, viii. 83;
of eating effigies of the Madonna, viii. 94
—— Germany, St. Leonhard in, i. 7
—— times in Scandinavia, i. 16
Catlin, George, on the power of medicine-men in North America, i. 356;
on the conciliation of the spirits of slain foes, iii. 182
Cato, the Elder, on dedication of Arician grove to Diana, i. 22, 23;
on expiation for thinning a grove, ii. 122;
on the fodder of cattle, ii. 328 n. 1;
on lucky and unlucky trees, iii. 275 n. 3;
on a Roman cure for dislocation, xi. 177
Cats worshipped in Egypt, i. 29 sq.;
witches changed into, ii. 334, x. 315 n. 1, 317, 318, 319 sq., xi. 311 sq.;
with stumpy tails, reason of, iii. 128 sq.;
burnt in bonfires, x. 109, xi. 39 sq.;
perhaps burnt as witches, xi. 41.
See also Cat
Cattle, magical stones for the increase of, i. 162;
Zulu charm to recover strayed, i. 212;
fire tied to tails of, in rain-charm, i. 303;
sacrificed in rain-making, i. 350;
influence of tree-spirits on, ii. 50 sq., 55, 124 sq.;
crowned, as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 75, 126 sq., 339, 341;
under the protection of woodland spirits, ii. 124 sq.;
crowned at the Ambarvalia, ii. 127 n. 2;
and milk, importance of, for the early Italians, ii. 324;
Roman personal names derived from, ii. 324 n. 1;
driven to pasture for the first time on St. George's Day, ii. 331;
bred by the people of the Italian pile villages, ii. 353 n. 3;
continence observed for sake of, iii. 204;
protected against wolves by charms, iii. 307;
sacrificed instead of human beings, iv. 166 n. 1;
driven out to pasture at Whitsuntide, iv. 207 n. 1;
last sheaf given to, vii. 134, 155, 158, 161, 170;
(plough oxen) Yule or Christmas Boar given to the, vii. 301, 302, 303;
worship of, viii. 35, 37 sqq.;
first-fruits offered to, viii. 118;
ceremony for recovering lost, ix. 14;
disease of, transferred to scapegoats, ix. 32 sq.;
exposed to attacks of witches, ix. 162;
beaten to do them good, ix. 266 sq.;
sacrificed at holy oak, x. 181;
protected against sorcery by sprigs of mullein, x. 190;
fire carried round, x. 201, 206;
driven out to pasture in spring and back in autumn, x. 223;
acquire the gift of speech on Christmas Eve, x. 254;
driven through the need-fire, x. 270 sqq.;
killed by fairy darts, x. 303;
lighted brands carried round, x. 341;
thought to benefit by festivals of fire, xi. 4, 7;
fumigated with smoke of Midsummer herbs, xi. 53.
See also Cows
Cattle and sheep driven through, round, or between bonfires, ii. 327, x. 108, 109, 141, 154, 157, 158, 159, 165, 175, 176, 179, 185, 188, 192, 202, 203, 204, 285, 301, xi. 8, 9, 11 sq., 13
Cattle disease, the Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 176;
attributed to witchcraft, x. 302 sq., 343.
See also Murrain
—— -plague, need-fire kindled as a remedy for, x. 270 sqq.;
sacrifice of an animal to stay a, x. 300 sqq.
—— -rearing tribes of South Africa, their dread of menstruous women, x. 79 sq.
—— stall, the, at Athens, ii. 137
Catullus on Diana, i. 6, 16;
on self-mutilation of a priest of Attis, v. 270
Caucasus, the Pshaws of the, i. 182;
the Chewsurs of the, i. 282, vi. 65;
the Abchases of the, i. 282 n. 4, ii. 370, viii. 105;
the Albanians of the, iii. 349, v. 73, ix. 218;
the Cheremiss of the, iii. 391;
funeral games among the people of the, iv. 97 sq.;
sacraments of pastoral tribes in the, viii. 313
Caul, children born with a, can see spirits and are counted lucky, i. 187 sq., 199;
used to fertilize a rice-field, i. 190 sq.;
guardian spirit of child thought to reside in its, i. 199 sq.
See also Cauls
Caul-fat extracted by Australian enemies, iii. 303;
human, rubbed on body as a magical ointment, viii. 162
“Cauld airn,” a protective charm, iii. 233
Cauldron, the magical, which makes the old young again, v. 181
Cauls bought by advocates, i. 199
Caunians of Asia Minor, their expulsion of foreign gods, ix. 116
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Causal sequences in nature, recognition of, i. 374
Cauxanas, Indian tribe of the Amazon, kill all their first-born children, iv. 185 sq.
Cava, preparation and drinking of, viii. 131
Cavan, County, legendary idol in, iv. 183
Cave, spirit of, worshipped, i. 302;
human god in, i. 394 sq.;
of Apollo at Hylae, i. 386;
spirit of reindeer in, viii. 245;
initiation of medicine-men by spirits in, xi. 237 sqq.
See also Caves
Cave of Cruachan, the “Hell-gate of Ireland,” x. 226
Caverns of Demeter, v. 88
Caves, prehistoric paintings of animals in, i. 87 n. 1;
in which ceremonies for producing rain are performed, i. 301 sq.;
limestone, v. 152;
in Semitic religion, v. 169 n. 3
See also Cave
Cavo, Monte, in the Alban Hills, i. 2
Cawthorne, in Yorkshire, May garlands (hoops) at, ii. 62 sq.
Caxton, in Cambridgeshire, ii. 71 n. 1
Cayeli, in Buru, sacrifice of girl to crocodile in, ii. 152
Cayenne, the Indians of, their belief in the transmigration of human souls into fish, viii. 285
Cayor, in Senegal, king of, not allowed to cross the river or the sea, iii. 9
Cayzac, P., on confession among the Akikuyu, iii. 214
Cazembe, the king of, not to be seen drinking, iii. 118
Cazembes, the, of Angola, their dread of contact with their king, iii. 132 sq.
Cecrops, first king of Attica, married the daughter of his predecessor, ii. 277;
said to have instituted marriage, ii. 284;
half-serpent, half-man, iv. 86 sq.;
father of Agraulus, v. 145;
father of Pandion, vii. 70;
institutes the festival of Cronus, ix. 351
Cedar, sacred, in Gilgit, ii. 49, 50 sq.;
smoke of, inhaled as mode of inspiration, i. 383 sq.
—— sprung from the body of Osiris, vi. 110
Cedar-bark, ornaments of, worn in dances, ix. 376;
red, used in ceremonies of a secret society, xi. 271
—— forests of Cilicia, v. 149, 150 n. 1
—— tree, girl annually sacrificed to, ii. 17;
Osiris interpreted as a cedar-tree god, vi. 109 n. 1
—— wood burned as a religious rite, ii. 130
Ceklinj, in Crnagora, divination on St. George's morning at, ii. 345
Celaenae in Phrygia, skin of Marsyas shown at, v. 288;
home of Lityerses, vii. 217
Celebes, the Buginese of, i. 158, iv. 277;
rain-making in, i. 277;
magical virtue of regalia in, i. 362 sqq.;
Loowoo in, i. 364;
fear of offending forest-spirits in, ii. 40;
hooking souls in, iii. 30;
the Alfoors of, iii. 33, 129, 260;
Bolang Mongando in, iii. 53, viii. 54, ix. 121 n. 3;
Minahassa in, iii. 63, 99, iv. 214, vii. 296, viii. 100, 123, 153;
exorcism of spirits by means of rice in, iii. 106;
propitiation of the souls of slain enemies in, iii. 166;
the Toumbuluh tribe of, iii. 295, 298;
Poso in, iii. 332, vii. 236, viii. 244;
Boni in, iv. 40;
the Bantiks of, iv. 130 n.;
sanctity of regalia in, iv. 202;
the Macassars of, iv. 277;
conduct of the inhabitants in an earthquake, v. 200;
division of agricultural work between the sexes in, vii. 124;
observation of the Pleiades in, vii. 313;
customs as to eating the new rice in, viii. 54;
harvest festivals in, viii. 122 sq.;
kinship of men with crocodiles in, viii. 212;
precautions against mice in, viii. 277 sq.;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
Macassar in, x. 14;
souls of persons removed for safety from their bodies in, xi. 153 sq.
——, Central, ix. 122 n.;
the Toradjas of, i. 109, 114, 129, 159, 172, 253, 271, 286, 303, ii. 39, 113, iii. 62, 111, 263, 340, 373 n., vi. 33, vii. 182 n. 1, 183, 228, 295, viii. 153, ix. 34, 112 n. 2, 265, x. 311 sqq.;
Parigi in, i. 188;
the Tolalaki of, i. 188, ii. 111, viii. 152;
the Toboongkoos of, i. 189, ii. 28, 35, iii. 48, 78, iv. 219;
the Tomori of, i. 189, ii. 29, 35, 110, vii. 193, 288;
Poso in, ii. 29, 35, iii. 411, vii. 194;
rice strewn on heads of warriors after a raid in, iii. 36;
the Tolindoos of, iii. 78;
the Tolampoos of, iii. 319
——, Northern, Minahassa in, i. 382, viii. 54, ix. 111 sq.
——, Southern, treatment of the navel-string and afterbirth in, i. 189 sq.;
rain-charm by means of a cat in, i. 289;
the Toorat-eyas of, i. 361;
customs at childbirth in, ii. 32, iii. 32, 245;
the Macassars and Bugineese of, ii. 110;
rice strewn on heads of bridegrooms and victors in, iii. 35 sq.;
rule as to treatment of a prince's corpse in, iii. 238;
marriage custom in, vi. 260;
birth-trees in, xi. 164
——, West, Bolang Mongondo in, iii. 341, 376, ix. 85, 121
Celenderis in Cilicia, v. 41
Celestial power acquired by inoculation, viii. 160 sq.
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Celeus, king of Eleusis, vii. 37;
and Demeter, viii. 334
Celibacy of holy milkmen, iii. 15, 16;
of the Vestal Virgins, x. 138 n. 5
Celtic bisection of the year, x. 223
—— calendar of Coligny, i. 17 n. 2
—— divinity akin to Artemis, ii. 126
—— festival of the dead, vi. 82
—— and Italian languages akin, ii. 189
—— population, their superstition as to Snake Stones, x. 15
—— stories of the external soul, xi. 126 sqq.
—— Vestals, ii. 241 n. 1
—— year reckoned from November 1st, vi. 81
Celts, their worship of the oak, ii. 9, 362 sq., xi. 89;
their worship of the Huntress Artemis, ii. 125 sq.;
their worship of Arduinna, ii. 126;
holy fires tended by virgins among the, ii. 240;
in Asia, ii. 363;
their theory of names, iii. 319;
their festival of All Souls, vi. 81 sq.;
their mode of forecasting the weather of the year, ix. 323 sq.;
their two great fire-festivals on the Eve of May Day and Hallowe'en, x. 222, 224
——, the British, their chief fire-festivals, Beltane and Hallowe'en, xi. 40 sq.
—— of Brittany, their use of mistletoe, xi. 320
—— of Gaul, their harvest festival, i. 17;
their indifference to death, iv. 142 sq.;
their calendar, ix. 342 sqq.;
their human sacrifices, xi. 32 sq.;
the victims perhaps witches and wizards, xi. 41 sq.;
W. Mannhardt's theory of the sacrifices, xi. 43
—— of Ireland, their belief in the blighting effect of incest, ii. 116;
their new fire on Hallowe'en, x. 139
—— of northern Italy, xi. 320
Celts (prehistoric implements), called “thunderbolts,” x. 14 sq.
Cemeteries, cut hair and nails buried in, iii. 274;
fairs held at, iv. 101, 102
Cenaed, king of the Scots, ii. 286
Censorinus, on the date of the rising of Sirius, vi. 34 n. 1;
on the octennial cycle, vii. 81 n. 4, 82 n. 2, 86 sq.
Centipedes not to be called by their proper name, iii. 407, 411
Central Provinces of India, belief as to twins in, i. 269;
use of frogs in rain-charms in, i. 293;
ceremonies observed by rearers of silk-worms in the, iii. 194 n. 1;
gardens of Adonis in the, v. 242 sq.;
custom as to cutting the last corn at harvest in the, vii. 222 n. 2;
the Parjas of the, viii. 27 sq., 28, 119;
customs as to first-fruits in the, viii. 118 sq.;
the Gadbas of the, viii. 118;
the Mannewars of the, viii. 119;
the Nahals of the, viii. 119;
cholera expelled by means of chickens in the, ix. 190;
cure for fever in the, xi. 190
Ceos, Greek island of, funeral customs in, i. 105;
the rising of Sirius observed in, vi. 35 n. 1;
rule as to the pollution of death in, vi. 227;
sick children passed through a cleft oak in, xi. 172
Ceram, i. 125;
treatment of the navel-string in, i. 187;
rain-making in, i. 248;
Alfoors of, their veneration for their high-priest, i. 400;
expiation for unchastity in, ii. 109 n. 1;
rule as to girl scratching herself in, iii. 146 n. 1;
fear of women's blood in, iii. 251;
men do not crop their hair in, iii. 260;
division of agricultural work between the sexes in, vii. 124;
ceremony at eating the new rice in, viii. 54;
offerings of first-fruits to ancestors in, viii. 123;
kinship of men with crocodiles in, viii. 212;
sicknesses expelled in a ship from, ix. 185;
sickness transferred to branches in, ix. 186;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 36;
belief that strength of young people is in their hair in, xi. 158;
rites of initiation to the Kakian association in, xi. 249 sqq.
Ceramicus, the, at Athens, graves of warriors in, iv. 96
Cereal deity, viii. 52, 83
Cereals cultivated in ancient Egypt, vi. 30;
in Europe, antiquity of the cultivation of, vii. 79;
cultivated by the early Aryans, vii. 132
Ceremonial purity observed in war, iii. 157.
See Purity, Chastity, Continence
Ceremonies at cutting down haunted trees, ii. 34 sqq.;
at the reception of strangers, iii. 102 sqq.;
at entering a strange land, iii. 109 sqq.;
after slaughter of panthers, lions, bears, serpents, etc., iii. 219 sqq.;
at haircutting, iii. 264 sqq.
——, initiatory, of Central Australian aborigines, i. 92 sqq.
——, magical, for the multiplication of totems, i. 85 sqq.;
for the regulation of the seasons, v. 3 sqq.;
to ensure fertility of women, x. 23 sq., 31
——, purificatory, on return from a journey, iii. 111 sqq.
Ceremony of the Horse at rice-harvest among the Garos, viii. 337 sqq.
Ceres, names of fathers and daughters tabooed during the rites of, iii. 337;
married to Orcus, vi. 231;
corn the gift of, vii. 42;
the, in France, vii. 135;
festival of, vii. 297 n. 5;
Roman sacrifices to, viii. 133;
first ears of corn sacrificed to, viii. 133
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Cervulus muntjac, species of deer, supposed to house the soul of an ancestor, viii. 294
Cervus equinus, a species of deer, claimed as relations by Malanaus in Borneo, viii. 294
Cetchwayo, king of Zululand, iii. 377
Cetraro in Calabria, Easter custom at, x. 123
Ceylon, deega and beena marriage in, ii. 271 n. 1, vi. 215;
custom of tying a knot on a threshing-floor in, iii. 308 sq.;
sanctity of the threshing-floor in, viii. 110 n. 4;
fear of demons in, ix. 94 sq.;
the king of, and his external soul, xi. 102
Chaco, the Gran, Lengua Indians of, i. 313, 330, 359, iii. 38, 357, iv. 11, 63, viii. 245;
the Guaycurus of, iii. 357, vii. 309;
the Matacos of, x. 58, 59;
the Tobas of, x. 59;
marriage custom of Indians of, x. 75;
Indians of, their treatment of a wound, x. 98 n. 1
——, the Paraguayan, ix. 78, x. 56, 75 n. 2
Chadwars of the Central Provinces, India, expiation for slaughter of totemic animal among the, viii. 28
Chadwick, Professor H. M., on female descent of kingship in Greece and Sweden, ii. 278 n. 1;
on the story of Hamlet, ii. 281 n. 2;
on the marriage of Canute and Emma, ii. 283 n. 1;
on the festival of October 1st, vi. 81 n. 3;
on the dismemberment of Halfdan the Black, vi. 100 n. 2;
on a priest dressed as a woman, vi. 259 n. 2;
on a passage in the Voluspa, x. 103 n.
Chaeronea, the sceptre of Agamemnon worshipped at, i. 365;
the “expulsion of hunger” at, ix. 252
Chain used to expel demons, ix. 260
Chains, iron, worn as amulets, iii. 235;
clanked as a protection against witches, ix. 163;
clanked in masquerade, ix. 244
Chait, an Indian month, ii. 149, viii. 119
Chaka, the Zulu despot, iv. 36 sq., viii. 67, xi. 212 n.;
as a diviner, i. 350
Chaldean priests as to the human wife of Bel, ii. 129 sq.
Chaldeans, magic of, ix. 64
Chalk, white, bodies of newly initiated lads coated with, xi. 241
Chalk mark on brow a protection against a ghost, iii. 186 n. 1
Chalking up crosses as a protection against witches, ix. 160, 162, 165;
on Twelfth Night, ix. 314, 315 n., 331
Chama, town on the Gold Coast, Horse-mackerel people at, iv. 129
Chamar caste in the Punjaub, ix. 196
Chamba, in India, ceremony at the funeral of a Rani of, ix. 45
Chambers, E. K., on the Festival of Fools, ix. 336 n. 1;
on the Celtic bisection of the year, x. 223
Chambéry, the harvest Wolf near, vii. 275;
“the wound of the Ox” at harvest near, vii. 288;
“killing the Ox” at threshing at, vii. 291
Chambezi river in Central Africa, ii. 277
Chameleon, ceremony at killing a, ix. 28
Champion at English coronation ceremony, ii. 322
Chams, the, of Indo-China, their taboos in search for eagle-wood, i. 120;
their homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 144;
precautions against ghosts among the, i. 280;
their fear of waking the rice at mid-day, ii. 28 sq.;
their traditions of human victims sacrificed by drowning, ii. 159;
continence at the making of a dam among the, iii. 202;
open cattle-stalls and unyoke ploughs to aid women in childbed, iii. 297;
use an artificial jargon in searching for eagle-wood, iii. 404;
their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1;
their ceremonies at ploughing, sowing, reaping and eating the new rice, viii. 56 sqq.;
their sacrifices to the “god rat,” viii. 283;
their belief in transmigration, viii. 291 sq.
Chang, the house of, ancient Chinese family, i. 413
Change in date of Egyptian festivals with the adoption of the fixed Alexandrian year, vi. 92 sqq.
—— of language caused by taboo on the names of the dead, iii. 358 sqq., 375;
caused by taboo on names of chiefs and kings, iii. 375, 376 sqq.
—— of name to deceive ghosts, iii. 354 sqq.;
as a cure for ill health, iv. 158
Changes of shape, magical, vii. 305
Chants, plaintive, of corn-reapers in antiquity, vi. 45 sq.
“Charcoal Man” at Midsummer, xi. 26 n. 2
Charente Inférieure, department of, St. John's fires in the, x. 192
Chariot in rain-charm, i. 309;
procession with god riding in a, ii. 130;
patient drawn through the yoke of a, xi. 192
—— and horses dedicated to the sun, i. 315
Chariot-race at Olympia, iv. 91, 104 sq., 287;
annual, on the Field of Mars at Rome, viii. 42
—— -races in honour of the dead, iv. 93
Chariots, epidemics sent away in toy, ix. 193 sq.;
used by sacred persons, x. 4 n. 1
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Charlemagne, x. 270;
compared to Osiris, vi. 199
Charles I. touches for scrofula, i. 368
Charles II. touches for scrofula, i. 368 sq.;
champion at his coronation, ii. 322
Charlotte Waters, in Central Australia, the Blind Tree at, i. 147
Charm to protect a town, vi. 249 sqq.
Charms to ensure long life, i. 168 sq.;
to prevent the sun from going down, i. 316 sqq.;
to facilitate childbirth, iii. 295 sq.
See also Amulets, Magic, Talismans
Charon, places of, v. 204, 205
Charonia, places of Charon, v. 204
Chasas of Orissa believe that leprosy is caused by injuring a totemic animal, viii. 26 sq.
“Chasing the Wild Man out of the bush,” a Whitsuntide custom, iv. 208 sq.
“Chasms of Demeter and Persephone,” viii. 17
Chaste young men kindle need-fire, x. 273
Chastity observed for sake of absent persons, i. 123, 124, 125, 131;
required of rain-doctor, i. 271;
practised to make the crops grow, ii. 104 sqq.;
required of persons who handle dishes and food, ii. 115 sq., 205;
Milton on, ii. 118 n. 1;
as a virtue not understood by savages, ii. 118;
observed by sacred men, perhaps the husbands of a goddess, ii. 135, 136;
observed by sacred women, ii. 137;
observed by women in making pottery, ii. 204;
required in those who make fire by friction, ii. 238 sq.;
observed by women at festival of the corn-goddess, v. 43;
ordeal of, v. 115 n. 2;
required in sower of seed, vii. 115 sq.;
observed by matrons at the Thesmophoria, vii. 116;
required in service of sacred serpent, viii. 18;
required of hunter before hunting bears, viii. 226;
associated with abstinence from salt, x. 27 sq.
See also Continence
Château-Thierry, Midsummer fires at, x. 187 sq.
Chateaubriand, his description of the Natchez festival, viii. 135 sqq.
Chatham Islands, birth-trees in the, xi. 165
Chatti, German tribe, their custom as to their hair, iii. 262
Chauci, a German tribe, on the North Sea, ii. 353
Chauta, Master, prayer for rain to, i. 250
Chavandes, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 109 n. 2
Chavantes, Indian tribe of the Tocantins River, iv. 12 n. 5
Cheadle, in Staffordshire, the Yule log at, x. 256
Cheese, eaten by human scapegoat before being put to death, ix. 255;
the Beltane, kept as a charm against the bewitching of milk-produce, x. 154
Cheese Monday, the Monday of the last week in Carnival, celebrated by Thracian and Bulgarian peasants, vii. 26, viii. 333
Chegilla, food taboos in Congo, iii. 137
Cheltenham, Jack-in-the-Green at, ii. 82 sq.
Chemakum tribe of Washington State, prohibition to mention the names of the dead in the, iii. 365
Chemistry, alchemy leads up to, i. 374
Chemmis in Egypt, temple of Perseus at, iii. 312 n. 2
Chêne-Doré, “the gilded oak,” in Perche, xi. 287 n. 1
Chenourazah, king of the Maldive Islands, ii. 153
Chent-Ament (Khenti-Amenti), title of Osiris, vi. 87
Chephren, king of Egypt, his statue, vi. 21 sq.
Chepstow oak, in Gloucestershire, mistletoe on the, xi. 316
Cheremiss, the, of Russia, their sacred groves, ii. 44;
will not fell trees while the corn is in bloom, ii. 49;
keep the names of their villages secret, iii. 391;
their custom at eating the new corn, viii. 51;
offer cakes instead of horses, viii. 95 n. 2;
their expulsion of Satan, ix. 156;
their Midsummer festival, x. 181
Chero, the, of Mirzapur, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209
Cherokee Indians, their myth of the Old Woman of the Corn, vi. 46 sq.;
their lamentations after “the first working of the corn,” vi. 47;
annual expulsion of evils among the, ix. 128.
See also Cherokees
—— hunters pray to the eagles they have killed, viii. 236; ask pardon of the deer they kill, viii. 241
—— mythology, viii. 204 sq.
—— sorcery with spittle, iii. 287 sq.
Cherokees, homoeopathic magic of plants among the, i. 144, 146 sq.;
their charms to ensure success in ball-playing, i. 144, 155;
foods avoided by the, on homoeopathic principles, i. 155;
homoeopathic magic of animals among the, i. 155 sq.;
their charm to become good singers, i. 156;
their charm to strengthen a child's grip, i. 156; their mode of averting an evil omen, i. 172;
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their custom as to children's cast teeth, i. 180;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 198;
their mode of averting a storm, i. 321;
try to deceive the spirits of rattlesnakes and eagles, iii. 399;
think that to step over a vine blasts it, iii. 424;
personify maize as an Old Woman, vii. 177;
their way of attracting the corn, vii. 190;
their festival of first-fruits, viii. 72 n. 2;
their belief in the homoeopathic magic of the flesh of animals, viii. 139;
no clear distinction between animals and men in their mythology, viii. 204 sq.;
their respect for rattlesnakes, viii. 218 sq.;
their ceremonies at killing a wolf, viii. 220 sq.;
their propitiation of the eagles which they have killed, viii. 236;
their custom of removing the hamstring of deer, viii. 266;
their sacred arks, x. 11 sq.;
their ideas as to trees struck by lightning, xi. 296 sq.
Cherrington, in Warwickshire, the Queen of May at, ii. 88
Cherry-tree, charm to make it bear fruit, i. 141;
wood used for Yule log, x. 250
—— -trees, branches of, used to beat people with in the Christmas holidays, ix. 270;
torches thrown at, x. 108
Chersonese, the Thracian, iv. 93
Chervil-seed burnt in Midsummer-fire, x. 213
Cheshire, May-poles in, ii. 70 sq.;
popular cure for rheumatism in, iii. 106 n. 2;
All Souls' Day in, vi. 79;
Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1;
cure for thrush in, ix. 50;
cure for warts in, ix. 57
Chesnitsa, Christmas cake in Servia, x. 261
Chester, Midsummer giants at, xi. 37
Chet, Indian month (March-April), iv. 265
Chetang, mountains of, in Tibet, ix. 220
Chetti worshipped in the Deccan, vii. 7
Chevannes, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 n. 1
Chevas of South Africa, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331 n. 2
Chewsurs of the Caucasus, their rain-charm, i. 282;
taboos observed by an annual official among the, iii. 292 sq.;
their annual Festival of All Souls, iv. 98, vi. 65;
their funeral games, iv. 98
Cheyenne Indians, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 54 sq.
—— women secluded at menstruation, x. 89
Cheyne, Professor T. K., on the brazen serpent, iv. 86 n. 4;
on lament for kings of Judah, v. 20 n. 2
Chhatarpur, in Bundelcund, ceremony for stopping rain at, i. 296 sq.
Chiambioa Indians of Brazil, their masked dances, viii. 208 n. 1
Chiaromonte in Sicily, Midsummer custom at, x. 210
Chibchas (Muyscas or Mozcas), the, of Colombia, their reverence for the pontiff of Sogamozo, i. 416
Chibisa, an African chief, killed by a sand-bullet, xi. 314
Chica or chicha, a native American intoxicant, ii. 105, iii. 250 n. 1, x. 57, 58
Chi-chi Mama, “the Drenched Mother,” in rain-making, in Armenia, i. 276
Chicken bones, omens from, ii. 70
Chickens, sickness transferred to, ix. 31;
as scapegoats, ix. 190
Chicomecohuatl, Mexican goddess of maize, vii. 176, ix. 286 n. 1, 291, 292;
girl annually sacrificed in the character of, ix. 292 sqq.
Chicory, the white flower of, opens all locks, xi. 71
Chidley, Cape, spirit of reindeer in cave at, viii. 245
Chief, power of divination possessed by, i. 344;
as priest, ii. 215 sqq.;
ancestral, reincarnate in snakes, v. 84;
the divinity of a, supposed to reside in his eyes, viii. 153.
See also Chiefs
Chiefs daughter, ceremonies observed by her at puberty, x. 30, 43
—— head not to be touched, i. 344
Chiefs, sorcerers regarded as, in New Guinea, i. 337 sq.;
in Melanesia, supernatural power of, i. 338 sqq.;
evolved out of magicians, especially out of rain-makers, in Africa, i. 342 sqq.;
magical powers ascribed to, i. 349;
not allowed to leave their premises, i. 349;
punished for drought and dearth, i. 352 sqq.;
as priests, ii. 215 sq., viii. 126;
chosen from several families in rotation, ii. 292 sqq.;
foods tabooed to, iii. 291, 292;
names of, tabooed, iii. 376 sq., 378 sq., 381, 382
——, dead, worshipped, vi. 175, 176, 177, 179, 181 sq., 187;
thought to control the rain, vi. 188;
sacrifices to, vi. 191, viii. 113;
spirits of, prophesy through living men and women, vi. 192 sq.;
spirits of, give rain, viii. 109;
deified after death, viii. 125;
souls of, in lions, viii. 287 sq.
—— and kings tabooed, iii. 131 sqq.
—— in the Pelew Islands, custom of slaying, vi. 266 sqq.
——, sacred, viii. 28;
not allowed to leave their enclosures, iii. 124;
regarded as dangerous, iii. 138
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Chiefs' daughters entrusted with the sacred fire among the Herero, ii. 215, 228
Chieftainship and kingship in Africa fully developed, i. 342
Chikumbu, a Yao chief, xi. 314
Chilblains, the Yule log a preventive of, x. 250
Chilcotin Indians of North-West America, their ceremony at an eclipse of the sun, i. 312, iv. 77
Child, carried by sower to ensure fertility, i. 142;
under puberty employed by Ba-Ronga women to light the potter's kiln, ii. 205;
placed in bride's lap as a fertility charm, ii. 230 sq.;
born on harvest-field, pretence of, vii. 150 sq.
See also Children
“—— of the assegai,” iv. 183
—— and father, supposed danger of resemblance between, iii. 88 sq., iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression)
“Child-stones,” where souls of dead await rebirth, v. 100
Child's life bound up with the tree with or under which its navel-string or after-birth was planted, i. 182, 184, 194
—— nails bitten off, iii. 262
—— Well at Oxford, ii. 161
Childbed, woman in, thought to control the wind, i. 324;
souls of women dying in, live in trees, ii. 31;
taboos on women in, iii. 147 sqq.;
precautions taken with women in, iii. 314;
deceiving the ghosts of women who have died in, viii. 97 sq.
Childbirth, Diana as goddess of, i. 12, ii. 128;
precautions taken with mothers at, iii. 32, 33, 233, 234, 239, 245;
women tabooed at, iii. 145;
supposed dangerous infection of, iii. 147 sqq.;
confessions of sins to expedite, iii. 216 sq.;
women after, their hair shaved and burnt, iii. 284;
knots untied at, iii. 294, 296 sq., 297 sq.;
homoeopathic magic to facilitate, iii. 295 sqq.;
primitive ignorance of the causes of, v. 106 sq.;
customs of women after, x. 20
Childermas (Holy Innocents' Day), the 28th day of December, Boy Bishop on, ix. 336, 337
Childless couples leap over bonfires to procure offspring, x. 214, 338
—— persons named after their younger brothers, iii. 332, 333
—— women divorced, i. 142;
their corpses thrown away, i. 142;
homoeopathic charm employed by, to ensure the birth of children, i. 157;
expect offspring from St. George, v. 78;
resort to Baths of Solomon, v. 78;
receive offspring from serpent, v. 86; resort to graves in order to secure offspring, v. 96;
resort to hot springs in Syria, v. 213 sqq.;
creep through a holed stone, xi. 187.
See also Barren
Children thought to be reincarnations of the dead, i. 103 sqq.;
taboos observed by, in the absence of their fathers, i. 116, 119, 122, 123, 127, 131;
homoeopathic charm to ensure the birth of, i. 157;
born with a caul thought to be lucky and to see spirits, i. 187 sq., 199;
buried to the neck as a rain-charm, i. 302 sq.;
dislike of parents to have children like themselves, iii. 88 sq., iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression);
young, tabooed, iii. 262, 283;
parents named after their, iii. 331 sqq., 339;
called the fathers or mothers of their first cousins, iii. 332 sq.;
sacrificed to Moloch, iv. 75;
sacrificed by the Semites, iv. 166 sqq.;
bestowed by saints, v. 78 sq.;
given by serpent, v. 86;
murdered that their souls may be reborn in barren women, v. 95;
sacrificed to volcano in Siao, v. 219;
sacrificed at irrigation channels, vi. 38;
sacrificed by the Mexicans for the maize, vi. 107;
presented to the moon, vi. 144 sqq.;
guarded against evil spirits, vii. 6 sqq.;
employed to administer drugs and the poison ordeal, vii. 115;
employed to sow seed, vii. 115 sq.;
sacrificed at harvest, vii. 236;
blood of, used to knead a paste, ix. 129;
personating spirits, ix. 139;
live apart from their parents among the Baganda, x. 23 n. 2;
passed across the Midsummer fires, x. 182, 189 sq., 192, 203;
born feet foremost, curative power attributed to, x. 295;
passed through holes in ground or turf to cure them, xi. 190 sq.
See also Child
—— of God in Kikuyu, v. 68
—— of living parents in ritual, vi. 236 sqq.;
apparently thought to be endowed with more vitality than others, vi. 247 sq.
——, new-born, brought to the spirits of the ancestors, ii. 216, 221;
passed through the smoke of a fire, ii. 232;
brought to the hearth, ii. 232;
placed in winnowing-fans, vii. 6 sqq.
Children's nails not pared, iii. 262 sq.
Chili, sacred cedar among the Aryan tribes of Gilgit, ii. 49, 50 sq.
Chili stone, ceremony of fertilizing goats at the, ii. 51
Chili, the Chilote Indians of, i. 168;
the Araucanians of, i. 292 n. 3, iii. 97;
disposal of shorn hair in, iii. 280;
earthquakes in, v. 202
Chillingworth, Thomas, passed through a cleft ash-tree for rupture, xi. 168 sq.
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Chiloe, the Indians of, keep their names secret, iii. 324
Chilote Indians of Chili, their belief as to death at ebb-tide, i. 168;
their magical use of shorn hair, iii. 268;
make magic with the spittle of an enemy, iii. 287
Chimaera, Mount, in Lycia, perpetual fire on, v. 221
Chimché-gelin, rain-bride, in Armenia, i. 276
Chimney, witches fly up the, xi. 74
Chimney-piece, divination by names on, x. 237
China, homoeopathic magic of city sites in, i. 169 sq.;
birthday celebration in, i. 169;
trees planted on graves in, ii. 31;
new-born children passed through the smoke of fire in, ii. 232 n. 2;
custom as to shadows at funerals in, iii. 80;
custom at an execution in, iii. 171;
geomancy in, iii. 239;
suicide of Buddhist monks in, iv. 42;
substitutes for corporal punishment in, iv. 275 sq.;
ceremony at beginning of spring in, viii. 10 sqq.;
belief in demons in, ix. 99;
men possessed by spirits in, ix. 117;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 145 sqq.;
annual ceremony of the new fire in, x. 136 sq., xi. 3;
were-wolves in, x. 310 sq.;
use of fire to bar ghosts in, xi. 17 sq.;
spirits of plants in snake form in, xi. 44 n. 1;
use of mugwort in, xi. 60.
See also Chinese
——, aboriginal tribes of, their use of a human scapegoat, ix. 196;
their annual destruction of evils, ix. 202
——, Emperor of, superior to the gods, i. 416 sq.;
seldom quitted his palace, iii. 125;
his directions for averting the devil, iii. 239;
his name not to be pronounced nor written by his subjects, iii. 375 sq.;
etiquette at his court, iv. 40;
funeral of, v. 294;
inaugurates the ploughing in spring, viii. 14 sq.
——, emperors of, as priests, i. 47;
held responsible for drought, i. 355
——, the Miotse of, ix. 4
——, the Mossos of, ix. 139
——, South and West, the Miao-Kia of, ii. 31
——, Southern, expulsion of the demons of cholera in, ix. 117 sq.;
the Shans of, ix. 141
Chinchvad, human gods at, i. 405 sq.
Chinese, magical images among the, i. 60 sq.;
their charms to ensure long life, i. 168 sq.;
their superstition as to placenta (afterbirth), i. 194;
their belief as to the influence of the dead on rain, i. 287;
their modes of compelling the rain-god to give rain, i. 297 sqq.;
their emperor responsible for drought, i. 355;
their belief in spirits of plants, ii. 14;
their custom of marrying a girl to the Yellow River, ii. 152;
kindle a sacred fire by means of a metal mirror or burning-glass, ii. 245 n.;
their story of a wandering human soul and its deserted body, iii. 49 sq.;
attribute convulsions to the action of demons, iii. 59;
their use of mirrors to frighten demons, iii. 93 n. 3;
use no knives nor needles after a death, iii. 238;
their belief as to the intimate association of names with beings, iii. 390;
their indifference to death, iv. 144 sqq., 273 sqq.;
report a custom of devouring first-born children, iv. 180;
their character compared to that of the ancient Egyptians, vi. 218;
their use of sieve or winnowing-fan in superstitious rites, vii. 6, 9 sq.;
their ceremony of ploughing, viii. 14 sq.;
their theory as to courage, viii. 145 sq., 152;
their ceremonies of purification in spring and autumn, ix. 213 n. 1;
their festival of fire, ix. 359, xi. 3 sqq.;
their story of the external soul, xi. 145 sq.;
their theories as to the human soul, xi. 221
Chinese of Amoy averse to call fever by its proper name, iii. 400;
their use of effigies to divert ghostly and other evil influences from persons, viii. 104 sq.
Chinese author on disturbance of earth-spirits by agriculture, v. 89
—— books, bleeding trees in, ii. 18
—— comedies played as a rain-charm, i. 301 n.
—— empire, incarnate human gods in the, i. 412 sqq.
—— geomancy, i. 170
—— New Year, viii. 10
—— writers on kings of Corea, i. 355;
as to injury to men and birds through their shadows, iii. 79;
as to blood containing the soul, iii. 241;
profess themselves unable to distinguish between men and animals, viii. 206
Chingilli, an Australian tribe, their custom of knocking out teeth, i. 99
Chinigchinich, a Californian god, viii. 170
Chinna Kimedy, in India, vii. 247, 249
Chinook Indians, prohibition to mention the names of the dead among the, iii. 365;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 43
Chins, the, of Upper Burma, their offerings of first-fruits to their ancestors, viii. 121;
their way of keeping off cholera, ix. 123
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Chios, titular kings in, i. 45, 46 n. 4;
human beings torn in pieces at the rites of Dionysus in, vi. 98 sq., vii. 24
Chippeway Indians, magical images among the, i. 77;
their dread and seclusion of menstruous women, x. 90 sq.
Chiquites Indians of Paraguay, their belief as to chica, iii. 250 n. 1;
their fear of dead deer and turtles, viii. 241;
their theory of sickness, xi. 226 n. 1
Chirbury, in Shropshire, the Yule log at, x. 257
Chiriguanos, the, of South America, their preference for a violent death, iv. 12;
their address to the sun, vi. 143 n. 4;
why they will not eat the vicuña, viii. 140;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 286;
their practice of bleeding themselves to relieve fatigue, ix. 13;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 56
Chiriqui, volcano, v. 181
Chirol, (Sir) Valentine, on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 274
Chiron, the centaur, taught Hippolytus venery, i. 19
Chirouba, festival in Manipur, ix. 40
Chirus of Manipur, their rain-making by means of a crab, i. 289;
their tug-of-war, ix. 177 n. 3
Chisaks, a tribe of Garos, their harvest festival, viii. 337
Chissumpe, the spiritual head of the Maraves, i. 393
Chitariah Gossaih, god of a hill-tribe in India, viii. 118
Chitomé or Chitombé, a pontiff of Congo, his perpetual fire, ii. 261;
regarded as a god on earth, iii. 5 sq., 7;
slain by his successor, iv. 14 sq., 206
Chitral, devil-driving in, ix. 137
Chittagong, opening everything in house to facilitate childbirth in, iii. 297;
nail knocked into threshold at a burial in, ix. 63 n. 4
—— Hill Tracts, the Chukmas of the, ix. 174
Chittim (Citium) in Cyprus, Phoenician kings at, v. 31
Chnum of Elephantine, Egyptian god identified with the sun, vi. 123
Choctaws, taboos observed by manslayers among the, iii. 181;
their annual festival of the dead, vi. 53 sq.;
their women secluded at menstruation, x. 88
Chodoi, in Selangor, ceremony of bringing home the soul of the rice at, vii. 198
Choerilus, Greek historian, as to the epitaph of Sardanapalus, ix. 388 n. 1
Cholera sent away in animal scapegoats, ix. 190, 191 sq.
——, demon of, expelled, ix. 116, 117, 172;
threatened with swords, ix. 123;
conjured into an image, ix. 172;
sent away on a raft, ix. 190
——, goddess of, kept off by iron, iii. 234;
sent away in a little chariot, ix. 194
Cholones, the, of eastern Peru, their custom as to poisoned arrows, i. 116;
their charms against snake-bite, etc., i. 153
Cholula, a city of Mexico, worship of Quetzalcoatl at, ix. 281
Chonga, on the Niger, the king of, keeps himself concealed, iii. 121
Chopping-knife, soul of woman in childbirth transferred for safety to a, xi. 153 sq.
Chorinchen, custom at threshing at, vii. 148
Chorion or foetal membrane, Icelandic belief as to, i. 199 sq.
Chota Nagpur in India, ceremonies observed by rearers of silkworms in, iii. 194 n. 1;
the Oraons of, vii. 244;
stones or leaves piled on places where persons have been killed by wild beasts in, ix. 19;
annual expulsion of disease in, ix. 139;
the fire-walk in, xi. 5
Chouquet, in Normandy, the Green Wolf at, x. 185
Chouville, Léon, on the King of the Bean in France, ix. 315 n. 1
Chréais or Jaray, tribe in the mountains of Cambodia, their Kings of Fire and Water, ii. 3
Christ, his Nativity, v. 304 sq.;
his crucifixion, v. 306 sqq., ix. 412 sqq.;
his resurrection, v. 306, 307 n., 308 sqq.;
doubts as to his historical reality unfounded, v. 311 n. 2, ix. 412 n. 1;
and Osiris, vi. 59
Christbrand, the Yule log, x. 248
Christenburg Crags, in Northumberland, Midsummer fires at, x. 198
Christian, Captain, his mode of execution, iii. 244
Christian, F. W., on the prostitution of unmarried girls in Yap, vi. 265 sq.
Christian Church, its treatment of witches, xi. 42.
See Church
—— festivals displace heathen festivals, i. 14 sqq., v. 308, vi. 81 sqq.;
the great, timed by the Church to coincide with old pagan festivals, ix. 328
Christianity, purifying influence of, v. 80;
its conflict with the Mithraic religion, v. 302 sqq.;
its success due to the personal influence of its founder, vi. 159 sq.;
its rapid diffusion in Asia Minor, ix. 420 sq.
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Christianity, Latin, its tolerance of rustic paganism, ix. 346
—— and Buddhism, comparison between their history, v. 310 sqq.
—— and paganism, their resemblances explained as diabolical counterfeits, v. 302, 309 sq.
Christians, pretenders to divinity among, i. 407 sqq.
—— and pagans, their controversy as to Easter, v. 309 sq.
Christklotz, the Yule log, x. 248
Christmas, custom of swinging at, iv. 284;
festival of, borrowed from the Mithraic religion, v. 302 sqq.;
the heathen origin of, v. 305;
straw of Corn-mother placed in manger of cattle at, vii. 134;
the last sheaf given to cattle at, vii. 155, 158, 160 sq.;
boar sacrificed at, vii. 302;
pretence of human sacrifice at, vii. 302;
dances to make the flax grow at, viii. 328;
custom of young men and women beating each other at, ix. 270;
an old midwinter festival of the sun-god, ix. 328, x. 246, 331 sq.;
new fire made by the friction of wood at, x. 264;
mistletoe gathered at, xi. 291.
See also Yule
Christmas Boar among the Esthonians, vii. 302 sq.
—— cake, x. 257, 259, 261
—— candle, the, x. 255, 256, 260
—— custom in Poland, vii. 275;
in Sweden, vii. 301 sq.
—— Day, hunting the wren on, viii. 319, 320;
Mexican festival on, ix. 287;
divination on, ix. 316 n. 1;
Old (Twelfth Night), ix. 321
—— drama in Sweden, viii. 327 sq.
—— Eve, fruit-trees girt or tied together with straw on, ii. 17, 27 sq.;
barren fruit-trees threatened on, ii. 21;
presages as to shadows on, iii. 88;
celebration of, in Oesel, vii. 302;
hunting the wren on, viii. 318, 321;
witches active on, ix. 160;
cattle acquire the gift of speech on, x. 254;
torchlight processions on, x. 266;
trees fumigated with wild thyme on, xi. 64;
the fern blooms on, xi. 66;
witches dreaded on, xi. 73;
sick children passed through cleft trees on, xi. 172
—— night, fern-seed blooms on, xi. 289
—— pig in Servia, x. 259
—— visitor, the, x. 261 sq., 263, 264
Christs, Russian sect of the, i. 407 sq.
Chrudim in Bohemia, effigy of Death burnt at, iv. 239
Chu-en-aten, name assumed by King Amenophis IV. of Egypt, vi. 124
Chu-Tu-shi, a Chinese were-tiger, x. 310 sq.
Chua-hang or Troc, the caves of, in Annam, i. 301 sq.
Chuckchees or Chukchees of North-Eastern Asia, their chief sacrificed in time of pestilence, i. 367 n. 1;
sacred fire-boards of the, ii. 225 sq.;
divine by the shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 n. 4;
change the name of the youngest son after his mother's death, iii. 358;
voluntary deaths among the, iv. 13;
effeminate sorcerers among the, vi. 256 sq.;
their ceremony at killing a wolf, viii. 221
Chukmas, a tribe of the Chittagong Hill racts, the tug-of-war among the, ix. 174
Chunar, in Bengal, rain-making ceremony t, i. 283
Church, the Christian, borrows the festival of Christmas from the worship of Mithra, v. 303 sqq.;
its compromise with paganism, v. 308;
its treatment of witches, xi. 42.
See also Catholic
Church bells a protection against witch-craft, ix. 157, 158;
on Midsummer Eve, custom as to ringing, xi. 47 sq.;
rung to drive away witches, xi. 73
Churches used as places of divination at Hallowe'en, x. 229
Churinga, sacred stick and stones, resembling bull-roarers, of the Arunta and other Central Australian tribes, i. 88, 199, 335, xi. 218 n. 3, 234
Churn, last corn cut, vii. 151, 153, 154 sq.
Churn wreathed with rowan on May Day, ii. 53
Churn-dashers ridden by witches, ix. 160
—— -staff made of rowan as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 53, 54
Churning, precaution against witches in, ii. 53 n. 1
Chuwash, their test of a sacrificial victim, i. 385
Chuzistan, rumour of the death of the King of the Jinn in, iv. 8
Chwolsohn, D., on the worship of Haman, ix. 366 n. 1
Ciallos, intercalary month of Gallic calendar, ix. 343
Cicero invited to meet the assassin Brutus, i. 5;
at Cybistra, v. 122 n. 3;
corresponds with Cilician king, v. 145 n. 2;
on the Attic origin of corn, vii. 58;
on transubstantiation, viii. 167;
on the custom of knocking in a nail annually, ix. 67 n. 2
Cieza de Leon on the Peruvian Vestals, ii. 244 n. 1 245 n.
Cilicia, male deity of, assimilated to Zeus, v. 118 sq., 144 sqq., 148, 152;
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kings of, their affinity to Sandan, v. 144;
names of priests in, v. 144;
pirates in, v. 149;
goddesses in, v. 161 sqq.;
the burning of gods in, v. 170 sq.;
the Assyrians in, v. 173;
Tarsus in, ix. 388, 389, 391
Cilicia, Western or Rugged, described, v. 148 sqq.;
fossils of, v. 152 sq.
Cilician Gates, pass of the, v. 120
Cimbrians, the, take arms against the tide, i. 331 n. 3
Ciminian forest, ii, 8
Cincius Alimentus, L., on Maia as the wife of Vulcan, vi. 232
Cinet or sinnet, iii. 69 n. 3
Cingalese (Cinglese), their fear of demons, ix. 95;
the tug-of-war among the, ix. 181.
See also Singhalese
Cingalese remedy by means of devil-dancers, ix. 38
Cinteotl or Centeotl, Mexican goddess of maize, vii. 176, ix. 286 n. 1;
personated by a priest, ix. 290
Cinyrads, dynasty of the, v. 41 sqq.
Cinyras, the father of Adonis, v. 13, 14, 49;
king of Byblus, v. 27;
founds sanctuary of Astarte, v. 28;
said to have instituted religious prostitution, v. 41, 50;
his daughters, v. 41, 50;
his riches, v. 42;
his incest, v. 43;
wooed by Aphrodite, v. 48 sq.;
meaning of the name, v. 52;
the friend of Apollo, v. 54;
legends of his death, v. 55
Ciotat in Provence, bathing at Midsummer at, v. 248;
Midsummer rites of fire and water at, x. 194
Circassia, custom as to pear-trees in, ii. 55 sq.;
games in honour of the dead in, iv. 98
Circe, the land of, ii. 188
Circensian games at Bovillae, ii. 180 n.
Circumambulating fields with lighted torches, x. 233 sq.
Circumcision, pretence of new birth at, i. 76, 96 sq.;
among the aborigines of Australia, i. 92 sqq.;
uses of blood shed at, i. 92, 94 sq., iii. 244;
among the dwarf tribes of the Gaboon, i. 95 n. 4;
suggested origin of, i. 96 sq.;
in Central Australia, i. 204, 208, iii. 244, xi. 227 sq., 233, 234, 235;
among the Caffres, iii. 156 sq.;
performed with flints, not iron, iii. 227;
of father as a mode of redeeming his offspring, iv. 181;
story told by Israelites to explain the origin of, iv. 181;
mimic rite of, iv. 219 sq.;
exchange of dress between men and women at, vi. 263;
period of seclusion after, determined by the appearance of the Pleiades, vii. 316;
ceremonies at, in South-East Africa, viii. 148;
custom at, in Celebes, viii. 153;
riddles asked at, ix. 122 n.;
among the Washamba, xi. 183;
in New Guinea, xi. 240 sq.;
in Fiji, xi. 243 sq.;
in Rook, xi. 246;
on the Lower Congo, xi. 251, 255 n. 1
Circumcision Day, the 1st of January, Pope of Fools on, ix. 334
Circumlocutions adopted to avoid naming the dead, iii. 350, 351, 355;
caused by fear of the dead, iii. 354;
employed by reapers, iii. 412
Circus, the games of the, ii. 174
Cirta, image of Jupiter at, ii. 177
Cithaeron, Mount, bonfire on the top of, ii. 140 sq.;
forest of oaks at, iv. 82;
Pentheus torn to pieces on, vii. 25 n. 3
Cities, guardian deities of, evoked by enemies, iii. 391;
Etruscan ceremony at the founding of, iv. 157
Citium (Chittim), in Cyprus, Phoenician kings at, v. 31, 50
Citrus hystrix, the afterbirth hung on a, i. 186
Civilization advanced by great conquering races, i. 218;
threatened by an underlying stratum of savagery, i. 236;
ancient, undermined by Oriental religions and other causes, v. 299 sqq.
Clach-nathrach, serpent stone, xi. 311
Clam shell, sacred, of the Omahas, x. 11
Clan of the Cat, xi. 150 sq.
Clangour of metal used to dispel demons, ix. 233
Clanking chains as a protection against witches, ix. 163
Clans, paternal and maternal, of the Herero, ii. 217
Clappers, used instead of church bells in Holy Week, x. 125;
wooden, used in China, x. 137
Clarian Apollo, the, iv. 80 n. 1
Clark, J. V. H., on the New Year festival of the Iroquois, ix. 209
Clarke, E. D., on the bride-race among the Calmucks, ii. 301 sq.;
on image of Demeter at Eleusis, vii. 64 n. 2;
on the Harvest Queen, vii. 146 sq.;
on heaps of sticks or stones on graves in Sweden, ix. 20 sq.
Clashing of metal instruments a protection against witchcraft, ix. 158;
used to dispel demons, ix. 233
Clasping of hands forbidden, iii. 298
Classificatory system of relationship, xi. 234 n. 1, 314 n. 4
Claudianus, Lucius Minius, on the goddess of Hieropolis-Castabala, v. 168
Claudius, the Emperor, shrine of, at Nemi, i. 13;
trial for incest under, ii. 115;
his marriage with Agrippina, ii. 129 n. 1;
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statues of, crowned with oak, ii. 177 n. 2;
his history of Etruria, ii. 196 n.;
on the Etruscan origin of Servius Tullius, ii. 196 n.;
on the foreign descent of the Roman kings, ii. 270 n. 6;
and the rites of Attis, v. 266;
his execution of a Gaulish knight, x. 15
Claudius Gothicus, the Emperor, v. 266 n. 2
Clavie at Burghead, made without the use of a hammer, iii. 229 sq.;
the burning of the, x. 266 sq.
Clavigero, F. S., historian of Mexico, on the Mexican calendar, vi. 29 n.;
on Cinteotl, the Mexican goddess of maize, ix. 286 n. 1
Claws of sea-eagle, charm made from, i. 152
Clay, people smeared with white, at festival, viii. 75;
plastered on girls at puberty, x. 31;
bodies of novices at initiation smeared with white, xi. 255 n. 1. 259
Clayton, A. C., on a Badaga funeral, ix. 36
Claytonia, a species of, principal vegetable food of the aborigines of Central Australia, vii. 128
Cleanliness promoted by contagious magic, i. 175, 342;
fostered by superstition, iii. 130;
personal, observed in war, iii. 157, 158 n. 1
Cleansing streets from superstitious motive, beneficial effect of, ix. 205 sq.
Clearing land for cultivation, ceremonies to appease the tree spirits at, ii. 36, 38 sq.
Cleary, Bridget, burnt as a witch in Tipperary, x. 323 sq.
Cleary, Michael, burns his wife as a witch, x. 323 sq.
Clee, in Lincolnshire, the Yule log at, x. 257
Clee Hills, in Shropshire, fear of witchcraft in the, x. 342 n. 4
Cleft stick, passage through a, in connexion with puberty and circumcision, xi. 183 sq.
Clement of Alexandria on the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 39
Cleomenes, king of Sparta, and serpents, v. 87
Cleon of Magnesia at Gades, v. 113
Cleostratus of Tenedos, said to have introduced the Greek octennial cycle, vii. 81
Clergyman employed to cut first corn at harvest, viii. 51
Cleveland in Yorkshire, treatment of the placentas of mares at, i. 199
Climacteris scandens, women's “sister” among the Kulin, xi. 216
Climatic and geographical conditions, their effect on national character, vi. 217
Clippings of hair, magic wrought through iii. 268 sqq., 275, 277, 278 sq.
See also Hair
—— of nails in popular cures, ix. 57, 58.
See also Nails
Clisthenes and Hippoclides, ii. 307 sq.
Clitus and Dryas, their contest for a bride, ii. 307
—— and Pallene, ii. 307
“Clod festival of the fourth” at Benares, i. 279
Clodd, Edward, on the external soul, xi. 97 n. 1
Clog, the Yule, x. 247
Clonmel, trial for witch-burning at, x. 324
Clotaire murders his nephews, iii. 259
Clothes, homoeopathic magic of, i. 157;
magic sympathy between a person and his, i. 205-207;
of sacred persons tabooed, iii. 131.
See also Graveclothes
Cloths used to catch souls, iii. 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 61, 64, 67, 75 sq.
Clotilde, Queen, the murder of her grand children, iii. 259
Cloud-dragon, myth of the, iv. 107
Clouds imitated by smoke, i. 249;
imitation of, in rain-making, i. 249, 256, 261, 262, 263, 275;
imitated by stones, i. 256;
magicians painted in imitation of, i. 323
Clove-trees in blossom treated like pregnant women, ii. 28.
See also Cloves
Clover, time for sowing, i. 167;
four-leaved, a counter-charm for witchcraft, x. 316;
found at Midsummer, xi. 62 sq.
Cloves, sexual ceremony to make cloves grow, ii. 100.
See also Clove-trees
Clovis, gift of touching for the evil derived from, i. 370
Clown in spring ceremonies, ii. 82, 89;
at Whitsuntide, ii. 89;
in processions, ix. 244 sq.
Clubhouses of men in New Guinea, i. 125, iii. 168, 169;
in the Caroline Islands, iii. 193;
in the Pelew Islands, iii. 193 n. 2
Clucking like a hen to recall a truant soul, iii. 34, 35, 55, 74, 75
Clucking-hen, the, at threshing, vii. 277
Clue of yarn, divination by a, at Hallowe'en, x. 235, 240, 241, 243
Cluis Dessus and Cluis-Dessous, custom of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, iv. 241 sq.
Clyack sheaf, vii. 158 sqq., 215 sq., viii. 43
Clyack-kebback, a cheese at the harvest supper in Aberdeenshire, vii. 160
Clymenus, king of Arcadia, his incest, v. 44 n. 1
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Clytaemnestra, a native of Lacedaemon, ii. 279
Cnossus in Crete, sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera at, ii. 143 n. 1;
Minos at, iv. 70 sqq.;
the labyrinth at, iv. 75 sqq.;
the bull perhaps the king's crest at, iv. 111 sq.;
prehistoric palace at, v. 34;
marriage of the Bull-god to the Queen at, vii. 31;
octennial tenure of kingship at, vii. 82, 85
Coal, magical, that turns to gold at Midsummer, xi. 60 sq.
Coast Murring tribe of New South Wales, the drama of resurrection exhibited to novices at initiation in the, xi. 235 sqq.
Cobern, effigy burnt on Shrove Tuesday at, x. 120
Coblentz, the Yule log near, x. 248
Cobra worshipped, i. 383 n. 4;
ceremonies after killing a, iii. 222 sq.;
the crest of the Maharajah of Nagpur, iv. 132 sq.
Cobra-capella, guardian-deity of Issapoo, viii. 174
Coca-mother, among the Peruvians, vii. 172, 173 n.
Coccus Polonica and St. John's blood, xi. 56
Cochin, Cranganore in, i. 280
Cochin China, the Chams of, i. 144, ii. 28, iii. 202, 297, iv. 130 n. 1;
the Bahnars of, iii. 52, 58;
tigers respected in, iii. 403, viii. 217;
annual festival of the dead in, vi. 65;
mode of disposing of ghosts in, ix. 62
Cock killed in fight not to be eaten by soldiers, i. 117;
king represented with the feathers of a, iv. 85;
as emblem of a priest of Attis, v. 279;
corn-spirit as, vii. 276 sqq.;
killed on harvest field, vii. 277 sq., xi. 280 n.;
effigy of, in bonfire, x. 111;
external soul of ogre in a, xi. 100
——, black, buried on spot where epileptic patient fell down, ix. 68 n. 2;
used as counter-charm to witchcraft, x. 321
—— and hen sacrificed by the Lithuanians at harvest, viii. 49 sq.;
or hen, striking blindfold at a, xi. 279 n. 4
——, red, killed to cure person struck by lightning, xi. 298 n. 2
——, white, buried at boundary, iii. 109;
sacrificed, viii. 117, 118;
disease transferred to a, ix. 187;
as scapegoat, ix. 210 n. 4;
burnt in Midsummer bonfire, xi. 40.
See also Cocks
Cock-sheaf, vii. 276
Cock's blood poured on divining-rod, xi. 282
Cockatoos, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 89
Cockchafer, external soul in a golden, xi. 140
Cockchafers, witches as, x. 322
Cocks as scapegoats, ix. 191 sq.
Coco-nut, soul of child deposited in a, x. 154 sq.
—— -nuts, magical stones to produce a crop of, i. 162;
sacred and regarded as emblems of fertility in Upper India, ii. 51;
gathered by pure youths, iii. 201
Coco-nut oil made by chaste women, iii. 201;
a charm against demons, iii. 201
—— -nut palm worshipped, ii. 16;
planted over navel-string and afterbirth of child, xi. 161, 163, compare xi. 164;
attracts lightning, xi. 299 n. 2
—— -nut trees revered, ii. 12, 16
Codjour or Cogiour, a priestly king of the Nubas, iii. 132 n. 1, viii. 114
Codrington, Dr. R. H., on the confusion of religion and magic in Melanesia, i. 227 sq.;
on the supernatural powers ascribed to chiefs in Melanesia, i. 338;
on mother-kin in Melanesia, vi. 211;
on the Melanesian conception of the external soul, xi. 197 sq.
Codrus, king of Athens, Ionian kings descended from, i. 47
Coel Coeth, Hallowe'en bonfire, x. 239
Coffin, nails from a, in magic, i. 210, 211
Cogiour. See Codjour
Cohabitation of husband and wife enjoined as a matter of ritual, viii. 69, 70 n. 1.
See also Intercourse
Cohen, S. S., x. 128 n. 1
Coil, sick children passed through a, xi. 185 sq.
Coimbatore, dancing-girls at, v. 62
Coincidence between the Christian and the heathen festivals of the divine death and resurrection, v. 308 sq.
Coins from the eyes of corpses, their magical virtue, i. 149;
placed on the eyes of corpses, i. 149 n. 5;
portraits of kings not stamped on, iii. 98 sq.
Colchis, Phrixus in, iv. 162
Cold food, festival of the, in China, x. 137
—— weather, charm to bring on, i. 319;
ceremonies to procure, i. 329 n. 1
Cole, Lieut.-Colonel H. W. G., on a custom of the Lushais, xi. 185 sq.
Colic, a Bahnar cure for, iii. 59;
popular remedies for, x. 17;
leaping over bonfires as a preventive of, x. 107, 195 sq., 344;
attributed to witchcraft, x. 344
Coligny calendar of Gaul, i. 17 n. 2, ix. 342 sqq.
Coll, Dr. Samuel Johnson in the island of, viii. 322;
the Hole Stone in the island of, xi. 187
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Collatinus, L. Tarquinius, one of the first consuls, ii. 288, 290
Colleda, an old Servian goddess, x. 259
Collobrières in Provence, rain-making at, i. 307
Colluinn, custom of beating a cow's hide in the Highlands, viii. 323, 324
Colocasia antiquorum, charm used at gathering, ii. 23
Cologne, Petrarch at, on St. John's Eve, v. 247 sq.;
St. John's fourteen Midsummer victims at, xi. 27
Colombia, the Goajiro Indians of, iii. 30 sq., 325, 352. x. 34 n. 1;
the Muysca Indians of, iii. 121;
the Aurohuaca Indians of, iii. 215;
rule as to the felling of timber in, vi. 136;
the Popayan Indians of, their belief in the transmigration of human souls into deer, viii. 286;
Guacheta in, x. 74
Colophon, the Clarian Apollo at, iv. 80 n. 1
Columbia, British, the Indians of, their use of magical images to procure fish, i. 108;
taboos imposed on the parents of twins among the, i. 262 sqq.;
pay compliments to the first fish of the season, viii. 253
——, British, the Thompson Indians of, i. 132, 181, 197, 253, 288, 293, ii. 13, 208, iii. 37, 65, 117, 142, 181, 278, 399, viii. 81, 133, 140, 207, 226, 268, ix. 154;
the Kwakiutl Indians of, i. 197, 201, 263, 324, iii. 53, 76, 188, 386, viii. 250;
the Tsimshian Indians of, i. 262, viii. 254;
the Nootka Indians of, i. 263, iii. 27, 146 n. 1, viii. 225, 251;
the Lillooet Indians of, i. 265;
the Shuswap Indians of, i. 265, 319, iii. 83, 142, 146 n. 1, viii. 238;
the Skungen Indians of, ii. 32;
the Bella Coola Indians of, iii. 34, x. 46, xi. 174;
the Nass River in, iii. 76;
the Carrier Indians of, iii. 197, 367;
the Tsetsaut Indians of, iii. 198, 260;
the Tinneh or Déné Indians of, iii. 240;
the Kutonaqa of, iv. 183;
the coast tribes of, their ceremonial cannibalism, vii. 18 sqq.;
the Koskimo of, vii. 20 n.;
the Nishga Indians of, viii. 106;
the Okanaken Indians of, viii. 134
Columbia River, the Indians of, their customs in regard to the first salmon caught in the season, viii. 255
Columella, on chastity to be observed by those who handle food, ii. 205;
on the date for the fertilization of fig-trees, ii. 314;
on the fodder of cattle, ii. 328 n. 1;
on caprification, ix. 258
Comana in Cappadocia, v. 136 n. 1
—— in Pontus, worship of goddess Ma at, v. 39, ix. 421 n. 1;
swine not allowed to enter, v. 265 n. 1;
sacred harlots at, ix. 370 n. 1
Comana, the two cities, v. 168 n. 6
Comanches, the, their way of procuring rain or sunshine, i. 297;
changes in their language caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 360
Combat, mortal, for the kingdom, ii. 322
Combe, in Oxfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 62 n. 2
Combe d'Ain, x. 114
Combing the hair forbidden, i. 157, iii. 14, 159 n., 181, 187, 203, 208, 264;
thought to cause storms, iii. 271
Combretum primigenum, the sacred tree of the Herero, ii. 213, 218
Combs not to be used by wives during absence of camphor hunters, i. 125;
in homoeopathic magic, i. 125, 157;
used by girls in their seclusion at puberty, iii. 146 n. 1;
of sacred persons, iii. 256
Comedies played as a rain-charm, i. 301 n.
Comitium, dances of the Salii in the, ix. 232
Commagny, the priory of, i. 307
Commemoration of the Dead at Athens, v. 234
Comminges, Midsummer fires in, x. 192 sq.
Commodus, the Emperor, conspiracy against, v. 273;
addicted to the worship of Isis, vi. 118
Common objects, names of, changed when they coincide more or less with those of relations, iii. 335, 336, 337, 338, 339 sq., 340, 341, 345, 346;
changed when they are the names of the dead, iii. 358 sqq., 375;
or the names of chiefs and kings, iii. 375, 376 sqq.
—— words tabooed, iii. 392 sqq.
Communal rights over women, v. 40, 61 n.
—— taboos, vii. 109 n. 2
Communion with demons by drinking blood, i. 383;
with deity in Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 38, 161;
with deity by eating of new fruits, viii. 83;
with the dead through food, viii. 154;
with the dead by swallowing their ashes, viii. 156 sqq.;
with deity by eating his body and drinking his blood, viii. 325;
with saints, alive or dead, by means of stones, ix. 21 sq.
Communion bread baked from the first corn cut, viii. 51
Communism, tradition of sexual, ii. 284
Community, welfare of, bound up with the life of the divine king, x. 1 sq.; [pg 224] purified in the persons of its representatives, xi. 24
Comorin, Cape, iv. 46
Compelling rain-gods to give rain, i. 296 sqq.
Compitalia, a Roman festival, effigies dedicated at, viii. 94, 96, 107
Complexity of social phenomena, i. 332;
of religious phenomena, viii. 36
Compromise of Christianity with paganism, parallel with Buddhism, v. 310 sqq.
Comrie, well of St. Fillan at, ii. 161
Con or Cun, a thunder-god of the Indians of the Andes, ii. 370
Conca d'Oro at Palermo, i. 299
Concealment from superstitious motives at eating and drinking, iii. 116 sqq.;
of the face or person from superstitious motives, iii. 120 sqq.;
of miscarriage in childbed, supposed effects of, iii. 152 sqq., 211, 213;
of cut hair and nails to prevent them from falling into the hands of sorcerers, iii. 276 sqq.;
of personal names from fear of magic, iii. 320 sqq.;
of graves, vi. 103 sqq., viii. 98 sqq.
Conception in women, supposed causes of, i. 100, v. 96, 102, 103, 104, 105;
caused by trees, ii. 51, 56 sq., 316-318;
supposed, without sexual intercourse, v. 91, 93 n. 2, 96 sqq., 264, ix. 18;
animals and plants as causes of, in women, v. 97 sq., 104 sq.
See also Impregnation
Conchucos, the, of Peru, esteemed foxes sacred, viii. 258 n. 1
Conciliating the spirits of the land, iii. 110 sq.
Conciliation involved in religion, i. 224;
of slain enemies, iii. 182
Concord, temple of, at Rome, i. 11, 21 n. 2
Concordia, nurse of St. Hippolytus, i. 21 n. 2
Concubines, temporary king allowed to use the real king's, iv. 114;
human, of the god Ammon, v. 72;
of a king taken by his successor, ix. 368
Condé, in Normandy, ix. 183;
bonfires on Christmas Eve near, x. 266
Conder, C. R., on “holy men” in Syria, v. 77 n. 4;
on turning money at the new moon, vi. 149 n. 2
Condor, the bird of the thunder-god, ii. 370
Conduct, standard of, shifted from natural to supernatural basis, iii. 213 sq.
Conductivity, electric, of various kinds of wood, xi. 299 n. 2
Condylea in Arcadia, sacred grove of Artemis at, v. 291
Cone, image of Astarte, v. 14.
Cones as emblems of a goddess, v. 34 sqq., 165, 166;
votive, found in Babylonia, v. 35 n. 5
Confession of the dead, the Egyptian, vi. 13 sq.
—— of sins, i. 266, iii. 114, 191, 195, 211 sq., 214 sqq., viii. 69, ix. 31, 36, 127;
enjoined as a religious duty among the Huichol Indians, i. 124;
originally a magical ceremony, iii. 217;
the Jewish, over the scapegoat, ix. 210
Conflagrations, bonfires supposed to protect against, x. 107, 108, 140, 142, 344;
brands of Midsummer bonfires thought to be a protection against, x. 165, 174, 183, 188, 196;
the Yule log a protection against, x. 248 sq., 250, 255, 256, 258;
Midsummer flowers a protection against, xi. 48;
mountain arnica a protection against, xi. 58;
oak-mistletoe a protection against, xi. 85
Conflict of calendars, solar and lunar, x. 218
Conflicts, sanguinary, as rain-charms, i. 258;
annual, at the New Year, old intention of, ix. 184
Confucianism, its success due to the personal influence of its founder, vi. 159 sq.
Confusion between a man and his totem, i. 107
—— of magic and religion, i. 226 sq.;
in Melanesia, i. 227 sq.;
in ancient India, i. 228 sq.;
in ancient Egypt, i. 230 sq.;
in modern Europe, i. 231 sqq.;
the confusion not primitive, i. 233 sq.
Congo Free State, the Ba-Yaka and Ba-Yanzi of the, i. 348, iii. 186 n. 1;
the Tofoke of the, vii. 119
Congo, the French, the Fans of the, xi. 161
——, kingdom or region of, palm-wine offered to trees in the, ii. 15;
custom observed by pregnant women in the, ii. 58;
the pontiff Chitomé in the, iii. 5, iv. 14;
conjuring spirits at meals in the, iii. 120;
food taboos in the, iii. 137;
precaution as to the spittle of the king of the, iii. 289 sq.;
priest dressed as a woman in, vi. 254 sq.;
images stuck with nails in the, ix. 70 n. 1;
birth-trees in the, xi. 161 sq.;
theory of the external soul in the, xi. 200;
the Bushongo of the, xi. 229 n.;
use of bull-roarers in the, xi. 229 n.
——, the Lower, belief in the reincarnation of the dead among the natives of, i. 103 sq.;
superstition as to resemblance between parent and child among the tribes of, iii. 89;
natives of, their belief as to stepping over a person, [pg 225] iii. 423 sq.;
burial of infants on the, v. 91;
taboos observed by women who plant seeds among the tribes of, vii. 115 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty on the, x. 31;
rites of initiation on the, xi. 251 sqq.
Congo, the Upper, Kibanga on, iv. 34;
the Bangala of, vii. 119;
the Boloki of, xi. 161, 229 n.
——, King of Rain at mouth of the, ii. 2
Congo negroes, their belief in the abstraction of souls by sorcerers, iii. 70
—— tribes, recall of stray souls among the, iii. 44 sq.
Congrégation de Notre Dame at Paris, Childermas at the, ix. 337
Conibos Indians of the Ucayali River, regard thunder as the voice of the dead, ii. 183 n. 2;
their theory of earthquakes, v. 198
Conical stone as divine emblem, v. 165, 166.
See also Cones
Conitz, in West Prussia, saying as to wind in corn at, vii. 288
Conjunction of sun and moon, viii. 15 n. 1;
a time for marriage, iv. 73;
time chosen for ritual observances, viii. 15 n. 1
Conjuring spirits at meals, iii. 120
Connaught, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, iii. 11 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 203;
cave of Cruachan in, x. 226;
palace of the kings of, xi. 127
Connemara, Midsummer fires in, x. 203
Conquering races, great, have advanced civilization, i. 128
Conquerors sometimes leave a nominal kingship to the conquered, ii. 288 sq.
Consecration of the sacrificer of Soma in Vedic India, iii. 159 n.;
of the first-born among the Hebrews, iv. 172;
among the ancient Italians, iv. 187
Conservation of energy, viii. 262, 303
“Consort, the divine,” ii. 131, 135
Constance, the Council of, forbade processions with bears and other animals, viii. 326 n. 3
——, the Lake of, superstition as to St. John's Day on, xi. 26
Constantine destroys temple of Astarte, v. 28;
suppresses sacred prostitution, v. 37;
removes standard cubit from the Serapeum, vi. 216 sq.
Constantinople, accusation of binding the winds by magic at, 325;
protected against flies and gnats, viii. 281;
column at, xi. 157
Constellations observed by the aborigines of Victoria, vii. 308;
observed by savages, vii. 313, 314 sq., 315, 317
Constitution of Athens, Aristotle's, ii. 137 n. 1
Consuls, the first Roman, ii. 290
Consulship at Rome, institution of, ii. 290 sq.
Consummation of marriage prevented by knots and locks, iii. 299 sqq.
Consumption transferred to bird, ix. 51, xi. 187;
ashes of the Midsummer fires a cure for, x. 194 sq.
Consumptive patients passed through holes in stones or rocks, xi. 186 sq.
Consus and Ops, vi. 233 n. 6
Contact with sacred things deemed dangerous, viii. 27 sqq.;
between certain foods in stomach of eater forbidden, viii. 83 sqq., 90
—— or contagion in magic, law of, i. 52, 53
Contagion of death, banishment of the, ix. 37
Contagious magic, i. 52, 53 sq., 174-214, iii. 246, 268, 272;
of teeth, i. 176-182;
of navel-string and afterbirth (placenta), i. 182-201;
of wound and weapon, i. 201 sqq.;
of footprints, i. 207-212;
of other impressions, i. 213 sq.;
of the man-god, iii. 132
—— taboos, i. 117
Contempt of death, iv. 142 sqq.
Contest for the kingship at Whitsuntide, ii. 89 sq.;
for the throne of Egypt, traditions of a, vi. 17 sq.
——, Ancestral, at the Eleusinian Games, vii. 71, 74, 77
Contests for a bride, ii. 305 sqq.;
for possession of the corn-spirit, vii. 74 sq., 180;
between reapers, vii. 74 sq., 136, 140, 141, 142, 144, 152, 153 sq., 155, 156, 164 sq., 219, 253, 273;
between binders of corn, vii. 136, 137, 138, 218 sq., 220, 221, 222, 253, 273;
between threshers, vii. 147 sqq., 218, 219 sq., 221 sq., 223 sq., 253
——, dramatic, between actors representing Summer and Winter, iv. 254 sqq.
Conti, Nicolo, on religious suicide, iv. 54
Continence in magical ceremonies, i. 88;
required during the search for the sacred cactus, i. 124;
at rain-making ceremonies, i. 257, 259;
required of parents of twins, i. 266;
practised before fertility ceremonies, ii. 98;
practised in order to make the crops grow, ii. 104 sqq.;
enjoined on people during the rounds of sacred pontiff, iii. 5;
of priests, iii. 6, 159 n.;
on eve of period of taboo, iii. 11;
observed by those who have handled the dead, iii. 141, 142;
during war, iii. 157, 158 n. 1, 161, 163, 164, 165;
after victory, iii. 166 sqq., 175, 178, 179, 181;
by cannibals, iii. 188;
by fishers and hunters, iii. 191, [pg 226] 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 207;
by workers in salt-pans, iii. 200;
at brewing beer, wine, and poison, iii. 200 sq., 201 sq.;
at baking, iii. 201;
at making coco-nut oil, iii. 201;
at building canoes, iii. 202;
at house-building, iii. 202;
at making or repairing dams, iii. 202;
on trading voyages, iii. 203;
after festivals, iii. 204;
on journeys, iii. 204;
while cattle are at pasture, iii. 204;
by lion-killers and bear-killers, iii. 220, 221;
before handling holy relics, iii. 272;
by tabooed men, iii. 293;
at consulting an oracle, iii. 314;
at sowing and reaping, vii. 109 n. 2;
and fasting observed before ploughing and sowing, viii. 14, 15;
at festival of first-fruits, viii. 75;
combined with abstinence from salt, viii. 75, 93, 93 n.;
after eating of a god, viii. 93;
at bladder festival of the Esquimaux, viii. 248;
during Lent, ix. 348;
as preparation for walking through fire, xi. 3.
See also Chastity
Conty, in France, Lenten fires at, x. 113
Conway, Professor R. S., on the etymology of Virbius, ii. 379 n. 5;
on the etymology of Soranus, xi. 15 n. 1
Conybeare, F. C., on Christians worshipping each other as Christs, i. 407 n. 3;
on the feminine sex of the Holy Ghost, iv. 5 n. 3
Cook, A. B., i. 40 n. 3 and 4, ii. 307 n. 2, v. 49 n. 6;
on the slope of Virbius, i. 4 n. 5;
on circular basement at Nemi, i. 13 n. 5;
on Manius Egerius, i. 23 n.;
on association of horse and wolf, i. 27 n. 5;
on double-headed bust at Nemi, i. 42 n. 1;
on the name Egeria, ii. 172 n. 3;
on parallelism between Rome and Aricia, ii. 173 n. 2;
on personification of Zeus by Greek kings, ii. 177 n. 6;
on the Alban kings, ii. 178 n. 3;
on the Alban sow, ii. 187 n. 4;
on substitution of poplar for oak, ii. 220 n. 3;
on the consulship, ii. 290 n. 3;
on the death of Servius Tullius, ii. 321 n. 1;
on gongs at Dodona, ii. 358 n. 4;
on the oak as the tree of Zeus, ii. 359 n. 3;
on connexion of the King of the Wood with the Silvii, ii. 379 n. 4;
on Plautus, Casina, ii. 379 n. 5;
on association of Diana with the oak, ii. 380 n. 4;
on Jupiter-Janus, Juno-Diana, ii. 383 n. 2;
on derivation of janua from Janus, ii. 384 n. 2;
on Minos and Pasiphae, iv. 71 n. 2;
on octennial tenure of Greek kingship, iv. 78 n. 2;
on festival of Laurel-bearing at Thebes, iv. 79 n. 1, vi. 241 n. 3;
on sacred oak at Delphi, iv. 80;
on substitution of laurel for oak, iv. 81 sq.;
as to a scene on the frieze of the Parthenon, iv. 89 n. 5;
on assimilation of Olympic victors to Zeus, iv. 90;
on name of priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 155 n. 1;
on death of Romulus, vi. 98 n. 2;
on traces of mother-kin in myth and ritual of Hercules, vi. 259 n. 4;
on use of bells and gongs to ban demons in antiquity, ix. 246 n. 2;
on the oak of Errol, xi. 284 n. 1
Cook, Captain James, on the Tahitian belief in spirits or gods, ix. 80 sq.
Cook, menstruous women not allowed to, x. 80, 82, 84, 90
Cooking, taboos as to, iii. 147 sq., 156, 165, 169, 178, 185, 193, 194, 198, 209, 221, 256
Cooks, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 sq., 205
Coomassie, in Ashantee, human sacrifice for earthquake at, v. 201;
the festival of the new yams at, viii. 62 sqq.;
bones of Sir Charles M'Carthy kept as fetishes at, viii. 149
Cooper, Rev. Sydney, on the harvest “neck” in Cornwall, vii. 262 n. 3
Coorgs, the, of Southern India, their ceremonies at reaping and eating the new rice, viii. 55 sq.
Cootchie, a demon of the Dieri, expelled by medicine-men, ix. 110
Copenhagen, the museum at, ii. 352;
bathing on St. John's Eve at, v. 248;
statue of Demeter at, vii. 43 n. 5
Copper, unstamped, early Italian money, i. 23
Copper needle, story of man who could only be killed by a, xi. 314
—— rings as amulets, iii. 315
—— River, Esquimaux of the, iii. 184
Coptic calendar, vi. 6 n. 3
—— church forbade use of iron in exorcism, iii. 235;
forbade the tying of magic knots, iii. 310 n. 5;
enjoins continence during Lent, ix. 348
Cor-mass, procession of wicker giants at Dunkirk, xi. 34
Cora Indians of Mexico, their magical images, i. 55 sq.;
their dance at sowing, ix. 238;
their dramatic dances, ix. 381
Coral rings as amulets, iii. 315
Coran, the, in incantations, i. 64;
verse of, recited as a charm, ix. 62.
See also Koran
Corannas of South Africa, custom as to succession among the, iv. 191 sq.;
their children after an illness passed under an arch, xi. 192
Corc, his purification, ii. 116
Cordia ovalis, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210
Cords, knotted, in magic, iii. 299, 302, [pg 227] 303 sq., 309;
tied tightly round the bodies of girls at puberty, x. 92 n. 1
Corea, offerings to souls of the dead in trees in, ii. 31;
the effigy of the king not struck on coins of, iii. 99;
clipped hair burned in, iii. 283;
custom of swinging in, iv. 284 sq.;
dance of eunuchs in, v. 270 n. 2;
use of effigies to prolong life in, viii. 105;
first-fruits of all crops formerly offered to king of, viii. 122;
bones of tigers prized in, as means of inspiring courage, viii. 145;
cairns to which each passer-by adds a stone in, ix. 11;
offerings at cairns in, ix. 27;
traps for demons in, ix. 61 sq.;
belief in demons in, ix. 99 sq.;
spirit of disease expelled in, ix. 119;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 147;
the tug-of-war in, ix. 177 sq.;
custom observed after childbirth by women in, x. 20;
use of torches to ensure good crops in, x. 340
——, the kings of, held responsible for rain and the crops, i. 355;
formerly confined to their palace, iii. 125;
not to be touched with iron, iii. 226;
their names not to be uttered by their subjects, iii. 376
Coreans, their belief as to absence of soul in sleep, iii. 41;
their ceremony on the fifteenth day of the moon, vi. 143;
their annual ceremonies for the riddance of evils, ix. 202 sq.
Corfu, May songs and trees in, ii. 63 sq.
Corinth, family supposed to control the winds at, i. 324
Corinthians make images of Dionysus out of a pine-tree, vii. 4
Cormac, on Beltane fires, x. 157
Cormac Mac Art, king of Ireland, iv. 39
Corn ground by pregnant women, i. 140;
defiled persons kept from the, ii. 112;
reaped ear of, displayed at mysteries of Eleusis, ii. 138 sq., vii. 38;
sheaf of, dressed up to represent Death, iv. 248;
water thrown on the last corn cut, a rain-charm, v. 237 sq.;
sprouting from the dead body of Osiris, vi. 89;
personified as Demeter, vii. 42;
the various kinds of, called “Demeter's fruits,” vii. 42;
first-fruits of, offered to Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, vii. 53 sqq.;
first bestowed on the Athenians by Demeter, vii. 54;
personified as female, vii. 130;
wreath of, made from last sheaf, vii. 134;
double personification of, as mother and daughter, vii. 207 sqq.;
the first corn cut, customs connected with, vii. 215 sq.;
patches of unreaped, left at harvest, vii. 233;
identification of persons with, vii. 252;
the last left standing, the corn-spirit supposed to be in, vii. 254, 268;
the new, eaten sacramentally, viii. 48 sqq.;
the first cut, used to bake the communion bread, viii. 51;
sanctity of the, viii. 110;
the last cut, corn-spirit in, viii. 328;
charm to make the corn grow tall, x. 18;
thrown on the man who brings the Yule log, x. 260, 262, 264;
blazing besoms flung aloft to make the corn grow high, x. 340
Corn and grapes, symbols of the god of Tarsus, v. 119, 143;
of the god of Ibreez, v. 121;
figured with double-headed axe on Lydian coin, v. 183
—— and poppies as symbols of Demeter, vii. 43 sq.
—— and vine, emblems of the gods of Tarsus and Ibreez, v. 160 sq.
Corn Baby at harvest, vii. 150 sq., 152, 292
—— -bull at threshing, vii. 291
—— -cat in the corn, vii. 280
—— -cow at reaping, vii. 289
—— -dog at harvest, vii. 272
—— -ears, Queen of the, vii. 146;
crown of, vii. 163, 221, 283;
wreath of, as badge of priestly office, ix. 232
—— festivals of the Cora Indians, ix. 381
—— -flowers, the blue, supposed danger of plucking, vii. 272, 282
—— -foal, the corn-spirit as, vii. 294
—— -fool at threshing, vii. 148
—— -goat, vii. 282, 283, 286, 287
—— -god, Adonis as a, v. 230 sqq.;
Attis as a, v. 279;
mourned at midsummer, vi. 34;
Osiris as a, vi. 89 sqq., 96 sqq.
—— -harvest, the first-fruits of the, offered at Lammas, iv. 101 sq.
—— -horse, the corn-spirit as, vii. 294
—— -maiden at harvest, vii. 150, 230;
in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 155 sqq., 164 sqq.
—— -mallet at threshing, vii. 148
—— -man at harvest, vii. 223;
the goal of a women's race, vii. 76 sq.
—— -mother, the, vii. 150;
at Eleusis, ii. 139;
in Northern Europe, vii. 131 sqq.;
makes the crops to grow, vii. 133;
in last sheaf, vii. 133 sqq.;
personated by a woman, vii. 150, 261;
primitive character of the European, vii. 170;
in America, vii. 171 sqq.;
in many lands, vii. 171 sqq.;
in canton of Zurich, vii. 232
—— -pug at threshing, vii. 273
—— queen made out of last sheaf, vii. 146
—— -reapers, songs of the, vii. 214 sqq.
—— -reaping in Egypt, Palestine, and Greece, date of the, i. 32, v. 231 n. 3
—— -sheaf, image of Metsik made of a, ii. 55
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Corn-sieve, severed limbs of Osiris placed on a, vi. 97;
new-born infant placed in, vii. 7;
beaten at ceremony of expulsion of poverty, ix. 145.
See also Winnowing-fan
—— -sow at harvest, vii. 271, 298
—— -spirit called the Old Man or the Old Woman, iv. 253 sq.;
Tammuz or Adonis as a, v. 230 sqq.;
propitiation of the, perhaps fused with a worship of the dead, v. 233 sqq.;
represented as a dead old man, vi. 48, 96;
represented by human victims, vi. 97, 106 sq.;
contests for possession of the, vii. 74 sq., 180;
conceived as old, vii. 136 sqq.;
in last sheaf threshed, vii. 139, 147, 168, viii. 48;
represented in duplicate, vii. 139;
lurks among the corn in the barn till driven out by the threshing-flail, vii. 147, 274 sq., 286;
personal representative of, killed in mimicry, vii. 149 sq., 224 sq.;
conceived as young, vii. 150 sqq.;
as Bride and Bridegroom, vii. 162 sqq.;
as male and female, vii. 164, viii. 9;
as female, both old and young, vii. 164 sqq.;
represented by person who cuts, binds, or threshes the last corn, vii. 167 sq., 220 sqq., 236, 253 sq.;
fertilizing influence of, vii. 168;
its influence on women, vii. 168;
represented by human beings, vii. 168, 204 sqq., viii. 333;
preserved in last sheaf, vii. 171;
conceived by the Iroquois as a woman, vii. 177;
in form of an old man, vii. 206 sq.;
conceived either as immanent in the corn or as external to it, vii. 211;
in first corn cut, vii. 215;
personal representative of, killed in mimicry, vii. 216;
killing the, vii. 216 sqq., 223 sqq.;
represented by living man, vii. 224;
represented by a puppet, vii. 224;
represented by persons wrapt in corn, vii. 225 sq.;
represented by a stranger, vii. 225 sqq., 230 sq.;
conceived as poor and robbed by the reapers, vii. 231 sqq.;
slain in his human representatives, vii. 251 sqq.;
in last standing corn, vii. 254, 268;
the neck of the, vii. 268;
beheaded when last corn is cut, vii. 268;
the tail of the, vii. 268, 272, 300, viii. 10, 43;
as animal, vii. 270 sqq., xi. 43;
as wolf or dog, vii. 271 sqq., viii. 327;
as cock, vii. 276 sqq.;
killed in form of live cock, vii. 277 sq.;
as hare, vii. 279 sq.;
as cat, vii. 280 sq.;
as goat, vii. 281 sqq.;
killed as goat, vii. 284 sq., 287, viii. 327 sq.;
lame, vii. 284;
as bull, cow, or ox, vii. 288 sqq., viii. 6 sqq., 8, 34;
killed in form of bull, vii. 290, 291 sq.;
killed at threshing, vii. 291 sq.;
in form of calf, vii. 292;
as old and young in form of cow and calf, vii. 292;
as horse or mare, vii. 292 sqq.;
as a bird, vii. 295;
as a quail, vii. 295;
as fox, vii. 296 sq.;
as pig (boar, sow), vii. 298 sqq.;
in form of boar, vii. 301, viii. 328;
immanent in the last sheaf, vii. 301;
on the animal embodiments of the, vii. 303 sqq.;
represented by an ox, viii. 9 sqq.;
killed in animal form and eaten sacramentally, viii. 20;
reason for killing the, viii. 138;
as a bear, viii. 325 sqq.;
represented dramatically, viii. 325;
as ram, viii. 328;
kept through the winter in the form of an animal, viii. 328;
represented by a man called the Straw-bear, viii. 329;
human representative of the, dragged over the fresh furrows, viii. 332, 333;
in last standing corn, x. 12;
human representatives of, put to death, xi. 25
Corn-spirits, male and female, a pair of, vii. 286
—— -stalks, harvesters wrapt up in, vii. 220 sqq.
—— -steer at reaping last ears of corn, vii. 289
—— -stuffed effigies of Osiris buried with the dead as a symbol of resurrection, vi. 90 sq., 114
—— -wolf in corn, vii. 272, 273, 275
—— -woman, vii. 230, 233;
at threshing, vii. 149;
among the North American Indians, vii. 177
—— -wreaths as first-fruits, v. 43;
worn by Arval Brethren, v. 44 n.
Cornaby, Rev. W. A., iv. 273;
on reported substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 275 sq.
Corne, near Tusculum, sacred grove of Diana at, ii. 190 n. 3
Cornel branches, men and beasts beaten with, for their health, ix. 266
—— -tree, sacred, in Rome, ii. 10;
in popular remedy, ix. 55;
laziness transferred to a, ix. 55;
wood used to kindle need-fire, x. 286
Corners of fields not to be reaped, vii. 234 sq.
Cornford, F. M., on the Olympic victors as personifying the Sun and Moon, iv. 91 n. 7
Cornish customs on May Day, ii. 52, 60, 67
Cornouaille, in Brittany, weather forecast for the year at, ix. 323 sq.
Cornstalks, festival of the, at Eleusis, vii. 63
Cornutus on the poppy as a symbol of Demeter, vii. 44;
on Persephone as the seed sown, vii. 46 n. 2
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Cornwall, May Day custom as to hawthorn in bloom in, ii. 52;
temporary king in, iv. 153 sq.;
custom of “crying the neck” in, vii. 266 sq.;
Snake Stones in, x. 15, 16 n. 1;
Midsummer fires in, x. 199 sq.;
burnt sacrifices to stay cattle disease in, x. 300 sq.;
holed stone through which people used to creep in, xi. 187
Coro, province of Venezuela, custom of drinking powdered body of dead chief in, viii. 157
Coronation, human sacrifices to prolong a king's life at his, vi. 223
Coronation ceremony in England, challenge to mortal combat at, ii. 322
Corp chre, magical clay image in Scotland, i. 68 sq.
Corporal punishment, voluntary substitutes for, in China, iv. 275 sq.
Corporeal relics of dead kings confer right to throne, iv. 202 sq.
Corpse, priest of Earth forbidden to see a, x. 4
“Corpse-praying priest,” ix. 45
Corpses, knots not allowed about, iii. 310;
devoured by members of Secret Societies, ix. 377
Corpulence regarded as a distinction and beauty, ii. 297
Corpus Christi Day, the Slaying of the Dragon on the Sunday after, ii. 163;
the Pleiades worshipped by the Peruvian Indians on, vii. 310;
processions on, x. 165
Corrèze, district of the Auvergne, superstition as to reflections in, iii. 95
—— and Creuse, departments of, St. John's fires in the, x. 190
Corsica, blood-revenge in, ii. 321;
Midsummer fires in, x. 209
Corsicans divine by the shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 n. 4
Corycian cave, priests of Zeus at the, v. 145;
the god of the, v. 152 sqq.;
described, v. 153 sq.;
saffron at the, v. 187;
name perhaps derived from crocus, v. 187
Corycus in Cilicia, ruins of, v. 153
Cos, king of, sacrifices to Hestia, i. 45;
titular kings in, i. 46 n. 4;
sanctuary of Aesculapius in, ii. 10;
altar of Rainy Zeus in, ii. 360;
traces of mother-kin in, vi. 259;
Sacred Marriage in, vi. 259 n. 4;
bridegroom dressed as woman in, vi. 260;
harvest-home in, vii. 47;
image of Demeter in, vii. 47, 61;
Zeus Polieus in, viii. 5 n. 2;
custom of beating cattle in March in, ix. 266;
effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 130;
Midsummer fires in, x. 212
Cosenza in Calabria, Easter custom at, v. 254
Cosmogonies, primitive, perhaps influenced by human sacrifices, ix. 409 sqq.
Cosquin, E., on the book of Esther, ix. 367 n. 3;
on helpful animals and external souls in folk-tales, xi. 133 n. 1
Cosse de Nau, the Yule log, x. 251
Costa Rica, the Bribri Indians of, iii. 147, x. 86;
Indians of, their treatment of the bones of animals, viii. 259 n. 1;
their customs in fasts, x. 20;
ceremonial uncleanness among the, x. 65 n. 1;
the Guatusos of, xi. 230 n.
Côte d'Or, the Fox at reaping in, vii. 296
Cotton, the Mother of, in the Punjaub, vii. 178;
treatment of first cotton picked, viii. 119
Cotton-bleacher, human god the son of a, i. 376
Cottonwood trees, the shades or spirits of, ii. 12
Cotys, king of Lydia, v. 187
Coudreau, H., on the custom of stinging with ants among the Indians of French Guiana, x. 63 sq.
Coughs transferred to animals, ix. 51, 52
Couit-gil, the spirit of a dead person, among the aborigines of Victoria, iii. 350
Coulommiers, in France, notion as to mistletoe at, xi. 316 n. 1
Counter-charm for witchcraft, “scoring above the breath,” x. 316 n. 2
Couples married within the year obliged to dance by torchlight, x. 115, 339
Coupling ewes and rams, the time for, ii. 328, 328 n. 4
Couppé, Mgr., on the belief in demons in New Britain, ix. 82
Courage acquired by eating the flesh of fierce beasts, viii. 140, 141 sqq.;
seated in gall-bladder, viii. 145 sq.;
acquired by eating the flesh or drinking the blood of brave men, viii. 148 sqq.
Court etiquette, iv. 39 sq.
Courtiers required to imitate their sovereign, iv. 39 sq.
Cousins, male and female, not allowed to mention each other's names, iii. 344
Couteau or Knife Indians, viii. 227 n.
Covenant formed by eating together, iii. 130;
formed by mixing the blood of the covenanting parties, iii. 130;
spittle used in making a, iii. 290
Coventry, Midsummer giants at, xi. 37
Covering up mirrors at a death, iii. 94 sq.
Cow bewitched, iii. 93;
ceremony of rebirth from a golden, iii. 113;
as symbol of the moon, iv. 71 sq.;
image of, in the rites of Osiris, vi. 50, 84;
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Isis represented with the head of a, vi. 50;
thought to be impregnated by moonshine, vi. 130 sq.;
in calf treated like woman in childbed, vii. 33;
corn-spirit as, vii. 288 sqq.
Cow, black, in rain-charm, i. 290
——, white, with red ears, used in expiation, ii. 116
Cow-goddess Shenty, vi. 88
—— -headed women, statuettes of, found at Lycosura, viii. 21 n. 4
Cow's hide, thresher of last corn wrapt in, vii. 291;
custom of beating the, on Hogmanay, viii. 322 sqq.
Cowboy of the king of Unyoro, taboos observed by the, iii. 159 n.
Cows, the afterbirths of, how treated, i. 198 sq.;
charm to increase the milk of, i. 198 sq.;
milked as a rain-charm, i. 284;
washed in dew on Midsummer morning, ii. 127;
pregnant, sacrificed to the Earth Goddess, ii. 229;
milked through a ring as a precaution against witchcraft, iii. 314 sq.;
sacred to Isis, vi. 50;
milked by women, vii. 118;
the Hindoo worship of, viii. 37;
and their milk, superstitions as to, viii. 84 ns. 1 and 2;
bewitched on Walpurgis Night, ix. 162;
as scapegoats, ix. 193, 216;
witches steal milk from, x. 343;
mistletoe given to, xi. 86;
milked through a hole in a branch or a “witch's nest,” xi. 185
Coyohuacan, city of Mexico, paste idol eaten by warriors in, viii. 91
Coyote not to be named by children in winter, iii. 399
Crab in rain-charm, i. 289
Crabs used to extract vicious propensity, ix. 34;
change their skin, ix. 303
Crackers ignited to expel demons, ix. 117, 146 sq.;
burnt to frighten ghosts, xi. 17, 18
Crackling of grain in fire a sign that the dead are eating it, viii. 65
Cracow, customs as to the last sheaf in the district of, vii. 145;
Midsummer fires in the district of, x. 175
Craig, Captain Wolsey, on unlucky marriages in Barar, ii. 57 n. 4
Crane, emblem of longevity, i. 169 n. 1;
dance called the, iv. 75
Cranes, trumpeting of the, signal for ploughing, vii. 45;
their seasons of migration, vii. 45 n. 1
Cranganore in Cochin, shrine of the goddess Bhagavati at, i. 280
Crannogs or lake-dwellings in the British Islands, ii. 352
Crannon, in Thessaly, rain-making by means of a chariot at, i. 309;
coins of, i. 309 n. 6
Crassus, Publicius Licinius, funeral games in his honour, iv. 96
Crawfish in homoeopathic magic, i. 156;
worshipped by Indians of Peru, viii. 250
Crawley, E., on the external soul in the placenta and navel-string, i. 201 n. 1
Cream, ceremony for thickening, x. 262
Cream-bowl wreathed with hawthorn in bloom on May morning, ii. 52
Creation, myths of, iv. 106 sqq.;
Babylonian legend of, iv. 106, 110
—— of the world thought to be annually repeated, v. 284;
legends of, influenced by human sacrifices, ix. 409 sqq.
Creator, the grave of the, iv. 3;
beheaded, ix. 410;
sacrifices himself daily to create the world afresh, ix. 411
Creek Indians of North America, their tradition of the first fire, ii. 256 n. 2;
taboos imposed on lads at initiation among the, iii. 156;
their mortification of themselves in war, iii. 161 sqq.;
the busk or festival of first-fruits among the, viii. 72 sqq.;
their belief in the homoeopathic magic of the flesh of animals, viii. 139;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 88
—— Town, in Guinea, periodic expulsion of demons at, ix. 204 n. 1
Creepers, homoeopathic magic of, i. 145
Creeping through an arch as a cure, ix. 55;
through a tunnel as a remedy for an epidemic, x. 283 sq.;
through cleft trees as cure for various maladies, xi. 170 sqq.;
through narrow openings in order to escape ghostly pursuers, xi. 177 sqq.
Crescent-shaped chest in the rites of Osiris, vi. 85, 130
Crests of the Cilician pirates, v. 149
Cretan festival of Dionysus, vii. 14 sq.;
of Hermes, ix. 350
—— myth of the murder of Dionysus, vii. 13
Crete, milk-stones in, i. 165;
precinct of Dictaean Zeus in, ii. 122;
sacrifices without the use of iron in, iii. 226 sq.;
grave of Zeus in, iv. 3;
sacred trees and pillars in, v. 107 n. 2;
ancient seat of worship of Demeter, vii. 131;
pig not eaten in, viii. 21 n. 1
Creuse and Corrèze, departments of, St. John's fires in the, x. 190
Crevaux, J., on stinging with ants as a ceremony, iii. 105
Crianlarich, in Strath Fillan, the harvest Cailleach at, vii. 166
Cricket, soul in form of, iii. 39 n. 1
Crickets in homoeopathic magic, i. 156
Cries of reapers, vii. 263 sqq.
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Crimea, the Karaits of the, iii. 95;
the Taurians of the, v. 294
Crimes, sticks or stones piled on the scene of, ix. 13 sqq.
Criminals shaved as a mode of purification, iii. 287;
sacrificed, iv. 195, ix. 354, 396 sq., 408;
shorn to make them confess, xi. 158 sq.
Cripple or Lame Goat at harvest in Skye, vii. 284
Crnagora, divination on St. George's morning in, ii. 345
Croatia, souls of witches said to pass into trees in, ii. 32;
Good Friday custom in, ix. 268;
Midsummer fires in, x. 178
Croats of Istria, “Sawing the Old Woman” among the, iv. 242;
their belief as to the activity of witches on Midsummer Eve, xi. 75
Crocodile not to be met or seen by people of the crocodile clan, viii. 28;
supposed to be born as the twin of a human child, viii. 212;
clay image of, as a protection against mice, viii. 279;
a Batta totem, xi. 223
Crocodile-catchers, rules observed by, viii. 209 sq.
—— clan of the Dinka, iv. 31
—— -shaped hero, in Yam, v. 139 n. 1
Crocodiles, Malay magic to catch, i. 110 sq.;
girls sacrificed to, ii. 152;
not called by their proper names, iii. 401, 403, 410, 411, 415 sq.;
ancestral spirits in, viii. 123;
hunted by savages for their flesh, viii. 208 n. 2;
often spared by savages out of respect, viii. 208 sqq.;
ceremonies observed at catching, viii. 209 sqq.;
kinship of men with, viii. 212 sq., 214 sq.;
men sacrificed to, viii. 213;
inspired human medium of, viii. 213;
temple dedicated to, viii. 213;
respected in Africa and Madagascar, viii. 213 sqq.;
sacred at Dix Cove, viii. 287;
souls of the dead in, viii. 289, 290, 291, 295;
fat of, x. 14;
lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 202, 206, 209;
external human souls in, xi. 207, 209
Croesus, king of Lydia, his war with the Persians, ii. 316;
captures Pteria, v. 128;
the burning of, v. 174 sqq., 179, ix. 391;
his burnt offerings to Apollo at Delphi, v. 180 n. 1;
dedicates golden lion at Delphi, v. 184;
his son Atys, v. 286
Crofts, W. C., on Whitsuntide Bride in Norway, ii. 92 n. 4
Cromarty Firth, words tabooed by fishermen of the, iii. 394
Cromer, Martin, on the Lithuanian worship of fire, ii. 366 n. 2
Cromm Cruach, a legendary Irish idol, iv. 183
Cronia, a Greek festival resembling the Saturnalia, ix. 351;
at Olympia, ix. 352 sq.
Cronion, a Greek month, vi. 238, viii. 7, 8 n. 1, ix. 351 n. 2
Cronius, Mount, at Olympia, sacrifice at the spring equinox on, i. 46 n. 4
Cronus, an older god in Greece than Zeus, ii. 323;
buried in Sicily, iv. 4;
his sacrifice of his son, iv. 166, 179;
his treatment of his father and children, iv. 192;
his marriage with his sister Rhea, iv. 194;
identified with the Phoenician El, v. 166;
castrates his father Uranus and is castrated by his son Zeus, v. 283;
name applied to winter, vi. 41;
and the Cronia, ix. 351 sq.;
his sacred hill at Olympia, ix. 352;
and the Golden Age, ix. 353;
and human sacrifice, ix. 353 sq., 397;
cakes offered to, x. 153 n. 3
Crook and scourge or flail, the emblems of Osiris, vi. 108, 153, compare 20
Crooke, Rev. Mr., missionary in Tahuata, i. 387 n. 1
Crooke, W., i. 406 n. 1, iv. 53 n. 1, vii. 234 n. 2, viii. 56 n. 3;
on marriage to trees in India, ii. 57 n. 4;
on local gods served by aboriginal priests in India, ii. 288 n. 1;
on temporary substitutes for the Shah of Persia, iv. 157 n. 5, 159 n. 1;
on sacred dancing-girls, v. 65 n. 1;
on Mohammedan saints, v. 78 n. 2;
on infant burial, v. 93 sq.;
on the custom of the False Bride, vi. 262 n. 2;
on Bhumiya, viii. 118 n.;
as to use of spindle in ritual, viii. 119 n. 5
Crop supposed to be spoilt if a man were to name his father and mother, iii. 341
Crops, dancing and leaping as charms to promote the growth of the, i. 137 sqq., ix. 232, 238 sqq., x. 119, 165, 166, 167 sq., 168, 173, 174, 337;
intercourse of the sexes to promote the growth of the, ii. 98 sqq.;
thought to be blighted by sexual crime, ii. 107 sqq.;
swinging for the good of the, iv. 156 sq., 277, 278, 283;
dependent on serpent-god, v. 67;
games to promote the growth of the, v. 92 sqq.;
tales as a charm to promote the growth of the, v. 102, 103 sq.;
human victims sacrificed for the, v. 290 sq., vii. 236 sqq.;
charms and spells for growth of, vii. 100;
bull-roarers sounded to promote the growth of the, vii. 104, 106, xi. 232;
rotation of, vii. 117;
vermin the enemies of the crops, superstitious devices for destroying, intimidating, or propitiating, [pg 232] viii. 274 sqq.;
supposed to be spoiled by menstruous women, x. 79, 96;
leaping over bonfires to ensure good, x. 107;
Midsummer fires thought to ensure good, x. 188, 336;
torches swung by eunuchs to ensure good, x. 340
Cross, Days of the, in Esthonia, i. 325;
wind of the, i. 325
—— of twisted corn on Candlemas, ii. 95 n.
“—— of the Horse,” first sheaf called the, vii. 294.
See also Crosses
Cross River of Southern Nigeria, Eatin on the, i. 349;
the Indem tribe of the, ii. 32;
sacred chiefs on the, confined to their compounds, iii. 124;
natives of the, their offerings of new yams to the deities, viii. 115;
natives of the, their lives bound up with those of certain animals, xi. 202 sq., 204
Cross-road, trap for demon at, ix. 61;
ague nailed down at, ix. 68 sq.
—— -roads, in magical rites, ii. 340, iii. 59;
burial at, v. 93 n. 1, ix. 10;
things used in purificatory rites deposited at, vii. 9;
sacrifices at, viii. 284;
disease deposited at, ix. 6, 7;
bodies of suicides burnt at, ix. 18;
bodies of parricides to be thrown away at, ix. 24;
fever deposited at, ix. 49;
offerings at, ix. 140;
ceremonies at, ix. 144, 159, 196, x. 24;
beaten as a precaution against witches, ix. 161;
witches at, ix. 162, x. 160 n. 1;
Midsummer fires lighted at, x. 172, 191;
divination at, x. 229;
bewitched things burnt at, x. 322
Crossbills in magic, i. 81 sq.
Crosses cut on stumps of felled trees, ii. 38;
of rowan-tree used to protect cows from witches, ii. 53, ix. 267;
chalked on doors as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 54, 331, 335, 336, 339, ix. 160, 162 sq., 165;
made with tar on cattle to protect them against evil spirits, ii. 342;
painted with tar as charms against ghosts and vampyres, ix. 153 n. 1;
white, made by the King of the Bean, ix. 314, 315 n.;
chalked up on Twelfth Night, ix. 331;
chalked up to protect houses and cattle-stalls against witches, x. 160 n. 1, xi. 74.
See also Cross
Crossing of legs forbidden, iii. 295, 298 sq.
Crow asked to give a new tooth, i. 181;
soul in form of, iii. 42 n.;
head of, eaten to prolong life, viii. 143;
transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299;
as scapegoat, ix. 193.
See also Crows
——, hooded, sacrifice to, x. 152
Crow Song, the Greek, viii. 322 n.
Crowdie, a dish of milk and meal, x. 237
Crown, Ariadne's, ii. 138
—— of corn-ears, vii. 163, 221, 283;
worn by Demeter and Persephone, vii. 43;
or garland of flowers in Midsummer bonfire, x. 184, 185, 188, 192.
See also Flowers
——, imperial, as palladium, iii. 4
—— of laurel, ii. 175, 175 n. 1, iv. 78, 80 sqq.
—— of oak leaves, ii. 175, 176 sq., 184, iv. 80 sqq.
—— of olive at Olympia, iv. 91
—— of Roses, festival of the, x. 195
——, the Whitsuntide, ii. 89 sq.
See also Crowns
Crown-wearer, priest of Hercules at Tarsus, v. 143
Crowning, festival of the, at Delphi, iv. 78 sqq.
Crowning cattle, ii. 75, 339, 341;
as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 126 sq., 339
—— dogs, custom of, i. 14, ii. 125 sq., 127 sq.
Crowns, the royal, in ancient Egypt, i. 364;
magical virtue of royal, i. 364 sq.;
of birch at Whitsuntide, ii. 64;
or wreaths, custom of wearing, ii. 127 n. 2;
as amulets, vi. 242 sq.;
laid aside in mourning, etc., vi. 243 n. 2;
of figs worn at sacrifice to Saturn (Cronus), ix. 253 n. 3;
of maize, ix. 280.
See also Crown
—— of Egypt, the White and the Red, vi. 21 n. 1
Crows in magic, i. 83;
hearts of, eaten by diviners, viii. 143.
See also Crow
Cruachan, the palace of the ancient kings of Connaught, iii. 12;
pagan cemetery at, iv. 101;
the fair of, iv. 101;
in Connaught, the cave of, x. 226;
the herdsman or king of, Argyleshire story of, xi. 127 sqq.
Crucifixion of Christ, ix. 412 sqq.;
crossbills at the, i. 82;
tradition as to the date of, v. 306 sqq.
—— of human victims at Benin, v. 294 n. 3;
gentile, at the spring equinox, v. 307 n.
Crux ansata, the Egyptian symbol of life, ii. 133, vi. 89
“Crying the Mare” at harvest in Hertfordshire, vii. 292 sq.;
in Shropshire, vii. 293
“—— the neck,” at harvest, vii. 264 sqq.
Cryptocerus atratus, F., stinging ants, used in ordeal by the Mauhes, x. 62
Crystals, magic of, i. 176 sq.;
used in rain-making, i. 254, 255, 304, 345, 346;
used in divination, iii. 56;
superstitions as to, iv. 64 n. 6
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Ctesias, on the Sacaea, ix. 402 n. 1
Cubit, the standard, kept in the temple of Serapis, vi. 217
Cublay-Khan, ii. 306
Cuissard, Ch., on Midsummer fires, x. 182 sq.
Cultivation of staple food in the hands of women (Pelew Islands), vi. 206 sq.;
shifting, vii. 99.
See Agriculture
Cumae, the Sibyl at, x. 99
Cumanus, inquisitor, xi. 158
Cumberland, Midsummer fires in, x. 197
Cumberland inlet, the Esquimaux of, iii. 108
Cummin, curses at sowing, i. 281
Cumont, Professor Franz, on the Saturnalia of the Roman soldiers, iv. 310;
on the taurobolium, v. 275 n. 1;
on the Nativity of the Sun, v. 303 n. 3;
as to the parallel between Easter and the rites of Attis, v. 310 n. 1;
on the martyrdom of St. Dasius, ix. 308 sq.;
on a form of abjuration imposed on Jewish converts, ix. 393 n. 1
“Cup of offering,” viii. 184
——, sacred golden, i. 365
Cup-and-ball as a charm to hasten the return of the sun, i. 317
Cupid and Psyche, story of, iv. 131
Cups, special, used by girls at puberty, x. 50, 53
Cura, sacred grove of the Wotyaks at, ii. 145
Curative powers ascribed to persons born feet foremost, x. 295
Curcho, old Prussian god, viii. 133, 174 n.
Cures based on principles of homoeopathic magic, i. 78 sqq.;
effected by recalling the soul, iii. 42 sqq.;
by means of knotted cords and threads, iii. 303 sqq.;
by swinging, iv. 280 sq., 282;
by transferring the malady to things, animals, or persons, ix. 2 sqq.;
by the expulsion of demons, ix. 109 sqq.;
popular, prescribed by Marcellus of Bordeaux, x. 17
Curetes, their war-dance, vii. 13
Curland, Midsummer festival in, iv. 280
Curr, E. M., on the superstition as to personal names among the Australian aborigines, iii. 320 sq.
Curses, public, i. 45;
supposed beneficial effects of, i. 279 sqq.;
uttered by Bouzygai, vii. 108
Cursing at Athens, ritual of, iii. 75
—— an enemy, Arab mode of, iii. 312
—— fishermen and hunters for good luck, i. 280 sq.
—— a mist in Switzerland, x. 280
—— at sowing, i. 281
Curtains to conceal kings, iii. 120 sq.
Curtiss, Professor S. I., on the head of the Babites, i. 402
Curtius, Quintus, on Alexander the Great's cresset, ii. 264 n. 7
Curumbars, a tribe of the Neilgherry Hills, viii. 55
Cuscuses, souls of dead in, viii. 296, 298
Cushing, Frank H., on the killing of sacred turtles among the Zuñi, viii. 175 sqq.
Custom more constant than myth, viii. 40
Customs of the Pelew Islanders, vi. 253 sqq., 266 sqq.
Cut hair and nails, disposal of, iii. 267 sqq.
Cuthar, father of Adonis, v. 13 n. 2
Cuts made in the body as a mode of expelling demons or ghosts, iii. 106 sq.;
in bodies of manslayers, iii. 174, 176, 180;
in bodies of slain, iii. 176.
See also Incisions, Scarification
Cutting or lacerating the body in honour of the dead, iv. 92 sq., 97
—— the hair a purificatory ceremony, iii. 283 sqq.
See also Hair
Cutting weapons planted in ground to repel the demon of smallpox, ix. 122
Cuttings for the dead, v. 268
Cuttle-fish presented to Greek infants, i. 156;
expiation for killing a, iv. 217
Cuzco, the temple of the Sun at, ii. 243, vii. 310;
its scenery, ix. 128 sq.;
ceremony of the new fire in, x. 132
Cyaxares, king of the Medes, v. 133 n., 174
Cybele, her image carted about at Autun, ii. 144;
the image of, v. 35 n. 3;
her cymbals and tambourines, v. 54;
her lions and turreted crown, v. 137;
priests of, called Attis, v. 140;
the Mother of the Gods, v. 263;
her love for Attis, v. 263, 282;
her worship adopted by the Romans, v. 265;
sacrifice of virility to image of, v. 268;
subterranean chambers of, v. 268;
orgiastic rites of, v. 278;
a goddess of fertility, v. 279;
worshipped in Gaul, v. 279;
fasts observed by the worshippers of, v. 280;
a friend of Marsyas, v. 288;
effeminate priests of, vi. 257, 258
—— and Attis, i. 18, 21, 40, 41, v. 280, ix. 386
Cybistra in Cappadocia, v. 120, 122, 124
Cychreus, king of Salamis, bequeaths his kingdom to Telamon, ii. 278 n. 2;
changed at death into a serpent, iv. 87
Cycle, the octennial, based on an attempt to reconcile solar and lunar time, iv. 68 sq., vii. 80 sq.;
apparently the period of certain kings' reigns in ancient Greece, iv. 70 sq.;
octennial festivals connected with the, iv. 87 sqq.;
Olympiads originally based on the, iv. 89 sq., vii. 80;
antiquity of the octennial cycle in Greece, vii. 81 sq.;
the cycle [pg 234] based on religious rather than practical considerations, vii. 82 sq.
Cycle of thirty years (Druidical), xi. 77
Cycles of sixty years (Boeotian, Indian, and Tibetan), xi. 77 n. 1
Cyclopes, slaughter of the, iv. 78 n. 4
Cymbal, drinking out of a, v. 274
Cymbals in religious music, v. 52, 54
—— and tambourines in worship of Cybele, v. 54
Cyme, titular kings at, i. 46 n. 4
Cynaetha, in Arcadia, people of, massacre committed by the, iii. 188;
winter festival of Dionysus at, vii. 16 sq.
Cynopolis, the cemetery of, vi. 90
Cypresses, sacred, in the sanctuary of Aesculapius at Cos, ii. 10;
in the sanctuary of Aesculapius at Titane, v. 81
Cypriote syllabary, v. 49 n. 7
Cyprus, grave of Aphrodite in, iv. 4;
Salamis in, iv. 166 n. 1;
natural riches of, v. 31;
Phoenicians in, v. 31 sq.;
Adonis in, v. 31 sqq.;
sacred prostitution in, v. 36, 50, 59;
Melcarth worshipped in, v. 117;
human sacrifices in, v. 145 sq.;
the bearded Venus in, vi. 259 n. 3;
wild boars annually sacrificed in, viii. 23 n. 3
Cyrene, kingship at, i. 47;
the people of, their sacrifice to Saturn (Cronus), ix. 253 n. 3
Cyril of Alexandria on the festival of Adonis at Alexandria, v. 224 n. 2
Cyrus and Croesus, v. 174 sqq., ix. 391
Cythnos, Greek island, sickly children pushed through a hole in a rock in, xi. 189
Cytisorus, son of Phrixus, iv. 162
Cyzicus, council chamber at, built without iron, iii. 230;
worship of the Placianian Mother at, v. 274 n.;
bull-shaped image of Dionysus at, vii. 16;
vicarious sacrifice at, viii. 95 n. 2
Czech maidens, love charm practised by, on St. George's Eve, ii. 345 sq.
—— saying as to the dying, iii. 33 n. 3
—— villages of Bohemia, the Shrovetide Bear in the, viii. 326;
the Three Kings of Twelfth Night in, ix. 330 sq.
Czechs of Bohemia, the Carrying out of Death among the, iv. 221;
the Corn-mother among the, vii. 132 sq.;
cull simples at Midsummer, xi. 49
Dabelow, in Mecklenburg, precaution against witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 163 n. 1
Daçaratha festival in India, iv. 124
Dacia, hot springs in, v. 213
Dacotas or Sioux, the, their fear of having their pictures taken, iii. 96;
custom observed by manslayers among, iii. 181;
avoidance of wife's mother among, iii. 338;
their belief as to stepping over animals, iii. 423;
their theory of the waning moon, vi. 130;
ate the livers of dogs to make them brave, viii. 145;
their belief in the resurrection of dogs, viii. 256 sq.;
ritual of death and resurrection among, xi. 268 sq.
Dad pillar. See Ded pillar
Daedala, Boeotian festival of the Great, ii. 140 sq., xi. 77 n. 1
Daedalus, the artist, made a dance for Ariadne, iv. 71;
made a hollow cow for Pasiphae, iv. 71
Dag, an early king of the Shilluk, iv. 28
Dageon, fire kept up during king's life in, ii. 261 sq.
Dagobert, King, privilege granted by him to St. Romulus or St. Ouen, ii. 165
Dah River, in Ashantee, royal criminals drowned in, iii. 243;
annual ablutions in the, viii. 63
Dahomans, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 66
Dahomey, human wives of gods in, ii. 149;
royal criminals drowned or strangled in, iii. 243;
indifference to death in, iv. 138;
religious massacres in, iv. 138;
the Amazons of, viii. 149
——, the king of, iii. 374;
human victims drowned by, ii. 158;
not allowed to behold the sea, iii. 9;
not to be seen eating, iii. 118
——, kings of, their true names kept secret, iii. 374;
their “strong names,” iii. 374;
represented partly in human, partly in animal forms, iv. 85;
their human sacrifices, vi. 97 n. 7
——, Porto Novo in, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 205
——, royal family of, iii. 243;
related to leopards, iv. 85
Dainyal, diviner or Sibyl, in the Hindoo Koosh, i. 383
Daira or Mahadev Mohammedans in Mysore, mock rite of circumcision among the, iv. 220
Dairi, the, or Mikado of Japan, iii. 2, 4.
See Mikado
Dairies, sacred, of the Todas, iii. 15 sqq.
Dairy, mistletoe used to make the dairy thrive, xi. 86
Dairyman, sacred, of the Todas, iii. 15 sqq.;
his custom as to the pollution of death, vi. 228;
bound to live apart from his wife, vi. 229
Daizan, king of Atrae, his treacherous daughter, x. 83
Dajang, Miss, a personification of the rice among the Battas, vii. 196
Dalai Lama of Lhasa, regarded as a [pg 235] living god, i. 411 sq.;
his palace, i. 412
Dalarne, the Yule-ram in, viii. 328
Dalecarlia, observances at turning out the cattle to the summer pastures in, ii. 342
Dalhousie Castle, the Edgewell Tree at, xi. 166
Dalisandos in Isauria, inscriptions at, vi. 213 n. 1
Dallet, Ch., on the Corean objection to put the face of the king on coins, iii. 99
Dalmatia, rain-making in, i. 274;
belief as to the souls of trees in, ii. 14;
the Yule log in, x. 263
Dalsland, in Sweden, observances at turning out the cattle to graze in the forest in, ii. 341 sq.
Dalton, Colonel E. T., on mock human sacrifices among the Bhagats, iv. 217 sq.;
on the fear of demons among the Oraons, ix. 92 sq.;
on the annual expulsion of demons among the Hos of North-East India, ix. 136 sq.
Dalyell, J. G., on Beltane, x. 149 n. 1
Dama, exorcism of demons of sickness in the island of, viii. 101 sq.
Damara hunters, ceremony observed by, iii. 220
Damaras or Herero, their fire-customs, ii. 211 sqq.;
their ceremony on return from a journey, iii. 112;
their mode of killing their cattle, iii. 247.
See also Herero
Damascus, Aramean kings of, v. 15
Damasen, a giant, in a Lydian story, slays a serpent, v. 186
Damatrius, a Greek month, vi. 49 n. 1, vii. 46
Damba, island in Lake Victoria Nyanza, crocodiles sacred in, viii. 213
Damia and Auxesia, female powers of fertility at Troezen, i. 39
Dams, continence at making or repairing, iii. 202;
in Egypt, the cutting of the, vi. 31 sq., 37 sq., 39 sq.
Damun, in German New Guinea, ceremony of initiation at, xi. 193
Danae, the story of, her impregnation by Zeus, x. 73 sq.
Danakils or Afars of East Africa, their belief as to the rebirth of souls of magicians, iv. 200
Danaus and the suitors of his daughters, ii. 301
Dance at giving of oracles, i. 379;
executed as tribute by a human god, i. 394;
of milkmaids on May-day, ii. 52;
to propitiate souls of slain foes, iii. 166;
of women on return of warriors, iii. 170;
at driving ghost into grave, iii. 373, 374;
of youths and maidens at Cnossus, iv. 75 sq.;
of eunuchs in Corea, v. 270 n. 2;
of eunuchs at new moon, on the Congo, v. 271 n.;
of hermaphrodites in Pegu, v. 271 n.;
at harvest supper, vii. 134, 135, 145;
of harvesters with or round the last sheaf, vii. 135, 141, 145, 160, 219, 220, 294, 297;
of masked men before sowing, vii. 186;
of Dyaks to secure soul of rice, vii. 188 sq.;
of old women as representatives of the corn-goddess, vii. 205;
Pawnee, before human sacrifice, vii. 238;
round skulls of human victims, vii. 241, 242;
round oak and goat-skin at harvest, vii. 288;
of executioners, viii. 63;
of Zulu king, viii. 66, 68, 69 n. 3;
of Pondo chief at festival of new fruits, viii. 67;
before the king at ceremony of first-fruits, viii. 70 sq.;
of medicine-man, viii. 72;
at harvest festival of Indians of Alabama, viii. 72 n. 2;
of warriors at festival of first-fruits, viii. 74 sq., 79;
of men and women, by torchlight, at festival of first-fruits, viii. 79;
of Dacota warriors, viii. 145;
of Caffre girls after mock funeral of caterpillars, viii. 280;
at the burial of the wren, viii. 319;
on Twelfth Day, viii. 321;
of mummers at Carnival, viii. 333, 334;
of mummer wearing a horse-headed mask, viii. 338;
at cairns, ix. 29;
to ensure a supply of buffaloes, ix. 171;
to cause the grass to grow, ix. 238;
by men carrying a box and axes at Sipi in Northern India, x. 12;
of young women at puberty, xi. 183;
in the grave at initiation, xi. 237;
in honour of the big or grey wolf, xi. 276 n. 2.
See also Dances
“Dance, the Angel,” viii. 328
——, Ariadne's, iv. 77
——, the Green Corn, viii. 76
—— of King, iii. 123;
before the ghosts of his ancestor, vi. 192
——, the rattle-snake, to ensure immunity from snake-bites, i. 358
——, sacred, at the Sed festival, vi. 154
Dancers personate spirits, ix. 375
Dances, for rain, i. 250, 255, 268, 273, 274, 284, 284 n., iii. 154, iv. 32, 62, ix. 236 sq., 238;
for wind, i. 321;
as means of inspiration, i. 408 n. 1;
round sacred trees, ii. 47, 55;
at harvest, ii. 48;
round the May-pole, ii. 65, 67, 69, 74 sq.;
round bonfires on the Eve of St. John (Midsummer Eve), ii. 65;
performed by parents of twins to fertilize gardens, ii. 102;
for a good harvest, ii. 106;
on graves, ii. 183 n. 2;
round an oak, [pg 236] ii. 371;
of manslayers, iii. 168;
of victory, iii. 169, 170, 178, 182;
at sowing, vii. 95, ix. 234 sqq.;
at human sacrifices, vii. 246, 247;
at the reappearance of the Pleiades, vii. 307, 309, 311, 312, 317;
in imitation of totemic animals, viii. 76;
and processions in connexion with offerings of first-fruits, viii. 111, 113, 115, 116, 126, 131, 134;
of men personifying deities, viii. 179;
round dead tigers, viii. 216;
of the Koryak at the slaughter of bears or wolves, viii. 223;
in honour of slain leopards, viii. 228;
to amuse the souls of dead sea-beasts, viii. 248;
of the Karoks for salmon, viii. 255;
to make the crops thrive, viii. 326, 328, 330 sq., ix. 232 sqq., 347;
of mummers on Plough Monday, viii. 329 sqq.;
at cairns, ix. 26, 29;
Etruscan, in time of plague at Rome, ix. 65;
at harvest, ix. 134;
at the expulsion of demons, ix. 139;
of the witches, ix. 162;
with burning besoms on fields to drive away witches, ix. 163;
of women at expulsion of demons, ix. 200;
of the Salii, ix. 232, 233;
of the Tarahumare Indians of Mexico, ix. 236 sqq.;
taught by animals, ix. 237;
solemn Mexican, ix. 279, 285;
of Castilian peasants in May, ix. 280;
to make hemp grow tall, ix. 315;
round bonfires on the Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 317;
in churches at the Festival of Fools, ix. 335, 336;
accompanying the Boy Bishop, ix. 338;
as dramatic performances of myths, ix. 375 sqq.;
bestowed on men by spirits, ix. 375;
in imitation of animals, ix. 376, 377, 381, 382;
of fasting men and women at festival, x. 8 sq.;
of Duk-duk society, x. 11;
of girls at puberty, x. 28, 29, 30, 37, 42, 50, 58, 59;
round bonfires, x. 108, 109, 110, 111, 114, 116, 120, 131, 142, 145, 148, 153 sq., 159, 166, 172, 173, 175, 178, 182, 183, 185, 187, 188, 189, 191, 193, 194, 195, 198, 246, xi. 2, 39;
of novices at initiation, xi. 258, 259.
See also Dance
Dances, masked, of the Kayans at the festival of sowing, vii. 95 sq., 111, 186;
of the Kaua and Kobeua Indians of Brazil, vii. 111 sq.;
of the Chambioa Indians of Brazil, viii. 208 n. 1;
at carnival, viii. 333, 334;
in ritual, of Demeter and Persephone, viii. 339;
of devil-dancers, ix. 38;
to promote fertility, ix. 236;
of savages, ix. 374 sqq.;
supposed to be derived from guardian spirits, ix. 375 sqq.;
to ensure good crops, ix. 382;
bull-roarers used at, xi. 230 n.
Dances, Mexican, viii. 88;
solemn, ix. 280, 284, 286, 287, 288, 289;
of salt-makers, ix. 284
——, religious, of dancing girls in India, v. 61, 65;
of inspired novices on the Slave Coast, v. 68;
at festivals of the dead, vi. 52, 53, 55, 58, 59;
at the new moon, vi. 142
—— of Shrovetide Bear, viii. 325 sq.
—— of women while men are away fighting, i. 131-134;
at bear-festival, viii. 185, 186 sq., 191, 195;
at catching a crocodile, viii. 211;
at slaughter of whales, viii. 232 sq.
Dancing as a fertility charm, i. 137 sqq., ii. 106;
for salmon, viii. 255;
to obtain the favour of the gods, ix. 65, 236;
with the fairies at Hallowe'en, x. 227
—— -girls in India, harlots and wives of the gods, v. 61 sqq.
Dandaki, King, and the ascetic, story of, ix. 41 sq.
Dandelions gathered at Midsummer, xi. 49
Danes, female descent of the kingship among the, ii. 282 sq.
Danger of being overshadowed by certain birds or people, iii. 82 sq.;
supposed, of portraits and photographs, iii. 96 sqq.;
supposed to attend contact with divine or sacred persons, such as chiefs and kings, iii. 132 sqq., 138;
apprehended from women in childbed, iii. 150 sqq.;
thought to attend women at menstruation, x. 94;
apprehended from the sexual relation, xi. 277 sq.
Danger Island, snares set for souls by sorcerers in, iii. 69;
the Pleiades worshipped in, vii. 312
Danh-gbi, python-god, on the Slave Coast, v. 66
Danish magic of footprints, i. 211
—— story of a girl who was forbidden to see the sun, x. 70 sqq.;
of the external soul, xi. 120 sqq.
Danserosse or danseresse, a stone in the wood of St. Antony near Epinal, x. 110
Danube, worship of Grannus on the, x. 112
Danzig, disposal of cut hair at, iii. 276 sq.;
the siege of, iii. 279 n. 4;
the last sheaf at harvest at, vii. 133, 218 sq.;
the immortal lady of, x. 100
Daphne gnidium gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51
Daphnephoria, Greek festival, ii. 63 n. 2.
See Laurel-bearing
Daphnis and the magic knots, in Virgil, iii. 305
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Daphnis, play by Sositheus, vii. 217
Dapper, O., on ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in the Belli-Paaro society, xi. 257 sqq.
Daramulun, a mythical being who instituted and superintends the initiation of lads in Australia, xi. 228, 233, 237;
his voice heard in the sound of the bull-roarer, xi. 228.
See also Thrumalun and Thuremlin
“Darding Knife,” pretence of death and resurrection at initiation to the, xi. 274 sq.
Dardistan, custom of swinging in, iv. 279
Dards, their belief that a storm follows the troubling of a spring, i. 301
Darfur, power of extinguishing fire ascribed to chaste women in, ii. 240 n. 3;
tampering with a man's shadow in, iii. 81;
the sultan of, veils his face, iii. 120;
etiquette at the court of the sultans of, iv. 39;
the people of, believe the liver to be the seat of the soul, viii. 147 sq.
Dargle Vale, Whitsuntide custom at, ii. 103 n. 3
Darien, the Indians of, concealment of personal names among, iii. 325
Darius, King, would not pass through a gate over which was a tomb, iii. 257
“Dark” moon and “light” moon, ix. 140, 141 n. 1
Darling River, funeral custom of tribes on the, i. 90;
custom as to extracted teeth among the tribes of the, i. 176;
the Karamundi nation on the, i. 257;
tributaries of the, iv. 180;
the Ualaroi of the, xi. 233
Darma Rajah, Hindoo god, fire-festival in honour of, xi. 6
Darmesteter, James, on the Fravashis, vi. 67 n. 2;
his theory as to the date of the Gathas, vi. 84 n.
Darowen, in Wales, Midsummer fires at, x. 201
Darwin, Charles, and Empedocles, viii. 306;
on the cooling of the sun, xi. 307 n. 1
Darwin, Sir Francis, on double-headed bust at Nemi, i. 42 n. 1;
on rhamnus (buckthorn), ix. 153 n. 1;
on the Golden Bough, xi. 318, 319 n. 3
Dashers of churns, witches ride on, xi. 73 sq.
Dâsî, dancing-girl in India, v. 63
Dasius, St., martyrdom of, ix. 308 sqq.
See St. Dasius
Dassera festival in Nepaul, iii. 316, ix. 226 n. 1;
swings and kites at the, iv. 277
Dastarkon in Cappadocia, Cataonian Apollo at, v. 147 n. 3
Date of Chinese festival changed, x. 137
Date month when date-palms are artificially fertilized, ii. 25
—— -palm, artificial fertilization of the, ii. 24 sq., ix. 272 sq.
Dates forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, v. 280
Dathi, king of Ireland, and his Druid, x. 228 sq.
Daughter of a god, v. 51
—— of a king, succession to kingdom by marriage with a, ii. 271, 277 sqq.
—— -in-law, her name not to be pronounced, iii. 338;
in ritual, viii. 121 sq.
Daughters of chiefs entrusted with the sacred fire among the Herero, ii. 215, 228
Dauphiné, the Bridegroom of the Month of May in, ii. 93;
the harvest Cat in, vii. 280 sq.
Daura, a Hausa kingdom, sick or infirm kings killed in, iv. 35;
custom of succession to the throne in, iv. 201
David, King, his conquest of Ammon, iii. 273, v. 19;
and the brazen serpent, iv. 86;
in relation to the old kings of Jerusalem, v. 18 sq.;
his taking of a census, v. 24;
as a harper, v. 52, 53, 54
—— and Goliath, v. 19 n. 2
—— and the King of Moab, iii. 273
—— and Saul, v. 21
Davies, J. Ceredig, as to witches in Wales, x. 321 n. 2
Davies, Professor T. Witton, on the date of the Book of Esther, ix. 360 n. 2
Davis, Mr. R. F., on harvest custom in Nottinghamshire, v. 238 n.
Dawkins, R. M., on a carnival custom in Thrace, vii. 25 n. 4, 29 n. 2
Dawn of the Day, prayers of adolescent girls to the, i. 70, x. 50 sq., 53, 98 n. 1
——, the rosy, in mythology, i. 334
Dawson, James, on the difference of language between husbands and wives among the aborigines of Victoria, iii. 347 sq.;
on the constellations observed by the aborigines of Victoria, vii. 308;
on sex totems in Victoria, xi. 216
Day of Blood in rites of Attis, v. 268, 285
—— of Stones, in Behar and Bengal, i. 279
Days of the Cross in Esthonia, i. 325
De Barros, Portuguese historian, on the custom of killing kings at Passier, iv. 51
De Goeje, M. J., on the rite of stone-throwing at Mecca, ix. 24 n. 1
De Groot, J. J. M., on the authority of the Chinese emperors, i. 416 sq.;
on [pg 238] the Chinese belief in tree-spirits, ii. 14;
on the Chinese theory of names, iii. 390
De Mortival, Roger, on the Boy Bishop at Salisbury, ix. 338
D'Orbigny, A., on the division of labour between the sexes among the South American Indians, vii. 120
De Plano Carpini, on the funeral customs of the Mongols, v. 293
De Ricci, S., on the Celtic month Equos, ix. 343 n.
De Smet, J., on the sacrifice of a Sioux girl, vii. 239 n. 1
Dea Dia, a Roman goddess of fertility, vi. 239
Dead, hair offered to the, i. 31;
pretence of new birth at return of supposed dead man, i. 75;
belief of the Central Australian aborigines in the reincarnation of the, i. 96;
homoeopathic magic of the, i. 147 sqq.;
prayers and offerings to the, i. 163;
magic blent with the worship of the, i. 164;
making rain by means of the, i. 284 sqq.;
the illustrious, represented by masked men, ii. 178;
thunder and lightning made by the, ii. 183;
taboos on persons who have handled the, iii. 138 sqq.;
to name the dead a serious crime, iii. 352;
relations of the, change their names from fear of the ghost, iii. 356 sqq.;
incarnate in their namesakes, iii. 365 sqq.;
appear to the living in dreams, iii. 368, 374;
offerings of food to the, iii. 371, 372 n. 5, ix. 154;
deposited on platforms of sticks, iii. 372;
rebirth of the, iv. 70, vii. 85;
human blood offered to the, iv. 92 sq., 104;
incarnate in serpents, v. 82 sqq., xi. 211 sq.;
cuttings for the, v. 268;
Osiris king and judge of the, vi. 13 sq.;
the Egyptian, identified with Osiris, vi. 16;
magical uses made of their bodies, vi. 100 sqq.;
the worship of the, founded on the theory of the soul, vii. 181;
the fear of the, one of the most powerful factors in religious evolution, viii. 36 sq.;
buried in the houses, viii. 115;
bones of the, viii. 153 sq.;
mourners rub themselves with the fat or putrefying juices of the, viii. 162 sq.;
food eaten out of the hand of the, ix. 44 sq.;
worship of the, based on fear, ix. 98;
ghosts of the, periodically expelled, ix. 123 sq.;
annual sacrifices in honour of the, ix. 148 n. 1.
See also Ancestral spirits
——, communion with the, by means of food, viii. 154;
by swallowing their ashes, viii. 156 sqq.
——, festivals of the, iii. 367, 371, v. 220, vi. 51 sqq., x. 223 sq., 225 sq.;
at end of harvest, viii. 110;
bull-roarers sounded at, xi. 230 n.
——, names of, tabooed, iii. 349 sqq.;
not borne by the living, iii. 354
——, reincarnation of the, iii. 365 sqq., v. 82 sqq.;
in Central Australia, i. 196;
in America, v. 91;
in Africa, v. 91 sq.
——, sacrifices to the, i. 163, iii. 15, 88, 226 sq., iv. 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, xi. 178;
on their birthdays, i. 105
——, souls of the, trees animated by, ii. 29 sqq.;
in certain fish, ii. 30;
all malignant, iii. 145;
associated with falling stars, iv. 64 sqq.;
lodged in serpents, iv. 84;
received by their relations once a year, vi. 51 sqq., ix. 150 sqq.;
invoked to make the crops thrive, vii. 104;
supposed to partake of new grain, viii. 64;
supposed to be in caterpillars, viii. 275 sq.;
supposed to be in animals, viii. 285 sqq.;
disembodied, dreaded, ix. 77;
sit round the Midsummer fire, x. 183, 184;
first-fruits offered to, xi. 243.
See also Dead, spirits of the
——, spirits of the, the savage a slave to the, i. 217;
personated by living men, ii. 178, iii. 371, vi. 52, 53, 58;
in wild fig-trees, ii. 317, viii. 113;
thought to be incarnate in their namesakes, iii. 365 sqq.;
supposed to influence the crops, vii. 104;
offerings to, for the sake of the crops, vii. 228;
give rain, viii. 109 sq.;
first-fruits offered to, viii. 109 sq., 111 sqq., 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124 sqq.;
prayers to, viii. 112, 113, 124 sq.;
omnipresent, in the Philippine Islands, ix. 82;
swarm in the air, in Timor, ix. 85;
purification of mourners intended to protect them against, ix. 105 n. 1
See also Ancestral spirits
——, worship of the, ix. 97; perhaps fused with the propitiation of the corn-spirit, v. 233 sqq.;
among the Bantu tribes of Africa, vi. 176 sqq.
Dead body, Flamen Dialis forbidden to touch, iii. 14;
defilement caused by, vii. 74
—— kings and chiefs in Africa turn into lions, leopards, hyaenas, hippopotamuses, etc., iv. 84;
dead kings in Africa worshipped, vi. 160 sqq.
—— kings of the Barotse worshipped, vi. 194 sq.; consulted as oracles, vi. 195
—— kings of Egypt worshipped, i. 418, vi. 160
—— kings of the Shilluk worshipped, iv. 24 sq., vi. 161 sqq.;
their spirits [pg 239] thought to possess sick people, iv. 25 sq.;
incarnate in animals, vi. 162, 163 sq.;
sacrifices offered to, vi. 162, 164, 166 sq.
Dead kings of Sofala, annual obsequies for, iv. 201;
consulted as oracles, iv. 201
—— kings of Uganda consulted as oracles, i. 196, iv. 200 sq., vi. 167, 171, 172;
human sacrifices to, vi. 173
—— man's hand used in magical ceremony, iv. 267 n. 1
—— men believed to beget children, v. 91, 264;
mutilated in order to disable their ghosts, viii. 271 sqq.
—— One, the, name applied to the last sheaf, iv. 254
—— Sea, v. 23
—— Sunday, iv. 239;
generally the fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. 221;
also called Mid-Lent, iv. 222 n. 1
Deane, Mrs. J. H., viii. 319 n. 2
Dearth, chiefs and kings punished for, i. 352 sqq.
Death, pretence of, in magic, i. 84;
infection of, i. 143;
at ebb tide, i. 167 sq.;
puppet called, carried out of village, ii. 73 sq.;
kept off by arrows, iii. 31;
mourners forbidden to sleep in house after a, iii. 37;
custom of covering up mirrors at a, iii. 94 sq.;
from imagination, iii. 135 sqq.;
sharp instruments tabooed after a, iii. 237, 238;
of the king of the Jinn, iv. 8;
preference for a violent, iv. 9 sqq.;
European fear of, iv. 135 sq., 146;
indifference to, displayed by many races, iv. 136 sqq.;
the “carrying out” of, iv. 221, 233 sqq., 246 sqq., ix. 227 sq., 230, 252, x. 119;
conception of, in relation to vegetation, iv. 252, 253 sq.;
in the corn, iv. 254;
represented at the maize harvest by a child covered with maize leaves, iv. 254;
and revival of vegetation, iv. 263 sq.;
in the fire as an apotheosis, v. 179 sq.;
the pollution of, vi. 227 sqq., viii. 85 n. 3;
banishment of the contagion of, ix. 37;
riddles propounded after a, ix. 121 n.;
the funeral of, ix. 205;
savage tales of the origin of, ix. 302 sqq.;
“the burying of,” x. 119;
omens of, xi. 54, 64;
customs observed by mourners after a death in order to escape from the ghost, xi. 174 sqq.;
identified with the sun, xi. 174 n. 1
——, the Angel of, iv. 177 sq.
——, effigy of, feared and abhorred, iv. 239 sq.;
potency of life attributed to, iv. 247 sqq.;
burnt in spring fires, xi. 21 sq.
—— of the Great Pan, iv. 6 sq.
Death, the Lord of, viii. 103
——, natural, of sacred king or priest, supposed fatal consequences of, iii. 6, 7;
regarded as a calamity, iv. 11 sq.
—— and resurrection, of Kostrubonko at Eastertide, iv. 261;
annual, of gods, v. 6, vii. 1, 12 sqq., 15;
of Adonis represented in his rites, v. 224 sq.;
of Attis, v. 272 sq., 306;
of Dionysus, v. 302 n. 4, vii. 14 sq.;
coincidence between the pagan and the Christian festival of the divine, v. 308 sq.;
of Osiris dramatically represented in his rites, vi. 85 sq.;
of Osiris interpreted as the decay and growth of vegetation, vi. 126 sqq.;
drama of, at the Carnival, vii. 27 sq.;
of Eabani, ix. 398 sq.;
the ritual of, in initiatory ceremonies, xi. 225 sqq.;
in Australia, xi. 227 sqq.;
in New Guinea, xi. 239 sqq.;
in Fiji, xi. 243 sqq.;
in Rook, xi. 246;
in New Britain, xi. 246 sq.;
in Ceram, xi. 249 sqq.;
in Africa, xi. 251 sqq.;
in North America, xi. 266 sqq.;
traces of it elsewhere, xi. 276 sq.
Debang monastery at Lhasa, ix. 218
Debden in Essex, May garlands at, ii. 60
Debregeasia velutina, used to kindle fire by friction, xi. 8
Debschwitz or Dobschwitz, near Gera, the custom of “driving out Death” at, iv. 235
Debt of civilization to savagery, iii. 421 sq.
Deccan, the Gaolis of the, vii. 7
Deceiving the spirits of plants and trees, ii. 22 sqq.;
demons and ghosts by substituting effigies for living persons, viii. 94 sqq.
December, the Saturnalia held in, ii. 311 n. 4, ix. 306, 307, 345;
the twenty-fifth of, reckoned the winter solstice and the birthday of the Sun, v. 303 sqq.;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 145;
custom of the heathen of Harran in, ix. 263 sq.;
the last day of, Hogmanay, x. 266;
the twenty-first, St. Thomas's Day, x. 266
Decle, L., on heaps of sticks or stones to which passers-by add, ix. 11 n. 1;
on a custom of the kings of Uganda, x. 4 n. 1
Decline of magic with the growth of religion, i. 374
—— of the civic virtues under the influence of Oriental religions, v. 300 sq.
Ded or tet pillar, the backbone of Osiris, vi. 108 sq.
Dedication of girls to the service of a temple, v. 61 sqq.;
of men and women in Africa, v. 65 sqq.;
of children to gods, v. 79
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Dee, river in Aberdeenshire, holed stone in the, used by childless women, v. 36 n. 4, xi. 187
Deega marriage, ii. 271 n. 1
Deer, magic to attract, i. 109;
rule as to hamstringing, i. 115;
taboos observed during the hunting of, i. 122;
imitation of, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 155 sq.;
descent of Kalamants from a, iv. 126 sq.;
sacrificed instead of human beings, iv. 166 n. 1;
flesh of, eaten to prolong life or to avoid fever, viii. 143;
not eaten by warriors, viii. 144;
treated with respect by American Indians, viii. 240 sqq.;
their bones not given to dogs, viii. 241, 242, 243;
Indian custom of cutting out the sinew of the thighs of, viii. 264 sqq.;
souls of dead in, viii. 286, 293 sq.
—— and the family of Lachlin, superstition concerning, xi. 284
Deer clan among the Moquis, viii. 178
—— -hoofs in homoeopathic magic, i. 155;
used to keep out ghosts, ix. 154 n.
Deffingen, in Swabia, Midsummer bonfires at, x. 166 sq.
Defiled hands, iii. 174.
See Hands
—— persons not allowed to look at corn, ii. 112
Defoe, Daniel, on the Angel of the Plague, v. 24 n. 2
Dehon, P., on witches as cats among the Oraons, xi. 312
Deification of deceased mandarins, i. 415
Deified men, sacrifices of, ix. 409
Deir el Bahari, paintings at, ii. 131, 133
Deiseal, deiseil, deisheal, dessil, according to the course of the sun, viii. 323, 324;
the right-hand turn, in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 150 n. 1, 154
Deities duplicated through dialectical differences in their names, ii. 380 sq.
See Gods
—— of vegetation as animals, viii. 1 sqq.
Deity, savage conception of, different from ours, i. 375 sq.;
communion with, viii. 325
Dejanira wooed by the river Achelous, ii. 161 sq.
Delagoa Bay, the Baronga of, i. 152, 267 sq., vii. 114, viii. 280;
the Thonga of, x. 29
Delaware Indians, their respect for rattlesnakes, viii. 218;
their remedies for sins, ix. 263;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 54
Delbrück, B., on mother-kin among the Aryans, ii. 283 n. 5
Delena, in British New Guinea, evil magic at, i. 213
Delia, festival at Delos, i. 32 n. 2
Delian virgins and youths before marriage offer their hair on the grave of dead maidens, i. 28
Delirium, supposed cause of, iii. 83
Delivery, easy, granted to women by Diana, i. 12;
by trees, ii. 57 sq.;
charms to ensure women an, x. 49, 50 sq., 52;
women creep through a rifted rock to obtain an, xi. 189
Delmenhorst, in Oldenburg, Easter fires at, x. 142
Delos, graves of Hyperborean maidens in, i. 28, 33 sqq.;
Apollo and Artemis at, i. 28, 32-35;
new fire brought from, i. 32, x. 138;
the temple at, not to be entered after drinking wine, iii. 249 n. 2;
Theseus at, iv. 75;
sacred embassy to, vi. 244;
the calendar of, viii. 6 n.;
the Thesmophoria in, viii. 17 n. 2
Delphi, Apollo at, i. 28;
new fire sent from, i. 32 sq.;
gold and silver offerings at, i. 32 n. 1;
the common hearth at, i. 33;
grave of Apollo at, i. 34;
ceremony performed by the king at, i. 45 sq.;
slaughter of the python by Apollo at, iii. 223 n. 1;
tombs of Dionysus and Apollo at, iv. 3 sq., vii. 14;
festival of Crowning at, iv. 78 sqq.;
sacred oak at, iv. 80 sq.;
Apollo and the Dragon at, vi. 240;
perpetual fire at, xi. 91 n. 7;
the picture of Orpheus at, xi. 294;
Stheni, near, xi. 317
Delphic oracle, as to sacrifices to murdered Phocaeans, iv. 95;
on the cause of dearth, iv. 162;
as to first-fruits offered at Eleusis, vii. 55, 60;
on Athens as “the Metropolis of the Corn,” vii. 58
Delphinium Ajacis, the flower of Ajax, v. 314 n. 1
Delubrum, ancient explanation of the word, viii. 186 n.
Demeter, her sacred caverns, v. 88;
sacred vaults of, v. 278;
sorrowing for the descent of the Maiden, vi. 41;
the month of, vi. 41;
mysteries of, at Eleusis, vi. 90;
at the well, vi. 111 n. 6;
identified with Isis, vi. 117;
mother of Dionysus by Zeus, vii. 14, 66;
Homeric Hymn to, vii. 35 sqq., 70;
her search for Persephone, vii. 36, 57;
institutes the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 37;
a personification of the corn, vii. 39, 40 sq.;
etymology of her name, vii. 40 n. 3, 131;
distinguished from the Earth-goddess, vii. 41, 43, 89;
associated with the threshing-floor, vii. 41 sq., 43, 47, 61 sq., 63, 64 sq.;
in art, vii. 43 sq., 67 sq., 88 sq.;
offerings of first-fruits to, vii. 46 sqq.;
surnamed Proerosia, vii. 51;
bestows corn on the Athenians and the Sicilians, vii. 54, 56 sq.;
worshipped [pg 241] in Sicily, vii. 56 sqq.;
sacrifices to her at sowing, vii. 57;
associated with seed-corn, vii. 58, 90;
her epithets, vii. 63 sq.;
her image at Eleusis, vii. 64;
her intrigue with Zeus, vii. 66;
her love-adventure in the furrows of a thrice-ploughed fallow-field, vii. 66, 69;
her ancient worship in Crete, vii. 131;
in relation to the pig, viii. 16 sqq.;
horse-headed, of Phigalia, viii. 21, 338;
said to have eaten the shoulder of Pelops, viii. 263;
rustic prototype of, viii. 334;
her mourning for Persephone, ix. 349;
the torches of, x. 340 n. 1;
serpents in the worship of, xi. 44 n.
Demeter, Black, vii. 263;
of Phigalia, viii. 21
—— the Corn Goddess, vii. 41 sqq., 56 sqq., 63 sqq., 77 sq.
—— the Corn Mother, vii. 53, 58 sq., 75, 131, 184, viii. 334
—— and ears of corn, v. 166
——, Eleusinian, at Ephesus, i. 47
——, Green, vii. 42, 63, 89 n. 2, 263
—— and Iasion, vii. 208
—— and the king's son at Eleusis, v. 180
—— and Persephone, vii. 35 sqq.;
their myth acted in the mysteries of Eleusis, vii. 39, 187 sq.;
resemblance of their artistic types, vii. 67 sq.;
their essential identity, vii. 90;
associated with death and immortality, vii. 90 sq.;
double personification of the corn as, vii. 208 sqq.;
masked dance in rites of, viii. 339;
represented by maskers wearing the heads of animals, viii. 339
—— and Poseidon, v. 280
—— and the snake of Cychreus, iv. 87 n. 5
——, Yellow, vii. 41 sq.
—— and Zeus, viii. 9;
their marriage at Eleusis, ii. 138 sq., vii. 65 sqq.
Demeter's corn, vii. 42
Demetrius Poliorcetes deified at Athens, i. 390 sq.
Demnat, in the Atlas, New Year rites at, x. 217, 218
Democracy to despotism, social revolution from, i. 371
Democritus, on the generation of serpents, viii. 146;
on a cure for scorpion bite, ix. 50 n. 1
Demon supposed to attack girls at puberty, x. 67 sq.;
festival of fire instituted to ban a, xi. 3.
See Demons
Demon-worship, ix. 94, 96.
See also Propitiation
Demonophobia in India, ix. 91
Demons, communion with, by drinking blood, i. 383;
of trees, ii. 33 sq., 35, 42;
abduction of souls by, iii. 58 sqq.;
of disease expelled by pungent spices, pricks, and cuts, iii. 105 sq.;
coco-nut oil a protection against, iii. 201;
infants exposed to the attacks of, iii. 235;
deceived by substitution of effigies for living persons, viii. 96 sq.;
of disease exorcized by masked devil-dancers, ix. 38;
bunged up, ix. 61 sq.; omnipresence of, ix. 72 sqq.;
thought to cause sickness and disease, famine, etc., ix. 92, 94, 95, 100, 102, 103, 109 sqq.;
propitiation of, ix. 93, 94, 96, 100;
religious purification intended to ward off, ix. 104;
public expulsion of, ix. 109 sqq.;
of cholera, ix. 116, 117, 123;
men disguised as, ix. 170 sq., 172, 173, 213, 214, 235;
conjured into images, ix. 171, 172, 173, 203, 204, 205;
decoyed by a pig, ix. 200, 201;
put to flight by clangour of metal, ix. 233;
banned by masks, ix. 246;
exorcized by bells, ix. 246 sq., 251;
attack women at puberty and childbirth, x. 24 n. 2;
expelled at the New Year, x. 134 sq.;
abroad on Midsummer Eve, x. 172;
ashes of holy fires a protection against, xi. 8, 17;
vervain a protection against, xi. 62;
guard treasures, xi. 65.
See also Devil, Devils, and Evil Spirits
Demons or ghosts averse to iron, iii. 232 sqq.;
deceived by dummies, viii. 96 sqq.;
repelled by gun-shots, viii. 99
Denderah or Dendereh, inscriptions at, vi. 11, 86 sqq., 89, 91, 130 n.;
the hall of Osiris at, vi. 110;
sculptures at, vii. 260
Dendit or Dengdit, “Great Rain,” the Supreme Being of the Dinkas, iv. 30, 32, viii. 40 n., 114 n. 2
Déné or Tinneh Indians, their dread and seclusion of menstruous women, x. 91 sqq.;
the Western, tattooing among the, x. 98 n. 1
See also Tinneh
Denham Tracts, on need-fire in Yorkshire, x. 287 sq.
Denmark, precautions against witchcraft on Walpurgis Night in, ii. 54;
Whitsun bride in, ii. 91 sq.;
oaks in the peat-bogs of, ii. 351;
the beechwoods of, ii. 351;
the Bronze Age in, ii. 351, 352;
the Iron Age in, ii. 352;
the Stone Age in, ii. 352;
the last sheaf at harvest in, vii. 139 sq., 231;
the Yule Boar in, vii. 300 sq.;
fires on St. John's Eve in, x. 171;
passing sick children through a hole in the ground in, x. 190, 191;
children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture or rickets in, xi. 170, 172
Dennett, R. E., on prince-consorts in Loanga, ii. 277 n. 1
Deòce, a divine spirit in the kingdom of Kaffa, i. 410
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Departmental kings of nature, ii. 1 sqq.
Deputy, the expedient of dying by, iv. 56, 160
Derbyshire, Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1
Derceto, the fish goddess of Ascalon, v. 34 n. 3, ix. 370 n. 1
Dercylus, on Cadmus and the dragon, iv. 84 n. 4
Derry, the oaks of, ii. 242 sq.;
the church of, ii. 363
Dervishes, inspired, i. 386;
the dancing, i. 408 n. 1;
revered in Syria, v. 77 n. 4;
of Asia Minor, v. 170
Descent of people from animals, viii. 25
—— of Persephone, vii. 46, viii. 17
Deslawen, village of Bohemia, expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 161
Despotic governments, the first advances made to civilization under, i. 218
Dessil. See Deiseal
Deucalion at Hierapolis, v. 162 n. 2
Deuteronomic redactor, v. 26 n. 1
Deuteronomy (iv. 17 sq.), prohibition of images of animals, i. 87 n. 1;
(xxiii. 10, 11), as to custom in time of war, iii. 158 n. 1;
(xii. 31, xviii. 9-12), on the sacrifice of children by fire, iv. 168;
(xv. 19 sq.), on the sanctification of the first-born, iv. 173 n. 1
——, publication of, v. 18 n. 3
Deutsch-Zepling in Transylvania, rule as to sowing in, vi. 133 n. 3
Deux-Sèvres, department of, Midsummer fires in the, x. 191;
fires on All Saints' Day in the, x. 245 sq.
Dêvadâsî or Dêvaratiâl, dancing-girl in Travancore, v. 63 sq.
Devil driven away by paper kites, ix. 4;
seen on Midsummer Eve, x. 208;
his partiality for mustard, x. 208;
brings fern-seed on Christmas night, xi. 289
Devil-dancers, inspired, worshipped as deities in Southern India, i. 382;
their exorcism of demons, iv. 216;
conjure demons of disease into themselves, ix. 38
—— -driving in Chitral, ix. 137
Devil's bit, St. John's wort, xi. 55 n. 2
—— Neck, the, ix. 16, 30
—— shoestring (Tephrosia) in homoeopathic magic, i. 144
Devils, abduction of souls by, iii. 58 sqq.;
personated by men, ix. 235;
ghosts, and hobgoblins abroad on Midsummer Eve, x. 202.
See Demons
Devonshire, cries of reapers in, vii. 264 sqq.;
cure for cough in, ix. 51;
need-fire in, x. 288;
animals burnt alive as a sacrifice in, x. 302;
belief in witchcraft in, x. 302;
crawling under a bramble as a cure for whooping-cough in, xi. 180
Dew, washing in the, on May morning to ensure a fine complexion and guard against witchcraft, ii. 54, 67;
gathered on Midsummer morning protects cattle against witchcraft, ii. 127, xi. 74;
shepherds wash in the, on April 21st, ii. 327;
rolling or washing in the, on St. George's morning, ii. 333, 339;
protects cattle against witchcraft on St. George's morning, ii. 335;
washing or rolling in, on Midsummer Eve or Day, as a remedy for diseases of the skin, v. 246 sq., 248, x. 208, with n. 1;
a daughter of Zeus and the moon, vi. 137
“Dew-treading” in Holland, ii. 104 n. 2
Dharmi or Dharmesh, the Supreme God of the Oraons, ix. 92 sq.
Dhimals, the, of Assam, mourners shaved among, iii. 285
Dhinwar class in North-West India, girls of the, married to a god, ii. 149
Dhurma Rajah, incarnate deity in Bhotan, i. 410
DI, Aryan root meaning “bright,” ii. 381
Dia, Roman goddess, her grove on the Tiber, ii. 122
Diabolical counterfeits, resemblances of paganism to Christianity explained as, v. 302, 309 sq.
Diagora, elective monarchy in, ii. 293
Dialectical differences a cause of the duplication of deities, ii. 382 sq.
Diana, as patroness of cattle, i. 7, ii. 124;
as a torch-bearer, i. 12;
as goddess of childbirth, i. 12, 40, ii. 128, 378;
her festival on the 13th of August, i. 12, 14;
in relation to vines and fruits, i. 15 sq., ii. 128;
as a goddess of fertility, i. 40, 120 sqq., ii. 115, 378;
in relation to animals of the woods, ii. 121, 124, 125 sqq.;
associated with Silvanus, ii. 121;
groves sacred to, ii. 121;
as the moon, ii. 128;
on the Aventine, ii. 128;
Mount Algidus a haunt of, ii. 380;
her temple on Mount Tifata, ii. 380;
a Mother Goddess, v. 45
—— and Dianus, ii. 376 sqq., v. 27, 45
—— (Jana), a double of Juno, ii. 190 sq., 381 sq., xi. 302 n. 2
—— at Nemi, her sanctuary, i. 2 sqq., v. 45;
as huntress, i. 6;
priest of, i. 8 sqq., xi. 315;
as Vesta, i. 13, ii. 380;
mate of the King of the Wood, i. 40, 41, ii. 121, 380;
as a goddess of the oak, ii. 380
——, the Tauric, i. 10 sq.;
her bloody ritual, i. 11, 24
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Diana and Virbius, i. 19 sqq., 40 sq.;
perhaps annually married at Nemi, ii. 129
Diana's day, 13th of August, iii. 253
—— Mirror, the Lake of Nemi, i. 1, xi. 303
Dianus (Janus), a double of Jupiter, ii. 190 sq., 381 sq.
—— and Diana, ii. 376 sqq., v. 27, 45
Diapina, in West Africa, ii. 293
Diascorea, a species of, eaten by the Australian aborigines, vii. 127 n. 2
Diasia, an Athenian festival, cakes shaped like animals sacrificed at the, viii. 95 n. 2
Dice used in divination, ix. 220; played at festivals, ix. 350
Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit quoted, i. 149 n. 5;
on death at ebb-tide, i. 168
Dictynna and Minos, iv. 73
Dido, her magical rites, iii. 312;
flees from Tyre, v. 50;
her traditional death in the fire, v. 114;
worshipped at Carthage, v. 114;
meaning of the name, v. 114 n. 1;
an Avatar of Astarte, v. 177;
how she procured the site of Carthage, vi. 250
Diels, Professor H., on human gods in ancient Greece, i. 390 n. 2
Dieppe, fishermen of, their tabooed words, iii. 396
Dieri, the, tribe of Central Australia, their magic for the multiplication of carpet-snakes and iguanas, i. 90;
their custom as to extracted teeth, i. 177;
rain-making ceremonies of, i. 255 sqq., xi. 232;
principal headman of, a medicine-man, i. 336;
believe certain trees to be their fathers transformed, ii. 29;
use of bull-roarers among, vii. 106, xi. 229 sq., 232;
drank blood of slain men to make themselves brave, viii. 151;
their expulsion of a demon, ix. 110;
their dread of women at menstruation, x. 77
Diet regulated on the principle of homoeopathic magic, i. 135;
of kings and priests regulated, iii. 291 sqq.
Dieterich, A., on rebirth, iii. 369 n. 3
Difference of language between husbands and wives, iii. 347 sq.;
between men and women, iii. 348 sq.
Digger Indians of California, ashes of dead smeared on head of mourner among the, viii. 164
Digging the fields, homoeopathic magic at, i. 139
Digging-sticks used by women, vii. 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128
Dijon, ox killed at harvest near, vii. 290;
Lenten fires at, x. 114
Diminution of shadow regarded with apprehension, iii. 86 sq.
Dinant, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70
Dingelstedt, in district of Erfurt, harvest custom at, vii. 221
Dingle, church of St. Brandon near, xi. 190
Dinkas or Denkas, the, of the White Nile, iv. 28 sqq.;
magical powers of chiefs among, i. 347;
worship a supreme being called Dengdit, iv. 30;
totemism of, iv. 30 sq.;
their rain-makers, iv. 31 sqq.;
their rain-makers not allowed to die a natural death, iv. 33;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82 sq.;
pour milk on graves, v. 87;
their reverence for their cattle, viii. 37 sqq.;
their offering of first-fruits, viii. 114;
their use of cows as scapegoats, ix. 193
Dinkelsbühl in Bavaria, the Corn-mother at, vii. 133
Dinnschenchas or Dinnsenchus, early Irish document, iv. 183 n. 4
Dio Chrysostom, as to the soul on the lips, iii. 33;
on fame as a shadow, iii. 86 sq.;
on the people of Tarsus, v. 118;
on pyre at Tarsus, v. 126 n. 1;
on the Sacaea, ix. 368, 402 n. 1;
on Sardanapalus, ix. 390 n. 1;
his account of the treatment of the mock king of the Sacaea, ix. 414
Diocles, prince of Eleusis, vii. 37
Diodorus Siculus, on divine honours accorded to Hippolytus, i. 25 n. 1;
on adoption of Hercules by Hera, i. 74;
on the worship of Egyptian kings, i. 418 n. 2;
on Amulius Silvius, king of Alba, ii. 180;
on the origin of fire, ii. 256 n. 1;
on Peleus in Phthia, ii. 278 n. 4;
on the rules of life observed by Egyptian kings, iii. 12 sq.;
on the worship of Poseidon in Peloponnese, v. 203;
on the burial of Osiris, vi. 10 sq.;
on the rise of the Nile, vi. 31 n. 1;
on the date of harvest in Egypt, vi. 32 n. 2;
on Osiris as a sun-god, vi. 120;
on the predominance of women over men in ancient Egypt, vi. 214;
on worship of Demeter and Persephone, vii. 56 sqq.;
on the laments of the Egyptian reapers, vii. 215;
on the human sacrifices of the Celts, xi. 32 Diomede, at Troezen, i. 27;
white horses sacrificed to, i. 27;
sacred grove of, i. 27;
marries the daughter of the king of Daunia, ii. 278 sq.;
human sacrifices to, iv. 166 n. 1, v. 145
Dionaea, Venus' fly-trap, homoeopathic magic of, i. 144
Dione, wife of Zeus at Dodona, ii. 189;
the old consort of Zeus, ii. 381, 382
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Dionysiac festival of the opening of the wine jars, ix. 351 sq.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the simplicity of Roman worship, ii. 202 sq.;
on the Etruscans, ii. 287 n. 4;
on Tarquin the Proud, ii. 291 n. 2
Dionysus, vii. 1 sqq.;
mated with Artemis, i. 36;
advises the Edonians to put their king Lycurgus to death, i. 366;
the Lenaean festival of, ii. 44;
marriage of, to the Queen of Athens, ii. 136 sq., vii. 30 sq.;
in the Marshes, sanctuary of, ii. 137;
as a bull, ii. 137 n. 1, v. 123, vii. 16 sq., 31, viii. 3 sqq.;
and Ariadne, ii. 138;
his face or body sometimes painted red, ii. 175;
identified with ivy, ii. 251;
in the city, festival of, iii. 316;
the tomb of, at Delphi, iv. 3;
human sacrifice consummated by a priest of, iv. 163;
boys sacrificed to, iv. 166 n. 1;
with vine and plough-man on a coin, v. 166;
ancient interpretation of, v. 194, 213;
death, resurrection, and ascension of, v. 302 n. 4, vii. 12 sqq., 32;
torn in pieces, vi. 98, vii. 13, 14;
and Lycurgus, vi. 98, vii. 24;
and Pentheus, vi. 98, vii. 24;
human sacrifices to, in Chios, vi. 98 sq., vii. 24;
his coarse symbolism, vi. 113;
identified with Osiris, vi. 113, vii. 3;
similarity of the rites of, to those of Osiris, vi. 113, 127;
race of boys at vintage from his sanctuary, vi. 238;
men dressed as women in the rites of, vi. 258;
the effeminate, vi. 259;
god of the vine, vii. 2 sq.;
god of trees, vii. 3 sq.;
the Flowery, vii. 4; a god of agriculture and corn, vii. 5, 29;
and the winnowing-fan, vii. 5 sqq., 27, 29;
as Zagreus, vii. 12;
horned, vii. 12, 16;
son of Zeus by Persephone, Demeter, or Semele, vii. 12, 14;
the sacred heart of, vii. 13, 14, 15;
ritual of, vii. 14 sq.;
his grave at Delphi or at Thebes, vii. 14;
torn to pieces at Thebes, vii. 14, 25;
his descent into Hades, vii. 15;
as god of the dead, vii. 16;
live animals rent in rites of, vii. 17, 18, viii. 16;
as a goat, vii. 17 sq., viii. 1 sqq.;
human sacrifices in his rites, vii. 24;
his death and resurrection perhaps acted at the Anthesteria, vii. 32;
a barbarous deity, vii. 34;
son of Zeus and Demeter, vii. 66;
and the bull-roarer, vii. 110 n. 4;
his relations to Pan, Satyrs, and Silenuses, viii. 1 sqq.;
his resurrection perhaps enacted in his rites, viii. 16;
the Foxy, viii. 282;
and the drama, ix. 384
Dioscorides on mistletoe, xi. 318 n. 1
Diospolis Parva (How), monument of Osiris at, vi. 110
Diphilus, king of Cyprus, v. 146
Dipping for apples at Hallowe'en, x. 237, 239, 241, 242, 245
Dirk to be called by another name on meeting a goblin, iii. 396
Disappearance of early kings, iv. 28, 31
Disc, winged, as divine emblem, v. 132
Discoloration, annual, of the river Adonis, v. 30, 225
Discovery of fire, ii. 255 sqq.;
of the body of Osiris, vi. 85 sq.
Discs, burning, thrown into the air, x. 116 sq., 119, 143, 165, 166, 168 sq., 172, 328, 334;
burning, perhaps directed at witches, x. 345
Disease, demons of, expelled by pungent spices, pricks, and cuts, iii. 105 sq.;
transferred to other people, ix. 6 sq.;
transferred to tree, ix. 7;
transferred to effigies, ix. 7;
demons of, exorcized by devil-dancers, ix. 38;
caused by ghosts, ix. 85;
annual expulsion of, ix. 139;
sent away in little ships, ix. 185 sqq.;
walking through fire as a remedy for, xi. 7;
conceived as something physical that can be stripped off the patient and left behind, xi. 172.
See also Cures, Demons, Sickness
—— of language the supposed source of myths, vi. 42
Disease-makers in Tana, i. 341 sq.
Diseases thought to be caused by demons, ix. 92, 94, 95, 100, 102, 103
——- of cattle ascribed to witchcraft, x. 343
Disenchanting strangers, various modes of, iii. 102 sqq.
Disguises to avert the evil eye, vi. 262;
to deceive dangerous spirits, vi. 262 sq., 263 sq.
Dish, external soul of warlock in, xi. 141
Dishes, effect of eating out of sacred, iii. 4;
of sacred persons tabooed, iii. 131;
special, used by girls at puberty, x. 47, 49.
See Vessels
Disintegration, atomic, viii. 305
Dislike of people to have children like themselves, iii. 88 sq., iv. 287 (288 in Second Impression)
Dislocation, Roman cure for, xi. 177
Dismemberment of Osiris, suggested explanations of, vi. 97, vii. 262;
of Halfdan the Black, king of Norway, vi. 100, 102;
of Segera, a magician of Kiwai, vi. 101;
of kings and magicians, and use of their severed limbs to fertilize the country, vi. 101 sq.;
of the bodies of the dead to prevent their souls from becoming dangerous ghosts, vi. 188
Displacement of heathen festivals by two days in the Christian calendar, i. 14
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Disposal of cut hair and nails, iii. 267 sqq.
Ditino, deified dead kings of the Barotse, vi. 194
Dittenberger, W., on the Eleusinian games, vii. 77 n. 4
Dittmar, C. von, on the fear of demons among the Koryaks, ix. 100 sq.
Diurnal tenure of the kingship, iv. 118 sq.
Dius, a Macedonian month, vii. 46 n. 2
Divination from spittle, i. 99;
by casting stones, inspection of entrails, and interpretation of dreams, i. 344;
regalia employed as instruments of, i. 363;
various modes of, on May morning to discover who should be married first, ii. 67 sq.;
by flowers, ii. 345;
by wells, ii. 345;
as to love on St. George's Day among the Slavs, ii. 345 sq.;
by crystals, iii. 56;
by shoulder-blades, iii. 229, viii. 234;
by knotted threads, iii. 304 n. 5;
to determine the ancestor who is reborn in a child, iii. 368 sq.;
by tree and water at Delphi, iv. 80;
at Midsummer, v. 252 sq., x. 208 sq.;
magic dwindles into, vii. 110 n., x. 336;
by crocodile-hunter, viii. 210;
on Christmas Day, ix. 316 n. 1;
on Twelfth Night, ix. 316;
on St. John's Night (Midsummer Eve), x. 173, xi. 46 n. 3, 50, 52 sqq., 61, 64, 67 sqq.;
at Hallowe'en, x. 225, 228 sqq.;
by stones at Hallowe'en fires, x. 230 sq., 239, 240;
by stolen kail, x. 234 sq., 241;
by clue of yarn, x. 235, 240, 241, 243;
by hemp seed, x. 235, 241, 245;
by winnowing-basket, x. 236;
by thrown shoe, x. 236;
by wet shirt, x. 236, 241;
by white of eggs, x. 236 sq., 238;
by apples in water, x. 237;
by a ring, x. 237;
by names on chimney-piece, x. 237;
by three plates or basins, x. 237 sq., 240, 244;
by nuts in fire, x. 237, 239, 241, 242, 245;
by salt cake, or salt herring, x. 238 sq.;
by a sliced apple, x. 238;
by eavesdropping, x. 238, 243, 244;
by knife, x. 241; by briar-thorn, x. 242;
by melted lead, x. 242;
by cabbages, x. 242;
by cake at Hallowe'en, x. 242, 243; by ashes, x. 243, 244, 245;
by salt, x. 244;
by raking a rick, x. 247.
See also Divining-rod
Divine animal, killing the, viii. 169 sqq.
—— animals as scapegoats, ix. 216 sq., 226 sq.
“—— consort, the,” ii. 131
—— king, the killing of the, iv. 9 sqq.
—— kings of the Shilluk, iv. 17 sqq.
—— men as scapegoats, ix. 217 sqq., 226 sq.
Divine personages not allowed to touch the ground with their feet, x. 2 sqq.;
not allowed to see the sun, x. 18 sqq.;
suspended for safety between heaven and earth, x. 98 sq.
—— spirit incarnate in Shilluk kings, iv. 21, 26 sq.
Diviners, ancient, their rules of diet, viii. 143
Divining bones, vi. 180, 181
—— -rod cut on Midsummer Eve, xi. 67 sqq.;
made of hazel, xi. 67 sq., 291 n. 3;
made of mistletoe in Sweden, xi. 69, 291;
made of four sorts of wood, xi. 69;
made of willow, xi. 69 n.;
made out of a parasitic rowan, xi. 281 sq.
Divinities, human, bound by many rules, iii. 419 sq.;
of the volcano Kirauea, v. 217
Divinity of the Brahmans, i. 403 sq.
—— of chief supposed to reside in his eyes, viii. 153
—— claimed by Fijian chiefs, i. 389
—— of kings, i. 48 sqq., 372;
in the Pacific, i. 386 sqq.;
in Africa, i. 392 sq., 396;
among the Hovas, i. 397;
among the Sakkalava, i. 397 sq.;
among the Malays, i. 398;
in India, i. 403;
in great historical empires, i. 415 sqq.;
growth of the conception of the, ii. 376 sqq.;
among the Semites, v. 15 sqq.;
among the Lydians, v. 182 sqq.
Divisibility of life, doctrine of the, xi. 221
Division of labour in relation to social progress, i. 420;
between the sexes, vii. 129
Divorce of spiritual from temporal power, iii. 17 sqq.
Diwali, Hindoo feast of lamps, ii. 160, ix. 145
Dix Cove, in Guinea, crocodiles sacred at, viii. 287
Dixmude, in Belgium, feast of All Souls at, vi. 70
Dixon, Roland B., on the importance of shamans among the Maidu, i. 357
Dixon, Dr. W. E., on hemlock as an anaphrodisiac, ii. 139 n. 1
Djakuns of the Malay Peninsula, their mode of making fire, ii. 236
Djuldjul, girl dressed in leaves and flowers at rain-making ceremony, i. 274
Dobischwald, in Silesia, custom at threshing at, vii. 148;
need-fire at, x. 278
Dobrizhoffer, Father M., on the reluctance of the Abipones to utter their own names, iii. 328;
on changes of language among the Abipones, iii. 360;
on the [pg 246] respect of the Abipones for the Pleiades, v. 258 n. 2
Doctrine of lunar sympathy, vi. 140 sqq.
Dôd, “beloved,” v. 19 n. 2, 20 n. 2
Dodge, Colonel R. I., on exorcism of strangers among North American Indians, iii. 105;
on the death of the Great Spirit, iv. 3
Dodola, girl clad in grass and herbs at rain-making ceremony, i. 273
Dodona, oracular spring at, ii. 172;
Zeus at, ii. 177;
Zeus and Dione at, ii. 189;
bronze gongs at, ii. 358 sq.;
Zeus and his oracular oak at, ii. 358, xi. 89 sq.
Dodwell, E., on image of Demeter at Eleusis, vii. 64
Dog, sacrificed to war-god, i. 173;
used in rain-making, i. 302;
used in stopping rain, i. 303;
sacrificed to tree-spirit, ii. 36;
sacrificed on roof of new house, ii. 39;
prohibition to touch or name, iii. 13;
killed instead of king, iv. 17;
corn-spirit as, vii. 271 sqq.;
of the harvest, vii. 273;
feast on flesh of, viii. 256;
Iroquois sacrifice of white, viii. 258 n. 1, ix. 127, 209;
transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299;
sickness transferred to, ix. 33;
cough transferred to, ix. 51;
fever transferred to, ix. 51;
sacrifice of, in time of smallpox, ix. 121;
as scapegoat, ix. 209 sq.;
not allowed to enter priest's house, x. 4;
beaten to ensure woman's fertility, x. 69;
charm against the bite of a mad, xi. 56;
a Batta totem, xi. 223.
See also Dogs
——, black, sacrificed for rain, i. 291;
used to stop rain, i. 303
——, white, sacrifice of, viii. 258 n. 2, ix. 127, 209
Dog-demon of epilepsy, ix. 69 n.
—— -eating Spirit, vii. 21
Dog Star, red-haired puppies sacrificed to the, vii. 261;
supposed to blight the crops, vii. 261;
supposed by the ancients to cause the heat of summer, x. 332.
See Sirius
Dog's ghost feared by women, viii. 232 n. 1
Dogrib Indians will not taste blood, iii. 241;
do not pare nails of female children, iii. 263
Dogs crowned, i. 14, ii. 125 sq., 127 sq.;
sacrificed at the marriage of Sun and Earth, ii. 99;
witches turn into, ii. 334;
sacrificed and hung on trees of sacred grove, ii. 365;
bones of game kept from, iii. 206;
unclean, iii. 206;
tigers called, iii. 402, devoured in religious rites, vii. 19, 20, 21, 22;
their flesh or liver eaten to acquire bravery, viii. 145;
sacrificed at bear-feasts, viii. 196, 202;
not allowed to gnaw bones of slain animals, viii. 225, 238 sqq., 243, 259;
bones of deer not given to, viii. 241, 242, 243;
the resurrection of, viii. 256 sq.;
pairing, fertilizing virtue of stick which has been used to separate, ix. 264 sq.;
imitated by dancers, ix. 382.
See also Dog, Hounds
Dolac, need-fire at, x. 286
Doliche in Commagene, Jupiter Dolichenus at, v. 136
Doll made of last corn at harvest, vii. 140, 151, 153, 155, 157, 162.
See also Dolls
Dollar-bird associated with rain, i. 287 sq.
Dolls or puppets employed for the restoration of souls to their bodies, iii. 53 sqq., 62 sq.
See also Doll, Puppets
Dolmen, sick children passed through a hole in a, xi, 188
Domalde, a Swedish king, sacrificed for good seasons, i. 366 sq.
Domaszewski, Professor A., on the rites of Attis at Rome, v. 266 n. 2
Dominica rosae, the fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. 222 n. 1
Domitian and the oak crown, ii. 177 n.
Dommartin, Lenten fires at, x. 109
Domovoy, Russian house-spirit, ii. 233 n. 1
Doms of India, their primitive beliefs, ii. 288 n. 1
Don Quixote, as to edible acorns, ii. 356
“Donald of the Ear,” magic effigy of, i. 69
Donar or Thunar, the German thunder god, the oak of, ii. 364
Door, the words for, in Aryan languages, ii. 384;
of house protected against fiends, viii. 96;
certain fish and portions of animals not to be brought into house through the, viii. 189 sq., 193, 196, 242 sq., 256;
separate, for girls at puberty, x. 43, 44.
See also Doors
Doorie, hill of, at Burghead, x. 267
Doorposts, blood of sacrificial victims smeared on, iii. 15, iv. 97, 175, 176 n. 1
Doors, Janus as a god of, ii. 383 sq.;
opened to facilitate childbirth, iii. 296, 297;
opened to facilitate death, iii. 309;
separate, used by menstruous women, x. 84
Doorway, to stand or loiter in the, forbidden under certain circumstances, i. 114;
creeping through narrow opening in, as a cure, xi. 181 sq.
Dorasques of Panama, their theory of earthquakes, v. 201
Dordrecht, “dew-treading” at Whitsuntide at, ii. 104 n. 2
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Doreh in Dutch New Guinea, ghosts of the murdered driven away at, iii. 170;
the tug-of-war at, ix. 178
Doreh Bay in Dutch New Guinea, i. 125, iv. 288
Dorians, their superstition as to meteors, iv. 59
Dormice, charm against, viii. 281
Dorpat, rain-making at, i. 248
Dos Santos, J., on the divinity of African kings, i. 392;
on the method adopted by a Caffre king to prolong his life, vi. 222 sq.
Dosadhs, an Indian caste, the fire-walk among the, xi. 5
Dosuma, king of, not allowed to touch the ground, x. 3
Douay, procession of the giants at, xi. 33 sq.
Double, the afterbirth or placenta, regarded as a person's double, vi. 169 sq.
Double-axe, Midsummer king of the, x. 194
—— -headed axe, symbol of Sandan, v. 127;
carried by Lydian kings, v. 182;
a palladium of the Heraclid sovereignty, v. 182;
figured on coins, v. 183 n.
—— -headed bust at Nemi, i. 41 sq.
—— -headed eagle, Hittite emblem, v. 133 n.
—— -headed fetish among the Bush negroes of Surinam, ii. 385
—— -headed Janus, explanation of, ii. 384 sq.
—— -personification of the corn as male and female, vii. 163 sq.;
of the corn in female form as old and young, vii. 164 sqq., 209 sq.;
of the corn as mother and daughter, vii. 207 sqq.
Doubles, spiritual, of men and animals, in ancient Egypt, iii. 28 sq.
Doubs, Montagne de, bonfires on the Eve of Twelfth Night in the, ix. 316
Dough image of god eaten sacramentally, viii. 86 sqq., 90 sq.
—— images of animals sacrificed instead of the animals, viii. 95 n. 2
—— puppets as substitutes for live human beings, viii. 101 sq.
Douglas, Alexander, victim of witchcraft, ix. 39
Dourgne, in Southern France, crawling through holed stones near, xi. 187 sq.
Doutté, Edmond, on the invocation of jinn by their names, iii. 390;
on sacred prostitution in Morocco, v. 39 n. 3;
on the blessed influence (baraka), of Mohammedan saints, ix. 22
Dove, the ceremony of the fiery, at Easter in Florence, x. 126;
a Batta totem, xi. 223
Doves burnt in honour of Adonis, v. 126 n. 2, 147;
external soul of magicians in, xi. 104;
Aeneas led by doves to the Golden Bough, xi. 285, 316 n. 1
Doves, sacred, of Aphrodite, v. 33;
of Astarte, v. 147, ix. 370 n. 1
Down, County, “Winning the Churn” at harvest in, vii. 154 sq.
Dowries earned by prostitution, v. 38, 59
Dracaena terminalis, in magic, i. 159;
its leaves used to beat the sick, ix. 265
Dragon, rain-god represented as, i. 297, 298;
or serpent of water, ii. 155 sqq.;
the Slaying of the, at Furth, ii. 163 sq.;
effigy of, carried at Ragusa on St. George's Day, ii. 164 n. 1;
drama of the slaughter of the, iv. 78 sqq., 89;
myth of the slaughter of the, iv. 105 sqq.;
slain by Cadmus at Thebes, vi. 241;
at Midsummer, effigy of, xi. 37;
external soul of a queen in a, xi. 105;
of the water-mill, Servian story of the, xi. iii sqq.
—— and Apollo, at Delphi, iv. 78 sqq., vi. 240
—— of Rouen, destroyed by St. Romain, ii. 164 sqq., 167
—— of Tarascon, carried in procession on Whitsunday, ii. 170 n. 1
—— and Tiger mountains, palace of the head of Taoism on the, i. 413 sq.
Dragon-crest of kings, iv. 105
—— divinity of stream prayed to for rain, i. 291 sq.
—— stone thought to confer sharpness of vision, i. 165 n. 6
Dragon's blood, a protection against witchcraft, ii. 164;
knowledge of the language of birds learnt through tasting, viii. 146
Dragons, artificial, in rain-making, i. 297;
or serpents personated by kings, iv. 82;
driven away by smoke of Midsummer bonfires, x. 161;
St. Peter's fires lighted to drive away, x. 195
—— of water, folk-tales of virgins sacrificed to, ii. 155
Draguignan, in the department of Var, Midsummer fires at, x. 193
Drama, sacred, of the death and resurrection of Osiris, vi. 85 sq.;
modern Thracian, at the Carnival, vii. 25 sqq.;
magical, vii. 187 sq.
Dramas, magical, to promote vegetation, ii. 120;
for the regulation of the seasons, v. 4 sq.;
to ensure good crops, vii. 187 sq.
——, sacred, as magical rites, ix. 373 sqq.
Dramatic contests of actors representing Summer and Winter, iv. 254 sqq.
—— exhibitions sometimes originate in magical rites, ii. 142
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Dramatic performance instituted in time of plague to appease the god, ix. 65
—— representation of the resurrection of Osiris in his rites, vi. 85;
of the corn-spirit, viii. 325
—— rites practised with magical intention, vii. 1
—— weddings of gods and goddesses, ii. 121
Draupadi or Krishna, the wooing of the princess, ii. 306;
the heroine of the Mahabharata, xi. 7
Dravidian tribes of Northern India forbid a menstruous woman to touch house-thatch, i. 179 n. 1;
their cure for epilepsy, ix. 259 sq.
Drawing on wood or sand forbidden in absence of hunters, i. 122
Dread and seclusion of menstruous women, x. 76 sqq.;
dread of witchcraft in Europe, x. 342
Dream, guardian spirit or animal acquired in a, xi. 256 sq.
Dreaming on flowers on Midsummer Eve, x. 175.
See Dreams
Dreams, modes of counteracting evil, i. 172 sq.;
the telling of, a charm to calm a storm, i. 321;
the interpretation of, i. 344;
absence of soul in, iii. 36 sqq.;
belief of savages in the reality of, iii. 36 sq.;
omens drawn from, iii. 161, 163, 404, 406;
spirits of the dead appear to the living in, iii. 368, 374, vi. 162, 190;
revelations in, iv. 25;
women visited by a serpent in dreams in a sanctuary of Aesculapius, v. 80;
revelations given to sick people by Pluto and Persephone in, v. 205;
as causes of attempted transformation of men into women, vi. 255 sqq.;
as a source of belief in immortality, viii. 260 sq.;
and their fulfilment in time of sickness, ix. 121;
festival of, among the Iroquois, ix. 127;
oracular, x. 238, 242;
of love on Midsummer Eve, xi. 52, 54;
prophetic, on the bloom of the oak, xi. 292;
prophetic, on mistletoe, xi. 293
Dreikönigstag, Twelfth Day in Germany and Austria, ix. 329
Drenching of people with water as a rain-charm, i. 250, 251, 269 sq., 272, 273, 274, 275, 277 sq., ii. 77;
of trees as a rain-charm, ii. 47;
of leaf-clad mummer as a rain-charm, iv. 211;
of last corn cut with water as a rain-charm, v. 237 sq.
Drinking, modes of, practised by tabooed persons, iii. 117 sqq., 120, 143, 146, 147, 148, 160, 182, 183, 185, 189, 197, 198, 256;
juices of dead kinsfolk, viii. 163 n. 3
Drinking out of a king's skull in order to be inspired by his spirit, vi. 171
—— and eating, taboos on, iii. 116 sqq.
Drischila, a threshing cake in West Bohemia, vii. 150
Driver, Professor S. R., on the prae-Israelitish inhabitants of Canaan, iv. 170 n. 5;
on the consecration of the firstling males, iv. 173 n. 1
“Driving out the Witches” on Walpurgis Night in Bohemia, ix. 162;
on Walpurgis Night in Voigtland, x. 160;
at Midsummer in Switzerland, x. 170, 171
Drobede (Draupadi), the heroine of the epic Mahabharata, xi. 7
Drömling, in Brunswick, dramatic contest between Summer and Winter at, iv. 257
Drömling district, in Hanover, need-fire in, x. 277
Drops of water in homoeopathic magic, i. 173
Dropsy, ancient Greek mode of preventing, i. 78;
ceremony to prevent, in India, i. 79
Drought, funeral of, a rain-making ceremony, i. 274;
supposed to be caused by unburied dead, i. 287;
violence done to the rain-powers in time of, i. 296 sqq.;
magical ceremony for causing, i. 313;
and dearth, chiefs and kings punished for, i. 352 sqq.;
rain-makers killed in time of, ii. 2, 3;
supposed to be caused by sexual crime, ii. 110, 111, 113;
supposed to be caused by a concealed miscarriage, iii. 153 sq.;
kings answerable for, v. 21 sq.;
attributed to misconduct of young girls, x. 31
Drowned, souls of the, thought to pass into trees, animals, or fish, ii. 30;
in holy spring, the sacred bull Apis, viii. 36
Drowning as a punishment for sexual crimes, ii. 109, 110, 111;
sacrifice by, ii. 364;
as a mode of executing royal criminals, iii. 242, 243
Drowning girls in rivers as sacrifices, ii. 151 sq.
—— human victims as sacrifices to water-spirits, ii. 157 sqq.
Drowo, gods, in the language of the Ewe-speaking peoples of West Africa, ix. 74
Druid, purification performed by an Irish, ii. 116;
etymology of the word, x. 76 n. 1
Druid's Glass, certain beads called the, x. 16;
prediction, the, x. 229
Druidical festivals, so-called, of the Scotch Highlanders, x. 147, 206;
custom of [pg 249] burning live animals, xi. 38;
the animals perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, xi. 41 sq., 43 sq.
Druidical sacrifices, W. Mannhardt's theory of the, xi. 43
Druidism, so-called, remains of, x. 233, 241;
and the Christian Church in relation to witchcraft, xi. 42
Druids, Lucan on the, i. 2 n. 1;
oak and mistletoe worshipped by the, ii. 9, 358, 362, xi. 76 sq., 301;
female, ii. 241 n. 1;
derivation of the name, ii. 363;
the Irish, ii. 363;
their superstition as to “serpents' eggs,” x. 15;
their human sacrifices, xi. 32 sq.;
in relation to the Midsummer festival, xi. 33 sqq., 45;
their cycle of thirty years, xi. 77;
catch the mistletoe in a white cloth, xi. 293
—— of Gaul, their sacrifices of white bulls, ii. 189
—— of Ireland, their custom of driving cattle between two fires at Beltane (May Day), x. 157
Druids' Hill, the, in County Sligo, x. 229
Drum, eating out of a, as a sacrament in the rites of Attis, v. 274
Drumconrath, near Abbeyleix, in Ireland, cut hair kept against the Day of Judgment at, iii. 280 sq.
Drums, homoeopathic magic at the making of, i. 134 sq.;
beaten as a charm against a storm, i. 328;
human sacrifice for royal, vi. 223, 225;
beaten to expel demons, ix. 111, 113, 116, 118, 120, 126, 146, 204
Drunkard, corpse of, in rain-charm, i. 285
Dry food eaten, on principle of homoeopathic magic, i. 114, 144;
food to be eaten by rain-doctor when he wishes to avert rain, i. 271
Dryas, killed by his father King Lycurgus, vii. 24
—— and Clitus, their contest for a bride, ii. 307
Drynemetum, “the temple of the oak,” in Galatia, ii. 363, xi. 89
Du Chaillu, P. B., the Ashira dispute for the clippings of his hair, iii. 271 sq.
Du Pratz, Le Page, on the fire-temples of the Natchez, ii. 263;
on the festival of the new corn among the Natchez Indians, viii. 77 sqq.
Duala tribe of the Cameroons, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1
Duals, a tribe of Garos, their harvest festival, viii. 337
Dublin, Whitsuntide custom near, ii. 103;
custom on May Day at, ii. 141 sq.
Dubrajpur, in Bengal, rain-making at, i. 278
Dubrowitschi, a Russian village, expulsion of spirit of plague at, ix. 173
Duchesne, Mgr. L., on the origin of Christmas, v. 305 n. 4;
on the date of the Crucifixion, v. 307
Duck, gripes transferred to a, ix. 50;
baked alive as a sacrifice in Suffolk, x. 304
Duck's egg, external soul in a, xi. 109 sq., 115 sq., 116, 119 sq., 120, 126, 130, 132
Ducks and frogs imitated in rain-making, i. 255
—— and ptarmigan, dramatic contest of the, iv. 259
Dudilaa, a spirit who lives in the sun, flesh of pig offered to, ix. 186
Dudulé, boy decked with ferns and flowers at rain-making ceremony, i. 274
Dugong, magical models of, i. 108;
skulls and bones of, preserved, viii. 258 n. 2
Dugong fishing, taboos in connexion with, iii. 192
Duk-duk, a disguised man representing a cassowary, xi. 247
Duk-duk, secret society of New Britain, New Ireland, and Duke of York Island, x. 11, xi. 246 sq.
Duke Town, on the Calabar River, crocodile animated by soul of chief at, xi. 209
—— Town, in Guinea, human sacrifices to the river at, ii. 158;
periodic expulsion of demons at, ix. 204 n. 1
Duke of York Island, xi. 199 n. 2;
the natives of, pay the fish for those which they catch, viii. 252;
Duk-duk society in, xi. 247;
exogamous classes in, xi. 248 n.
Dukkala, in Morocco, New Year customs in, x. 218
Dulyn, the tarn of, on Snowdon, i. 307
Dumannos, a month of the Gallic calendar, ix. 343
Dumbartonshire, the harvest Maiden in, vii. 157 sq., 218 n. 2;
harvest custom in, vii. 268;
Hallowe'en in, x. 237 n. 5
Dumfriesshire, mode of cutting the last standing corn in, vii. 154
Dummies to avert attention of ghosts or demons, viii. 96 sqq.
“Dumping” people on harvest field, vii. 226 sq.
Dumplings in human form at threshing, vii. 148;
in form of pigs at harvest supper, vii. 299
Dunbeath, in Caithness, need-fire at, x. 291
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Duncan, Mr., on the ceremonial cannibalism of the coast tribes of British Columbia, vii. 18 sq.
Dung-beetle imitated by actor or dancer, ix. 381
Dunkeld, Hallowe'en fires near, x. 232
Dunkirk, procession of giants on Midsummer Day at, xi. 34 sq.
Dunvegan, the laird of, supposed to attract herring, i. 368
Duplication of deities, vii. 212 sq., ix. 405 sq.;
an effect of dialectical differences, ii. 382 sq.
Duran, Diego, Spanish historian of Mexico, ix. 295 n. 1;
on the human representative of Xipe, “the Flayed God,” ix. 297;
on the date of the festival of the flaying of men, ix. 300 n. 1
Durandus, G. (W. Durantis), his Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, x. 161
Durga, image of, in a magical ceremony, i. 65
Durham, Miss M. E., on Albanian superstition as to portraits, iii. 100
Durham, the mell or kirn at harvest in, vii. 151;
Easter candle in the cathedral of, x. 122 n.
Durian-tree threatened in order to make it bear fruit, ii. 20 sq.
Durostorum in Moesia, martyrdom of St. Dasius at, ii. 310 n. 1;
celebration of the Saturnalia at, ix. 309
Dürrenbüchig, in Baden, the last sheaf called Goat at, vii. 283
Durris, parish of Kincardineshire, Midsummer fires in the, x. 206 sq.
Durrow, the oaks of, ii. 242
Dusk of the Evening, prayers of girl at puberty to the, x. 53
Dussaud, Réné, on stones deposited at shrines, ix. 22 n. 2
Düsseldorf, Shrove Tuesday custom in the district of, x. 120
Dussera festival in Behar, i. 279
Dusuns of Borneo, their suspicion of novelties, iii. 230;
their annual expulsion of evils, ix. 200 sq.
Dutch custom at the madder-harvest, vii. 231;
names for mistletoe, xi. 319 n. 1
Dux, in the Tyrol, “striking down the dog” at harvest at, vii. 273
Dwandwes, a Zulu tribe, change of name for the sun among the, iii. 376 sq.
Dwarf-elder at Midsummer detects witchcraft, xi. 64
Dwarf tribes of Central Africa, their custom at circumcision, i. 95 n. 4;
said not to know how to make fire, ii. 255
Dyak medicine-men, homoeopathic cure effected by, i. 84;
their use of crystals in divination, iii. 56
Dyak mode of fishing for a lost soul, iii. 38
—— sorcerer, his use of effigies to heal a child, viii. 102
—— stories of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 126 sqq.
—— taboos observed in absence of hunters, i. 120
—— warriors shear their hair on their return, iii. 261
Dyaks, the, of Borneo, ceremony to aid a woman in childbirth among, i. 73 sq.;
telepathy in war among, i. 127;
their way of strengthening their souls, i. 159 sq.;
their ascription of souls to trees, ii. 13;
believe that the souls of those who die by accident or drowning pass into trees, animals, or fish, ii. 30 sq.;
call on tree-spirit to quit tree before it is felled, ii. 37;
their custom at felling a jungle, ii. 38;
their belief as to the blighting effects of sexual crimes, ii. 108 sq.;
their use of effigies to heal the sick, iii. 63 n. 2, viii. 100 sq., 102;
their mode of securing the souls of their enemies, iii. 71 sq.;
extract the souls of captured foes, iii. 72 n. 1;
taboos as to tying knots during a woman's pregnancy among, iii. 294;
children called the fathers or mothers of their first cousins among, iii. 332 sq.;
names of relations tabooed among, iii. 339 sq.;
their belief as to the spirit of gold, iii. 409 sq.;
taboos observed by, in digging for gold, iii. 410;
sacrifice cattle instead of human victims, iv. 166 n. 1;
practice of swinging among their medicine-men, iv. 280 sq.;
their whole life dominated by religion, vii. 98;
their ceremonies to secure the rice-soul, vii. 188 sq.;
their sun-dial, vii. 314 n. 4;
their use of images to deceive demons of plague, viii. 100 sq.;
their festival of first-fruits, viii. 122;
will not let warriors eat venison lest it make them timid, viii. 144;
their unwillingness to kill crocodiles, viii. 209;
their ceremonies at killing crocodiles, viii. 209 sqq.;
their priestesses, ix. 5;
their transference of evil, ix. 5;
their “lying heaps,” ix. 14;
their mode of neutralizing bad omens, ix. 39;
their Head Feast, ix. 383;
birth-trees among, xi. 164;
trees and plants as life indices among, xi. 164 sq.;
their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 222.
See also Sea Dyaks
—— of Landak and Tajan, marriage custom of the, x. 5;
birth-trees among the, xi. 164
—— of Pinoeh, their custom at a birth, xi. 154 sq.
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—— of Poelopetak, their words for soul, vii. 182 sq.
—— of Sarawak, their belief in the power of the Rajah to fertilize the rice-crops, i. 361 sq.;
their custom at rice harvest and sowing, ii. 48;
story of their descent from a fish, iv. 126;
their custom of swinging at harvest feast, iv. 277;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 314;
eat parts of slain foes, viii. 152
——, the Sea, or Ibans, of Sarawak, viii. 279;
rules observed by women among, while the men are at war, i. 127 sq.;
their sacred trees, ii. 40 sq.;
their sorcerers supposed to hook departing souls, iii. 30;
their modes of recalling the soul, iii. 47 sq., 52 sq., 55 sq., 60, 67;
taboos observed by head-hunters among, iii. 166 sq.;
their propitiation of dead omen birds, iv. 126;
their sacrifices during an epidemic, iv. 176 n. 1;
their custom of head-hunting, v. 295 sq.;
the idea of metampsychosis among, viii. 294 sq.;
their modes of protecting their farms against mice, viii. 279;
their festival of departed spirits, ix. 154
Dying at ebb tide, i. 167 sq.;
custom of catching the souls of the, iv. 198 sqq.;
by deputy, iv. 56, 160
Dying god as scapegoat, ix. 227
—— and Reviving God, vii. 1, 33
—— and risen god, the, in Western Asia, ix. 421 sq.
Dynder, in Herefordshire, sin-eater at, ix. 43
Dziewanna, puppet representing the goddess of spring in Polish districts of Silesia, iv. 246
Ea, Babylonian god, v. 9;
the inventor of magic, i. 240
Eabani, Babylonian hero, his death and resurrection, ix. 398 sq.
Eagle, guardian spirit as, i. 200;
tree on which an eagle has built its nest deemed holy, ii. 11;
the bird of Jove, ii. 175;
soul in form of, iii. 34;
to carry soul to heaven, v. 126 sq.;
sacrifice to, x. 152
——, double-headed, Hittite emblem, v. 133 n.
Eagle bone, used to drink out of, x. 45
—— clan of the Niskas, xi. 271, 272 n. 1
—— hawk totem, i. 162;
legs of boys beaten with leg-bone of, to make them strong, viii. 165 n. 2;
external soul of medicine-man in, xi. 199
—— hunters, taboos observed by, i. 116, iii. 198 sq.;
taboos observed by the wives and children of, i. 119;
charms employed by, i. 149 sq.
Eagle-owl worshipped by the Ainos, viii. 199 sq.
—— -spirits and buried treasures, x. 218
—— -wood, telepathy in search for, i. 120;
special language employed by searchers for, iii. 404
Eagle's gall in homoeopathic magic, i. 154
—— tongue torn out and worn as talisman, viii. 270
Eagles not called by their proper names, iii. 399;
worshipped by the Ainos, viii. 200;
propitiation of dead, viii. 236
——, sacred among the Ostyaks, ii. 11
Eames, W., on voluntary substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 273
Ear of corn, reaped, displayed to the initiates at the Eleusinian mysteries, ii. 138 sq., vii. 38;
emblem of Demeter, v. 166
Ears cleansed by serpents, i. 158;
stopped to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 31;
of sacrificial victims cut off, iv. 97;
of seers licked by serpents, vii. 147 n. 1;
regarded as the seat of intelligence, vii. 148;
of brave men eaten, viii. 148;
of dead enemies cut out, viii. 271 sq.;
blood drawn from, as penance, ix. 292
Earth, inspired priestess of, i. 381 sq.;
from a grave, magical uses of, i. 147 sq., 150;
spring festival of the marriage of, ii. 76 sq., 94;
conceived by the Greeks as the Mother of corn, cattle, and human beings, ii. 128 n. 4;
praying to Zeus for rain, image of, ii. 359;
festival in honour of, iii. 247;
subterranean, sacrifices to, vii. 66;
Lithuanian prayers to the, viii. 49;
the spirit of, worshipped before sowing, viii. 120;
first berries of the season offered to the, viii. 133 sq.;
taboos observed by the priest of, in Southern Nigeria, x. 4;
prayers to, x. 50
——, the goddess, mother of Typhon, v. 156
——, Grandmother, the cause of earthquakes, v. 198
—— and heaven, between, xi. 1 sqq.
——, the Mistress of the, ix. 85
——, Mother, v. 27;
prayed to for rain, i. 283;
festival of, v. 90;
vicarious sacrifices offered to, viii. 105
——, the Nursing-Mother at Athens, vii. 89 n. 2
—— and sky, myth of their violent separation, v. 283
——, the spirit of the, worshipped before sowing, viii. 120
—— and Sun, marriage of the, ii. 98 sq., 148
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Earth-demons dreaded by Tibetans, viii. 96
—— -god, vii. 69, ix. 28, 61; the Egyptian, ix. 341
—— -goddess, sacrifice for rain to, i. 291;
pregnant cows sacrificed to, ii. 229;
annually married to Sun-god, v. 47 sq.;
disturbed by the operations of husbandry, v. 88 sqq.;
married to Sky-god, v. 282, with n. 2;
distinguished from Demeter, vii. 41, 43, 89;
in Greek art, vii. 89;
human sacrifices offered to, vii. 245, 246, 249, 250;
first-fruits of maize offered to the, viii. 115
—— -gods, slaves of the, viii. 61, 62 n. 1
—— -mothers, name given to maize-spadices growing as twins, vii. 173 n.
—— -spirits possess the ore in mines, iii. 407 n. 2;
disturbed by agriculture, v. 89
Earthman, the, representing the god of the earth, ix. 61
Earthquake god, v. 194 sqq.
Earthquakes supposed to be caused by indulgence in illicit love, ii. 111 n. 3;
attempts to stop, v. 196 sqq.;
Manichean theory of, v. 197
Earthworms eaten by dancing girls, viii. 147
Easing nature, a charm used by robbers, vii. 235
East, the ascetic idealism of the, ii. 117;
mother-kin and Mother Goddesses in the ancient, vi. 212 sqq.;
the Wise Men of the, ix. 330 sq.
—— Indian evidence of the belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 298 n. 2
East Indian islands, epilepsy transferred to leaves in the, ix. 2;
demons of sickness expelled in little ships in the, ix. 185
—— Indies, pregnant women forbidden to tie knots in the, iii. 294;
everything in house opened to facilitate childbirth in the, iii. 297;
reluctance of persons to tell their names in the, iii. 328;
the Rice-mother in the, vii. 180 sqq.;
sacrifices of first-fruits in the, viii. 122 sqq.;
the tug-of-war in the, ix. 177
Easter, rolling down a slope at, ii. 103;
first Sunday after, iv. 249;
custom of swinging on the four Sundays before, iv. 284;
gardens of Adonis at, in Sicily, v. 253 sq.;
resemblance of the festival of, to the rites of Adonis, v. 254 sqq., 306;
the festival of, assimilated to the spring festival of Attis, v. 306 sqq.;
controversy between Christians and pagans as to the origin of, v. 309 sq.;
White Russian custom at, to preserve the corn from hail, vii. 300;
an old vernal festival of the vegetation-god, ix. 328;
fern-seed blooms at, xi. 292 n. 2
Easter candle, x. 121, 122, 125
—— ceremonies in the New World, x. 127 sq.
—— eggs, ix. 269, x. 108, 143, 144
—— Eve, in Albania, expulsion of Kore on, iv. 265, ix. 157;
grain of Corn-mother scattered among the young corn on, vii. 134;
new fire on, x. 121, 124, 126, 158;
the fern blooms at, xi. 66
—— fires, x. 120 sqq.
—— Islanders, their modes of killing animals, iii. 247;
their offerings of first-fruits, viii. 133
—— Man, burning the, x. 144
—— Monday, festival of Green George on, ii. 76;
“Easter Smacks” on, ix. 268;
fire-custom on, x. 143
—— Mountains, bonfires at Easter on, x. 140, 141
—— Saturday, barren fruit-trees threatened on, ii. 22;
new fire on, x. 121, 122, 124, 127, 128, 130;
the divining-rod baptized on, xi. 69
“—— Smacks” in Germany and Austria, ix. 268 sq.
—— Sunday, vii. 33;
ceremony observed by the gipsies of South-Eastern Europe on the evening of, ix. 207 sq.;
red eggs on, x. 122
—— Tuesday, swinging on, iv. 283;
“Easter Smacks” on, ix. 268, 270 n.
Eastertide, death and resurrection of Kostrubonko at, iv. 261;
expulsion of evils at, in Calabria, ix. 157
Eater of animals, as epithet of a god, vii. 23
“—— of the Dead,” fabulous Egyptian monster, vi. 14
Eating out of sacred vessels, supposed effect of, iii. 4;
together, covenant formed by, iii. 130;
piece of slain man, custom obligatory on the slayer, iii. 174;
the bodies of aged relations, custom of, iv. 14
—— and drinking, taboos on, iii. 116 sqq.;
fear of being seen in the act of, iii. 117 sqq.
—— the god, viii. 48 sqq.;
among the Aztecs, viii. 86 sqq.;
reasons for, viii. 138 sq., 167
—— the soul of the rice, viii. 54
Eaves, rain-drops from, in magic, i. 253
Eavesdropping, divination by, x. 238, 243, 244
Ebb tide, death at, i. 167 sq.
Echinadian Islands, death of the Great Pan announced at the, iv. 6
Echternach in Luxemburg, Lenten fire-custom at, x. 116
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Eck, R. van, on the belief in demons in Bali, ix. 86
Eckstein, Miss L., on hunting the wren, viii. 317 n. 2
Eclipse, ceremonies at an, i. 311 sq.
—— of the moon, custom of the Indians of the Orinoco at an, i. 311;
Athenian superstition as to an, vi. 141
—— of the sun, burning arrows shot into the air at an, i. 311;
practice of the Kamtchatkans at an, i. 312;
practice of the Chilcotin Indians at an, i. 312, iv. 77
—— of the sun and moon, belief of the Tahitians as to, iv. 73 n. 2
Eclipses attributed to monster biting or attacking the sun or moon, i. 311 n. 1, x. 70, 162 n.;
air thought to be poisoned at, x. 162 n.
Ecliptic perhaps mimicked in dances, iv. 77
Economic history, the discovery of agriculture the greatest advance in, vii. 129
—— progress, a condition of intellectual progress, i. 218
Ecstasy induced by smoking, viii. 72
Ecuador, the Canelos Indians of, iii. 97, viii. 285;
the Saragacos Indians of, iii. 152;
human sacrifices for the crops in, vii. 236;
the Zaparo Indians of, viii. 139
Edbald, king of Kent, married his stepmother, ii. 283
Edda, the prose, story of Balder in, x. 101;
the poetic, story of Balder in, x. 102
Eddesse, in Hanover, need-fire at, x. 275 sq.
Eden, the tree of life in, v. 186 n. 4
Edersleben, Midsummer fire-custom at, x. 169
Edgewell Tree, oak at castle of Dalhousie, thought to be linked with the fate of the Dalhousie family, xi. 166, 284
Edom, blood royal apparently traced in the female line in, v. 16 n.
——, the kings of, take the name of a divinity, v. 15;
their bones burned by the Moabites, vi. 104
Edonians, a Thracian tribe, their king Lycurgus put to death to restore fertility to the land, i. 366, vi. 98, 99, vii. 24
Edward the Confessor, English kings said to derive their power of healing scrofula from, i. 370
Edward VI., his Lord of Misrule, ix. 332, 334
Eel-skins in homoeopathic magic, i. 155
Eels regarded as water-serpents, iv. 84;
souls of dead in, viii. 289, 290, 292
Eesa, a Somali tribe, their custom of milk-drinking on the morning after a marriage, vi. 246
Effacing impressions from bed-clothes, ashes, etc., from superstitious motives, i. 213 sq.
Effect of geographical and climatic conditions on national character, vi. 217;
supposed, of killing a totem animal, xi. 220
Effeminate sorcerers or priests, order of, vi. 253 sqq.
Effigies, substituted for human victims, iv. 215, 217 sq., ix. 408;
disease transferred to, ix. 7;
demons conjured into, ix. 204, 205;
burnt in bonfires, x. 106, 107, 116, 118 sq., 119 sq., 121, 122, 159;
burnt in the Midsummer fires, x. 167, 172 sq., 195;
of witches burnt in the fires, x. 342, xi. 19, 43;
of human beings burnt in the fires, xi. 21 sqq.;
of giants burnt in the summer fires, xi. 38.
See also Effigy, Dolls, Images, Puppets
—— of Carnival destroyed, iv. 222 sqq.
—— of Death, iv. 233 sq., 246 sqq.
—— of Judas burnt at Easter, x. 121, 127 sq., 130 sq.
—— of Kupalo, Kostroma, and Yarilo drowned or buried in Russia, iv. 262 sq.
—— of Lent, seven-legged, in Spain and Italy, iv. 244 sq.
—— of men and women hung at doors of houses, viii. 94;
buried with the dead to deceive their ghosts, viii. 97 sq.;
used to cure or prevent sickness, viii. 100 sqq.
—— of Osiris, stuffed with corn, buried with the dead as a symbol of resurrection, vi. 90 sq., 114
—— of Shrove Tuesday destroyed, iv. 227 sqq.
—— of Winter burnt at Zurich, iv. 260 sq.
Effigy, human sacrifices carried out in, iv. 217 sqq.;
of an ox broken as a spring ceremony in China, viii. 10 sqq.;
of man used in exorcizing misfortune, ix. 8;
of baby used to fertilize women, ix. 245, 249;
of absent friend cut in a tree, xi. 159 sq.
Effiks or Agalwa, the, of West Africa, their custom of carrying fire, ii. 259;
their belief in external or bush souls, xi. 206
Efiat, human sacrifices offered by the fishermen of, ii. 158
Efugaos, the, of the Philippine Islands, suck the brains of dead foes to acquire their courage, viii. 152
Egbas, the, of West Africa, their custom of putting their kings to death, iv. 41
Egede, Hans, on impregnation by the moon among the Greenlanders, x. 76
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Egeria, water nymph at Nemi, i. 17-19, 41;
and Numa, i. 18, ii. 172 sqq., 193, 380;
perhaps a local form of Diana, ii. 171 sq., 267, 380;
an oak-nymph, ii. 172, 267;
the grove of, ii. 185
Egerius Baebius or Laevius, Latin dictator, dedicated the sacred grove at Nemi, i. 22
Egg broken in water, divination by means of, x. 208 sq.
—— -shells preserved lest chickens should die, viii. 258 n. 2
Egghiou, a district of Abyssinia, rain-making in, i. 258
Eggs eaten by sower to make hemp grow tall, i. 138;
of raven in homoeopathic magic, i. 154;
or egg-shells, painted, in spring ceremonies, ii. 63, 65;
collected on May Day, ii. 64, 65;
yellow and red, fastened to Midsummer trees, ii. 65;
collected at spring ceremonies, ii. 78;
begged for by singers or maskers at Whitsuntide, ii. 81, 84, 85, 91 sq.;
in purificatory rite, ii. 109;
offered at entering a strange land, iii. 110;
reason for breaking shells of, iii. 129 sq.;
reason for not eating, viii. 140;
charm to make hens lay, viii. 326;
charm to ensure plenty of, x. 112, 338;
begged for at Midsummer, x. 169;
divination by white of, x. 236 sq., 238;
external souls of fairy beings in, xi. 106 sqq., 110, 125, 132 sq., 140 sq.
——, Easter, ix. 269, x. 108, 122, 143, 144
Egin, in Armenia, rain-making at, i, 276;
rain-pebbles at, i. 305
Egypt, the hawk the symbol of the sun and of the king in, iv. 112;
wives of Ammon in, v. 72;
date of the corn-reaping in, v. 231 n. 3;
the Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice in, v. 303;
in early June, vi. 31;
the gods flee into, vii. 18;
ghosts of murdered men nailed into the earth in, ix. 63;
Isis and Osiris in, ix. 386
——, ancient, magical images in, i. 66, 67 sq.;
theocratic despotism of, i. 218;
power of magicians in, i. 225;
confusion of magic and religion in, i. 230 sq.;
ceremonies for the regulation of the sun in, i. 312;
kings blamed for failure of the crops in, i. 354;
the sacred beasts held responsible for the course of nature in, i. 354;
the royal crowns in, i. 364;
king of, masquerading as Ammon, ii. 133;
sacrifice to the Sun in, iii. 227 n.;
mock human sacrifices in, iv. 217;
mother-kin in, vi. 213 sqq.;
human sacrifices in, vii. 259 sqq.;
stratification of religion in, viii. 35;
story of the external soul in, xi. 134 sqq.
——, the Flight into, xi. 69 n.
——, kings of, derive their titles from the sun-god, i. 418.
See Egyptian
——, Lower, the Red Crown of, vi. 21 n. 1;
Sais in, vi. 50
——, modern, magicians work enchantments through the name of God in, iii. 390;
headache nailed into a door in, ix. 63;
belief in the jinn in, ix. 104
——, Queen of, married to the god Ammon, ii. 131 sq.
——-, Upper, temporary kings in, iv. 151 sq.;
the White Crown of, vi. 21 n. 1;
new-born babes placed in corn-sieves in, vii. 7
Egyptian calendar, the official, vi. 24 sqq.;
date of its introduction, vi. 36 n. 2
—— ceremony to help the sun-god against demons, i. 67 sq.
—— custom of drowning a girl as a sacrifice to the Nile, ii. 151
—— deities arranged in trinities, iv. 5 n. 3
—— doctrine that a woman can conceive by a god, ii. 135
—— farmer, calendar of the, vi. 30 sqq.;
his festivals, vi. 32 sqq.
—— festivals, their dates shifting, vi. 24 sq., 92 sqq.;
readjustment of, vi. 91 sqq.
—— gods, mortality of the ancient, iv. 4 sqq.;
trinities of gods, iv. 5 n. 3
—— influence on Christian doctrine of the Trinity, iv. 5 n. 3
—— kings deified in their lifetime, i. 418 sqq.;
rules of life observed by, iii. 12 sq.;
flesh diet of, iii. 13, 291;
drank no wine, iii. 249;
called bulls, iv. 72;
worshipped as gods, v. 52;
the most ancient, buried at Abydos, vi. 19;
their oath not to correct the vague Egyptian year by intercalation, vi. 26;
perhaps formerly slain in the character of Osiris, vi. 97 sq., 102;
as Osiris, vi. 151 sqq.;
renew their life by identifying themselves with the dead and risen Osiris, vi. 153 sq.;
born again at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 155 sq.;
perhaps formerly put to death to prevent their bodily and mental decay, vi. 154 sq., 156;
their animal masks, vii. 260;
deified, their souls deposited during life in portrait statues, xi. 157
—— kings and queens, their begetting and birth depicted on the monuments, ii. 131 sqq.
—— magicians, their power of compelling the deities, iii. 389 sq.
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Egyptian months, table of, vi. 37 n.
—— mothers glad when the holy crocodiles devoured their children, iv. 168 n. 1
—— myth of the separation of earth and sky, v. 283 n. 3
—— priests loathed the sea, iii. 10;
abstained from swine's flesh, viii. 24 n. 2
—— reapers, their lamentations and invocations of Isis, v. 232, vi. 45, 177, vii. 215, 261, 263;
their song or cry, vii. 215, 263
—— religion, the development of, vi. 122 sqq.;
dominated by Osiris, vi. 158 sq.
—— sacred beasts, offerings to the, i. 29 sq.
—— sovereigns masked as lions, bulls, and serpents, iv. 72 n. 7
—— standard resembling a placenta, vi. 156 n. 1
—— tombs, plaques or palettes of schist in, xi. 155
—— type of animal sacrament, viii. 312 sq., 314
—— women plaster their heads with mud in mourning, iii. 182
—— year vague, not corrected by intercalation, vi. 24 sq.;
the sacred, began with the rising of Sirius, vi. 35
Egyptians, their worship of sacred beasts, i. 29 sq.;
kept their hair unshorn on a journey, iii. 261;
their funeral rites a copy of those performed over Osiris, vi. 15;
their hope of immortality centred in Osiris, vi. 15 sq., 114, 159;
their dead identified with Osiris, vi. 16;
their astronomers acquainted with the true length of the solar year, vi. 26, 27, 37 n.;
their ceremony at the winter solstice, vi. 50;
their sacrifice of red-haired men, vi. 97, 106;
their language akin to the Semitic, vi. 161;
the conservatism of their character, vi. 217 sq.;
compared to the Chinese, vi. 218;
worshipped crocodiles, viii. 209 n.;
their doctrine of the ka or external soul, xi. 157 n. 2
——, the ancient, their festival, “the nativity of the sun's walking-stick,” i. 312;
worshipped men and animals, i. 389 sq.;
sycamores worshipped by, ii. 15;
ritual flight at embalming among, ii. 309 n. 2;
their conception of the soul, iii. 28 sq.;
their practice as to souls of the dead, iii. 68 sq.;
personal names among, iii. 322;
question of their ethnical affinity, vi. 161;
human sacrifices offered by, vii. 259 sq., xi. 286 n. 2;
their religious attitude to pigs, viii. 24 sqq.;
their belief in spirits, ix. 103 sq.;
their use of bulls as scapegoats, ix. 216 sq.;
the five supplementary days of their year, ix. 340 sq.
Eifel Mountains, the King of the Bean in the, ix. 313;
Lenten fires in the, x. 115 sq., 336 sq.;
effigy burnt at Cobern in the, x. 120;
St. John's fires in the, x. 169;
the Yule log in the, x. 248;
Midsummer flowers in the, xi. 48
Eight days, feast and license of, before expulsion of demons, ix. 131
—— years, reign of kings apparently limited in ancient Greece to, iv. 58, 70 sqq.;
cycle in ancient Greece, iv. 68 sqq., vii. 80 sqq.
Eighty-one (nine times nine) men make need-fire, x. 289, 294, 295
Eimine Ban, an Irish abbot, legend of his self-sacrifice, iv. 159 n. 1
Eiresione of ancient Greece, ii. 48, 71
Eisenach, effigy of Death burnt on the fourth Sunday of Lent at, iv. 247;
harvest customs near, vii. 231
—— Oberland, the Corn-cat in the, vii. 280
Ekebergia sp., used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210
Eket, in North Calabar, sacred lake near, xi. 209
Ekoi, the, of West Africa, their custom of mutilating men and women at festivals, v. 270 n. 2;
ceremony observed by them at crossing a ford, ix. 28;
throw leaves on dead chameleons, ix. 28;
their belief in external or bush souls, xi. 206 sqq.
El, Phoenician god, v. 13, 16 n. 1;
identified with Cronus, v. 166
—— -Bûgât, festival of mourning for Tammuz in Harran, v. 230
—— Kiboron, a Masai clan, may not pluck out their beards lest they lose their power of making rain, iii. 260;
their respect for serpents as embodiments of the dead, viii. 288
—— Obeid, i. 122
Elam, the kings of, their bones carried off by Ashurbanipal, vi. 103 sq.
Elamite deities in opposition to Babylonian deities, ix. 366;
inscriptions, ix. 367
Elamites, the hereditary foes of the Babylonians, ix. 366
Elangela, external soul in Fan language, xi. 201, 226 n. 1
Elans treated with respect by American Indians, viii. 240
Elaphebolion, an Athenian month, ix. 143 n., 351
Elaphius, an Elean month, x. 352
Elbe, the river, dangerous on Midsummer Day, xi. 26
Elder brother, his name not to be pronounced, [pg 256] iii. 341;
the sin of marrying before an, ix. 3
Elder, dwarf, in rain-making, i. 273
—— -bush, cut hair buried under an, iii. 275;
creeping under an, as a cure for fever, ix. 55
—— -flowers gathered at Midsummer, xi. 64
—— -tree, cut hair and nails inserted in an, iii. 275 sq.;
fever transferred to a twig of the, ix. 49
—— -trees sacred among the old Prussians, ii. 43
Elders, council of, in savage communities, i. 216 sq.
Eldest sons sacrificed for their fathers, iv. 161 sqq.
Elecampane in a popular remedy for worms, x. 17
Elective and hereditary monarchy, combination of the two, ii. 292 sqq.
—— kings and hereditary queens, ii. 295
Electric conductivity of various kinds of wood, xi. 299 n. 2
—— lights on mast-heads, spears, etc., ancient superstitions as to, i. 49 sq.
Electricity, spiritual, royal personages charged with, i. 371
Elephant-hunters, taboos observed by wives of absent, i. 120, x. 5;
telepathy of, i. 123;
scarify themselves after killing an elephant, iii. 107;
continence of, iii. 196 sq.;
special language employed by, iii. 404;
not to touch the earth with their feet, x. 5
—— -hunting, inoculation before, viii. 160
Elephant's flesh tabooed, i. 118 sq.;
thought to make eater strong, viii. 143
Elephants not to be called by their proper name, iii. 403, 407;
souls of dead transmigrate into, iv. 85, viii. 289;
ceremonies observed at the slaughter of, viii. 227 sq., 237;
lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 202, 203;
external human souls in, xi. 207
Eleusine grain, cultivated by the Nandi, vii. 117
Eleusinian Games, vii. 70 sqq., 110, 180;
held every four or two years, vii. 70, 77;
victors in the, rewarded with measures of barley, vii. 73;
primarily concerned with Demeter and Persephone as goddesses of the corn, vii. 74;
less ancient than the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 87 sq.
—— inscription dealing with first-fruits, vii. 55 sq.
—— mysteries, vii. 35 sqq.;
presided over by the king, i. 44;
sacred marriage of Zeus and Demeter in the, ii. 138 sq., vii. 65 sqq., viii. 9;
origin of, told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, vii. 35 sqq.;
instituted by Demeter, vii. 37;
the myth of Demeter and Persephone acted at the, vii. 39, 66, 187 sq.;
date of the celebration of the, vii. 69 sq.;
said to be instituted by Eumolpus, vii. 70;
great antiquity of the, vii. 78 sq.;
hope of immortality associated with initiation into the, vii. 90 sq.;
designed to promote the growth of the corn, vii. 110 sq.;
sacrament of barley-meal and water at the, vii. 161 sq.
Eleusinian priests, their names sacred, iii. 382 sq.
Eleusis, mysteries of, ii. 138 sq., vii. 35 sqq.;
Demeter and the king's son at, v. 180;
sacrifice of oxen at, v. 292 n. 3;
mysteries of Demeter at, vi. 90;
Demeter at, vii. 36 sq., viii. 334;
the Rarian plain at, vii. 36, 70, 74, 234, viii. 15;
offerings of first-fruits at, vii. 53 sqq.;
festival of the threshing-floor at, vii. 60 sqq.;
the Green Festival and the Festival of Cornstalks at, vii. 63;
image of Demeter at, vii. 64;
prayer for rain at, vii. 69;
the rites of, essentially concerned with the cultivation of the corn, vii. 88;
Varro on the rites of, vii. 88
Eleutherian games at Plataea, vii. 80
Elfin race averse to iron, iii. 232 sq.
Elgin, medical use of mistletoe in, xi. 84
Elgon, Mount, ix. 246;
the Bagishu of, i. 103
Eli, the sons of, their loose conduct, v. 76
Elijah as a rain-maker, i. 258 n. 3;
patch of rye left at harvest for, vii. 233
Elipandus of Toledo, on the divinity of Christians, i. 407
Elis, titular kings at, i. 46 n.;
Dionysus hailed as a bull by the women of, vii. 17;
the ivory shoulder of Pelops at, viii. 263 sq.
——, law of, ix. 352 n. 2
Elisha prophesies to music, v. 53, 54;
finds water in the desert, v. 53, 75
Elizabeth, Queen, touches for scrofula, i. 368
Elk, a totem of the Omahas, viii. 25;
treated with respect, viii. 240;
embryos of, not eaten, viii. 243
Elk clan of the Omaha Indians, their belief as to effect of touching an elk, viii. 29;
their sacred clam shell, x. 11
Ellgoth, in Silesia, the King's Race at Whitsuntide at, ii. 84
Elliot, R. H., on Indian indifference to death, iv. 136
Ellis, A. B., on Ewe superstition as to eating, iii. 116;
on the supposed material connexion between a man [pg 257] and his name, iii. 323;
on sacred prostitution in West Africa, v. 65 sq., 69 sq.;
on tattoo marks of priests, v. 74 n. 4;
on an ordeal of chastity, v. 115
Ellis, William, on the inspiration of priests in the Southern Pacific, i. 377 sq.;
on the observation of the Pleiades in the Society Islands, vii. 312;
on faditras in Madagascar, ix. 33 sq.;
on Polynesian mythology, ix. 80
Ellwangen, in Würtemberg, the Goat at threshing at, vii. 287
Elm wood in the pile-dwellings of the Po, ii. 353;
used to kindle need-fire, x. 299
Elopango, in Mexico, human sacrifices at, vii. 237
Eloquence, homoeopathic charms to ensure, i. 156
Elpenor, the grave of, on the headland of Circe, ii. 188
Elves, fear of, iii. 283
Elymais, Nanaea the goddess of, i. 37 n. 2
Emain, in Ireland, annual fair at, iv. 100
—— Macha, in Ireland, pagan cemetery at, iv. 101
Embalming, flight and pursuit of man who opened body for purpose of, ii. 309 n. 2;
as a means of prolonging the life of the soul, iv. 4;
dead bodies of kings of Uganda embalmed, vi. 168
Embers of bonfires planted in fields, x. 117, 121;
stuck in cabbage gardens, x. 174, 175;
promote growth of crops, x. 337.
See also Ashes and Sticks, charred
—— of Midsummer fires a protection against conflagration, x. 188;
a protection against lightning, x. 190
Emblica officinalis, a sacred tree in Northern India, ii. 51
Embodied evils, expulsion of, ix. 170 sqq.
Embodiment, human, of the corn-spirit, viii. 333
Emboq Sri, rice-bride in Java, vii. 200 sq.
Embryos of elk not eaten, viii. 243
Emesa, sun-god Heliogabalus at, v. 35
Emetic as mode of purification, iii. 175, 245;
pretended, in auricular confession, iii. 214
Emetics used before eating new corn, viii. 73, 75 sq., 76, 135;
sacred, employed by the Creek Indians, viii. 74;
as remedies for sins, ix. 263
Emily plain of Central Australia, xi. 238
Emin Pasha, on the Monbutto custom of lengthening the head, ii. 297 n. 7;
his reception in a village, iii. 108
Emma, widow of Ethelred and wife of Canute, ii. 282 sq.
Emmenthal, in Switzerland, superstition as to Midsummer Day in the, xi. 27;
use of orpine at Midsummer in the, xi. 62 n.
Empedocles, his claim to divinity, i. 390;
leaps into the crater of Etna, v. 181;
his doctrine of transmigration, viii. 300 sqq.;
his resemblance to Buddha, viii. 302;
his theory of the material universe like that of Herbert Spencer, viii. 303 sqq.;
as a forerunner of Darwin, viii. 306;
his posing as a god, viii. 307
Emperor of China, funeral of an, v. 294
Emperors of China as priests, i. 47
Emu-wren, called men's “brother” among the Kurnai, xi. 215 n. 1, 216, 218
Emu's flesh eaten to make eater swift-footed, viii. 145;
fat not allowed to touch the ground, x. 13
Emus, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 85 sq.
En, the, of Burma, worship the spirits of hills and trees, ii. 41
En gidon, a Masai clan, i. 343
En-jemusi, the, of British East Africa, women's work among the, vii. 118
Ἐναγίζειν distinguished from Θύειν, v. 316 n. 1
Enchanters of crops, foods forbidden to, vii. 100
Encheleans or Eel-men in Illyria, iv. 84
Encounter Bay tribe of South Australia, magic practised on refuse of food by, iii. 127;
their fear of women's blood, iii. 251;
namesakes of the dead change their names in the, iii. 355;
changes in their vocabulary caused by their fear of naming the dead, iii. 359;
names of the recent dead not mentioned in the, iii. 372;
division of work between the sexes in the, vii. 126;
their dread of women at menstruation, x. 76
Endle, Rev. S., on the fear of demons among the Kacharis, ix. 93
Endymion and the Moon, i. 18;
set his sons to race at Olympia, ii. 299;
the sunken sun overtaken by the moon, iv. 90;
his tomb at Olympia, iv. 287
Enemies, mutilation of dead, viii. 271 sq.
Enemy, animal, of god originally identical with god, vii. 23, viii. 16 sq., 31
——, charms to disable an, vi. 252
Energy, the conservation of, viii. 226;
sanctity and uncleanness, different forms of the same mysterious, x. 97 sq.
Eneti, in Washington State, rain-charm at, i. 309
Englam-Mana, a tribe of New Guinea, their mode of making fire, ii. 254
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England, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 168;
custom of anointing the weapon instead of the wound in the eastern counties of, i. 203;
green branches and flowers on May Day in the north of, ii. 60;
May garlands in, ii. 60 sqq.;
the May Queen in, ii. 87;
rolling down a slope on May Day in, ii. 103;
oak and fir in the sunken forests and peat-bogs of, ii. 351;
acorns eaten in, ii. 356; mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95;
harvest custom in, v. 237;
the Feast of All Souls in, vi. 78 sq.;
superstitions as to the wren in, viii. 317 sq.;
mummer called the Straw-bear in, viii. 328 sq.;
cure for warts in, ix. 48;
the King of the Bean in, ix. 313;
fires kindled on the Eve of Twelfth Day in, ix. 318;
the Festival of Fools in, ix. 336 n. 1;
the Boy Bishop in, ix. 337 sq.;
belief as to menstruous women in, x. 96 n. 1;
Midsummer fires in, x. 196 sqq.;
the Yule log in, x. 255 sqq.;
the need-fire in, x. 286 sqq.;
Midsummer giants in, xi. 36 sqq.;
divination by orpine at Midsummer in, xi. 61;
fern-seed at Midsummer in, xi. 65;
the north of, mistletoe used to make the dairy thrive in, xi. 85 sq.;
birth-trees in, xi. 165;
children passed through cleft ash-trees as a cure for rupture or rickets in, xi. 168 sqq.;
oak-mistletoe in, xi. 316
English cure for whooping-cough, rheumatism, and boils, xi. 180
—— custom of undoing locks and bolts at a death, iii. 307
—— kings touch for scrofula, i. 368 sqq.
—— middle class, their clinging to life, iv. 146
—— superstition as to water-fairies, iii. 94
Enigmas, ceremonial use of, ix. 121 n. 3.
See Riddles
Ἐννέωρος βασίλευε, iv. 70 n. 3
Enniskerry, near Dublin, Whit-Monday custom observed near, ii. 103 n. 3
Ennius, on Hora and Quirinus, vi. 233
Ensanzi, a forest of Central Africa, dead Bahima kings carried to, viii. 288
Ensival, in Belgium, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 108
Entellus monkey, sacrifice of an, ix. 208 sq.
Entlebuch in Switzerland, expulsion of Posterli at, ix. 214
Entraigues, hunting the wren at, viii. 321
Entrails of cattle tabooed as food, i. 119;
divination by the inspection of, i. 344;
external soul in, xi. 146 sq., 152
“Entry of Osiris into the moon,” vi. 130
Enylus, king of Byblus, v. 15 n.
Ephesus, Artemis of, i. 7, 37 sq., ii. 128, v. 269;
titular kings at, i. 47;
the Essenes or King Bees at, ii. 135 sq.;
Hecate at, v. 291;
the priesthood of Apollo and Artemis at, vi. 243 sq.;
Demeter worshipped at, vii. 63 n. 14
Ephors, Spartan, bound to observe the sky for omens every eighth year, iv. 58 sq.
Epic of Kings, Firdusi's, x. 104
Epicurus, sacrifices offered to, i. 105
Epidaurus, Aesculapius at, v. 80, ix. 47;
Demeter worshipped at, vii. 63 n. 14
Epidemic, creeping through a tunnel as a remedy for an, x. 283 sq.
Epidemics thought to be caused by incest, ii. 108;
attributed to evil spirits, iii. 30;
sacrifices in times of, iv. 176 n. 1;
attributed to demons, ix. 111 sqq.;
kept off by means of a plough, ix. 172 sq.;
sent away in toy chariots, ix. 193 sq.
Epilepsy, supposed cause of, iii. 83;
attributed to possession by a demon, iii. 235;
transferred to leaves, ix. 2;
Highland treatment of, ix. 68 n. 2;
Roman cure for, ix. 68;
nails used in cure for, ix. 68, 330;
Hindoo cure for, ix. 69 n.;
cured by beating, ix. 260;
amulet a protection against, ix. 331;
yellow mullein a protection against, xi. 63;
mistletoe a cure for, xi. 78, 83, 84.
See also Falling sickness
Epimenides, the Cretan seer, his rambling soul, iii. 50 n. 2
Épinal, “killing the dog” at harvest at, vii. 272 sq.;
Lenten fires at, x. 109
Epiphany, the 6th of January, v. 305;
part of Christmas Boar given to cattle on, vii. 302;
annual expulsion of the powers of evil at, ix. 165 sqq.;
the King of the Bean on, ix. 313 sqq.
See also Twelfth Night
Epirus, the kings of, their bones scattered by Lysimachus, vi. 104;
the Athamanes of, vii. 129
Epitherses and the death of the Great Pan, iv. 6
Epithets applied to Demeter, vii. 63 sq.
Eponymate, the Assyrian, iv. 116 sq.
Eponymous magistrates, iv. 117 n. 1
Eponyms, annual, as scapegoats, ix. 39 sqq.
Equinox, the autumnal, Egyptian festival of “the nativity of the sun's walking-stick” after the, i. 312
——, the spring (vernal), festival at Upsala at, ii. 364;
Babylonian festival of the, iv. 110;
drama of Summer and Winter at, iv. 257;
custom of [pg 259] swinging at, iv. 284;
resurrection of Attis at, v. 273, 307 sq.;
date of the Crucifixion assigned to, v. 307;
tradition that the world was created at, v. 307;
human sacrifice offered soon after, vii. 239;
festival of Cronus at, ix. 352;
Persian marriages at, ix. 406 n. 3
Equos, a Gallic month, ix. 343 n.
Erech, Babylonian city, Ishtar at, ix. 398, 399
Erechtheum, on the Acropolis of Athens, perpetual lamp of Athena in the, ii. 199;
sacred serpent in, iv. 87, v. 87
Erechtheus or Erichthonius, and Minerva (Athena), i. 21;
king of Athens, the Erechtheum his house, ii. 199;
in relation to the sacred serpent on the Acropolis, iv. 86 sq., v. 87;
identified with Poseidon, iv. 87;
voluntary death of the daughters of, iv. 192 n. 3;
his incest with his daughter, v. 44 n. 1;
the Eleusinian mysteries instituted in the reign of, vii. 70
Eregh (the ancient Cybistra) in Cappadocia, v. 120, 122
Eresh-Kigal, Babylonian goddess, v. 9
Erfurt, harvest customs in the district of, vii. 136, 221
Ergamenes, king of Meroe, slays the priests, iv. 15
Erhard, Professor A., on the martyrdom of St. Dasius, ii. 310 n. 1
Erica-tree, Osiris in the, vi. 9, 108, 109
Erichthonius, son of the fire-god Hephaestus, ii. 199.
See Erechtheus
Erigone, her suicide by hanging, iv. 281 sq.
—— and Icarius, first-fruits of vintage offered to, viii. 133
Erin, the king idol of, iv. 183
Eriphyle, the necklace of, v. 32 n. 2
Eriskay, fairies at Hallowe'en in, x. 226;
salt cake at Hallowe'en in, x. 238 sq.
Erithasean Apollo, sacred trees in the sanctuary of, ii. 121
Erlangen, the “carrying out of Death” in the villages near, iv. 234
Erman, Professor Adolf, on the confusion of magic and religion in ancient Egypt, i. 230;
on Anubis at Abydos, vi. 18 n. 3;
on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, vi. 91;
on the development of Egyptian religion, vi. 122 n. 2
Erme or Nenneri, gardens of Adonis in Sardinia, v. 244
Errephoroi or Arrephoroi at Athens, ii. 199
Errol, the Hays of, their fate bound up with oak-mistletoe, xi. 283 sq.
Error of judging savages by European standards, iv. 197 sq.
Ertingen, in Würtemberg, the Lazy Man on Midsummer Day at, ii. 83;
festival of St. George at, ii. 337
Erukhan plant (Calotropis gigatea), man married to, in India, ii. 57 n. 4
Eruptions of volcanoes supposed to be caused by incest, ii. 111
Erysipelas, fox's tongue a remedy for, viii. 270
Erzgebirge, Shrovetide custom in the, iv. 208 sq.;
young men and women beat each other with something green at Christmas in the, ix. 271
Esagil or Esagila, temple of Marduk at Babylon, iv. 113, ix. 356
Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, his great inscription, iv. 116
Escouvion or Scouvion, the Great and the Little, in Belgium, x. 108
Eshmun, Phoenician deity, v. 111 n. 6
Esne, the festal calendar of, vi. 49 sq.
Esquiline Hill at Rome, its name derived from oaks, ii. 185;
the oak groves of the, ii. 320
Esquimaux, their belief as to the sculpin and rain, i. 288;
play cat's cradle to detain the sun, i. 316 sq., vii. 103 n. 1;
play cup-and-ball to hasten the return of the sun, i. 317;
their ways of calming the wind, i. 327 sq.;
their conception of the soul, iii. 27;
their dread of being photographed, iii. 96;
ceremony at the reception of strangers among the, iii. 108;
avoid dishes used by women in childbed, iii. 145;
their ideas as to the dangerous vapour exhaled by lying-in women, iii. 152;
taboos observed by hunters among the Esquimaux after killing sea-beasts, iii. 205 sq.;
use of iron implements tabooed at certain times among the, iii. 228;
taboos observed by them after a death, iii. 237;
take new names when they are old, iii. 319;
unwilling to tell their names, iii. 328;
namesakes of the dead among the, iii. 371;
their belief that animals understand human speech, iii. 399;
suicide among the, iv. 43;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65;
their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 131 n.;
dramatic contest between Winter and Summer among the, iv. 259;
their belief in the resurrection of seals, viii. 257;
careful not to break bones of deer, viii. 258 n. 2;
their reluctance to let dogs gnaw the bones of animals, viii. 259;
their superstition as to various meats, x. 13 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 55;
ceremony of the new fire among the, [pg 260] x. 134;
their custom at eclipses, x. 162 n.
Esquimaux of Aivilik and Iglulik, magical telepathy among the, i. 121 sq.
—— of Alaska, taboos observed by women in absence of whalers among the, i. 121;
their annual festival of the dead, v. 51 sq.;
their custom at killing a fox, viii. 267;
child's soul deposited in a bag among the, xi. 155
—— of Baffin Land, boys forbidden to play cat's cradle among the, i. 113;
their use of a fox in homoeopathic magic, i. 151;
their women in mourning may not mention the names of animals, iii. 399;
their custom when a boy has killed his first seal, viii. 257;
their expulsion of Sedna, ix. 125 sq.
—— or Inuit of Bering Strait, iii. 205;
manslayers among the, i. 9;
their use of magical images, i. 70;
their annual festival of bladders, iii. 206 sq.;
drank blood of foes to acquire their bravery, viii. 150;
their ceremony of restoring the bladders of dead sea-beasts to the sea, viii. 247 sqq.;
uncleanness of girl at puberty among the, viii. 268 n. 4;
cut the sinews of bad dead men to prevent their ghosts from walking, viii. 272;
their masquerades, ix. 379 sq.;
their belief as to menstruous women, x. 91
——, the Central, dietary rules of, viii. 84;
their ceremonious treatment of dead sea-beasts, viii. 246;
the tug-of-war among the, ix. 174
—— of Hudson Bay, propitiate the spirit who controls the reindeer, viii. 245 sq.
—— of Labrador, their fear of demons, ix. 79 sq.
—— of Point Barrow, Alaska, return the bones of seals to the sea, viii. 258 n. 2;
their expulsion of the mischievous spirit Tuña, ix. 124 sq.
Esquimaux mourners plug their nostrils, iii. 32
Essenes or King Bees at Ephesus, i. 47 n. 2, ii. 135 sq.
Essex, greasing the weapon instead of the wound in, i. 204;
May garlands in, ii. 60;
hunting the wren in, viii. 320
Esther, the story of, acted as a comedy at Purim, ix. 364;
her name equivalent to Ishtar, Astarte, ix. 365;
fast of, ix. 397 sq.
——, the book of, its date and purpose, ix. 360;
its Persian colouring, ix. 362, 401;
based on a Babylonian myth, ix. 398;
duplication of the personages in, ix. 400 sq.;
the personages unmasked, ix. 405 sqq.
—— and Mordecai equivalent to Ishtar and Marduk, ix. 405;
the duplicates of Vashti and Haman, ix. 405 sq.
Esther and Vashti, ix. 365;
temporary queens, ix. 401
Esthonia, the Christmas Boar in, vii. 302;
bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 29;
flowers gathered for divination and magic at Midsummer in, xi. 53 sq.
Esthonian belief as to the effect of seeing women's blood, iii. 251
—— celebration of St. John's Day by swings and bonfires, iv. 280
—— charm to make a wolf disgorge his prey, i. 135
—— charms to make cabbages thrive, i. 136 sq.
—— custom of throwing a knife, hat, stick, or stone at a whirlwind, i. 329, 330
—— fishermen, their use of curses for good luck, i. 280 sq.
—— mode of strengthening weakly children by means of hemp seed, vii. 11
—— peasants threaten cabbages to make them grow, ii. 22;
loth to mention wild beasts by their proper names, iii. 398;
regulate their sowing and planting by the moon, vi. 135;
their treatment of weevils, viii. 274
—— reapers slash the wind with their sickles, i. 329;
their belief as to pains in the back, vii. 285
Esthonians, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 211, 212;
their ways of raising the wind, i. 323;
their dread of Finnish witches and wizards, i. 325;
their sacred trees, ii. 43;
their worship of Metsik, a mischievous forest-spirit, ii. 55;
their folk-tale of a tree-elf, ii. 71 sqq.;
their custom of leading a bride to the hearth, ii. 231;
their custom of leading a bride thrice round a burning tree, ii. 234;
St. George's Day among the, ii. 330 sqq.;
sacrifice under holy trees for the welfare of their horses, ii. 332;
their thunder-god Taara, ii. 367;
oak worshipped by the, ii. 367;
their superstition as to a water-mill, iii. 232;
refuse to taste blood, iii. 240;
preserve their nail-parings against the day of judgment, iii. 280;
their belief as to shooting stars, iv. 63, 66 sq.;
their custom on Shrove Tuesday, iv. 233, 252 sq.;
their celebration of St. John's Day, iv. 280;
their ceremony at the new moon, vi. 143;
their Christmas Boar, vii. 302 sq.;
their mode of transferring bad luck to trees, ix. 54;
their expulsion of the devil, ix. 173;
Midsummer fires among the, x. 179 sq.
—— of Oesel, their belief as to absence of souls from bodies, iii. 41 sq.;
call the [pg 261] last sheaf the Rye-boar, vii. 298, 300;
their custom at eating new corn, viii. 51;
cull St. John's herbs on St. John's Day, xi. 49
Estremadura, acorns as fodder for hogs in, ii. 356
Etatin, on the Cross River, in Southern Nigeria, the chief as fetish-man at, i. 349
Eteobutads as umbrella-bearers at the festival of Scira, x. 20 n. 1
Eteocles and Polynices, their grave at Thebes, ii. 33
Eternal life, initiates born again to, in the rites of Cybele and Attis, v. 274 sq.
Etesian winds, v. 35 n. 1
Ethelbald, king of the West Saxons, marries his stepmother, ii. 283
Ethelbert, king of Kent, ii. 283
Ethelwulf, king of the West Saxons, ii. 283
Ethical evolution, iii. 218 sq.
—— precepts developed out of savage taboos, iii. 214
Ethiopia, priestly kings in, iii. 13;
shut up in their palace, iii. 124;
chosen for their beauty, iv. 38 sq.
Ethiopian kings of Meroe put to death, iv. 15, 38
Ethiopians, succession to the kingdom among the, ii. 296 sq.
Etiquette at courts of barbarian kings, iv. 39 sq.
Etna, Mount, Typhon buried under, v. 156, 157;
the death of Empedocles on, v. 181;
the ashes of, v. 194;
offerings thrown into the craters of, v. 221;
Demeter said to have lit her torches at the craters of, vii. 57
Eton, Midsummer fires at, x. 197
Eton College, Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
Etruria, funeral games at Agylla in, iv. 95;
actors fetched from, to Rome in time of plague, ix. 65
Etruscan crown, ii. 175 n. 1
—— letters, ii. 186, 186 n. 4
—— wizards, i. 310
Etruscans, female kinship among the, ii. 286 sq.;
their alleged Lydian descent, ii. 287;
their ceremony at founding cities, iv. 157
Etymology, its uncertainty as a base for mythological theories, viii. 41 n.
Euboea subject to earthquakes, v. 211;
date of threshing in, v. 232 n.;
harvest custom in, v. 238
Eubuleus, legendary swineherd, brother of Triptolemus, viii. 19
Eubulus, sacrifices offered to, at Eleusis, vii. 56
Eucharist partaken of by Catholics fasting, viii. 83
Eudanemi at Athens, i. 325 n. 1
Eudoxus of Cnidus, Greek astronomer, on the Egyptian festivals, vi. 35 n. 2;
corrections of the Greek calendar perhaps due to, vii. 81;
on the utility of the pig in ancient Egypt, viii. 30
Euhemerism, a theory of mythology, ix. 385
Euhemerists, ix. 385
Eukleia, epithet of Artemis, i. 37 n. 1
Eumolpids direct the sacrifices of first-fruits, vii. 56
Eumolpus, prince of Eleusis, vii. 37;
said to have founded the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 70;
founder of priestly Eleusinian family, vii. 73
Eunuch priests of Ephesian Artemis, i. 38;
of the Mother Goddess, v. 206;
in the service of Asiatic goddesses of fertility, v. 269 sq.;
in various lands, v. 270 n. 2;
of Attis tattooed with pattern of ivy, v. 278;
of Cybele, vi. 258
Eunuchs, dances of, v. 270 n. 2, 271 n.;
dedicated to a goddess in India, v. 271 n.;
sacred, at Hierapolis-Bambyce, their rule as to the pollution of death, vi. 272;
perform a ceremony for the fertility of the fields, x. 340
Euphemisms employed for certain animals, iii. 397 sqq.;
for smallpox, iii. 400, 410, 411, 416
Euphorbia antiquorum, cactus, hung at door of house where there is a lying-in woman, iii. 155
—— lathyris, caper-spurge, sometimes identified with the mythical springwort, xi. 69
Euphorbus the Trojan, the soul of Pythagoras in, viii. 300
Euphorion of Chalcis, Greek writer, on Roman indifference to death, iv. 143, 144
Euripides, the Hippolytus of, i. 25;
on Artemis as a midwife, i. 37;
on the dragon at Delphi, iv. 79;
on the death of Pentheus, vi. 98 n. 5;
his account of Aegisthus pelting the tomb of Agamemnon with stones, ix. 19;
his play on Meleager, xi. 103 n. 2
Europa, a personification of the moon conceived as a cow, ii. 88;
and Zeus, iv. 73;
her wanderings, iv. 89
Europe, dancing or leaping high as a homoeopathic charm to make crops grow high in, i. 137;
the Hand of Glory in, i. 148 sq.;
belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167;
treatment of the navel-string and afterbirth in, i. 198 sqq.;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210 sq.;
confusion of magic and religion in modern, i. 231-233;
the belief in magic in modern, i. 235 sq.;
forests of ancient, ii. 7 sq.;
the May-tree [pg 262] or May-pole as an instrument of fertility in, ii. 51 sq.;
relics of tree-worship in modern, ii. 59 sqq.;
Midsummer festival in, ii. 272 sq.;
diffusion of the oak in, ii. 349 sqq.;
peat-bogs of, ii. 350 sqq.;
the lake-dwellings of, ii. 352 sq.;
fear of having one's likeness taken in, iii. 100;
spitting as a charm in, iii. 279;
belief as to consummation of marriage being impeded by knots and locks in, iii. 299;
beliefs as to shooting stars in, iv. 66 sqq.;
fear of death in, iv. 135 sq., 146;
custom of showing money to the new moon in, vi. 148 sq.;
barley and wheat cultivated in prehistoric, vii. 79;
transference of evil in, ix. 47 sqq.;
faith in magic and witchcraft in Christian, ix. 89;
annual expulsion of demons and witches in, ix. 155 sqq.;
annual expulsion of evils in, ix. 207 sq.;
folk-custom of “carrying out Death” in, ix. 227 sq.;
masquerades in modern, ix. 251 sq.;
superstitions as to menstruous women in, x. 96 sq.;
the fire-festivals of, x. 106 sqq.;
great dread of witchcraft in, xi. 342;
birth-trees in, xi. 165;
belief in, that strength of witches and wizards is in their hair, xi. 158
Europe, Eastern, great popular festival of herdsmen and shepherds on St. George's Day in, ii. 330
——, Eastern and Central, custom of beating people and cattle in spring in, ix. 266
——, mediaeval, belief in demons in, ix. 105 sq.;
human scapegoats in, ix. 214
——, Northern, human sacrifices in, iv. 214;
Corn-mother and Corn-maiden in, vii. 131 sqq.
—— South-Eastern, rain-making ceremonies in, i. 272 sqq.;
superstitions as to shadows in, iii. 89 sq.
European custom as to green bushes on May Day, ii. 56
—— processions of animals or of men disguised as animals, viii. 325
—— rule that children's nails should not be paired, iii. 262 sq.
Euros, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 89;
homoeopathic charm to catch, i. 162
Eurydice, Orpheus and, xi. 294
Eurylochus rids Aegina of a snake, iv. 87 n. 5
Eusebius on sacred prostitution, i. 30 n. 3, v. 37 n. 2, 73 n. 1
Euyuk in Cappadocia, Hittite palace at, v. 123, 132, 133 n.;
bull worshipped at, v. 164
Evadne and Capaneus, v. 177 n. 3
Evans, D. Silvan, on the sin-eater in Wales, ix. 44
Evans, Sebastian, as to a passage in the History of the Holy Graal, iv. 122 n. 1
Eve and Adam, Mr. W. R. Paton's theory of, ix. 259 n. 3
Eve, Christmas, the fern blooms on, xi. 66
——, Easter, in Albania, iv. 265;
the fern blooms on, xi. 66
——, Fingan, in the Isle of Man, x. 266
—— of St. John (Midsummer Eve), Russian ceremony on, iv. 262
—— of Samhain (Hallowe'en) in Ireland, x. 139.
See also Christmas Eve, Easter Eve, St. John's Eve, etc.
Evelyn, John, on Charles II. touching for scrofula, i. 369
Evening Star, Keats's sonnet to the, i. 166;
the goddess of the, ix. 369 n. 1
Everek (Caesarea), in Asia Minor, creeping through a rifted rock at, xi. 189
Evergreen oak, the Golden Bough grew on, ii. 379
—— trees in Italy, i. 8
Evessen, in Brunswick, toothache nailed into a tree at, ix. 59 sq.
Evil, the transference of, ix. 1 sqq.;
transferred to other people, ix. 5 sqq., 47 sqq.;
transferred to sticks and stones, ix. 8 sqq.;
transferred to animals, ix. 31 sqq., 49 sqq.;
transferred to men, ix. 38 sqq.;
transference of, in Europe, ix. 47 sqq.;
transferred to inanimate objects, ix. 53 sq.;
transferred to trees or bushes, ix. 54 sqq.
See also Evils
Evil Eye, bad names a protection against the, i. 280;
dreaded at eating, iii. 116 sq.;
boys dressed as girls to avert the, vi. 260;
bridegroom disfigured in order to avert the, vi. 261;
disguises to avert the, vi. 262;
preservatives against the, viii. 326 n. 3;
rain-water mixed with tar, a protection against the, x. 17.
See also Eye, the Evil
—— spirit, mode of cure for possession by an, xi. 186
—— spirits transferred from men to animals, ix. 31;
banishment of, ix. 86;
driven away at the New Year, x. 134 sq.;
kept off by fire, x. 282, 285 sq.;
St. John's herbs a protection against, xi. 49;
kept off by flowers gathered at Midsummer, xi. 53 sq.;
creeping through cleft trees to escape the pursuit of, xi. 173 sqq.
See also Demons
Evil-Merodach, Babylonian king, ix. 367 n. 2
Evils transferred to trees, ix. 54 sqq.;
nailed into trees, walls, etc., ix. 59 [pg 263] sqq.;
public expulsion of, ix. 109 sqq., 185 sqq.;
periodic expulsion of, ix. 123 sqq., 198 sqq.;
expulsion of embodied, ix. 170 sqq.;
expulsion of, in a material vehicle, ix. 185 sqq.;
expulsion of, timed to coincide with some well-marked change of season, ix. 224 sq.
See also Expulsion
Evolution of kings out of magicians or medicine-men, i. 420 sq.;
industrial, from uniformity to diversity of function, i. 421;
political, from democracy to despotism, i. 421;
ethical, iii. 218 sq.;
religious, powerful influence of the fear of the dead on the course of, viii. 36 sq.
—— and dissolution, viii. 305 sq.
Ewe, white-footed, as scapegoat, ix. 192 sq.
See also Ewes
Ewe farmers fear to wound the Earth goddess, v. 90
—— hunters, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212;
of Togo-land, their ceremony after killing an antelope, viii. 244
—— negroes, their festival of new yams, viii. 58 sqq.;
their belief as to the spirit-land, viii. 105 sq.;
their ceremonies after killing leopards, viii. 228 sqq.;
feed their nets, viii. 240 n. 1;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 82
—— negroes of Guinea worship falling stars, iv. 61 sq.
—— negroes of the Slave Coast, their charm to catch a runaway slave, i. 317;
their reverence for silk-cotton trees, ii. 15;
human wives of gods among the, ii. 149;
taboos observed by their kings, iii. 9;
their belief as to spirits entering the body through the mouth, iii. 116;
their kings not to be seen eating or drinking, iii. 119;
penance for killing a python among the, iii. 222;
a mother's vow among the, iii. 263;
their belief that a man can be injured through his name, iii. 323;
rebirth of ancestors among the, iii. 369;
sacred prostitution among the, v. 65 sq.;
worship pythons, v. 83 n. 1;
their conception of the rain-god as a horseman, viii. 45;
their belief in demons, ix. 74 sqq.
—— negroes of Togo-land, their festival in honour of Earth, iii. 247;
reincarnation of the dead among the, iii. 369;
their belief in the marriage of Sky with Earth, v. 282 n. 2;
their use of clay images as substitutes to save the lives of people, viii. 105 sq.;
their worship of the Earth, viii. 115;
their worship of goddess Mawu Sodza, viii. 115;
their propitiation of slain leopards, wild buffaloes, etc., viii. 228 sqq.
Ewe-speaking negroes deem the heart the seat of courage and intellect, viii. 149
—— -speaking people of West Africa, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 210;
eat elephant's flesh to become strong, viii. 143
Ewes and rams, the time for coupling, ii. 328, 328 n. 4
Exaggerations of anthropological theories, i. 333
Exchange of wives at appearance of the Aurora Australis, iv. 267 n. 1;
of dress between men and women in rites, vi. 259 n. 3;
of dress at marriage, vi. 260 sqq.;
of dress at circumcision, vi. 263
Exclusion of strangers, iii. 108 sq., vii. 94, 111
Excommunication of human scapegoat, ix. 254
Excuses offered by savages to the animals they kill, viii. 222 sqq.
Execution, peculiar modes of, for members of royal families, iii. 241 sqq.;
Roman mode of, iv. 144;
by stoning, ix. 24 n. 2
Executioners, their precautions against the ghosts of their victims, iii. 171 sq.;
seclusion and scarification of, iii. 180 sq.;
taste the blood of their victims, viii. 155
Exeter, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
Exile of gods for perjury, iv. 70 n. 1
Exodus (xiii. 1 sq., 12, xxii. 29 sq., xxxiv. 19), on the sanctification of the first-born, iv. 172
Exogamous clans in the Pelew Islands, vi. 204
—— classes in Duke of York Island, xi. 248 n.
Exogamy, ii. 271, iv. 130
Exorcising harmful influence of strangers, iii. 102 sqq.
Exorcism of demons of sickness, iii. 105 sq.;
of ghosts after a funeral, iii. 106 sq.;
of demons by devil dancers, iv. 216;
by means of music, v. 54 sq.;
of devils in Morocco, ix. 63;
of demons in China, ix. 99;
annual, of the evil spirit in Japan, ix. 143 sq.;
of spirits at sowing the seed, ix. 235;
Nicobarese ceremony of, ix. 262;
of evil spirits at a funeral ceremony, x. 5;
and ordeals, x. 66;
at Easter, x. 123;
of vermin with torches, x. 340;
use of St. John's wort in, xi. 55;
use of mugwort in, xi. 60;
by vervain, xi. 62 n. 4.
See also Demons and Expulsion
Exorcists, ix. 2 sq., 33
Expiation by means of blood for sexual crimes, ii. 107 sqq.;
for adultery or fornication, ii. 109 sq.;
for incest, ii. [pg 264] 110 sq., 115, 116, 129;
for violating the sanctity of a grove, ii. 122;
for hearing thunder, iii. 14;
for contact with a sacred chief, iii. 133 sq.;
for miscarriage in childbed, iii. 153 sqq.;
for bringing an iron tool into the grove of the Arval Brothers, iii. 226;
for killing sacred animals, iv. 216 sq.;
for suicide by hanging, iv. 282;
for homicide, v. 299 n. 2;
Roman, for prodigies, vi. 244;
for the defilement of the Eleusinian plain, vii. 74;
for agricultural operations, vii. 228;
for sin, ix. 39.
See also Atonement and Purification
Expiatory sacrifices, Greek ritual of, viii. 27
Expulsion of evils, ix. 109 sqq.;
the direct or immediate and the indirect or mediate, ix. 109, 224;
occasional, ix. 109 sqq., 185 sqq.;
periodic, ix. 123 sqq., 198 sqq.;
annual, of demons and witches in Europe, ix. 155 sqq., x. 135;
of Trows in Shetland, ix. 168 sq.;
of embodied evils, ix. 170 sqq.;
of evils in a material vehicle, ix. 185 sqq.;
of evils timed to coincide with some well-marked change of season, ix. 224 sq.;
of devils timed to coincide with seasons of agricultural year, ix. 225;
of hunger at Chaeronea, ix. 252;
of winter, ceremony of the, ix. 404 sq.
External soul in afterbirth or navel-string, i. 200 sq.;
in folk-tales, xi. 95 sqq.;
in folk-custom, xi. 153 sqq.;
in inanimate things, xi. 153 sqq.;
in plants, xi. 159 sqq.;
in animals, xi. 196 sqq.;
kept in totem, xi. 220 sqq.
See also Souls, external
Extinction of fires on chief's death, ii. 217;
in village or parish before the making of “living fire” or need-fire, ii. 237, 238;
at king's death, ii. 261 sqq., 267;
in houses after any death, ii. 267 sq.;
annual, of the sacred fire at Rome, ii. 267;
of common fires before the kindling of the need-fire, x. 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277 sq., 279, 283, 285, 288, 289, 289 sq., 291, 291 sq., 292, 294, 297, 298 sq.;
of fires after tree has been kindled by lightning, xi. 297 sq.
Extinguishing fire, power of, ascribed to priests, i. 231,
and to chaste women, ii. 240 n. 2
Eye as a symbol of Osiris, vi. 121;
of sacrificial ox cut out, vi. 251 sq.
See also Eyes
——, the Evil, precautions against the, at meals, iii. 116 sq.;
boys dressed as girls to avert the, vi. 260;
bride-groom disfigured in order to avert, vi. 261;
cast on cattle, x. 302, 303;
oleander a remedy for sickness caused by, xi. 51.
See also Evil Eye
Eye of Horus, vi. 17, 121, with n. 3
Eyelashes offered to the sun, i. 318
Eyeo, kings of, put to death, iv. 40 sq.
Eyeos, the, not allowed to behold the sea, iii. 9
Eyes smeared with eagle's gall to make them sharp-sighted, i. 154;
shut at prayer, viii. 81;
of owl eaten to make eater see in dark, viii. 144 sq.;
of men eaten, viii. 153;
of falcon used to impart sharpness of sight, viii. 164;
of slaughtered animals cut out, viii. 267 sqq., 271;
of dead enemies gouged out, viii. 271 sq.;
looking through flowers at the Midsummer fire thought to be good for the, x. 162, 163, 165 sq., 171, 174 sq., 344;
ashes or smoke of Midsummer fire supposed to benefit the, x. 214 sq.;
sore, attributed to witchcraft, x. 344;
mugwort a protection against sore, xi. 59;
of newly initiated lads closed, xi. 241
—— of the dead, Egyptian ceremony of opening the, vi. 15
Eyre, E. J., on menstruous women in Australia, x. 77
Ezekiel (viii. 10-12), on idolatrous practices of the Israelites, i. 87 n. 1;
(xxxii. 18-32), H. Gunkel's interpretation of, i. 101 n. 2;
(xiii. 17 sqq.), the hunting of souls in, iii. 77 n. 1;
(xvi. 20 sq., xx. 25, 26, 31), on the burnt sacrifice of children, iv. 169 n. 3;
(xx. 25, 26, 31), on the sacrifice of the first-born, iv. 171 sq.;
(viii. 14), on the mourning for Tammuz, v. 11, 17, 20;
(xxiii. 5 sq., 12), on the Assyrian cavalry, v. 25 n. 3;
(xxviii. 14, 16), on the king of Tyre, v. 114
E-zida, the temple of Nabu in Borsippa, iv. 110
Face of sleeper not to be painted or disfigured, lest his absent soul should not recognize his body, iii. 41;
of human scapegoat painted half white half black, ix. 220
Faces veiled to avert evil influences, iii. 120 sqq.;
of warriors blackened, iii. 163;
of manslayers blackened, iii. 169;
of bear-hunters blackened, vii. 291, 299;
blackened, vii. 302, viii. 321, 332, ix. 247, 314, 330;
of bear-hunters painted red and black, viii. 226;
of priests at exorcism reddened with paint and blood, ix. 189
Faditras among the Malagasy, ix. 33 sq.
Fàdy, taboo, iii. 327, viii. 46
“Faery dairts” thought to kill cattle, x. 303
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Fafnir, the dragon, slain by Sigurd, iii. 324, viii. 146
Failles, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 n. 1
Fair, great, at Uisnech in County Meath, x. 158.
See also Fairs
Fairies thought to be in eddies of wind, i. 329;
averse to iron, iii. 229, 232 sq.;
let loose at Hallowe'en, x. 224 sqq.;
carry off men's wives, x. 227;
at Hallowe'en, dancing with the, x. 227;
thought to kill cattle by their darts, x. 303;
active on Hallowe'en and May Day, xi. 184 n. 4, 185
Fairs of ancient Ireland, iv. 99 sqq.
Fairy Banner, Macleod's, i. 368
—— changelings, x. 151 n.;
mistletoe a protection against, xi. 283
Faiths of the world, the great, their little influence on common men, ix. 89
Falcon stone, at Errol, in Perthshire, xi. 283
Falcon's eyes used to impart sharpness of sight, viii. 164
Falerii, Juno at, ii. 190 n. 2
Faleshas, a Jewish sect of Abyssinia, remove the vein from the thighs of slaughtered animals, viii. 266 n. 1
Falkenauer district of Bohemia, custom at threshing in the, vii. 149
Falkenstein chapel of St. Wolfgang, creeping through a rifted rock near the, xi. 189
Fallacy of magic not easily detected, i. 242 sq.;
gradually detected, i. 372
Falling sickness transferred to fowl, ix. 52 sq.;
nails used in cure for, ix. 68, 330;
mistletoe a remedy for, xi. 83, 84.
See also Epilepsy
—— star as totem, iv. 61
—— stars, superstitions as to, iv. 58 sqq.;
associated with the souls of the dead, iv. 64 sqq.
Fallow, thrice-ploughed, vii. 66, 69;
lands allowed to lie, vii. 117, 123
False Bride, custom of the, vi. 262 n. 2
—— graves and corpses to deceive demons, viii. 98 sqq.
Falstaff, the death of, i. 168
Famenne in Namur, Lenten fires in, x. 108
Familiar spirits of wizards in boars, xi. 196 sq.
Families, royal, kings chosen from several, ii. 292 sqq.
Famine attributed to the anger of ghosts, iv. 103
Fan country, West Africa, custom of throwing branches on heaps in the, ix. 30 n. 2
—— negro, his belief as to the effect of seeing women's blood, iii. 251
Fan tribe of West Africa, chiefs as medicine-men in the, i. 349.
See also Fans
Fangola, a potent idol in Nias, viii. 102, 103
Fanning away ill luck, vii. 10
Fans of the French Congo, birth-trees among the, xi. 161
—— of the Gaboon, their theory of the external soul, xi. 200 sqq., 226 n. 1;
guardian spirits acquired in dreams among the, xi. 257
—— of West Africa, esteem the smith's craft sacred, i. 349;
their rule as to eating tortoises, viii. 140;
their custom of adding to heaps of leafy branches, ix. 30 n. 2;
custom at end of mourning among the, xi. 18
Fans in homoeopathic magic, i. 130 sq.
Fantee country, succession of slaves to the kingship in the, ii. 275
Faosa, a Malagasy month, vii. 9
Farghana, rain-producing well in, i. 301
Farinaceous deities, viii. 169
Farmer, calendar of the Egyptian, vi. 30 sqq.;
saturnine temperament of the, vi. 218
Farmer's wife, ceremony performed by her to promote the rice-crop, ii. 104;
pretence of threshing, vii. 149 sq.
Farmers, propitiation of vermin by, viii. 274 sqq.
Farnell, Dr. L. R., on Artemis as the patroness of childbirth, i. 36 sq.;
on Plautus, Casina (ii. 5, 23-29), ii. 379 n. 5;
on Greek religious music, v. 55 ns. 1 and 3;
on religious prostitution in Western Asia, v. 57 n. 1, 58 n. 2;
on the position of women in ancient religion, vi. 212 n. 1;
on the Flamen Dialis, vi. 227;
on the children of living parents in ritual, vi. 236 sq.;
on the festival of Laurel-bearing at Thebes, vi. 242 n.;
on eunuch priests of Cybele, vi. 258 n. 1;
on Thracian origin of Dionysus, vii. 3 n. 1;
on the biennial period of certain Greek festivals, vii. 15 n.;
on the resemblance of the artistic types of Demeter and Persephone, vii. 68 n. 1;
on Pan, viii. 2 n. 9
Farwardajan, a Persian festival of the dead, vi. 68
Fashoda, the capital of the Shilluk kings, iv. 18, 19, 21, 24
Faslane, on the Gareloch, Dumbartonshire, last standing corn called the Head or Maidenhead at, vii. 158, 268
Fast from bread in mourning for Attis, v. 272;
in the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 38;
before eating new fruits, viii. 73 sq., 76 sq.;
before the festival of the [pg 266] Mexican goddess of Maize, ix. 291 sq.;
from flesh, eggs, and grease at sowing, ix. 347 n. 4;
at puberty, xi. 222 n. 5
See also Fasts and Fasting
“Fast of Esther” before Purim, ix. 397 sq.
Fasting obligatory on woman during absence of her husband at whale-fishery, i. 121;
as a means of ensuring success in hunting, i. 121, 124;
obligatory on women during the absence of warriors, i. 131;
obligatory on all people left in camp during absence of warriors, iii. 157 n. 2;
rigorous, of warriors before going to war, iii. 161;
of warriors as a preparation for attacking the enemy, iii. 162;
of executioner after discharging his office, iii. 180;
of warriors after killing enemies, iii. 182, 183;
of eagle-hunters before trapping eagles, iii. 199;
of Catholics before partaking of the Eucharist, viii. 83;
of men and women at a dancing festival, x. 8 sqq.;
of girls at puberty, x. 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66;
of women at menstruation, x. 93, 94;
as preparation for gathering magical plants, xi. 45, 55 n. 1, 58
—— and continence observed by parents of twins, i. 266;
by Blackfoot priest, iii. 159 n.;
as preparation for office among the Peruvian Indians, iii. 159 n.;
of Indian warriors as preparation for war, iii. 163;
of whalers before whaling, iii. 191;
of hunters before hunting, iii. 198;
before ploughing and sowing, viii. 14, 15
Fastnachtsbär, viii. 325
Fasts imposed on heirs to thrones in South America, x. 19;
rules observed by Indians of Costa Rica during, x. 20
—— observed by the worshippers of Cybele and Attis, v. 280;
of Isis and Cybele, v. 302 n. 4
See also Fast and Fasting
Fat, anointing the body with, from superstitious motives, viii. 162 sq., 164, 165;
of emu not allowed to touch the ground, x. 13;
of crocodiles and snakes as unguent, x. 14
Fate of the king's life annually determined at a festival, ix. 356, 357
Father, reborn in his son, iv. 188 sqq., 287 (288 in Second Impression);
funeral rites performed for a, in the fifth month of his wife's pregnancy, iv. 189;
named after his son, v. 51 n. 4;
of a god, v. 51, 52;
dead, worshipped, vi. 175, 184 sq.;
the head of the family under a system of mother-kin, vi. 211
—— and child, supposed danger of resemblance between, iii. 88 sq., iv. 287 (288 in Second Impression)
—— of Heaven, title of the Esthonian thunder-god, ii. 367
—— and mother, their names not to be mentioned, iii. 337, 341;
names for, v. 281;
as epithets of Roman gods and goddesses, vi. 233 sqq.
——, Mother, and Son divinities represented at Boghaz-Keui, v. 140 sqq.
Father-deity of the Hittites, the god of the thundering sky, v. 134 sqq.
—— God succeeded by his divine son, iv. 5;
his emblem the bull, v. 164;
Attis as the, v. 281 sqq.;
often less important than Mother Goddess, v. 282
—— -in-law, his name not to be pronounced by his daughter-in-law, iii. 335 sqq., 343, 345, 346;
by his son-in-law, iii. 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344
—— Jove and Mother Vesta, ii. 227 sqq.
—— -kin at Rome, v. 41
—— May, leaf-clad mummer, ii. 75, 79
—— Sky fertilizes Mother Earth, v. 282
Fatherhood of God, the physical, v. 80 sq.
Fathers named after their children, iii. 331 sqq., 339
Fatigue transferred to leaves, stones, or sticks, ix. 8 sqq.;
let out with blood, ix. 12
—— of the Horse, vii. 294.
See also Weariness
Fattening-house for girls in Calabar, xi. 259
Fattest men chosen kings, ii. 297
Fauna, rustic Roman goddess, her relationship to Faunus, vi. 234
Fauns, rustic Italian gods, in relation to goats, viii. 1 sqq.
Faunus, old Roman god, consultation of, iii. 314;
his relationship to Fauna or the Good Goddess, vi. 234
Fawckner, Captain James, on the annual expulsion of demons in Benin, ix. 131 sq.
Fazoql or Fazolglou, on the Blue Nile, kings of, put to death, iv. 16
Fear as a source of religion, ix. 93;
the source of the worship of the dead, ix. 98
—— of having a likeness taken, iii. 96 sqq.;
of spirits, taboo on common words based on a, iii. 416 sqq.;
of death entertained by the European races, iv. 135 sq., 146;
of the dead one of the most powerful factors in religious evolution, viii. 36 sq.
Feast. See also Festival
—— of All Saints on November 1st, perhaps substituted for an old pagan festival of the dead, vi. 82 sq.;
instituted by Lewis the Pious, vi. 83
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—— of All Souls, vi. 51 sqq., x. 223 sq., 225 n. 3;
the Christian, originally a pagan festival of the dead, vi. 81
—— of Fire at winter solstice, iv. 215
—— of Florus and Laurus on August 18th, x. 220
—— of the Golden Flower at Sardes, v. 187
——, the Great, in Morocco, ix. 180, 182, 265
—— of Lanterns in Japan, vi. 65, ix. 151 sq.
—— of the Nativity of the Virgin, x. 220 sq.
—— of Yams, iii. 123
Feathers worn by manslayers, iii. 180;
red, of a parrot worn as a protection against a ghost, iii. 186 n. 1;
of cock mixed with seed-corn, vii. 278;
of wren, virtue attributed to, viii. 319
February, annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 148
—— the 1st, St. Bride's Day, ii. 94 sq.
—— the 2nd, Candlemas, ii. 94 n. 2
—— the 22nd, St. Peter's Day, vii. 300
—— the 24th, the Flight of the King of the Sacred Rites on, ii. 308 sq.
—— and March, the season of the spring sowing in Italy, ix. 346
Fechenots, fechenottes, Valentines, x. 110
“Feeding the dead,” iv. 102;
in Ceram, viii. 123
Feet, homoeopathic charm to strengthen the, i. 151;
washed, ceremony at reception of strangers, iii. 108;
not to wet the, iii. 159;
bare in certain magical and religious ceremonies, iii. 310 sq.
See also Foot
—— of enemies eaten, viii. 151
—— first, children born, superstition as to, i. 266;
custom observed at their graves, v. 93;
sticks or grass piled on their graves, ix. 18;
curative power attributed to children so born, x. 295
Fehrle, E., as to the chastity of the Vestals, ii. 199 n. 5
Feilenhof, in East Prussia, wolf as corn-spirit at, vii. 272
Felkin, Dr. R. W., on the sacrament of a lamb among the Madi or Moru of Central Africa, viii. 314 sq.
——, Dr. R. W., and C. T. Wilson, on the worship of the dead kings of Uganda, vi. 173 n. 2
Fellows, Ch., on flowers in Caria, v. 187 n. 6
Feloupes of Senegambia, curse their fetishes in drought, i. 297
Female descent of the kingship in Rome, ii. 270 sqq.;
in Africa, ii. 274 sqq.;
in Greece, ii. 277 sq.;
in Scandinavia, ii. 279 sq.;
in Lydia, ii. 281 sq.;
among Danes and Saxons, ii. 282 sq.
Female kinship or mother-kin defined, ii. 271;
rule of descent of the throne under, ii. 271, vi. 18;
indifference to paternity of kings under, ii. 274 sqq.;
at Athens, ii. 277;
indifference to paternity in general under, ii. 282;
among the Aryans, ii. 283 sqq.
See also Mother-kin
—— slaves, licence accorded to them on the Nonae Caprotinae, ii. 313 sq.
Femgericht in Westphalia, ii. 321
Feminine weakness, infection of, dreaded by savages, iii. 164 sq., 202 sq.
Fen-hall, Frigga weeping in, x. 102
Feng, king of Denmark, married the widow of his predecessor, ii. 281
—— and Wiglet, ii. 281, 283
Fennel, fire carried in giant, ii. 260
Fenua, placenta, among the Maoris, i. 182
Ferghana, a province of Turkestan, combats between champions at the New Year in, ix. 184
Feriae Latinae, iv. 283
Ferintosh district, in Scotland, dancing with the fairies in, x. 227
Fern growing on a tree, in a popular remedy, x. 17;
the male (Aspidium filix mas), a protection against witchcraft, xi. 66;
blooms on Christmas Eve, Easter Eve, and St. John's Day, xi. 66;
the root detects and foils sorcerers, xi. 66 sq.
—— owl or goatsucker, sex totem of women in Victoria, xi. 217
—— -seed gathered on Midsummer Eve, magical properties ascribed to, xi. 65 sqq.;
blooms on Midsummer Eve, xi. 287;
reveals treasures in the earth, xi. 287 sqq.;
blooms on Christmas Night, xi. 288 sq.;
brought by Satan on Christmas Night, xi. 289;
gathered at the solstices, Midsummer Eve and Christmas, xi. 290 sq.;
procured by shooting at the sun on Midsummer Day, xi. 291;
blooms at Easter, xi. 292 n. 2
Fernando Po, taboos observed by kings of, iii. 8 sq., 115, 123, 291;
the cobra-capella worshipped in, viii. 174
Feronia, Italian goddess, her sanctuary at Soracte, iv. 186 n. 4, xi. 14
Ferrara, synod of, denounces practice of gathering fern-seed, xi. 66 n.
Ferrers, George, a Lord of Misrule, ix. 332
Ferret, in homoeopathic magic, i. 150
Fertilization of women by a rattle, i. 347;
of women by the wild fig-tree, ii. 316;
of women by the wild banana-tree, ii. 318;
of women by mummers, [pg 268] ix. 249;
of barren women by striking them with stick which has been used to separate pairing dogs, ix. 264;
of mango trees, ceremony for the, x. 10;
of fields with ashes of Midsummer fires, x. 170.
See also Conception, Impregnation
Fertilization, artificial, of the date palm, ii. 24 sq., ix. 272 sq.;
of fig-trees, ii. 314 sq., vi. 98, ix. 257, 258, 259, 272 sq.
Fertilizing influence of the corn-spirit, vii. 168
—— power ascribed to the effigy of Death, iv. 250 sq.
—— virtue attributed to trees, ii. 49 sqq., 316 sqq.;
attributed to sticks which have separated pairing dogs, ix. 264
Fertility, Artemis the embodiment of, i. 35;
Asiatic goddesses of, i. 37;
the coco-nut regarded as an emblem of, ii. 51;
Diana as a goddess of, ii. 120 sqq.;
the thunder-god conceived as a deity of fertility, ii. 368 sqq.;
goddess of, served by eunuch priests, v. 269 sq.;
Osiris as god of, vi. 112 sq.;
supposed to be procured through masked dances, ix. 382
—— of the ground, thought to be promoted by prostitution, v. 39;
promoted by marriage of women to serpent, v. 67;
ceremonies to ensure the, viii. 332 sqq.;
magical ceremony to promote the, ix. 177;
processions with lighted torches to ensure the, x. 233 sq.;
supposed to depend on the number of human beings sacrificed, xi. 32, 33, 42 sq.
—— of women, magical images designed to ensure the, i. 70 sqq.;
magical ceremonies to ensure the, x. 23 sq., 31
Ferula communis, L., giant fennel, its stalks used to carry fire, ii. 260, 260 n. 1
Festival. See also Feast
—— of All Souls, iv. 98
—— of the Assumption of the Virgin, August 15th, i. 14, 16
—— of “the awakening of Hercules” at Tyre, v. 111
—— of bladders among the Esquimaux, viii. 247 sqq.
—— of the cold food in China, shifted in the calendar, x. 137
—— of the Cornstalks at Eleusis, vii. 63
—— of the Cross on 1st August, x. 220
—— of the Crowning at Delphi, iv. 78 sq., vi. 241
—— of the Dead, x. 223 sq., 225 sq.;
among the Hurons, iii. 367;
among the Esquimaux, iii. 371;
in Java, v. 220.
See also Dead
—— of Departed Spirits in Sarawak, ix. 154
“Festival of dreams” among the Iroquois, ix. 127
—— of the Flaying of Men, Mexican, ix. 296 sqq.
—— of Flowers (Anthesteria), v. 234 sq.
—— of Fools in France, ix. 334 sqq.;
in German, Bohemia, and England, ix. 336 n. 1
—— of the Innocents, ix. 336 sqq.
—— of Joy (Hilaria) in the rites of Attis, v. 273
—— of lamps, Hindoo, ix. 145
—— of the Laurel-bearing at Thebes, iv. 78 sq., 88 sq.
—— of Mascal or the Cross in Abyssinia, ix. 133 sq.
—— of the Matronalia, ix. 346
—— of New Fire, vii. 135
—— before Ploughing (Proerosia), at Eleusis, vii. 51 sqq., 60, 108
—— of the Sacaea, at Babylon, iv. 113 sqq., ix. 354 sqq.
—— of Sais, vi. 49 sqq.
—— of the Saturnalia, ix. 306 sqq.
—— of the Threshing-floor (Haloa) at Eleusis, vii. 60 sqq., 75;
obscenities in the, vii. 62
—— of the winter solstice, vii. 90
Festivals explained by myths, ii. 142 sq.;
of the Egyptian farmer, vi 32 sqq.;
of Osiris, the official, vi. 49 sqq.;
Egyptian readjustment of, vi. 91 sqq.;
of new yams, vii. 58 sqq.;
the great Christian, timed by the Church to coincide with old pagan festivals, ix. 328;
ancient Greek resembling the Saturnalia, ix. 350 sqq.;
popular, primitive character of, ix. 404;
of fire in Europe, xi. 106 sqq.
Festus, on a proposed etymology of Rome and Romulus, 11. 318 n. 3;
on “the Sacred Spring,” iv. 186;
on the Roman custom of knocking a nail into a wall, ix. 67 ns. 1 and 2
“Fetching the Wild Man out of the Wood,” a Whitsuntide custom, iv. 208 sq.
Fête des Fous in France, ix. 334 sqq.
—— des Rois, Twelfth Day, ix. 329
Fetish of taboo rajah in Timor, iii. 24;
the great, in West Africa, xi. 256
Fetish kings in West Africa, iii. 22 sqq.
Fetishes cursed in drought, i. 297
Fetishism early in human history, vi. 43
Feuillet, Madame Octave, on the burning of Shrove Tuesday at Saint-Lô, iv. 228 sq.
Fever cured by knotted thread, iii. 304;
euphemism for, iii. 400;
typhoid, transferred to tortoise, ix. 31;
transferred to bald-headed widow, ix. 38;
Roman cure for, ix. 47;
transferred to a [pg 269] person by a scrap of paper or a twig, ix. 49;
transferred to a dog, cat, or snipe, ix. 51;
transferred to a pillar, ix. 53;
transferred to a tree or bush, ix. 55 sq., 56, 57, 58, 59;
nailed into a wall, ix. 63;
driven away by firing-guns, etc., ix. 121;
leaping over the Midsummer bonfires as a preventive of, x. 166, 173, 194;
Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 190;
need-fire kindled to prevent, x. 297;
cure for, in India, by walking through a narrow passage, xi. 190
Fewkes, J. Walter, on the observation of the Pleiades among the Pueblo Indians, vii. 312
Fey, devoted, x. 231
Fez, annual temporary sultan in, iv. 152 sq.;
orgiastic rites at, vii. 21;
talisman against scorpions at, viii. 281;
Midsummer custom of throwing water on people at, x. 216, xi. 31
Fictitious burials to divert the attention of demons from the real burials, viii. 98 sqq.
Fictores Vestalium, fictores Pontificum, ii. 204
Ficus Indica (the bar tree) sacred in India, ii. 43
—— religiosa (the pipal tree) sacred in India, ii. 43
—— Ruminalis, the fig-tree under which Romulus and Remus were suckled, ii. 318
—— sycomorus, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210
Fida. See Whydah
“Field of the giants,” called so from great fossil bones, v. 158
“—— of God,” viii. 14, 15
—— of Mars at Rome, viii. 42, 43, 44
“—— of secret tillage,” viii. 57
Field-mice, burning torches as a protection against, x. 114, 115;
and moles driven away by torches, xi. 340
“—— speech,” a special jargon employed by reapers, iii. 410 sq., 411 sq.
Fielding, H., on the Buddhist Lent, ix. 349 sq.
Fields, miniature, dedicated to spirits, vii. 233 sq.;
cultivated, menstruous women not allowed to enter, x. 79;
protected against insects by menstruous women, x. 98 n. 1;
processions with torches through, x. 107 sq., 110 sqq., 113 sqq., 179, 339 sq.;
protected against witches, x. 121;
made fruitful by bonfires, x. 140;
fertilized by ashes of Midsummer fires, x. 170;
fertilized by burning wheel rolled over them, x. 191, 340 sq.;
protected against hail by bonfires, x. 344
Fiends burnt in fire, ix. 320
Fierte or shrine of St. Romain at Rouen, ii. 167, 168, 170 n. 1
Fife, custom of “dumping” at harvest in, vii. 227
Fifeshire, the harvest Maiden in, vii. 162
Fifty-two years, Aztec cycle of, vii. 310 sq.
Fig, as an article of diet, ii. 315 sq.;
artificial fertilization of the, at Rome in July, vi. 98;
Dionysus perhaps associated with the artificial fertilization of the, vi. 259;
the wild, human scapegoats beaten with branches of, ix. 255.
See also Figs and Fig-tree
Fig Dionysus at Lacedaemon, vii. 4
—— -god perhaps personified by Roman kings, ii. 319, 322
—— -leaves, aprons of, worn by Adam and Eve, ix. 259 n. 3
—— -tree of Romulus (Ficus Ruminalis), ii. 10, 318
—— -tree, sacred, ii. 44, 99, 249, 250, ix. 61;
artificial fertilization (caprification) of the, ii. 314 sq., ix. 257 sqq., 272 sq.
—— -tree, the wild, its milky juice sacrificed to Juno Caprotina, ii. 313;
a male, ii. 314 sq.;
supposed to fertilize women, ii. 316 sq.;
haunted by spirits of the dead, ii. 317;
sacred all over Africa and India, ii. 317 n. 1
—— -trees worshipped by the Akikuyu, ii. 44;
associated with Dionysus, vii. 4;
wild, held sacred as the abodes of the spirits of the dead, viii. 113;
personated by human victims, ix. 257;
charm to benefit, x. 18;
sacred among the Fans, xi. 161
Fighting the wind, i. 327 sqq.;
the king, right of, iv. 22
Fights, sanguinary, as a ceremony to procure rain, i. 258;
annual, at the New Year, old intention of, ix. 184;
between men and women about their sex totems, xi. 215, 217
Figo, bonfire on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111
Figs, soul-compelling virtue of, iii. 46;
black and white, worn by human scapegoats, ix. 253, 257, 272;
crowns of, worn at sacrifice to Saturn (Cronus), ix. 253 n. 3;
eaten by human scapegoat before being put to death, ix. 255.
See also Fig
Fiji, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 184;
catching the sun in, i. 316;
temporary inspiration of priests in, i. 378;
special vocabularies employed with reference to divine chiefs in, i. 402 n.;
War King and Sacred King in, iii. 21;
catching away souls in, iii. 69;
superstitions connected with eating in, iii. 117;
tabooed persons not [pg 270] to handle food in, iii. 134 n. 1;
taboo for handling dead chiefs in, iii. 141;
manslayers tabooed in, iii. 178 sq.;
custom at cutting a chief's hair in, iii. 264;
shorn hair hid in thatch of house in, iii. 277;
voluntary deaths in, iv.11 sq.;
custom of grave-diggers in, iv. 156 n. 2;
abdication of father when his son is grown up in, iv. 191;
circumcision practised in, iv. 220;
chiefs buried secretly in, vi. 105;
sacrifice of first-fruits in, viii. 125;
leaves piled on spots where men were clubbed to death in, ix. 15;
annual ceremony at appearance of sea-slug in, ix. 141 sq.;
brides tattooed in, x. 34 n. 1;
the fire-walk in, xi. 10 sq.;
birth-trees in, xi. 163;
the drama of death and resurrection exhibited to novices at initiation in, xi. 243 sqq.
Fijian belief as to a whirlwind, i. 331 n. 2
—— chiefs claim divinity, i. 389;
supposed effect of using their dishes or clothes, iii. 131
—— custom of personal cleanliness, iii. 158 n. 1
—— god of fruit-trees, v. 90
—— Lent, v. 90
Fijians, gods of the, i. 389;
their conception of the soul, iii. 29 sq., 92;
their notion of absence of the soul in dreams, iii. 39 sq.;
their custom of frightening away ghosts, iii. 170;
their theory of earthquakes, v. 201
Filey, in Yorkshire, the Yule log and candle at, x. 256
Financial oppression, Roman, v. 301 n. 2
Finchra, mountain in Rum, xi. 284
Fingan Eve (St. Thomas's Day) in the Isle of Man, x. 266
Finger bitten off as sacrifice, iii. 166 n. 2
Finger-joints, custom of sacrificing, iv. 219;
mock sacrifice of, iv. 219
—— -rings as amulets, iii. 315
Fingers cut off as a sacrifice, iii. 161
Finistère, effigy of Carnival at Pontaven in, iv. 230;
the harvest Wolf in, vii. 275;
bonfires on St. John's Day in, x. 183
Finland, sacred groves and trees in, ii. 11;
cattle protected by the woodland spirits in, ii. 124;
Midsummer fires in, x. 180 sq.;
fir-tree as life-index in, xi. 165 sq.
—— Gulf of, i. 325
Finlay, George, on Roman financial oppression, v. 301 n. 2
Finnisch-Ugrian peoples, sacred groves of the, ii. 10 sq.
Finnish hunters do not call animals by their proper names, iii. 398
Finnish witches and wizards thought to cause winds, i. 325 sq.
Finns, feared as sorcerers, iii. 281;
their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 223 sq.
Finow, a Tongan chief, iii. 140
Finsch Harbour in German New Guinea, Kolem on, i. 338;
the Papuans of, iii. 329;
the Kai tribe inland from, vii. 99, viii. 296, xi. 239
Fir used to beat people with at Christmas, ix. 270, 271
—— or beech used to make the Yule log, x. 249
Fir-branches, prayers of girl at puberty to, x. 51;
at Midsummer, x. 177;
Midsummer mummers clad in, xi. 25 sq.
—— -cones, seeds of, gathered on St. John's Day, xi. 64
—— -tree as life-index, xi. 165 sq.
—— -trees set up at Midsummer, ii. 65;
gout transferred to, ix. 56;
mistletoe on, xi. 315, 316
—— -wood used to kindle need-fire, x. 278, 282
Firdusi's Epic of Kings, x. 104
Fire in the worship of Diana, i. 12 sq.;
power of extinguishing, ascribed to priests, i. 231, and to chaste women, ii. 240 n. 2;
used to stop rain, i. 252 sq.;
used in rain-making ceremonies, i. 303 sq.;
as a charm to rekindle the sun, i. 311, 313;
the King of, in Cambodia, ii. 3 sqq.;
birth from the, ii. 195 sqq.;
the king's, ii. 195 sqq.;
impregnation of women by, ii. 195 sqq., 230 sqq., 234, vi. 235;
kindled by the friction of wood, ii. 207 sqq., 235 sqq., 237 sq., 243, 248 sqq., 258 sq., 262, 263, 336, 366, 372, viii. 127, 136, 314, x. 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 144 sq., 148, 155, 169 sq., 175, 177, 179, 220, 264, 270 sqq., 335 sq., xi. 8, 90, 295;
taken from sacred hearth to found a new village, ii. 216;
custom of extinguishing fire and rekindling it by the friction of wood, ii. 217, 237;
kindled from ancestral tree, ii. 221, 233 sq.;
on the hearth, souls of ancestors in the, ii. 232;
reasons for attributing a procreative virtue to, ii. 233 sq.;
made jointly by man and woman or boy and girl, ii. 235 sqq.;
need-fire made by married men, ii. 238;
not to be blown upon with the breath, ii. 240, 241, iii. 136, viii. 254, x. 133;
tribes reported to be ignorant of the art of kindling, ii. 253 sqq.;
people reported to be ignorant of the use of, ii. 254 n. 1;
discovery of, by mankind, ii. 255 sqq.;
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kindled by natural causes, ii. 256;
kindled by lightning, beliefs and customs concerning, ii. 256 n. 1, 263, xi. 297 sq.;
art of making fire by friction, how discovered, ii. 256 sq.;
carried about by savages, ii. 257 sqq.;
kept burning in houses of chiefs and kings, ii. 260 sqq.;
extinguished on the death of the king, ii. 261 sqq.;
carried before king or chief, ii. 263 sq.;
a symbol of life, ii. 265;
leaping over a, ii. 327, 329;
sheep driven over, as a purification, ii. 327;
rule as to removing fire from priest's house, iii. 13;
purification by, iii. 108, 109, 111, 114, 168, 197, v. 115 n. 1, 179 sqq., xi. 19;
tabooed, iii. 178, 182, 256 sq.;
not to be blown upon by sacred chiefs, iii. 256;
of a kiln called by a special name in the Outer Hebrides, iii. 395;
not to be called by its proper name, iii. 411;
voluntary death by, iv. 42 sqq.;
Persian reverence for, v. 174 sq.;
death in the, as an apotheosis, v. 179 sq.;
not given out, vii. 249;
leaping through, as a form of purification, viii. 249;
girls at puberty forbidden to see or go near, x. 29, 45, 46;
menstruous women not allowed to touch or see, x. 84, 85;
extinguished at menstruation, x. 87;
in fire-festivals, different possible explanations of its use, x. 112 sq.;
made by flints or by flint and steel, x. 121, 124, 126, 127, 145, 146, 159;
made by a burning-glass, x. 121, 127;
made by a metal mirror, x. 132, 137, 138 n. 5;
year called a fire, x. 137;
thought to grow weak with age, x. 137;
pretence of throwing a man into, x. 148, 186, xi. 25;
carried round houses, corn, cattle, and women after child-bearing, x. 151 n.;
used to drive away witches and demons at Midsummer, x. 170;
as a protection against evil spirits, x. 282, 285 sq.;
made by means of a wheel, x. 335 sq., xi. 91;
as a destructive and purificatory agent, x. 341;
used as a charm to produce sunshine, x. 341 sq.;
employed as a barrier against ghosts, xi. 17 sqq.;
used to burn or ban witches, xi. 19 sq.;
extinguished by mistletoe, xi. 78, 84 sq., 293;
of oak-wood used to detect a murderer, xi. 92 n. 4;
life of man bound up with a, xi. 157;
conceived by savages as a property stored like sap in trees, xi. 295;
primitive ideas as to the origin of, xi. 295 sq.
See also Bonfires, Extinction, Fires, Need-fire, and New Fire
Fire, Feast of, at winter solstice, among the Indians of Arizona, iv. 215
Fire, the god of, among the Huichol Indians, i. 124, viii. 93
“—— of heaven,” term applied to Midsummer bonfire, x. 334, 335
——, holy, not to be blown upon with the breath, ii. 240, 241
—— and lightning averted from houses by crossbills, i. 82
——, “living,” made by friction of wood, ii. 237, x. 220;
a charm against witchcraft, ii. 336
——, Mexican god of, ix. 300;
human sacrifices to, ix. 300 sqq.
——, “new,” sent from Delos and Delphi, i. 32 sq., x. 138;
made by friction in rain-charm, i. 290;
at taking possession of new house, ii. 237 sq.;
made at Midsummer in Peru, ii. 243, x. 132;
made at beginning of king's reign, ii. 262, 267;
made by friction of wood, iii. 286, viii. 65, 74, 78;
at eating new fruits, among the Caffres, viii. 65;
among the Indians of Alabama, viii. 72 n. 2;
among the Creek Indians, viii. 74;
among the Yuchi Indians, viii. 75;
among the Natchez Indians, viii. 77, 135 sqq.;
at New Year, ix. 209, x. 134, 135, 138;
Chinese festival of the, ix. 359, x. 136 sq.;
kindled on Easter Saturday, x. 121 sqq.;
at Candlemas, x. 131;
festivals of, x. 131 sqq.;
among the Peruvians, x. 132;
among the Mexicans, x. 132;
among the Zuñi Indians, x. 132 sq.;
among the Iroquois, x. 133 sq.;
among the Esquimaux, x. 134;
in Wadai, x. 134;
in the Egyptian Sudan, x. 134;
among the Swahili, x. 135;
in Benametapa, x. 135;
among some tribes of British Central Africa, x. 135 sq.;
among the Todas, x. 136;
among the Nagas, x. 136;
at Karma in Burma, x. 136;
in Japan, x. 137 sq.;
in Lemnos, x. 138;
at Rome, x. 138;
among the Celts of Ireland, x. 139;
near Moscow, x. 139;
made by the friction of wood at Christmas, x. 264
——, perpetual, of oak wood at Novgorod, ii. 365;
in front of holy oak in Prussia, iv. 42;
in Zoroastrian religion, v. 191;
worshipped, v. 191 sqq.;
in Cappadocia, v. 191;
at Jualamukhi, v. 192;
at Baku, v. 192;
in the temples of dead king, vi. 174;
of oak-bark, viii. 135;
of oak-wood, xi. 285 sq.
——, sacred, annually extinguished at Rome and rekindled by friction of wood, ii. 186 n. 1, 267;
in charge of a married pair, ii. 235;
new, made by friction of wood at intervals of fifty-two years, vii. 311;
new, made [pg 272] by striking stones together, viii. 75;
kindled by friction of wood, viii. 127, 314, ix. 391 n. 4;
in the sweating-house among the Karok Indians, viii. 255;
of king of Uganda, ix. 195
Fire of St. Lawrence, viii. 318
—— of Vesta at Rome fed with oak-wood, ii. 186
——, Vestal, at Alba, i. 13;
at Rome, rekindled by the friction of wood, ii. 207
—— and Water, Kings of, in Cambodia, ii. 3 sqq., iv. 14;
kingships of, iii. 17
Fire-bearer, the, at Delphi, i. 33;
of Spartan king, ii. 264
—— -boards, sacred, of the Chuckchees and Koryaks, ii. 225 sq.
—— customs of the Herero or Damaras, ii. 211 sqq.;
compared to those of the Romans, ii. 227 sqq.
—— -drill, the, ii. 207 sqq., 248 sqq., 258 sq., 263;
the kindling of fire by it regarded by savages as a form of sexual intercourse, ii. 208 sqq., 218, 233, 235 sq., 239, 249 sq.;
of the Herero, ii. 217 sq.;
used to kindle need-fire, x. 292
—— -festivals of Europe, x. 106 sqq.;
interpretation of the, x. 328 sqq., xi. 15 sqq.;
at the solstices, x. 331 sq.;
solar theory of the, x. 331 sqq.;
purificatory theory of the, x. 341 sqq.;
regarded as a protection against witchcraft, x. 342;
the purificatory theory of the, more probable than the solar theory, xi. 346;
elsewhere than in Europe, xi. 1 sqq.;
in India, xi. 1 sqq., 5 sqq.;
in China, xi. 3 sqq.;
in Japan, xi. 9 sq.;
in Fiji, xi. 10 sq.;
in Tahiti, the Marquesas Islands, and Trinidad, xi. 11;
in Africa, xi. 11 sqq.;
in classical antiquity in Cappadocia and Italy, xi. 14 sq.;
their relation to Druidism, xi. 33 sqq., 45
—— -god, married to a human virgin, ii. 195 sqq.;
the Indian (Agni), ii. 249, xi. 1, 296;
the father of Romulus, Servius Tullius, and Caeculus, vi. 235;
Armenian, x. 131 n. 3;
of the Iroquois, prayers to the, x. 299 sq.
—— -priests in Roman religion, ii. 235;
(Agnihotris) of the Brahmans, ii. 247 sqq.
—— -spirit, annual expulsion of the, ix. 141
—— -sticks of fire-drill regarded as male and female, ii. 208 sqq., 235, 238, 239, 248 sqq., ix. 391 n. 4;
called “husband and wife,” viii. 65
—— -sticks, sacred, ii. 217 sqq.
Fire-walk, the, of king of Tyre, v. 114 sq.;
of priestesses at Castabala, v. 168;
in India, Japan, China, Fiji, etc., xi. 1 sqq.;
a remedy for disease, xi. 7;
the meaning of, xi. 15 sqq.
—— -worship a form of ancestor-worship, ii. 221;
in Cappadocia, India, and on the Caspian, v. 191 sq.
Firebrand, external soul of Meleager in a, xi. 103
Firebrands, the Sunday of the, the first Sunday in Lent, x. 110, 114
Firefly, soul in form of, iii. 67
“Fireless and Homeless,” a mythical giant, viii. 265, 266
Fires ceremonially extinguished, i. 33, viii. 73, 74, ix. 172;
kept burning at home in absence of hunters, fishers, traders, and warriors, i. 120 sq., 125, 128 sq.;
lighted to warm absent warriors by telepathy, i. 127;
leaping over, to make hemp grow tall, i. 138;
extinguished at death of kings, ii. 261 sqq., 267;
extinguished at any death, ii. 267 sq., 267 n. 4;
extinguished at driving herds out to pasture for the first time in spring, ii. 341;
passing between two, as a purification, iii. 114;
to burn the witches on the Eve of May Day (Walpurgis Night), ix. 163, x. 159 sq.;
to burn witches on Twelfth Night, ix. 319;
to burn fiends, ix. 320;
extinguished as preliminary to obtaining new fire, x. 5;
annually extinguished and relit, x. 132 sqq.;
autumn, x. 220 sqq.;
the need-fire, x. 269 sqq.;
extinguished before the lighting of the need-fire, x. 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277 sq., 279, 283, 285, 288, 289 sq., 290, 291 sq., 292, 294, 297, 298 sq.;
cattle driven between two fires to rid them of vampyres, x. 285;
of the fire-festivals explained as sun-charms, x. 329, 331 sq.;
explained as purificatory, x. 329 sq., 341 sqq.;
the burning of human beings in the, xi. 21 sqq.;
the solstitial, perhaps sun-charms, xi. 292;
extinguished and relighted from a flame kindled by lightning, xi. 297 sq.
See also Fire, Bonfires, Need-fire
——, the Beltane, x. 146 sqq.;
cattle driven between, x. 157
——, ceremonial, kindled by the friction of oak-wood, ii. 372
——, the Easter, x. 120 sqq.
—— on the Eve of Twelfth Day, ix. 316 sqq., x. 107
——, Hallowe'en, x. 222 sq., 230 sqq.
——, the Lenten, x. 106 sqq.
——, Midsummer, x. 160 sqq.;
a protection against witches, x. 180;
supposed [pg 273] to stop rain, x. 188, 336;
supposed to be a preventive of back-ache in reaping, x. 189, 344 sq.;
a protection against fever, x. 190
Fires, Midwinter, x. 246 sqq.
——, perpetual, of Vesta, i. 13 sq.;
in Ireland, ii. 240 sqq.;
in Peru and Mexico, ii. 243 sqq.;
origin of, ii. 253 sqq.;
associated with royal dignity, ii. 261 sqq.;
of oak-wood, ii. 365, 366, 372, xi. 91;
fed with pine-wood, xi. 91 n. 7
—— of St. John in France, x. 183, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193
Firing guns to repel demons, viii. 99.
See Guns
Firmicus Maternus on the mourning for Osiris, vi. 86;
on use of a pine-tree in the rites of Osiris, vi. 108;
on the murder of Dionysus by the Titans, vii. 13;
on Demeter and Persephone, vii. 40 n. 3
Firs, sacred grove of, ii. 11, 32
——, Scotch, in the peat-bogs of Europe, ii. 351, 352
First-born, sacrifice of the, among the Hebrews, iv. 171 sqq.;
among various races, iv. 179 sqq.;
among the Semites, v. 110; at Jerusalem, vi. 219 sq.
—— -born killed and eaten, iv. 179 sq.
First-born lamb, wool of, used as cure for colic, x. 17
—— -born son never called by his parents by his name, iii. 337
—— -born sons make need-fire, x. 294;
special magical virtue attributed to, x. 295
—— -fruits offered to Apollo at Delos, i. 32;
of the chase dedicated to the Huntress Artemis, ii. 125 sq.;
offered to sacred pontiffs, iii. 5, 21;
of the corn offered at Lammas, iv. 101 sq.;
offered to the dead, iv. 102;
of the vintage offered to Icarius and Erigone, iv. 283;
offered to the Baalim, v. 27; offered to the Mother of the Gods, v. 280 n. 1;
offered to dead chiefs, vi. 191;
offered to Demeter, vii. 46 sqq.;
sent to Athens, vii. 51;
offered to Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, vii. 53 sqq.;
offered to gods or spirits, vii. 235;
offered to the sun, vii. 237;
primitive reluctance to taste, viii. 6;
sacrament of, viii. 48 sqq.;
offered to goddess of agriculture, viii. 56, 58;
why savages scruple to eat the, viii. 82 sq.;
sacrifice of, viii. 109 sqq.;
presented to the king, viii. 109, 116, 122;
offered to the spirits or souls of the dead, viii. 109 sq., 111 sqq., 115, 116, 119, 121, 123, 124 sqq., xi. 243
Firstlings, Hebrew sacrifice of, iv. 172 sq.;
Irish sacrifice of, iv. 183;
offered to the Baalim, v. 27
Fish worshipped in Egypt, i. 30;
magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 90;
spirits of the dead thought to lodge in, i. 105;
magical images to procure, i. 108;
magical stones to ensure a catch of, i. 163;
in rain-charm, i. 288 sq.;
thought to cause winds, i. 320 sq.;
souls of dead in certain, ii. 30, v. 95 sq., viii. 285, 291, 295;
not to be eaten, iii. 10;
offered by fisherman to his canoe, iii. 195;
descent of the Dyaks from a, iv. 126;
descent of a totem clan from a, iv. 129;
sacred, viii. 26;
the first caught, sacrificed, viii. 132;
reason for not eating, viii. 140;
treated with respect by fishing tribes, viii. 249 sqq.;
preachers to, viii. 250 sq.;
invited to come and be caught, viii. 250 sq., 312 n.;
not to be eaten by persons who have eaten bear's flesh, viii. 251;
compensated by fishermen, viii. 252;
first of the season, treated ceremoniously, viii. 253 sqq.;
frightened or killed by proximity of menstruous women, x. 77, 93;
external soul in a, xi. 99 sq., 122 sq.;
lives of people bound up with, xi. 200, 202, 204, 209
——, bones of, not burned, viii. 250, 251;
not to be broken, viii. 255
——, golden, external soul of girl in a, xi. 147 sq.
Fish-traps, magic of, i. 109;
continence observed at making, iii. 196, 202
Fisheries supposed to be spoiled by menstruous women, x. 77, 78, 90 sq., 93
Fishermen, their use of iron as a talisman, iii. 233;
names of, not mentioned, iii. 330 sq.;
words tabooed by, iii. 394 sq., 396, 408 sq., 415;
their superstitions as to herring, viii. 251 sq.
——, Shetland, their use of magical images, i. 69 sq.
Fishermen's magic in the East Indies, i. 109, 113
Fishers and hunters cursed for good luck, i. 280 sq.;
tabooed, iii. 190 sqq.
Fishing for a lost soul, iii. 38, 64
—— and hunting, homoeopathic magic in, i. 108 sqq.;
telepathy in, i. 120 sqq.
Fishing line, superstitious observances in connexion with, iii. 194 sq.
—— nets, taboos observed by sacred man at the making of, iii. 192
Fishtown, in Guinea, monkeys sacred at, viii. 287
Fison, Rev. Lorimer, i. 389 n. 3, ii. 13 n. 1;
on Fijian treatment of navel-string, [pg 274] i. 184;
on Fijian way of detaining the sun, i. 316;
on Fijian belief as to whirlwinds, i. 331 n. 2;
on inspiration of priests in Fiji, i. 378;
on the Sacred King and the War King of Fiji, iii. 21;
on the Fijian conception of the soul as a mannikin, iii. 30 n. 1;
on Fijian belief as to absence of soul in dreams, iii. 40 n. 1;
on the Fijian conception of the soul, iii. 92 n. 3;
as to chief's dishes and clothes in Fiji, iii. 131;
on Fijian custom of personal cleanliness, iii. 158 n. 1;
on the cutting of a chief's hair in Fiji, iii. 264;
on custom of grave-diggers in Fiji, iv. 156 n. 2;
on Fijian god of earthquakes, v. 202 n.;
on secret burial of chiefs in Fiji, vi. 105;
on offerings of first-fruits in Fiji, viii. 125;
on Fijian religion, xi. 244 ns. 1, 2, 3, 246 n. 1
Fits and convulsions set down to demons, iii. 59
Fittleworth, in Sussex, cleft ash-trees used for the cure of rupture at, xi. 169 sq.
Five days' reign of mock king at the Sacaea, iv. 114, ix. 355, 357;
of Semiramis, ix. 369
—— days' duration of mock king's reign perhaps an intercalary period, ix. 407 n. 1
—— knots in magic, iii. 306
—— years, despotic power for period of, iv. 53
Flacourt, De, on dances of women during war in Madagascar, i. 131
Fladda, island of, stone of swearing in, i. 161;
the chapel of, wind-stone in the, i. 322 sq.
Fladdahuan, one of the Hebrides, i. 322
Flaget, Mgr., on a professed incarnation of the Son of God, i. 409 n. 3
Flail, pretence of throttling persons with flail at threshing, vii. 149, 150, 230
—— or scourge, an emblem of Osiris, vi. 108, 153;
for collecting incense, vi. 109 n. 1
Flamen, derivation of the name, ii. 235, 247
Flamen Dialis, the, ii. 179, 235, 246, 247;
an embodiment of Jupiter, ii. 191 sq.;
taboos observed by the, ii. 248, iii. 13 sq., 239, 248, 257, 275, 291, 293, 315 sq.;
interpreted as a living image of Jupiter, iii. 13;
the widowed, vi. 227 sqq.;
forbidden to touch a dead body, but allowed to attend a funeral, vi. 228;
bound to be married, vi. 229;
forbidden to divorce his wife, vi. 229;
inaugurates the vintage at Rome, viii. 133
Flamen Dialis and Flaminica, v. 45 sq., vi. 228;
assisted by boy and girl of living parents, vi. 236
—— Virbialis, i. 20 n. 3
—— of Vulcan, vi. 232
Flames of bonfires, omens drawn from, x. 159, 165, 336
Flamingoes, soul of a dead king incarnate in, vi. 163
Flaminica, the, ii. 191, 235;
rules observed by the, iii. 14;
and her husband the Flamen Dialis, v. 45 sq., vi. 228, 236
Flanders, Midsummer fires in, x. 194;
the Yule log in, x. 249;
wicker giants in, xi. 35
Flannan Islands off the Lewis, iii. 392 sq.;
certain words tabooed in the, iii. 393 sq.
Flathead Indians. See Salish
Flax, homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 136;
charms to make flax grow tall, i. 138 sq., ii. 86, 164, x. 165, 166, 173, 174, 176, 180;
omens from the growth of, v. 244;
pigs' ribs used to make flax grow tall, vii. 300;
dances to make the flax thrive, viii. 326, 328;
giddiness transferred to, ix. 53;
bells rung to make flax grow, ix. 247 sq.;
leaping over bonfires to make the flax grow tall, x. 119, 165, 166, 166 sq., 173, 174
Flax crop, prayers and offerings of the old Prussians for the, iv. 156;
omens of the, drawn from Midsummer bonfires, x. 165
—— -mother, near Magdeburg, vii. 133
—— -pulling, persons wrapt up in flax at, vii. 225
—— seed used to strengthen weakly children, vii. 11;
sown in direction of flames of bonfire, x. 140, 337
Flaying of Men, Mexican festival of the, ix. 296 sqq.
Fleabane as a cure for headache, x. 17
Fleas, leaping over Midsummer fires to get rid of, x. 211, 212, 217
“Fleece of Zeus,” Διὸς κώδιον, iii. 312 n. 3
Flemish cure for ague by transferring it to a willow, ix. 56
Flesh, boiled, not to be eaten by tabooed persons, iii. 185;
of men eaten to acquire their qualities, viii. 148 sqq.
—— of human victim eaten, vii. 240, 244, 251;
buried in field, vii. 248, 250
Flesh diet, restricted or forbidden, iii. 291 sqq.;
homoeopathic magic of a, viii. 138 sqq.
Fleuriers, in Switzerland, May-bridegroom at, ii. 91
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Flies, in homoeopathic magic, i. 152;
mock burial of, by Russian girls, on the first of September, viii. 279 sq.;
charms against, viii. 281;
souls of dead in, viii. 290 sq.
Flight of the priestly king (Regifugium) at Rome, ii. 308 sqq., 311 n. 4, iv. 213;
in religious ritual, ii. 309 n. 2;
from the demons of disease, ix. 122 sq.
—— into Egypt, the, xi. 69 n.
—— of the People at Rome, ii. 319 n. 1
Flint, holed, a protection against witches, ix. 162
Flint implements supposed to be thunder-bolts, ii. 374
Flints, not iron, cuts in manslayer or lion-slayer to be made with, iii. 176;
sharp, circumcision performed with, iii. 227;
fire kindled by, x. 121, 124, 126, 127, 145, 146, 159
Flood, the great, ix. 399 n. 1;
early account of, ix. 356
Floor, sitting on the, at Christmas, x. 261
Floquet, A., on the privilege of St. Romain at Rouen, ii. 168, 169
Flora of Italy, change in the, i. 8
Florence, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, iv. 240 sq.;
ceremony of the new fire at Easter in, x. 126 sq.
Flores, island, treatment of the placenta in, i. 191;
spiritual ruler in, iii. 24;
the Manggarais of, iii. 324
Florida, American State, sacrifice of first-born male children by the Indians of, iv. 184;
the Seminoles of, iv. 199, viii. 76
Florida, one of the Solomon Islands, viii. 85, 126;
ghosts that draw out men's shadows in, iii. 80;
magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 127;
first-fruits of canarium nuts offered to the dead in, viii. 126;
alligator-ghost in, viii. 297;
cuscus-ghost in, viii. 297 sq.
Florus and Laurus, feast of, on August 18th, x. 220
Flower of the banana, women impregnated by the, v. 93
—— of plantain in fertility ceremony, ii. 102
“—— of Zeus,” v. 186, 187
Flower-bearers in the service of Hera, ii. 143 n. 2
Flowering plants called Mothers, vii. 130
Flowers, omens from, i. 128;
divination by, on St. George's Day, ii. 339, 345;
the goddess of, ix. 278;
thrown on bonfire among the Badagas, xi. 8;
external souls in, xi. 117 sq.
See also Crown and Garlands
—— and herbs cast into the Midsummer bonfires, x. 162, 163, 172, 173
—— and leaves as talismans, vi. 242 sq., x. 183
—— at Midsummer thrown on roofs asa protection against fire and lightning, x. 169, xi. 48;
Midsummer festivalof, in Riga, x. 177 sq.;
magical virtue attributed to flowers that have been passed across the Midsummer fires, x. 183, 184, 190;
crown of fresh, suspended over Midsummer fire, x. 188;
wreaths of, hung over doors and windows at Midsummer, x. 201;
garlands or crowns of, placed on mouths of wells at Midsummer, xi. 28;
divination by, at Midsummer, xi. 50 sq.
—— on Midsummer Eve, blessed by St. John, x. 171;
garlands of, thrown into water on Midsummer Eve as an offering to the water-spirits, xi. 28;
the magic flowers of Midsummer Eve, xi. 45 sqq.; used in divination, xi. 52 sq.;
used to dream upon, xi. 52, 54
Flowery Dionysus, vii. 4
Flute, magical, made from human leg-bone, i. 148;
skill of Marsyas on the, v. 288
Flute music, its exciting influence, v. 54
—— players dressed as women at Rome, vi. 259 n. 3
Flutes played in the laments for Tammuz, v. 9;
for Adonis, v. 225 n. 3
——, sacred, played at initiation, xi. 241
Fly, soul in form of, iii. 36, 39
Fly River, in British New Guinea, xi. 232
Fly-catcher Zeus, viii. 282
Flying-fish, the first of the season offered to the dead, viii. 127
—— fox, transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299
“—— -rowan” (parasitic rowan), superstitions in regard to, xi. 281;
used to make a divining-rod, xi. 281 sq.
—— Spirits, the, at Lhasa, ix. 197 sq.
Fo-Kien, province of China, festival of fire in, xi. 3 sqq.
Foam of the sea, the demon Namuci killed by the, xi. 280;
the totem of a clan in India, xi. 281
Fog, charms to disperse, i. 314
Folgareit, in the Tyrol, Midsummer custom at, xi. 47
Folk-custom, external soul in, xi. 153 sqq.
—— -tales, of virgins sacrificed to monsters, ii. 155;
tongues of wild beasts cut out in, viii. 269;
reflect primitive customs and beliefs, viii. 269;
the external soul in, xi. 95 sqq.
Follies of Dunkirk, xi. 34 sq.
Foo-chow, the Chinese of, their use of a [pg 276] winnowing-sieve in superstitious rites, vii. 6, 9
Food, homoeopathic magic for the supply of, i. 85 sqq.;
eaten dry on principle of homoeopathic magic, i. 114, 144;
to be eaten dry by rain-doctor when he wishes to avert rain, i. 271;
remnants of, buried as a precaution against sorcery, iii. 118, 119, 127 sq., 129;
magic wrought by means of refuse of, iii. 126 sqq.;
taboos on leaving food over, iii. 127 sqq.;
not to be touched with hands, iii. 133, 134 n. 1, 138 sqq., 146 sqq., 166, 167, 168, 169, 174, 203, 265;
objection to have food over head, iii. 256, 257;
as a cause of conception in women, v. 96, 102, 103, 104, 105;
set out for ghosts, ix. 154;
girls at puberty not allowed to handle, x. 23, 28, 36, 40 sq., 42
——, sacred, not allowed to touch the ground, x. 13 sq.
Foods, forbidden, x. 4, 7, 19, 36 sq., 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 54, 56, 57, 58, 68, 77, 78, 94;
to enchanters of crops, vii. 100;
to meet in stomach of eater, viii. 83 sqq.
—— tabooed, on homoeopathic principles, i. 117 sqq., 135, 155, iii. 291 sqq.
Fool, the Carnival, burial of, iv. 231 sq.;
one of the mummers on Plough Monday, viii. 330
Fool-hen, reason for not eating the, viii. 140
“Fool's Stone” in ashes of Midsummer fire, x. 195
Fools, festival of, in France, ix. 334 sqq.;
in Germany, Bohemia, and England, ix. 336 n. 1
—— in processions of maskers, ix. 243
Foot, custom of going with only one foot shod, iii. 311 sqq., viii. 11;
custom of standing on one, iv. 149, 150, 155, 156;
limping on one, vii. 232, 284.
See also Feet
Foot-race at Olympia, iv. 287;
of boys at Lhasa, ix. 221 n. 1
—— -races at Whitsuntide in Germany, ii. 69
Football, suggested origin of, ix. 184
Footprint of Buddha, iii. 275
Footprints of absent hunter not to be looked at by his sister, i. 122;
contagious magic of, i. 207-212, iii. 74
Forbes, C. J. F. S., on the worship of demons in Burma, ix. 95 sq.
Forbidden thing of clan, xi. 313
“Forced fire” or need-fire, ii. 238.
See Need-fire
Forchheim, in Bavaria, the burning of Judas at Easter at, x. 143
Fords, offerings and prayers at, ix. 27 sq.
Forefathers expected to give rain, i. 353.
See also Ancestors
Forehead, skin of, regarded as the seat of perseverance, viii. 148;
and eye-brow of enemy eaten, viii. 152
Foreigners marry princesses and receive the kingdom with them, ii. 270 sqq.;
as kings, v. 16 n.
Foreskins removed at circumcision, uses of, i. 92 sq., 95;
magical virtue attributed to, i. 95;
used in rain-making, i. 256 sq.;
of young men offered to ancestral spirits in Fiji, xi. 243 sq.
Forespeaking men and cattle, x. 303
Forests of ancient Europe, ii. 7 sq.
——, demons of, abduct human souls, iii. 60 sq., 67
Forgetfulness, pretence of, by men who have partaken of human flesh, iii. 189;
of the past after initiation, xi. 238, 254, 256, 258, 259, 266 sq.
Forked shape of divining-rod, xi. 67 n. 3
Forks used in eating by tabooed persons, iii. 148, 168, 169, 203
“Forlorn fire,” need-fire, x. 292
Formosa, demon of smallpox transferred to sow in, ix. 33
Fornication thought to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 107
Fors, the, of Central Africa, their superstition as to nail-parings, iii. 281
Fortuna and Servius Tullius, ii. 193 n. 1, 272
—— Primigenia, goddess of Praeneste, daughter of Jupiter, vi. 234
Fortune of the city on coins of Tarsus, v. 164;
the guardian of cities, v. 164
——, a man's, determined by the day or hour of his birth, i. 173
Forty days, man treated as a god during, ix. 281;
man personating god during, ix. 297;
of Lent, possible pagan origin of the, ix. 348 sq.
—— nights of mourning for Persephone, ix. 348
Forum at Rome, temple of Vesta in the, i. 13, ii. 186, 200;
sacred fig-tree of Romulus in the, ii. 10, 318;
funeral processions in the, ii. 178;
prehistoric cemetery in the, ii. 186, 202;
funeral games and gladiatorial fights in the, iv. 96
Fossil bones in limestone caves, v. 152 sq.;
a source of myths about giants, v. 157 sq.
Foucart, G., on the legend of the origin of the supplementary Egyptian days, ix. 341 n. 1
Foucart, P., on the Eleusinian mysteries, ii. 139 n. 1;
identifies Dionysus with Osiris, vi. 113 n. 3;
on the resurrection of Dionysus, vii. 32 n. 6
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Foul language at festival of Demeter, vii. 58
Foulahs of Senegambia, their fear of crocodiles, viii. 214
Foulères, bonfires on first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 n. 1
Foulkes, Captain, on external souls among the Angass of Nigeria, xi. 210
Foundation sacrifices, iii. 89 sqq.
Founding cities, Etruscan ceremony at, iv. 157
Fountains Abbey, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
Four Comely Ones, church of the, ii. 161
—— -handed Apollo, vi. 250 n. 2
—— -horse car of the sun-god, iv. 91
—— kinds of wood used to make the divining-rod, xi. 69, 291
—— -leaved clover, a counter-charm for witchcraft, x. 316;
at Midsummer useful for magic, xi. 62 sq.
—— years, many Greek games held every, iv. 96, vii. 79 sq.
Fourdin, E., on the procession of the giants at Ath, xi. 36 n. 2
Fowl in homoeopathic magic, i. 151;
sacrificed on roof of new house, ii. 39;
used in exorcism, iii. 106;
in purificatory rite, iii. 177;
used to divert evil spirits from pregnant woman, ix. 31.
See also Fowls
Fowler, W. Warde, ii. 327 n. 2, 329 n. 6, ix. 67 n. 2;
on the derivation of June from Juno, ii. 190 n. 2;
on the date of the Saturnalia, ii. 311 n. 4;
on the death of Romulus, ii. 319 n. 1;
on Janus as the god of doors, ii. 383 n. 3;
on the celibacy of the Roman gods, vi. 230, 232 n. 1, 234 n., 236 n. 1;
on Mamurius Veturius, ix. 229 n. 1;
on a Midsummer custom, x. 206 n. 2;
on sexta luna, xi. 77 n. 1;
on the ceremony of passing under the yoke, xi. 195 n. 4;
on the oak and the thunder-god, xi. 298, 299 n. 2, 300
Fowlers, words tabooed by, iii. 393, 407 sq.
Fowls, the ghosts of, dreaded by Baganda women, viii. 231 sq.;
as scapegoats, ix. 31, 33, 36, 52 sq.;
sacrificed, ix. 136.
See also Fowl
Fowls' nests, ashes of bonfires put in, x. 112, 338
Fox, intestines of a, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151;
imitation of, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 155 sq.;
asked to give a new tooth, i. 180;
guardian spirit as a, i. 200;
stuffed, vii. 287, 297, viii. 258 n. 1;
corn-spirit as, vii. 296 sq.;
carried from house to house in spring, vii. 297;
Koryak ceremony at killing a, viii. 223, 244;
Esquimau and Aino treatment of dead, viii. 267;
soul of dead in a, viii. 286;
prayed to spare lambs, x. 152.
See also Foxes
Fox Indians, iii. 163 n. 2
Fox's skin worn by mummer on Plough Monday, viii. 330
—— tail, name given to last standing corn, vii. 268
—— teeth as an amulet, i. 180
—— tongue as amulet, viii. 270
Foxes not to be mentioned by their proper names, iii. 396, 397, 398;
with burning torches tied to their tails at a festival, vii. 297 n. 5;
skulls of, consulted as oracles, viii. 181;
burnt in Midsummer fires, xi. 39, 41;
witches turn into, xi. 41.
See also Fox
Foxwell, Ernest, on the fire-walk in Japan, xi. 10 n. 1
Foxy Dionysus, viii. 282
Fra Angelico, his influence on Catholicism, v. 54 n. 1
Fraas, F., on the various sorts of mistletoe known to the ancients, xi. 318
Framin in West Africa, dance of women at, i. 132
Frampton-on-Severn in Gloucestershire, mistletoe on the oak at, xi. 316
France, prehistoric cave-paintings in, i. 87 n. 1;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210;
images of saints dipped in water in, as a rain-charm, i. 307;
kings of, touch for scrofula, i. 370;
May customs in, ii. 63;
leaf-encased mummer in, ii. 83;
the May Queen in, ii. 87;
acorns eaten in, ii. 356;
belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424;
belief as to meteors in, iv. 67;
“Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 241 sq.;
harvest customs in, v. 237;
timber felled in the wane of the moon in, vi. 136;
the Corn-mother in, vii. 135;
the corn-spirit as a dog or wolf in, vii. 271, 272, 275;
“Killing the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 280;
omens from the cry of the quail in, vii. 295;
corn-spirit as fox in, vii. 296;
superstitions as to the wren in, viii. 318;
hunting the wren in, viii. 320 sq.;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
cure for warts in, ix. 48;
cure for toothache in, ix. 59;
dances or leaps to make the crops grow high in, ix. 238;
the King of the Bean in, ix. 313 sqq.;
divination on Christmas Day in, ix. 316 n. 1;
weather forecasts for the year in, ix. 323 sq.;
the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day in, ix. 329;
Festival of Fools in, ix. 334 sqq.;
the Boy Bishop in, ix. 336 sq.;
Lenten fires in, x. [pg 278] 109 sqq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 181 sqq.;
fires on All Saints' Day in, x. 245 sq.;
the Yule log in, x. 249 sqq.;
wonderful herbs gathered on St. John's Eve (Midsummer Eve) in, xi. 45 sqq.;
mugwort (herb of St. John) at Midsummer in, xi. 58 sq.;
fern-seed at Midsummer in, xi. 65;
judicial treatment of sorcerers in, xi. 158;
birth-trees in, xi. 165;
children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture or rickets in, xi. 170.
See also French
Franche-Comté, dances in, to make hemp grow, i. 137;
girl called “the spouse” on May Day in, ii. 88 n.;
effigies of Shrove Tuesday destroyed in, iv. 227;
“catching or killing the cat” at harvest in, vii. 281;
the goat at threshing in, vii. 286 sq.;
the King of the Bean in, ix. 313;
bonfires on the Eve of Twelfth Night in, ix. 316;
the Three Kings of Twelfth Day in, ix. 330;
continence during Lent in, ix. 348 n. 1;
Lenten fires in, x. 110 sq.;
fires of St. John in, x. 189;
the Yule log in, x. 254
Franconia (Franken), the King of the Bean in, ix. 315 n.
Franken, Bavaria, customs at threshing in, vii. 148
——, Middle, the “Carrying out of Death” in, iv. 233 sq.;
fire custom at Easter in, x. 143
Frankenstein, precautions against witches in, xi. 20 n.
Frankenwald Mountains, ix. 160;
the Walber on the 2nd of May in the, ii. 65;
the Wood-woman at harvest in the, vii. 232
Frankfort, the feast of Purim at, ix. 363 sq., 394
Frankish kings, their unshorn hair, iii. 258 .sq
Fraser Lake in British Columbia, x. 47
—— River, Indians of the, their conception of the soul, iii. 27 sq.;
their belief as to the shadow, iii. 80;
asked pardon of the porcupines which they killed, viii. 243;
their respectful treatment of the first sockeye-salmon of the season, viii. 253 sq.
Fratres Arvales, ii. 122, vi. 239, ix. 232.
See Arval Brothers
Frauenkirche, the, at Munich, ix. 215
Fravashis, the souls of the dead in the Iranian religion, vi. 67 n. 2, 68
Frazer, Lady, on personal names among the Indians of Chiloe, iii. 324 n. 4;
on Holy Innocents' Day, ix. 337 n. 2
Free Spirit, Brethren of the, i. 408
Freiburg in Baden, St. George as the patron of horses in villages near, ii. 337
Freiburg in Switzerland, Lenten fires in, x. 119;
fern and treasure on St. John's Night in, xi. 288
Freising, in Bavaria, creeping through a narrow opening in the cathedral of, xi. 189
“French and English” or the “Tug-of-war” as a religious or magical rite, ix. 174 sqq.
French cure for fever by tying patient to tree, ix. 55;
for whooping-cough by passing patient under an ass, xi. 192 n. 1
—— custom of crowning cattle on Mid-summer Day, ii. 127
—— Islands, use of bull-roarers in the, xi. 229 n.
—— peasants ascribe magical powers to priests, i. 231-233;
their superstition as to a virgin and a flame, ii. 240, x. 139 n.;
regulate their sowing and planting by the moon, vi. 133 n. 3, 135
—— reapers, their saying at reaping the last corn, vii. 268
Fresh and green, beating people, ix. 270 sq.
Fresh meat tabooed to persons who have handled a corpse, iii. 143
Frey, the Scandinavian god of fertility, vi. 100 sq.;
his human wife, ii. 143 sq.;
his image and festival at Upsala, ii. 364 sq.
Freycinet, L. de, on a Hawaiian festival, iv. 118 n. 1
Frickthal, Switzerland, the Whitsuntide Lout in the, ii. 81;
the Whitsuntide Basket in the, ii. 83
Friction of wood, fire kindled by, ii. 207 sqq., 235 sqq., 243, 248 sqq., 258 sq., 262, 263, 336, 366, 372, viii. 127, 136, x. 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 144 sq., 148, 155, 169 sq., 175, 177, 179, 220, 264, 270 sqq., 335 sq., xi. 8;
new fire made by, vii. 311, viii. 74, 78;
sacred fire made by, viii. 314;
the most primitive mode of making fire, xi. 90, 295
Friedlingen, in Swabia, the thresher of the last corn called the Sow at, vii. 298
“Friendly Society of the Spirit” among the Naudowessies, xi. 267
Friesland, harvest custom in, vii. 268
——, East, the clucking-hen at threshing in, vii. 277
Frigento, Valley of Amsanctus near, v. 204
Frigg or Frigga, the Norse goddess, and Balder, x. 101, 102
Fringes to hide the eyes of girls at puberty, iii. 146, x. 47, 48
Fritsch, G., on Zulu festival of first-fruits, viii. 68 n. 3
Frodsham, Dr., on aboriginal Australian belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 103 n. 3
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Frog, slipperiness of, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151;
worshipped, i. 294 sq.;
love-charm made from the bone of a, ii. 345;
transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299.
See also Frogs
Frog-flayer, the, in Whitsuntide pageant, ii. 86
Frogs in homoeopathic magic, i. 155;
and ducks imitated in rain-making, i. 255;
in relation to rain, i. 292 sqq.;
worshipped by the Newars of Nepaul, i. 294 sq.;
hanged or beheaded by mummers at Whitsuntide, ii. 86 sq.;
maladies transferred to, ix. 50, 53
Frosinone in Latium, burning an effigy of the Carnival at, iv. 22 sq.
Froth from a mill-wheel as a charm against witches, ii. 340
Fruit-bearer, epithet of Demeter, vii. 63
—— -trees, grove of, round temple of Artemis, i. 7;
Diana a patroness of, i. 15 sq.;
homoeopathic magic in relation to, i. 140 sq., 142, 143, 145;
fertilized by fruitful women, i. 140 sq.;
barren, clothed in woman's petticoat to make them bear, i. 142;
barren women thought to make fruit-trees barren, i. 142;
various superstitions as to, i. 143, 145;
girt with ropes of straw on Christmas Eve in Germany, ii. 17;
fear to fell, ii. 19;
threatened to make them bear fruit, ii. 20-22, x. 114;
barren women fertilized by, ii. 56 sq., 344;
worshippers of Osiris forbidden to injure, vi. 111;
Dionysus a god of, vii. 3 sq.;
bound with Yule straw, vii. 301;
presided over by dead chiefs, viii. 125;
wrapt in straw during the Twelve Nights as a precaution against evil spirits, ix. 164;
fire applied to, on Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 317;
Midsummer fires lit under, x. 215;
shaken at Christmas to make them bear fruit, x. 248;
fumigated with smoke of need-fire, x. 280;
fertilized by burning torches, x. 340
Fruitful tree, use of stick cut from a, ix. 264
Fruits blessed on day of Assumption of the Virgin, i. 14 sqq.;
Artemis and Diana as patronesses of, i. 15 sq.
—— and roots, wild, ceremonies at gathering the first of the season, viii. 80 sqq.
Fuegian charm to make the wind drop, i. 320
Fuegians, their mode of kindling fire, ii. 258;
their procedure at cutting hair, iii. 282
Fuga daemonum, St. John's wort, xi. 55
Fukhien, fear of tree-spirits in, ii. 14
Fulda, the Lord of the Wells at, xi. 28
Fulgora, a Roman goddess, vi. 231
Fumigating flocks and herds at the Parilia on April 21st, ii. 229, 326, 327
Fumigation with laurel, i. 384;
of flocks and herds as a charm against witchcraft, ii. 327, 330, 335, 336, 339, 343;
with incense a charm against witchcraft, ii. 336;
as a mode of ceremonial purification, iii. 155, 177, 424;
of flocks by shepherds, viii. 42, 43;
as a mode of cultivating moral virtues, viii. 166 sq.;
with juniper and rue as a precaution against witches, ix. 158;
of pastures at Midsummer to drive away witches and demons, x. 170;
of crops with smoke of bonfires, x. 201, 337;
of fruit-trees, nets, and cattle with smoke of need-fire, x. 280;
of byres with juniper, x. 296;
of sheep and cattle in Africa, xi. 12, 13;
of trees with wild thyme on Christmas Eve, xi. 64
Fünen, in Denmark, cure for childish ailments at, xi. 191
Funeral of Drought, a rain-making ceremony, i. 274;
of Kostroma, iv. 261 sqq.;
of caterpillars, viii. 279;
of dead snake, viii. 317;
of Death, ix. 205;
relations whipped at a, ix. 260 sq.
Funeral customs in Ceos, i. 105;
intended to save the souls of survivors, iii. 51 sqq., xi. 18;
of old Prussians and Lithuanians, iii. 238;
of the Patagonians, v. 194;
of the Mongols, v. 293;
in Madagascar, vi. 247;
in Tahiti, viii. 97;
in Chamba, ix. 45;
in Uganda, ix. 45 n. 2;
of the Michemis, x. 5;
observed by mourners in order to escape from the ghost, xi. 174 sqq.
—— games, iv. 92 sqq.
—— pyre of Roman emperor, v. 126 sq.
—— rites, certain, perhaps intended to ensure reincarnation, i. 101 sqq.;
performed for a father in fifth month of his wife's pregnancy, iv. 189;
denied to those who have been hanged, iv. 282;
of the Egyptians a copy of those performed over Osiris, vi. 15;
of Osiris, described in inscription of Denderah, vi. 86 sqq.
Funerals, personation of the illustrious dead at Roman, ii. 178;
in China, custom as to shadows at, iii. 80;
exorcism of ghosts after, iii. 106 sq.;
mock human sacrifices at, iv. 216;
bullocks as scapegoats at, ix. 37;
the tug-of-war at, ix. 174 sq.
See also Burial, Burials
Furfo, temple of Jupiter Liber at, iii. 230
Furies, invocation of the, by their names, iii. 390;
their snakes, v. 88 n. 1
Furnace, walking through a fiery, as a religious rite, xi. 3 sqq.
Furness, W. H., on prostitution of unmarried [pg 280] girls in Yap, vi. 266;
on passing under an archway, xi. 179 sq., 180 n. 1
Furnivall, J. S., on the last sheaf at rice-harvest, vii. 190 sq.
Furrow drawn round village as protection against epidemic, ix. 172
Fürstenwald, athletic competition after harvest in villages near, vii. 76;
the harvest Cock at, vii. 276
Furth in Bavaria, the Slaying of the Dragon at, ii. 163 sqq.
Furtwängler, A., on Diana at Nemi, i. 16 n. 2;
on rain-making at Crannon, i. 309 n. 6
Futuna, island in the South Pacific, inspired king in, i. 388 sq.;
boxing-matches in honour of the dead in, iv. 97
Fylgia, guardian spirit of child, i. 200
Fytche, A., on the execution of royal criminals in Burma, iii. 242
Gabb, W. M., on ceremonial uncleanness among the Indians of Costa Rica, x. 65 n. 1
Gablingen, in Swabia, the Oats-goat at reaping at, vii. 282
Gablonz, in Bohemia, Midsummer bed of flowers at, xi. 57
Gaboon, circumcision among the dwarf tribes of the, i. 95 n. 4;
Mpongwe kings of the, vi. 104;
negroes of the, regulate their planting by the moon, vi. 134;
the Mpongwe of the, their mode of agriculture, vii. 119;
birth-trees in the, xi. 160;
theory of the external soul in the, xi. 200 sq.
Gabriel, the archangel, iii. 302, 303;
in a Malay charm, i. 58
Gacko, need-fire at, x. 286
Gad, Semitic god of fortune, v. 164, 165
Gadabursi, a Somali tribe, milk-drinking after marriage among the, vi. 246
Gadbas, the, of the Central Provinces in India, offer the first-fruits to the cattle, viii. 118 sq.
Gades (Cadiz), worship of Hercules (Melcarth) at, v. 112 sq.;
temple of Melcarth at, vi. 258 n. 5
Gage, Thomas, on naguals among the Indians of Guatemala, xi. 213
Gaidoz, H., on the custom of passing sick people through cleft trees, xi. 171
Gaj, in Slavonia, need-fire at, x. 282
Gaktei, the, of New Britain, called “rotten tree-trunks” by their foes, iii. 331
Galatian senate met in Drynemetum, “the sacred oak grove” or “the temple of the oak,” ii. 363, xi. 89
Galatians, their worship of the oak, ii. 126;
their Celtic language, ii. 126 n. 2, xi. 89 n. 2
Galela, dread of women at menstruation in, x. 79
Galelareese of Halmahera, hunter's magic among the, i. 110;
fisherman's magic among the, i. 113;
telepathy in war among the, i. 130;
taboos on pregnant women among the, i. 141 n. 1;
their belief in the homoeopathic magic of fruits and vegetables, i. 143, 145;
homoeopathic magic of the dead among the, i. 147 sq.;
their charm made from the ashes of spiders, i. 152;
their superstition as to the sharpening of a knife, i. 158;
their superstition as to the tide, i. 167;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 186;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 208;
their way of deceiving the fruit of the aren palm, ii. 22;
their superstition as to felling the last tree of a wood, ii. 38;
their belief that incest causes heavy rain, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, ii. 111;
abduction of souls among the, iii. 60;
their superstition as to a child who resembles his father, iii. 88;
their superstition as to mirrors, iii. 93;
their taboos as to stepping over things, iii. 423;
as to human sacrifices to volcanoes, v. 220;
their belief as to a bird croaking among rice in ear, vii. 296;
their custom of burying the stem of a banana-tree with the dead, viii. 97;
their rites of initiation, xi. 248
Galelareese charm to make a fruit-tree bear, i. 142;
to strengthen teeth, i. 157
—— sailors at sea, words tabooed to, iii. 414
Galicia, the Ruthenians of, their charm to increase a cow's milk, i. 198;
witches on St. George's Day in, ii. 335;
the Wheat-mother, Rye-mother, and Pea-mother in, vii. 135;
the harvest Cock in, vii. 277
Galingale, flowers of, used to strike women or girls in Mexico, ix. 288
Gall of eagle in homoeopathic magic, i. 154;
of sheep in rain-making, i. 290;
of ox in rain-making, i. 291;
of ox, man-slayers anointed with, iii. 172, 175;
of sacrificial bull drunk by king and people, viii. 68 n. 3;
of enemies drunk, viii. 152
Gall-bladders, the seat of courage, viii. 145 sq.
Gall, village in Yap, bananas tabooed as food at, iii. 293 n. 2
Gallas, kings of the, i. 48;
their magical use of tortoises, i. 151;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 195;
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inspired women among the, i. 395 sq.;
sacred trees of the, ii. 34;
dance round sacred trees, ii. 47;
their perpetual fires, ii. 261;
their king not allowed to fight, iii. 13 n. 5;
sacrifice to the guardian spirits of their slain foes, iii. 166 n. 2;
their worship of serpents, v. 86 n. 1;
their communion with the dead through food, viii. 154;
will not eat the flesh of the biceps, viii. 266 n. 1;
cut out the tongues of animals, viii. 270;
their mode of expelling fever, ix. 121;
annual period of licence among the, ix. 226 n. 1;
their story of the origin of death, ix. 304
Gallas, the Borâna, custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 n. 1
Galli, the emasculated priests of Attis, v. 266, 283
Gallic Councils, their prohibition of carrying torches, x. 199
—— recklessness of life, iv. 143
Galloway, “cutting the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 279
Gallows Hill, witches dance on the, on Walpurgis Night, ix. 162;
magical plants gathered on the, xi. 57
—— -rope used to kindle need-fire, x. 277
Galton, Sir Francis, on European fear of death, iv. 146 n. 2;
on the vale of the Adonis, v. 29
Galway, County, Candlemas custom in, ii. 95 n.
Gambling allowed during three days of the year in Siam, ix. 150
Game, dead, in certain cases not brought into house through door, viii. 256, 256 n. 1.
See also Door
Game law of the Njamus, vi. 39
Game of ball played as a rite, viii. 76, 79;
played to produce rain or dry weather, ix. 179 sq.
—— with fruit-stones played by kings of Uganda, vi. 224
—— of Troy, iv. 76 sq.
Gamelion, Attic month, corresponding to January, ii. 137 n. 1
Games, funeral, iv. 92 sqq.;
the great Greek, iv. 92 sq., 103 sqq.;
held by harvesters, vii. 75 sqq.;
magical significance of, in primitive agriculture, vii. 92 sqq.;
played at the sowing festival among the Kayans, vii. 94 sqq., 97 sq.;
played by the Kai of New Guinea as charms for the good of the crops, vii. 101 sq.;
many games probably originated in magical rites, vii. 103 n. 1;
athletic, viii. 66
——, the Eleusinian, vii. 70 sqq., 87 sq., 110, 180
——, the Eleutherian, vii. 80
Games, Greek, quadriennial period of, vii. 77 sqq.;
octennial period of, vii. 80
——, the Isthmian, iv. 92, 93, 103, vii. 86
——, the Nemean, iv. 92, 93, vii. 86
——, the Olympic, iv. 90, 92, 98 sq., 103, 105, vii. 80, 84, 86
——, the Panathenaic, vii. 80
——, the Pythian, iv. 80, 90, 92, 93, vii. 80, 84
Gamp, Mrs., as to coins on the eyes of a corpse, i. 149 n. 5
Gander, the corn-spirit as a, vii. 268, 270
Gander's neck, name given to last standing corn, vii. 268
Gandersheim, in Brunswick, need-fire at, x. 277
Gandharva pice, iv. 132 n. 1
—— -Sena, an ass by day and a man by night, iv. 124 sq.
Ganesa, new rice offered to image of, viii. 56
Gangas, fetish priests of the Loango coast, iii. 291
Ganges, first-born children sacrificed to the, iv. 180 sq.
Gaolis of the Deccan place new-born children on sieves, vii. 7 sq.
Gap, in the High Alps, cats roasted alive in the Midsummer fire at, xi. 39 sq.
Garcilasso de la Vega, on the reverence for the Incas, i. 415 n. 2;
on the virgin Peruvian priestesses of fire, ii. 244 n. 1;
on the fish-worship of the Peruvian Indians, viii. 249 sq.;
on the annual expulsion of evils in Peru, ix. 130 n. 1
Garda, the Lake of, custom at Mid-Lent on, iv. 241
Gardelegen, in the Altmark, the He-goat at harvest near, vii. 287
Garden of Osiris, vi. 87 sq.
Gardens of Adonis, v. 236 sqq.;
charms to promote the growth of vegetation, v. 236 sq., 239;
in India, v. 239 sqq.;
in Bavaria, v. 244;
in Sardinia, v. 244 sq.;
in Sicily, v. 245;
at Easter, v. 253 sq.
—— of God, v. 123, 159
Gardiner, Professor J. Stanley, on the phosphorescence of the sea, ii. 154 sq.
Gardner, Professor Ernest A., on date of the corn-reaping in Greece, v. 232 n.
Gardner, Mrs. E. A., x. 131 n. 1
Gardner, Professor Percy, on the representation of Persephone on a coin of Lampsacus, vii. 44
Gareloch, in Dumbartonshire, harvest customs on the, vii. 157 sq., 218 n. 2, 268
Gargouille or dragon destroyed by St. Romain, ii. 167
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Garlands of flowers (wreaths) placed on horns of cattle on St. George's Day to protect them against witchcraft, ii. 126, 339;
cast into water as a form of divination on St. George's Day, ii. 339, and on Midsummer Eve, xi. 28;
worn by young people jumping over the Midsummer fires, x. 165;
thrown on roofs of houses at Midsummer to guard them against fire and lightning, x. 169, xi. 48;
looking at Midsummer bonfires through, x. 174;
placed on wells at Midsummer, xi. 28;
twined of nine kinds of flowers used to dream on at Midsummer, xi. 52;
thrown on trees, a form of divination, at Midsummer, xi. 53.
See also Flowers and Wreaths
—— on May Day, ii. 60 sqq., 90 sq.
Garlic, soul-compelling virtue of, iii. 46;
roasted at Midsummer fires, x. 193
Garman or Carman, the fair of, iv. 100
Garments, effect of wearing sacred, iii. 4
Garonne, Midsummer fires in the valley of the, x. 193
Garos of Assam, their rain-charm by means of a black goat, i. 291;
ceremony of the Horse at rice-harvest among the, viii. 43 n. 1, 337 sqq.;
offer the first-fruits to the gods, viii. 116 sq.;
their annual use of a scapegoat, ix. 208 sq.
Garstang, Professor J., on Hittite sculptures at Ibreez, v. 122 n. 1, 123 n. 2;
on Hittite sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 133 n., 135 n.;
on Arenna, v. 136 n. 1;
on the Syrian god Hadad, v. 163 n. 3
Gascon peasants, their belief in the magical power of priests, i. 232 sq.
Gashes cut in back, Australian initiatory rite, vii. 106
Gates of city opened or shut as charm for ensuring rain or sunshine, i. 298 sq.;
sacrifice of human beings at foundations of, iii. 98 sq.
Gateway, refusal of Marquesan chief to pass through, iii. 254
Gateways of villages, sacrificial blood smeared on, iv. 176 n. 1
Gathas, a part of the Zend-Avesta, vi. 84 n.
Gatri, in Nigeria, kings of, formerly put to death, iv. 34 sq.
Gatschet, A. S., on absence of historic traditions caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 363;
on the absence of totemism in California and Oregon, viii. 175 n. 2;
on the Toukawe Indians, xi. 276 n. 2
Gattanewa, a Marquesan chief, his regard for the sanctity of his head, iii. 254 sq.
Gatto, in Benin, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 131 sq.
Gaul, the Druids of, ii. 189;
Posidonius in, iv. 142;
worship of Cybele in, v. 279;
the Celts of, their calendar, ix. 342 sqq.;
“serpents' eggs” in ancient, x. 15;
human sacrifices in ancient, xi. 32 sq.
See also Gallic
Gauls, their “sacred spring,” iv. 187 n. 5;
their fortification walls, x. 267 sq.
Gauntlet, running the, penalty for killing a sacred python, iii. 222
Gauri, harvest-goddess, wife of Siva, represented by a girl and a bundle of plants, ii. 77 sq., vii. 207
Gavres, Persian fire-worshippers, iv. 158
Gayo, a district of Sumatra, rice fed like a pregnant woman and given water to drink in, ii. 29;
the crops ravaged by wild swine and mice in, viii. 33
Gayos of Northern Sumatra, their offering to the Lord of the Wood before clearing a piece of forest, ii. 36;
propitiate the Lord of the Wood before hunting in the forest, ii. 125;
superstitions of gold-washers among the, iii. 409 n. 3;
their euphemism for small-pox, iii. 410
Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain, beneficial effect of contagious magic in the, i. 175;
continence at the building of a canoe in the, iii. 202;
the name of a brother-in-law not to be mentioned among the natives of the, iii. 344;
the natives of the, their belief as to meteors, iv. 65;
conduct of the natives in an earthquake, v. 201;
the Melanesians of the, vi. 242 sq.;
woman's share in agriculture among the natives of the, vii. 123;
the Livuans of the, their belief in demons, ix. 82 sq.;
natives of the, their story of the origin of death, ix. 303 sq.;
the Ingniet society in the, xi. 156
Gazelles sacrificed at Egyptian funerals, vi. 15;
souls of dead in, viii. 289
Ge-lug-pa, a Lamaist sect, ix. 94
Gebal, Semitic name of Byblus, v. 13 n.
Gebars of New Guinea, temporary seclusion of cannibals among the, iii. 190
Geelvink Bay in New Guinea, magical telepathy among the tribes of, i. 125;
belief in a forest-spirit at, iii. 60 sq.
Geese sacrificed at Egyptian funerals, vi. 15;
the straw of the Shrovetide Bear supposed to make geese lay eggs, viii. 326
Geismar, in Hesse, Jupiter's oak at, ii. 364
Gellius, Aulus, on the triumphal crowns, ii. 175 n. 1;
his list of old Roman deities, vi. 232.
See also Aulus Gellius
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Gellius, Cnaeus, on Mars and Nerio, vi. 232
Gelo, tyrant of Syracuse, iv. 167
Gem, external soul of magician in a, xi. 105 sq.;
external soul of giant in a, xi. 130
Geminus, Greek astronomer, on the vague Egyptian year, vi. 26;
on the octennial cycle, vii. 81;
on the supposed influence of the stars, vii. 318 sq.
Generalizations of science inadequate to cover all particular facts, viii. 37
Generation, male organ of, as emblem of Dionysus, vii. 12;
effigy of, in Thracian ceremony, vii. 26, 29
Genesis, Sarah and Abraham in, ii. 114;
account of the creation in, iv. 106;
the Babylonian, ix. 410
Geneva, Midsummer fires in the canton of, x. 172
Genital organs of murdered people eaten, iii. 190 n. 2;
of Osiris, tradition as to the, vi. 10, 102;
of dead man used to fertilize the fields, vi. 102 sq.
Genius, the Roman guardian-spirit, symbolized by a serpent, v. 86, xi. 212 n.
Genius, Aristotle on men of, viii. 302 n. 5
—— of Industry in China represented by a boy with one foot shod and one foot bare, viii. 11
—— or patron of animals, viii. 243
—— of Spring in Annam, viii. 14
Genna, taboo, among the hill tribes of Assam, iii. 11, vii. 109 n. 2
Gennep, A. van, on the double-headed Janus, ii. 385 n. 1
Gennesaret, the Lake of, viii. 32
Genzano, the village of, i. 5 n. 2
Geographical and climatic conditions, their effect on national character, vi. 217
Geomancy in China, i. 170, iii. 239
George, Green, a leaf-clad mummer on St. George's Day, ii. 75, 76, 79
George the Third, i. 216
Georges d'Amboise, great bell at Rouen, ii. 168
Georgia, the Caucasian, rain-making in, i. 282
Geraestius, a Greek month, ix. 350
Geranium burnt in Midsummer fire, x. 213
Gerard, E., on the belief of the Roumanians in demons, ix. 106 sq.
Gerhausen, the Frauenberg near, x. 166
German belief as to the escape of the soul, iii. 37
—— cures for toothache by transferring it to trees, ix. 57, 58, 59
—— custom of throwing a knife or a hat at a whirlwind, i. 329;
of crowning cattle on Midsummer Day, ii. 127;
of sowing seed over weakly children, vii. 11
German huntsmen call everything by special names, iii. 396
—— laws, old, their punishment for barking a tree, ii. 9
—— peasants, their treatment of the afterbirth of a cow, i. 198 sq.;
their homoeopathic treatment of a broken leg, i. 205
—— saying as to not leaving a knife edge upward, iii. 238
—— superstition as to largeness of last sheaf, vii. 139 n. 7;
as to understanding the language of animals, viii. 146
—— way of freeing gardens from caterpillars, viii. 275
—— women, their use of milk-stones, i. 165
—— woodmen, their ceremony at felling a tree, ii. 38.
Germans, oldest sanctuaries of the, ii. 8 sq.;
evidence of mother-kin among the, ii. 285;
the oak sacred among the, xi. 89
—— the ancient, their worship of women, i. 391;
their tree-worship, ii. 8 sq.;
their worship of the oak, ii. 363 sq.;
their customs as to their hair, iii. 262;
their regard for the phases of the moon, vi. 141;
left the care of the fields to women and old men, vii. 129;
their human sacrifices, xi. 28 n. 1
—— of Moravia, their precautions against witchcraft on Walpurgis Night, ii. 55;
their custom on Laetare Sunday, ii. 63
—— of Transylvania, their belief as to knots in a coffin, iii. 310
—— of West Bohemia call the last sheaf the Old Man, vii. 138;
their custom of beating each other at Christmas, ix. 270;
Twelfth Day among the, ix. 331
Germany, popular cures for jaundice, St. Anthony's fire, and bleeding in, i. 81;
dancing or leaping as a charm to make flax grow tall in, i. 138 sq.;
custom as to cast teeth in, i. 178;
treatment of weapons that have wounded in, i. 204;
beating an absent man vicariously in, i. 207;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210, 211 sq.;
meal offered to the wind in, i. 329 n. 5;
fruit-trees girt or tied together with straw on Christmas Eve in, ii. 17, 27 sq.;
the Harvest May in, ii. 47, 48;
use of May-trees to make cows yield milk in, ii. 52;
the rowan-tree a charm against witchcraft in, ii. 53 n. 5, ix. 267;
precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night in, ii. 54;
Midsummer trees in, ii. 65 sq.;
races at Whitsuntide in, ii. [pg 284] 69;
races at a marriage in, ii. 303 sq.;
acorns as fodder for swine in, ii. 356;
custom of passing patients through a hole in an oak-tree as a cure in, ii. 371;
presages as to shadows on St. Sylvester's Day and Christmas Eve in, iii. 88;
mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95;
belief as to combing and cutting children's hair in, iii. 263 sq.;
disposal of cut hair in, iii. 275 sq.;
certain animals not to be called by their proper names between Christmas and Twelfth Night in, iii. 396;
belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424;
belief as to a man's star in, iv. 66;
harvest custom in, v. 237;
leaping over Midsummer fires in, v. 251;
Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70 sqq.;
popular superstition as to the influence of the moon in, vi. 133, 140 sq., 149;
peasants regulate their sowing and planting by the moon in, vi. 135;
the Corn-mother in, vii. 132 sqq.;
the last sheaf called the Old Woman in, vii. 136;
the last sheaf called the Old Man in, vii. 137;
the last sheaf at harvest called the Bride in, vii. 162;
treatment of passing strangers by reapers and threshers in, vii. 225;
cries of reapers in, vii. 269;
the corn-spirit as a dog or wolf in, vii. 271, 273;
the last corn as a cock in, vii. 276, 277;
the last sheaf called the Hare in, vii. 279, 280;
omens from the cry of the quail in, vii. 295;
corn-spirit as fox in, vii. 296;
pigs' bones in connexion with sowing in, vii. 300;
the harvest-cock in, viii. 44;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
cure for warts in, ix. 54;
cure for toothache in, by transplanting it to a tree, ix. 59;
dances or leaps to make the crops grow high in, ix. 238;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268 sq.;
custom of young people beating each other on Holy Innocents' Day in, ix. 270;
the King of the Bean in, ix. 313;
weather of the twelve months thought to be determined by the weather of the Twelve Days in, ix. 322;
weather forecasts by means of a peeled onion in, ix. 323;
the three mythical kings on Twelfth Night in, ix. 329;
the festival of Fools in, ix. 336 n. 1;
Lenten fires in, x. 115 sq.;
Easter bonfires in, x. 140 sqq.;
custom at eclipses in, x. 162 n.;
the Midsummer fires in, x. 163 sqq.;
the Yule log in, x. 247 sqq.;
belief in the transformation of witches into animals in, x. 321 n. 2;
colic, sore eyes, and stiffness of the back attributed to witchcraft in, x.344 sq.;
mugwort at Midsummer in, xi. 59;
orpine gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 62 n.;
fern-seed at Midsummer thought to be endowed with marvellous properties in, xi. 65;
mistletoe a remedy for epilepsy in, xi. 83;
the need-fire kindled by the friction of oak in, xi.91;
oak-wood used to make up cottage fires on Midsummer Day in, xi. 91 sq.;
stories of the external soul in, xi. 116 sqq.;
birth-trees in, xi. 165;
children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture in, xi. 170 sqq.
Germany, ancient, the forests of, ii. 353
Gerontocracy, the rule of old men, in Australia, i. 335
Gervasius of Tilbury, on a rain-producing spring, i. 301
Gestr and the spae-wives, Icelandic story of, xi. 125 sq.
Getae, human god among the, i. 392;
priestly kings of the, iii. 21
Gewar, king of Norway, his daughter Nanna wooed by Balder, x. 103
Gezer, Canaanitish city, excavations at, v. 108
Gezo, King, restricts the benefit of clergy on the Slave Coast, v. 68
Ghansyam Deo, a deity of the Gonds, protector of the crops, ix. 217
Ghats, the Eastern, use of scapegoats in the, ix. 191
Ghennabura, religious head of village in Manipur, iii. 292
Ghera, a Galla kingdom, birth names of kings not to be pronounced in, iii. 375
Ghineh, monument of Adonis at, v. 29
Ghost of afterbirth thought to adhere to navel-string, vi. 169 sq.
—— of husband kept from his widow, iii. 143;
fear of evoking the ghost by mentioning his name, iii. 349 sqq.;
chased into the grave at the end of mourning, iii. 373 sq.
——, the Holy, regarded as female, iv. 5 n. 3
——, oracular, in a cave, xi. 312 sq.
——, precaution against, i. 142, 154
Ghosts, supernatural power of chiefs in Melanesia thought to be derived from, i. 338 sq.;
draw away the souls of their kinsfolk, iii. 51 sqq.;
sacrifices to, iii. 56, 247;
draw out men's shadows, iii. 80;
as guardians of gates, iii. 90 sq.;
exorcized after funerals, iii. 106 sq.;
kept off by thorns, iii. 142;
the purification of homicides and murderers designed to free them from the ghosts of their victims, iii. 186 sq.;
and demons averse to iron, iii. 232 sqq.;
fear of wounding, iii. 237 sq.;
swept out of house, iii. 238;
names changed in order to deceive ghosts or to avoid [pg 285] attracting their attention, iii. 354 sqq.;
easily duped, iii. 355;
propitiated with blood, iv. 92;
propitiated with games, iv. 96;
dearth and famine attributed to the anger of, iv. 103;
thought to impregnate women, v. 93, ix. 18;
of the dead personated by living men, vi. 52, 53, 58;
who preside over gardens, fear of offending the, viii. 85;
deceived by the substitution of effigies for livingpersons, viii. 94 sqq., 97 sqq.;
first-fruits offered to, viii. 126 sq.;
offerings to ancestral, viii. 127;
disabled by the mutilation of their bodies, viii. 271 sqq.;
of suicides feared, ix. 17 sq.;
shut up in wood, ix. 60 sq.;
nailed into the ground, ix. 63;
diseases caused by, ix. 85;
epidemics thought to be caused by, ix. 116;
periodically expelled, ix. 123 sq.;
driven off by blows, ix. 260 sqq.;
extracted from wooden posts, x. 8;
fire used to get rid of, xi. 17 sqq.;
mugwort a protection against, xi. 59;
kept off by thorn bushes, xi. 174 sq.;
creeping through cleft sticks to escape from, xi. 174 sqq.
See also Ancestral Spirits and Dead
Ghosts of animals, dread of, iii. 223, viii. 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 223, 224,227 sq., 229, 231 sq., 235, 236, 237, 241, 245, 267 sq., 269, 271
——, Roman festival of, in May, ix. 54 sq.
—— of the slain haunt their slayers, iii. 165 sqq.;
sacrifices to, iii. 166;
scaring away the, iii. 168, 170, 171, 172, 174 sq.;
as birds, iii. 177 sq.;
precautions against, iii. 240
Giant who had no heart in his body, stories of the, xi. 96 sqq., 119 sq.;
mythical, supposed to kill and resuscitate lads at initiation, xi. 243
Giant-fennel burnt in Midsummer fire, x. 213
Giants, myths of, based on discovery of fossil bones, v. 157 sq.
—— and gods, their battle, v. 157
—— of wicker-work at popular festivals in Europe, xi. 33 sqq.;
burnt in the summer bonfires, xi. 38
Giaour-Kalesi, Hittite sculptures at, v. 138 n.
Giddiness, transferred to flax, ix. 53
Giggenhausen, in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, x. 144
Gigha, island off Argyleshire, wind-charm in, i. 323
Gilbert, O., on the lapis manalis at Rome, i. 310 n. 3
Gilbert Islands, treatment of the navel-string in the, i. 185 sq.;
sacred stones in the, v. 108 n. 1
Giles, Professor H. A., on reported substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 275
Gilgamesh, the epic of, ix. 371, 398 sq.;
a Babylonian hero, beloved by the goddess Ishtar, ix. 371 sq., 398 sq.;
his name formerly read as Izdubar, ix. 372 n. 1
Gilgamus, a Babylonian king, ix. 372 n. 1
Gilgenburg in Masuren, “Easter Smacks” at, ix. 269
Gilgit, custom at felling a tree in, ii. 44;
the sacred chili (a kind of cedar) at, ii. 49, 50;
in the Hindoo Koosh, custom at wheat harvest at, viii. 56
Gill, Captain W., on a tribe in China governed by a woman, vi. 211 n. 3
Gill, W. W., on the observation of the Pleiades in the Hervey Islands, vii. 312
Gilolo. See Halmahera
Gilyak hunters, taboos observed in their absence by their children, i. 122
—— procession with bear, viii. 322, 325
—— shaman, his exorcism, viii. 103
Gilyaks, their ceremony at felling a tree, ii. 38;
do not clearly distinguish animals from men, viii. 206;
their respect for dead sables, viii. 238
—— of the Amoor, a Tunguzian people, viii. 190;
eat nutlets of stone-pine, v. 278 n. 2;
their exorcism by means of effigies, viii. 103 sq.;
their bear-festivals, viii. 190 sqq.;
why they put out the eyes of the seals they kill, viii. 267;
their belief in demons, ix. 101 sq.
—— of Saghalien, their customs as to personal names, iii. 370
Ginger in purificatory rites, iii. 105, 151;
cultivated, vii. 123
Gingiro, an Ethiopian kingdom, pretence of reluctance to accept the kingdom in, iii. 18 sq.;
wounded kings of, put to death, iv. 34;
custom at accession of new king in, iv. 200
Ginzel, Professor F. K., on the rise of the Nile, vi. 31 n. 1
Gion shrine in Japan, x. 138
Gippsland, in Victoria, the Kurnai of, i. 324, xi. 216;
the natives of, concealed their personal names, iii. 331 sq.
Gipsies. See Gypsies
Giraffes, souls of dead kings incarnate in, vi. 162
Giraldus Cambrensis on transformation of witches into hares, x. 315 n. 1
Girdle of wolf's hide worn by were-wolves, x. 310 n. 1
——, sacred, of king of Tahiti, i. 388
Girdles of mugwort worn on St. John's Day or Eve as preservative against [pg 286] backache, sore eyes, ghosts, magic, and sickness, xi. 59
Girkshausen, in Westphalia, the Yule log at, x. 248
Girl annually sacrificed to cedar-tree, ii. 17
—— and boy produce need-fire by friction of wood, x. 281
Girlachsdorf, in Silesia, the last sheaf called the Old Man at, vii. 138
Girls or women dance to make crops grow tall, i. 139 n.;
married to nets, ii. 147;
sacrificed to crocodiles, ii. 152;
employed to sow seed, vii. 115;
sacrificed for the crops, vii. 237, 239
—— at puberty obliged to touch everything in house, iii. 225 n.;
their hair torn out, iii. 284;
ceremonial uncleanness of, viii. 268, 268 n. 4;
secluded, x. 22 sqq.;
not allowed to touch the ground, x. 22, 33, 35, 36, 60;
not allowed to see the sun, x. 22, 35, 36, 37, 41, 44, 46, 47, 68;
not allowed to handle food, x. 23, 28, 36, 40 sq., 42;
half buried in ground, x. 38 sqq.;
not allowed to scratch themselves with their fingers, x. 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 47, 50, 53, 92;
not allowed to lie down, x. 44;
said to be wounded by a snake, x. 56;
said to be swallowed by a serpent, x. 57;
gashed on back, breast, and belly, x. 60;
stung by ants, x. 61;
beaten severely, x. 61, 66 sq.;
supposed to be attacked by a demon, x. 67 sq.;
not to see the sky, x. 69;
forbidden to break bones of hares, x. 73 n. 3
—— under puberty used in rain-making, iii. 154
Girls' race at Olympia, iv. 91
Gisors, sickly children passed through a holed stone near, xi. 188
Givoy agon, living fire, in Russia, made by the friction of wood, x. 220
Gladiators at Roman funerals, iv. 96;
at Roman banquets, iv. 143
Glamorganshire, cure for warts in, ix. 53;
the Vale of, Beltane fires in, x. 154;
Midsummer fires in, x. 154, 201, 338
Glands, ashes of Yule log used to cure swollen, x. 251
Glanvil, Joseph, on a witch in the form of a cat, x. 317
Glass, the Magician's or Druid's, name for certain beads, x. 16
Glatz, precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night in, xi. 20 n.
Glaucus, son of Minos, restored to life, v. 186 n. 4
Glawi, in the Atlas, New Year fires at, x. 217
Gleiwitz, in Poland, sacrifice for horses near, ii. 336 sq.
Glen Farg, Perthshire, the harvest Maiden in, vii. 157, 157 n. 3
—— Mor, in Islay, stone for the cure of toothache in, ix. 62
—— Moriston, Inverness-shire, vii. 162 n. 3
Glencoe, the harvest Maiden and Old Wife in, vii. 165
Glencuaich, the hawk of, in a Celtic tale, xi. 127 sqq.
Glenorchy, the Beltane cake in, x. 149
Glory, the Hand of, a thief's talisman, i. 149
“——, the Hand of,” mandragora, xi. 316
Gloucester, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
Gloucestershire, fires kindled on the Eve of Twelfth Day in, ix. 318, 321;
mistletoe growing on oaks in, xi. 316
Glover, T. R., on a fire-custom of the Telugus, ii. 231 n. 6
Glue in homoeopathic magic, i. 157
Gnabaia, a spirit who swallows and disgorges lads at initiation, xi. 235
Gnats, charm against, viii. 280
Gnid-eld, need-fire, in Sweden, x. 280
Gniewkowo, in Prussian Lithuania, mummers on Twelfth Day near, viii. 327
Goajira peninsula in Colombia, personal names kept secret among the Indians of, iii. 325
Goajiras of Colombia, set hooks to catch demons, iii. 30 sq.;
the dead not named among the, iii. 352;
their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 34 n. 1
Goat, blood of, drunk by devil-dancers and priests as means of inspiration, i. 382, 383;
prohibition to touch or name, iii. 13;
transference of guilt to, iii. 214 sq.;
sacrificed by being hanged, v. 292;
in relation to Dionysus, vii. 17 sq., viii. 1 sqq.;
torn to pieces in rites of Dionysus, vii. 18, viii. 16;
sacrificed for human victim, vii. 249;
corn-spirit as, vii. 281 sqq., viii. 327;
last sheaf made up in form of a, vii. 283;
killed on harvest-field, vii. 285;
stuffed, vii. 287;
killed at sowing, vii. 288;
the sacred animal of a Bushman tribe, viii. 28 sq.
See also Goats
—— and Athena, viii. 40 sq.
——, black, in rain-making ceremonies, i. 250, 291
——, the Cripple or Lame, name given to the last sheaf, vii. 164, 284
Goat-formed deities and spirits of the woods, viii. 1 sqq.
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Goat-skin, mask of, worn by mummers at Carnival, vii. 26;
worn by farmer at harvest, vii. 285;
hung on pole at sowing and danced round at harvest, vii. 288
—— -skins, mummers at Carnival clad in, vii. 26 sqq.
Goat's flesh, taboo as to entering a sanctuary after eating, viii. 85
—— Marsh at Rome, disappearance of Romulus at the, ii. 181, ix. 258
—— neck, name given to last standing corn, vii. 268
Goats fertilized at the Chili stone, ii. 51;
sacrificed in ceremonies to fertilize barren women, ii. 316, 318;
bred by the people of the Italian pile villages, ii. 353 n. 3;
not to be called by their proper name, iii. 415;
sacrificed instead of human beings, iv. 166 n. 1;
torn to pieces by fanatics in Morocco, vii. 21 sq.;
in relation to minor Greek and Roman deities (Satyrs, Fauns, etc.), viii. 1 sqq.;
the testicles of, eaten by lecherous persons, viii. 142;
sacrificed to wolves, viii. 284;
evil transferred to, ix. 31, 32;
as scapegoats, ix. 190, 191, 192.
See also Goat
Goats' horns used as a protection against witches, ix. 161, 162
Goatsucker or fern owl, shadow of the, iii. 82;
sex totem of women, xi. 217
Gobar-bhacach (goabbir bhacagh), “the lame goat,” name given to the last sheaf in Skye, vii. 164, 284
Gobi, the desert of, ix. 13
Gobir, a Hausa kingdom, infirm kings killed in, iv. 35
God, savage ideas of, different from those of civilized men, i. 375 sq.;
“the most great name” of, iii. 390;
the killing and resurrection of a god in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, iv. 221, ix. 1;
children of, v. 68;
sons of, v. 78 sqq.;
the physical fatherhood of, v. 80 sq.;
gardens of, v. 123, 159;
the burning of a, v. 188 sq.;
the hanged, v. 288 sqq.;
killed in animal form, vii. 22 sq.;
the animal enemy of a, originally identical with the god, vii. 23, viii. 16 sq., 31;
eating the, viii. 48 sqq.;
reasons for eating the, viii. 138 sq., 167;
dying, as scapegoat, ix. 1, 227;
the black and the white, ix. 92;
the killing of the, in Mexico, ix. 275 sqq.;
resurrection of the, ix. 400;
the dying and risen, in Western Asia, ix. 421 sq.
See also Gods
——, Aryan, of the thunder and the oak, ii. 356 sqq., x. 265
God, Bride of, i. 276
——, the Dying and Reviving, vii. 1, 33
—— on Earth, title of supreme chief of the Bushongo, xi. 264
—— of earthquakes, v. 194 sqq.
“God-boxes,” inspired priests called, i. 378
—— -man a source of danger, iii. 132;
bound by many rules, iii. 419 sq.
God's Mouth (Kirwaido), supreme lord of the old Prussians, iv. 41 sq.
Godavari District, in Southern India, the Kois of, v. 95
Goddess, identified with priestess, v. 219;
superiority of the, in the myths of Adonis, Attis, Osiris, vi. 201 sq.
Goddesses place infant sons of kings on fire to render them immortal, v. 180;
of fertility served by eunuch priests, v. 269 sq.;
their superiority over gods in societies organized on mother-kin, vi. 202 sqq.;
the development of, favoured by mother-kin, vi. 259;
personated by women, ix. 238
——, Cilician, v. 161 sqq.
Godiva, Lady, legend of, i. 284 n.
Godolphin, in Cornwall, Midsummer fires on, x. 199
Gods viewed as magicians, i. 240 sqq., 375;
ill-treated in times of drought or excessive rain, i. 296 sqq.;
appeal to the pity of the, as a rain-charm, i. 302 sq.;
sacrifice themselves by fire, i. 315 n. 1;
conception of, slowly evolved, i. 373 sq.;
in Brahman theology held to have been at first mortal and to have dwelt on earth, i. 373 n. 1;
gods and men, no sharp line of distinction between, in Fiji, i. 389;
the marriage of the, ii. 129 sqq.;
married to women, ii. 129 sqq., 143 sq., 146 sq., 149 sqq., vi. 207;
created by men in their own likeness, iii. 387, iv. 2 sq., 194;
their names tabooed, iii. 387 sqq.;
Xenophanes on the, iii. 387;
morality of the, iv. 1 sqq.;
succeeded by their sons, iv. 5;
exiled for perjury, iv. 70 n. 1;
progressive amelioration in the character of the, iv. 136;
death and resurrection of, v. 6, vii. 1, 12 sqq.;
personated by priests, v. 45, 46 sqq., ix. 287;
married to sisters, v. 316;
made by men and worshipped by women, vi. 211;
named the eaters of certain animals, vii. 23;
distinguished from spirits, vii. 169;
in the likeness of foreigners, vii. 236;
shut up in wood, ix. 61;
represented in masquerades, ix. 377.
See also God and Myths
—— and giants, the battle of, v. 157
—— and goddesses, dramatic weddings [pg 288] of, ii. 121;
represented by living men and women, ix. 385 sq.
Gods and men not sharply distinguished by primitive peoples, i. 373, 374 sq.;
esteemed akin by the ancients, ii. 177
——, incarnate human, i. 373 sqq., ii. 377 sq.;
bound by many rules, iii. 419 sq.
—— of the Maoris, ix. 81
——, Mexican, burn themselves to create the sun, ix. 410
——, Mother of the, in Mexico, ix. 289;
woman annually sacrificed in the character of the, ix. 289 sq.
—— of the Pelew Islanders, ix. 81 sq.
Goepfritz, in Lower Austria, dramatic contest between Summer and Winter at, iv. 257
Goik, name of puppet carried out at Mid-Lent, iv. 237
Goitre transferred to a peach-tree, ix. 54
Gold as a cure for jaundice, i. 80 sq.;
excluded from some temples, iii. 226 n. 8;
the flower of chicory to be cut with, xi. 71;
root of marsh mallow to be dug with, xi. 80 n. 3;
buried, revealed by mistletoe and fern-seed, xi. 287 sqq., 291
—— and silver as totems, iii. 227 n.
Gold Coast of West Africa, the Tshi-speaking peoples of the, i. 132, ii. 274 sq., iv. 128, v. 69;
negroes of the, their sacrifices to trees, ii. 47;
iron laid aside in consulting fetishes on the, iii. 228 sq.;
the Awuna tribes of the, iii. 257;
expulsion of demons on the, ix. 120, 131, 132 sq.
—— coin, magic plant to be dug up with a, xi. 57
—— mines, spirits of the, treated with deference, iii. 409 sq.
Golden Age, the, ix. 306, 353, 386;
the reign of Saturn, ix. 306, 344
—— apples, prize in race, ii 301;
of the Hesperides, iv. 80
—— axe, sacred tamarisk touched with, xi. 80 n. 3
—— bells worn by human representatives of gods in Mexico, ix. 278, 280, 284
—— Bough, xi. 279 sqq.;
plucked by Aeneas, i. 11, ii. 379;
the breaking of it not a piece of bravado, i. 123 sq.;
grew on an evergreen oak, ii. 379;
and the priest of Aricia, x. 1;
a branch of mistletoe, xi. 284 sqq., 315 sqq.;
Virgil's account of the, xi. 284 sq., 286, 293 sq., 315 sqq.;
origin of the name, xi. 286 sqq.
“—— Disease,” name for jaundice, i. 80
—— fish, girl's external soul in a, xi. 147 sq., 220
—— fleece, ram with, iv. 162
Golden Flower, the Feast of the, v. 185
—— Garden of the Peruvian Vestals, ii. 244
—— keys to unlock the frozen earth in spring, ii. 333
—— knife, horse slain in sacrifice with a, xi. 80 n. 3
—— lamb of Mycenae, i. 365
—— ornaments not to be worn in certain rites, iii. 227 n.
—— ring worn as a charm, i. 137;
half a hero's strength in a, xi. 143
—— Sea, the, v. 150
—— sickle, mistletoe cut by Druids with a, xi. 77, 88;
sacred olive at Olympia cut with a, xi. 80 n. 3
—— or silver nails driven into a sacred tree, ii. 36
“—— summer,” the, i. 32
—— sword and golden arrow, external soul of a hero in a, xi. 145
—— swords, youths dancing with, iv. 75
Goldfinch, consumption transferred to a, ix. 52
Goldfish worshipped by Indians of Peru, viii. 250
Goldi, the, of the Lower Amoor, their exorcism by means of effigies, viii. 103 sq.;
bear-festivals of the, viii. 197
Goldi shaman, his exorcism, viii. 103
Goldie, Rev. Hugh, on the fetish king of Calabar, iii. 22 sq.;
on the periodic expulsion of ghosts at Calabar, ix. 204 n. 1;
on the ukpong or external soul in Calabar, xi. 206
Goldmann, Dr. Emil, on the installation of a prince of Carinthia, iv. 155 n. 1
Goldsmith, transmigration of thief into, viii. 299
Goldziher, I., on a festival of the Bedouins of Sinai, iv. 97 n. 7
Golgi in Cyprus, conical stones at, v. 35
Goliath, a straw-man stabbed at Whitsuntide, ii. 90;
effigy of, carried in procession, xi. 36
—— and David, v. 19 n. 2
Gollas, the, of Southern India, their treatment of a woman in childbed, iii. 149
Golos, on the Bahr-el-Ghazal, their way of detaining the sun, i. 318
Goluan, Midsummer, x. 199
Gomes, E. H., on sacrifices in time of epidemics, iv. 176 n. 1;
on the head-feast of the Sea Dyaks, ix. 384 n. 1
Gommern, near Magdeburg, reaper of last corn wrapt in corn-stalks at, vii. 221
Gonds of India, their belief in reincarnation, i. 104 sq.;
their custom at clearing away a jungle, ii. 39;
mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 217;
ceremony of [pg 289] bringing back souls of the dead among the, v. 95 sq.;
their human sacrifices at sowing and reaping, vii. 244;
human scapegoats among the, ix. 217 sq.
Gongs beaten in a storm, i. 328 sq.;
at Dodona, ii. 358;
beaten to expel demons, ix. 113, 117, 118, 147
Gontiyalamma, mud figure of, in a rain-making ceremony, i. 294
Good Friday, barren fruit-trees threatened on, ii. 22;
Highland superstitions as to, iii. 229;
effigies and sepulchres of Christ on, iv. 284, v. 254 sqq.;
of ancient Greece, vii. 33;
expulsion of witches in Silesia on, ix. 157;
absolution of man called Adam at Halberstadt on the day before, ix. 214;
cattle beaten on, ix. 266;
custom of beating each other with rods on, ix. 268;
Judas driven out of church on, x. 146;
the divining-rod cut on, xi. 68 n. 4;
sick children passed through cleft trees on, xi. 172
—— Goddess (Bona Dea), at Rome, wine called milk in her ritual, iii. 249 n. 2;
her relationship to Faunus, vi. 234
—— Spirit, the, vii. 206
Goodrich-Freer, A., on Beltane bannocks and fires in the Hebrides, x. 154 n. 3
Googe, Barnabe, his translation of a Latin poem by Thomas Kirchmeyer, x. 124
Goomsur, Earth Goddess represented in peacock form in, vii. 248 n. 1
Goorkhas, the, of Nepaul, their festival of Dassera, iii. 316
Goose, eaten by Egyptian kings, iii. 13, 291.
See also Geese
“——, to lose the,” expression for overthrowing a load at harvest, vii. 277 n. 3
Gooseberry-bushes, a protection against witches, ii. 55;
wild, custom as to, xi. 48
Goowoong Awoo, volcano, children sacrificed to, v. 219
Gordian knot, iii. 316 sq.
Gordias and Midas, names of Phrygian kings, v. 286
Gordioi chose the fattest man king, ii. 297
Gordium, capital of the kings of Phrygia, iii. 316
Gordon, E. M., on iron as an amulet in Bilaspore, iii. 234 sq.;
on infant burial in Bilaspore, v. 94 sq.;
on the festival of the dead in Bilaspore, vi. 60;
on cairns to which passers-by add stones in Bilaspore, ix. 27 n. 4
Gore, Captain, on the behaviour of the Meriahs among the Khonds, iv. 139 n. 1
Gorgon, Perseus and the, iii. 312
Gorillas, souls of dead in, viii. 289;
lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 202
Gorong archipelago, custom as to children's cast teeth in the, i. 179;
rule as to gathering coco-nuts in the, iii. 201
Gorse burned on May Day to burn or drive away witches, ii. 54
Görz, belief as to witches at Midsummer about, xi. 75
Gospel to the Hebrews, the apocryphal, iv. 5 n. 3
Goudie, Mr. Gilbert, on Up-helly-a' at Lerwick, ix. 169 n. 2
Gour-deziou, “Supplementary Days,” in Brittany, ix. 324
Gouri, an Indian goddess of fertility, v. 241 sq.
Gournia in Crete, prehistoric shrine at, v. 88 n. 1
Gout, popular remedy for, in Java, iii. 106;
transferred to trees, ix. 56 sq.
Government of old men in aboriginal Australia, i. 334 sq.
Govindji, an incarnation of Krishna, i. 284
Gowland, W., on cairns in Corea, ix. 11 n. 5
Gowmditch-mara tribe of Victoria, difference of language between husbands and wives in the, iii. 348 n. 1
Graal, History of the Holy, iv. 120, 134
Graetz, H., on death of a Christian child in the character of Haman, ix. 395 n. 1
Grafting, superstitious ceremony at, ii. 100
Grain Coast of West Africa, the Bodio or fetish king of the, i. 353, iii. 23;
initiation of girls on the, xi. 259
Grains of wheat, divination by, ix. 316 n. 1
Grammont, in Belgium, festival of the “Crown of Roses” at, x. 195;
the Yule log at, x. 249
Gran Chaco, the Lengua Indians of the, i. 313, 330, 359, iii. 37, 38, 357, iv. 11, 63, viii. 245, ix. 122, 262;
the Indians of the, their belief in dreams, iii. 37;
the Guaycurus of the, iii. 357, vii. 309;
the Matacos Indians of the, iii. 373 n.
Granada (South America), youthful rulers secluded in, x. 19
Granary, ceremony at fetching rice from a, vii. 185
Grand Halleux, bonfires on first Sunday in Lent at, x. 107
Grandfather's corpse, custom of leaping over, iii. 424
Grandfathers, grandsons named after their deceased, iii. 370
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Grandidier, A., on changes in the Malagasy language caused by taboo on names of the dead, iii. 380 sq.
Grandmother, title of an African priest, vi. 255;
name given to last sheaf, vii. 136;
or Mother of Ghosts at Rome, viii. 94, 96, 107
Grandmother Earth thought to cause earthquakes, v. 198
Grandmothers, grand-daughters named after their deceased, iii. 370
Grandparents, dead, worshipped, vi. 175
Granger, Professor F., on double-headed bust at Nemi, i. 42 n. 1
Grannas-mias, torches, on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111
Granno, invocation of, x. 111 sq.
Granno-mio, a torch, x. 111
Grannus, a Celtic deity, identified with Apollo, x. 111 sq.
Grant, the great laird of, not exempt from witchcraft, x. 342 n. 4
Grape-cluster, Mother of the, iv. 8
Grapes as divine emblem, v. 165;
the last, not to be stript, vii. 234 sq.
Grasausläuten, ringing bells to make grass grow, ii. 344
Grass, magical ceremonies to make grass grow, i. 87 sq., x. 136;
bell-ringing as a charm to make grass grow, ii. 343 sq., ix. 247;
knotted as a charm, iii. 305, 306, 310;
thrown on heaps as ceremony, ix. 9, 10, 18, 20, 28;
dances to cause the grass to grow, ix. 238
Grass King, the, at Whitsuntide, ii. 85 sq.
—— -ringers in the Tyrol and Switzerland, ix. 247
—— seed, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 87 sq.;
continence at magical ceremony for growth of, ii. 105
Grasshoppers in homoeopathic magic, i. 173 sq.;
charm against, viii. 281;
sacrifice of, ix. 35
Gratz, puppet burned on St. John's Eve at, x. 173
Graubünden (the Grisons), Canton of Switzerland, capers of masked men to make corn grow in, ix. 239;
“Sawing the Old Woman” in, iv. 242 sq.
Graudenz district of West Prussia, the harvest Bull in the, vii. 288
Grave, soul fetched from, iii. 54;
annual festival at, iv. 97;
human sacrifices at the, iv. 143, 143 n. 4;
dance at initiation in, xi. 237
—— of ancestor, milk poured on, ii. 223
—— of Apollo, i. 34 sq., iv. 4
Grave of Dionysus, iv. 3, vii. 14
—— of Osiris, vi. 10 sq.;
human victims sacrificed at the, vi. 97
—— of Zeus, iv. 3
Grave-diggers, taboos observed by, iii. 141, 142;
obliged to stand on one foot, iv. 156 n. 2
—— -shrines of Shilluk kings, vi. 161 sq.;
of Barotse kings, vi. 194 sq.
Graveclothes, homoeopathic magic of, in China, i. 168 sq.;
no knots in, iii. 310;
no buttons in, iii. 313
Graves, human blood offered at, i. 90 sq., i. 101, iv. 92;
rain-charms at, i. 268, 286, 291, iii. 154 sq.;
trees planted on, ii. 31;
dances on, ii. 183 n. 2;
food offered on, iii. 53;
puppets substituted for human victims sacrificed at, iv. 218;
milk offered at, v. 87;
childless women resort to, in order to ensure offspring, v. 96;
illuminated on All Souls' Day, vi. 72 sq., 74;
the only places of sacrifice in the country of the Wahehe, vi. 190;
false, to deceive demons, viii. 99 sq.;
offerings of first-fruits presented at, viii. 111, 113, 115;
heaps of sticks or stones on, ix. 15 sqq.
—— of Heitsi-Eibib, iv. 3, x. 16
—— of Hermes, Aphrodite, and Ares, iv. 4
—— of Hyperborean maidens at Delos, i. 28, 33 sqq.
—— of kings, chiefs, and magicians kept secret, vi. 103 sqq.;
human sacrifices at, vi. 168
—— of twins, water poured on, to procure rain, iii. 154 sq.
Gray, Archdeacon J. H., on reported human sacrifices in an aboriginal tribe of China, iv. 145
Grbalj, in Dalmatia, belief as to the souls of trees at, ii. 14
Greasing the weapon instead of the wound, i. 202 sqq.
Great Ardra in Guinea, the king of, not allowed to behold the sea, iii. 9
—— Bassam, in Guinea, annual sacrifice of oxen for the crops at, viii. 9 sq.;
exorcism of evil spirit at, ix. 120
—— Bear observed by the Kamtchatkans, vii. 315
“—— burnings” for kings of Judah, v. 177 sq.
—— Eleusinian Games, vii. 71, 79
—— Feast, the, in Morocco, ix. 180, 182, 265
—— Goddesses, the grove of the, at Andania, ii. 122
—— Man, who created the world and comes down in the form of lightning, xi. 298
—— Marriage, annual festival of the [pg 291] dead among the Oraons of Bengal, vi. 59
Great men, history not to be explained without the influence of, v. 311 n. 2;
great religious systems founded by, vi. 159 sq.;
their influence on the popular imagination, vi. 199
—— Mother, popularity of her worship in the Roman empire, v. 298 sq.;
name given to the last sheaf, vii. 135 sq.
—— Mysteries of Eleusis, their date, vii. 51
—— Pan, death of the, iv. 6 sq.
“—— Purification,” Japanese ceremony, ix. 213 n. 1
—— religious systems founded by individual great men, vi. 159 sq.;
religious ideals a product of the male imagination, vi. 211
—— Spirit, iv. 3;
sacrifice of fingers to the, iii. 161;
his gift of corn to men, vii. 177
—— Sun, title of Natchez chief, ii. 262, 263, viii. 77 sqq.
—— Vigil, an Aztec festival, vii. 176
—— year, the, a Greek cycle of eight or nine ordinary years, iv. 70
Grebo people of Sierra Leone, their pontiff, his magical functions and taboos, iii. 14 sq.
Greece, time of the corn-reaping in, i. 32, v. 232 n.;
priestly kings in, i. 44 sqq.;
homoeopathic cures for jaundice in, i. 80;
rain-making in, i. 273;
forests of, ii. 8;
artificial fertilization of fig-trees in, ii. 314 sq.;
oaks in, ii. 355;
acorns eaten in, ii. 355, 356;
conception of the soul in, iii. 29 n. 1;
customs as to foundations of new buildings in, iii. 89;
customs as to man-slayers in, iii. 188;
mode of reckoning intervals of time in, iv. 59 n. 1;
sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera in, iv. 91;
swinging as a festal rite in, iv. 283 sq.;
use of music in religion in, v. 54 sq.;
belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead in, v. 86 sq.;
notion as to birth from trees and rocks in, v. 107 n. 1;
purification for homicide in, v. 299 n. 2;
notion of the noxious influence of moonshine on children in, vi. 148;
marriage customs in, vi. 245 sq.;
summer rainless in, vii. 69;
time of barley harvest in, vii. 77;
use of swallows as scapegoats in, ix. 35;
use of laurel in purification in, ix. 262;
stories of girls who were forbidden to see the sun in, x. 72 sqq.;
belief as to menstruous women in, x. 98 n. 1;
Midsummer fires in, x. 211 sq.;
stories of the external soul in, xi. 103 sqq.;
mistletoe in, xi. 316, 317
Greece, ancient, ceremony performed by persons supposed to have been dead in, i. 75;
ceremony to prevent dropsy in, i. 78;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 211;
curses at cutting hellebore in, i. 281;
human gods in, i. 390 sq.;
tree-worship in, ii. 10;
rule as to blowing on a fire in, ii. 240;
female descent of kingship in, ii. 278 sq.;
maxim not to look at one's reflection in water in, iii. 94;
names of the priests of the Eleusinian mysteries not to be mentioned in, iii. 382;
the eight years' cycle in, iv. 68 sqq.;
custom of banishing homicides in, iv. 69 sq.;
human sacrifices in, iv. 161 sqq.;
time of the vintage in, vii. 47 n. 2;
mode of ridding the fields of mice in, viii. 276 sq.;
theory of the transmigration of souls in, viii. 300;
custom of stone-throwing in, ix. 24 sq.;
belief in demons in, ix. 104;
human scapegoats in, ix. 252 sqq.;
Saturnalia in, ix. 350 sqq.
—— Homeric, sanctity of kings and chiefs in, i. 366
Greek armies before battle, custom observed by, iii. 111
—— art, the human soul represented sometimes as a mannikin and sometimes as a butterfly in, iii. 29 n. 1
—— belief as to impotence, i. 150;
as to gods in the likeness of strangers, vii. 236
—— bride and bridegroom bathed before marriage, ii. 162
—— calendar, the early, iv. 68;
in the Louvre, vii. 46 n. 2;
based on the moon, of little use to the husbandman, vii. 53;
regulated by the moon, vii. 80
—— charm to silence watchdogs, i. 149
—— charms to ensure wakefulness, clear sight, and black hair, i. 154
—— Church, ceremonies on Good Friday in the, v. 254;
ritual of the new fire at Easter in the, x. 128 sq.
—— conception of Earth as the great Mother, ii. 128 n. 4
—— custom of offering hair to rivers, i. 31;
of ploughing the land thrice a year, vii. 53 n. 4, 72 sq.
—— divinities who died and rose again, vii. 2
—— farmers, their seasons for ploughing and sowing, vii. 45, 50;
their seasons for sowing and reaping determined by observation of the Pleiades, vii. 318
—— Feast of All Souls in May, vi. 78 n. 1
—— games, the great, iv. 92 sq., 103 sqq.;
held every four years, vii. 79 sq.
—— gods, discrimination of their characters, [pg 292] v. 119;
who took titles from vermin, viii. 282
Greek husbandmen, their maxim as to planting and gathering olives, ii. 107
—— infants, octopuses and cuttle-fish presented to, i. 156
—— kings, called Zeus, ii. 177, 361;
ancient, their reign of eight years, iv. 58 sq., 70 sqq.
—— lands, artificial fertilization of fig-trees in, ix. 272
—— maxim not to wear rings, iii. 314
—— mode of relighting a sacred fire by means of burning-glass, ii. 244 n. 1
—— months lunar, vii. 52, 53, 80
—— mysteries, bull-roarers swung at, vii. 110
—— mythology, Adonis in, v. 10 sqq.
—— peasants used to carry fire in stalks of fennel, ii. 260
—— ploughman, his prayer to Zeus and Demeter, vii. 45, 50
—— practice of sacrificing to the dead on their birthdays, i. 105
—— purificatory rites, pigs sacrificed in, vii. 74
—— religion, rule of ancient, to exclude from temples all who had touched a corpse or a lying-in woman, iii. 155
—— ritual of purification, one shoe on and one shoe off in, iii. 312;
of expiatory sacrifices, viii. 27
—— sacrifices, victims required to shake their heads in, i. 384, n. 7
—— sanctuaries, iron not to be brought into, iii. 226
—— sower of cummin, his use of curses, i. 281
—— story of Iphiclus and Melampus, i. 158;
stories of the external soul, xi. 103 sqq.
—— superstitions as to certain woollen garments and certain stones, i. 157
—— use of winnowing-fans as cradles, ii. 6
—— women, their mourning for Persephone, ix. 349
—— writers on the worship of Adonis, v. 223 sq.
Greeks sacrifice pregnant victims to ensure fertility, i. 141;
their belief in the homoeopathic magic of precious stones, i. 164 sq.;
rain-making ceremonies among, i. 272 sq.;
used branches of buckthorn to protect houses against sorcerers and spirits, ii. 191;
their dread of noon, iii. 88;
their use of magical wax figures, ix. 47
——, the ancient, their ceremonies for procuring rain, i. 309 sq.;
their belief that the sun rode in a chariot, i. 315;
sacrificed to the winds, i. 330 n.;
their notion as to the wasting effect of incest, ii. 115;
ran round the hearth with new-born babes, ii. 232;
fire-sticks, employed by the, ii. 251;
prayed to Zeus for rain, ii. 359;
dedicated locks of hair to rivers, iii. 261, 261 n. 5;
vicarious sacrifices among, iv. 166 n. 1;
their modes of disposing of things used in purificatory rites, vii. 9;
compared the begetting of children to the sowing of seed, vii. 11;
their faith in Demeter as the corn-goddess, vii. 64;
their cycle of eight years, vii. 80 sqq.;
their personification of the corn in double form as mother and daughter, vii. 209 sqq.;
their “swallow song” and “crow song,” viii. 322 n.;
their cure for love, ix. 3;
smeared pitch on their houses to keep off demons, ix. 153 n. 1;
their use of laurel in purification, ix. 262;
deemed sacred the places which were struck by lightning, xi. 299
Greeks of Asia Minor, their use of human scapegoats, ix. 255
——, the Homeric, their belief as to the effect of a good king's reign, i. 366, ii. 324 sq.;
cut out tongues of sacrificial victims, viii. 270
—— and Romans, rain-charms among the ancient, i. 309 sq.
Green boughs a charm against witches, ii. 52-55, 127, 342 sq.;
custom of beating young people with, at Christmas, ix. 270
—— Corn Dance of the Seminole Indians, viii. 76
—— Demeter, vii. 42, 63, 89 n. 2;
sacrifices in spring to, vii. 263
—— Festival at Eleusis, vii. 63
—— George on St. George's Day, a leaf-clad mummer in Carinthia, Transylvania, Roumania, and Russia, ii. 75, 76, 79, 343
—— Thursday, the day before Good Friday, ii. 333
—— Wolf, Brotherhood of the, at Jumièges in Normandy, x. 185 sq., xi. 15 n., 25, 88
Greenidge, A. H. J., on the nomination of Roman kings, ii. 296 n. 3
Greenland, woman in childbed thought to control the wind in, i. 324
Greenlanders, their belief in the mortality of the gods, iv. 3;
careful not to offend the souls of dead seals, viii. 246 sq.;
their notion that women can conceive by the moon, x. 75 sq.
Greenwich-hill, custom of rolling down, at Easter and Whitsuntide, ii. 103
Gregor, Rev. Walter, of Pitsligo, on the cutting of the clyack sheaf in Aberdeenshire, [pg 293] vii. 158 sqq.;
on virtue of children born feet foremost, x. 295 n. 3;
on the “quarter-ill,” x. 296 n. 1;
on the bewitching of cattle, x. 303;
on the oak and mistletoe of the Hays, xi. 284 n. 1
Gregory IV. and the Feast of All Saints, vi. 83
Gregory of Tours, on image of goddess carted about at Autun, ii. 144;
on a talisman against dormice and serpents, viii. 281
Greig, James S., on a holed stone in the Aberdeenshire river Dee, xi. 187 n. 3
Grenfell, B. P., and A. S. Hunt on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, vi. 90 sq.
Grenoble, King and Queen of May at, ii. 90;
the harvest goat at, vii. 285
Greta, river in Yorkshire, need-fire on the, x. 287
Grevia spec., a sacred tree of the Herero, ii. 214, 219
Grey, Sir George, on the prohibition to name the dead among the natives of Western Australia, iii. 364 sq.;
on the digging for yams by women in Western Australia, vii. 126 sq.;
on the kobong or totem in Western Australia, xi. 219 sq.
Grey hair a signal of death, iv. 36 sq.
—— hairs of kings, iv. 100, 102, 103
Grihya-Sûtras on the pole-star at marriage, i. 166 n. 2;
on the burial of a child's hair, iii. 277
Grimm, J., on the oldest sanctuaries of the Germans, ii. 8 sq.;
on the bride-race, ii. 303 n. 3;
on a passage of Maximus Tyrius, ii. 362 n. 6;
on the oak as the principal sacred tree of the ancient Germans, ii. 363 sq.;
on old spell to cure a lame horse, iii. 305 n. 1;
on the installation of a prince of Carinthia, iv. 155 n. 1;
on the “carrying out of Death,” iv. 221 sq.;
on the custom of “Sawing the Old Woman,” iv. 240, 244;
on hide-measured lands, vi. 250;
on need-fire, x. 270 n., 272 sq.;
on the relation of the Midsummer fires to Balder, xi. 87 n. 6;
on the sanctity of the oak, xi. 89;
on the oak and lightning, xi. 300
Grinnell, G. B., on human sacrifices among the Pawnees, vii. 239 n. 1
Gripes transferred to a duck, ix. 50
Grisons, masquerades to benefit the crops in the, ix. 239;
threatening a mist in the, x. 280.
See also Graubünden
Grizzly Bear clan of the Carrier Indians, xi. 274
—— bears supposed to be related to human twins, i. 264 sq.
Groot, Professor J. J. M. de, on the divinity of the emperors of China, i. 416 sq.;
on reported custom of eating first-born children, iv. 180 n. 7;
on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 275;
on the belief in demons in China, ix. 99;
on the annual expulsion of devils in China, ix. 145 sq.;
on mugwort in China, xi. 60
Gros Ventres, Indian tribe, prepare for war by fasting and lacerating themselves, iii. 161
Gross-Strehlitz, in Silesia, the custom of “carrying out Death” at, iv. 237
Grossvargula, the Grass King at Whitsuntide at, ii. 85 sq.
Grottkau, precautions against witches in, xi. 20 n.
Grotto of the Sibyl, at Marsala, v. 247
Ground, custom of sleeping on the, ii. 248;
sacred persons not allowed to set foot on the, iii. 3, 4, 6, x. 2 sqq.;
prohibition to sleep on the, iii. 110;
warriors not to sit on the, iii. 159, 162, 163, x. 5, 12;
executioner not to set foot on the, iii. 180;
royal blood not to be shed on the, iii. 241 sqq.;
priestesses not to touch the, vii. 97;
last sheaf not to touch the, vii. 158, 159, 161;
the bones of salmon not to touch the, viii. 254;
priest of Earth not to sit on the, x. 4;
girls at puberty not to touch the, x. 22, 33, 35, 36, 60;
magical plants not to touch the, xi. 51;
mistletoe not to touch the, xi. 280
Grouse, the ruffed, in homoeopathic magic, i. 155;
the first, blinded by hunter, viii. 268;
clan of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273
Grout, L., on sacrifice of bull at Zulu festival of first-fruits, viii. 68 n. 3
Grove, Miss Florence, on withered mistletoe, xi. 287 n. 1
Grove, sacred, of Nemi, i. 2, 17, xi. 315;
of Egeria, i. 18;
the Arician, i. 20, 22, ii. 115, 378, iv. 213, ix. 3;
sacred, protected by curses, i. 45;
Balder's, x. 104, xi. 315;
soul of chief in sacred, xi. 161.
See also Arician
Groves, sacred, ii. 9, 10 sq., 20, 32, 39, 42, 43 sqq.;
in Chios, i. 45;
to Diana, ii. 121;
in ancient Greece and Rome, ii. 121 sqq.;
expiation for violating, ii. 122;
in West Africa, ii. 322 n. 1;
apologies for trespass on, ii. 328
Growth and decay of all things associated with the waxing and waning of the moon, vi. 132 sqq., 140 sqq.
Grub in the Grisons, masquerade to benefit the crops at, ix. 239
Grubb, Rev. W. Barbrooke, on the fear [pg 294] of demons among the Lengua Indians, ix. 78 sq.;
on the seclusion of girls at puberty among the Lengua Indians, x. 57 n. 1
Grueber and d'Orville, Fathers, on the Dalai Lama of Lhasai, i. 412
Gruel of barley-meal and water, drunk as a form of communion with the Barley-goddess at the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 161 n. 4
Grün, in Bohemia, mountain arnica gathered at Midsummer at, xi. 58 n. 1
Grunau, Simon, early Prussian chronicler, his account of Romove and its sacred oak, ii. 366 n. 2
Grünberg, in Silesia, the harvest Cat at, vii. 281;
witches driven away on Walpurgis Night in the district of, ix. 163
Grunting like a wild boar or pig as a charm, ii. 22 sq.
Guacheta in Colombia, virgin impregnated by the sun at, x. 74
Guadalcanar, one of the Solomon Islands, sacrifice of first-fruits in, viii. 126 sq.
Guadeloupe, precaution as to spittle in, iii. 289
Guagnini, Alex, on the sacred oak of Romove, ii. 366 n. 2
Guami Indians of Panama, concealment of personal names among the, iii. 325
Guanches of Teneriffe, their mode of procuring rain, i. 303
Guarani Indians of South America, their belief as to homoeopathic magic of millet, i. 145
Guaranis of Brazil, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 56
—— of Paraguay, revered the Pleiades, vii. 309
Guaraunos of the Orinoco, uncleanness of menstruous women among the, x. 85 sq.
Guarayo Indians, their magic to clear the sky, i. 314
—— Indians of Bolivia, their presentation of children to the moon, vi. 145;
ate the powdered bones of their dead, viii. 157
Guardian angels, afterbirth and navel-string regarded as a man's, xi. 162 n. 2
—— deities of cities, iii. 391
“—— gods” of the Hos, vii. 234, viii. 61
—— spirit of child thought to reside in its caul, i. 199 sq.;
as bear, boar, eagle, fox, ox, swan or wolf, i. 200;
of family, vii. 121;
among the Hos, viii. 60;
afterbirth and seed regarded as, xi. 223 n. 2;
acquired in a dream, xi. 256 sq.
—— spirits in the form of animals, i. 200, v. 83;
of villages in Tonquin, i. 401 sq.;
supposed to reside in people's heads, iii. 252 sq.;
in serpents, v. 83, 86;
dead ancestors worshipped as, viii. 121, 123;
among the American Indians, viii. 207;
of wild animals exorcized by hunters, ix. 98;
masked dances supposed to be derived from, ix. 375 sqq.
Guardian trees in Sweden, ii. 58
Guatemala, catching the soul of the dying in, iv. 199
——, the Indians of, confession of sins among the, iii. 216;
their transference of fatigue to heaps of stones, ix. 10;
their offerings at cairns, ix. 26;
the nagual or external soul among the, xi. 212 sq.
——, the Kekchi Indians of, viii. 219, 241
Guatusos of Costa Rica, use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 n.
Guayana Indians of Brazil, voluntary deaths by being buried alive among the, iv. 12
Guayaquil, in Ecuador, the Indians of, their human sacrifices at sowing, vii. 236
Guaycurus, try to frighten the demon of the storm, i. 330
—— of Brazil, precaution as to chief's spittle among the, iii. 290;
men dressed as women among the, vi. 254 n. 2
—— of the Gran Chaco used to change their names after a death, iii. 357;
their festival at the reappearance of the Pleiades, vii. 309, ix. 262
Guayquiries of the Orinoco, their beliefs as to menstruous women, x. 85
Guazacualco, in Mexico, bones of the dead preserved for the resurrection in, viii. 259
Gudangs, the, of Queensland, avoidance of parents-in-law among, iii. 346;
changes of vocabulary among the, caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 359
Gudea, king of Southern Babylonia, festival of the New Year known to, ix. 356
Guelelé, king of Dahomey, represented partly in lion, partly in human form, iv. 85
Guelphs, the oak of the, xi. 166
Guessing dreams at New Year festival of the Iroquois, ix. 127
Guevo Upas, the Valley of Poison, in Java, v. 203 sq.
Guezo, king of Dahomey, represented with the feathers of a cock, iv. 85
Guhrau, district of Silesia, custom of “Carrying out Death” in, iv. 237
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Guiana, the Indians of, their precaution against heavy rain, i. 253;
power of medicine-men among, i. 359 sq.;
their fire customs, ii. 259;
their belief in dreams, iii. 36 sq.;
keep their names secret, iii. 324 sq.;
their offerings of food to the dead, iii. 372 n. 5;
do not sharply distinguish between animals and men, viii. 204;
their custom after killing a tapir, viii. 236;
their fear of demons, ix. 78
——, British, the Macusis of, iii. 159 n., x. 60;
woman's share in agriculture among the Indians of, vii. 120 sq.;
the Arawaks of, viii. 154, ix. 302
——, French, difference of language between husbands and wives in the tribes of, iii. 348;
the Roocooyen Indians of, ix. 181, 263;
the Wayanas of, x. 63;
ordeals undergone by young men among the Indians of, x. 63 sq.
Guinea, priestly kings in, iii. 5;
negroes of, their belief in dreams, iii. 37;
belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals in, viii. 287;
transference of sickness to chickens in, ix. 31;
annual expulsion of the devil in, ix. 131
——, French, the wild fig-tree regarded as a fetish-tree in, ii. 317 n. 1;
dances at sowing in, ix. 235
——, North, disposal of cut hair and nails in, iii. 278
——, Southern, the negroes of, use drippings of dead men's brains to increase their wisdom, viii. 163
Guinea negroes, their transference of sickness to chickens, ix. 31
Guinea-fowl gives signal for planting, vii. 117
Guizing at Christmas in Lerwick, x. 268 sq.
Gujarat, rings as amulets in, iii. 315
Gujrat District, Punjaub, belief as to bodies of infants dug up by jackals or dogs in the, v. 94
Guleesh and the fairies at Hallowe'en, x. 277 sq.
Gull clan of the Otawa Indians, viii. 225 n. 1
Gunkel, H., on the circumcised and the uncircumcised, i. 101 n. 2
Gunn, David, kindles need-fire, x. 291
Gunnar Helming disguises himself as the god Frey, ii. 144
Gunputty, elephant-headed god, human incarnation of, i. 405 sq.
Guns fired to expel demons, viii. 99, ix. 116 sq., 119, 120, 121, 125, 132, 133, 137, 147, 148, 149, 150, 203, 204, 221 n. 1;
against witches, ix. 160, 161, 164, xi. 74
Gunther, king of the Burgundians, woos and wins Queen Brunhild, ii. 306
Gunthram, King, and his vagrant soul, iii. 39 n. 1
Gurdon, Major P. R. T., on the Khasis of Assam, vi. 202;
on mother-kin among the Khasis, vi. 203 n. 1;
on descent of the kingship among the Khasis, vi. 210 n. 1
Guré, a hobby-horse, at harvest festival of the Garos, viii. 337 sq.
Gurgaon, district of North-West India, fair at Bas Doda in, ii. 149
Guyana Indians of Brazil, their voluntary deaths, iv. 12 sq.
Guyenne, “the Wolf of the Field” at harvest in, vii. 275
Gwalior, Holi fires in, xi. 2
Gwanya, a worshipful dead chief, vi. 177
Gyges, king of Lydia, married the widow of his predecessor, ii. 281;
his monument to his queen, ii. 282;
dedicates double-headed axe to Zeus, v. 182
Gynaecocracy a dream, vi. 211
Gypsies, their way of stopping rain by means of a serpent, i. 295 sq.;
Green George among the, ii. 75 sq.;
their superstition about portraits, iii. 100;
ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” among the, iv. 243;
annual ceremony performed by the, ix. 207 sq.
Habes de Tornas, a tribe of Nigeria, revere a fetish doctor, iii. 124
Hack-thorn sacred, ii. 48
Hadad, chief male deity of the Syrians, v. 15, 16 n. 1;
Syrian god of thunder and fertility, v. 163
Hadadrimmon, v. 164 n. 1;
the mourning of or for, v. 15 n. 4
Haddon, Dr. A. C., on rain-making in Mabuiag, i. 262;
on magicians in the Torres Straits Islands, i. 420 n. 2;
on worship of animal-shaped heroes, v. 139 n. 1;
on bull-roarers, vii. 106 n. 3
Hadeln, in Hanover, the Corn-mother at reaping last corn in, vii. 133
Hades, descent of Dionysus into, vii. 15
Hadji Mohammad shoots a were-wolf, x. 312 sq.
Hadramaut, mode of stopping rain in, i. 252
Hadrian builds at Nemi, i. 6;
monument of, at Nemi, i. 6 n. 1;
human sacrifice suppressed in reign of, v. 146;
institutes games at Mantinea, vii. 80
Hag (wrach), name given to last corn cut in Wales, vii. 142 sqq.
Hagen, B., on the belief in demons among the Battas, ix. 87 sq.
Hagios Gheorgios, village in Thrace, ummery at Carnival at, vii. 26
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Hahn, Dr. C. H., on the chief's hut among the Herero, ii. 213 n. 2
Hahn, Theophilus, on the worship of the Pleiades among the Hottentots, vii. 317
Haida Indians of Queen Charlotte Islands, ceremony performed by pregnant women among the, i. 70;
warlike pantomime of women while the men are at war, i. 133;
their belief as to death at ebb-tide, i. 168;
their charm to obtain a fair wind, i. 320;
medicine-men among the, iii. 31;
their recovery of lost souls, iii. 67 n.;
attempt to kill the souls of their enemies in war, iii. 72 n. 1;
their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 131 n. 1;
their religions of cannibalism and of dog-eating, vii. 20 sq.;
girls at puberty secluded among the, x. 44 sq.
—— medicine-men bottle up departing souls, iii. 31;
their unshorn hair, iii. 259
—— shamans, their use of the tongues of otters and eagles, viii. 270
Hail, charm to protect corn from, vii. 300;
ceremonies to avert, x. 144, 145;
Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 176;
bonfires thought to protect fields against, x. 344;
mountain arnica a protection against, xi. 57 sq.
—— and thunderstorms caused by witches, x. 344
Hainan, island, the inhabitants of, call a year “a fire,” x. 137
Hainaut, province of Belgium, fire customs in, x. 108;
procession of giants in, xi. 36
Hair offered to gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, i. 28 sq.;
offered to the dead, i. 31, 102;
offered to rivers, i. 31, iii. 261;
clippings of, used in magic, i. 57, 64, 65, 66, iii. 268 sqq., 275, 277, 278 sq.;
charms to make hair grow, i. 83, 145, 153 sq., 154;
supposed to be the seat of strength, i. 102;
of elephant hunter's wife not to be cut, i. 120;
of warriors not to be cut, i. 127;
of wife and children of absent warrior not to be cut, i. 127;
loose as a charm, i. 136;
homoeopathic charm to strengthen, i. 144;
homoeopathic charm to turn white hair black, i. 154;
human, used in rain-making, i. 251 sq.;
supernatural power of chief dependent on his, i. 344;
of father of twins not to be cut for a time, ii. 102;
long, a symbol of royalty, ii. 180;
mode of cutting the Mikado's, iii. 3;
cut with bronze knife, iii. 14;
not to be combed, iii. 14, 159 n., 181, 187, 203, 208, 264;
pulled to give omens, iii. 55;
of those who have handled the dead not cut, iii. 141;
of man-slayers shaved, iii. 175, 177;
of slain enemy, fetish made from, iii. 183;
tabooed, iii. 258 sqq.;
of kings, priests, and wizards unshorn, iii. 258 sqq.;
regarded as the seat of a god or spirit, iii. 258, 259, 263;
kept unshorn at certain times, iii. 260 sqq.;
unshorn during a vow, iii. 261 sq.;
of children unshorn, iii. 263;
cut or combed out may cause rain and thunderstorms, iii. 271, 272, 282;
clippings of, used as hostages, iii. 272 sq.;
infected by virus of taboo, iii. 283 sq.;
cut as a purificatory ceremony, iii. 283 sqq.;
of women after childbirth shaved and burnt, iii. 284;
loosened at childbirth, iii. 297 sq.;
loosened in magical and religious ceremonies, iii. 310 sq.;
sacrifice of women's, v. 38;
offered to goddess of volcano, v. 218;
of head shaved in mourning for dead gods, v. 225;
to be cut when the moon is waxing, vi. 133 sq.;
pulling each other's, a Lithuanian sacrificial custom, viii. 50 sq.;
of slain foes used to impart courage, viii. 153;
of patient inserted in oak, ix. 57 sq.;
lock of, in cure for epilepsy, ix. 68 n. 2;
unguent for, x. 14;
girl at puberty not to cut her, x. 28;
of girls at puberty shaved, x. 31, 56, 57, 59;
Hindoo ritual of cutting a child's, x. 99 n. 2;
external soul in, xi. 103 sq., 148;
strength of people bound up with their, xi. 158 sq.;
of criminals, witches, and wizards shorn to make them confess, xi. 158 sq.;
of children tied to trees, xi. 165;
of novices cut at initiation, xi. 245, 251
Hair, grey, a signal of death, iv. 36 sq.
—— and nails of sacred persons not cut, iii. 3, 4, 16
—— and nails, cut, of a chief guarded against evil magic, i. 350 n. 1;
deposited on or under trees, iii. 14, 275 sq., 286;
disposal of, iii. 267 sqq.;
as rain-charms, iii. 271, 272;
deposited in sacred places, iii. 274 sqq.;
stowed away in any secret place, iii. 276 sqq.;
kept for use at the resurrection, iii. 279 sqq.;
burnt to prevent them from falling into the hands of sorcerers, iii. 281 sqq.;
of child buried under a tree, xi. 161
—— of the Virgin or St. John looked for in ashes of Midsummer fire, x. 182 sq., 190, 191
Hair-cutting, ceremonies at, iii. 264 sqq.;
thought to cause thunder and lightning, iii. 265
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Hair-pins as instruments of longevity, i. 169
Hairy Stone, the, at Midsummer, x. 212
Hak-Ka, the, a native race in the province of Canton, their annual expulsion of the devil of poverty, ix. 144
Hakea flowers, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 86
Hakim Singh claims to be Jesus Christ incarnate, i. 409 sq.
Halae in Attica, mock human sacrifice at, iv. 215 sq.
Halasarna in Cos, rites of Apollo and Hercules at, vi. 259
Halberstadt in Thüringen, need-fire in, ii. 238 sq., x. 273;
annual ceremony on day before Good Friday at, ix. 214
Hale, Horatio, on voluntary deaths in Fiji, iv. 11 sq.
Half-sister by the same father, marriage with, legal in Attica, ii. 284
Halfdan the Black, king of Norway, dismembered after death, vi. 100, 102
Halford in Warwickshire, May Day customs at, ii. 88 sq.
Hali-Bonar, village in Sumatra, iii. 104
Halibut, the first of the season, treatment of, viii. 253
Halicarnassus, the Mausoleum at, iv. 94 sq.;
worship of Pergaean Artemis at, v. 35 n. 2
Haliphloios, a species of oak, ii. 373 n. 1
Hall, C. F., on the treatment of venison among the Esquimaux, x. 13;
on new fire at New Year among the Esquimaux, x. 134
Hall, Dr. C. H. H., on the expulsion of the demon of plague in Japan, ix. 119 n. 1
Hall, Rev. G. R., on Midsummer fires at Christenburg Crags, x. 198
Hall, in the Tyrol, ceremony of whipping people on Senseless Thursday at, ix. 248 sq.
Hall of the Two Truths, the judgment hall in the other world, vi. 13
Hallowe'en, new fire at, in Ireland, x. 139, 225;
an old Celtic festival of New Year, x. 224 sqq.;
divination at, x. 225, 228 sq., 231, 234 sqq.;
witches, hobgoblins, and fairies let loose at, x. 226 sqq., 245, xi. 184 n. 4, 185
—— and Beltane, the two chief fire festivals of the British Celts, xi. 40 sq.
Hallowe'en cakes, x. 238, 241, 245
—— fires, x. 222 sq.;
in Wales, x. 156, 239;
in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 230 sqq.;
in the Isle of Man, x. 243;
in Lancashire, x. 244 sq.;
in France, x. 245 sq.
Hallowmas in Scotland, last corn cut before or after, vii. 140
Halmahera, or Gilolo, rain-making in, i. 248;
rain-charm by means of the dead in, i. 285 sq.;
ceremony at felling a tree in, ii. 38;
the natives of, their words for soul, vii. 183;
ceremonies at a funeral in, ix. 260 sq.;
rites of initiation in, xi. 248
——, the Alfoors of, a man may not address his father-in-law by name among, iii. 341;
their expulsion of demons, ix. 112
——, the Galelareese of, i. 110, v. 220, vii. 296;
their belief as to incest, ii. 111.
See Galelareese
Haloa, Attic festival, vii. 60 sqq.
Haltwhistle, in Northumberland, burnt sacrifice at, x. 301
Haman, a god worshipped by the heathen of Harran, ix. 366 n. 1
Haman, the Biblical, derivation of the name, ix. 366;
effigies of, burnt at Purim, ix. 392 sqq.
—— and Mordecai, ix. 364 sqq.;
as temporary kings, ix. 400 sq.
—— and Vashti the duplicates of Mordecai and Esther, ix. 406
Hâmân-Sûr, a name for Purim, ix. 393
Hamaspathmaedaya, old Iranian festival of the dead, vi. 67
Hamatsas, cannibals among the Kwakiutl, vii. 20
Hametzes, Cannibals or Biters, a Secret Society among the Indians of North-Western America, ix. 378
Hamilcar, his self-sacrifice by fire at the battle of Himera, v. 115 sq., 176;
worshipped by the Carthaginians after death, v. 116, 180
Hamilton, Alexander, his account of the Samorins or kings of Calicut, iv. 47 sq.;
on hook-swinging in India, iv. 278;
on dance of hermaphrodites in Pegu, v. 271 n.
Hamilton, Gavin, on the seclusion of girls at puberty among the Tinneh Indians, x. 47 sq.
Hamilton, Professor G. L., v. 57 n. 1
Hamlet, his story half-historical, ii. 281 n. 2;
his feigned imbecility, ii. 291
Hammedatha, father of Haman, ix. 373 n. 1
Hammer, used to make mock thunder, i. 248;
iron, revered by the Lithuanians, i. 317 sq.;
sick people struck with a, ix. 259 n. 4
Hammers, Thor's, i. 248 n. 1
Hammocks, girls at puberty hung up in, x. 56, 59, 60, 61, 66
Hammurabi, king of Babylon, iv. 110;
code of, ii. 130, v. 71 n. 3, 72 n. 1
Hampstead in reign of Henry II., ii. 7
Hamstring of deer, custom of removing, viii. 266
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Hamstringing dead animals, viii. 267, 271, 273
—— deer, rule as to, i. 115
—— men to disable their ghosts, viii. 272, 273
Hand of Glory, the, a thief's talisman, i. 149
“—— of Glory,” mandragora, xi. 316
——- of suicide cut off, iv. 220 n.;
of dead man in magical ceremony, iv. 267 n. 1
See also Hands
Hand-marks, white, viii. 338
Handel, the harmonies of, v. 54
Hands tabooed, iii. 133 sq., 138, 140 sqq., 146 sqq., 158, 159 n., 174, 265;
food not to be touched with, iii. 138 sqq., 146 sqq., 166, 167, 168, 169, 174, 265;
defiled, iii. 174;
not to be clasped, iii. 298;
of enemies eaten, viii. 151, 152;
of deity, ceremony of grasping the, ix. 356.
See also Hand
Hanged god, the, v. 288 sqq.
Hanging as a mode of capital punishment, iv. 114 n. 1;
of an effigy of the Carnival, iv. 230 sq.;
as a mode of sacrifice, v. 289 sqq.
Hannah's vow, iii. 263, v. 79
Hannibal, his prayers to Melcarth, v. 113;
his retirement from Italy, v. 265;
despoils the shrine on Soracte, xi. 15;
within sight of Rome, xi. 15
Hanover, Hildesheim in, ii. 85;
harvest customs in, vii. 133, 283;
the Harvest-mother in, vii. 135;
Easter bonfires in, x. 140;
the need-fire in, x. 275;
custom on St. John's Day about, xi. 56
Hantoes, spirits, in Borneo, ix. 87
Hanun, king of Moab, his treatment of David's messengers, iii. 273
Hanway, J., on worship of perpetual fires at Baku, v. 192
Happah tribe in Marquesas Islands, evil magic practised on hair by the, iii. 268
Hardanger, Norway, Whitsuntide Bride and Bridegroom at, ii. 92
Hardisty, W. L., on the power of medicine-men among the Loucheux Indians, i. 356 sq.
Hardy, Thomas, on the disastrous effect of looking at trees on an empty stomach, i. 136
Hare, name of, tabooed in the morning, iii. 402 sq.;
as scapegoat, ix. 50 sq.;
pastern bone of a, in a popular remedy, x. 17.
See also Hares
——, corn-spirit as, vii. 279 sq.
Hare clan of the Moquis, viii. 178;
of the Otawas, viii. 225 n. 1
—— Indians will not taste blood, iii. 241;
do not pare nails of female children, iii. 263
Hare-lips, superstition as to persons with, i. 266
—— -skin Indians, viii. 265.
See Loucheux
“Hare's blood” at harvest, vii. 280
—— tail, name given to last standing corn, vii. 268
Hares thought to bewitch people, i. 212;
witches in the form of, ii. 53, x. 157;
killed on May Day as embodiments of witches, ii. 53, 54;
not eaten lest they make the eaters timid, viii. 141;
witches changed into, x. 315 n. 1, 316 sqq., xi. 41, 197
Hareskin Tinneh, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 48
Harlot's Tomb, the, in Lydia, ii. 282
Harlots, sacred, ix. 370, 371, 372;
at Comana, ix. 370 n. 4, 421 n. 1
Harma on Mount Parnes, lightning seen over, i. 33
Harmattan wind, in West Africa, iii. 5
Harmonia, the necklace of, v. 32 n. 2;
turned into a snake, v. 86 sq.
—— and Cadmus, iv. 84;
marriage of, iv. 88, 89
Haroekoe, East Indian island, fishermen's magic in, i. 109;
hunter's magic in, i. 114;
treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 187
Harold the Fair-haired, king of Norway, ii. 279, vi. 100 n. 2
Harp, the music of the, in religion, v. 52 sqq.
Harpalyce, her incest with her father, v. 44 n. 1
Harpocrates, the younger Horus, vi. 8, 9 n.;
Osiris represented in the form of, vii. 260
Harpocration, on the human scapegoats at the Thargelia, ix. 254 n. 1
Harpooning a spirit, ix. 126
Harran, mourning of women for Tammuz in, v. 230;
legend of Tammuz in, vii. 258
——, the heathen of, drank blood to enter into communion with demons, i. 383;
their marriage festival of the gods in the Date Month, ii. 25;
their custom at grafting, ii. 100 n. 2;
human sacrifices offered by, vii. 261 sq.;
sacrifices offered by, viii. 23 n. 3;
their custom in December, ix. 263 sq.;
their marriage festival of all the gods, ix. 273 n. 1;
worship a god Haman, ix. 366 n. 1
Harris, island of, witches of the, i. 135;
Slope of Big Stones in, x. 227
Harris, J. Rendel, on borrowed Greek and Roman festivals in Syrian calendars, i. 15 n.;
on the pedigree of St. Hippolytus, 21 n. 2
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Harrison, Miss J. E., on the Sacred Marriage of Dionysus, ii. 137 n. 1;
on the Eleusinian mysteries, ii. 139 n. 1;
on the hyacinth (Delphinium Ajacis), v. 314 n. 1;
on the winnowing-fan in the myth and ritual of Dionysus, vii. 5 n. 4;
on the offering of first-fruits at Eleusis, vii. 60 n. 1;
on the date of the Festival of the Threshing-floor, vii. 62 n. 6;
on buckthorn, ix. 153 n. 1
Harrow used in rain-charm, i. 282, 284
Harte, Bret, on the old Spanish missions in California, viii. 171 n. 1
Harthoorn, S. E., on belief in demons in Java, ix. 86 sq.
Hartland, E. S., as to Mimetic Magic, i. 52 n. 1;
on the Godiva legend, i. 283 n. 3;
on legends of the Perseus type, ii. 156 n.;
on the reincarnation of the dead, v. 91 n. 3;
on primitive paternity, v. 106 n. 1;
on the Hag at harvest in Wales, vii. 143 n. 1;
on “burning the Old Witch” in Yorkshire, vii. 224 n. 4;
on throwing sticks and stones on cairns, ix. 22 n. 2;
on sin-eating, ix. 46 n. 2;
on custom of knocking in nails as a magical rite, ix. 69 n. 1;
on the life-token, xi. 119 n.
Hartlieb, in Silesia, dramatic contest between Summer and Winter at, iv. 256 n. 1
Haruvarus, degenerate Brahmans, their fire-walk, xi. 9
Harvest, rain-charms at, ii. 47;
custom of throwing water on the last corn cut as a rain-charm at, v. 237 sq.;
rites of, vi. 45 sqq.;
custom of the Arabs of Moab at, vi. 48, 96;
annual festival of the dead after, vi. 61, viii. 110;
new corn offered to dead kings or chiefs at, vi. 162, 166, 188;
prayers to the spirits of ancestors at, vi. 175 sq.;
sacrifices to dead chiefs at, vi. 191;
riddles propounded at, ix. 122 n.;
annual expulsion of demons at or after, ix. 134 sq., 137 sq., 225
—— in Egypt, date of, v. 231 n. 3, vi. 32
—— in Greece, the date of, i. 32, v. 232 n., vii. 48
—— in Palestine, date of, v. 232 n.
Harvest ceremonies among the Shilluk, iv. 20, 25
—— -child, last sheaf called the, vii. 151
—— -cock, last sheaf called the, vii. 276;
harvest-supper called the, vii. 277
—— -crown, vii. 221, 277;
of wheat-ears and flowers, vii. 163
—— -customs, the Corn-mother in, vii. 133 sqq.;
and spring customs compared, vii. 167 sqq.
—— -goat, vii. 282, 283
—— Gosling, name for the harvest-supper, vii. 277 n. 3
Harvest-man, a woman tied up in the last sheaf, vii. 221
—— May, the, ii. 47 sq.
—— -mother, last sheaf called the, vii. 135
—— -Queen, vii. 146 sq., 152
—— -supper, vii. 134, 138, 156, 157, 159 sq., 161 sq., 289, 297, 299;
sacramental character of, vii. 303, viii. 48
—— -woman, made of last sheaf, vii. 145
—— -wreath, vii. 283
Harvesters, athletic competitions among, vii. 76 sq.;
wrapt up in corn-stalks, vii. 220 sqq.
Harz Mountains, greasing the weapon instead of the wound in the, i. 204;
fir-trees set up at Midsummer in the, ii. 65 sq.;
ceremony at Carnival in the, iv. 233;
saying as to the dance of witches in the, ix. 163 n. 1;
Easter fires in the, x. 140, 142;
Midsummer fires in the, x. 169;
need-fire in the, x. 276;
springwort in the, xi. 69 sqq.
Haselberg in Bohemia, farmer swathed in the last corn to be threshed at, vii. 225 sq.;
the Oats-goat at threshing at, vii. 286
Hasselt, J. L. van, on the belief in demons among the Papuans, ix. 83
Hastings, Warren, his embassy to Tibet, ix. 203
Hatfield Moss, in Yorkshire, huge trunks of oak found in, ii. 351
Hathor, Egyptian goddess, ii. 133, vi. 9 n.
Hats, special, worn by girls at puberty, x. 45, 46, 47, 92.
See also Hoods
Hatshopsitou, birth of Queen, represented in Egyptian paintings, ii. 131 sqq.
Hattusil, king of the Hittites, his treaty with Rameses II., v. 135
Haua, a god in Easter Island, viii. 133
Haupt, Professor P., on the principal personages in the Book of Esther, ix. 406 n. 2
Hausa kings put to death, iv. 35
—— story of the external soul, xi. 148 sq.
Haussas, taboos on the names of relations among the, iii. 337
Havamal, how Odin learned the magic runes in the, v. 290
Hawaii, feather robes of royal family of, i. 388 n. 3;
king of, not to be seen by day, iii. 24;
capture of souls by sorcerers in, iii. 72 sq.;
exorcism of demons in, iii. 106;
tabooed priest in, iii. 138 n. 1;
customs as to chiefs and shadows in, iii. 255;
annual festival in, iv. 117 sq.;
the volcano of Kirauea in, v. 216 sqq.
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Hawaiian taboo, iii. 262
Hawaiians, the New Year of the, xi. 244
Hawes, Mrs., on date of the corn-reaping in Crete, v. 232 n.
Hawk, belief as to the shadow of a brown, iii. 82;
symbol of the sun and of the king in Egypt, iv. 112;
Isis in the form of a, vi. 8;
the sacred bird of the earliest Egyptian dynasties, vi. 21 sq.;
epithet regularly applied to the king of Egypt, vi. 22;
omens from, ix. 384 n. 1
See also Hawks
Hawk-town (Hieraconpolis) in Egypt, vi. 21 sq.
Hawk's head and wings, man represented wearing a, vii. 260
Hawkie, the harvest home, vii. 146, 147 n. 1
Hawks worshipped in Egypt, i. 29;
carved on the bier of Osiris, vi. 20;
hearts of, eaten by diviners to acquire prophetic power, viii. 143;
revered by the Ainos, viii. 200.
See also Hawk
Hawkweed gathered at Midsummer, xi. 57
Hawthorn, Merlin under the, i. 306;
in bloom on May Day, ii. 52;
a protection against witches, ii. 55, 127;
at doors on May Day, ii. 60;
a charm against ghosts, ix. 153 n. 1;
mistletoe on, xi. 315, 316
Haxthausen, A. von, on the Midsummer festival of the Cheremiss, x. 181
Hay, Sir John Drummond, on the Corn-woman among the Berbers, vii. 179
Hays of Errol, their fate bound up with an oak-tree and the mistletoe growing on it, xi. 283 sq.
Hazael, king of Syria, worshipped as a god by the people of Damascus, v. 15
Hazebrouck, in France, wicker giants on Shrove Tuesday at, xi. 35
Hazel, the divining-rod made of, xi. 67 sq.;
never struck by lightning, xi. 69 n.
Hazel leaves in rain ceremony, i. 295
—— rod used to beat an absent man vicariously, i. 207;
used in rain-making, i. 301;
to drive cattle with, x. 204
Head, sacrificial victim required to shake its, i. 384;
strayed souls restored to, iii. 47, 48, 52, 53 sq., 64, 67;
prohibition to touch the, iii. 142, 183, 189, 252 sq., 254, 255 sq.;
plastered with mud, iii. 182;
sacred in Polynesia, iii. 245;
the human, regarded as sacred, iii. 252 sqq.;
tabooed, iii. 252 sqq.;
supposed to be the residence of spirits, iii. 252;
objection to have any one overhead, iii. 253 sqq.;
washing the, iii. 253.
See also Heads
—— of chief not to be touched, i. 344
Head of horse, in Roman sacrifice, viii. 42;
used to protect garden from caterpillars, viii. 43 n. 1;
in effigy, at harvest festival, viii. 43 n. 1, 337
Head-dress, special, worn by girls at first menstruation, x. 92
“—— -Feast” among the Dyaks of Borneo, v. 295 sq.;
of the Sea Dyaks, ix. 383, 384 n. 1
—— -hunters, rules observed by people at home in absence of, i. 129;
customs of, iii. 30, 36, 71 sq., 111, 166 sq., 169 sq., 261
—— -hunting in Borneo, v. 294 sqq.;
in the Philippines, vii. 240 sq.;
among the Wild Wa of Burma, vii. 241 sqq.;
among the Nagas, vii. 243 sq.;
as a means of promoting the growth of the crops, vii. 256
Headache caused by fatigue of soul, iii. 40;
caused by clipped hair, iii. 270 sq., 282;
cures for, ix. 2, 52, 58, 63, 64, x. 17;
transferred to head-rings, ix. 2;
transferred to animal, ix. 31;
mugwort a protection against, xi. 59
Headington, in Oxfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 62 n. 2;
Lord and Lady of the May at, ii. 90 sq.
Headlam, Walter, on Dionysus as a god of beer, vii. 2 n. 1
Headless Hugh, Highland story of, xi. 130 sq.
—— horsemen in India, xi. 131 n. 1
Headman, sacred, ix. 177 n. 3
Headmen of totem clans in Central Australia as public magicians, i. 335;
headmen often magicians in South-East Australia, i. 335 sq.
Heads of lac gatherers not to be washed, i. 115;
custom of moulding heads artificially, ii. 297 sq.;
of manslayers shaved, iii. 177;
of dead kings removed and kept, iv. 202 sq.;
severed human, thought to promote the fertility of the ground and of women, v. 294 sqq.;
used as guardians by Taurians and tribes of Borneo, v. 294 sqq.;
of dead chiefs cut off and buried secretly, vi. 104;
shaved after lightning has struck a kraal, viii. 161;
or faces of menstruous women covered, x. 22, 24, 25, 29, 31, 44 sq., 48 sq., 55, 90.
See also Head
Heaps of stones, sticks, or leaves, to which every passer-by adds, ix. 9 sqq.;
on the scene of crimes, ix. 13 sqq.;
“lying heaps,” ix. 14;
on graves, ix. 15 sqq.
Hearn, Lafcadio, on the exorcism of demons in Japan, ix. 144
Hearne, S., on taboos observed by manslayers among North American Indians, [pg 301] iii. 184 sqq.;
on the seclusion of menstruous women among the Chippeway Indians, x. 90 sq.
Hearn, Dr. W. E., on mother-kin among the Aryans, ii. 283 n. 5
Heart of Dionysus, the sacred, vii. 13, 14, 15;
of human victim torn out, viii. 92;
of jackal not eaten lest it make the eater timid, viii. 141;
of hen not eaten lest it make the eater timid, viii. 142;
of lion or leopard eaten to make the eater brave, viii. 142 sq.;
of water-ousel eaten in order to acquire wisdom and eloquence, viii. 144;
of bear eaten to acquire courage, viii. 146;
of serpent eaten to acquire language of animals, viii. 146;
of wolf eaten to make eater brave, viii. 146;
regarded as the seat of intellect, viii. 149;
of bird of prey eaten to acquire courage, viii. 162;
of salmon not to be eaten by a dog, viii. 255 n. 4;
of bewitched animal burnt or boiled to compel the witch to appear, x. 321 sq.
See also Hearts
—— of the Earth, a Mexican goddess, ix. 289
Hearth, bride at marriage conducted to the, ii. 221;
custom of leading a bride round the, ii. 230, 231;
new-born children brought to the, ii. 232
——, the common, at Delphi, i. 33;
in Greek cities, i. 45
——, the king's, at Rome, ii. 195, 200, 206;
oath by, ii. 265
——, the sacred, of the Herero, ii. 213, 214;
seat of the ancestral spirits, ii. 216, 221
Hearts of men and animals offered to the sun, i. 315;
of dead kings eaten by their successors, iv. 203;
of men sacrificed, vii. 236;
of crows, moles, or hawks eaten by diviners to acquire prophetic power, viii. 143;
of men eaten to acquire their qualities, viii. 148 sqq.;
of human victims offered to the sun, ix. 279 sq., 298;
of human victims offered to the moon, ix. 282;
of diseased cattle cut out and hung up as a remedy, x. 269 n. 1, 325.
See also Heart
Heathen festivals displaced by Christian, v. 308
—— origin of Midsummer festival (festival of St. John), v. 249 sq.;
of Christmas, v. 302 sqq.
Heaven, vault of, imitated in rain-charm, i. 261, 262;
threatened with conflagration as a rain-charm, i. 303;
festivals of, i. 399 sq.;
slave treated as the representative of, i. 399 sq.;
temple and image of, i. 414;
the Chinese emperor a son of, i. 416 sq.;
eaten by heaven-herds among the Zulus, viii. 160 sq.
Heaven and earth, between, x. 1 sqq., 98 sq.
——, the Queen of, xi. 303
“Heaven bird” in rain-making, i. 302
—— -herds among the Zulus, viii. 160
Heavenly Master, the head of Taoism, i. 413 sqq.
—— Virgin or Goddess, mother of the Sun, v. 303
Hebesio, god of thunder, on the Gold Coast, iii. 257
Hebrew kings, traces of their divinity, v. 20 sqq.
—— names ending in -el or -iah, v. 79 n. 3
—— prohibition of images of animals, i. 87 n. 1
—— prophecy, the distinctive character of, v. 75
—— prophets, their ethical religion, i. 223;
their resemblance to those of Africa, v. 74 sq.
Hebrews, their notion of the blighting effect of sexual crime, ii. 114 sq.;
apocryphal Gospel to the, iv. 5 n. 3;
sacrifice their children to Baal, iv. 168 sqq.;
their sacrifice of the first-born, iv. 171 sqq.;
forbidden to reap corners of fields and glean last grapes, vii. 234 sq.;
sacrificed and burned incense to nets, viii. 240 n. 1;
the importance they ascribed to blessings and cursings, ix. 23 n.;
their use of birds as scapegoats for leprosy, ix. 35
Hebrides, wind-charms in the, i. 322 sq.;
St. Bride's bed on St. Bride's Day in the, ii. 94;
the Outer, the fire of a kiln called by a special name in the, iii. 395;
peats cut in the wane of the moon in the, vi. 137 sq.
Hebron, practice of Moslem pilgrims at, ix. 21
Hecaerge, an epithet of Artemis, v. 292
Hecate at Ephesus, v. 291;
sometimes identified with Artemis, v. 292 n.
—— and Zeus worshipped at Stratonicea, vi. 227
Hecatombaeon, an Athenian month, ix. 351
Hecatombeus, a Greek month, v. 314
Heckewelder, Rev. John, on attitude of North American Indians to the lower animals, viii. 205 sq.
Hecquard, H., on exorcism of evil spirit in Guinea, ix. 120
Hector, first chief of Lochbuy, xi. 131 n. 1
Hedgehog not to be eaten by soldiers, i. 117;
transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299
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Hegel on magic and religion, i. 235 n. 1, 423 sqq.
Hegemone, epithet of Artemis, i. 37 n. 1
Hehn, V., on evergreens in Italy, i. 8 n. 4;
on derivation of name Corycian, v. 187 n. 6
Heiberg, Sigurd K., on Midsummer fires in Norway, x. 171 n. 3
Heifer sacrificed at kindling need-fire, x. 290
Heimskringla or Sagas of the Norwegian Kings, ii. 280
Heine, H., Pilgrimage to Kevlaar, i. 77;
on the oak woods of Germany, ii. 243
Heitsi-eibib, Hottentot god or hero, his graves, iv. 3, x. 16
Hekaerge and Hekaergos, i. 33, 34, 35
Helaga, holy or taboo, ii. 106 n.2
Helbig, W., on bronze statuettes at Nemi, i. 20 n. 5
Helen and Menelaus, ii. 279
—— of the Tree, worshipped in Rhodes, v. 292
Helensburgh, in Dumbartonshire, Hallowe'en at, x. 237 n. 5
Helernus, grove of, ii. 190 sq.
Heliacal rising of Sirius, vi. 152
Helice, in Achaia, destroyed by earthquake, v. 203;
Poseidon worshipped at, v. 203 n. 2
Heligoland, disappearance of herring about, viii. 251
Heliodorus, on the priesthood of Apollo and Artemis at Ephesus, vi. 243 sq.
Heliogabalus, the Emperor, his marriage of the Sun-god and Moon-goddess, iv. 92;
his sacrifice of children of living parents, vi. 248
——, sun-god at Emesa, v. 35
Heliopolis (the Egyptian), Tum the god of, i. 419;
the gods of, ii. 131;
wine not to be taken into the temple at, iii. 249 n. 2;
the mummy of Toumou at, iv. 5;
Mnevis the sacred bull of, iv. 72, viii. 34;
trial of the dead Osiris before the gods at, vi. 17
—— (Baalbec), in Syria, v. 163 n. 2;
sacred prostitution at, i. 30 n. 3, v. 37, 58
Hell-broth in rain-charm, i. 352
—— -fire in Catholic and Protestant theology, iv. 136
“—— -gate of Ireland,” x. 226
Helle and Phrixus, the children of King Athamas, iv. 161 sqq.
Hellebore, curses at cutting, i. 281
Helmsdale, in Sutherland, need-fire at, x. 295
Helpful animals in fairy tales, xi. 107, 117, 120, 127 sqq., 130, 132, 133, 139 n. 2, 140 sq., 149
Hemingway, Mr., on unlucky marriages in India, ii. 57 n. 4
Hemithea, her sanctuary at Castabus, viii. 24 n. 5, 85
Hemlock as an anaphrodisiac, ii. 138, 139 n. 1;
burned on May Day as a protection against witches, ix. 158 sq.
Hemlock branch, external soul of ogress in a, xi. 152
—— branches, passing through a ring of, in time of sickness, xi. 186
—— stone in Nottinghamshire, x. 157
Hemorrhoids, root of orpine a cure for, xi. 62 n.
Hemp, homoeopathic magic to promote the growth of, i. 137 sq.;
augury as to the height of the, ix. 315;
dances to make hemp grow tall, ix. 315;
intoxication of women to make hemp grow tall, x. 109;
leaping over the Midsummer bonfire to make the hemp grow tall, x. 166, 168
Hemp dance on Shrove Tuesday, i. 138
—— seed, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 235, 241, 245
Hen sacrificed by woodman after felling tree, ii. 14;
soul in form of, iii. 42 n.;
heart of, not eaten, viii. 142, 147.
See also Hens
—— and chickens imitated by a woman and her children at Christmas, x. 260
Hen's egg, external soul of giant in a, xi. 140 sq.
Henderson, William, on need-fire, x. 288 sq.;
on a remedy for cattle-disease, x. 296 n. 1;
on burnt sacrifice of ox, x. 301
Henna, image of Demeter at, vii. 65
Hennepin, L., on the New Year festival of the Iroquois, ix. 128 n.
Heno, the thunder-spirit of the Iroquois, ii. 369 sq.
Henry II., Hampstead in the reign of, ii. 7;
at Rouen, ii. 164, 165
Hens not eaten lest they make the eaters timid, viii. 140, 142, 147;
the straw of the Shrovetide Bear supposed to make the hens lay eggs, viii. 326.
See also Hen
Henshaw, Richard, on external or bush souls in Calabar, xi. 205 sq.
Hepding, H., on Attis, v. 263 n. 1;
on Catullus's poem Attis, v. 270 n. 2;
on the bath of Cybele's image, v. 280
Hephaestion, funeral games in honour of, iv. 95
Hephaestius, a Greek month, vii. 46 n. 2
Hephaestus, the Greek fire-god, reputed father of Erichthonius, ii. 199;
(Ptah), temple of, at Memphis, iv. 259 n. 1;
and hot springs, v. 209;
said to have [pg 303] killed Adonis, viii. 23;
worshipped in Lemnos, x. 138
Hephaestus and Talos, iv. 74
Heqet, Egyptian frog-goddess, vi. 9 n.
Hera, her adoption of Hercules, i. 74;
the love of Zeus for, i. 161;
as an oak-goddess, ii. 142, 142 n. 2;
race of girls in honour of, at Olympia, iv. 91;
the sister of her husband Zeus, iv. 194;
represented wearing a goat's skin, vii. 23 n. 4
——, Argive, her sacred grove among the Veneti, i. 27
—— the Flowery at Argos, ii. 143 n. 2
—— and Hercules, i. 74
—— and Zeus, their sacred marriage, ii. 137 n. 1, 140 sq., 142 sq., v. 280
Heraclids, Lydian destiny of the, v. 182, 184;
perhaps Hittite, v. 185
Heraclitus, on the souls of the dead, iv. 12
Heraean mountains in Sicily, the oaks of the, ii. 354
Heraeon, a Greek month, viii. 7
Heralds, tongues of sacrificial victims assigned to Greek, viii. 270 sq.
Herb, a magic, gathered at Hallowe'en, x. 228
—— of St. John, mugwort, gathered on St. John's Eve or Day, xi. 58 sqq.;
wonderful virtues ascribed to, xi. 46, 58 sqq.
See also Herbs
Herbert River in Queensland, personal names avoided for fear of magic on the, iii. 320
Herbrechtingen, in Thüringen, the cow at threshing at, vii. 291
Herbs thrown across the Midsummer fires, x. 182, 201;
wonderful, gathered on St. John's Eve or Day, xi. 45 sqq.
—— and flowers cast into the Midsummer bonfires, x. 162, 163, 172, 173
Hercules adopted by Hera, i. 74;
sacrifice with curses to, i. 281 sq.;
his birth delayed by Lucina, iii. 298 sq.;
in the garden of the Hesperides, iv. 80;
identified with Melcarth, v. 16, 111;
slain by Typhon and revived by Iolaus, v. 111;
burnt on Mount Oeta, v. 111, 116, 211;
worshipped at Gades, v. 112 sq.;
women excluded from sacrifices to, v. 113 n. 1;
identified with Sandan, v. 125, 143, 161, ix. 388;
burns himself, v. 176;
worshipped after death, v. 180;
the itch of, v. 209;
his dispute with Aesculapius, v. 209 sq.;
the patron of hot springs, v. 209 sqq.;
altar of, at Thermopylae, v. 210;
the effeminate, vi. 257, 258, 259;
priest of, dressed as a woman, vi. 258;
vernal mysteries of, at Rome, vi. 258;
sacrifices to, at Rome, vi. 258 n. 5;
apple offered instead of ram to, viii. 95 n. 2;
surnamed Worm-killing, viii. 282;
cake with twelve knobs offered to, ix. 351 n. 3;
his death on a pyre, ix. 389, 391
Hercules and Achelous, ii. 162
—— and Alcmena, iii. 298 sq.
—— at Argyrus, temple of, x. 99 n. 3
—— and Busiris, vii. 259
—— and the lion, v. 184
—— with the lion's scalp, Greek type of, v. 117 sq.
—— and Lityerses, vii. 217
—— surnamed Locust, viii. 282
——, the Lydian, identical with the Cilician Hercules, v. 182, 184, 185
—— and Omphale, ii. 281 sq., v. 182, vi. 258, ix. 389
—— and Sardanapalus, v. 172 sqq.
—— and Syleus, vii. 258
—— and Zeus, viii. 172
Hercynian forest, the, ii. 7, 354;
etymology of the name, ii. 354 n. 2, 367 n. 3
Herd-boys, taboos observed by Esthonian, ii. 331
Herdsmen dread witches and wolves, x. 343
Hereditary and elective monarchy, combination of the two, ii. 292 sqq.
—— deities, v. 51
—— queens and elective kings, ii. 295
Hereford, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
Herefordshire, soul-cakes in, vi. 79;
the sin-eater in, ix. 43;
fires kindled on the Eve of Twelfth Day in, ix. 318 sqq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 199;
the Yule log in, x. 257 sq.
Herero or Damaras, a Bantu tribe of German South-West Africa, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209;
their prayers and sacrifices for rain, i. 287;
their fire-customs, ii. 211 sqq.;
their huts and villages, ii. 212 sq.;
their worship of ancestors, ii. 221;
seclusion of women at childbirth among the, iii. 151;
purification of warriors after battle among the, iii. 176;
holiness of women in childbed among the, iii. 225 n.;
the worship of the dead among the, vi. 185 sqq.
Hermaphrodite son of Sky and Earth, v. 282 n.
Hermaphrodites, dance of, v. 271 n.
Hermegisclus, king of the Varini, enjoined his son to wed his stepmother, ii. 283
Hermes at Athens, the mutilation of the, iii. 75;
the grave of, iv. 4;
tongues of victims assigned to, viii. 270;
tried for the murder of Argus, ix. 24;
wayside images of, ix. 24;
Cretan festival of, ix. 350
—— and Aegipan, v. 157
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Hermes and Argus, ix. 24
Hermesianax, on the death of Attis, v. 264 n. 4
Hermion, Dionysus of the Black Goat-skin at, vii. 17
Hermopolis, grave of Hermes at, iv. 4
Hermotimus of Clazomenae and his rambling soul, iii. 50
Hermsdorf, in Silesia, harvest custom at, vii. 139
Hermus, river, in Asia Minor, v. 185, 186
Hermutrude, legendary queen of Scotland, ii. 281
Herndon, W. L., on the ordeal of stinging with ants among the Indians of Brazil, x. 62 n. 3
Hernia, cured by prayer of girl at puberty, x. 98 n. 1
Herod resorts to the springs of Callirrhoe, v. 214;
his slaughter of the young children, ix. 337;
his soldiers' treatment of Christ, ix. 416
Herodas, as to the soul on the lips, iii. 33 n. 3
Herodes Atticus, his benefaction at Thermopylae, v. 210
Herodias, cursed by Slavonian peasants, v. 345
Herodotus on the Hyperborean maidens, i. 34 ns.;
on the divinity of Spartan kings, i. 48 sq.;
on the destruction of the Psylli, i. 331;
on descent of the Lydian crown, ii. 282;
on sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos, v. 34;
on religious prostitution, v. 58;
on wife of Bel, v. 71;
on Cyrus and Croesus, v. 174;
on the sacrifices of Croesus to Apollo, v. 180 n. 1;
on so-called monument of Sesostris, v. 185;
on the festival of Osiris at Sais, vi. 50;
on the mourning for Osiris, vi. 86;
identifies Osiris with Dionysus, vi. 113 n. 2;
on the similarity between the rites of Osiris and Dionysus, vi. 127;
on human sacrifices offered by the wife of Xerxes, vi. 221;
on the Linus song, vii. 258;
on human sacrifices in ancient Egypt, vii. 259 n. 3;
on the Egyptian sacrifice of pigs to Osiris and the moon, viii. 25 n. 1;
on the worship of Ishtar (Astarte), ix. 372
Heroes worshipped in form of animals, v. 139 n. 1
Herrera, A. de, on naguals among the Indians of Honduras, xi. 213 sq.
Herrick, Robert, The Hock-cart or the Harvest Home, vii. 147 n. 1;
on the Yule log, x. 225
Herring thought to be attracted by the laird of Dunvegan, i. 368;
superstitions as to, viii. 251 sq.;
salt, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 239
Herrings and dumplings to be eaten on Twelfth Night, ix. 241
Hersilia, a Sabine goddess, ii. 193 n. 1
Hertfordshire, May garlands and carols in, ii. 61, 61 n. 1;
“Crying the Mare” in, vii. 292 sq.;
ague transferred to oaks in, ix. 57 sq.
Hertz, W., on religious prostitution, v. 57 n. 1, 59 n. 4
Heruli, a Teutonic tribe, their custom of killing the sick and old, iv. 14
Hervey Islands, South Pacific, legend of the origin of the Pleiades in the, vii. 312
Herzegovina, marriage custom at Mostar in, ii. 230 sq.;
the Yule log in, x. 263;
need-fire in, x. 286
Hesiod, on acorns as food, ii. 355;
on Demeter as goddess of the corn, vii. 42;
on time for ploughing, vii. 45;
on time of vintage, vii. 47 n. 2;
on the farmer's calendar, vii. 53
Hesperides, garden of the, iv. 80
Hesse, homoeopathic treatment of a broken leg in, i. 205;
race on horseback at a marriage in, ii. 303 sq.;
custom at ploughing in, v. 239;
pigs' ribs used at sowing in, vii. 300;
Lenten fire-custom in, x. 118;
Easter fires in, x. 140;
wells decked with flowers on Midsummer Day in, xi. 28
Hest, the Egyptian name for Isis, vi. 50 n. 4, 115 n. 1
Hestia, the Greek equivalent of Vesta, i. 45;
sacrifices offered by the king to, i. 45
Hettingen in Baden, custom at sowing at, v. 239
Heudanemi at Athens, i. 325 n. 1
Hewitt, J. N. B., on need-fire of the Iroquois, x. 299 sq.
Heyne, C. G., on the Parilia, ii. 329 n. 1
Hezekiah, King, and the brazen serpent, iv. 86;
his reformation, v. 25, 107;
date of his reign, v. 25 n. 4
Hiaina district of Morocco, Midsummer custom of Arab women in, xi. 51
Hialto, how he became brave, viii. 146
Hibeh papyri, vi. 35 n. 1, 51 n. 1
Hibiscus tree used in making fire-drill, iii. 227
Hidatsa Indians of North America, on the shades or spirits of cottonwood trees, ii. 12;
taboos observed by eagle-hunters among the, iii. 198 sq.;
their theory of the plurality of souls, xi. 221 sq.
Hide, cow's, beaten with staves on the last day of the year in the Highlands of Scotland, viii. 322 sqq.;
beaten by the Salii with rods, ix. 231
Hide-measured lands, legends as to, vi. 249 sq.
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Hiera Sykaminos, furthest point of Roman empire in southern Egypt, iv. 144 n. 2
Hieracium pilosella, mouse-ear hawk-weed, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 57
Hieraconpolis or Hawk-town, the oldest royal capital in Egypt, iv. 112;
hawks worshipped at, vi. 22 n. 1;
representations of the Sed festival at, vi. 151
Hierapolis on the Euphrates, biennial ceremony of pouring water at, i. 251 n. 4;
sacred pigs at, viii. 23
——, the Syrian, offerings of hair at, i. 29;
rule as to mourners entering the temple of Astarte at, iii. 286;
high priest of the Syrian goddess at, v. 143 n. 4;
festival of the Pyre or Torch at, v. 146, ix. 392;
sacred doves at, v. 147;
eunuch priests of Astarte at, v. 269 sq.
—— and Hieropolis, distinction between, v. 168 n. 2
——, in the valley of the Maeander, cave of Pluto at, v. 206;
hot springs at, v. 206 sqq.
Hierapolis-Bambyce, Atargatis the goddess of, v. 137, 162;
mysterious golden image at, v. 162 n. 2;
rules as to the pollution of death at, vi. 227
Hieroglyphics, Hittite, v. 124, 125 n.
Hieroglyphs perhaps magical in origin, i. 87 n. 1
Hieron, Greek vase of, vii. 68 n. 1
Hierophant at Eleusis, temporarily deprived of his virility, ii. 138;
his marriage, ii. 139 n. 1;
his exhortation to offer the first-fruits, vii. 55, 59 sq.;
unlawful sacrifice offered by a, vii. 61 n. 4;
perhaps represented Zeus in a sacred marriage, vii. 65
Higgins, Rev. J. C., on bonfires at Tarbolton, x. 207 n. 2
High Alps, department of the, Midsummer fires in the, xi. 39 sq.
High History of the Holy Graal, iv. 120, 134
High Priest in Timor, rules observed by, during absence of warriors, i. 128 sq.;
of the Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh, taboos observed by the, iii. 14 n. 2;
of Syrian goddess at Hierapolis, v. 143 n. 4;
the Jewish, viii. 27, ix. 210;
the Fijian, xi. 245
—— Priestess, head of the State in Khyrim, vi. 203
Highland sorcerers use knotted cords, iii. 305 n. 3
—— sportsmen, their guns or fishing-rods not to be stepped over, iii. 423
—— story of absence of soul in sleep, iii. 40 sq.;
of Headless Hugh, xi. 130 sq.
—— witches, how they sink ships, i. 135
Highlanders of Scotland, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 329;
their precautions against witchcraft on Beltane Eve, ii. 53;
forced fire (need-fire) among the, ii. 238;
their superstitions as to Good Friday, iii. 229;
their belief as to cut hair, iii. 271;
loose or cut all knots on a corpse, iii. 310;
certain words tabooed to them at sea, iii. 394;
on the influence of the moon, vi. 132, 134, 140;
their medicinal applications of menstruous blood, x. 98 n. 1;
their belief in the power of witches to destroy cattle, x. 343 n. 1;
their belief concerning snake stones, xi. 311
Highlands of Scotland, magic to catch fish in the, i. 110;
magical virtues ascribed to chiefs in the, i. 368;
faith in the healing touch of a Macdonald in the, i. 370 n. 3;
St. Bride's day in the, ii. 94;
fires put out in house of death in the, ii. 267 n. 4;
divination by the shoulder-blades of sheep in the, iii. 229;
iron as a charm against fairies in the, iii. 232 sq.;
saying about combing hair at night in the, iii. 271;
knots untied and buckles removed at marriage in the, iii. 299 sq.;
the last corn cut at harvest called the Old Wife (Cailleach) in the, vii. 140 sqq.;
the last corn cut at harvest called the Maiden in the, vii. 155 sqq.;
beating the cow's hide on the last day of the year in the, viii. 322 sqq.;
custom of throwing stones on cairns in the, ix. 20 sq.;
cock buried alive on spot where epileptic patient fell down in the, ix. 68 n. 2;
the Twelve Days in the, ix. 324;
snake stones in the, x. 16;
Beltane fires in the, x. 146 sqq.;
Hallowe'en fires in the, x. 230 sqq.;
divination at Hallowe'en in the, x. 229, 234 sqq.;
need-fire in the, x. 289 sqq.;
need-fire and Beltane fire kindled by the friction of oak in the, xi. 91
Hilaria, Festival of Joy in the rites of Attis, v. 273
Hildesheim, the Leaf King at Whitsuntide at, ii. 85;
bell-ringing at, on Ascension Day, ix. 247 sq.;
Easter rites of fire and water at, x. 124;
Easter bonfires at, x. 141;
the need-fire at, x. 272 sq.;
hawk-weed gathered on Midsummer Day at, xi. 57
Hill, G. F., on image of Artemis at Perga, v. 35 n. 2;
on legend of coins at Tarsus, v. 126 n. 2;
on goddess 'Atheh, v. 162 n. 1;
on coins of Mallus, v. 165 n. 6
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Hill, Miss Nina, on a Candlemas custom in County Galway, ii. 95 n.
Hill of the Fires in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 149
—— of Lloyd, near Kells, iv. 99
—— of Ward, in County Meath, x. 139
Hill Tout, C., on respect shown by the Indians of British Columbia for the animals and plants which they eat, vi. 44;
on Indian ceremonies before eating the first wild berries or roots of the season, viii. 80 sq., 134
Hills, spirits of, worshipped in Burma, ii. 41
Himalayan districts of the North-Western Provinces of India, gardens of Adonis in the, v. 242;
sacrifices at sowing and harvest in the, viii. 117;
prayers at cairns in the, ix. 29;
mistletoe in the, xi. 316
Himalayas, cairns or heaps of sticks in the, ix. 12
Himera, the battle of, iv. 167, v. 115;
hot springs of, v. 213 n. 1
Himerius, on the gift of the corn, vii. 58
Hindoo bride led round the fire, ii. 230
—— ceremony of rebirth from a golden cow, iii. 113
—— charm to cause sleep, i. 148;
ancient, by means of knots, iii. 306
—— expiation for killing sacred animals, iv. 216
—— marriage, the pole-star at, i. 166
—— marriages of trees and shrubs, ii. 25 sq.
—— places of pilgrimage, hair of criminals shaved at, iii. 287
—— ritual, confession of sins in, iii. 217;
ancient, for the transference of thirst, ix. 38;
abstinence from salt in, x. 27;
as to cutting a child's hair, x. 99 n. 2
—— story of the absence of the soul in a dream, iii. 38 n. 4
—— Trinity, i. 225, 404
—— women will not name their husbands, iii. 333;
their restrictions at menstruation, x. 84
—— worship of cows, viii. 37
Hindoo Koosh, sacred cedar of the, i. 383;
diviners among the tribes of the, i. 383 sq.;
the Kafirs of the, i. 385;
expulsion of demons after harvest in the, ix. 137, 225
Hindoos, magical images among the, i. 63 sqq.;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209;
their test of a sacrificial victim, i. 384 sq.;
worship the Holy Basil (tulasi) plant, ii. 26 sq.;
their custom at yawning, iii. 31;
their custom as to paring children's nails, iii. 262 sq.;
their belief as to shooting stars, iv. 67;
their indifference to death, iv. 136;
sacredness of the first-born among the, iv. 181;
their belief in the rebirth of a father in his son, iv. 188;
burial of infants among the, v. 94;
their worship of perpetual fire, v. 192;
their marriage customs, vi. 246, x. 75;
transference of evil among the, ix. 38;
their fear of demons, ix. 91 sq.;
maidens secluded at puberty among the, x. 68;
their use of menstruous fluid, x. 98 n. 1;
stories of the external soul among the, xi. 97 sqq.
See also India
Hindoos, ancient, magical images among the, i. 77;
their treatment of jaundice, i. 79;
barley in the religious ritual of the, vii. 132;
sacrifice of first-fruits among the, viii. 119 sq.;
their cure for epilepsy, ix. 69 n.
—— of the Central Provinces, their belief that a twin can ward off hail and heavy rain, i. 269
—— of Northern India, their mode of drinking moonshine, vi. 144
—— of the Punjaub, their belief as to the length of a soul's residence in heaven, iv. 67;
annual ceremony of the expulsion of poverty among the, ix. 144 sq.;
their custom of passing unlucky children through narrow openings, xi. 190
—— of Southern India, their ceremony at eating the new rice, viii. 56;
their Pongol festival, xi. 1
Hinnom, the Valley of, sacrifice of first-born children in, iv. 169, 170, v. 178, vi. 219
Hippasus, torn to pieces by Bacchanals, iv. 164
Hippoclides and Clisthenes, ii. 307 sq.
Hippocrates, sacrifices offered to, i. 105;
on a Sarmatian custom of moulding the heads of children artificially, ii. 297
Hippodamia, her marriage with Pelops, iv. 91;
institutes the girls' race at Olympia, iv. 91;
grave of the suitors of, iv. 104;
her incest with her father, v. 44 n. 1
—— and Pelops, ii. 279, 299 sq.
Hippolytus killed by horses, i. 20, iv. 214, viii. 40;
restored to life by Aesculapius, i. 20, iv. 214;
dedicated horses to Aesculapius, i. 21 n. 2, viii. 41 n. 5;
hair dedicated by youths and maidens to, i. 28, 39
—— and Artemis, i. 19 sq., 24 sqq.
—— and Phaedra, i. 19
—— or Virbius, the first King of the Wood at Nemi, i. 19 sq., iv. 214, viii. 40
Hippolytus, Christian Father, on the [pg 307] exhibition of corn to the initiates at Eleusis, vii. 38
Hippolytus, Saint, martyrdom of, i. 21
Hippomenes wins Atalante in a race, ii. 301
Hippopotamus, ceremony after killing a, viii. 235;
external soul of chief in a, xi. 200
Hippopotamuses, souls of dead in, viii. 289;
lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 202, 205, 209
Hiqit, frog-headed Egyptian goddess, ii. 132, 133
Hirn, Y., as to homoeopathic magic, i. 52 n. 1;
on magic by similarity and magic by contact, i. 54 n. 1
Hiro, Polynesian thief-god, iii. 69
Hirpi Sorani, their fire-walk, xi. 14 sq.
Hirpini, the, traced their origin to a “sacred spring,” iv. 186;
guided by a wolf (hirpus), iv. 186 n. 4;
valley of Amsanctus in the land of, v. 204
Hirschfeld, G., on Hittite hieroglyphs, i. 87 n. 1
Hirt, Professor H., on the derivation of the name Perkunas, ii. 367 n. 3;
on the Twelve Days, ix. 325 n. 3
Hissar District, Punjaub, burial of dead infants at the threshold in the, v. 94
Historical tradition hampered by the taboo on the names of the dead, iii. 363 sqq.
History not to be explained without the influence of great men, v. 311 n. 2;
of mankind not to be summed up in a few simple formulas, viii. 37;
of religion a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, viii. 40
Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, May carols at, ii. 61 n. 1
Hittite, correct form of the national name Chatti or Hatti, v. 133 n.
Hittite god of thunder, v. 134, 163
—— gods at Tarsus and Sardes, v. 185
—— hieroglyphics, i. 87 n. 1, v. 124, 125 n.
—— inscription on Mount Argaeus, v. 190 n. 1
—— priest or king, his costume, v. 131 sq., 133 n.
—— sculptures at Carchemish, v. 38 n., 123;
at Ibreez, v. 121 sqq.;
at Bor (Tyana), v. 122 n. 1;
at Euyuk, v. 123;
at Boghaz-Keui, v. 128 sqq.;
at Babylon, v. 134;
at Zenjirli, v. 134;
at Giaour-Kalesi, v. 138 n.;
at Kara-Bel, v. 138 n.;
at Marash, v. 173;
in Lydia, v. 185
—— Sun-goddess, v. 133 n.
—— treaty with Egypt, v. 135 sq.
Hittites worship the bull, v. 123, 132;
their empire, language, etc., v. 124 sq.;
their costume, v. 129 sq., 131;
their seals of treaty, v. 136, 142 n. 1, 145 n. 2;
traces of mother-kin among the, v. 141 sq.;
their deity named Tark or Tarku, v. 147
Hkamies of North Aracan, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 61
Hkön, race of Upper Burma, virgins of the, married to the spirit of a lake, ii. 150 sq.
Hlubi chief, his external soul in a pair of ox-horns, xi. 156
Hlubies, the, of South-Eastern Africa, their rain-making, i. 249
Ho tribe of Togoland, their kings buried secretly, vi. 104.
See Hos
Hoare, Sir Richard Colt, on Hallowe'en in Wales, x. 239
Hobby-horse at Padstow, ii. 68;
to carry away spirit of smallpox, ix. 119
Hobley, C. W., on the belief of the Akikuyu in the fertilization of women by wild fig-trees, ii. 316;
on spiritual husbands among the Akamba, ii. 316 sq.
Hochofen, village of Bohemia, annual expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 161 sq.
Hockey played as a ceremony, ix. 174
Hockey cart, the waggon on which the last corn is brought from the harvest vii. 147 n. 1
Hodgson, Adam, on Indian parallel to Jacob wrestling with the angel, viii. field, 264
Hodson, T. C., on mode of keeping count of years in Manipur, iv. 117 n. 1;
on taboos among the hill tribes of Assam, vii. 109 n. 2;
on annual eponyms in Manipur, ix. 39 sq.
Hodum Deo, images of, i. 284 n.
Hoeck, K., on the pursuit of Britomartis by Zeus, iv. 73 n. 1
Hoeing, rites at, vii. 96;
done by women, vii. 113 sq.
Hoensbroech, Count von, his mode of communion with the Deity, viii. 94
Hoes used by women in agriculture, vii. 114, 115, 116, 118, 119
Hofmayr, P. W., on the Supreme Being of the Shilluks, iv. 18 n. 1;
on the worship of Nyakang among the Shilluks, iv. 19 n. 3, vi. 164, 166
Hog-sucker in homoeopathic magic, i. 155
Hog's blood, purifying virtue of, i. 107.
See Pig
Hog's wort (Peucedanum leiocarpum, Nutt.) burnt as an offering to salmon, viii. 254
Hogarth, D. G., on relics of paganism at Paphos, v. 36;
on the Corycian [pg 308] cave, v. 155 n.;
on Roman remains at Tarsus, v. 172 n. 1
Hogg, Alexander, and Midsummer bonfires, x. 206 sq.
Hoggan, Frances, on cutting “the neck” at harvest in Pembrokeshire, vii. 267
Hogmanay, the last day of the year, Highland custom of beating a cow's hide on, viii. 323;
song in the Isle of Man, x. 224;
the “Burning of the Clavie” at Burghead on, x. 266
Hogs sacrificed to goddess of volcano, v. 218 sq.
See Pigs
Hohenstaufen Mountains in Wurtemberg, Midsummer fires in the, x. 166
Hole in tongue of medicine-man, xi. 238, 239
Holed flint a protection against witches, ix. 162
—— stone in magic, i. 313.
See also Holes
Holes in rocks or stones which sick people creep through as a cure, xi. 186 sqq.
Holi, a festival of Northern India, bonfires at, xi. 2 sq.
Holiness conceived as a dangerous virus, viii. 29;
or taboo conceived as a dangerous physical substance which needs to be insulated, x. 6 sq.
—— and pollution not differentiated by savages, iii. 224
Holland, belief as to cauls in, i. 199;
Whitsuntide customs in, ii. 80, 104;
story as to absence of soul from body in, iii. 39 n. 1;
“Killing the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 280;
Easter fires in, x. 145
Hollantide Eve (Hallowe'en) in the Isle of Man, x. 244
Hollertau, Bavaria, Easter fires in the, x. 122
Hollis, A. C., on a Masai custom as to the brewing of honey-wine, iii. 200 n. 3;
on serpent-worship among the Akikuyu, v. 67 sq.;
on serpent-worship among the Masai, v. 84;
on serpent-worship among the Nandi, v. 84 sq.;
on custom of manslayers among the Nandi, viii. 155;
on pretence of being born again at circumcision among the Akikuyu, xi. 262
Hollow things, homoeopathic magic of, i. 157 sq.
Holly-oaks in sacred grove of Dia, ii. 122
Holly-tree, children passed through a cleft, xi. 169 n. 2
Holm-oak or ilex, resemblance of its leaf to the laurel, iv. 81 sq.;
the Golden Bough growing on a, xi. 285
Holstein, the last sheaf called the Corn-mother in, vii. 133 sq.;
fox carried from house to house in spring in, vii. 297
Holy Apostles, church of the, at Florence, x. 126
—— Basil, worshipped in India, ii. 26
—— candles, i. 13
—— Ghost, alleged incarnation of the, i. 409;
regarded as female, iv. 5 n. 3
—— of Holies, the Fijian, xi. 244, 245
—— Innocents' Day, young people beat each other on, ix. 270, 271;
mock pope or bishop on, ix. 334, 336, 337, 338
—— Land, fire flints brought from the, x. 126
“—— men” in Syria, v. 77 sq.
—— Saturday, effigy of Queen of Lent beheaded on, iv. 244
—— Sepulchre, church of the, at Jerusalem, ceremony of the new fire in the, x. 128 sq.
—— water a charm against witchcraft, ii. 340;
sprinkling with, iii. 285 sq.;
a protection against witches, ix. 158, 164 sq.
Holyrood, Charles the First at, i. 368
Homer on the loves of Zeus and Hera, ii. 143;
kings called divine in, ii. 177;
on Demeter as goddess of the corn, vii. 41 sq.;
on loves of Zeus and Demeter, vii. 66;
on gods in likeness of foreigners, vii. 236
Homeric age, funeral games in the, iv. 93
—— Greeks cut out tongues of sacrificial victims, viii. 270
—— Hymn to Demeter, vii. 35 sqq., 70, 161 n. 4, 211 n. 3
Homesteads protected by bonfires against lightning and conflagration, x. 344
Homicide, banishment of, iv. 69 sq.
See Manslayers
Hommel, Professor F., on the Hittite deity Tarku, v. 147 n. 3
Homoeopathic or imitative magic, i. 52 sqq., iii. 151, 152, 207, 295, 298, iv. 283, 285, vii. 10, 62, 262, viii. 267, 272, 331, 333, 334, ix. 177, 232, 257, 404, x. 49, 133, xi. 177, 287;
for the making of rain, i. 247 sqq.;
of a flesh diet, viii. 138 sqq.
See also Magic
—— taboos, i. 116
Homogeneity of civilization in prehistoric times in Southern Europe and Western Asia, ix. 409
Homolje mountains in Servia, “living fire” in time of epidemic at the, ii. 237, x. 282
Honduras, Indians of, their superstition as to the bones of deer, viii. 241;
the nagual or external soul among the, xi. 213 sq., 226 n. 1
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Hone, W., on May-poles, ii. 70 sq.;
on “crying the neck,” vii. 264 sq.
Honey offered to the sun-god, i. 311
—— and milk offered to snakes, v. 85, viii. 288
Honey-cakes, sacred serpent fed with, iv. 86, v. 87
—— -wine, continence observed at brewing, iii. 200
Honorific totems of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273 sqq.
Honorius and Theodosius, decree of, ix. 392
Honour and good faith, the bonds of, strengthened by superstition, iii. 130
Hood Bay in New Guinea, custom observed after a death at, ix. 84
Hood, Thomas, on the water-fairy, iii. 94
Hoods worn by women after childbirth, x. 20;
worn by girls at puberty, x. 44 sq., 48 sq., 55;
worn by women at menstruation, x. 90.
See also Hats
Hook-thorn not to be cut while the corn is in the ground, ii. 49
Hooks used in magic, i. 132, 347;
to catch souls, iii. 30 sq., 51;
Indian custom of swinging on, iv. 278 sq.
Hoop, crawling through a, as a cure or preventive of disease, xi. 184;
of rowan-tree, sheep forced through a, xi. 184
Hoopoe brings the mythical springwort, xi. 70 n. 2
Hop-picking, treatment of strangers at, vii. 226
Hope of immortality, the Egyptian, centred in Osiris, vi. 15 sq., 90 sq., 114, 159
Hopi Indians, their fire-drill, ii. 208 sq.
Hopladamus, a giant, v. 157 n. 2
Hora and Quirinus, vi. 233
Horatius purified for the murder of his sister, xi. 194
Horkos, the Greek god of oaths, vi. 231 n. 5
Hornbeam, mistletoe on, xi. 315
Horne Island, South Pacific, blood of wounded friends smeared on their relatives in, iii. 245
Horned cap worn by priest or god, v. 123;
of Hittite god, v. 134
—— Dionysus, vii. 12, 16
—— god, Hittite and Greek, v. 123
—— lion on coins of Tarsus, v. 127
Hornkampe in Prussia, the last sheaf called the Old Woman at, vii. 137
Hornless ox in homoeopathic magic, i. 151
Horns, of goat hung on a sacred tree, ii. 42;
of sacrificial oxen, iv. 32, 33;
as a religious emblem, v. 34;
worn by gods, v. 163 sq.;
of a cow worn by Isis, vi. 50;
of straw worn to keep off demons, ix. 118;
of goat a protection against witches, ix. 162
Horns blown to expel demons, ix. 111, 117, 204, 214;
to ban witches, ix. 160, 161, 165, 166;
at Penzance on eve of May Day, ix. 163 sq.;
by maskers, ix. 243, 244
Horse, prohibition to see a, iii. 9;
prohibition to ride, iii. 13;
“seeing the Horse,” vii. 294;
“Cross of the Horse,” vii. 294;
“fatigue of the Horse,” vii. 294;
sacrificed to Mars in October for the sake of the crops, viii. 42 sqq., ix. 230;
ceremony of the, at rice-harvest among the Garos, viii. 337 sqq.;
sacrifice of, in Vedic times, ix. 122 n.;
beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371, 407 n. 2;
beloved by Semiramis, ix. 407 n. 2;
witch in the shape of a, x. 319.
See also Horses
——, black, in rain-charm, i. 290
—— or mare, last sheaf given to, vii. 141, 156, 158, 160, 161, 162, 294;
corn spirit as, vii. 202 sqq.
——, red, sacrificed as a purification of the land, ix. 213
——, sacred, in Celebes, i. 364;
sacrificed at Rome in October, ii. 229, 326
—— and Virbius, viii. 40 sqq.
——, the White, effigy carried through Midsummer fire, x. 203 sq.
Horse-chestnut, mistletoe on, xi. 315
Horse-headed Demeter of Phigalia, viii. 21, 338
—— -mackerel, descent of a totemic clan from a, iv. 129
—— -race of boys at Lhasa, ix. 221 n. 1
—— -races, at Whitsuntide in Germany, ii. 69;
in honour of the dead, iv. 97, 98, 99, 101, 103;
at fairs, iv. 99 sqq.;
at Eleusis, vii. 71;
at harvest, vii. 76, viii. 114
—— sacrifice in ancient India, xi. 80 n. 3
—— -shoes a protection against witches, ix. 162
Horse's flesh tabooed, among Zulus, i. 118
—— Fount at Troezen, i. 26, 27
—— head, in Roman sacrifice, viii. 42;
used to protect garden from caterpillars, viii. 43 n. 1;
in effigy at harvest festival, viii. 43 n. 1, 337 sq.;
thrown into Midsummer fire, xi. 40
—— tail cut off in sacrifice, viii. 42, 43
Horseman, charm to make a good, i. 152
Horses, Hippolytus killed by, i. 19 sq., iv. 214;
excluded from Arician grove, i. 20, viii. 40 sqq.;
dedicated by Hippolytus to Aesculapius, i. 21 n. 2, 27;
branded with mark of wolf, i. 27;
in relation to Diomede, i. 27;
sacrifice [pg 310] of white, i. 27;
sacrificed to the sun, i. 315 sq.;
Lycurgus, king of the Edonians, torn to pieces by, i. 366, vi. 98, vii. 24;
sacrificed to trees, ii. 16;
sacrificed to rivers, ii. 16 sq.;
sacrificed to water-spirits, ii. 157;
sanctity of white, ii. 174 n. 2;
sacrifices for, on St. George's Day, ii. 332, 336 sq.;
sacrificed and hung on trees of sacred grove, ii. 365;
left unclipped for a year after a king's consecration, iii. 260;
not to be called by their proper names, iii. 408, 413;
sacrificed for the use of the dead, v. 293 sq.;
excluded from sanctuaries, viii. 45 sq.;
used by sacred persons, x. 4 n. 1;
not to be touched or ridden by menstruous women, x. 88 sq., 96;
driven through the need-fire, x. 276, 297.
See also Horse
Horus, the eye of, i. 364, vi. 17, 121 with n. 3, viii. 30;
the soul of, in Orion, iv. 5;
the four sons of, in the likeness of hawks, vi. 22;
decapitates his mother Isis, vi. 88;
represented sacrificing a human victim to Osiris, vii. 260;
his eye injured by Typhon, viii. 30;
institutes the sacrifice of a pig, viii. 30;
the birth of, ix. 341
—— of Edfu identified with the sun, vi. 123
—— the elder, vi. 6
——, the golden, i. 418
—— the younger, son of Isis and the dead Osiris, vi. 8, 15;
accused by Set of being a bastard, vi. 17;
his combat with Set, vi. 17;
his eye destroyed by Set and restored by Thoth, vi. 17;
reigns over the Delta, vi. 17
Hos of Bengal offer first-fruits of rice to the sun-god, viii. 117;
their annual expulsion of demons at harvest, ix. 136 sq.
—— of Togoland (West Africa), a tribe of Ewe negroes, their customs as to twins, i. 265;
sanctity of the king's throne among the, i. 365;
their human gods, i. 396 sq.;
their ceremony at felling a palm for wine, ii. 19;
their god and goddess of lightning, ii. 370;
their priests with unshorn hair, iii. 259;
their magical use of knots to facilitate childbirth, iii. 295 sq.;
their use of knots in cursing, iii. 301 sq.;
tie strings round the sick as a cure, iii. 304;
their comparison of maize to a mother, vii. 130;
their miniature gardens dedicated to “guardian gods,” vii. 234;
their festival of the new yams, viii. 58 sqq.;
their offerings of new yams, viii. 115 sq.;
their annual expulsion of evils, ix. 134 sqq., 206 sq.;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 82
Hose, Dr. Charles, on ceremony of adoption in Sarawak, i. 75 n. 1;
on creeping through a cleft stick after a funeral, xi. 175 sq.
——, Dr. Charles and W. McDougall, on head-hunting in Borneo, v. 295 n. 1;
on the ngarong or secret helper of the Ibans, xi. 224 n. 1
Hosea on religious prostitution, v. 58;
on the Baalim, v. 75 n.;
on the prophet as a madman, v. 77
Hoshangábád, in Central India, custom as to the last corn cut at, vii. 222
Hospitality, bonds of, strengthened through superstition, iii. 130
Hosskirch, in Swabia, mode of predicting the weather for the year at, ix. 323
Hostages, clipped hair used as, iii. 272 sq.
Hostility of religion to magic in history, i. 226
Hot springs resorted to by women in order to obtain offspring, ii. 161;
worship of, v. 206 sqq.;
Hercules the patron of, v. 209 sqq.;
resorted to by childless women in Syria, v. 213 sqq.
—— water drunk as a charm, i. 129
Hother, Hodr, or Hod, the blind god, and Balder, x. 101 sqq., xi. 279 n. 4
Hottentot charm to make the wind drop, i. 320
—— hunters, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212
—— prayers for cattle at cairns, ix. 29 sq.
—— priest never uses an iron knife, iii. 227
—— women, rules observed by, in the absence of their husbands, i. 120 sq.
Hottentots, seclusion and purification of hunters among the, iii. 220 sq.;
the mortal god of the, iv. 3;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 316 sq.;
throw stones or sticks on the graves of Heitsi-eibib, ix. 16;
drive their sheep through fire, xi. 11 sq.
Hounds protected against spirits of wild beasts killed in the chase, ii. 128.
See also Dogs
House, taboos observed after building a new, ii. 40;
ceremony at entering a new, iii. 63 sq.;
taboos on quitting the, iii. 122 sqq.;
destroyed after a death, iii. 286
House-building, homoeopathic magic of woods used in, i. 146;
custom as to shadows at, iii. 81, 89 sq.;
continence observed at, iii. 202
—— -communities of the Servians, x. 259 n. 1
—— -timber, homoeopathic magic of, i. 146;
tree-spirits propitiated in, ii. 39 sq.
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Housebreakers, charms employed by, to cause sleep, i. 148 sq.
Houses built with one story, reason for, iii. 253, 254;
fumigated as a protection against witches, ix. 158;
protected by bonfires against lightning and conflagration, x. 344;
made fast against witches on Midsummer Eve, xi. 73
“—— of the soul” in Isaiah, xi. 155 n. 3
Housman, Professor A. E., on the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, x. 220 sq.
Houstry, in Caithness, need-fire at, x. 291 sq.
Hovas, the, of Madagascar, divinity of kings among, i. 397;
offer the first-fruits of the crop to the king, viii. 116
How, the civil king of Tonga, iii. 21
Howitt, A. W., as to extracted teeth of Australian aborigines, i. 176;
on contagious magic of footprints in Australia, i. 207 sq.;
on Australian magic, iii. 269;
on superstitions as to personal names among the Australian aborigines, iii. 320;
on Australian belief as to falling stars, iv. 64;
on seclusion of menstruous women in Australia, x. 78;
on killing a totem animal, xi. 220 n. 2;
on secrecy of totem names in Australia, xi. 225 n.;
on the drama of resurrection at initiation in Australia, xi. 235 sqq.
Howitt, Miss Mary E. B., her Folklore and Legends of some Victorian Tribes, xi. 226 n. 1
Howth, the western promontory of, Midsummer fire on, x. 204
Howth Castle, life-tree of the St. Lawrence family at, xi. 166
Hoyerswerda, district of Silesia, the “Old Man” at threshing in, vii. 149;
Walpurgis bonfires to keep off witches in the, ix. 163
Hsa Möng Hkam, a native state of Upper Burma, care for the butterfly spirit of the rice in, vii. 190
Huaca, Peruvian word for god, ii. 146
Huahine, one of the Tahitian Islands, xi. 11 n. 3;
offering of first-fruits in, viii. 132 sq.
Hubert, H., and M. Mauss, Messrs., on taboo as a negative magic, i. 111 n. 2
Huckle-bone of hare in cure, ix. 50 sq.
Huddler or Huttler, mummers at Carnival to promote the flax crop in the Tyrol, ix. 248
Hudel-running in the Tyrol, ix. 248
Hudson Bay, the Esquimaux of, iii. 207, 228, viii. 257;
the Chippeways of, x. 90
Hughes, Miss E. P., on the fire-walk in Japan, xi. 10 n. 1
Huichol Indians of Mexico, their use of magical images, i. 71;
taboos observed by them during the search for the sacred cactus, i. 123 sq.;
their homoeopathic charm to ensure skill in weaving, i. 154 sq.;
their rain-making by carrying water, i. 302;
their worship of water, ii. 156;
their chastity before hunting, iii. 197;
personify maize as a little girl, vii. 177;
their communion with a god by partaking of his effigy, viii. 93;
their transference of fatigue to heaps of stones, ix. 10
Huichol superstition as to the growth of corn, ix. 347 n. 3
Huilla, African kingdom, the king of, thought to make rain, i. 348
Huitzilopochtli, or Vitzilopochtli, a great Mexican god, viii. 95, ix. 300;
dough image of him made and eaten sacramentally, viii. 86 sqq., 90 sq.;
young man sacrificed in the character of, ix. 280 sq.;
temple of, ix. 287, 290, 297;
hall of, ix. 294
Huixtocihuatl, Mexican goddess of Salt, ix. 283;
woman annually sacrificed in the character of, ix. 283 sq.
Huligamma, Indian goddess, eunuchs dedicated to her, v. 271 n.
Human beings permanently possessed by deities, i. 386 sqq.;
torn to pieces in rites of Dionysus, vii. 24;
burnt in the fires, xi. 21 sqq.
—— divinities put to death, x. i. sq.
—— flesh, transformation into animal shape through eating, iv. 83 sq.
—— god and goddess, their enforced union, ix. 386 sq.
—— gods, i. 373 sqq., ii. 377 sqq.;
bound by many rules, iii. 419 sq.
—— immortality in relation to the immortality of animals, viii. 260 sqq.
—— Leopard Societies of West Africa, iv. 83
—— representatives of Attis, v. 285 sqq.;
of gods sacrificed in Mexico, ix. 275 sqq.
—— sacrifice, substitutes for, iv. 124, 214 sqq., v. 146 sq., 285, 289, vi. 99, 221, vii. 33 sq., 249;
successive mitigations of, ix. 396 sq., 408
—— sacrifices offered to man-gods, i. 386, 387;
to trees, ii. 15, 17;
offered on roofs of new houses, ii. 39;
at foundation of buildings, iii. 90 sq.;
at the cutting of a chief's hair, iii. 264;
at Upsala, iv. 58;
to renew the sun's fire, iv. 74 sq.;
in ancient Greece, iv. 161 sqq.;
mock, iv. 214 sqq.;
offered by ancestors of the European races, iv. 214;
in worship of the moon, v. 73;
to the Tauric Artemis, v. 115;
to Diomede at Salamis, v. 145;
offered at earthquakes, v. 201;
offered at irrigation channels, vi. 38;
of the kings of Ashantee and [pg 312] Dahomey, vi. 97 n. 7;
offered to Dionysus, vi. 98 sq.;
offered by the Mexicans for the maize, vi. 107;
at the graves of the kings of Uganda, vi. 168;
to dead kings, vi. 173;
to dead chiefs, vi. 191;
to prolong the life of kings, vi. 220 sq., 223 sqq.;
for crops, vii. 236 sqq.;
offered by ancient Egyptians, vii. 259 sq.;
at festival of new yams in Ashantee, viii. 62, 63;
in Mexico, viii. 88, ix. 275 sqq.;
at fire-festivals, ix. 300 sqq., x. 106;
in connexion with Cronus, ix. 353 sq.;
their influence on cosmogonical theories, ix. 409 sqq.;
traces of, x. 146, 148, 150 sqq., 186, xi. 31;
offered by the ancient Germans, xi. 28 n. 1;
among the Celts of Gaul, xi. 32 sq.;
the victims in the Celtic sacrifices perhaps witches and wizards, xi. 41 sqq.;
W. Mannhardt's theory of the Celtic sacrifices, xi. 43.
See also Human victims
Human scapegoats, ix. 38 sqq., 194 sqq., 210 sqq.;
in ancient Rome, ix. 229 sqq.;
in classical antiquity, ix. 229 sqq.;
in ancient Greece, ix. 252 sqq.;
reason for beating the, ix. 256 sq.
—— souls transmigrate into animals, viii. 285 sqq.
—— victims sacrificed to water-spirits, ii. 157 sqq.;
substitutes for, iv. 124, 214 sqq., v. 146 sq., 285, 289, vi. 99, 221, vii. 33 sq., 249;
thrown into volcanoes, v. 219 sq.;
uses made of their skins, v. 293;
as representatives of the corn-spirit, vi. 97, 106 sq.;
killed with hoes, spades, and rakes, vi. 99 n. 2;
treated as divine, vii. 250;
men clad in the skins of, ix. 265 sq., 294 sq., 296 sqq.;
sacrificed as representatives of gods, ix. 275 sqq.;
annually burnt, xi. 286 n. 2
Humbé, African kingdom, the king of, thought to make rain, i. 348;
incontinence of young people under puberty thought to entail the death of the king of, iii. 6
Humboldt, A. von, on the theocracy of the Chibchas or Muyscas, i. 416
Humman or Hommon, national god of the Elamites, ix. 366
Humphrey's Island. See Manahiki
Hundred and eight girls and cows in rain-making, i. 284
Hungarian story of the external soul, xi. 140
Hungary, continence at sowing in, ii. 105;
“Sawing the Old Woman” among the gypsies of, iv. 243;
the harvest cock in, vii. 277;
custom at threshing in, vii. 291;
woman fertilized by being struck with certain sticks in, ix. 264;
Midsummer fires in, x 178 sq.
Hungary, German, Whitsuntide Queen in, ii. 87
Hunger the root of the worship of Adonis, v. 231;
expulsion of, at Chaeronea, ix. 252
Hunt, Holman, his picture of the new fire at Jerusalem, x. 130 n.
Hunt, Robert, on burnt sacrifices in the West of England, x. 303
Hunter, the primitive, believes himself exposed to the vengeance of the ghosts of the animals which he has killed, viii. 208
Hunter River tribes of New South Wales, avoidance of the wife's mother among the, iii. 84
Hunters employ homoeopathic magic to ensure a catch, i. 109 sqq.;
homoeopathic taboos observed by hunters, their relations, and friends, i. 110 sq., 113, 114 sqq.;
absent, thought to be affected by the conduct of their families at home, i. 120 sqq.;
absent, injured by the infidelity of wives at home, i. 123;
employ contagious magic of footprints, i. 211 sq.;
chastity of, iii. 191 sqq.;
use knots as charms, iii. 306;
words tabooed by, iii. 396, 398, 399, 400, 402, 404, 410;
propitiation of wild animals by, viii. 204 sqq.;
of grisly bears, chastity observed by, viii. 226;
exorcize the guardian spirits of wild animals, ix. 98;
avoid girls at puberty, x. 44, 46;
luck of, spoiled by menstruous women, x. 87, 89, 90, 91, 94
—— and fishers tabooed, iii. 190 sqq.
Huntin, a tree-god of the Ewe people of the Slave Coast, ii. 15
Hunting and fishing, homoeopathic magic in, i. 108 sqq.;
telepathy in, i. 120 sqq.
—— the wren, viii. 317 sqq.
Hunting dogs crowned at Diana's festival, i. 14, ii. 125, 126
—— stage of society, the, viii. 35, 37
Huntingdonshire, Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1
Huntsman, the Spectral, iv. 178
Huon Gulf in German New Guinea, the Bukaua of, vii. 103, xi. 239
Hupa Indians of California, seclusion of girls among the, x. 42
Hurling-matches for brides in Ireland, ii. 305 sq.
Huron, Lake, Ojibway Indians in a storm on, viii. 219
Hurons, reincarnation among the, i. 105, iv. 199 sq., v. 91;
their burial of infants, i. 105, iv. 199, v. 91;
their way of annulling an ominous dream, i. 172 sq.;
marry their fishing-nets to girls, ii. 147 sq.;
their conception [pg 313] of the soul, iii. 27;
their custom of reviving the dead by bestowing their names on the living, iii. 366 sq.;
their Festival of the Dead, iii. 367;
their reason for not burning fish bones, viii. 250;
preachers to the fish among the, viii. 250 sq.;
their way of expelling sickness, ix. 121;
custom of their women at menstruation, x. 88 n. 1
Husband, absent, thought to be injured by wife's infidelity, i. 123, 124 sq.;
charm to bring home a, i. 166.
See also Husbands
—— and wife, the rice-spirit conceived as, vii. 201 sqq.;
name given to two fire-sticks, viii. 65
Husband's ghost kept from his widow, iii. 143
—— name not to be pronounced by his wife, iii. 333, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339
Husbandman, the Roman, his prayers to Mars, ix. 229
Husbands, spiritual, among the Akamba, fertility of wives thought to depend on, ii. 316 sq.
——, taboos observed by wives in the absence of their, i. 116, 119, 120, 121, 122 sqq., 127 sqq.;
not to pronounce the names of their wives, iii. 337, 338, 339
—— and wives, difference of language between, iii. 347 sq.
Huskanaw, initiatory ceremony of the Virginian Indians, xi. 266
Huss, John, his participation in the Festival of Fools, ix. 336 n. 1
Hut burnt at Midsummer, x. 215 sq.
See also Huts
Hut-urns of ancient Latins, ii. 201 sq.
Hutchinson, W., his History of Northumberland on the Harvest Queen, vii. 146;
on Midsummer fires, x. 197 n. 4
Huts, round, of the ancient Latins, ii. 200 sqq.;
round, in Africa, ii. 227 n. 3;
miniature, at foot of trees which are haunted by spirits of the dead, ii. 317;
special, occupied by tabooed persons, iii. 142, 144, 156, 165, 166, 169, 171, 175, 179, 190, 199, 202, 207, 220, 221, 225 n.;
special, for menstruous women, iii. 146, x. 79, 82, 85 sqq.;
special, occupied by women in childbed, iii. 147, 148, 149 sq., 150, 151 sq.;
miniature, for ghosts, viii. 113
Huttler or Huddler in the Tyrol, ix. 248.
See Huddler
Huzuls, the, of the Carpathians, hunter's wife forbidden to spin among, i. 113;
their homoeopathic magic at planting and sowing, i. 137;
their precaution against the evil eye, i. 280;
their precautions against witches on St. George's Eve, ii. 335 sq.;
their belief as to shorn hair, iii. 270;
their use of wedding-rings as amulets, iii. 314 sq.;
will not call bears, wolves, and serpents by their proper names, iii. 397 sq.;
their theory of the waning moon, vi. 130;
their cure for water-brash, vi. 149 sq.;
ascribe a special virtue to a horse's head, viii. 43 n. 1;
their respect for weasels, viii. 275;
transfer cattle disease to black dog, ix. 32 sq.;
kindle new fire at Christmas, x. 264;
gather simples on St. John's Night, xi. 49
Hyacinth, son of Amyclas, killed by Apollo, v. 313;
his flower, v. 313 sq.;
his tomb and festival, v. 314 sq.;
an aboriginal deity, v. 315 sq.;
his sister Polyboea, v. 316;
perhaps a deified king of Amyclae, v. 316 sq.
Hyacinthia, the festival of Hyacinth, v. 314 sq.
Hyacinthius, a Greek month, v. 315 n.
Hyaenas, their supposed power over men's shadows, iii. 82;
souls of the dead in, viii. 289;
men turned into, x. 313
Hyampolis in Phocis, worship of Artemis at, i. 7
Hybristica, an Argive festival, vi. 259 n. 3
Hyes Attes, cry of the worshippers of Attis, viii. 22
Hygieia, the goddess, v. 88 n. 1
Hyginus, on the death of Semiramis, ix. 407 n. 2
Hylae, near Magnesia, image of Apollo in sacred cave at, i. 386
Hymettus, Mount, altar of Showery Zeus on, ii. 360
Hymn of the Arval Brothers, ix. 230 n. 2, 238;
of the Cora Indians at sowing, ix. 238
Hymn to Demeter, Homeric, vii. 35 sqq., 70
Hymns to the deified Demetrius Poliorcetes, i. 390 sq.;
to Parjanya, ii. 368 sq.;
to Tammuz, v. 9;
to the sun-god, vi. 123 sq.
Hyperboreans, offerings of the, at Delos, i. 33
Hypericum perforatum, St. John's wort, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 54 sqq.
See also St. John's Wort
Hyperoche, a Hyperborean maiden, i. 34 n.
Hyphear, a kind of mistletoe, xi. 317, 318
Hyria in Cilicia, Megassares king of, v. 41
Hyrrockin, a giantess in the legend of Balder, x. 102
Hysteria cured by beating, ix. 260
Ialysus in Rhodes, taboos observed at the sanctuary of Alectrona at, viii. 45
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Iasion and Demeter, vii. 208
Ibadan in West Africa, the hearts of dead kings of, eaten by their successors, iv. 203
Ibani of the Niger delta, their sacrifices to prolong the lives of kings and others, vi. 222
Ibans of Borneo, their ngarong or secret helper, xi. 224 n. 1
—— or Sea Dyaks of Borneo, their worship of serpents, v. 83;
of Sarawak, their ways of getting rid of birds or vermin, viii. 279.
See Sea Dyaks
Iberians of Spain, women tilled the ground among the, vii. 129
Ibn Batutah, Arab traveller, on a custom observed in the Maldive Islands, ii. 153, 154;
on hereditary custom of suicide in Java, iii. 53 sq.;
on funeral of emperor of China, v. 293 sq.
Ibos of the lower Niger, their maintenance of fire, ii. 259;
think that a manslayer must taste his victim's blood, viii. 155;
their belief in external human souls lodged in animals, xi. 203 sq.
Ibrahim Pasha, at Jerusalem, x. 129
Ibreez in Southern Cappadocia, v. 119 sqq.;
village of, v. 120 sq.;
Hittite sculptures at, v. 121 sqq.
——, the god of, v. 119 sqq.;
his horned cap, v. 164
Icarus or Icarius, father of Penelope, ii. 300
—— and his daughter Erigone, iv. 281 sq.;
first-fruits of vintage offered to, iv. 283, viii. 133
Iceland, beliefs as to cauls in, i. 199 sq.;
Brunhild, Queen of, ii. 306 sq.;
stories of the external soul in, xi. 123 sqq.
Ichneumon, transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299
Ichneumons worshipped in Egypt, i. 29 sq.
Icolmkill, the hill of the fires in, x. 149
Ida, oracular cave of Zeus on Mount, iv. 70
Ida Batara, a god (Vishnu), vii. 202
Idah or Iddah, on the lower Niger, divinity claimed by the king of, i. 396;
custom as to royal family at, ii. 294;
treatment of dead leopard at, viii. 228
Idalium in Cyprus, Pygmalion, king of, v. 50;
bilingual inscription of, v. 49 n. 7;
Melcarth worshipped at, v. 117
Ideals of humanity, two different, the heroic and the saintly, v. 300;
great religious, a product of the male imagination, vi. 211
Ideler, L., on the date of the introduction of the fixed Alexandrian year, vi. 28 n. 1;
on the Sothic period, vi. 37 n.;
on the quadriennial and biennial festivals, vii. 86;
on the Arab year before Mohammed, x. 217 n. 1
Identification with an animal as a homoeopathic charm, i. 155 sq.;
of woman with corn, vii. 149 sq.;
of persons with corn, vii. 252;
of girl with Maize Goddess, ix. 295
Ides of August, Diana's day, i. 12 n. 2
Idhlozi, ancestral spirit in serpent form, among the Zulus, xi. 211
Idolatry of the Hebrews, iv. 168 sqq.
Idols, nails knocked into, ix. 69 sq.
Ife, in West Africa, the king of, sacrifices to his crown, i. 365
Igague, Lake of, in New Granada, mythical serpents in, ii. 156
Igaras of the Niger, succession to the kingship among the, ii. 294;
their propitiation of dead leopards, viii. 228
Igbiras, the, of the Niger, their offerings of first-fruits to the dead, viii. 115
Igbodu, a sacred oracular grove of the Yourbas, ix. 212 n. 1
Igliwa, a Berber people of the Atlas, their tug-of-war, ix. 178
Iglulik, Esquimaux of, i. 121, 316, x. 134
Ignorance of paternity, primitive, v. 106 sq.
Ignorrotes of Lepanto, in the Philippines their sacred trees, ii. 30
Igorrots of the Philippines believe that the souls of the dead are in eels, viii. 292
Ihering, R. von, as to the “sacred spring” of the ancient Italians, iv. 187 n. 4
Ijebu tribe of Southern Nigeria, iv. 112
Il Mayek clan of the Njamus, their supposed power over irrigation water and the crops, vi. 39
Ilamatecutli, Mexican goddess, ix. 287;
woman sacrificed in the character of, ix. 287 sq.
Ilex or holm-oak, iv. 81 sq.
See Holm-oak
Ilium, animals sacrificed by hanging at, v. 292
Ill Luck embodied in an ascetic, ix. 41;
the casting away of, ix. 144
Illi, river in China, i. 298
Illicit love supposed to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 sqq.
Illumination, nocturnal, at festival of Osiris, vi. 50 sq.;
of graves on All Souls' Day, vi. 72 sq., 74
Illyria, the Encheleans of, iv. 84
Ilmenau, witches burnt at, x. 6
Ilocans or Ilocanes of Luzon, their homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 142;
their custom as to children's cast teeth, i. 179;
their fear of tree-spirits, ii. 18;
their recall of the soul, iii. 44
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Ilpirra of Central Australia, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 99
Iluvans of Malabar, marriage custom of the, x. 5
Im Thurn, Sir E. F., on the secrecy of personal names among the Indians of Guiana, iii. 324 sq.;
on the belief in spirits among the Indians of Guiana, ix. 78
Image of god made of dough and eaten sacramentally, viii. 86 sqq., 90 sq., 93 sq.;
carried through fire, xi. 4;
reason for carrying over a fire, xi. 24
—— of snake carried about, viii. 316 sq.
Images, Hebrew prohibition of, i. 87 n. 1;
of saints dipped in water as a rain-charm, i. 307;
used in recovery of lost souls, iii. 55, 59;
of gods masked and veiled during the king's sickness, iii. 95 n. 8;
made to represent dead chiefs and supposed to be animated by their souls, iv. 199;
of Osiris made of vegetable mould, vi. 85, 87, 90 sq., 91;
of ancestors, viii. 53;
of animals sacrificed instead of the animals, viii. 95 n. 2;
vicarious use of, viii. 96 sqq.;
spirits of ancestors take up their abode in, viii. 123;
of gods, suggested origin of, viii. 173 sq.;
of vermin made as a protection against them, viii. 280 sq.;
stuck with nails, ix. 70 n. 1;
demons conjured into, ix. 171, 172, 173, 203;
colossal, filled with human victims and burnt, xi. 32 sq.
See also Effigies, Idols, Puppets
—— magical, to injure people, i. 55 sqq.;
to procure offspring, i. 70-74;
to win love, i. 77
Imagination, death from, iii. 135 sqq.
Imerina, in Madagascar, taboo on name of crocodile in, iii. 378
Imitation the basis of homoeopathic magic, i. 52
——, magical, of rain, i. 248 sqq.;
of thunder and lightning in rain-making ceremonies, i. 248, 258, 309 sq.;
of clouds in rain-making, i. 249, 256, 262, 275;
of ducks and frogs in rain-making, i. 255;
of rainbow in rain-charm, i. 288;
of spirits by maskers in Borneo, vii. 186
Imitative or homoeopathic magic, i. 52 sqq., iii. 295, vii. 262, viii. 267, 331, 334, ix. 177, 232, 248, 257, 404, x. 329, xi. 231
Immestar in Syria, alleged Jewish mockery of Christ at, ix. 394
Immortality attained by sacrifice, i. 373 n. 1;
belief of savages in their natural, iv. 1;
firm belief of the North American Indians in, iv. 137;
Egyptian hope of, centred in Osiris, vi. 15 sq., 90 sq., 114, 159;
hope of, associated with Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 90 sq.;
human, in relation to the immortality of animals, viii. 260 sqq.;
how men lost the boon of, ix. 302 sqq.;
the burdensome gift of, x. 99 sq.
Immortality of animals, savage faith in the, viii. 260 sqq.
—— of the soul revealed in mysteries of Dionysus, vii. 15;
attempted experimental demonstration of the, xi. 276
Immortelles, wreaths of, on Midsummer Day, x. 177
Immutability of natural laws, i. 224
Impalement inflicted by the Assyrians, iv. 114 n. 1;
as form of sacrifice, vii. 239
Impatiens sp., touch-me-not, bundle of, representative of the Indian goddess Gauri, ii. 77
Impersonal forces, idea of the world as a system of, not primitive, i. 374
Implements, magical, not allowed to touch the ground, x. 14 sq.
Impotence caused by magic of the dead, i. 150;
homoeopathic cure of, i. 158 sq.
Impregnation by the souls of the dying iv. 199;
without sexual intercourse belief in, v. 96 sqq.
—— of Isis by the dead Osiris, vi. 8, 20
“—— rite” at Hindoo marriages, x. 75
—— of women by fire, ii. 195 sqq., 230 sqq., 234, vi. 235;
by serpents, v. 80 sqq.;
by the dead, v. 91;
by ghosts, v. 93, ix. 18;
by the flower of the banana, v. 93;
through eating food, v. 96, 102, 103, 104, 105;
by the sun, x. 74 sq.;
by the moon, x. 75 sq.
See also Conception
Impressions effaced from superstitious motives, i. 213 sq.;
on the senses regarded by savages as the work of spirits, ix. 72
——, bodily, contagious magic of, i. 213 sq.
Impurity of manslayers, iii. 167.
See Uncleanness
Inachi, an offering of first-fruits, in Tonga, viii. 128, 131
Inanimate things, homoeopathic magic of, i. 157 sqq.;
transference of evil to, ix. 1 sqq.
Inao, sacred whittled sticks of the Aino, viii. 185, 186 n., 189, ix. 261
Inari, Japanese rice-god, vii. 297
Inauguration of a king in ancient India, ix. 263;
in Brahmanic ritual, x. 4
Inca, fast of the future, x. 19
Incantation recited at kindling need-fire, x. 290
Incantations for growth of crops, vii. 100;
employed in arts and crafts, ix. 81.
See Spells
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Incarnate human gods, i. 373 sqq., ii. 377 sqq.
Incarnation of gods in human form temporary or permanent, i. 376;
examples of temporary incarnation, i. 376 sqq.;
examples of permanent incarnation, i. 386 sqq.;
mystery of, i. 396 n. 5;
of divine spirit in Shilluk kings, iv. 21, 26 sq.
Incarnations of Buddha in the Grand Lamas, i. 410 sq.
Incas of Peru, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 196;
claim kindred with the sun, i. 313 n. 3;
the children of the Sun, i. 415, ii. 243, iii. 279;
venerated the Pleiades, vii. 310;
their annual expulsion of evils, ix. 128 sqq.;
their ceremony of the new fire, x. 132
Incense, fumes of, inhaled to produce inspiration, i. 379, 384;
offered to sacred oak, ii. 16;
fumigation with, a protection against witchcraft, ii. 336;
used in exorcism, iii. 102;
burnt at the rites of Adonis, v. 228;
burnt in honour of the Queen of Heaven, v. 228;
collected by a flail, vi. 109 n. 1;
burnt as a protection against witches, ix. 158, 159
Incense-gatherers, chastity of, ii. 106 sq.
—— -tree thought to be protected by a spirit, ii. 112
Incest, blighting effects attributed to, ii. 108, 110 sq., 113, 115 sqq.;
expiation for, ii. 110 sq., 115, 116, 129;
punished with death, ii. 110 sq.;
of domestic animals abhorred by the Basoga, ii. 112 sq.;
of animals employed as a rain-charm, ii. 113;
with a daughter in royal families, reported cases of, v. 43 sq.
Incisions made in bodies of warriors as a preparation for war, iii. 161;
in bodies of manslayers, iii. 174, 176, 180;
in bodies of slain, iii. 176.
See also Cuts, Scarification
Inconsistency of common thought, v. 4
—— and vagueness of primitive thought, xi. 301 sq.
Incontinence of young people supposed to be fatal to the king, iii. 6
Increase of the moon the time for increasing money, vi. 148 sq.
Indecencies in the Eleusinian mysteries, the Festival of the Threshing-floor, and the Thesmophoria, vii. 62 sq.
Indem tribe, on the Cross River, believe that the souls of the dead pass into trees, ii. 32
“Index of Superstitions,” x. 270
India, use of magical images in modern, i. 64 sq.;
treatment of the placenta in, i. 194;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 209;
ascendency of sorcerers over gods in modern, i. 225;
rain-charm in, i. 282;
rain charms by means of frogs in, i. 293 sqq.;
whirlwinds regarded as bhuts in, i. 331 n. 2;
incarnate human gods in, i. 376, 402 sqq.;
human gods of humble origin in, i. 376;
marriages of trees and shrubs in, ii. 25 sq.;
marriage of human beings to trees in, ii. 57;
unlucky marriages in, ii. 57 n. 4;
certain wells thought to cure sterility of women in, ii. 160;
gold and silver as totems in, iii. 227 n.;
iron as an amulet in, iii. 235 sq.;
rings as amulets in, iii. 315;
names of animals tabooed in, iii. 401 sqq.;
belief and custom as to meteors in, iv. 63;
natives of, comparatively indifferent to death, iv. 136;
sacrifice of first-born children in, iv. 180 sq.;
images of Siva and Pârvati married in, iv. 265 sq.;
hook-swinging in, iv. 278 sq.;
swinging as a religious or magical rite in, iv. 278 sqq.;
sacred women (dancing-girls) in, v. 61 sqq.;
impregnation of women by stone serpents in, v. 81 sq.;
burial of infants in, v. 93 sq.;
gardens of Adonis in, v. 239 sqq.;
eunuchs dedicated to a goddess in, v. 271 n.;
drinking moonlight as a medicine in, vi. 142;
the last sheaf of corn at harvest in, vii. 222, 234 n. 2;
human sacrifices for the crops in, vii. 243 sqq.;
ceremonies at eating the new rice in, viii. 55 sq.;
offerings of first-fruits in, viii. 116 sqq.;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
fear of demons in, ix. 89 sqq.;
the use of animals as scapegoats in, ix. 190 sqq.;
epidemics sent away in toy chariots in, ix. 193 sq.;
origin of the drama in, ix. 384 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 68 sqq.;
fire-festivals in, xi. 1 sqq.;
sixty years' cycle in, xi. 77 n. 1;
torture of suspected witches in, xi. 159;
Loranthus in, xi. 317
India, ancient, ceremony performed by persons supposed to have been dead in, i. 75;
the magical nature of ritual in, i. 228;
rain-charms in, i. 289, 290;
fighting the wind in, i. 328;
magical power of kings in, i. 366;
maxim not to look at one's reflection in water in, iii. 94;
magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 129;
sacrificial victims strangled in, iii. 247;
new king not allowed to shave his hair for a year in, iii. 260;
mourners cut their hair and nails in, iii. 285;
knots loosed at childbirth in, iii. 294;
doctrine of the transmigration of human [pg 317] souls into animals in, viii. 298 sq.;
king beaten at his inauguration in, ix. 263;
the Twelve Days in, ix. 324 sq.;
the horse-sacrifice in, xi. 80 n. 3;
traditional cure of skin disease in, xi. 192
India, the Central Provinces of, sacred trees in, ii. 43;
belief as to man's shadow in the, iii. 82 sq.;
peacock worshipped among the Bhils of, viii. 29;
transference of sickness among the Korkus of, ix. 7;
expulsion of disease in the, ix. 190
——, the North-Western Provinces of, belief as to shadow of goat-sucker in, iii. 82;
harvest custom in, vii. 222 sq.;
arrest and imprisonment of deities in, ix. 61;
the tug-of-war in, ix. 181
——, Northern, coco-nuts sacred in, ii. 51;
the emblica officinalis sacred in, ii. 51;
eyes of owl eaten in, viii. 144 sq.;
Dravidian tribes of, ix. 259
——, South-Eastern, the Lhoosai of, ii. 48, vii. 122
——, Southern, the Kapu of, i. 284 n.;
the Malas of, i. 294, viii. 93;
inspired devil-dancers in, i. 382;
the Kuruvikkarans of, i. 382;
the Vellalas of, ii. 57 n. 4;
the Todas of, iii. 15, 271;
the Adivi or forest Gollas of, iii. 149;
the Maravars of, iii. 234;
names of relations tabooed in, iii. 338;
the Canarese of, iii. 402;
kings formerly killed after a twelve years' reign in, iv. 46 sqq.;
law of retaliation among a robber caste of, iv. 141 sq.;
the Malayans of, iv. 216;
sacrifice of finger-joints in, iv. 219;
the Coorgs of, viii. 55
——, Upper, transference of smallpox in, ix. 6
——, Vedic, consecration of the sacrificer of soma in, iii. 159 n.
Indian Archipelago, division of agricultural work between men and women in the, vii. 124;
head-hunting in the, vii. 256;
kinship of men with crocodiles in the, viii. 212;
expulsion of diseases in the, ix. 199;
birth-custom in the, xi. 155
—— ceremonies analogous to the rites of Adonis, v. 227
—— legend parallel to Balder myth, xi. 280
—— prophet, his objections to agriculture, v. 88 sq.
—— rain-charm by means of an otter, i. 289
—— ritual, ancient, at felling a tree, ii. 20
—— stories of the transference of human souls, iii. 49
—— tribes of North-Western America, their masked dances, ix. 375 sqq.
Indians of Arizona, mock human sacrifice among the, iv. 215
—— of Brazil, their attention to the moon more than to the sun, vi. 138 n.
See also Brazil
—— of British Columbia, their cannibal orgies, vii. 18 sq.
See also Columbia, British
—— of California, their annual festivals of the dead, vi. 52 sq.
See also California and Californian Indians
—— of Canada, their ceremony of mitigating the cold of winter, iv. 259 sq.
—— of Costa Rica, their customs in fasts, x. 20
—— of Granada seclude their future rulers, x. 19
—— of North America, their customs on the war-path, iii. 158 sqq.;
their fear of naming the dead, iii. 351 sqq.;
effeminate sorcerers among the, vi. 254, 255 sq.;
not allowed to sit on bare ground in war, x. 5;
seclusion of girls among the, x. 41 sqq.;
imitate lightning by torches, x. 340 n. 1;
rites of initiation into religious associations among the, xi. 267 sqq.
See also North American Indians
—— of San Juan Capistrano, vii. 125;
their ceremony at the new moon, vi. 142;
sacrifice the great buzzard, viii. 169 sqq.;
their ordeal by stings of ants, x. 64
—— of South America, women's agricultural work among the, vii. 119 sqq.;
mutual scourgings among the, ix. 262.
See also South American Indians
—— of tropical America represent the rain-god weeping, vi. 33 n. 3
—— of the Ucayali River in Peru, their greeting to the new moon, vi. 142.
See also America and American Indians
Indifference to death displayed by many races, iv. 136 sqq.
—— to paternity of kings under female kinship, ii. 274 sqq.
Indo-China, conventional names for common objects on certain occasions in, iii. 404, 404 n. 3;
the Thay of, viii. 121;
worship of spirits in, ix. 97 sq.
Indonesian ideas of rice-soul, vii. 181 sq.;
treatment of the growing rice as a breeding woman, vii. 183 sq.
Indra, great Indian god, viii. 120;
thunderbolt of, i. 269;
figure of, painted in ceremony for stopping rain, i. 296;
father of Gandharva-Sena, iv. 124;
sacrificial cake of first-fruits offered to, viii. 120;
creation of, ix. 410
—— and Apala, in the Rigveda, xi. 192
—— and the demon Namuci, Indian legend of, xi. 280
—— and the dragon Vrtra, iv. 106 sq.
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Indrapoera, the rajah of, related to crocodiles, viii. 211
Indrapoora, story of the daughter of a merchant of, xi. 147
Industrial evolution from uniformity to diversity of function, i. 421
—— progress essential to intellectual progress, i. 218
Inersdorf, in Upper Bavaria, the Goat at threshing at, vii. 287
Infant, children whipt at death of an, ix. 261 sq.
Infant sons of kings placed by goddesses on fire, v. 180.
See also Infants, Child, and Children
Infanticide among the Australian aborigines, iv. 187 n. 6;
sometimes suggested by a doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of human souls, iv. 188 sq.;
prevalent in Polynesia, iv. 191, 196;
among savages, iv. 196 sq.
Infants, burial of, so as to ensure their rebirth, i. 103 sqq., iv. 199, v. 91, 93 sqq.;
at Gezer, v. 108 sq.;
burial of murdered, in the room where they were born, ix. 45
—— exposed to the attacks of demons, iii. 235, 323
—— tabooed, iii. 255, x. 5, 20
Infection, supposed dangerous, of lying-in women, iii. 147 sqq., 150 sqq.
—— of death, i. 143
—— of feminine weakness, iii. 202 sq.;
dreaded by savages, iii. 164 sq.
Infectiousness of personal acts or states on principles of homoeopathic magic, i. 142 sq., 147
Infertility, evil spirits of, ix. 250
Infidelity of wife thought to injure absent husband, i. 123, 124 sq., 128, 131, iii. 197
Influence of the sexes on vegetation, ii. 97 sqq.;
of great men on the popular imagination, vi. 199;
of mother-kin on religion, vi. 202 sqq.
Influenza expelled by scapegoat, ix. 191, 193
Ingarda tribe of West Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, v. 104
Ingiald, son of King Aunund, ate wolf's heart, viii. 146
Ingleborough in Yorkshire, underground streams near, v. 152;
the need-fire near, x. 288
Ingleton in Yorkshire, need-fire at, x. 288
Ingniet or Ingiet, a secret society of New Britain, xi. 156
Inhaling smoke as means of inspiration, i. 383
Inheritance of property under mother-kin, rules of, vi. 203 n. 1
Inishmurray, perpetual fire in the monastery of, ii. 241 sq.
Initiation, teeth knocked out at, in Australia, i. 176;
custom of covering the mouth after, iii. 122;
taboos observed by novices at, iii. 141 sq., 156 sq.;
new names given at, iii. 320, 383;
in the Eleusinian mysteries associated with the hope of immortality, vii. 90 sq.;
by spirits, ix. 375;
at puberty, pretence of killing the novice and bringing him to life again during, xi. 225 sqq.;
of young men, bull-roarers sounded at the, xi. 227 sqq., 233 sqq.
See also Initiatory Ceremonies
—— in Africa, xi. 251 sqq.
—— in Australia, xi. 227, 233 sq.;
of a medicine-man in Australia, xi. 237 sqq.
—— in Ceram, xi. 249 sqq.
—— in Fiji, xi. 243 sqq.;
apparently intended to introduce the novices to the worshipful spirits of the dead, xi. 246
—— in German New Guinea, xi. 193
—— in Halmahera, xi. 248
—— in New Britain, xi. 246 sq.
—— in New Guinea, xi. 239 sqq.
—— in North America, xi. 266 sqq.
—— in Rook, xi. 246
Initiatory ceremonies of Central Australian aborigines, i. 92 sqq.;
of the Australian aborigines perhaps intended to ensure reincarnation after death, i. 101, 106
—— rite, gashes cut in back of novice, vii. 106
Injibandi tribe of West Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, v. 105
Injury to a man's shadow conceived as an injury to the man, iii. 78 sqq.
Inn, the lower valley of the river, the “Grass-ringers” in, ix. 247;
effigies burnt at Midsummer in, x. 172 sq.
Innerste river of Central Germany, x. 124
Inning Goose, name for the harvest-supper, vii. 277 n. 3
Innocents, Bishop of, in France, ix. 334;
Festival of the, ix. 336 sqq.
Innocents' Day, young people beat each other on, ix. 270, 271;
mock pope or bishop on, ix. 336, 337, 338
Innovations, the savage distrust of, iii. 230 sqq.
Innuits (Esquimaux), their belief as to venison and walrus, x. 13 sq.
See Esquimaux
Ino and Melicertes, iv. 161, 162
Inoculation as a mode of exorcizing demons and ghosts, iii. 106 sq.;
with moral and other virtues, viii. 158 sqq.
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Inquisition, the, i. 407;
commits the Brethren of the Free Spirit to the flames, i. 408 sq.
Insanity, supposed cause of, iii. 83;
burying in an ant-hill as a cure for, x. 64
Inscription, in Etruscan letters, ii. 186;
in Phoenician and Greek, at Malta, v. 16;
bilingual, in Hittite and cuneiform, on a seal, v. 145 n. 2
——, Greek, in sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura, iii. 227 n., 314 n. 3;
of Aurelia Aemilia at Tralles, v. 38;
at Paphos relating to Paphian Aphrodite, v. 43 n. 1;
relating to Olbian Zeus, v. 159;
relating to Megarsian Athena, v. 169 n. 3;
relating to first-fruits at Eleusis, vii. 55 sq.;
great Eleusinian, of 329 b.c., vii. 61 n. 4;
relating to worship of Zeus at Magnesia, viii. 7
——, the Moabite stone, v. 15 n. 3, 20 n. 2, 163 n. 3
—— of Nebuchadnezzar, ix. 357 n. 3
——, Palmyrene, v. 162 n. 2
——, Phoenician, of King Yehaw-melech, v. 14;
of King Panammu, v. 16 n. 1;
of King Uri-milk or Adon-milk, v. 17 n. 1
——, the Rosetta stone, vi. 27, 151 n. 3
Inscriptions, Arabic, found in Sheba, iii. 125 n.
——, Assyrian, relating to King Shamash-shumukin, v. 174 n. 1;
relating to Queen Shammuramat, v. 177 n. 1, ix. 370 n. 1
——, Attic (Athenian), relating to the Eleusinian games, vii. 71 n. 5, 79 n. 2
——, Egyptian, treaty with Hittites, v. 136;
Pyramid Texts, vi. 4
——, Elamite, ix. 367
——, Greek, relating to Zeus at Panamara in Caria, i. 29;
relating to kings of Mytilene, i. 45 n. 4;
relating to kings of Paphos, v. 42 n. 5;
at Olba with names of Teucer, v. 144 n. 3, 151;
relating to Corycian Zeus, v. 155;
relating to Kanyteldeis, v. 158;
relating to Hieropolis-Castabala, v. 168 n. 1;
at Mantinea, relating to Demeter and Persephone, vii. 46 n. 2;
relating to festivals at Eleusis, vii. 51 n. 1, 52, 61, 63 n. 2, 72 n.
——, Hittite, v. 134, 135 n., 136, 185 n. 3
——, Latin, at Nemi and Aricia, i. 4 n., 19 n. 2;
relating to Flamens, i. 20 n. 3;
relating to Kings of the Sacred Rites, i. 44 n. 1;
relating to fictores Vestalium and fictores Pontificum, i. 204;
relating to Dianus, i. 381 n. 1;
relating to Jupiter Dolichenus, v. 136 n. 2;
relating to Dendrophori, v. 266 n. 2;
relating to the taurobolium or tauropolium, v. 275 sq., 275 n. 1;
relating to the paternity of Jupiter, vi. 234
Insects, spirits of the dead thought to lodge in, i. 105, v. 95 sq., vi. 162, viii. 290;
homoeopathic magic of, i. 152;
charms to protect the fields against, viii. 275 sq., 279 sq., 281;
transmigration of sinners into, viii. 299
Insensibility to pain as a sign of inspiration, v. 169 sq.
Inspiration, i. 376 sqq.;
shiverings and shakings as signs of, i. 377;
produced by intoxication, i. 378;
by incense, i. 379;
by blood, i. 381 sqq.;
by sacred plant or tree, i. 383 sqq.;
by smoke, i. 383 sq.;
by snuffing up the savour of sacrifice, i. 383 n. 3;
of victims, i. 384 sqq.;
primitive theory of, iii. 248;
insensibility to pain as sign of, v. 169 sq.;
savage theory of, v. 299
——, prophetic, through the spirits of dead kings and chiefs, iv. 201, vi. 171, 172, 192 sq.;
under the influence of music, v. 52 sq., 54 sq., 74
Inspired or religious type of man-god, i. 244
—— men, in China, ix. 117;
walk through fire unharmed, xi. 5 sq.
—— men and women in the Pelew Islands, vi. 207 sq.
—— priests and priestesses, i. 377 sqq.
Insulation of women at menstruation, x. 97
Intellectual progress dependent on economic progress, i. 218
Intercalary month in the Celtic calendar of Gaul, ix. 342 sqq.
—— periods, customs and superstitions attaching to, ix. 328 sq.;
deemed unlucky, ix. 339 sqq.
—— periods of five days, ix. 339 sqq., 407 n. 1
Intercalation introduced to correct the vague Egyptian year, vi. 26, 27, 28, ix. 340 sq.;
in the ancient Mexican calendar, vi. 28 n. 3, ix. 339 sq.;
in Greek calendar, vii. 81, 83;
rudimentary, to equate lunar and solar years, ix. 325 sqq.
Intercourse of the sexes practised to make the crops and fruits grow, ii. 98 sqq.;
with wives enjoined before war, iii. 164 n. 1;
enjoined on manslayers, iii. 176;
between husbands and wives enjoined on various occasions among Bantu tribes, viii. 70 n. 1
See also Continence
Interlunar day, celebration of Sacred Marriages on the, iv. 73
Interpretation of the fire-festivals, x. 328 sqq., xi. 15 sqq.
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Interregnum on intercalary days, ix. 328 sq.
Interrex, ii. 296
Intervals of time, Greek and Latin modes of reckoning, iv. 59 n. 1
Intichiuma, magical totemic ceremonies in Central Australia, i. 85, viii. 165 n. 2
Intoxicating liquors drunk to produce inspiration, i. 378
Intoxication accounted inspiration, iii. 248, 249, 250
Inua, a person's shade, among the Esquimaux, iii. 96
Inuas, manlike shades or spirits of animals, among the Esquimaux, ix. 380, 381
Inuit. See Esquimaux
Inuus, epithet applied to Faunus, vi. 234 n. 3
Inverness, the corp chre in, i. 69
Inverness-shire, the harvest Maiden in, vii. 162;
Beltane cakes in, x. 153
Inversion of social ranks at the Saturnalia and kindred festivals, ix. 308, 337, 339, 350, 407
Invisibility acquired by magical ointment made out of a mouldering corpse, viii. 163 sq.
Invisible, charm to make an army, vi. 251
Invocation of the dead, iii. 172
Invocavit Sunday, “Sawing the Old Woman” on, iv. 243
Invulnerability, charm to produce, i. 146 sq.;
acquired by inoculation, viii. 160;
conferred by a species of mistletoe, xi. 79 sq.;
conferred by decoction of a parasitic orchid, xi. 81;
of Balder, xi. 94;
attained through blood-brotherhood with animal, xi. 201;
thought to be attained through initiation, xi. 275 sq., 276 n. 1
Invulnerable warlock or giant, stories of the, xi. 97 sqq.
Inzia River, in Africa, vii. 119
Iolaus, friend of Hercules, v. 111
Iolcus, Jason at, iii. 311
Iona, St. Columba's tomb in, i. 160
Ionian women, would not name their husbands, iii. 337
Iowa Indians, their respect for rattlesnakes, viii. 217 sq.
Iphiclus and Melampus, i. 158
Iphinoe, libations and offerings of hair on tomb of the maiden, i. 28
Ipswich witches, x. 304 sq.
Irac, province of, report of death of King of the Jinn in, iv. 8
Iraca, or Sogamozo, the pontiff of, i. 416
Iran, marriage custom in, x. 75
Iranian year, the old, vi. 67
Iranians, the old, their annual festival of the dead (Fravashis), vi. 67 sq.
Irawadi River, royal criminals sunk in the, iii. 242
Irayas of Luzon offer first-fruits to the souls of their ancestors, viii. 124
Ireland, “burying the sheaf” in, i. 69;
woman burnt as a witch in, i. 236, x. 323 sq.;
hoops wreathed with rowan and marigolds carried on May Day in, ii. 63;
the May Queen in, ii. 87;
perpetual fires in, ii. 240 sqq.;
oaks and yews in the peat-bogs of, ii. 351;
Druidism and Christianity in, ii. 363;
cut hair preserved against the day of judgment by old women in, iii. 280 sq.;
divination by knotted threads in, iii. 304 n. 5;
the old kings of, might not have any personal blemish, iv. 39;
sacred oaks in, v. 37 n. 2;
cutting the last corn (the churn) at harvest in, vii. 154 sq.;
hunting the wren in, viii. 319 sq.;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
candles on Twelfth Night in, ix. 321 sq.;
the Druid's Glass in, x. 16;
new fire at Hallowe'en in, x. 139, 225;
Beltane fires in, x. 157 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 201 sqq.;
fairies at Hallowe'en in, x. 226 sq.;
Hallowe'en customs in, x. 241 sq.;
witches as hares in, x. 315 n. 1;
bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 29;
cure for whooping-cough in, xi. 192 n. 1
——, ancient, the Celts of, ii. 116;
sacred oak groves in, ii. 242 sq., 363;
taboos observed by the kings of, iii. 11 sq.;
the great fairs of, iv. 99 sqq.
Irish belief as to green boughs on May Day, ii. 52
—— crannogs, oak timber in the, ii. 352
—— custom as to a fall, iii. 68;
as to friends' blood, iii. 244 sq.
—— kings, magical virtues attributed to, i. 367
—— legend of the self-sacrifice of monks to stay a plague, iv. 159 n. 1
—— precautions against witches on May Day, ii. 53
—— sacrifice of firstlings, iv. 183
—— story of the external soul, xi. 132
Irle, J., on the sacred sticks representing ancestors of the Herero, ii. 223 n. 2;
on the religion of the Herero, vi. 186 sq.
Iron, homoeopathic magic of, i. 159 sq.;
not to be touched, iii. 167;
tabooed, iii. 176, 225 sqq.;
used as a charm against spirits, iii. 232 sqq., viii. 51;
not allowed to touch Atys, v. 286 n. 5;
not to be used in digging fern root, xi. 65;
mistletoe gathered without the use of, xi. 78;
not to be used in cutting certain plants, xi. 81 n.;
customs observed by the Toradjas at the working of, xi. 154
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—— Age in Denmark, ii. 352
—— axe, use of, forbidden, viii. 248
—— -Beard, Dr., a Whitsuntide mummer, iv. 208, 212, 233
—— instruments, use of, tabooed, iii. 205, 206
—— rings as talismans, iii. 235, 315
—— -wort, bunches of, held in the smoke of the Midsummer fires, x. 179
Ironwood trees, spirits of, propitiated, ii. 40
Iroquois, their belief in the spirits of trees and plants, ii. 12;
their thunder-god, ii. 369 sq.;
names of the dead not mentioned among the, iii. 352;
tell their tales of wonder only in winter, iii. 385;
their myth of the Spirits of Corn, Beans, and Squashes, vii. 177;
their sacrifice of white dogs, viii. 258 n. 1, ix. 127, 209 sq.;
their “festival of dreams,” ix. 127;
their New Year festival, ix. 127, 209 sq.;
their use of scapegoats, ix. 209 sq., 233;
ceremony of the new fire among the, x. 133 sq.;
need-fire among the, x. 299 sq.
Irrigation in ancient Egypt, vi. 31 sq.;
rites of, in Egypt, vi. 33 sqq.;
sacrifices offered in connexion with, vi. 38 sq.
Isa or Parvati, an Indian goddess, wife of Mahadeva, v. 241
Isaac, Abraham's attempted sacrifice of, iv. 177, vi. 219 n. 1
Isaacs, Nathaniel, on custom of putting Zulu kings to death, iv. 36 sq.
Isaiah (vii. 14), on the virgin who shall bear a son, i. 36 n. 2;
(xxx. 33), on the king's pyre in Tophet, v. 177, 178;
possible allusion to gardens of Adonis in (xvii. 10), v. 236 n. 1;
(xxvi. 19), on dew, v. 247 n. 1;
“houses of the soul” in (iii. 20), xi. 155 n. 3
Iser Mountains in Silesia, Walpurgis bonfires to keep off witches in the, ix. 163
Iserlohn in Westphalia, custom of “quickening” cattle on May morning at, ix. 266 sq.
Isfendiyar and Rustem, x. 104 sq., 314
Ishtar, great Babylonian goddess, her love for Tammuz, v. 8 sq.;
her descent into the world of the dead, v. 8 sq., ix. 406;
her title Dodah, v. 20 n. 2;
associated with Sirius, ix. 359 n. 1;
Esther equivalent to, ix. 365;
served by harlots, ix. 372;
at Erech, ix. 398;
her visit to Anu, ix. 399 n. 1;
goddess of fertility in animals, ix. 406 n. 1
See also Astarte
—— (Astarte) and Mylitta, v. 36, 37 n. 1
—— and Gilgamesh, ix. 371 sq., 398 sq.
—— and Semiramis, ix. 369 sqq.
—— and Tammuz, ix. 399, 406
Isilimela, the Pleiades, among the Amazulu, vii. 316
Isis, shrine of, at Nemi, i. 5;
watches over childbirth, ii. 133;
how she discovered the name of Ra, iii. 387 sqq.;
in Sirius, iv. 5, vi. 34 sq., 152;
and the king's son at Byblus, v. 180;
invoked by Egyptian reapers, v. 232, vi. 45, 117;
sister and wife of Osiris, vi. 6 sq., 116;
and the scorpions, vi. 8;
in the form of a hawk, vi. 8, 20;
in the papyrus swamps, vi. 8;
in the form of a swallow, vi. 9;
at Byblus, vi. 9 sq.;
at the well, vi. 9, 111 n. 6;
her search for the body of Osiris, vi. 10, 50, 85;
recovers and buries the body of Osiris, vi. 10 sq., vii. 262;
mourns Osiris, vi. 12;
restores Osiris to life, vi. 13;
date of the festival of, vi. 26 n. 2, 33;
her tears supposed to swell the Nile, vi. 33;
as a cow or a woman with the head of a cow, vi. 50, 85, 88 n. 1, 91;
her priest wears a jackal's mask, vi. 85 n. 3;
decapitated by her son Horus, vi. 88 n. 1;
her temple at Philae, vi. 89, 111;
her many names, vi. 115;
a corn-goddess, vi. 116 sq.;
her discovery of wheat and barley, vi. 116;
identified with Ceres, vi. 117;
identified with Demeter, vi. 117;
as the ideal wife and mother, vi. 117 sq.;
refinement and spiritualization of, vi. 117 sq.;
popularity of her worship in the Roman empire, vi. 118;
her resemblance to the Virgin Mary, vi. 118 sq.;
dirge of, vii. 215;
at Tithorea, festivals of, viii. 18 n. 1;
in relation to cows, viii. 35;
etymology of her name, viii. 35 n. 4;
collects the scattered limbs of Osiris, viii. 264;
the birth of, ix. 341
—— -Hathor, worship of, perhaps derived from reverence of pastoral peoples for their cattle, viii. 35 n. 2
—— and Osiris perhaps personated by human couples, ix. 386
Isistines Indians of Paraguay, mourners refrain from scratching their heads among the, iii. 159 n.
Island, need-fire kindled in an, x. 290 sq., 291 sq.
Islay, the corp chre in, i. 68;
the Old Wife at harvest in, vii. 141 sq.;
the harvest Cailleach in, vii. 166;
cures for toothache in, ix. 62
Isle de France, the May-tree and Father May in, ii. 74 sq.;
harvest customs in, vii. 221, 226;
Midsummer giant burnt in, xi. 38
—— of Man, St. Bridget in the, ii. 94 sq.;
May Day in the, iv. 258;
Queen of May and Queen of Winter in the, [pg 322] iv. 258;
hunting the wren in the, viii. 318 sq.;
Beltane fires in the, x. 157.
See Man, Isle of
Isle of May, St. Mary's well in, ii. 161
—— of St. Mary, inhabitants of, apologize to mother-whale for destroying her offspring, viii. 235
Islip, in Oxfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 62 n. 2
Isocrates on Aeacus, ii. 360 n.;
a competitor for prize of eloquence at Halicarnassus, iv. 95;
on Demeter's gift of the corn, vii. 54 sq.
Isolation of the man-god, iii. 132
Isowa or Aïsawa, a religious order in Morocco, vii. 21.
See Aïsawa
Israelites covet the foreskins of the Philistines, i. 101 n. 2;
their rules of ceremonial purity observed in war, iii. 157 sq., 177;
their custom of burning their children in honour of Baal, iv. 168 sqq.;
their brazen serpent, viii. 281.
See also Jews
Issapoo, in Fernando Po, the cobracapella worshipped at, viii. 174
Issini on the Gold Coast, custom observed by executioners at, iii. 171 sq.
Isthmian games held every two years, vii. 86;
instituted in honour of Melicertes, iv. 93, 103
Istria, the Croats of, xi. 75
Iswara or Mahadeva, an Indian god, v. 241, 242
Italian and Celtic languages akin, ii. 189
—— money, the oldest, i. 23
—— peoples, ancient, their custom of the “sacred spring,” iv. 186
—— women, their disposal of their loose hair, iii. 281
Italians, their myths of kings or heroes begotten by the fire-god, vi. 235;
their cure for fever, ix. 55;
their season for sowing in spring, ix. 346;
the oak the chief sacred tree among the ancient, xi. 89;
their stories of the external soul, xi. 105 sqq.;
their ancient practice of passing conquered enemies under a yoke, xi. 193 sq.
——, the early, a pastoral as well as an agricultural people, ii. 324
Italmens of Kamtchatka, their effigy of a wolf, viii. 173 n. 4
Italones, the, of the Philippine Islands, drink the blood of slain foes to acquire their courage, viii. 152
Italy, change in the flora of, i. 8;
“Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 240 sq.;
seven-legged effigies of Lent in, iv. 244 sq.;
swinging as a festal rite in modern, iv. 283, 284;
hot springs in, v. 213;
divination at Midsummer in, v. 254;
“killing the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 280;
cure of warts in, ix. 48;
birth-trees in, xi. 165;
mistletoe in, xi. 316, 317
Italy, ancient, spinning on highroads forbidden to women in, i. 113, viii. 119 n. 5;
forests of, ii. 8;
tree-worship in, ii. 10;
sacred groves in, ii. 122;
oaks sacred to Jupiter in, ii. 361;
vintage inaugurated by priests in, viii. 133;
colleges of the Salii in, ix. 232;
the Ambarvalia in, ix. 359
Itasy, Lake, in Madagascar, proclamation to crocodiles at, viii. 214
Itch of Hercules, v. 209
Itonamas of South America, their way of detaining the soul in the body, iii. 31
Itongo, an ancestral spirit (Zulu term, singular of Amatongo), iii. 88 n., vi. 184 n. 2, 185, viii. 166, xi. 202 n.
Itzgrund, in Saxe-Coburg, the last sheaf called the Old Woman at, vii. 139
Ivory Coast, the Baoules of the, iii. 70;
human souls in bats on the, viii. 287;
totemism among the Siena of the, xi. 220 n. 2
Ivy chewed by Bacchanals, i. 384;
identified or associated with Dionysus, ii. 251, vii. 4;
used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 251, 252;
prohibition to touch or name, iii. 13 sq.;
sacred to Attis, v. 278;
sacred to Osiris, vi. 112;
to dream on, x. 242
Ivy Girl in Kent, vii. 153
Ixia, a kind of mistletoe, xi. 317, 318
Iyyar, Assyrian month, corresponding to May, ii. 130
Izdubar. See Gilgamesh
Ja-Luo tribes of Kavirondo, spearing a man's shadow among the, iii. 79;
purification of manslayers among the, iii. 177;
eat leopard's flesh to become brave, viii. 142
Jablanica, need-fire at, x. 286
Jabim. See Yabim
Jablonski, P. E., on Osiris as a sun-god, vi. 120
Jabme-Aimo, the abode of the dead, among the Lapps, viii. 257
Jack-in-the-Green, ii. 82, xi. 37
—— o' Lent, iv. 230
—— wood burnt in exorcism, iv. 216
Jackal, transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299
—— -god Up-uat, in ancient Egypt, vi. 154
Jackal's head, Egyptian priest represented wearing a, vii. 260
—— heart not eaten lest it make the eater timid, viii. 141
—— mask worn by priest of Isis, vi. 85 n. 3
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Jackals, tigers called, iii. 402, 403
Jackson, Professor Henry, on the Polemarch at Athens, iii. 22 n. 1;
on the use of swallows as scapegoats in ancient Greece, ix. 35 n. 3
Jacob wrestling with the angel, American Indian parallel to the story of, viii. 264 sqq.
Jacob of Edessa, viii. 280 n.
Jacob, G., on the fire-drill of the ancient Bedouins, ii. 209
Jacobsen, J. Adrian, on the Secret Societies of North-Western America, ix. 377 sqq.
Jaffa, new Easter fire carried to, x. 130 n.
Jaga, title of the king of Cassange, iv. 56, 203
Jagas, a tribe of Angola, their custom of infanticide, iv. 196 sq.
Jaggas of East Africa, their fire customs, ii. 259
Jagor, as to ignorance of the art of making fire, ii. 254 n.
Jaguar imitated by actor or dancer, ix. 381
Jaguars eaten in order to acquire courage, viii. 140;
souls of dead in, viii. 285, 286
Jahn, U., on girding fruit-trees with straw at Christmas, ii. 17 n. 5
Jaintias or Syntengs, a Khasi tribe of Assam, custom of religious suicide among the, iv. 55
Jakkaneri, in the Neilgherry Hills, the fire-walk at, xi. 9
Jakun, the, of the Malay Peninsula, power of medicine-men among the, i. 360;
use a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 405
Jalina piramurana, a headman of the Dieri, i. 336
Jalno, temporary ruler at Lhasa, ix. 218 sqq.
Jamadwitiya Day in Behar, brothers reviled by sisters on, i. 279
Jambi in Sumatra, temporary kings in, iv. 154
Jamblichus on insensibility to pain as sign of inspiration, v. 169;
on the purifying virtue of fire, v. 181
James, M. R., on the charges of ritual murder brought against the Jews, ix. 395 ns. 2 and 3;
on the Sibyl's Wish, x. 100 n.
James and Philip, the Apostles, feast of, x. 158
James II. touches for scrofula, i. 370
Jamieson, John, on the fairies and Trows, ix. 168 n. 1, 169 n. 2;
on the “quarter-ill,” x. 296 n. 1
Jana, another form of Diana, ii. 381, 382, 383.
See Diana
Jangam, priest of the Lingayats, worshipped as a god, i. 404 sq.
Janiculum hill, the, secession of the plebeians to, ii. 186;
and the grove of Helernus, ii. 190 n. 3;
the oak-woods of the, ii. 382;
Janus as a king resident on, ii. 382
Jankari, a god, human sacrifices for the crops offered to, vii. 244
Janua, derived from Janus, ii. 384
January, the 6th of, reckoned in the East the Nativity of Christ, v. 304, x. 246;
the Holi festival in, xi. 1;
the fire-walk in, xi. 8
Janus, two-faced images like those of, set up by mothers of still-born twins, i. 269 n. 1;
a god of the sky, ii. 381 sq.;
called Junonian, ii. 382;
as a god of doors, ii. 383 sq.;
explanation of the two-headed, ii. 384 sq.;
double-headed images of, with stick and key, ii. 385;
in Roman mythology, vi. 235 n. 6
—— and Carna, ii. 190
—— (Dianus) and Diana, doubles of Jupiter and Juno, ii. 190 sq., 381 sq.
—— and Jupiter, xi. 302 n. 2
Janus-like deity on coins, v. 165
Japan, contagious magic of footprints in, i. 208 sq.;
black dog sacrificed for rain in the mountains of, i. 291 sq.;
rain-making by means of a stone in, i. 305;
the Mikado of, i. 417, iii. 2 sqq.;
fruit-trees threatened in, to make them bear fruit, ii. 21;
Kaempfer's history of, iii. 3 n. 2;
Caron's account of, iii. 4 n. 2;
mock human sacrifices in, iv. 218;
annual festival of the dead in, vi. 65;
superstitious practice of robbers in, vii. 235 n. 3;
the fox associated with the rice-god in, vii. 297;
the Ainos of, viii. 52, x. 20, xi. 60;
cure for toothache in, ix. 71;
expulsion of demons in, ix. 118 sq., 143 sq.;
Feast of Lanterns in, ix. 151 sq.;
annual expulsion of evil in, ix. 212 sq.;
ceremony of new fire in, x. 137 sq.;
the fire-walk in, xi. 9 sq.
Japanese, their use of magical images, i. 60, 71;
treatment of the placenta among the, i. 195;
use ropes to keep off demons, ix. 154 n.
Japanese account of the Aino bear-festival, viii. 187 sq.
—— alps, rain-making in the, i. 251
—— deities of the Sun, vii. 212
—— mode of procuring rain by an artificial dragon, i. 297;
by doing violence to deity, i. 297
Japura River in Brazil, viii. 157
Jar, the evils of a whole year shut up in a, ix. 202.
See also Jars
Jaray. See Chréais
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Jargon, artificial, used by searchers for eagle-wood, iii. 404.
See also Language, special
Järischau, in Silesia, athletic sports at harvest at, vii. 76
Jarkino, trees respected in, ii. 18
Jars, winds kept by priest in, iii. 5;
souls conjured into, iii. 70;
burial in, iv. 12 sq., v. 109 n. 1.
See also Jar
Jasmine married to a tamarind in India, ii. 25
Jason and Medea, v. 181 n. 1
—— and Pelias, iii. 311 sq.
Jassnitz, in Moravia, custom of “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 238 sq.
Jastrow, Professor M., on the festival of Tammuz, v. 10 n. 1;
on the character of Tammuz, v. 230 n.;
on the epic of Gilgamesh, ix. 399 n. 1
Jatakas, collection of Buddhist tales, viii. 299 n. 5, ix. 41, 45
Jaundice treated by homoeopathic magic, i. 79 sqq.;
called the royal disease, i. 371 n. 4;
transferred to a tench, ix. 52
Java, magical images in, i. 58;
ceremonies to procure offspring in, i. 73;
belief as to the homoeopathic magic of house timber in, i. 146;
charm to produce sleep in, i. 148;
treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 192;
rain-making in, i. 257 sq.;
ceremonies for preventing rain in, i. 270 sq.;
rain-charm by means of cats in, i. 289;
special forms of speech used in addressing social superiors in, i. 402 n.;
modes of deceiving the spirits of plants in, ii. 23;
sexual intercourse practised to promote the growth of rice in, ii. 98;
ceremony at tapping a palm-tree for wine in, ii. 100 sq.;
custom observed in, when a child is first set on the ground, iii. 34;
rice placed on heads of persons after a great danger in, iii. 35;
remedy for gout or rheumatism in, iii. 106;
the Baduwis of, iii. 115;
superstitions as to the head in, iii. 254;
everything opened in house to facilitate childbirth in, iii. 297;
tabooed words in, iii. 409, 411;
the Sultans of, hereditary custom of suicide practised for their benefit, iv. 53 sq.;
the Tenggeres (Tenggerese) of, iv. 130 n. 1, ix. 184;
conduct of natives in an earthquake, v. 202 n. 1;
Valley of Poison in, v. 203 sq.;
worship of volcanoes in, v. 220 sq.;
use of winnowing-basket as cradle in, vii. 6;
Rice-bride and Rice-bridegroom in, vii. 199 sqq.;
earthworms eaten by dancing girls in, viii. 147;
kinship of men with crocodiles in, viii. 212;
belief in demons in, ix. 86 sq.;
birth-trees in, xi. 161 n. 1
Javanese, their mode of rain-making, i. 248;
shadow-plays as a rain-charm among the, i. 301 n.;
treat rice in bloom like a pregnant woman, ii. 28;
ascribe a soul to rice, vii. 183
Jawbone of ancestor in magical ceremony, i. 312;
the ghost of the dead thought to adhere to the, vi. 167 sq.
—— and navel-string of Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, vi. 197
Jawbones of deer and pigs, magical use of, i. 109;
of executed persons a protective against their ghosts, iii. 171;
of dead kings of Uganda preserved and worshipped, i. 196, iv. 200 sq., vi. 167 sq., 169 sq., 171 sq.;
the ghosts of the kings supposed to attach to their jaw-bones, vi. 169;
of slain beasts propitiated by hunters, viii. 244 sq.
Jaws of corpse tied up to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 31
Jay, blue, as scapegoat, ix. 51
Jâyi or Jawâra, festival in Upper India, v. 242
Jealousy, transferred to ants, ix. 33
Jebel Bela mountain, in the Sudan, wizard in form of hyaena on the, x. 313
—— Hissar, Olba, v. 151
—— -Nuba, district of the Eastern Sudan, a species of birds respected in, viii. 221
Jebu, on the Slave Coast, the king of, not to be seen by anybody, iii. 121
Jehovah, savage taboos disguised as the will of, iii. 219;
in relation to thunder, v. 22 n. 3;
in relation to rain, v. 23 n. 1
Jensen, P., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 137 n. 4;
on Hittite inscription, v. 145 n. 2;
on Syrian god Hadad, v. 163 n. 3;
on etymology of Purim, ix. 362;
his theory of Haman and Vashti as Elamite deities, ix. 366 sq.;
on Anaitis, ix. 369 n. 1;
on the fast of Esther, ix. 398 sq.
Jeoud, the only-begotten son of Cronus, sacrificed by his father, iv. 166
Jepur in India, use of scapegoat at, ix. 191
Jeremiah (vii. 31, xix. 5, xxxii. 35), on the burnt sacrifice of children, iv. 169 n. 3;
(xxix. 26), on the prophet as a madman, v. 77;
(ii. 27), on birth from stocks and stones, v. 107
Jericho, death of Herod at, v. 214;
wild boars at, viii. 32
Jerome, on the Celtic language of the Galatians, ii. 126 n. 2, xi. 89 n. 2;
on Tophet, iv. 170;
on the date of the month Tammuz, v. 10 n. 1;
on the worship of Adonis at Bethlehem, v. 257
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Jerome of Prague, missionary to the heathen Lithuanians, on their worship of trees, ii. 46;
on Lithuanian worship of the sun, i. 317 sq.
Jerusalem, the temple at, built without iron, iii. 230;
the sacrifice of children at, iv. 169, vi. 219;
mourning for Tammuz at, v. 11, 17, 20, ix. 400;
the Canaanite kings of, v. 17;
“sacred men” in the temple at, v. 17;
the returned captives at, v. 23;
the Destroying Angel over, v. 24;
besieged by Sennacherib, v. 25;
religious music at, v. 52;
“great burnings” for the kings at, v. 177 sq.;
the king's pyre at, v. 177 sq.;
Church of the Holy Sepulchre at, Good Friday ceremonies in the, v. 255 n.;
ceremony of the new fire at Easter in, x. 128 sq.
“——, the Road of,” iv. 76
Jesus Christ, crossbills at the crucifixion of, i. 82;
the historical reality of, ix. 412 n. 2
Jetté, J., on the power of medicine-men among the Tinneh Indians, i. 357
Jeugny, the forest of, xi. 316
Jevons, F. B., on burial customs in Ceos, i. 105;
on the opposition between religion and magic, i. 225 n.;
on the Roman genius, xi. 212 n.
Jewish calendar, New Year's Day of the, ix. 359
—— children, their custom as to cast teeth, i. 178
—— converts, form of abjuration used by, ix. 393
—— Day of Atonement, ix. 210
—— festival of Purim, ix. 360 sqq.;
the great deliverance of Jews at the, ix. 398
—— high priest, viii. 27, ix. 210
—— hunters pour out blood of game, iii. 241
—— priests, their rule as to the pollution of death, vi. 230
—— remedy for jaundice, i. 81
Jewitt, J. R., on the father of twins among the Nootkas, i. 264;
on ritual of mimic death among the Nootka Indians, xi. 270
Jews, their attitude to the pig, viii. 23 sq.;
their ablutions, viii. 27;
their use of scapegoats, ix. 210;
accused of ritual murders, ix. 394 sqq.
—— of Egypt, costume of bride and bridegroom among the, vi. 260
——, Polish, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 66
—— of Roumania, mode of facilitating childbirth among the, iii. 298
Jeyt, Indian month, iv. 279
Jharkhandi, an Indian forest god, viii. 119
Jinn, haunt certain trees, ii. 34;
the servants of their magical names, iii. 390;
death of the King of the, iv. 8;
falling stars thought to be, iv. 63;
transferred from human beings to animals, ix. 31;
belief in the, in modern Egypt, ix. 104;
infesting camels, ix. 260
Jinnee of the sea, virgins married to a, ii. 153 sq.
Joannes Lydus, on Phrygian rites at Rome, v. 266 n. 2;
on Mamurius Veturius, ix. 229 n. 1
Job (xxxviii. 13), “the sweet influences of the Pleiades,” vii. 319 n. 1
Job's protest, ii. 114
Jochelson, W., on the whale-festivals of the Koryaks, viii. 232;
on the belief of the Koryaks in demons, ix. 101
Johanniswurzel, the male fern, xi. 66
John Barleycorn, Burns on, v. 230 sq.
Johns, Rev. Dr. C. H. W., on Babylonian votaries, v. 71 ns. 3 and 5;
on the name Zagmuku, ix. 357 n. 2;
on the change of m into w or v in Semitic, ix. 367 n. 2;
on the reading of an Elamite inscription, ix. 367 n. 3
Johnson, Bishop James, on human scapegoats among the Yorubas, ix. 211 sq.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, in the Highlands, i. 368;
touched for scrofula by Queen Anne, i. 370;
on Highland custom of beating a man in a cow's hide, viii. 322
Johnston, Sir H. H., on the diffusion of round huts in Africa, ii. 227 n. 3;
on eunuch priests on the Congo, v. 271 n.
Johnstone, Rev. A., on Hallowe'en fires in Buchan, x. 233
Jokumara, a rain-god in Southern India, his effigy used in a rain-making ceremony, i. 284 n.
Jónee, joanne, jouanne, the Midsummer fire (the fire of St. John), x. 189
Jonendake, Mount, in Japan, rain-making ceremonies on, i. 251
Jordan, H., on the ordeal of battle in ancient Italy, ii. 321
Jordan, banks of the, infested by wild boars, viii. 32
Jordanus, Friar, on voluntary suicide in honour of idols in India, iv. 54
Josephus, on worship of kings of Damascus, v. 15;
on the Tyropoeon, v. 178;
on the Egyptian abstinence from swine's flesh, viii. 24 n. 2
Josiah, King, his religious reform, v. 17 n. 5, 18 n. 3, 25, 107
Jotham, the fable of, ii. 315
Joubert, on religion, quoted, i. 223 n. 2
Journey, conduct of women in absence of men on a, i. 125;
purificatory ceremonies on return from a, iii. 111 sqq.;
continence observed on a, iii. 204;
hair [pg 326] kept unshorn on a, iii. 261;
knots as a charm on a, iii. 306, 310
Journeys, conventional names for common objects on long and perilous journeys, iii. 404 n. 3
Joustra, M., on the fear of evil spirits among the Bataks, ix. 88
Jove (Father) and Mother Vesta, ii. 227 sqq.
See Jupiter
Joyce, P. W., on Irish fairs, iv. 100 n. 1, 101;
on driving cattle through fires, x. 159 n. 2;
on the bisection of the Celtic year, x. 223 n. 2
Jualamukhi in the Himalayas, perpetual fires, v. 192
Jubainville, H. d'Arbois de, on a passage of Maximus Tyrius, ii. 362 n. 6;
on Irish fairs, iv. 101
Judah, idolatrous kings of, their sacrifice of chariots and horses to the sun, i. 315;
kings of, their custom of burning their children, iv. 169;
laments for dead kings of, v. 20;
the purple hills of, v. 215
Judas, effigies of, burnt in Easter fires, x. 121, 127 sq., 130 sq., 143, 146, xi. 23;
driven out of church on Good Friday, x. 146
Judas candle, x. 122 n.
—— fire at Easter, x. 123, 144
Judean landscape, the austerity of the, v. 23;
maid impregnated by serpent, v. 81
Judith, widow of Ethelwulf, ii. 283
Juggernaut, pilgrimage to, iv. 132
Jugra, in Selangor, durian-trees threatened at, ii. 21
Juhar, the Bhotiyas of, ix. 209
Juice of grapes conceived as blood, iii. 248
Jujube, arrows of the thorny, used to shoot at demons, ix. 146
Jujus, fetishes, i. 349
Jukagirs of Siberia, taboos observed by the sisters of hunters among the, i. 122
Jukos, the, of Nigeria, kings of, put to death, iv. 34;
inoculate themselves before hunting elephants, viii. 160
Julbuck, the Yule goat, in Scandinavia, viii. 327
Julian, the Emperor, on the Hercynian forest, ii. 7;
his entrance into Antioch, v. 227, 258;
on the Mother of the Gods, v. 299 n. 3;
restores the standard cubit to the Serapeum, vi. 217 n. 1
Julian calendar introduced by Caesar, vi. 37, 93 n. 1;
used by Mohammedans, x. 218 sq.
—— year, vi. 28
Julii, the, descended from Julus, ii. 179;
rivals of the Silvii, ii. 182;
as Little Jupiters, ii. 192
Julus, the Little Jupiter, ancestor of the Julii, ii. 179
Julus or Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, ii. 197
July, procession of giants at Douay in, xi. 33
—— the 5th, the Flight of the People at Rome on, ii. 319 n. 1
—— the 7th, death of Romulus on, ii. 181;
the festival of the Nonae Caprotinae at Rome, ii. 313 sq., ix. 258;
Lord of Misrule at Bodmin on, ii. 319 n. 1
—— the 25th, St. James's Day, flower of chicory cut on, xi. 71
Jumièges, in Normandy, Brotherhood of the Green Wolf at, x. 185 sq., xi. 25
Jumping over wife or children as a ceremony, iii. 112;
over wife as a ceremony, iii. 164 n. 1, viii. 64, 253, x. 23;
over a bonfire, iv. 262;
over a woman, significance of, viii. 70 n. 1, x. 23.
See also Leaping
Juncus tenuis in homoeopathic magic, i. 144
June, named after Juno, ii. 190, 190 n. 2;
Khasi ceremony of “driving away the plague” in, ix. 173;
Mexican human sacrifice in, ix. 283;
the fire-walk in, xi. 6
—— the 1st, a Roman festival, ii. 190
—— the 9th, Vesta's festival on, ii. 127 n. 2
—— the 15th, St. Vitus's Day, x. 335
—— the 29th, St. Peter's Day, iv. 262
Juneh, magical pool at, where childless couples bathe, ii. 160
Jungle Mother, in Northern India, her shrines consist of piles of stones and branches, ix. 27
Juniper worn by mourners, iii. 143;
burned to keep out ghosts, ix. 154 n.;
used to beat people with, ix. 271;
burnt in need-fire, x. 288;
used to fumigate byres, x. 296
Juniper berries, houses fumigated with, as a protection against witches, ix. 158
Juniperus excelsa, the chili-tree, a kind of cedar, sacred in Gilgit, ii. 49, 50
Juno on the Capitol, ii. 184, 189;
her oak crown, ii. 184, 189;
at Falerii, ii. 190 n. 2;
a duplicate of Diana, ii. 381 sq.;
the Flaminica Dialis sacred to, vi. 230 n. 2;
the wife of Jupiter, vi. 231;
serpent in sacred grove of, at Lanuvium, viii. 18
—— and Diana, xi. 302 n. 2
Juno Caprotina, the milky juice of the wild fig-tree (caprificus) offered to, ii. 313, 317, ix. 258;
on a Roman coin, viii. 18 n. 2
—— Lucina, no knots on garments of women in rites of, iii. 294
—— Moneta, ii. 189
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Junod, Henri A., on twins regarded as children of the sky, i. 268;
on superstitions as to miscarriage in childbirth, iii. 152 sqq.;
on the profundity of savage ritual, iii. 420 n. 1;
on the worship of the dead among the Thonga, vi. 180 sq.;
on woman's part in agriculture among the Baronga, vii. 114 sq.
Juok, the supreme god and creator of the Shilluks, iv. 18, vi. 165
Jupiter, ox sacrificed to, as expiation, ii. 122;
costume of, ii. 174 sq.;
the Roman kings in the character of, ii. 174 sqq., ii. 266 sq.;
oaks sacred to, ii. 175, 176;
as god of the oak, the thunder, the rain, and the sky, ii. 178, 358, 361 sq.;
worshipped on the Capitol, ii. 361;
as sky-god, ii. 374;
a duplicate of Janus (Dianus), ii. 381 sq., xi. 302 n. 2;
the husband of Juno, vi. 231;
the father of Fortuna Primigenia, vi. 234;
(Zeus) said to have transferred the sceptre to the young Dionysus, vii. 13;
lamb sacrificed by Flamen Dialis to, viii. 133;
perhaps personified by the King of the Wood, the priest of Diana at Nemi, xi. 302 sq.
—— the Fruitful One, ii. 362
—— and Juno, doubles of Janus (Dianus) and Diana, ii. 190 sq., 381 sq., xi. 302 n. 2;
sacred marriage of, ii. 190
—— and Juturna, vi. 235 n. 6
——, Latian, on the Alban Mount, ii. 187, 379;
human sacrifices in honour of, ix. 312 n. 1
——, the Little, ii. 179, 192
——, the Rainy, ii. 362 n. 1
—— and Saturn, ii. 323
——, the Serene, ii. 362
——, the Showery, ii. 362 n. 1
Jupiter Capitoline, ii. 176, 187;
robbed by Julius Caesar, i. 4;
custom of annually knocking a nail in temple of, ix. 66, 67 n. 1;
represented by an oak-tree, xi. 89
—— Dianus, ii. 382
—— Dolichenus, v. 136
—— Elicius, ii. 183
—— Indiges, ii. 181
—— Liber, temple of, at Furfo, iii. 230
Jupiter, the planet, period of revolution of, iv. 49, xi. 77 n. 1
Jupiters, probably many local, in Latium, ii. 184
Jura, fire-custom at Lent, in the, x. 114
Jura Mountains, Midsummer bonfires in the, x. 188 sq.;
the Yule log in the, x. 249
Jurby, parish of, in the Isle of Man, x. 305
Justice and Injustice in Aristophanes, v. 209
Justin, on the “sacred spring” among the Gauls, iv. 187 n. 5
Justin II., Emperor of the East, his embassy to the Turks, iii. 102
Justin Martyr on the resemblances of paganism to Christianity, v. 302 n. 4
Jutland, belief as to eating white snake in, viii. 146;
sick children and cattle passed through holes in turf in, xi. 191;
superstitions about a parasitic rowan in, xi. 281
Juturna, a water-nymph, the wife of Janus, ii. 382;
beloved by Jupiter, ii. 382;
in Roman mythology, vi. 235 n. 6
Ka, spiritual double or external soul in ancient Egypt, ii. 134 n. 1, iii. 28, xi. 157 n. 2
Kabadi, a district of British New Guinea, seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 35
Kabenau river, in German New Guinea, ceremony of initiation on the, xi. 193
Kabuis, the, of Assam, their taboos at sowing and reaping, vii. 109 n. 2
—— of Manipur, chastity before sowing among the, ii. 106
Kabyle tale, milk-tie in a, xi. 138 n. 1;
the external soul in a, xi. 139
Kabyles, marriage custom of the, to ensure the birth of a boy, vi. 262;
their cure for jealousy, ix. 33
Kacha Nagas of Assam, parents named after their children among the, iii. 333
Kacharis, the, of Assam, their fear of demons, ix. 93
Kachh, the Rao of, i. 385 n. 1
Kachins of Burma, their custom of making a new fire on taking possession of a new house, ii. 237 sq.;
continence of women at brewing beer among the, iii. 200;
their offerings at sowing and reaping, viii. 121 sq.;
their belief in demons, ix. 96
Kadesh, a Semitic goddess, v. 137 n. 2
Kadiak, island off Alaska, uncleanness of women at childbirth in, iii. 148;
customs as to whalers in, iii. 191 sq.
Kadombookoo, in Celebes, prayers for rain at a chief's grave in, i. 286
Kadouma, near the Victoria Nyanza, drums beat to still a storm at, i. 328
Kaempfer's History of Japan, iii. 3 sq.
Kafa, custom as to eating in, iii. 119 n. 6
Kaffa, in East Africa, divine pope at, i. 410
Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh, dances of their women while men are away fighting, i. 133 sq.;
their test of a sacrificial victim, i. 385;
sacred persons among them defiled by contact with a dog, iii. 13 n. 6
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Kahma, in Burma, annual extinction of fires in, x. 136
Kai of German New Guinea, their belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 96 sq.;
their superstitious practices to procure good crops, vii. 100;
their games played to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 101 sq.;
their stories told to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 102;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
why field labourers among them will not eat pork, viii. 33;
eat the brains of slain foes, viii. 152;
their belief in transmigration, viii. 296;
beat their banana shoots to make them grow, ix. 264;
their seclusion of women at menstruation, x. 79;
their use of a cleft stick as a cure, xi. 182;
their rites of initiation, xi. 239 sqq.
Kaiabara, Australian tribe, avoidance of names of the dead among the, iii. 351
Kaikolans, a Tamil caste, their dedication of girls to temple service, v. 62
Kail, divination by stolen, at Hallowe'en, x. 234 sq.
Kaimani Bay, in Dutch New Guinea, division of labour between the sexes among the natives of, vii. 123
Kaitish tribe of Central Australia, their ceremony to make grass grow, i. 87 sq.;
burial customs of the, i. 102;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 183;
their rain-making, i. 258 sq.;
their continence at ceremonies to make grass grow, ii. 105;
their belief as to the shadow of a hawk, iii. 82;
custom of father after childbirth among the, iii. 295;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 60;
their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 99
Kakian association in Ceram, rites of initiation in the, xi. 249 sqq.
Kalahari desert, the Bushmen of the, ii. 218 n. 1
Kalamantans, the, of Borneo, their descent from a deer, iv. 126 sq.;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 293 sq.
Kalamba, the, a chief in the Congo region, ceremony observed by subject chiefs on visiting, iii. 114
Kalanga Mountain, in Rhodesia, sacrifice at chief's grave on the, viii. 113
Kalat el Hosn, in Syria, shrine of St. George at, resorted to by childless women, ii. 346, v. 78
Kalau, demons, among the Koryaks, ix. 101
Kali, bloodthirsty Indian goddess, inspired priest of, i. 382;
used to devour a king a day, iv. 123
Kalids, kaliths, deities in the Pelew Islands, vi. 204 n. 4, 207, ix. 81 sq.;
sacred animals of the Pelew Islanders, viii. 293 n. 2
Kalingooa, village of Celebes, rain-making at, i. 286
Kalmucks, their consecration of a white ram, viii. 313 sq.;
story of the external soul among the, xi. 142;
See also Calmucks
Kalotaszeg in Hungary, continence at sowing at, ii. 105
Kalunga, the supreme god of the Ovambo, vi. 188
Kalw, saying as to wind in corn near, vii. 292
Kamants, a Jewish tribe in Abyssinia, their custom of killing the dying, iv. 12
Kamenagora in Croatia, Midsummer fires at, x. 178
Kami, the Japanese word for god, iii. 2 n. 2
Kamilaroi, the, of New South Wales, tribute of teeth exacted by, i. 101;
burial custom of the, viii. 99 sq.;
ate livers and hearts of brave men to make themselves brave, viii. 151;
anointed themselves with the fat of the dead, viii. 162 sq.
Kampot, in Cambodia, i. 170
Kamtchatka, the Italmens of, viii. 173 n. 4;
bear-dance of the women of, viii. 195;
the tug-of-war in, ix. 178
Kamtchatkans, their ceremony at an eclipse of the sun, i. 312;
will not mention whales, bears, and wolves by their proper names, iii. 398;
their attempts to deceive mice, iii. 399;
their observation of the Great Bear, Pleiades, and Orion, vii. 315;
offer excuses to bears and other animals which they kill, viii. 222;
their belief in the resurrection of all creatures, viii. 257;
stab the eyes of slain bears, viii. 268 sq.;
their fear of demons, ix. 89;
their purification after a death, xi. 178
Kamui, the Aino equivalent of the Dacotan wakan, viii. 180 n. 2;
Aino name for god, viii. 198
Kanagra, district of India, marriage of images of Siva and Pârvati in, iv. 265 sq.
Kandhs or Khonds. See Khonds
Kangaroo, tooth of, in sympathetic magic, i. 180
Kangaroo fat, men of kangaroo totem anoint themselves with, viii. 165
—— flesh eaten to make eater swift-footed, viii. 145;
eaten sacramentally by men of kangaroo totem, viii. 165
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—— totem in Central Australia, viii. 165
Kangaroos, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 87 sq.;
imitated by dancers, ix. 382
Kangean Archipelago, propitiation of mice to induce them to spare the fields in the, viii. 278 sq.
Kangra district, Punjaub, temporary rajahs in hill states about, iv. 154;
special burials of infants in the, v. 94;
“outcaste” Brahmans in the hill states about, ix. 45
—— mountains in the Punjaub, human sacrifices to cedar-tree in the, ii. 17
Kanhar river, in Mirzapur, ix. 60
Kaniagmuts of Alaska, uncleanness of whalers among the, iii. 207
Kanna district, Northern Nigeria, the Angass of the, xi. 210
Kanodrs, dairy-temple of the Todas at, iii. 16
Kansas Indians, eat dog's flesh to make them brave, viii. 145
Kantavu, a Fijian island, belief as to earthquakes in, v. 201
Kanytelideis, in Cilicia, v. 158
Kappiliyans of Madura, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 69
Kapu women of Southern India, their rain-charm by means of a figure of the rain-god, i. 284 n.;
their rain-charm by means of frogs, i. 294
Kapus or Reddis, in Madras Presidency, i. 294
Kara-Bel, in Lydia, Hittite sculpture at, v. 138 n., 185
—— -Kirghiz, barren women fertilized by apple-trees among the, ii. 57
Karaits, a Jewish sect, cover mirrors after a death, iii. 95;
lock all cupboards at a death, iii. 309
Karamundi nation of Australia, their rain-making, i. 257
Karels of Finland, sacrifice a lamb on St. Olaf's Day, viii. 258 n. 2
Karen-nis of Burma, the, iii. 13.
See Karens
Karens or Karennis of Burma, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209;
their custom of setting up a village pole every April, ii. 69 sq.;
their custom in regard to fornication and adultery, ii. 107 sq.;
rules observed by chiefs and their mothers among the, iii. 13;
their recall of the soul, iii. 43;
their customs at funerals, iii. 51;
wizards among the, capture wandering souls of sleepers, iii. 73;
afraid of passing under a house or a fallen tree, iii. 250;
their belief as to a spirit in the head, iii. 252;
foods tabooed to chiefs among the, iii. 292;
their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1;
their way of fanning away ill-luck from children, vii. 10;
their ceremonies to secure the rice-soul, vii. 189 sq.;
their belief in demons, ix. 96;
their custom at childbirth, xi. 157
Kariera tribe of West Australia, their beliefs as to birth of children, v. 105
Karkantzari, fiends or monsters in Macedonia, ix. 320
Karma-tree, ceremony of the Mundas over a, v. 240
Karnak, in Egypt, Ammon-Ra, the lord of, ii. 132;
sculpture at, vii. 260.
See also Carnac
Karneios, a Peloponnesian god mated with Artemis, i. 36
Karo-Battas (Bataks) of Sumatra, their belief as to the afterbirth, i. 193 sq.;
their rain-making ceremony, i. 277 sq.;
apologize to trees for cutting them down, ii. 19;
their custom at a funeral, iii. 52;
their custom at cutting a child's hair, iii. 263;
names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 339;
their euphemisms for the tiger, iii. 410;
their custom as to the first sheaf of rice at harvest, vi. 239;
their custom as to the largest sheaf at rice-harvest, vii. 196.
See also Battas
Karok Indians of California, avoid the names of the dead, iii. 352;
their lamentations at hewing sacred wood, vi. 47 sq.;
their ceremonies at catching the first salmon of the season, viii. 255
Karpathos, Greek island, custom of swinging in, iv. 284;
transference of sickness to a tree in, ix. 55.
See also Carpathus
Kartik, an Indian month, equivalent to October, i. 294
Karunga, the supreme god of the Herero, vi. 186, 187 n. 1
Karwar, in Western India, hook-swinging at, iv. 278
Kasai district of the Congo Free State, the Ba-Yaka and Ba-Yanzi of the, i. 348
—— River, xi. 264
Kasan Government of Russia, the Wotyaks of the, ix. 156
Kashgar, effigy of ox beaten in spring at, viii. 13
Kashim, assembly-room or dancing-house of the Esquimaux of Bering Strait, viii. 247
Katajalina, an Australian spirit who eats up boys at initiation and restores them to life, xi. 234 sq.
Katikiro, the, of Uganda, iii. 145 n. 4
——, Baganda term for prime minister, vi. 168
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Katodis, their ceremony at felling a tree, ii. 38
Katoemanggoengan, a lawgiver, born again in a crocodile, viii. 211
Katrine, Loch, x. 231
Katsina, a Hausa kingdom, custom of killing infirm kings in, iv. 35
Katzenthal in Baden, charm to make the hemp grow tall in, i. 138
Kaua Indians of North-Western Brazil, their masked dances, vii. 111, ix. 236, 381
Kauffmann, Professor F., on the Balder myth, x. 102 n. 1, 103 n.;
on the external soul, xi. 97 n.
Kaumpuli, the Baganda god of plague, ix. 4
Kaupole, a Midsummer pole in Eastern Prussia, xi. 49
Kausika Sutra, ancient Hindoo book of sorcery, i. 209, 229, ix. 192
Kavirondo, the Bantu tribes of, purification of manslayers among, iii. 176 sq.;
division of agricultural labour between the sexes among, vii. 117 n. 2;
believe that skin disease is caused by eating a totemic animal, viii. 26 sq.
——, the Ja-Luo tribes of, iii. 79
Kawars of India, their cure for fever, xi. 190
Kaya-Kaya or Tugeri of Dutch New Guinea, their use of bull-roarers, xi. 242 sq.
Kayan family not allowed to cut their hair, iii. 260
Kayans or Bahaus of Central Borneo, vii. 107, 109, 111, 234;
beat gongs in a storm, i. 328;
threaten the demons of the storm, i. 330;
ascribe souls to poison-trees, ii. 17;
observe a period of penance after building a house, ii. 40;
sacrifice to the spirits of ironwood trees, ii. 40;
believe that adultery blights the crops, ii. 109;
their expiation for adultery, ii. 109;
threaten the demon of thunder, ii. 183 n. 2;
try to prevent the departure of their souls from their bodies, iii. 32;
their recall of lost souls, iii. 47;
afraid of being photographed, iii. 99 sq.;
their ceremonies at entering a strange land, iii. 110;
their custom of seclusion after a journey, iii. 113;
their belief as to ill-luck of man who touches a loom or women's clothes, iii. 164 sq.;
their custom after killing a panther, iii. 219;
regard smiths as inspired, iii. 237;
remove sharp weapons from room at childbirth, iii. 239;
cut their hair at end of mourning, iii. 286;
use a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 406;
mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 218;
their reasons for taking human heads, v. 294 sq.;
their New Year festival, vii. 93, 96 sq.;
their sowing festival, vii. 93 sqq., 111, 186 sq.;
their ceremonies in connexion with rice, vii. 93 sqq., 186 sqq., viii. 54 sq., 184 sqq.;
their games played at sowing festival, vii. 94 sqq., 187;
their observation of the sun, vii. 314;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 314 n. 4;
their custom as to eating venison, viii. 144;
their belief in transmigration, viii. 293;
throw sticks or stones at evil spirits, ix. 19;
stretch ropes round their houses to keep off demons, ix. 154 n.;
their masked dances, ix. 236, 382 sq.;
their priestesses not allowed to step on the ground at certain rites, x. 4 sq.;
custom observed by them after a funeral, xi. 175 sq.;
their way of giving the slip to a demon, xi. 179 sq.
Kayans of the Mahakam river, vii. 186
—— of the Mendalam river, vii. 97, 98
Keadrol, a Toda clan, vi. 228
Keating, Geoffrey, Irish historian, on the Hallowe'en fire-festival of the Irish Druids, x. 139;
on the Beltane fires, x. 158 sq.
Keating, W. H., on the seclusion of menstruous women among the Potawatomis, x. 89
Keats, John, his sonnet to the Evening Star, i. 166
Keb (Geb or Seb), Egyptian earth-god, father of Osiris, v. 6, 283 n. 3, ix. 341
Kedeshim, sacred men, at Jerusalem, v. 17 sq.;
among the Western Semites, v. 38 n., 59, 72, 107;
in relation to prophets, v. 76
Kedeshoth, sacred women, among the Western Semites, v. 59, 72, 107
Kei Islanders, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of creepers, i. 145;
their charm to ensure trading profits, i. 152;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 186;
dance for wind, i. 321;
their offerings at graves, iii. 53
—— Islands, magical telepathy in the, i. 126;
telepathy in war in the, i. 130;
custom as to children's cast teeth in the, i. 179;
fire maintained during absence of voyagers in the, ii. 265;
offerings of first-fruits in the, vii. 123;
expulsion of demons in the, ix. 112 sq.;
birth-custom in the, xi. 155
—— river, in South Africa, heaps of stones on the banks of the, ix. 11
Keisar, an East Indian island, avoidance of graves at night in, iii. 53
Keitele, Lake, in Finland, first-fruits of [pg 331] harvest offered to an old fir-tree on, xi. 165
Kekchi Indians of Guatemala, their period of abstinence before sowing, ii. 105;
their respect for serpents, viii. 219;
their propitiation of dead deer, viii. 241
Kelah, Karen word for soul, vii. 189 sq.
Kells in Ireland, iv. 99; St. Columba at, ii. 243 n. 1
Kemble, J. M., on need-fire, x. 288
Kemosh, god of Moab, v. 15
Kemping, contest between reapers in Scotland, vii. 152
Kěna daulat, killed by the sanctity (daulat) of a Malay king, i. 398
Kengtung, a Shan state of Upper Burma, worship of a lake-spirit in, ii. 150 sq.;
expulsion of the demons of sickness in, ix. 116 sq.
Kennedy, Prof. A. R. S., on Azazel and the scapegoat, ix. 210 n. 4
Kennett, Professor R. H., on David and Goliath, v. 19 n. 2;
on Elisha in the wilderness, v. 53 n. 1;
on kedeshim, v. 73 n. 1;
on the sacrifice of first-born children at Jerusalem, vi. 219;
on the eating of mice by the Jews, viii. 24 n. 1
Kent, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 168;
the Weald of, ii. 7;
May garlands in, ii. 62;
the Ivy Girl in, vii. 153
Kent's Hole, near Torquay, fossil bones in, v. 153
Kenyahs of Borneo, their use of magical images, i. 59 sq.;
set up images of a god at the doors of houses, ii. 385;
their recall of the soul, iii. 43 sq.;
their ceremony at entering a strange land, iii. 110 sq.;
their tabooed words, iii. 415 sq.
—— of Sarawak, their observation of the sun, vii. 314
Keonjhur, ceremony at installation of Rajah of, iv. 56
Kerak in Palestine, rain-making at, i. 276
Keramin tribe of New South Wales, their rain-making by means of a stone, i. 304
Keremet, a god of the Wotyaks, ceremony to propitiate, ii. 145 sq.
Kerr, Miss, of Port Charlotte, Islay, on the harvest Cailleach, vii. 166
Kerre, a tribe to the south of Abyssinia, accustomed to strangle their first-born children, iv. 181 sq.
Kerry, Midsummer fires in, x. 203
Kers, Robert, healed by witchcraft, ix. 38 sq.
Kersavondblok, the Yule log, in Flanders, x. 249
Kersmismot, the Yule log, at Grammont, x. 249
Ketane, river in Basutoland, mythical snake at waterfall on the, ii. 157
Ketosh warriors of British East Africa, their custom after battle, iii. 176
Kettles used to mimic thunder, i. 310
Kevlaar, Virgin Mary of, i. 77
Key as symbol of delivery in childbed, iii. 296
—— of the field, vii. 226
“Key-race” at a marriage in Bavaria, ii. 304
Keys as charms against devils and ghosts, iii. 234, 235, 236;
as amulets, iii. 308.
See also Locks
——, the golden, used by St. George to open the earth in spring, ii. 333
Keysser, Ch., on belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 96 sq.;
on games and stories as means of promoting the crops among the Kai, vii. 101 sq.
Khai-muh, kingdom to the west of Tonquin, first-born sons said to be devoured in, iv. 180
Khalij, old canal at Cairo, vi. 38
Khambu caste in Sikkhim, their custom after a funeral, xi. 18
Khan, ceremony at visiting a Tartar, iii. 114
——, the Great, his blood not to be spilt on ground, iii. 242
Khandh priest, his charm to bestow offspring on a barren woman, ii. 160
Khangars of the Central Provinces, India, bridegroom and his father dressed as women at a marriage among the, vi. 261
Kharwars of Northern India, will not name certain animals in the morning, iii. 402 sq.;
their use of scapegoats, ix. 192;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 84
Khasis of Assam, their treatment of the placenta, i. 194;
their belief as to the disastrous effects of marrying a woman of the same clan, ii. 114 n. 1;
their system of mother-kin, ii. 294, v. 46, vi. 202 sq.;
succession to the kingdom among the, ii. 294 sq., vi. 210 n. 1;
goddesses predominate over gods in their religion, vi. 203 sq.;
their tribes governed by kings, not queens, vi. 210;
their annual expulsion of demon of plague, ix. 173 sq.;
story of the external soul told by the, x. 146 sq.
Khasiyas, the, of India, their worship of village deities, ii. 288 n. 1
Khatris, a caste in the Punjaub, perform funeral rites for a father in the fifth [pg 332] month of his wife's pregnancy, iv. 189
Khent, early king of the first dynasty in Egypt, vi. 154;
his reign, vi. 19 sq.;
his tomb at Abydos, vi. 19 sqq.;
his tomb identified with that of Osiris, vi. 20, 197
Khenti-Amenti, title of Osiris, vi. 87, 198 n. 2, vii. 260
Khlysti, the, a Russian sect, abhor marriage, iv. 196 n. 3
Khnoumou or Khnumu, Egyptian god, with his potter's wheel, ii. 132, 133;
fashions a wife for Bata, xi. 135
Khoiak, festival of Osiris in the month of, vi. 86 sqq., 108 sq.
Khön-ma, a Tibetan goddess, mistress of foul fiends, viii. 96
Khonds or Khands of India, their sacred groves, ii. 41;
rebirth of ancestors among the, iii. 368 sq.;
their human sacrifices for the crops, iv. 139, vii. 245 sqq., xi. 286 n. 2;
their annual expulsion of demons at seed-time, ix. 138, 234;
their treatment of human victims, ix. 259
Khor-Adar Dinka, the, their custom of strangling their rain-makers, iv. 33
Khyrim State, in Assam, importance of the priestess in, v. 46;
governed by a High Priestess, vi. 203
Kia blacks of Queensland, their treatment of girls at puberty, x. 39
Kia-King, Chinese emperor, his punishment of the rain-dragon, i. 297 sq.
Kiang-si, Chinese province, Dragon and Tiger Mountains in, i. 413 sq.
Kibanga, on the Upper Congo, kings of, put to death, iv. 34
Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, a dead man, vi. 197;
his personal relics preserved at Cambridge, vi. 197
Kic tribe, of the Upper Nile, ventriloquist as chief of the, i. 347
Kickapoo Indians, iii. 171;
their customs before going to war, iii. 163 n. 2
Kid, surname of Dionysus, vii. 17
Kidd, Dudley, on use made of twins by Zulus in war, i. 49 n. 3;
on chiefs as rain-makers in South Africa, i. 350;
on the fire-drill of the Caffres, ii. 210 sq.;
on female ghosts among the Bantu peoples, ii. 224 n. 4;
as to Caffre belief about the shadows of trees, iii. 82;
on Caffre belief as to shadows, iii. 88 n.;
on the worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantus of South Africa, vi. 177 sqq.;
on external souls of chiefs, xi. 156 n. 2
Kidneys tabooed to Malagasy soldiers, i. 117 sq.
Kiel, the corn-spirit as a cat at, vii. 280
Kigelia africana, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210
Kikuyu, the, of British East Africa, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 317.
See Akikuyu
Kilchrennan, on Loch Awe, vii. 165, 166
Kildare, fire and nuns of St. Brigit in, ii. 240 sq.;
the church of, ii. 363;
Midsummer fires in, x. 203
Kilema, in East Africa, strangers doctored before being admitted to see the king at, iii. 114 sq.
Kilimanjaro, the Wajaggas of, i. 250
——, Mount, attempted ascent of, iii. 103
Kilkenny, Midsummer fires in, x. 203
Killer of the Elephant, official who throttles sick kings, iv. 35
“—— of the Rye-woman,” name given to the cutter of the last rye, vii. 223, 224
Killin, in Perthshire, the hill of the fires at, x. 149
Killing the spirit of the wind, i. 328;
the divine king, iv. 8 sqq.;
the corn-spirit, vii. 216 sqq.;
the divine animal, viii. 169 sqq.;
a totem animal, xi. 220;
the novice and bringing him to life again at initiation, pretence of, xi. 225 sqq.
—— a god, ix. 1; in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, iv. 221;
in the form of an animal, vii. 22 sq.;
two types of the custom of, viii. 312 sq.;
in Mexico, ix. 275 sqq.
—— the tree-spirit, iv. 205 sqq.;
a means to promote the growth of vegetation, iv. 211 sq.
Kilmainham, perpetual fire in the monastery of, ii. 241 sq.
Kilmarnock, mode of cutting the last corn near, vii. 279
Kilmartin, in Argyleshire, the harvest Maiden at, vii. 156
Kiln, the fire of a, called by special name, iii. 395
Kimbugwe, minister in charge of the king of Uganda's navel-string, i. 196
Kimbunda, the, of West Africa, their cannibalism at accession of new king, viii. 152
Kincardineshire, Midsummer fires in, x. 206
King, J. E., on infant burial, i. 105 n. 4, v. 91 n. 3
King, torn to pieces by horses, i. 366;
gives oracles, i. 377;
not to be over-shadowed, iii. 83;
his life sympathetically bound up with the prosperity of the country, iv. 21, 27, xi. 1 sq.;
slaying of the, in legend, iv. 120 sqq.;
responsible for the weather and crops, iv. 165;
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abdicates on the birth of a son, iv. 190;
at Whitsuntide, pretence of beheading the, iv. 209 sq.;
a masker at Carnival called the, vi. 99, vii. 28 sq.;
eats of new fruits before his people, viii. 63, 70;
first-fruits presented to the, viii. 109, 116, 122;
so called, at Carcassone, viii. 320 sq.;
mock or temporary, ix. 151, 403 sq.;
beaten at his inauguration in ancient India, ix. 263;
assembly for determining the fate of the, ix. 356;
nominal, chosen at Midsummer, x. 194, xi. 25;
presides at summer bonfire, xi. 38.
See also Kings
King and Queen at Athens, i. 44 sq.;
on Whit-Monday near Königgrätz, ii. 89;
at Whitsuntide in Silesia, ii. 89 sq.
—— and Queen of May, ix. 406;
at Halford, in Warwickshire, ii. 88;
at Grenoble, ii. 90;
marriage of, iv. 266
—— and Queen of Roses at Grammont, x. 195
King, the Grass, at Whitsuntide, ii. 85 sq.
——, the Leaf, on Whit-Monday, ii. 85
——, the Roman, as Jupiter, ii. 174 sqq.
King of the Bean, ix. 313 sqq., x. 153 n. 3;
at Merton College, Oxford, ix. 332
—— of the Calf, vii. 290
—— of Fire in Cambodia, ii. 3 sqq., iii. 17, iv. 14
—— of the harvesters, vii. 294
—— of the Jinn, death of the, iv. 8
—— of the Night at Porto Novo, iii. 23
—— of Rain at Poona in India, i. 275;
on the Upper Nile, ii. 2
—— of Rain and Storm at mouth of the Congo, ii. 2
—— of the Rice in Sumatra, vii. 197
—— of Sacred Rites at Rome, i. 44, ii. 179, 201;
exhorted to be watchful, ii. 265;
the successor of the old Roman king, ii. 266;
nominated by the chief pontiff, ii. 296;
his flight, ii. 309;
of the Sacred Rites in other Latin towns, i. 44, 44 n. 1, ii. 266
—— of the Saturnalia, ii. 311, ix. 308, 311, 312
—— of Summer chosen on St. Peter's Day, x. 195
—— of Tyre, his walk on stones of fire, v. 114 sq.
—— of Uganda, his navel-string preserved and inspected every new moon, vi. 147 sq.
See Baganda and Uganda
—— of Water in Cambodia, ii. 3 sqq., iii. 17, iv. 14
—— of the Wood at Nemi, i. 1 sqq., ii. 1, 378 sqq., iv. 28, 205 sq., 212 sqq.;
put to death, i. 11, x. 2;
a mate of Diana, i. 40, 41, ii. 380;
representative of Virbius, i. 40 sq., ii. 129;
a personification of the oak-god Jupiter, ii. 378 sqq., xi. 302 sq.;
perhaps a successor of the Alban dynasty of the Sylvii, ii. 379;
compared to the Whitsuntide mummers, iv. 212 sqq.;
in the Arician grove a personification of an oak-spirit, xi. 285.
See also Priest of Nemi
King of the Years at Lhasa, ix. 220, 221
King Bees (Essenes) at Ephesus, i. 47 n. 2, ii. 135 sq.
—— Hop in Siam, iv. 149, 151
King George's Sound, influence of medicine-men among the tribes of, i. 336;
namesakes of the dead change their names among the tribes of, iii. 355
King's brothers put to death on his accession, iii. 243
—— College, Cambridge, Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
—— County, Ireland, hurling-matches for brides in, ii. 305 sq.
—— daughter offered as prize in a race, iv. 104
—— disease, palsy called the, i. 371
—— Evil (scrofula), iii. 134;
touching for the, i. 368 sqq.
—— hearth, oath by the, ii. 265
—— jawbone preserved, i. 196, iv. 200 sq., vi. 167 sq., 169 sq., 171 sq.
—— name changed in time of drought, i. 355
—— Race at Whitsuntide, ii. 84
—— skull, priest drinks beer out of, as means of inspiration, in Uganda, iv. 200, viii. 150
—— son, sacrifice of the, iv. 160 sqq., vii. 13, 24 sq.
—— widow, succession to the throne through marriage with, iv. 193
Kingaru, clan of the Wadoe in German East Africa, xi. 313
Kingdom, in ancient Latium, succession to, ii. 266 sqq.;
the prize of a race, ii. 299 sqq., iv. 103;
mortal combat for the, ii. 322.
See also Kingship and Succession
Kinglake, A. W., on the great Servian forest, ii. 237 n. 1
Kings, magicians as, i. 332 sqq.;
expected to give rain, i. 348, 350, 351 sq., 353, 356, 392 sq., 396;
punished for drought and dearth, i. 353 sqq.;
among the Aryans, magical powers attributed to, i. 366 sqq.;
often the lineal successors of magicians or medicine-men, i. 371;
the divinity of, i. 372;
worshipped and consulted as oracles, i. 388;
as gods in India, i. 403;
sacrifices offered to, i. 417;
temples built in honour of, i. 417;
of nature, ii. 1 sqq.;
of rain, ii. 2;
expected to make thunder, ii. 180 sq.;
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perpetual fire in houses of, ii. 261 sq.;
paternity of, a matter of indifference under female kinship, ii. 274 sqq.;
sometimes of a different race from their subjects, ii. 288 sq.;
chosen from several royal families in rotation, ii. 292 sqq.;
fat, ii. 297;
handsomest men, ii. 297;
long-headed, ii. 297;
supernatural powers attributed to, iii. 1;
their lives regulated by exact rules, iii. 1 sqq., 101 sq.;
taboos observed by, iii. 8 sqq.;
beaten before their coronation, iii. 18;
forbidden to see their mothers, iii. 86;
portraits of, not stamped on coins, iii. 98 sq.;
guarded against the magic of strangers, iii. 114 sq.;
forbidden to use foreign goods, iii. 115;
not to be seen eating and drinking, iii. 117 sqq.;
concealed by curtains, iii. 120 sq.;
forbidden to leave their palaces, iii. 122 sqq.;
compelled to dance, iii. 123;
punished or put to death, iii. 124;
not to be touched, iii. 132, 225 sq.;
their hair unshorn, iii. 258 sq.;
foods tabooed to, iii. 291 sq.;
names of, tabooed, iii. 374 sqq.;
taboos observed by, identical with those observed by commoners, iii. 419 sq.;
killed when their strength fails, iv. 14 sqq.;
regarded as incarnations of a divine spirit, iv. 21, 26 sq.;
attacks on, permitted, iv. 22, 48 sqq.;
killed at the end of a fixed term, iv. 46 sqq.;
related to sacred animals, iv. 82, 84 sqq.;
personating dragons or serpents, iv. 82;
addressed by names of animals, iv. 86;
with a dragon or serpent crest, iv. 105;
legends of the custom of slaying, iv. 120 sqq.;
the supply of, iv. 134 sqq.;
abdicate annually, iv. 148;
as lovers of a goddess, v. 49 sq.;
held responsible for the weather and the crops, v. 183;
marry their sisters, v. 316;
slaughter human victims with their own hands, vi. 97 n. 7;
torn in pieces, traditions of, vi. 97 sq.;
human sacrifices to prolong the life of, vi. 220 sq., 223 sqq.;
trace of custom of slaying them annually, vii. 254 sq.;
eat of new fruits before their subjects, viii. 63, 70;
magistrates at Olympia called, ix. 352;
marry the wives and concubines of their predecessors, ix. 368
Kings and chiefs tabooed, iii. 131 sqq.;
their spittle guarded against sorcerers, iii. 289 sq.
—— - and magicians dismembered and their bodies buried in different parts of the country to fertilize it, vi. 101 sq.
—— - and priests, their sanctity analogous to the uncleanness of women at menstruation, x. 97 sq.
——, dead, worshipped in Africa, iv. 24 sq., vi. 160 sqq., 191 sqq.;
turn into lions, leopards, pythons, etc., iv. 84;
reincarnate in lions, v. 83 n. 1, viii. 288;
sacrifices offered to, vi. 162, 166 sq.;
incarnate in animals, vi. 162, 163 sq., 173;
consulted as oracles, vi. 167, 171, 172, 195;
human sacrifices to, vi. 173
——, divinity of Babylonian, i. 417 sq.;
of Egyptian, i. 418 sq.
See also Divinity
——, English, touch for scrofula, i. 368 sqq.
—— fetish or religious, in West Africa, iii. 22 sqq.
——, Hebrew, traces of divinity ascribed to, v. 20 sqq.
——, the Latin, thought to be the sons of the fire-god by mortal mothers, ii. 195 sqq.
See also Latin
——, priestly, i. 44 sqq., v. 42;
of Sheba, iii. 125 n.;
of the Nubas, iii. 132
——, Roman, as deities in a Sacred Marriage, ii. 172 sq., 192, 193 sq.;
costumed like Jupiter, ii. 174 sqq.;
as public rain-makers, ii. 183;
as personifications of Jupiter, ii. 266 sq.;
as personifications of Saturn, ii. 311, 322.
See also Roman
——, sacred or divine, in great historical empires, i. 415 sqq.;
development of, ii. 376 sqq.;
of the Shilluk, iv. 17 sqq.;
Semitic, v. 15 sqq.;
Lydian, v. 182 sqq.;
put to death, x. 1 sq.;
subject to taboos, x. 2
——, Shilluk, divine, iv. 17 sqq.;
put to death before their strength fails, iv. 21 sq., vi. 163
——, temporary, iv. 148 sqq.;
their divine or magical functions, iv. 155 sqq.
——, Teutonic, i. 47
——, the Three, on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 sqq.
Kings of the Barotse worshipped after death, vi. 193 sqq.
—— of Dahomey and Benin represented partly in animal shapes, iv. 85 sq.
—— of Egypt worshipped as gods, v. 52; buried at Abydos, vi. 19;
perhaps formerly slain in the character of Osiris, vi. 97 sq., 102;
as Osiris, vi. 151 sqq.;
renew their life by identifying themselves with the dead and risen Osiris, vi. 153 sq.;
born again at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 156 sq.;
perhaps formerly put to death to prevent their bodily and mental decay, vi. 154 sq., 156
—— of Fire and Water in Cambodia, ii. 3 sqq., iii. 17, iv. 14
—— of France touch for scrofula, i. 370
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—— in Greece, titular or sacred, i. 44 sqq.;
called Zeus, ii. 177, 361
—— of Sweden answerable for the fertility of the ground, i. 366 sq., vi. 220;
sons of Swedish king sacrificed, iv. 160 sq., vi. 220
—— of Uganda, dead, consulted as oracles, i. 196, iv. 200 sq., vi. 171 sq.;
their life bound up with barkcloth trees, xi. 160.
See Baganda and Uganda
Kings, The Epic of, Firdusi's, x. 104
Kings' fire, the, ii. 195 sqq.
—— Race, the, ii. 84
—— sisters, licence accorded to, ii. 274 sqq.
—— wives turned at death into leopards, viii. 288
Kingship, an annual office in some Greek states, i. 46;
evolution of the sacred, i. 420 sq.;
contest for the, at Whitsuntide, ii. 89;
burdens and restrictions attaching to the early, iii. 1 sqq., 17 sqq., iv. 135;
octennial tenure of the, iv. 58 sqq.;
triennial tenure of the, iv. 112 sq.;
annual tenure of the, iv. 113 sqq.;
diurnal tenure of the, iv. 118 sq.;
modern type of, different from the ancient, iv. 135;
under mother-kin, rules as to succession to the, vi. 210 n. 1;
mock, at the Saturnalia, ix. 308
—— in Africa under mother-kin inherited by men, not women, vi. 211
——, descent of the, in the female line, at Rome, ii. 270 sqq.;
in Africa, ii. 274 sqq.;
in Greece, ii. 277 sq.;
in Scandinavia, ii. 279 sq.;
in Lydia, ii. 281 sq.;
among the Danes and Saxons, ii. 282 sq.
——, double, at Sparta, ii. 290;
traces of, at Rome, ii. 290
——, nominal, left by conquerors to indigenous race, ii. 288 sq.
——, Roman, abolition of the, ii. 289 sqq.;
a religious office, ii. 289;
a plebeian institution, v. 45
Kingsley, Miss Mary H., on reincarnation of the dead in Nigeria, i. 411 n. 1;
on fetish kings in West Africa, iii. 22;
on soul-traps in West Africa, iii. 71;
on the confinement of the king of Benin to his palace, iii. 123 n. 2;
on negro notions as to blood, iii. 251;
on custom of killing chief, iv. 119 n. 1;
on secret burial of chief's head, vi. 104;
on West African belief in demons, ix. 74;
on the periodic expulsion of demons at Calabar, ix. 204 n. 1;
on external or bush souls, xi. 204 sq.;
on rites of initiation in West Africa, xi. 259
Kingsmill Islanders, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 64
Kingsmill Islands, first-fruits offered to a god in the, viii. 127 sq.
Kingussie, in Inverness-shire, Beltane cakes at, x. 153
Kinnor, a lyre, v. 52
Kinross, custom of “dumping” at harvest in, vii. 227
Kinship of men with crocodiles, viii. 212 sq., 214 sq.;
of men with tigers, viii. 216;
created by the milk-tie, xi. 138 n. 1
Kintu, the first man in Uganda, ii. 261
Kintyre, the last corn cut called the Old Wife in, vii. 142
Kioga Lake in Central Africa, ix. 246
Kiowa Indians, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 198;
relations of the dead change their names among the, iii. 357;
changes in their language caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 360 sq.
Kirauea, volcano in Hawaii, v. 216 sq.;
divinities of, v. 217;
offerings to, v. 217 sqq.
Kirchmeyer, Thomas, author of Regnum Papisticum, x. 124, 125 n. 1;
his account of Easter customs, x. 124 sq.;
of Midsummer customs, x. 162 sq.
Kirghiz, “Love Chase” among the, ii. 301;
divine by the shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 n. 4;
games in honour of the dead among the, iv. 97;
their story of girl who might not see the sun, x. 74
—— women will not pronounce names of their husbands' older relations, iii. 337
Kiriwina, one of the Trobriand Islands, annual festival of the dead in, v. 56;
snakes as reincarnations of the dead in, v. 84;
presentation of children to the full moon in, vi. 144;
annual expulsion of spirits in, ix. 134
Kirk Andreas, in the Isle of Man, x. 306
Kirkland, Rev. Mr., on Iroquois sacrifice of white dogs, ix. 210
Kirkmichael, in Perthshire, Beltane fires and cakes at, x. 153
Kirn or kern, last corn cut, vii. 151, 152 sqq.;
name of the harvest-supper, vii. 158, 162 n. 3
—— -baby, vii. 151, 153
—— -doll, vii. 151, 153, 154
—— -supper, vii. 154
Kirton Lindsey, in Lincolnshire, witch as cat at, x. 318;
medical use of mistletoe at, xi. 84
Kirwaido, ruler of the old Prussians, iv. 41
Kisavaccha, an Indian ascetic, ix. 41
Kisser, East Indian island, worship of a measuring-tape in, iii. 91 sq.
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Kit-fox skin in rain-making, i. 288
Kitching, Rev. A. L., on the use of bells to exorcize the storm fiend, ix. 246 sq.;
on cure for lightning stroke, xi. 298 n. 2
Kites, artificial, used to drive away the devil, ix. 4;
paper, flown as scapegoats, ix. 203
Kiwai or Kiwaii, an island off New Guinea, vii. 106;
intercourse of men with their wives before going to war in, iii. 164 n. 1;
magic for the growth of sago in, vi. 101;
use of bull-roarers in, vii. 106, xi. 232
Kiziba, district of Central Africa, dead kings worshipped in, vi. 173 sq.;
totemism in, vi. 173;
women's agricultural work in, viii. 118 sq.;
purification for the slaughter of a serpent in, viii. 219 sq.;
theory of the afterbirth in, xi. 162 n. 2
Klallam Indians of Washington State not allowed to bear names of deceased paternal ancestors, iii. 354;
prohibition to name the dead in the, iii. 365
Klamath Indians of Oregon, their theory of the waning moon, vi. 130
—— River, in California, viii. 255
Klausenburg, in Transylvania, cock killed on harvest-field at, vii. 278
Kleintitschen, A., on the fear of demons in New Britain, ix. 82 sq.
Kleptomania, cure for, by means of spiders and crabs, ix. 34
Kling or Klieng, a mythical hero of the Dyaks, ix. 383, 384 n. 1
Kloo, in the Queen Charlotte Islands, restrictions imposed on girls at puberty at, x. 45
Klöppel (mallet), at threshing, vii. 148
Kloxin, near Stettin, the last sheaf called the Old Man at, vii. 220
Knawel, St. John's blood on root of, xi. 56
Knife as charm against spirits, iii. 232, 233, 234, 235;
adapted for religious suicide, iv. 55 n. 1;
divination by, x. 241;
soul of child bound up with, xi. 157.
See also Knives
“——, Darding,” honorific totem of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273, 274 sq.
Knives in homoeopathic magic, i. 158;
thrown at the wind, i. 329;
not to be left edge upwards, iii. 238;
not used at funeral banquets, iii. 238;
of special pattern used in reaping rice, vii. 184;
under the threshold, a protection against witches, ix. 162.
See also Knife
Knocking out of teeth as initiatory ceremony in Australia, i. 97 sqq.
Knot, the Gordian, iii. 316 sq.
Knots, tying up the wind in, i. 326;
prohibition to wear, iii. 13;
untied at childbirth, iii. 294, 296 sq., 297 sq.;
thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, iii. 299 sqq.;
thought to cause sickness, disease, and all kinds of misfortune, iii. 301 sqq.;
used to cure disease, iii. 303 sqq.;
used to win a lover or capture a runaway slave, iii. 305 sq.;
used as protective amulets, iii. 306 sqq.;
used as charms by hunters and travellers, iii. 306;
as a charm to protect corn from devils, iii. 308 sq.;
magical virtue of, iii. 309 sq., 312;
on corpses untied, iii. 310;
in a string as a cure for warts, ix. 48;
tied in branches of trees as remedies, ix. 56 sq.
Knots and locks, magical virtue of, iii. 310, 313
—— and rings tabooed, iii. 293 sqq.
Knotted thread in magic, ix. 48
Knowledge, the disinterested pursuit of, i. 218
Kobeua Indians of North-Western Brazil, their masked dances, vii. 111, ix. 236;
their way of sharpening their sight, viii. 164
Kobi, village in Ceram, first-fruits of rice offered to the dead at, viii. 123
Kobong, totem, in Western Australia, xi. 219 sq.
Koch-Grünberg, Th., on observation of the Pleiades among the Brazilian Indians, vii. 122 n. 1;
on the masked dances of the Indians of North-Western Brazil, ix. 382
Kochs or Kocchs of North-Eastern India, succession to husband's property among the, vi. 215 n. 2;
offer first-fruits to their ancestors, viii. 116
Koepang, in Timor, sacrifice to crocodiles in, ii. 152
Kôhen and Kâhin, soothsayer rather than priest in ancient Arabia, i. 230 n.
Köhler, Joh., lights need-fire and burnt as a witch, x. 270 sq.
Köhler, Reinhold, on the external soul in folk-tales, xi. 97 n.
Kohlerwinkel, near Augsburg, the last standing corn called the Sow at, vii. 298
Kois of Southern India, infant burial among the, v. 95
Koita, the, of British New Guinea, seclusion of manslayers among, iii. 168 sq.
Kolelo, in East Africa, ghost of sorcerer at, xi. 313
Kolem, in German New Guinea, magical powers ascribed to a chief of, i. 338
Kolkodoons of Queensland, their custom at circumcision, i. 93
Kollmann, P., on sultans responsible for rain, i. 353
Kols of North India will not speak of [pg 337] beasts of prey by their proper names, iii. 403
Kolvagat, village in New Britain, magical stone figures supposed to control the plantations at, ii. 148
Komatis of Mysore, their worship of serpents, v. 81 sq.
Kon-Meney in Cochin China, transformation of man into toad at, viii. 291
Kondes, of Lake Nyassa, avoidance of husband's father among the, iii. 336 sq.
Kondhs, their belief in reincarnation, i. 104
Koniags of Alaska, magical telepathy among the, i. 121;
their magical uses of the bodies of the dead, vi. 106
Königgrätz district of Bohemia, King and Queen on Whit-Monday in village of the, ii. 89;
beheading the Whitsuntide king on Whit-Monday in the, iv. 209 sq.
Königshain, in Silesia, custom of “Driving out Death” at, iv. 264 sq.
Konkan, Southern, mode of getting rid of cholera in, ix. 191 sq.
Konkaus of California, their dance of the dead, vi. 53
Konz on the Moselle, custom of rolling a burning wheel down hill at, x. 118, 163 sq., 337 sq.
Kooboos of Sumatra, their theory of the afterbirth and navel-string, xi. 162 n. 2
Koochee, a demon in Australia, i. 331
Kookies of Cachar, in India, marriage custom of the, i. 160 n. 3
Koossa Caffres, customs observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 n. 1
Koppenwal, church of St. Corona at, xi. 188 sq.
Koragia at Mantinea, vii. 46 n. 2
Koran on magical knots, iii. 302;
passages of, used as charms, iii. 305 sq., x. 18.
See also Coran
Kore, Maiden, title of Persephone, vii. 208
Kore expelled on Easter Eve in Albania, iv. 265, ix. 157
Korkus, the, of the Central Provinces, India, transfer sickness by means of a loin-cloth, ix. 7
Korong, human god, in the Pelew Islands, i. 389
Korwas, of Bengal, division of labour between men and women among the, vii. 123;
of Mirzapur, their use of scapegoats, ix. 192
Koryaks, of North-Eastern Asia, sacred fire-boards of the, ii. 225;
race for a bride among the, ii. 302;
their mode of detaining the souls of the dying, iii. 32 sq.;
voluntary deaths among the, iv. 13;
their ceremonies at killing bears, wolves, and foxes, viii. 223;
their ceremonies at the slaughter of whales, viii. 232 sqq.;
propitiate the foxes which they kill, viii. 244;
their belief in demons, ix. 100 sq.;
expulsion of demons among the, ix. 126 sq.;
their festivals of the dead and subsequent purification, xi. 178;
their custom in time of pestilence, xi. 179
Koshchei the Deathless, Russian story of, xi. 108 sqq.
Kosio, a dedicated person among the Ewe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast, v. 65, 66, 68
Koskimo Indians of British Columbia, mourning customs of the, iii. 144;
their cannibal rites, vii. 20 n.;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 229 n.
Kosti, in Thrace, carnival customs at, vi. 99 sq., vii. 23 sq.
Kostroma, funeral of, in Russia, iv. 261 sqq.
Kostroma, district of Russia, the burial of Yarilo in, iv. 262 sq.
Kostrubonko, funeral of, at Easter in Russia, iv. 261
Kot, a mythical being of New Britain, iii. 384
Kota Gadang, in Sumatra, rain-charm at, i. 308 sq.
Kotas, a tribe of Southern India, their priests not allowed to be widowers, vi. 230
Kotchène, a Chukchee chief, sacrificed in time of pestilence, i. 367 n. 1
Kotedougou, in West Africa, annual dances of disguised men at, ix. 136 n. 1
Kothluwalawa, a sacred lake of the Zuni, viii. 179
Kou or Koo, Esthonian thunder-god, ii. 367 n. 4
Koui hunters in Laos, why they hamstring game, viii. 267
Koukoura, in Elis, swinging on St. George's Day at, iv. 283
Kowraregas, the, of the Prince of Wales Islands, avoidance of parents-in-law among, iii. 346;
changes of vocabulary among, caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 358 sq.
Krajina, in Servia, divination on St. George's Day at, ii. 345
Krapf, Dr. J. L., on a reported custom of sacrificing first-born sons in East Africa, iv. 183 n. 1
Krautweihe, the blessing of the herbs, on August 15th in Germany, i. 15 n. 2
Kreemer, J., on the fear of the dead among the Looboos of Sumatra, xi. 182 sq.
Kretschmer, Professor P., on native [pg 338] population of Cyprus, v. 145 n. 3;
on Cybele and Attis, v. 287 n. 2
Kreutzburg, in East Prussia, the harvest Goat at, vii. 282
Kriml, in the Tyrol, custom of throwing stones into the waterfall of, ix. 26 n. 1
Krishna, Hindoo god, his incarnation Govindji, i. 284;
his images swung in swings, i. 406;
thought to be incarnate in the Maharajas, i. 406;
annually married to the Holy Basil (tulasi), ii. 26;
his wife Rukmini, ii. 26;
festival of swinging in honour of, iv. 279;
worshipped by men who assimilate themselves to women, vi. 254
Kroeber, A. L., on the seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of California, x. 41 sq.
Krooben, a malevolent spirit among the Kamilaroi, viii. 100
Kruijt, A. C., on superstition as to written names, iii. 319;
on the custom of naming parents after their children, iii. 333 n. 5;
on head-hunting, v. 296 n. 1;
on the Indonesian conception of the rice-soul, vii. 182 sq.;
on Toradja custom as to the working of iron, xi. 154 n. 3
Kruman, his anxiety about his dream-soul, iii. 71
Kru-men of West Africa die from imagination, iii. 136 sq.;
personal names concealed among the, iii. 322 sq.
Kshetrpal, a Himalayan deity, viii. 117
Kshira, a village of Bengal, knife for religious suicide at, iv. 55 n. 1
Kü-yung, city in China, precautions against an evil spirit in, iii. 239
Kuar, an Indian month, vi. 144, ix. 181
Kubary, J., on the system of mother-kin among the Pelew Islanders, vi. 204 sqq.;
on the gods of the Pelew Islanders, ix. 81 sq.
Kublai Khan, his mode of executing a royal criminal, iii. 242
Kudulu, a hill tribe of India, their human sacrifices for the crops, vii. 244
Kuei-Ki, in China, i. 414
Kuel, whale-festival of the Koryaks at, viii. 232
Kuga, an evil spirit in Slavonia, expelled by fire, x. 282
Kuhn, Adalbert, on need-fire, x. 273;
on Midsummer fire, x. 335;
on the divining-rod, xi. 67
Kühnau, R., on precautions against witches in Silesia, xi. 20 n.
Kuinda, Cilician fortress, v. 144 n. 1
Κυκέων, the communion cup in the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 161 n. 4
Kuker and Kukerica, carnival mummers in Thrace and Bulgaria, viii. 332, 333, 334
Kuki-Lushai, men dressed as women to deceive dangerous ghosts or spirits among the, vi. 263
Kukis of Assam, parents named after their children among the, iii. 333;
their custom after killing a tiger, viii. 155 n. 5
Kuklia, Old Paphos, v. 33, 36
Kukulu, a priestly king in Lower Guinea, iii. 5
Kukunjevac, in Slavonia, need-fire at, x. 282
Kulin nation of South-Eastern Australia, sex totems in the, xi. 216
—— tribe of Victoria, avoidance of the wife's mother in the, iii. 84;
man endowed with bear's spirit in the, xi. 226 n. 1
Kull Gossaih, goddess of a hill tribe in India, viii. 118
Kumaon, in North-Western India, custom observed by men who have been supposed dead, in, i. 75 n. 3;
rain-making in, i. 278;
use of frogs in rain-charms in, i. 293;
way of stopping rain in, i. 303;
bullocks as scapegoats at funerals in, ix. 37;
ceremony of sliding down a rope in, ix. 196 sq.;
the Holi festival in, xi. 2
Kumis, the, of South-Eastern India, their precautions against the demon of smallpox, ix. 117
Kunama, tribe on the borders of Abyssinia, consult a rain-maker, ii. 3
Kundi in Cilicia, v. 144
Kunnui, in Yezo, bear-festival of the Ainos at, viii. 185 sqq.
Kuopio, in Finland, sacred grove at, ii. 11
Kupalo, mythical being in Russia, funeral of, iv. 261, 262;
figure of, passed across fire at Midsummer, v. 250 sq.;
a deity of vegetation, v. 253;
image of, burnt or thrown into stream on St. John's Night, x. 176;
effigy of, carried across fire and thrown into water, xi. 5, 23
Kupalo's Night, Midsummer Eve, x. 175, 176
Kupferberg, in Bavaria, harvest custom at, vii. 232
Kupole's festival at Midsummer in Prussia, v. 253
Kuria, in Thrace, masquerade at carnival at, viii. 332
Kurile Islands, the Ainos of the, viii. 180
Kurmis of India, marriage to trees among the, ii. 57 n. 3;
their use of a scapegoat in time of cholera, ix. 190
Kurnai, a tribe of Gippsland, wind-maker among the, i. 324;
their belief as to [pg 339] women's shadows, iii. 83;
avoidance of the wife's mother among the, iii. 84;
their fear of naming the dead, iii. 350 sq.;
their fear of the Aurora Australis, iv. 267 n. 1;
sex totems and fights concerning them among the, xi. 215 n. 1, 216
Kurs of East Prussia, their homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 137
Kursk, in Russia, rain-making at, i. 277;
harvest custom near, vii. 233
Kururumany, the Arawak creator, ix. 302
Kuruvikkarans of Southern India, inspired priest of Kali among the, i. 382
Kurze, G., on the power of medicine-men among the Lengua Indians, i. 359
Kusavans, potters of Southern India, their votive images, i. 56 n. 3
Kushunuk, near Cape Vancouver, Esquimau festival at, viii. 249 n. 1
Kuskokwim River, in Alaska, ix. 380
Küstendil, in Bulgaria, need-fire at, x. 281
Kutonaqa Indians of British Columbia, their sacrifice of their first-born children to the sun, iv. 183 sq.
Kvasir, in Norse mythology, the wisest of beings, his blood and wisdom absorbed by Odin, i. 241
Kwa River, in West Africa, propitiation of goddess who dwells in the, ix. 28
Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, their treatment of the afterbirth, i. 197 sq.;
their contagious magic of wounds, i. 201 sq.;
their beliefs and customs concerning twins, i. 263, 324;
their custom as to coffining the dead, iii. 53;
the swallowing of souls by shamans among the, iii. 76 sq.;
customs observed by cannibals among the, iii. 159 n., 188 sqq.;
change of names in summer and winter among the, iii. 386;
their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1;
cannibals among the, vii. 20;
their ceremonies at killing a wolf, viii. 220;
their belief in the resurrection of salmon, viii. 250;
their masked dances, ix. 376 n. 2, 378;
their story of an ogress whose life was in a hemlock branch, xi. 152;
pass through a hemlock ring in time of epidemic, xi. 186
—— medicine-men capture stray souls, iii. 67 n.
Kwilu River, in the Congo State, vii. 119
Kwun, the spirit of the head, in Siam, iii. 252;
supposed to reside in the hair, iii. 266 sq.
Kylenagranagh, the hill of, in Ireland, the fairies on, x. 324
La Ciotat, near Marseilles, hunting the wren at, viii. 321
L'Étoile, Lenten fires at, x. 113
La Manche, in Normandy, Lenten fire-custom in, x. 115
La Palisse, in France, dough man eaten at close of harvest at, viii. 48 sq.
La Paz, in Bolivia, Midsummer fires at, x. 213;
Midsummer flowers at, xi. 50 sq.
La Rochelle, effigy of Shrove Tuesday burnt on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 230
La Trobe River in Victoria, iii. 109
Labbé, P., on the inao of the Ainos, viii. 186 n.
Labour, division of, between the sexes, vii. 129
Labrador, fear of demons in, ix. 79 sq.
Labraunda in Caria, Zeus Labraundeus worshipped at, v. 182 n. 4
Labruguière, in Southern France, expulsion of evil spirits on Twelfth Night at, ix. 166
Labrys, Lydian word for axe, v. 182
Labyrinth, the Cretan, iv. 71, 74, 75, 76, 77
Labyrinths in churches, iv. 76;
in the north of Europe, iv. 76 sq.
Lac, taboos observed in gathering, i. 115
Lac gatherers not allowed to wash, i. 115
Lacaune, belief as to mistletoe at, xi. 83
Lacedaemon, Fig Dionysus at, vii. 4
Lachlan River, in Australia, novices thought to be slain and resuscitated on the, xi. 233
Lachlins of Rum and deer, superstition concerning, xi. 284
Laconia, stone associated with Orestes in, i. 161;
subject to earthquakes, v. 203 n. 2
Lactantius, on the grove of Egeria, i. 18 n. 4;
on Hippolytus as the lover of Artemis, i. 39 n. 1;
on sacrifice to Hercules, i. 282 n. 1;
on the rites of Osiris, vi. 85
Lacueva, Father, missionary to the Yuracares, ii. 205 n.
Lada, mythical being in Russia, the funeral of, iv. 261, 262
Ladakh, offerings of wheat-harvest to spirit of agriculture in, viii. 117
Ladder for the use of a tree-spirit, ii. 35;
to facilitate the descent of the sun, ii. 99;
for use of soul, iii. 47
Ladders of paper pinned to shoulders of women at Mid-Lent, iv. 241
Ladon, in Arcadia, the wooded gorge of the river, ii. 8
Ladyday, divining rod to be secured in the twilight between the third day and the night after, xi. 282
Laetare, the fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. [pg 340] 222 n. 1;
custom observed by the Germans of Moravia on, ii. 63
Laevinus, M. Valerius, funeral games in his honour, iv. 96
Lafitau, J. F., on namesakes of the dead regarded as their reincarnation, iii. 365 sq.
Lagarde, P. A. de, on the “Ride of the Beardless One,” ix. 402, 405
Lagash in Babylonia, votive cones of clay found at, v. 35 n. 5
Lago di Naftia in Sicily, v. 221 n. 4
Lagos, in West Africa, i. 365, iv. 112;
Ibadan in the interior of, iv. 203;
human sacrifices for the crops at, vii. 239 sq.
Lagrange, Father M. J., on the mourning for Adonis as a harvest rite, v. 231
Laguna, Pueblo village of New Mexico, festival of the dead at, vi. 54 n. 2
Lahn, the Yule log in the valley of the, x. 248
Laibon, medicine-men among the Masai, i. 343
Laius and Oedipus, iv. 193
Lake inhabited by mythical serpents, i. 156;
by a dragon, xi. 112 sq.
Lake-dwellers of Europe, barley cultivated by the, vii. 132
—— -dwellings of prehistoric Europe, ii. 352 sq.
Lakes, gods of lakes married to women, ii. 150 sq.;
human victims thrown into, as offerings to water spirits, ii. 158 sq.
Lakhubai, an Indian goddess, gardens of Adonis in her worship, v. 243
Lakomba, an island of Fiji, reeds tied together to prevent the sun from going down in, i. 316
Lakor, island of, taboos observed by women and children during war in, i. 131;
treatment of the navel-string in, i. 187;
theory of earthquakes in, v. 198;
annual expulsion of diseases in a proa in, ix. 199
Lakshmi, wife of Vishnu, supposed to pervade the Holy Basil (tulasi) plant, ii. 26
Laluba, the, of the Upper Nile, rain-maker as chiefs among, i. 345
Lama of Tibet, the Grand, i. 411 sq., ix. 197, 220, 221, 222;
mode of determining a new, i. 411;
his palace at Lhasa, i. 412;
worshipped as a true and living god, i. 412;
and Sankara, iii. 78.
See also Lamas
——, the Teshu, embassy of George Bogle to, ix. 203
Lamaist sects, ix. 94
Lamas, Grand, Buddha supposed to be incarnate in the, i. 410 sq.
Lamas River in Cilicia, v. 149, 150
Lamb, blood of, drunk by priestess to procure inspiration, i. 381;
thrown into lake as offering to Hades, vii. 15;
killed sacramentally, viii. 314 sq.;
burnt alive to save the rest of the flock, x. 301
—— and pig as expiatory victims, iii. 226
—— of Mycenae, the golden, i. 365
Lambing, time of, ii. 328 n. 4
Lame, woman who throws fish-bones into sea, pretends to be, viii. 254
Lame Goat, the, at harvest in Skye, vii. 284
“—— reign,” Sparta warned against a, iv. 38
Lamentations of Egyptian reapers, v. 232, vi. 45;
of the savage for the animals and plants which he eats, vi. 43 sq.;
of Cherokee Indians “after the first working of the crop,” vi. 47;
of the Karok Indians at cutting sacred wood, vi. 47 sq.;
pretended, for insects which destroy the crops, viii. 279 sq.
Laments for Tammuz, v. 9 sq.; for dead kings of Judah, v. 20;
for Osiris, vi. 12
Lammas, the 1st of August, great fairs in Ireland at, iv. 99, 100, 101;
a harvest festival; iv. 105;
superstitious practice of Highlanders at, x. 98 n. 1
Lamoa, gods in Poso, xi. 154
Lampblack used to avert the evil eye, vi. 261
Lampong in Sumatra, the natives of, adore the sea, iii. 10
Lamps, dedication of burning, i. 12 sq.;
in the grove at Nemi, i. 13;
to light the ghosts to their old homes, iii. 371, vi. 51 sq.;
for the use of ghosts at the Feast of All Souls, vi. 72, 73.
See also Lanterns
Lampsacus, citizens of, excluded from games in honour of Miltiades, iv. 94;
Persephone as corn-goddess on a coin of, vii. 44.
Lampson, M. W., on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 146, 273
Lanarkshire, “burning out the Old Year” at Biggar in, ix. 165
Lancashire, custom of catching the breath and soul of the dying in, iv. 200;
All Souls' Day in, vi. 79;
Hallowe'en customs in, x. 244 sq.
Lancelot constrained to be king, iv. 120 sq., 135
Lanchang, a Malay craft, ix. 187
Land cleared for cultivation by men, vii. 113 sq., 117 sqq.
Landak, district of Dutch Borneo, the Dyaks of, names of parents and grandparents [pg 341] not to be mentioned among, iii. 340;
bride and bridegroom not to tread the earth among, x. 5;
birth-trees for children among, xi. 164
Lande-Patry in Normandy, game of ball on Shrove Tuesday at, ix. 183
Landen, the battlefield of, outcrop of poppies on, v. 234
Landowners, sacrifices offered to spirits of former, vii. 228
Lane, E. W., on the fire-drill of the ancient Bedouins, ii. 209 n. 4;
on the rise of the Nile, vi. 31 n. 1;
on the omnipresence of jinn in Egypt, ix. 104
Lanercost, Chronicle of, need-fire noticed in the, x. 286
Lanfine, in Ayrshire, mode of cutting the last corn at, vii. 154
Lang, Andrew, on stories of the type of Cupid and Psyche, iv. 130 n. 1;
on the bull-formed Dionysus, viii. 4;
on the fire-walk, xi. 2 n. 1;
on the bull-roarer, xi. 228 n. 2
Langenbielau, in Silesia, custom at threshing at, vii. 148 sq.
Langensalza, Grass King at Whitsuntide near, ii. 85
Langrim, a Khasi state, king elected by all adult males in, ii. 295
Language of animals acquired by eating serpent's flesh, viii. 146;
learned by means of fern-seed, xi. 66 n.
—— of birds, learned by means of serpents, i. 158;
learned by tasting dragon's blood, viii. 146
—— of birds and beasts, knowledge of the, possessed by Indian king, iv. 123
——, change of, caused by taboo on the names of the dead, iii. 358 sqq., 375, 380;
caused by taboo on the names of chiefs and kings, iii. 375, 376 sqq.
—— of husbands and wives, difference between, iii. 347 sq.
—— of men and women, difference between, iii. 348 sq.
——, special, devoted to the person and attributes of the king of Siam, i. 401;
employed by hunters, iii. 396, 398, 399, 400, 402, 404, 410;
employed by searchers for eagle-wood and lignum aloes, iii. 404;
employed by searchers for camphor, iii. 405 sqq.;
employed by miners, iii. 407, 409;
employed by reapers at harvest, iii. 410 sq., 411 sq.;
employed by sailors at sea, iii. 413 sqq.
——. See also Speech and Words
Lanquineros, Indians of Central America, their period of abstinence before sowing, ii. 105
L 'ánṣăra (El Anṣarah), Midsummer Day in North Africa, x. 213, 214 n.
Lantana salvifolia, burnt by Nandi women in cornfields, vi. 47
Lanterns, the Feast of, in Japan, vi. 65, ix. 151 sq.
See also Lamps
Lanuvium, King of the Sacred Rites at, i. 44 n. 1;
sacred serpent at, viii. 18
Lanyon, in Cornwall, holed stone near, xi. 187
Lanzone, R. V., on the rites of Osiris, vi. 87 n. 5
Laodice, a Hyperborean maiden, at Delos, i. 34 n.
Laodicea in Syria, human sacrifices at, iv. 166 n. 1
Laon, Midsummer fires near, x. 187
Laos, a province of Siam, taboos observed by rhinoceros hunters and gatherers of lac in, i. 115;
taboos observed by wives of absent elephant-hunters in, i. 120;
rain-making at New Year in, i. 251;
fire on hearth extinguished after a death in, ii. 267 n. 4;
precautions against strangers in, iii. 104;
knotted grass a charm used by hunters in, iii. 306;
special language used by elephant-hunters in, iii. 404;
hunters never step over their weapons in, iii. 424;
boxers at funerals in, iv. 97;
infants at birth placed in rice-sieves in, vii. 8;
Koui hunters hamstring game in, viii. 267;
ravages of rats in, viii. 282 n. 8;
prayers at cairns in, ix. 29;
beginning of year in, ix. 149 n. 2;
elephant-hunters not allowed to touch the ground in, x. 5;
the natives of, their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 222
Laosian village, divinity of salt-pans at a, i. 410
Laosians of Siam, their belief in demons, ix. 97
Laphystian Zeus, his sanctuary at Alus, iv. 161;
ram with golden fleece sacrificed to, iv. 162;
sacrifices offered to, by the house of Athamas, iv. 163;
sanctuary of, on Mount Laphystius, iv. 164;
king's eldest son liable to be sacrificed to, iv. 164 sq., vii. 25
Laphystius, Mount, in the land of Orchomenus, iv. 164
Lapis manalis used in rain-making ceremony at Rome, i. 310
Lappland, tying up the wind in knots in, i. 326
Lapps will not extinguish fire in absence of fishers, i. 121;
the forest-god of the, ii. 125;
their customs after killing a bear, iii. 221, viii. 224, xi. 280 n.;
loose knots on lying-in women, iii. 294;
brass ring worn as an amulet among the, iii. 314;
reincarnation of ancestors among the, iii. 368;
fear to call [pg 342] bears by their true name, iii. 398;
arranged the bones of the animals they ate in anatomical order for the purpose of facilitating their resurrection, viii. 257;
their rule as to menstruous women, x. 91;
their story of the external soul, xi. 149 sq.
Larch-tree, sacred, in the Tyrol, ii. 20
Lares, images of the, beside the hearth, ii. 206
Larka Kols of India, their belief in tree-spirits, ii. 42
Larkspur, looking at Midsummer bonfires through bunches of, x. 163, 165 sq.
Larnax Lapethus in Cyprus, Melcarth worshipped at, v. 117
Laro, a Nuba spirit, viii. 114
Larrakeeyah or Larrekiya, Australian tribe, their belief in conception without cohabitation, v. 103;
their treatment of girls at puberty, x. 38
Larvae or lares, viii. 94 n. 5
Last day of the year, annual expulsion of demons on the, ix. 145 sqq.
See also Hogmanay
—— sheaf called “the Dead One,” iv. 254.
See Sheaf
Lateran Museum, statue of Attis in the, v. 279
—— statue of Ephesian Artemis, i. 38 n. 1
Latham, R. G., on succession to husband's property among the Kocchs, vi. 215 n. 2
Latin Christianity, its tolerance of rustic paganism, ix. 346
—— confederacy, the, in relation to sacred Arician grove, i. 22 sq.
—— festival, the great (Feriae Latinae), iv. 283
—— kings thought to be the sons of the fire-god by mortal mothers, ii. 195 sqq.;
lists of, ii. 268 sqq.;
stories of their miraculous birth, ii. 272
—— League, the, ii. 386
—— mode of reckoning intervals of time, iv. 59 n. 1
Latins, sanctity of the woodpecker among the, iv. 186 n. 4
Latinus, King, changed into Latian Jupiter, ii. 187;
founder of the Alban dynasty, ii. 197;
his wife a Vestal, ii. 235;
his disappearance, iv. 283
Latium, many local Jupiters in, ii. 184;
in antiquity, the woods of, ii. 188;
succession to the kingdom in ancient, ii. 266 sqq.;
female descent of the kingship in, ii. 271;
the rustic militia of, shod only on one foot, iii. 311
Latuka, Lion-chief in, viii. 228
Latukas of the Upper Nile, rain-makers as chiefs among the, i. 346;
punish their chiefs for drought and failure of the crops, i. 354;
custom at childbirth among the, iii. 245;
burn women's hair after childbirth, iii. 284
Laughing forbidden to hunters, iii. 196
Laughlan Islanders, their belief and custom as to shooting stars, iv. 63
Launceston, in Cornwall, Midsummer bonfire near, ii. 141
Laurel grown in place of purification, i. 26;
eaten by Apollo's prophetess, i. 384;
Apollo's prophetess fumigated with, i. 384;
branch of, carried by Roman general in his triumph, ii. 175;
wreath of, worn by Roman general in his triumph, ii. 175;
used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 251, 252;
Cadmus crowned with, iv. 78 sq., vi. 241;
crown of, substituted for crown of oak leaves as prize in the Pythian games, iv. 80;
reason for substitution of laurel for oak, iv. 81 sq.;
Apollo crowned with wreath of laurel at Tempe, iv. 81, vi. 240;
gold wreath of, worn by priest of Hercules, v. 143;
in purificatory rites, vi. 240 sq., ix. 262
——, sacred, used to form the victor's crown at Delphi and Thebes, iv. 78 sqq.;
guarded by a dragon, iv. 79 sq.;
chewed by priestess of Apollo, iv. 80
Laurel-Bearer at Thebes, iv. 88 sq., vi. 241
—— bearing, festival of the, at Thebes, iv. 78 sq., 88 sq., vi. 241
—— -Bearing Apollo, iv. 79 n. 3
Laurels, in sacred grove of Dia, ii. 122;
in Latium, ii. 188;
Roman ceremony of renewing the, ix. 346 n. 1
Laurus and Florus, feast of, on August 18th, x. 220
Lausitz, Midsummer fires in, x. 170;
marriage oaks in, xi. 165.
See also Lusatia
Lavinia, daughter of Amata, ancestress of the Alban kings, ii. 197, 197 n. 4
Lavinium, worship of Vesta at, i. 14, ii. 197 n. 4
Lawes, W. G., on the belief in ghosts among the natives of British New Guinea, ix. 84 sq.
Lawgivers, ancient, on the uncleanness of women at menstruation, x. 95 sq.
Laws of Manu, on the effects of a good king's reign, i. 366;
on the divinity of kings and Brahmans, i. 403;
on a father as born again in his own son, iv. 188;
on the transmigration of evil-doers into animals, viii. 298 sq.
Laws of nature, the conception of, not primitive, i. 374
Laying hands on children to bless them, i. 367
Laziness transferred to a cornel-tree, ix. 55
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Lazy Man, a Midsummer masker enclosed in a leafy framework, ii. 83
Le Mole, on the Lake of Nemi, i. 17
Lead, melted, in Arab cure for melancholy or madness, ix. 4;
divination by melted lead at Hallowe'en, x. 242
Leaf, lost soul brought back in a, iii. 67.
See also Leaves
Leaf-clad dancers, vii. 95
—— -clad mummer on Midsummer Day, xi. 25 sq.
—— -clad mummers, ii. 74 sqq., 78 sqq.;
mock marriage of, ii. 97;
represent the powers of vegetation, ii. 97;
at Whitsuntide, iv. 207 sqq.
—— King, the, at Hildesheim on Whit-Monday, ii. 85
—— Man representative of tree-god in India, ix. 61;
the Little, in spring at Ruhla in Thüringen, ii. 80 sq.
Leafy bust at Nemi, portrait of the King of the Wood, i. 41 sq.
Leake, W. M., on flowers in Asia Minor, v. 187 n. 6
Leaning against a tree prohibited to warriors, iii. 162, 163
Leaping, a contest at the Eleusinian games, vii. 110
—— over fire at the Parilia, ii. 327;
as a Roman purification, ii. 329;
as a form of purification among the Esquimaux, viii. 249;
after a burial to escape the ghost, xi. 18
—— over bonfires to make the flax or hemp grow tall, v. 251, x. 119, 165, 166 sq., 168, 173, 174, 337;
to get rid of the devil, ix. 156;
to ensure good crops, x. 107;
as a preventive of colic, x. 107, 195 sq., 344;
to ensure a happy marriage, x. 107, 108;
to ensure a plentiful harvest, x. 155, 156;
to be free from backache at reaping, x. 165, 168;
as a preventive of fever, x. 166, 173, 194;
for luck, x. 171, 189;
in order to be free from ague, x. 174;
in order to marry and have many children, x. 204, 338 sq.;
as cure of sickness, x. 214;
to procure offspring, x. 214, 338;
over ashes of fire as remedy for skin diseases, xi. 2;
a panacea for almost all ills, xi. 20;
as a protection against witchcraft, xi. 40
—— and dancing to make the crops grow high, i. 137 sqq., vii. 110, viii. 330 sq., ix. 232, 238 sqq.
—— of women over the Midsummer bonfires to ensure an easy delivery, x. 194, 339.
See also Jumping
Leaps, high and long, at New Year festival of the Kayans, vii. 98;
of the Salii at Rome, ix. 232;
of lovers over the Mid-summer bonfires, x. 165, 166, 168, 174.
See Leaping
Learchus, son of King Athamas, iv. 161;
killed by his father, iv. 162, vii. 24
Leared, A., on the Isowa or Aïsawa sect in Morocco, vii. 21 sq.
Leather, Mrs. Ella Mary, on the Yule log in Herefordshire, x. 257 sq.
Leather of priestess's shoes not to be made from hide of beast that died a natural death, iii. 14
Leavened bread, Flamen Dialis not allowed to touch, iii. 13
Leaves, disease transferred to, ix. 2, 259;
fatigue transferred to, ix. 8 sqq.;
thrown on dead chameleons, ix. 28;
thrown on heap at ford, ix. 28;
used to expel demons, ix. 201, 206, 262.
See also Leaf
—— and flowers as talismans, vi. 242 sq.
—— and twigs of trees as fodder of cattle in Southern Europe, ii. 328
Leaving food over, taboos on, iii. 126 sqq.
Leavings of food, magic wrought by means of, iii. 118, 119, 126 sqq.
Lebadea, altar of Rainy Zeus at, ii. 360 n. 8;
Trophonius at, iv. 166 n. 1.
Lebanon, peasants of the, their custom as to children's cast teeth, i. 181 sq.;
the forests of Mount, v. 14;
the charm of the, v. 235;
peasants of the, their dread of menstruous women, x. 83 sq.
——, Aphrodite of the, v. 30
——, Baal of the, v. 32
Lech, a tributary of the Danube, vi. 70;
Midsummer fires in the valley of the, x. 166
Lechrain, milk-stones in, i. 165;
Burial of the Carnival in, iv. 231;
Feast of All Souls in, vi. 70 sq.;
the divining rod in, xi. 68
Lecky, W. E. H., on the influence of great men on the popular imagination, vi. 199;
on the treatment of magic and witchcraft by the Christian Church, xi. 42 n. 2
Lecœur, J., on weather forecasts for the year in the Bocage of Normandy, ix. 323
Lee, the laird of, his “cureing stane,” x. 325
Leeches, charm against, viii. 281
Leeds, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
Leeting the witches, x. 245
Lefébure, E., on Typhon in the form of a boar, viii. 30 n. 4
Left shoe of bridegroom to be without buckle or latchet, iii. 300
Legend of the foundation of Carthage and similar tales, vi. 249 sq.
Legends of the custom of slaying kings, iv. 120 sqq.;
told as charms, vii. 102 [pg 344] sq.;
of persons who could not die, x. 99 sq.
Legs not to be crossed, iii. 295, 298 sq.
—— and thighs of diseased cattle cut off and hung up as a remedy, x. 296 n. 1, 325
Lehmann-Haupt, Professor C. F., on the historical Semiramis, v. 177 n. 1;
on the historical reality of Christ, ix. 412 n. 2;
on the date of the crucifixion, ix. 415 n. 1
Lehner, Stefan, on stories told to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 104;
on the fear of demons in German New Guinea, ix. 83 sq.
Leicestershire, Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1
Leine, river of Central Germany, water drawn from it silently on Easter night, x. 124
Leinster, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, iii. 11;
the fair of Carman in, iv. 100;
legend of the voluntary death of monks to stay a pestilence in, iv. 159 n. 1;
Midsummer fires in, x. 203
Leipsic, “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 236
Leitch, Archie, as to the harvest Maiden on the Gareloch, vii. 158 n. 1
Leith Links, witches burnt on, ix. 165
Leitmeritz district of Bohemia, the Shrovetide Bear in, viii. 326
Leitrim, County, Midsummer fires in, x. 203;
divination at Hallowe'en in, x. 242;
need-fire in, x. 297;
witch as hare in, x. 318
Leleen, the, a priest in Celebes, iii. 129
Leme, the river, at Ludlow, ix. 182
Lemnos, new fire brought annually from Delos to, i. 32, x. 138;
worship of Hephaestus in, x. 138
Lemon, external souls of ogres in a, xi. 102
Lemons distasteful to the spirits of tin, iii. 407
Lenaean festival of Dionysus at Athens presided over by the King, i. 44
Lenaeon, a Greek month, vii. 66
Lendu tribe of Central Africa, rain-makers as chiefs among the, i. 348
Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco, their ceremony to make the sun shine, i. 313;
fling sticks at a whirlwind, i. 330;
power of magicians among the, i. 359;
their belief as to dreams, iii. 38;
after a death the survivors change their names among the, iii. 357;
their belief as to the state of the spirits of the dead, iv. 11;
their fear of meteors, iv. 63;
their practice of killing first-born girls, iv. 186;
their custom of infanticide, iv. 197;
their festivals at the rising of the Pleiades, vii. 309;
their way of bilking the ghosts of ostriches, viii. 245;
their fear of demons, ix. 78 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 56;
masquerade of boys among the, x. 57 n. 1;
marriage feast extinct among the, x. 75 n. 2
Lenormant, François, on the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 39 n. 1;
on Demeter as an Earth goddess, vii. 40 n. 3
Lent, personified by an actor or effigy, iv. 226, 230;
symbolized by a seven-legged effigy, iv. 244 sq.;
ceremony at Halberstadt in, ix. 214;
perhaps derived from an old pagan period of abstinence observed for the growth of the seed, ix. 347 sqq.;
rule of continence during, ix. 348
——, the Buddhist, ix. 349 sq.
——, the Indian and Fijian, v. 90
——, Queen of, iv. 244
——, and the Saturnalia, ix. 345 sqq.
——, the first Sunday in, bonfires and torches on, x. 107 sqq.
——, the third Sunday in, Death carried out on, iv. 238
——, the fourth Sunday in, Death carried out on, ii. 73 sq., iv. 233 sq., 235, 236;
girl called the Queen on, ii. 87;
called Dead Sunday, or Mid-Lent, iv. 221, 222 n. 1, 233 sqq., 250, 255
——, the fifth Sunday in, Death carried out on, iv. 234 sq., 239
Lenten fast, its origin, ix. 348
—— fires, x. 106 sqq.
Lenz, H. O., on ancient names for mistletoe, xi. 318
Leo the Great, as to the celebration of Christmas, v. 305
—— the Tenth, pope, his boar-hunting, i. 6 sq.
Leobschütz, district of Silesia, “Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268;
Midsummer fires in, x. 170
Leonard, Major A. G., on death from imagination in Africa, iii. 136 sq.;
on sacrifices to prolong the lives of kings and others, vi. 222;
on the custom of licking the blood from a sword with which a man has been killed, viii. 155;
on the periodic expulsion of demons at Calabar, ix. 204 n. 1;
on souls of people in animals, xi. 206 n. 2
Leonidas, funeral games in his honour, iv. 94
Leopard, supposed transformation of a man into a, in West Africa, iv. 83 sq.;
the commonest familiar of Fan wizards, xi. 202.
See also Leopards
Leopard Societies of Western Africa, iv. 83
Leopard's blood drunk, or its flesh or [pg 345] heart eaten to make the eater brave, viii. 141 sq.
Leopard's whiskers in a charm, viii. 167
Leopards, dead kings turn into, iv. 84;
related to royal family of Dahomey, iv. 85;
inspired human mediums of, viii. 213;
revered by the Igaras of the Niger, viii. 228;
ceremonies observed by the Ewe negroes after the slaughter of, viii. 228 sqq.;
souls of dead in, viii. 288, 289; lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206;
external human souls in, xi. 207.
See also Leopard
Lepanto, the Ignorrotes of, ii. 30
Leper disinterred as rain-charm, i. 285
Lepers sacrificed to the Mexican goddess of the White Maize, vii. 261;
Mexican goddess of, ix. 292
Lepers' Island, the soul as an eagle in, iii. 34;
child's soul brought back in, iii. 65
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius, funeral games in his honour, iv. 96
Leprosy, king of Israel expected to heal, v. 23 sq.;
thought to be caused by drinking pig's milk, viii. 24, 25;
caused by eating a sacred animal, viii. 25 sqq.;
thought to be caused by injuring a totemic animal, viii. 26 sq.;
in the Old Testament, viii. 27;
Hebrew custom as to, ix. 35;
Mexican goddess of, ix. 292
Lepsius, R., on a sort of carnival in Fazoql, iv. 17 n. 2;
his identification of Osiris with the sun, vi. 121 sq.
Lerbach, in the Harz Mountains, custom on Midsummer Day at, ii. 66
Lerida in Catalonia, funeral of the Carnival at, iv. 225 sq.
Lerons of Borneo, use of magical images among the, i. 59
Lerotse leaves used in purification, viii. 69
Lerpiu, a powerful spirit revered by the Dinka and embodied in the rain-maker, iv. 32
Lerwick, winds sold at, i. 326;
ceremony of Up-helly-a' at, ix. 169, x. 269 n. 1;
Christmas guizing at, x. 268 sq.;
procession with lighted tar-barrels on Christmas Eve at, x. 268
Lesachthal (Carinthia), new fire at Easter in the, x. 124
Lesbos, barren fruit-trees threatened in, ii. 22;
superstition as to shadows in, iii. 89;
building custom in, iii. 89;
charm to prevent the consummation of marriage in, iii. 300;
the harvest Hare in, vii. 280;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
fires on St. John's Eve in, x. 211 sq.
Leschiy, a woodland spirit in Russia, ii. 124 sq.
Leslie, David, on Caffre belief as to spirits of the dead incarnate in serpents, xi. 211 n. 2, 212 n.
Lesneven, in Brittany, burning of an effigy (of Carnival) on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 229 sq.
Leti, island of, taboos observed by women and children during war in, i. 131;
treatment of the navel-string in, i. 187;
marriage of the Sun and Earth in, ii. 98 sq.;
theory of earthquakes in, v. 198;
annual expulsion of diseases in a proa in, ix. 199
Leto said to have clasped a tree before bearing Apollo and Artemis, ii. 58
Letopolis, neck of Osiris at, vi. 11
Lettermore Island, Midsummer fires in, x. 203
Letts of Russia, swing to make the flax grow high, iv. 157, 277, vii. 107;
their celebration of the summer solstice, iv. 280;
their annual festival of the dead, vi. 74 sq.;
their sacrifices to wolves, viii. 284;
Midsummer fires among the, x. 177 sq.;
gather aromatic plants on Midsummer Day, xi. 50
Leucadia, magical rock in, i. 161
Leucadians, their use of human scapegoats, ix. 254
Leucippe, daughter of Minyas, her Bacchic fury, iv. 164
Lévi, Professor Sylvain, on the magical nature of sacrifice in ancient India, i. 228 sq.
Leviathan or Rahab, a dragon of the sea, iv. 106 n. 2
Leviticus (xviii. 24 sq.) on sexual crime as a defilement of the land, ii. 114 sq.
Lewin, Captain T. H., on the tug-of-war among the Chukmas, ix. 174 sq.
Lewis, E. W., on the sting of bees as a cure for rheumatism, iii. 106 n. 2
Lewis, Rev. Thomas, on the mind of the savage, iii. 420 n. 1
Lewis, Professor W. J., x. 127 n. 1
Lewis the Pious, institutes the Feast of All Saints, vi. 83
Lewis, the island of, tying up the wind in knots in, i. 326;
need-fire in, ii. 238, x. 293;
the Old Wife at harvest in, vii. 140 sq.;
custom of fiery circle in the, x. 151 n.
Lexicon Mythologicum, author of, on the Golden Bough, xi. 284 n. 3
Leza, supreme being recognized by the Bantu tribes of Northern Rhodesia, vi. 174
Lezayre parish, in the Isle of Man, custom on May Day in, ii. 54
Lhasa, the Dalai Lama of, i. 411 sq.;
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ceremony of the Tibetan New Year at, ix. 197 sq., 218 sqq.
Lhoosai, the, of South-Eastern India, their harvest festival, ii. 48;
woman's share in agriculture among, vii. 122
Lhota Naga, tribe of the Brahmapootra valley, their human sacrifices for the crops, vii. 243 sq.
Lhwyd, Edward, on snake stones, x. 16 n. 1
“Liar's mound, the,” in Borneo, ix. 14
Libanius, on human life before Demeter, vii. 43 n. 1
Libations offered by maidens to the dead maiden Iphinoe, i. 28;
in honour of tree-spirits, ii. 46, 51;
Roman rule as to wine offered in, iii. 249 n. 2;
of beer to dead bears, viii. 181, 186;
of beer to the fire-god and house-god, viii. 185
Libchowic, in Bohemia, girl called the Queen on the fourth Sunday in Lent at, ii. 87
Libebé, African kingdom, kings as rain-makers in, i. 348
Liber, Father, the Italian counterpart of Dionysus, vii. 12;
Roman sacrifice of new wine to, viii. 133
Liberty, despotism more favourable than savagery to, i. 218
Libyans, the Alitemnian, awarded the kingdom to the fleetest runner, ii. 299.
See also Panebian
Licata, in Sicily, St. Angelo ill-treated at, i. 300
Licence accorded to slaves at the Saturnalia, ii. 312, ix. 307 sq., 350 sq., 351 sq.;
accorded to female slaves at the Nonae Caprotinae, ii. 313 sq.;
periods of, viii. 62, 63, 66 sqq., ix. 225 sq., 306, 328 sq., 343, 344, x. 135;
annual periods of general, ix. 127, 131, 226 n. 1;
month of general, ix. 148;
periods of, preceding or following the annual expulsion of demons, ix. 251;
at Midsummer festival, x. 180, 339
Licentious rites for the fertilization of the ground, ix. 177
Lichfield, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
Licinius Imbrex, on Mars and Nerio, vi. 232
Licorice root used to beat people with at Easter, ix. 269
Lie down, manslayers forbidden to, iii. 179
Liebrecht, F., on the death of the Great Pan, iv. 7 n. 2;
on the Sacaea, ix. 392 n. 1
Liège, Lenten fires near, x. 108
Lienz in the Tyrol, masquerade on Shrove Tuesday at, ix. 242, 245
Lierre, in Belgium, the witches' Sabbath at, xi. 73
Life, the Egyptian symbol of, ii. 133;
in the blood, iii. 241, 250;
human, valued more highly by Europeans than by many other races, iv. 135 sq.;
of community bound up with life of divine king, x. 1 sq.;
the water of, xi. 114 sq.;
of woman bound up with ornament, xi. 156;
of a man bound up with the capital of a column, xi. 156 sq.;
of a man bound up with fire in hut, xi. 157;
of child bound up with knife, xi. 157;
of children bound up with trees, xi. 160 sqq.;
the divisibility of, xi. 221.
See also Soul
Life-indices, trees and plants as, xi. 160 sqq.
—— -tokens in fairy tales, xi. 118 n. 1
—— -tree of the Manchu dynasty at Peking, xi. 167 sq.
—— -trees of kings of Uganda, xi. 160
Ligho, a heathen deity of the Letts, x. 177, 178 n. 1;
compare iv. 280
Light, girls at puberty not allowed to see the, x. 57;
external soul of witch in a, xi. 116.
See also Lights
Lightning averted from houses by crossbills, i. 82;
magical imitation of, in rain-making, i. 248, 258, 303;
one of twins regarded as a son of, i. 266;
the lord and creator of rain, i. 266;
imitation of, by kings, i. 310, ii. 180;
wood of tree that has been struck by, i. 319;
expiation for trees struck by, ii. 122;
the art of drawing down, ii. 181;
fire perhaps first procured from a tree struck by, ii. 256;
fire kindled by, ii. 263;
African deities of, ii. 370;
supposed to be produced by means of flints, ii. 374;
trees struck by, used in magic, iii. 287;
not to be called by its proper name, iii. 401;
thought by Caffres to be caused by the ghost of a powerful chief, vi. 177 with n. 1;
no lamentations allowed for persons killed by, vi. 177 n. 1;
eating flesh of bullock that has been struck by, viii. 161;
treatment of men, animals, and houses that have been struck by, viii. 161, xi. 298 n. 2;
feet of men who have been killed by lightning slit to prevent their ghosts from walking, viii. 272;
charred sticks of Easter fire used as a talisman against, x. 121, 124, 140 sq., 145, 146;
the Easter candle a talisman against, x. 122;
brands of the Midsummer bonfires a protection against, x. 166 n. 1, 183;
flowers thrown on roofs at Midsummer as a protection against, x. 169;
charred sticks of Midsummer bonfires a protection against, x. 174, 187, 188, 190;
ashes of Midsummer [pg 347] fires a protection against, x. 187, 188, 190;
torches interpreted as imitations of, x. 340 n. 1;
bonfires a protection against, x. 344;
a magical coal a protection against, xi. 61;
pine-tree struck by, used to make bull-roarer, xi. 231;
superstitions about trees struck by, xi. 296 sqq.;
thought to be caused by a great bird, xi. 297;
strikes oaks oftener than any other tree of the European forests, xi. 298 sq.;
regarded as a god descending out of heaven, xi. 298;
places struck by lightning enclosed and deemed sacred, xi. 299.
See also Thunder
Lightning and thunder, the Yule log a protection against, x. 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258, 264;
mountain arnica a protection against, xi. 57 sq.
Lightning god of the Slavs, ii. 365
—— Zeus, i. 33, ii. 361
“Lights of the dead,” to enable the ghosts to enter houses, vi. 65
Lights, three hundred and sixty-five, in the rites of Osiris, vi. 88
Lignum aloes, taboos observed in the search for, iii. 404
Liknites, epithet of Dionysus, vii. 5, 27
Lille, the corn-spirit in the shape of a horse near, vii. 294
Lillooet Indians of British Columbia, their belief concerning twins, i. 265 n. 1;
their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 226 sq.;
their regard for the bones of deer and beavers, viii. 243;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 52 sq.
Limbs, amputated, kept by the owners against the resurrection, iii. 281
Limburg, processions with torches on the first Sunday in Lent in, x. 107 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 194;
the Yule log in, x. 249
Lime-kiln in divination at Hallowe'en, x. 235, 243
—— -tree, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 251;
toothache nailed into a, ix. 59 sq.;
the bloom of the, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 49;
mistletoe on limes, xi. 315, 316
—— -trees sacred, ii. 366, 367
—— -wood used at expulsion of demons, ix. 156; used to kindle need-fire, x. 281, 283, 286
Limerick, execution of traitor at, iii. 244
Limping on one foot at carrying home the last sheaf, vii. 232, 284
Limu, the Assyrian eponymate, iv. 117
Lincoln, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
Lincolnshire, saying as to a woman's apron burnt by a spark in, ii. 231;
Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1;
the Yule log in, x. 257;
witches as cats and hares in, x. 318;
calf buried to stop a murrain in, x. 326;
mistletoe a remedy for epilepsy and St. Vitus's dance in, xi. 83 sq.
Lindau in Anhalt, the Corn-woman at harvest at, vii. 233
Lindenbrog, on need-fire, x. 335 n. 1
Lindus in Rhodes, sacrifice to Hercules at, i. 281;
taboos as to entering a sanctuary at, viii. 85
Lingayats, Hindoo sect, worship their priest as a god, i. 404 sq.
Lint seed, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 235
Linus, identified with Adonis, vii. 258
—— or Ailinus, Phoenician vintage song, vii. 216, 257 sq., 263, 264
Lion, footprints of a, in magic, i. 209;
king represented with the body of a, iv. 85;
deity standing on a, v. 123 n. 2, 127;
the emblem of the Mother Goddess, v. 164;
as emblem of Hercules and the Heraclids, v. 182, 184;
carried round acropolis of Sardes, v. 184, vi. 249;
beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371.
See also Lions
“—— with the Sheepskins,” among the Arabs of Morocco, ix. 265
——, the sun in the sign of the, xi. 66 sq.
Lion-chief, viii. 228
—— -god at Boghaz-Keui, the mystery of the, v. 139 sq.;
of Lydia, v. 184
—— -killer, purification of, iii. 176, 220
—— -slaying god, statue of, v. 117
—— -tamer as chief of his tribe, i. 347 sq.
Lion's claws in a charm, viii. 167
—— fat, unguent of, viii. 164
—— flesh or heart eaten to make eater brave, viii. 141, 142 sq., 147
Liongo, an African Samson, xi. 314
Lions not called by their proper names, iii. 400;
called foxes for euphemism, iii. 400;
dead kings reincarnate in, iv. 84, v. 83 n. 1, vi. 163;
carved, at gate, v. 128;
as emblems of the great Asiatic Mother-goddess, v. 137;
deities seated on, v. 162;
spirits of dead chiefs reincarnated in, vi. 193;
inspired human mediums of, viii. 213;
propitiation of dead, viii. 228;
souls of the dead in, viii. 287 sqq.
Lip, under, of bullock tabooed as food, i. 119
Lippe, the river, a tributary of the Rhine, i. 391
Lir majoran, a god of husbandry in the Kei Islands, viii. 123
Lisiansky, U., on annual festival in Hawaii, iv. 117 sq.
Lismore, witch as hare in, x. 316 sq.
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Lithuania, the May Queen in, ii. 74;
customs at driving the herds out to pasture for the first time in, ii. 340 sq.;
wolves not to be called by their proper names during December in, ii. 396;
the last sheaf called Boba (Old Woman) in, vii. 145;
customs at threshing in, vii. 148, 223 sq.;
custom at cutting the last corn in, vii. 223;
old Lithuanian ceremonies at eating the new corn, viii. 49 sq.;
mummers and dances on Twelfth Day in Prussian Lithuania, viii. 327;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 269;
Midsummer fires in, x. 176;
sanctuary at Romove in, xi. 91.
See also Lithuanians
Lithuanian mythology, ii. 348
Lithuanians, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 211;
tree-worship among the, ii. 9, xi. 89;
the thunder-god Perkunas of the, ii. 365 sqq.;
their reverence for oaks, ii. 366, 371;
the old, their funeral banquets, iii. 238;
the Old Rye-Woman among the, vii. 133;
their custom before first ploughing in spring, x. 18;
their story of the external soul, xi. 113 sqq.
See also Lithuania
——, the heathen, their worship of the sun, i. 317 sq.;
their sacred groves, ii. 46;
sacrificed to Pergrubius on St. George's Day, ii. 347
Little Deer, chief of the deer tribe, viii. 241
“—— Easter Sunday” (Low Sunday), in Cornwall, iv. 153, 154 n. 1
—— Jupiter, the, ii. 179, 192
—— Leaf Man, ii. 80 sq.
—— Whitsuntide Man, ii. 81
—— Wood-woman, vii. 232
Lityerses, song of Phrygian reapers and threshers, vii. 216;
son of Midas, king of Phrygia, vii. 217;
his reaping-matches, vii. 217;
his treatment of strangers on the harvest field, vii. 217;
slain by Hercules, vii. 217;
story of, its coincidences with harvest-customs of modern Europe, vii. 218 sqq., 236, 252 sqq.;
his relation to Attis, vii. 255 sq.;
compared to Bormus, vii. 257
Liver, indurated, thought to be healed by touch of chief's feet, i. 371;
induration of the, attributed to touching sacred chief, iii. 133;
of kangaroo rubbed on back of man-slayer, iii. 167 sq.;
of pig, omens drawn from, vii. 97;
of deer eaten to make eater long-lived like deer, viii. 143;
of dog eaten to acquire bravery, viii. 145;
of serpent eaten to acquire language of animals, viii. 146;
regarded as the seat of the soul, viii. 147 sq.;
regarded as the seat of valour, viii. 148;
of brave men eaten, viii. 148, 151 sq.;
of bear, used as medicine, viii. 187 sq.
Lives of a family bound up with a fish, xi. 200;
with a cat, xi. 150 sq.
“Living fire” made by the friction of wood, ii. 237, x. 220;
as a charm against witchcraft, ii. 336;
the need-fire, x. 281, 286
—— parents, children of, in ritual, vi. 236 sqq.
Livingstone, David, on the government of the Banyai, ii. 292
Livinhac, Mgr., on chiefs as rain-makers in the Nyanza region, i. 353
Livonia, sacred grove in, ii. 43;
belief as to were-wolves in, iii. 42;
Midsummer festival in, iv. 280;
story of a were-wolf in, x. 308
Livonians cull simples on Midsummer Day, xi. 49 sq.
Livuans, the, of New Britain, their belief in demons, ix. 82 sq.
Livy on the Ciminian forest, ii. 8;
on the annual Roman custom of knocking a nail, ix. 66;
on the Saturnalia, ix. 345 n. 1
Lizard, soul in form of, iii. 38;
external soul in, xi. 199 n. 1;
sex totem in the Port Lincoln tribe of South Australia, xi. 216;
said to have divided the sexes in the human species, xi. 216
—— or snake in annual ceremony for the riddance of evils, ix. 208
Lizards and serpents supposed to renew their youth by casting their skins, ix. 302 sqq.
Ljeschie, Russian wood-spirits, viii. 2
Lkuñgen Indians, their charm to make hair grow long, i. 145;
their magic uses of wasps, i. 152;
their contagious magic of wounds, i. 202;
believe trees to be men transformed, ii. 30
Llama, blood of, sprinkled on doorway, iv. 176 n. 1;
black, as scapegoat, ix. 193
Llandebie, sin-eater reported near, ix. 44
Llandegla in Wales, church of St. Tecla at, ix. 52
Llangors, in Breconshire, the sin-eater at, ix. 43
Lo Bengula, king of the Matabeles, i. 394;
as a rain-maker, i. 351 sq.;
treatment of strangers before admission to, iii. 114
Loaf made of corn of last sheaf, vii. 148 sq.;
thrown into river Neckar on St. John's Day, xi. 28.
See also Loaves
Loango, palsy called the king's disease in, i. 371;
the negroes of, their belief that sexual crime entails drought and famine, ii. 111 sq.;
the Bavili of, ii. 112;
licence of princesses in, ii. 276 [pg 349] sq.;
taboos observed by kings of, iii. 8, 9;
foods tabooed to priests and heirs to the throne in, iii. 291;
practice of knocking nails into idols in, ix. 69 sq., 70 n. 1;
new-born infants not allowed to touch the earth in, x. 5;
girls secluded at puberty in, x. 22
Loango, king of, deposed for failure of harvest or of fishing, i. 353;
revered as a god, i. 396;
fights all rivals for his crown, ii. 322;
forbidden to see a white man's house, iii. 115;
not to be seen eating or drinking, iii. 117 sq.;
confined to his palace, iii. 123;
refuse of his food buried, iii. 129
Loaves in shape of a boar, vii. 300;
hung on head of sacrificed horse, viii. 42, 43;
in human shape, viii. 48 sq., 94, 95.
See also Loaf
Lobeck, Chr. A., on the Thesmophoria, viii. 17 n. 5;
his emendation of Pausanias, viii. 18 n. 1;
his emendation of Clement of Alexandria (Protrept. ii. 17), viii. 20 n. 7
Lobo, spirit-house, among the Toradjas of Celebes, i. 129, ii. 39
Local totem centres in Central Australia, i. 96
Loch Katrine, x. 231
—— Tay, Hallowe'en fires on the banks of, x. 232
Lochaber, the harvest Maiden in, vii. 157
Lock and key in a charm, x. 283
Locks unlocked at childbirth, iii. 294, 296;
thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, iii. 299;
as amulets, iii. 308;
unlocked to facilitate death, iii. 309;
magical virtue of, iii. 310;
opened by springwort, xi. 70;
opened by the white flower of chicory, xi. 71;
mistletoe a master-key to open all, xi. 85
—— and knots, magical virtue of, iii. 309 sq.
See also Keys
Locrians, the Epizephyrians, female kinship among the, ii. 284;
their sacrifice of maidens to the Trojan goddess, ii. 284;
the prostitution of their daughters before marriage, ii. 285;
vicarious sacrifice offered by the, viii. 95 n. 2
Locust, a Batta totem, xi. 223
—— Apollo, viii. 282
—— Hercules, viii. 282
Locusts, sultans expected to drive away, i. 353;
chiefs held responsible for the ravages of, i. 354;
superstitious precautions against, viii. 276, 279, 281
Loeboes (Looboos), a tribe of Sumatra, exchange of costume between boys and girls among the, vi. 264.
See also Looboos
Log, the Yule, x. 247 sqq.
Logan, W., on the custom of attacking the kings of Calicut, iv. 49
Logea, island off New Guinea, taboos observed by manslayers in, iii. 167;
the dead not named in, iii. 354
Logic of the savage, viii. 202
Logierait, parish of, in Perthshire, knots unloosed at marriage in, iii. 299 sq.;
Beltane festival in, x. 152 sq.;
Hallowe'en fires in, x. 231 sq.
Loire, the Lower, the Fox at reaping in, vii. 296
Loiret, Lenten fires in the department of, x. 114
Loitering in the doorway forbidden under certain circumstances, i. 114
Loki and Balder, x. 101 sq.
Lokoala, initiation by spirits among the Indians of North-Western America, ix. 376
Lokoiya, the, of the Upper Nile, rain-makers as chiefs among, i. 345
Lokoja on the Niger, external human souls in crocodiles and hippopotamuses near, xi. 209
Lolos, of Western China, their recall of the soul in sickness, iii. 43;
divine by shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 n. 4;
their belief as to the stars, iv. 65 sq.
Lombardy, oak forests of, in antiquity, ii. 354;
the Day of the Old Wives in, iv. 241;
belief as to the “oil of St. John” on St. John's Morning in, xi. 82 sq.
Lombok, East Indian island, the rice personified as husband and wife in, vii. 201 sqq.
London, the immortal girl of, x. 99;
Midsummer fires in, x. 196 sq.
Long Man, a river-god, i. 144
“—— -haired mother,” title of the Goddess of Maize in Mexico, i. 136
—— -headed men chosen kings, ii. 297
Longevity, homoeopathic charms to ensure, i. 158, 169
“Longevity garments,” in China, i. 169
Longforgan, parish of, in Perthshire, the Maiden Feast at harvest in, vii. 156 sq.
Longnor, near Leebotwood, in Shropshire, the Mare at harvest at, vii. 294
Longridge Fell, leeting the witches at Hallowe'en at, x. 245
Lons-le-Saulnier, in the Jura, last sheaf called the Bitch at, vii. 272
Looboos (Loeboes) of Sumatra creep through a cleft rattan to escape a demon, xi. 182 sq.
See also Loeboes
Look back, not to, in ritual, iii. 157
Looking at bonfires through mugwort a protection against headache and sore eyes, xi. 59
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Loom, not to be touched by a man, iii. 164
Loon, the cry of the, associated with rain, i. 288
Loop in ceremony to detain the sun, i. 317
Loowoo, a kingdom in Celebes, regalia of, i. 364;
superstitious belief as to the king of, i. 399
Loranthus europaeus, a species of mistletoe, xi. 315, 317 sqq.;
called “oak mistletoe” (visco quercino) in Italy, xi. 317
—— vestitus, in India, xi. 317
Lord of the Diamond, prayed to at cairns in Laos, ix. 29
“—— of the Heavenly Hosts,” a temporary king in Siam, iv. 149, 150, 155, 156
—— and Lady of the May, ii. 62, 90 sq.
—— of Misrule, ix. 251, 312;
at Bodmin, ii. 319 n. 1;
in England, ix. 331 sqq.
—— of the Rice, in Siam, iv. 150 n.
—— of the Wells at Midsummer in Fulda, xi. 28
—— of the Wood among the Gayos of Sumatra, offerings to the, ii. 36, 125
Lorne, the Beltane cake in, x. 149
Lorraine, “killing the dog of the harvest” in, vii. 273;
King and Queen of the Bean in, ix. 315;
Midsummer fires in, x. 169; the Yule log in, x. 253;
Midsummer customs in, xi. 47.
See also Lothringen
Loryma in Caria, Adonis worshipped at, v. 227 n.
Losengrad, the district of, in Thrace, masquerade at Carnival in, viii. 332
Loss of the shadow regarded as ominous, iii. 88
Lostwithiel in Cornwall, temporary king at, iv. 153 sq.
Lot, the Fox at threshing in, vii. 297
Loth, J., on the Twelve Days, ix. 325 n. 3
Lothringen (Lorraine), “Killing the Old Woman” at threshing in, vii. 223;
the harvest Dog in, vii. 273;
the harvest Bull in, vii. 288.
See also Lorraine
Lots, Greek custom as to the drawing of, vi. 248;
cast at Purim, ix. 361 sq.
Lottin, the island of, ix. 109
Lotus-tree, shorn tresses of Vestal virgins hung on a, iii. 275
Loucheux, the, of North-West America, the power of medicine-men among, i. 356;
and Hare-skin Indians forbidden to eat the sinew of the leg of animals, viii. 265
Loudoun, in Ayrshire, fires on St. Peter's Day in the parish of, x. 207
Louhans, in Sâone-et-Loire, the Fox at harvest at, vii. 296 sq.
Louis XIV. as King of the Bean, ix. 313;
at Midsummer bonfire in Paris, xi. 39
Louisiade Islands sacred trees in the, ii. 17
Louisiana, festival of new corn in, viii. 77 sqq.
——, the Indians of, kept bones of beavers and otters from dogs, viii. 239;
lamented the death of the buffaloes which they were about to kill, viii. 242
Lous, a month of the Syro-Macedonian calendar, iv. 113, 116, vii. 258, 259, ix. 355, 358
Love, magical images to procure, i. 77;
cures for, i. 161, ix. 3;
illicit, thought to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 sqq.
Love charm, footprints and marigolds in a, i. 211;
of arrows, x. 14
—— -charms practised on St. George's Day, ii. 345 sq.;
by means of hair, iii. 270
“—— Chase” among the Kirghiz, ii. 301
Lover's Leap, a cape in the island of Leucas, human scapegoats at the, ix. 254
Lovers won by knots, iii. 305;
term applied to the Baalim, v. 75 n.;
leap over the Midsummer bonfires, x. 165, 166, 168, 174
—— of goddesses, their unhappy ends, i. 39 sq., vi. 158 sq.
—— of Semiramis and Ishtar, their sad fate, ix. 371 sq.
Low, Sir Hugh, on Dyak belief as to souls of dead in trees, ii. 30 sq.;
on Dyak treatment of heads of slain enemies, v. 295
Low Countries, the Yule log in the, x. 249
Lowell, Percival, his fire-walk, xi. 10 n. 1
Loyalty Islands, recall of a lost soul in the, iii. 54
Lua and Saturn, vi. 233
Luang-Sermata Islands, belief as to cauls in the, i. 188
Luangwa, district of Northern Rhodesia, prayers to dead ancestors in, vi. 175 sq.
Luba, in Busoga, pretended human sacrifice at, iv. 215
Lubare, god, in the language of the Baganda, i. 395
Lübeck, church of St. Mary at, immortal lady in the, x. 100
Lucan, on the Druids, i. 2 n. 1
——, the Thessalian witch in, iii. 390
Lucerne, Lenten fire-custom in the canton [pg 351] of, x. 118 sq.;
bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 30
Luchon, in the Pyrenees, serpents burnt alive at the Midsummer festival in, xi. 38 sq., 43
Lucian, on hair offerings, i. 28;
on the procedure of a Syrian witch, iii. 270;
on the names of the Eleusinian priests, iii. 382;
on the death of Peregrinus, iv. 42, v. 181;
on religious prostitution, v. 58;
on image of goddess at Hierapolis-Bambyce, v. 137 n. 2;
on dispute between Hercules and Aesculapius, v. 209 sq.;
on the ascension of Adonis, v. 225 n. 3;
old scholium on, viii. 17;
as to the rites of Hierapolis, ix. 392;
on the Platonic doctrine of the soul, xi. 221 n. 1
Lucina, how she delayed the birth of Hercules, iii. 298 sq.
See also Juno Lucina
Lucius, E., on the Assumption of the Virgin, i. 15 n. 1
Luck, bad, transferred to trees, ix. 54;
leaping over the Midsummer fires for good, x. 171, 189
Luckau, races at harvest-festival near, vii. 76
Luckiness of the right hand, x. 151
Lucky names, men with, chosen by Romans to open enterprises of moment, iii. 391 n. 1
Lucretius, on the origin of fire among men, ii. 257 n.
Ludhaura, marriage of the tulasi to the Salagrama at, ii. 27
Ludlow in Shropshire, the tug-of-war at, ix. 182
Lug, Celtic god, i. 17 n. 2;
legendary Irish hero, iv. 99, 101
Lugaba, the supreme god of the Bahima, vi. 190
Lugg, river, in Radnorshire, ix. 183
Lugnasad, the 1st of August, in Ireland, iv. 101
Lules or Tonocotes of the Gran Chaco, their behaviour in an epidemic, ix. 122 sq.
Lumholtz, C., on agricultural ceremonies of the Tarahumare Indians of Mexico, vii. 227 sq.;
on the transference of fatigue to sticks or stones, ix. 10;
on the dances of the Tarahumares of Mexico, ix. 236 sqq.;
on Huichol superstition as to the growth of corn, ix. 347 n. 3
Lumi lali, consecrated rice-field, among the Kayans of Borneo, vii. 93, 108
Lunar calendar corrected by observation of the Pleiades, vii. 314 sq., 315 sq.;
of Mohammedans, x. 216 sq., 218 sq.
—— months of Greek calendar, vii. 52 sq., 82;
observed by savages, vii. 117, 125
Lunar and solar years, attempts to harmonize, iv. 68 sq., vii. 80 sq., ix. 325 sq., 339, 341 sqq.
—— sympathy, the doctrine of, vi. 140 sqq.
—— year equated to solar year by intercalation, ix. 325, 342 sq.
Lüneburg, district of, harvest custom in the, vii. 230;
the Harvest-goat at, vii. 283
Lunéville, calf killed at harvest at, vii. 290
Lung-fish clan among the Baganda, vi. 224
Lung-wong, Chinese rain-god, i. 299
Lungs or liver of bewitched animal burnt or boiled to compel the witch to appear, x. 321 sq.
Luritcha tribe of Central Australia, their custom of killing and eating children, iv. 180 n. 1;
their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 99;
destroy the bones of their enemies to prevent them from coming to life again, viii. 260
Lusatia (Lausitz), custom of “Carrying out Death” in, iv. 239, 247, 249;
the “Witch-burning” in, ix. 163.
See also Lausitz
Luschan, Professor F. von, on kings of Dahomey and Benin in animal forms, iv. 85 n. 3, 86 n. 1;
on images stuck with nails, ix. 70 n. 1
Lushais of Assam, men dressed as women, women dressed as men, among the, vi. 255 n. 1;
their belief in demons, ix. 94;
sick children passed through a coil among the, xi. 185 sq.
Lussac, in Vienne, death of the Carnival on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 226;
Midsummer fires at, x. 191
Lute-playing, charm for, i. 152
Luther, Martin, burnt in effigy at Midsummer, x. 167, 172 sq., xi. 23
Luxemburg, “Burning the Witch” in, xi. 116
Luxor, paintings at, ii. 131, 133;
reliefs in temple at, iii. 28;
temples at, vi. 124
Luzon, in the Philippine Archipelago, the Ilocans of, i. 142, 179, ii. 18, iii. 44;
Bontoc in, ii. 30, vii. 240;
the Apoyaos of, vii. 241;
rice-fields guarded against wild hogs in, viii. 33;
the Catalangans of, viii. 124;
the Irayas of, viii. 124;
exorcism in, ix. 260
Lyall, Sir Alfred C., on the opposition between religion and magic, i. 224 n. 1
Lyall, Sir Charles J., on the system of [pg 352] mother-kin among the Khasis, vi. 202 sq.
Lycaeus, Mount, rain-making spring on, i. 309;
rain-charm practised by the priest of Zeus on, ii. 359;
sanctuary of Zeus on, iii. 88;
festival of Zeus on, iv. 70 n. 1;
human sacrifices on, iv. 163, ix. 353
Lycaonian plain, v. 123
Lyceum or Place of Wolves at Athens, viii. 283, 284
Lycia, Patara in, ii. 135;
flowers in, v. 187 n. 6;
Mount Chimaera in, v. 221;
mother-kin in, vi. 212 sq.
Lycian language, question of its affinity, vi. 213 n. 1
—— men dressed as women in mourning, vi. 264
Lycium europaeum, L., ix. 153 n. 1
Lycomedes, king of Scyros, Achilles at the court of, ii. 278
Lycopolis, in Egypt, the wolf, the beast-god of, viii. 172
Lycosura, in Arcadia, taboos observed in the sanctuary of the Mistress at, iii. 227 n., 314, viii. 46;
statue of Demeter or Persephone in the sanctuary of the two goddesses at, viii. 339
Lycurgus, king of the Edonians in Thrace, put to death to restore fertility to land, i. 366;
torn in pieces by horses, vi. 98, 99, vii. 241;
slew his son Dryas, vii. 24, 25
Lycus, valley of the, at Hierapolis, v. 207
Lydia, female descent of kingship in, ii. 281 sq.;
prostitution of girls before marriage in, v. 38, 58;
the lion-god of, v. 184;
the Burnt Land of, v. 193 sq.;
traces of mother kin in, vi. 259;
the burning of kings in, ix. 391
Lydian kings held responsible for the weather and the crops, i. 366, v. 183;
their divinity, v. 182 sqq.;
traced their descent from Ninus and Hercules, ix. 391
Lydians celebrate a festival of Dionysus in spring, vii. 15
Lydus, Joannes, on Phrygian rites at Rome, v. 266 n. 2;
on the expulsion of Mamurius Veturius, ix. 229 n. 1
Lyell, Sir Charles, on hot springs, v. 213 n. 4;
on volcanic phenomena in Syria and Palestine, v. 222 n. 1
Lying-in women, widespread fear of, iii. 150 sqq.;
sacred, iii. 151
Lynxes not called by their proper name, iii. 398
Lyons, the harvest Cat in the neighbourhood of, vii. 280
Lyre as instrument of religious music, v. 52 sq., 54 sq.;
the instrument of Apollo, v. 288
Lysimachus scatters the bones of the kings of Epirus, vi. 104
Lythrum salicaria, purple loosestrife, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 65
Ma, goddess of Comana in Pontus, v. 39, 265 n. 1, ix. 421 n. 1
Ma-hlaing, district of Burma, rain-making in, i. 288
Maass, E., on the identification of Donar with Jupiter, iii. 364 n. 3
Mablaan, chief of the Bawenda, revered as rain-maker, i. 351
Mabuiag, island in Torres Straits, use of magical images in, i. 59;
rain-making in, i. 262;
charms to raise the wind in, i. 323 sq.;
the fire-drill in, ii. 209;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, iii. 147, x. 36 sq.;
continence observed during turtle-season and before hunting dugong in, iii. 192;
bull-roarers thought to promote the growth of garden produce in, vii. 106;
the Sam or Cassowary totem in, viii. 207;
dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, x. 78 sq.;
girls at puberty in, x. 92 n. 1;
belief as to a species of mistletoe in, xi. 79
Macahity, an annual festival in Hawaii, iv. 117
Macalister, Mrs. Alexander, on the harvest Maiden in Perthshire, vii. 157 n. 3
Macalister, Professor R. A. Stewart, on infant burial at Gezer, v. 109 n. 1
Macassar in Celebes, words tabooed to sailors in, iii. 413;
magical unguent in, x. 14
Macassars of Celebes, their belief as to the blighting effect of the blood of incestuous persons, ii. 110;
their custom of swinging, iv. 277;
ascribe a soul to rice, vii. 183
Maccabees, the Second Book of, its date, ix. 360
M'Carthy, Sir Charles, eaten by the Ashantees to make them brave, viii. 149
McClintock, Walter, on a legend of the Blackfoot Indians concerning the Pleiades, vii. 311
MacCorquodale, John, on the harvest Maiden and Old Wife in Glencoe, vii. 165;
on the harvest Cailleach at Crianlarich, vii. 166
MacCrauford, the great arch witch, x. 293
MacCulloch, J. A., on the Twelve Days, ix. 326 n.
Macdonald, Rev. James, on magic to catch fish in the Highlands, i. 110;
on Bride's bed in the Highlands, ii. [pg 353] 94 n. 2;
on the fire-drill in South-East Africa, ii. 210 sq.;
on a custom of infanticide in South Africa, iv. 183 n. 2;
on the worship of ancestors among the Bantus, vi. 176;
on the correction of the Caffre lunar calendar by observation of the Pleiades, vii. 315 sq.;
on the Pondo festival of new fruits, viii. 66 sq.;
on the expulsion of demons in some South African tribes, ix. 111 n. 1;
on the story of Headless Hugh, xi. 131 n. 1;
on external soul in South Africa, xi. 156
Macdonald, King of the Isles, i. 160, 161
Macdonalds, the, supposed to heal a certain disease by their touch, i. 370 n. 3
Macdonell, Professor A. A., on Agni, xi. 296
Macdonell, Lady Agnes, on the custom of horn-blowing at Penzance on May Day, ix. 164 n. 1
McDougall, W., and C. Hose, on creeping through a cleft stick after a funeral, among the Kayans of Borneo, xi. 176 n. 1
See also Hose, Dr. Charles
Mace of Narmer, representation of the Sed festival on the, vi. 154
Maceboard, the, a procession of Summer in the Isle of Man, iv. 258
Macedonia, custom as to children's cast teeth in, i. 180 sq.;
rain-making among the Greeks of, i. 272 sq., 274;
wooden effigies of swallows carried about the streets on the 1st of March in, viii. 322 n.;
demons and ghosts hammered into walls in, ix. 63 n. 4;
Midsummer fires among the Greeks of, x. 212;
bonfires on August 1st in, x. 220;
need-fire among the Serbs of Western, x. 281;
St. John's flower at Midsummer in, xi. 50
Macedonian calendar, vii. 258 sq.
—— farmers, their homoeopathic magic at digging their fields, i. 139
—— peasantry burn effigies of Judas at Easter, x. 131
—— superstitions as to the Twelve Days, ix. 320
Macedonians preserve their nail-parings for the resurrection, iii. 280
Macfarlane, Mr., of Faslane, as to the last corn at harvest, vii. 158 n. 2
McGregor, A. W., on the rite of new birth among the Akikuyu, xi. 263
MacGregor, Sir William, on the political power of magicians in British New Guinea, i. 337;
and the Alake of Abeokuta, iv. 203 n. 2
Macha, Queen, Irish fair said to have been instituted in her honour, iv. 100
Machindranath temple at Lhasa, ix. 219
MacIntyre, Duncan, on the harvest Cailleach, vii. 166
Mack, a usurper in Tonquin, iii. 19
Mackay, Alexander, on need-fire, x. 294 sq.
Mackays, sept of the “descendants of the seal,” xi. 131 sq.
Mackenzie, Sheriff-Substitute David J., on Up-helly-a' at Lerwick, ix. 169 n. 2, x. 268 n. 1
Mackenzie, E., on need-fire, x. 288
Maclagan, Dr. R. C., on the harvest Maiden and Old Wife in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 165 sq.
Maclay coast of Northern New Guinea, ii. 254, iii. 109
McLennan, J. F., on deega and beena marriage, ii. 271 n. 1;
on the bride-race, ii. 301 n. 4;
on custom of chiefs marrying their sisters, iv. 194 n. 1;
on brother and sister marriages, v. 44 n. 2, vi. 216 n. 1
“Macleod's Fairy Banner,” i. 368
Macphail, John, on need-fire, x. 293 sq.
Macpherson, Major S. C., on human sacrifices among the Khonds, vii. 250
Macrobius, on Janus, ii. 385 n. 2;
on the mourning Aphrodite, v. 30;
on the Egyptian year, vi. 28 n. 3;
on Osiris as a sun-god, vi. 121;
his solar theory of the gods, vi. 121, 128;
on the influence of the moon, vi. 132;
on institution of the Saturnalia, ix. 345 n. 1
McTaggart, Dr. J. McT. Ellis, on transmigration, viii. 309 n. 1
Macusis of British Guiana, their belief in dreams, iii. 36 sq.;
custom observed by parents after childbirth among the, iii. 159 n.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 60
Madagascar, kings of, as high-priests, i. 47 sq.;
foods tabooed in, i. 117 sq.;
custom of women in Madagascar while men are at war, i. 131;
magical use of stones in, i. 160;
modes of counteracting evil omens in, i. 173 sq.;
chiefs held responsible for the operation of the laws of nature in, i. 354;
the Antaimorona of, i. 354;
the Antimores of, i. 354;
the Betsileo of, i. 397, iii. 246, viii. 116, 289;
the Hovas of, i. 397, viii. 116;
special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal in, i. 401 n. 3;
custom of passing newborn children through the fire in, ii. 232 n. 3;
recall of lost souls in, iii. 54;
mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95;
the Mahafaly country in, iii. 103;
the Zafimanelo of, iii. 116;
the Antambahoaka of, iii. 216;
the Antandroy of, iii. 227;
the Tanala of, iii. 227, vii. 9, viii. 290;
blood of nobles [pg 354] not to be shed in, iii. 243;
taboo on mentioning personal names in, iii. 327;
the Sakalavas of, iii. 327, iv. 202, viii. 40 n.;
natives of, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
names of chiefs and kings tabooed in, iii. 378 sqq.;
tabooed words in, iii. 401;
belief as to the transmigration of the dead into serpents in, iv. 84;
vicarious sacrifice for a king in, vi. 221;
men dressed as women in, vi. 254;
first-fruits offered to kings in, viii. 116;
mourners rub themselves with the juices of the dead in, viii. 163;
crocodiles respected in, viii. 214 sq.;
belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals in, viii. 289 sq.;
the Antankarana of, viii. 290;
the Sihanaka of, ix. 2 sq.;
stones or clods thrown on solitary graves in, ix. 19;
transference of evils in, ix. 33 sq.
See also Malagasy
Madangs of Borneo, custom observed by them after a funeral, xi. 175 sq.
Madder-harvest, Dutch custom at, vii. 231, 235 sq.
Madenassana Bushmen, their reluctance to look on their sacred animal the goat, viii. 28 sq.
Madern, parish of, Cornwall, holed stone in, xi. 187
Madi or Moru tribe of Central Africa bury their nail-parings, iii. 277;
their sacrament of a lamb, viii. 314 sq.;
their annual sacrifice of a lamb, ix. 217
Madium district in Java, deceiving the spirit of a plant in the, ii. 23
Madness of Orestes, cured by sitting on a stone, i. 161.
See also Insanity
Madonie Mountains, in Sicily, Midsummer fires on the, x. 210
Madonna, effigies of, sold and eaten, viii. 94
—— and Isis, their resemblance, vi. 119
Madras, ceremonies after the killing of a cobra in, iii. 222 sq.
Madras Presidency, the fire-walk in the, xi. 6
Madura, island off Java, inspired mediums in, i. 384;
the Kappiliyans of, x. 69;
the Parivarams of, x. 69
Maeander, the river, supposed to take the virginity of brides, ii. 162;
the valley of, subject to earthquakes, v. 194;
sanctuaries of Pluto in the valley of, v. 205, 206;
Lityerses thrown by Hercules into, vii. 217
Maera, the dog of Icarus, iv. 281
Maeseyck, in Belgium, processions with torches on first Sunday in Lent at, x. 107 sq.
Mafuie, the Samoan god of earthquakes, v. 200
Magarsus in Cilicia, v. 169 n. 3
Magdalen College, Oxford, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
Magdeburg, the Flax-mother near, vii. 133;
the last sheaf called Grandmother near, vii. 136;
reaper who cut the last corn wrapt in corn-stalls near, vii. 221
Maggots eaten at an initiatory rite, viii. 141
Maghs of Bengal, their ceremony at felling a tree, ii. 38
Magian priests, ii. 241 n. 4
Magic, principles of, i. 52 sqq.;
based on misapplications of the association of ideas, i. 53 sq., 221 sq.;
in ancient India, i. 63 sq., 228 sq., ix. 91;
in modern India, i. 64 sq.;
in ancient Egypt, i. 66, 67 sq., 225, 230 sq.;
in ancient Babylonia, i. 66 sq.;
positive and negative, i. 111 sq., 117;
blent with the worship of the dead, i. 164;
physical basis of, i. 174 sq.;
public and private, i. 214 sq., 245;
benefits conferred by, i. 218 sq.;
has paved the way for science, i. 219;
attraction of, i. 221;
fatal flaw of, i. 221 sq.;
opposed in principle to religion, i. 224;
older than religion, i. 233 sqq.;
universality of belief in, i. 234-236;
transition from magic to religion, i. 237 sqq., ii. 376 sq.;
the fallacy of, not easy to detect, i. 242 sq.;
combined with religion, i. 347;
the fallacy of, gradually detected, i. 372;
declines with the growth of religion, i. 374;
strangers suspected of practising, iii. 102;
wrought by means of refuse of food, iii. 126 sqq.;
wrought through clippings of hair, iii. 268 sqq., 275, 277, 278 sq.;
wrought on a man through his name, iii. 318, 320 sqq.;
degenerates into games, vii. 110 n.;
dwindles into divination, vii. 110 n., x. 336;
of a flesh diet, vii. 138 sqq.;
the belief in, persists under the higher religions, ix. 89 sq.;
movement of thought from magic through religion to science, xi. 304 sq.
——, the Age of, i. 235, 237, iv. 2
——, contagious, i. 52-54, 174-214, iii. 246, 268, 272;
based on a mistaken association of ideas, i. 53 sq., 174;
of teeth, i. 176-182;
of navel-string and afterbirth (placenta), i. 182-201;
of wound and weapon, i. 201 sqq.;
of footprints, i. 207-212;
of other impressions, i. 213 sq.
—— and ghosts, mugwort a protection against, xi. 59
——, homoeopathic or imitative, i. 52 sqq., iii. 151, 152, 207, 295, 298, iv. [pg 355] 283, 285, vii. 10, 62, 262, 267, 331, 333, 334, viii. 272, ix. 177, 232, 248, 257, 404, x. 49, 133, 329, xi. 231, 287;
based on a mistaken association of ideas, i. 53;
in medicine, i. 78 sqq.;
for the supply of food, i. 85 sqq.;
in fishing and hunting, i. 108 sqq.;
to make plants grow, i. 136 sqq.;
of the dead, i. 147 sqq.;
of animals, i. 150 sqq.;
of inanimate things, i. 157 sqq.;
of iron, i. 159 sq.;
of stones, i. 160 sqq.;
of the heavenly bodies, i. 165 sq.;
of the tides, i. 166 sqq.;
to annul evil omens, i. 170-174;
for the making of rain, i. 247 sqq.
Magic, negative, equivalent to taboo, i. 111 sqq.;
examples of, i. 143
—— and religion, i. 220-243, 250, 285, 286, 347, 352, ii. 376 sq.;
confused together, i. 226 sqq.;
their historical antagonism comparatively late, i. 226;
Hegel on, i. 423 sqq.;
combination of, v. 4
—— and science, their analogy, i. 220 sq.;
different views of natural order postulated by the two, xi. 305 sq.
—— sympathetic, i. 51 sqq., iii. 126, 130, 164, 201, 204, 258, 268, 287, iv. 77, vii. 1, 11, 102, 139, viii. 33, 271, 311 sq., ix. 399;
the two branches of, Homoeopathic and Contagious, i. 54;
examples of, i. 55 sqq.
—— and witchcraft, permanence of the belief in, ix. 89.
See also Sorcery and Witchcraft
Magic flowers of Midsummer Eve, xi. 45 sqq.
Magical bone in sorcery, x. 14
—— ceremonies for the multiplication of totemic animals, plants, etc., in Central Australia, i. 85 sqq.;
for the revival of nature in spring, iv. 266 sqq.;
for the revival of nature in Central Australia, iv. 270;
for the regulation of the seasons, v. 3 sqq.
—— changes of shape, vii. 305
—— control of the weather, i. 244 sqq.;
of rain, i. 247 sqq.;
of the sun, i. 311 sqq.;
of the wind, i. 319 sqq.
—— dramas to promote vegetation, ii. 120, vii. 187 sq.;
for the regulation of the seasons, v. 4 sq.
—— implements not allowed to touch the ground, x. 14 sq.
—— influence of medicine-bag, xi. 268
—— origin of certain religious dramas, ii. 142 sq., v. 4, vii. 187 sq., ix. 373 sq.
—— significance of games in primitive agriculture, vii. 92 sqq.
—— type of man-god, i. 244
—— uses made of the bodies of the dead, vi. 100 sqq.
Magical virtues of plants at Midsummer apparently derived from the sun, xi. 71 sq.
Magician, public, his rise to power, i. 215 sqq.
—— and priest, their antagonism, i. 226
Magician's apprentice, Danish story of the, xi. 121 sqq.
—— Glass, the, x. 16
—— progress, the, i. 214 sqq., 335 sqq.
Magicians claim to compel the gods, i. 225;
gods viewed as, i. 240 sqq.;
importance of rise of professional magicians, i. 245 sqq.;
as kings, i. 332 sqq.;
political power of, i. 335 sqq.;
develop into gods and kings, i. 375;
the oldest professional class in the evolution of society, i. 420;
develop into kings, i. 420 sq.;
make evil use of spilt blood, iii. 246.
See also Magic, Medicine-men, Shamans, and Sorcerers
——, Egyptian, their power of compelling the deities, i. 225, iii. 389 sq.
Magnesia on the Maeander, sacred cave near, i. 386;
device on coins of, i. 386 n. 2;
worship of Zeus at, vi. 238;
image of Dionysus in a plane-tree at, vii. 3;
sacrifice of bull at, viii. 7 sq.;
the month of Cronion in, viii. 7, 8 n. 1, ix. 351 n. 2
Magnets thought to keep brothers at unity, i. 165
Magondi, a Mashona chief, i. 393 sq.
Magpies' nests, custom of robbing the, viii. 321 n. 3
Magyar tale, resurrection of hero in a, viii. 263
Magyars, Midsummer fires among the, x. 178 sq.;
stories of the external soul among the, xi. 139 sq.
Maha Makham, the Great Sacrifice, celebrated every twelfth year at Calicut, iv. 49
Mahabharata, the, Indian epic, the Nagas in, i. 383 n. 4;
Draupadi and her five husbands in, ii. 306, xi. 7
Mahadeo, mock human sacrifices offered by the Bhagats to a, iv. 217 sq.
—— and Parvati, married Indian deities, their images worshipped, v. 242, 251
Mahadeva, Indian god, husband of Parvati, v. 241;
propitiation of, ix. 197
Mahafaly country, in Madagascar, formerly tabooed to strangers, iii. 103
Mahafalys of Madagascar, their chiefs not allowed to sail the sea or cross rivers, iii. 10
Mahakam Dyaks of Borneo, i. 159
—— River in Borneo, iii. 104, vii. 98, [pg 356] 99 n. 1, 186, 187, 314;
the Kayans of the, vii. 314
Maharajas, a Hindoo sect, worship their spiritual chiefs as incarnations of Krishna, i. 406;
believe that bathing in a sacred well is a remedy for barrenness in women, ii. 160 sq.
Mahdi, an ancient, v. 74
Mahratta, dancing-girls in, v. 62
Mahrattas, their belief in human incarnations of the elephant-headed god Gunputty, i. 405
Mahua tree (Bassia latifolia) worshipped by the Mannewars in India, viii. 119
Mahwá-tree, bride tied to, at a Munda marriage, ii. 57
Mai Darat, a Sakai tribe of the Malay Peninsula, their exorcism of demons by means of effigies, viii. 102
Maia or Majestas, the wife of Vulcan, vi. 232 sq.
Maiau, hero in form of crocodile, v. 139 n. 1
Maiden, the (Persephone), the descent of, vi. 41;
name given to last corn cut in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 140, 153, 155 sqq., 164 sqq.;
or Corn-maiden, name given to puppet made of rye at end of reaping near Wolfenbuttel, vii. 150
Maiden Feast at end of harvest in Perthshire, vii. 156
“—— -flax” at Midsummer, xi. 48
Maiden's Well at Eleusis, vii. 36
Maidenhead, name of last standing corn on the Gareloch, vii. 158
Maidhdeanbuain or Maighdean-Bhuana, “the shorn Maiden” at harvest in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 155 sq., 164, 165
Maidu Indians of California, taboos observed by women and children in absence of hunters among the, i. 122;
the importance of shamans among the, i. 357 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 42;
their notion as to fire in trees, xi. 295;
their idea of lightning, xi. 298
Maillotins on May Day, in the department of Mayenne, ii. 63
Maimonides, on loading a fruit-tree with stones, i. 140;
on a custom observed at grafting by the heathen of Harran, ii. 100 n. 2;
on the seclusion of menstruous women, x. 83
Maine, French department, oaks worshipped in, ii. 371
Mairs, in India, their custom of sacrificing their first-born sons to the small-pox goddess, iv. 181
Maize, Mexican goddesses of, i. 136, vii. 176, ix. 285 sq., 286 n. 1, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295;
homoeopathic magic to promote the growth of, i. 136, 137;
magical stones for the increase of, i. 162;
continence at sowing, ii. 105;
custom at maize harvest in Transylvania, iv. 254;
time of the maize-harvest in modern Greece, vii. 48;
cultivated in Africa, vii. 114, 115, 119, 130;
cultivated in South America, vii. 122, 124;
cultivated in Assam, vii. 123;
compared to a mother, vii. 130;
American personification of, vii. 171 sqq.;
personified as an Old Woman who Never Dies, vii. 204 sq.;
cultivated in Burma, vii. 242;
Mexican goddess of the White, lepers sacrificed to her, vii. 261;
thought to be dependent on the Pleiades, vii. 310;
red, a totem of the Omahas, viii. 25 sq.;
the Mexican goddess of the Young, ix. 278
Maize-mother, vii. 172 sqq.
Majhwars, Dravidian race of Mirzapur, their use of iron as a talisman, iii. 234;
their use of chickens as scapegoats, ix. 36;
their imprisonment of ghosts in trees, ix. 60 sq.
Makalaka hills, to the west of Matabeleland, i. 394
Makalakas, their human god, i. 394 sq.;
ceremony at the naming of a child among the, iii. 369 sq.;
their offerings of first-fruits, viii. 110 sq.
Makalanga, a Bantu tribe near Sofala, x. 135 n. 2
Makanga, African tribe, their belief that the souls of dead chiefs are in lions, viii. 287 sq.
Makaram, an Indian month, iv. 49
Makatissas of South Africa, their use of magical dolls, i. 71
Make-Make, a god in Easter Island, viii. 133
Makololo, the, of South Africa, burn or bury their shorn hair for fear of witchcraft, iii. 281
Makral, “the witch,” on first Sunday in Lent, at Grand Halleux, x. 107
Makrizi, Arab historian, on mode of stopping rain, i. 252;
on the custom of throwing a virgin into the Nile, ii. 151 n. 2;
on the burning of effigies of Haman at Purim, ix. 393 sq.
Malabar, use of magical images in, i. 64;
iron as an amulet in, iii. 234;
custom of suicide observed by kings in, iv. 47;
custom of Thalavettiparothiam in, iv. 53;
religious suicide in, iv. 54 sq.;
use of cows as scapegoats in, ix. 216;
the Iluvans of, x. 5;
the Tiyans of, x. 68
Malacca, the Mentras of, iii. 404
[pg 357]
Malagasy, their homoeopathic magic at planting maize, i. 137;
their use of children of living parents in ritual, vi. 247;
venerate crocodiles, viii. 215;
faditras among the, ix. 33 sq.
Malagasy language, dialectical variations of, caused by taboos on the names of chiefs and kings, living or dead, iii. 378 sq., 380
—— porters, their belief as to a woman stepping over their poles, iii. 424
—— soldiers, foods tabooed to, i. 117 sq.;
male animals not to be killed in the houses of absent, i. 119
—— whalers, rules observed by, iii. 191.
See also Madagascar
Malanau tribes of Borneo, their use of a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 406 sq.;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 294
Malas, the, of Southern India, their treatment of the placenta, i. 194;
their custom in drought, i. 284 n.;
their rain-charm by means of frogs, i. 294;
talismans of Mala women at childbirth, iii. 235;
their communionwith a goddess by eating her edible image, viii. 93 sq.
Malassi, a fetish in West Africa, xi. 256
Malay charms by means of magical images, i. 57 sq.;
at reaping rice, i. 139 sq.
—— conception of the soul of rice, vii. 180 sqq.
—— life, prevalence of magic in, iii. 416 n. 4
—— magic, to catch crocodiles, i. 110 sq.;
tinctured with a belief in spirits, i. 220 n. 1
—— maxim at planting maize, i. 136
—— miners, fowlers, and fishermen, special forms of speech employed by, iii. 407 sqq.
—— mode of rain-making, i. 262
—— Peninsula, power of medicine-men among the wild tribes of the, i. 360 sq.;
special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal in the, i. 401 n. 3;
the Djakuns of the, ii. 236;
race for a bride among the indigenous tribes of the, ii. 302 sq.;
art of abducting human souls in the, iii. 73 sqq.;
the Besisis of the, iii. 87, ix. 226 n. 1;
the Mentras or Mantras of the, vi. 140;
the Rice-mother in the, vii. 197 sqq.;
the Mai Darat of the, viii. 102;
the Mantras of the, ix. 88
—— region, divinity of kings in, i. 398
—— society, parents named after their children in, iii. 332
—l— story of the absence of the soul in a dream, iii. 38 n. 4;
of the transference of souls, iii. 49
—— superstitions in regard to tin, iii. 407
Malayalies of the Shervaray Hills, their euphemism for a tiger, iii. 402
Malayans, devil-dancers in Southern India, practise a mock human sacrifice, iv. 216
Malayo-Siamese families of the Patani States, their custom as to the afterbirth, xi. 163 sq.
Malays, taboos observed by the, in the search for camphor, i. 114 sq.;
telepathy in war among the, i. 127;
their belief as to the sunset glow, i. 319;
their superstitious veneration for their rajahs, i. 361;
regalia regarded as talismans among the, i. 362;
their ceremony for making the durian-tree bear fruit, ii. 21;
their ways of deceiving the spirits of trees and plants, ii. 22 sqq.;
their superstition as to toallong trees, ii. 41;
their conception of the soul as a mannikin, iii. 28;
their conception of the soul as a bird, iii. 34 sqq.;
their custom as to shadows in building a house, iii. 81;
their superstitions as to the head, iii. 254;
taboos on cutting the hair among the, iii. 261;
their belief in the Spectral Huntsman, iv. 178;
their lunar years, vii. 314;
their use of birds as scapegoats, ix. 35;
stratification of religious beliefs among the, ix. 90 n. 1;
their story of the external soul, xi. 147 sq.;
their belief as to sympathetic relation between man and animal, xi. 197;
their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 222
—— of Patani Bay, their ways of referring to tigers, iii. 404;
special language used by them in fishing, iii. 408 sq.;
a family of them related to crocodiles, viii. 212
Maldive Islands, special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal in the, i. 401 n. 3;
virgin sacrificed as bride to a jinnee of the sea in the, ii. 152 sqq.;
disposal of cut hair and nails in the, iii. 274
Male and female, the sticks of the fire-drill regarded by savages as, ii. 208 sqq., 218, 218 n. 1, 223, 224, 226, 238, 249 sq.;
souls in Chinese philosophy, xi. 221
Male animals not to be killed in houses of absent Malagasy soldiers, i. 119
—— organ, effigy of, in rites of Dionysus, vii. 12;
effigy of, in Thracian ceremony, vii. 26, 29
Malecki (Maeletius, Menecius), J., on the [pg 358] heathen religion of the Lithuanians, ii. 366 n. 2
Malekootoos, a Bechuana tribe. See Baperis
Malemut Esquimaux unwilling to tell their names, iii. 328
Malepa, Bantu tribe of the Transvaal, will not taste blood, iii. 241
Maletsunyane, river in Basutoland, ii. 157
Malikolo, in the New Hebrides, heads of infants moulded artificially in, ii. 298 n. 2
Malkin Tower, witches at the, x. 245
Malko-Tirnovsko, in the district of Adrianople, masquerade at Carnival at, viii. 331
Mallans of India, their use of a scapegoat in time of cholera, ix. 190
Mallows, riddles asked by old men seated on, after a burial, ix. 122 n.
Mallus in Cilicia, deities on coins of, v. 165 sq.
Malmyz district of Russia, the Wotyaks of, ii. 145, ix. 156
Malo, one of the New Hebrides, title to nobility in, founded on sacrifice of pigs to ancestors, i. 339
Malta, death of the Carnival in, iv. 224 sq.;
bilingual inscription of, v. 16;
Phoenician temples of, v. 35;
fires on St. John's Eve in, x. 210 sq.
Maluango, the king of Loango, ii. 322
Malurus cyaneus, superb warbler, women's “sister,” among the Kurnai, xi. 216
Malwa, in Western India, iv. 122
Mamilian tower at Rome, viii. 42, 44
Mamre, sacred oak or terebinth at, v. 37 n. 2
Mamurius Veturius, annual expulsion of, in ancient Rome, ix. 229 sqq., 252, 257
Man, E. H., on the ignorance of the Andaman Islanders of the art of making fire, ii. 253;
on the first fire of the Andaman Islanders, ii. 256 n. 2
Man and animal, sympathetic relation between, xi. 272 sq.
——, the Isle of, tying up the wind in knots in, i. 326;
precautions against witches on May Day in, ii. 53 sq.;
hunting the wren in, viii. 318 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 201, 337;
old New Year's Day in, x. 224 sq.;
Hallowe'en customs in, x. 243 sq.;
bonfires on St. Thomas's Day in, x. 266;
cattle burnt alive to stop a murrain in, x. 325 sqq.;
mugwort gathered on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 59.
See also Isle of Man
“Man, the True,” official title of the head of Taoism in China, i. 413
Man-god, the two types of, i. 244 sq.;
notion of a man-god belongs to early period of religious history, i. 374 sq.;
contagious magical virtue of the, iii. 132;
necessity for the isolation of the, iii. 132;
reason for killing the, iv. 9 sq.;
in China, ix. 117 sq.
Mana, supernatural or magical power in Melanesia, i. 111 n. 2, 227, 228 n. 1, 339
Manahiki, South Pacific, women after childbirth not allowed to handle food in, iii. 147;
rejoicings at the appearance of the Pleiades in, vii. 312 sq.
Manasseh, King of Judah, his sacrifice of his children, iv. 170
Manchu dynasty, the life-tree of the, xi. 167 sq.
Mandai river, the Dyaks of the, ii. 40
Mandalay, human sacrifices at gateways of, iii. 90;
kings of Burma screened from public gaze at, iii. 125 sq.;
the ceremony of head-washing at, iii. 253
Mandan Indians, afraid of having their portraits taken, iii. 97;
their belief as to the stars, iv. 67 sq.;
their personification of maize as an Old Woman, vii. 204 sq.;
their annual expulsion of the devil, ix. 171
Mandarins, deceased, deification of, i. 415
Mandeling, a district of Sumatra, treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 192 sq.;
the King of the Rice in, vii. 197;
respect for tigers in, viii. 216
Mandelings of Sumatra, their excuses to tree-spirits for cutting down trees, ii. 36;
open boxes, pans, etc., to help childbirth, iii. 296
Mandingoes of Senegambia, their attention to the phases of the moon, vi. 141
—— of Sierra Leone, kingship an honour desired by few among the, iii. 18
Mandragora called “the hand of glory” in France, xi. 316
Manegres of the Amoor, concealment of personal names among the, iii. 323
Maneros, chant of Egyptian reapers, vi. 45, 46, vii. 215, 258, 259, 261, 263, 264
Manes, first king of Lydia, v. 186 n. 5
Manetho, on the Egyptian burnt-sacrifice of red-haired men, vi. 97;
on Isis as the discoverer of corn, vi. 116;
on Osiris and Isis as the sun and moon, vi. 120;
on human sacrifices in ancient Egypt, vii. 259 n. 3
Mang-bettou.
See Monbuttu
—— -Shen, Chinese god of agriculture, viii. 11, 12
—— Than, the Warder of the Ox, in Annam, viii. 13 sq.
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Mangaia, Pacific island, priests inspired by gods in, i. 378;
separation of religious and civil authority in, iii. 20
Mangaians, their story of a man whose strength varied with the length of his shadow, iii. 87;
their preference for a violent death, iv. 10
Mang'anje woman, her external soul in an ivory ornament, xi. 156
Manggarais, the, of Flores, forbidden to utter their own names, iii. 324
Mango married to a tamarind or a jasmine in India, ii. 25
Mango crop, feast of the new, viii. 119
—— -tree, bridegroom tied to, at a Munda marriage, ii. 57;
worshipped by the Nahals, viii. 119;
festival of wild, x. 7 sqq.;
ceremony for the fertilization of the, x. 10
Mani of Chitombe or Jumba, potentate in West Africa, his hair, teeth, and nails kept after death as a rain-charm, iii. 271
Mania, an ancient Roman bogey, i. 22;
the Mother or Grandmother of Ghosts, viii. 94, 96
Maniae, a kind of loaf, viii. 94
Manichaeans, their theory of earthquakes, v. 197
Manichaeus, the heretic, his death, v. 294 n. 3
Manii, many, at Aricia, a proverb, i. 22, viii. 94 sqq.
Manioc or cassava cultivated in Africa, vii. 119;
cultivated in South America, vii. 120 sq., 122
Manipur, rain-making in, i. 252, 283 sq.;
the Chirus of, i. 289;
rain-making by means of a stone in, i. 304 sq.;
the Tangkhuls of, ii. 100;
the Kabuis of, ii. 106;
the hill tribes of, diet of religious chiefs among, iii. 292;
the Murrams of, iii. 292;
the Naga tribes of, iii. 292, iv. 11, vi. 57 sq.;
mode of counting the years in, iv. 117 n. 1;
rajahs of, descended from a snake, iv. 133;
the Rajah of, his sins transferred to a substitute, ix. 39;
annual eponyms in, ix. 39 sq.
Manitoo, personal totem, xi. 273 n. 1
Manius Egerius, said to have founded the sacred grove at Aricia, i. 22, viii. 95
Manna, ceremony for the magical multiplication of, i. 88 sq.
Mannewars, the, a forest tribe of the Central Provinces in India, their worship of the Bassia latifolia, viii. 119
Mannhardt, W., iv. 249 n. 4, vii. 258, viii. 337;
on loading trees with stones, i. 140 n. 6;
on rain-making by drenching trees, ii. 47;
on the Harvest-May, ii. 48;
on the representation of the spirit of vegetation at the spring festivals of Europe, ii. 78 sq.;
on the May King, Queen of May, etc., ii. 84;
on the pinching and beheading of frogs as a rain-charm, ii. 87;
on a French custom at May Day, ii. 93 n. 1;
on the “carrying out of Death,” iv. 253;
on the European ceremonies for the revival of vegetation in spring, iv. 267 sq.;
on placing children in winnowing-fans, vii. 11;
on the etymology of Demeter, vii. 131;
on the Corn-mother or Barley-mother in modern Europe, vii. 132;
on corn-puppet called Ceres, vii. 135;
on the identification of the harvester with the corn-spirit, vii. 138 sq.;
on the Peruvian Maize-mother, Quino-mother, etc., vii. 172;
on the corn-spirit in human form, vii. 204;
on Lityerses, vii. 217 n. 1, 218 n. 1;
on the corn-spirit in the corn last cut or threshed, vii. 222;
on the mythical calf of the corn, vii. 292;
on corn-spirit as horse, vii. 294;
on goat-formed woodland deities, viii. 2 sq.;
on the sacrifice of the October horse at Rome, viii. 42 n. 1;
on the golden leg of Pythagoras, viii. 263;
on processions of animals or of men disguised as animals, viii. 325;
on processions of maskers representing the spirits of vegetation, ix. 250;
on beating human scapegoats, ix. 255, 272;
on the human victims at the Thargelia, ix. 257 n. 4;
on fire-customs, x. 106 n. 3;
his theory that the fires of the fire-festivals are charms to secure sunshine, x. 329, 331 sqq.;
on torches as imitations of lightning, x. 340 n. 1;
on the Hirpi Sorani, xi. 15 n.;
on burning leaf-clad representative of spirit of vegetation, xi. 25;
on the human victims sacrificed by the Celts, xi. 33;
his theory of the Druidical sacrifices, xi. 43;
his solar theory of the bonfires at the European fire-festivals, xi. 72;
on killing a cock on the harvest-field, xi. 280 n.
Mannikin, the soul conceived as a, iii. 26 sqq.
Manning, Percy, on May garlands in Hertfordshire, ii. 61 sq.
Man-slayers, purification of, iii. 165 sqq.;
secluded, iii. 165 sqq.;
tabooed, iii. 165 sqq.;
haunted by ghosts of slain, iii. 165 sqq.;
their faces blackened, iii. 169;
their bodies painted, iii. 175, 178, 179, 180, 186 n. 1;
their hair shaved, iii. 175, 177;
taste the blood of their victims, viii. 154 sq.
See also Homicide
Mantinea, Poseidon worshipped at, v. [pg 360] 203 n. 2;
sanctuary of Demeter at, vii. 46 n. 2;
games in honour of Antinous at, vii. 80, 85
Mantineans purify their city by sacrificial victims, iii. 189
Mantis religiosus, a totem in the Duke of York Island, xi. 248 n.
Mantras, the, of the Malay Peninsula, their fear of demons, ix. 88 sq.
Mantras, sacred texts recited as spells by the Brahmans, i. 403 sq.
Manu, Hindoo lawgiver, on the uncleanness of women at menstruation, x. 95;
on the three births of the Aryan, xi. 276 sq.
See also Manu, the Laws of
Manu, the Laws of, on the effects of a good king's reign, i. 366;
on the divinity of kings and Brahmans, i. 403;
on the rebirth of a father in his son, iv. 188 sq.;
on the transmigration of evil-doers into animals, viii. 298 sq.
Manure, ashes used as, vii. 117
Manx fishermen, tabooed words of, iii. 396
—— mummers at Hallowe'en, x. 224
Many Manii at Aricia, a proverb, i. 22, viii. 94 sqq.
Maori. See also New Zealand
Maori chiefs, their sanctity or taboo, iii. 134 sqq.;
their heads sacred, iii. 256 sq.;
their hair sacred, iii. 265
—— gods, ix. 81
—— language, synonyms in the, iii. 381
—— priest catches the soul of a tree, vi. 111 n. 1
—— sorcerers, their use of clipped hair, nails, etc., iii. 269
Maoris, magical images among the, i. 71;
magic of navel-string and afterbirth among the, i. 182 sq.;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 208;
acquainted with the sexes of trees, ii. 24;
their belief as to fertilizing virtue of trees, ii. 56;
their ceremonies on entering a strange land, iii. 109;
persons who have handled the dead tabooed among the, iii. 138 sq.;
tabooed on the war-path, iii. 157;
will not lean against the wall of a house, iii. 251;
their spells at hair-cutting, iii. 264 sq.;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 64;
determined the beginning of their year by the rising of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
their offering of first-fruits of sweet potatoes, viii. 133;
warriors taste the blood of their slain foes among the, viii. 156;
put the first fish caught back into the sea, viii. 252;
birth-trees among the, xi. 163
Mar-na, a Philistine deity, ix. 418 n. 1
Mara tribe of Northern Australia, burial rites of the, i. 102 sq.;
their rain-making, i. 251;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 60 sq.;
initiation of medicine-men in the, xi. 239
Marake, an ordeal of being stung by ants and wasps among the Indians of French Guiana, x. 63 sq.
Marash, Hittite monuments at, v. 173
Maravars, the, of Southern India, their use of iron as a talisman, iii. 234
Maraves, the, of South Africa, revere a spiritual head called Chissumpe, i. 393;
sanctity of burial-grounds among the, ii. 31 sq.;
their offering of first-fruits to the dead, viii. 111;
pile stones on places where witches were burnt, ix. 19
Marburg, in Steiermark, the thresher of last corn disguised as a wolf at, viii. 327
Marcellus of Bordeaux, homoeopathic remedies prescribed by, i. 84;
his cure for warts, ix. 48;
on transference of toothache to a frog, ix. 50;
on transference of asthma to a mule, ix. 50;
on transference of an intestinal disorder to a hare, ix. 50 sq.;
on medicines which may not touch the ground, x. 17
March, the old Slavs began the year with, iv. 221 sq.;
festival of Attis in, v. 267;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 149;
annual expulsion of witches in, ix. 157;
annual expulsion of evils in, ix. 199;
expulsion of Mamurius Veturius in, ix. 229, 231;
old Roman year began in, ix. 231, 345;
dances of the Salii in, ix. 232;
custom of beating people and cattle in, ix. 266;
festival of the Matronalia in, ix. 346;
marriage festival of all the gods in, ix. 373 n. 1;
the first month of the year in the oldest Persian calendar, ix. 402;
the fire-walk in, xi. 6;
mistletoe cut at the full moon of, xi. 84, 86
——, the 1st, sacred fire at Rome annually extinguished on, ii. 267;
custom of “Driving out Death” on, iv. 235;
wooden effigies of swallows carried about the streets on, viii. 322 n.;
bells rung to make the grass grow on, ix. 247;
Roman festival of the Matronalia on, ix. 346
——, the 25th, tradition that Christ was crucified on, v. 306
March moon, woodbine cut in the increase of the, xi. 184
Marco Polo, on beating as a punishment in China, iii. 243 sq.
Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, iv. 227.
See Shrove Tuesday
Marduk or Merodach, chief Babylonian god, ix. 356, 357, 399;
as a magician, i. 240 sq.;
his wives, ii. 130, v. 71; New Year festival of, iv. 110, ix. 356;
his image at Babylon, iv. 113;
as a [pg 361] deliverer from demons, ix. 103;
the votaries of, ix. 372 n. 2
Marduk and Mordecai, ix. 365, 405
—— and Tiamat, iv. 105 sq., 107 sq.
Mare, treatment of the placenta of a, i. 199
—— in foal, last sheaf of corn given to, vii. 160, 162, 168
—— or horse, corn-spirit as, vii. 292 sqq.;
“crying the Mare” at end of reaping in Hertfordshire and Shropshire, vii. 292 sqq.
See also Mares
Mareielis, girls carrying May-trees or wreaths of flowers, at Zurich, iv. 260
Marena, Winter or Death, on Midsummer Eve in Russia, iv. 262
Mares in homoeopathic magic, i. 152, 153
Marett, R. R., on taboo as negative magic, i. 111 n. 2
Margas, exogamous totemic clans of the Battas of Sumatra, xi. 222 sq.
Mariandynian reapers, mournful song of, vii. 216
Marianne Islands, precautions as to spittle in the, iii. 288
Mariette-Pacha, A., on the burial of Osiris, vi. 89 n.
Marigolds, magic of, i. 211;
used to adorn tombstones on All Souls' Day, vi. 71.
See also Marsh-marigolds
Marilaun, A. Kerner von, on mistletoe, xi. 318 n. 6
Marimos, a Bechuana tribe, their human sacrifices for the crops, vii. 240, 251
Mariner, W., on taboo in Tonga, iii. 140;
on the sacrifice of first-fruits in the Tonga Islands, viii. 128 sqq.
Mariners at sea, special language employed by, iii. 413 sqq.
Marjoram a protection against witchcraft, ix. 160, xi. 74;
burnt at Midsummer, x. 214;
gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51
Mark of Brandenburg, fruit-trees girt with straw at Christmas in the, ii. 17;
race of bride and bridegroom in the, ii. 303;
name of mice tabooed between Christmas and Twelfth Night in the, iii. 397;
need-fire in the, x. 273;
simples culled at Midsummer in the, xi. 48;
St. John's blood in the, xi. 56;
the divining-rod in the, xi. 67
Marketa, the holy, prayed to for good crops in Bohemia, iv. 238
Marks, bodily, of prophets, v. 74
Marksuhl, near Eisenach, harvest custom at, vii. 231
Marktl, in Bavaria, the Straw-goat at threshing at, vii. 286
Marno, Ernst, on the reverence of the Nuehr for their cattle, viii. 39
Maroni river in Guiana, i. 156
Marotse. See Barotse
Marquesans, their way of detaining the soul in the body, iii. 31;
their regard for the sanctity of the head, iii. 254 sq.;
their customs as to the hair, iii. 261 sq.;
their dread of sorcery, iii. 268
Marquesas or Washington Islands, human gods in the, i. 386 sq.;
extinction of fires after a death in the, ii. 268 n.;
seclusion of manslayers in the, iii. 178;
continence at making coco-nut oil and at baking in the, iii. 201;
custom at childbirth in the, iii. 245;
the fire-walk in the, xi. 11
Marriage of trees to each other, i. 24 sqq.;
of men and women to trees, i. 40 sq., ii. 57;
treading on a stone at, i. 160;
bath before, i. 162;
the pole-star at, i. 166;
second, third, or fourth, regarded as unlucky, ii. 57 n. 4;
of Earth in spring, ii. 76, 94;
to a palm-tree before tapping it, ii. 101;
of near kin, the prohibition of, perhaps based historically on superstition, ii. 117;
of girls to spirits of lakes, ii. 150 sq.;
of girls to rivers, ii. 151 sq.;
with king's widow constitutes a claim to the kingdom, ii. 281 sqq., iv. 193;
with half-sister legal in Attica, ii. 284;
rice strewn on bridegroom's head at, iii. 35;
the consummation of, prevented by knots and locks, iii. 299 sqq.;
of brothers and sisters in royal families, iv. 193 sq.;
as an infringement of old communal rights, v. 40;
of women to serpent-god, v. 66 sqq.;
exchange of dress between men and women at, vi. 260 sqq.;
of mice, viii. 278;
of younger before elder brother deemed a sin, ix. 3;
leaping over bonfires to ensure a happy, x. 107, 108, 110;
omens of, drawn from Midsummer bonfires, x. 168, 174, 178, 185, 189, 338 sq.;
omens of, from flowers, xi. 52 sq., 61;
oak-trees planted at, xi. 165
—— of Adonis and Aphrodite celebrated at Alexandria, v. 224
—— of the god Marduk, ix. 356
——, mock, of leaf-clad mummers, i. 97;
at Carnival masquerade, vii. 27;
or real, of human victims, ix. 257 sq.
—— of the Roman gods, vi. 230 sqq.
——, Sacred, ii. 120 sqq.;
of Dionysus with the Queen of Athens, ii. 136 sq., vii. 30 sq.;
of Zeus and Demeter in Eleusinian mysteries, ii. 138, vii. 65 sqq., viii. 9;
of Zeus and Hera, ii. 140 sqq., iv. 91;
of Frey and his wife, ii. 143 sq., iv. 91;
of Roman kings, ii. 172 sq., 192, 193 sq., 318 sq.;
of king and [pg 362] queen, iv. 71;
of gods and goddesses, iv. 73;
of actors disguised as animals, iv. 83;
of priest and priestess as representatives of deities, v. 46 sqq.;
represented in the rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 140;
of Hercules and Hera perhaps celebrated in Cos, vi. 259 n. 4
Marriage of Sky and Earth, v. 282 with n. 2
—— of the Sun and Moon, mythical and dramatic, ii. 146 sq., iv. 71, 73 sq., 78, 87 sq., 90, 92, 105;
of the Sun and Earth, ii. 98 sq., 148, v. 47 sq.
Marriage customs of the Aryan family, vi. 235;
use of children of living parents in, vi. 245 sqq.;
to ensure the birth of boys, vi. 262
—— festival of the gods, i. 129 sqq., ix. 273 n. 1;
festival of all the gods and goddesses in the Date Month, ii. 25
“—— Hollow” at Teltown, iv. 99
Marriages of brothers with sisters in ancient Egypt, vi. 214 sqq.;
their intention to keep the property in the family, vi. 215 sq.
Married, the person last, lights the bonfire, x. 107, 109, 111, 119, 339;
young man last married provides wheel to be burnt, x. 116;
the person last married officiates at Midsummer fire, x. 192;
men married within the year collect fuel for Midsummer fire, x. 192 sq.;
last married bride made to leap over bonfire, xi. 22
Married men make fire by the friction of wood, ii. 238, 239;
kindle need-fire, x. 289
—— pair of priestly functionaries in charge of the sacred fire, ii. 235
Marriott, Fitzgerald, on dance of women during war, i. 132
Marrow bones not to be broken in a hut, i. 115 sq.
Mars, the reputed father of Romulus and Remus, ii. 196 sq., vi. 235;
horse sacrificed to, in October, at Rome, viii. 42, ix. 230;
a god of vegetation, ix. 229 sq.;
the Old, at Rome, ix. 229, 231, 252;
represented by Mamurius Veturius, ix. 229
—— and Bellona, vi. 231
——, Field of, at Rome, annual chariot-race on the, viii. 42
—— and his wife Nerio, vi. 232
——, the planet, red-haired men sacrificed to, vii. 261 sq.
—— and Silvia, xi. 105
——, temple of, at Rome, i. 310;
nails knocked into the, ix. 67 n. 1
Mars Silvanus, ix. 230
Marsaba, a devil in the island of Rook, his expulsion, ix. 109;
swallows lads at initiation, xi. 246
Marsala in Sicily, Midsummer customs at, v. 247
Marsden, W., on the confusion of the agricultural year in Sumatra caused by the introduction of the lunar Mohammedan calendar, vii. 315
Marseilles, drenching people with water at Midsummer in, v. 248 sq., x. 193;
human scapegoats at, ix. 253;
Midsummer king of the double-axe at, x. 194;
the Yule log at, x. 250;
Midsummer flowers at, xi. 46
Marsh-marigolds, a protection against witchcraft, ii. 54, ix. 163;
hoops wreathed with, carried on May Day, ii. 63, 88.
See also Marigolds
Marshall, A. S. F., on the felling of timber in Mexico, vi. 136 n. 3
Marshall Islands, belief in the external soul in the, xi. 200
Marshall Bennet Islands, magical powers of chiefs in the, i. 339
Marsi, Midsummer fires in the land of the ancient, x. 209
Marsyas, his musical contest with Apollo and his death, v. 55, 288 sq.;
perhaps a double of Attis, v. 289
——, the river, v. 289
Martens, magic to snare, i. 110;
bones of, kept from dogs, viii. 239
Martial on the Ides of August as Diana's day, i. 12 n. 2
Martin, Father, on the indifference to human life of a robber caste in Southern India, iv. 141 sq.
Martin, Rev. John, on annual expulsion of the devil on the Gold Coast, ix. 132 sq.
Martin, M., on St. Bride's Day in the Hebrides, ii. 94 n. 2;
on forced fire (need-fire) in Scotland, ii. 238, x. 289;
on the cutting of peat in the Hebrides, vi. 138;
on dessil (deiseal), x. 151 n.
Martin of Urzedow, Polish priest, denounced heathen practices of women on St. John's Eve, x. 177
Martinique, precaution as to spittle in, iii. 289
Martius, C. F. Phil. von, on the political power of medicine-men among the Indians of Brazil, i. 359
Martyrdom of St. Dasius, ix. 308 sqq.
—— of St. Hippolytus, i. 21
Marwaris of India, Holi festival among the, xi. 2 sq.
Marxberg, the, on the Moselle, fiery wheel rolled down, in Lent, x. 118
Maryborough, in Queensland, custom of the tribes about, as to women stepping over things, iii. 424;
exposure of [pg 363] first-born children among the tribes about, iv. 180;
ate men to acquire their virtues, viii. 151
Marzana, goddess of Death, effigy of, in Polish parts of Silesia, iv. 237
Masai of East Africa, power of medicine-men among the, i. 343 sq.;
their reverence for the subugo tree, ii. 16;
their fire-drill, ii. 210;
custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 n. 1;
continence of man and woman at brewing honey-wine among the, iii. 200;
beards not pulled out by chiefs and sorcerers among the, iii. 260;
head chief of the, foods tabooed to him, iii. 291;
their use of magic knots, iii. 309;
their use of rings as amulets, iii. 315;
unwilling to tell their own names, iii. 329 sq.;
said to change the names of the dead, iii. 354 sq.;
namesakes of the dead change their names among the, iii. 356;
changes in their vocabulary caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 361;
their customs as to falling stars, iv. 61, 65;
their custom as to the skulls of dead chiefs, iv. 202 sq.;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 84;
their ceremonies at the new moon, vi. 142 sq.;
their rule as to the choice of a chief, vi. 248;
boys wear female costume at circumcision among the, vi. 263;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 317;
their rules as to partaking of meat and milk, viii. 83 sq.;
the El Kiboron clan of the, viii. 288;
their custom of throwing stones or grass on graves, ix. 20;
peace-making ceremony among the, x. 139 n.
Masai pope, the, i. 343 sq.
Mascal or Festival of the Cross in Abyssinia, ix. 133 sq.
Mashona, the, of South Africa, revered human gods, i. 393
Mashonaland, chiefs of, not allowed to cross rivers, iii. 9 sq.
Mashti, supposed name of Elamite goddess, ix. 366 sq.
Mask of dog or jackal worn by priest who personated Anubis, vi. 85 n. 3;
two-faced, worn by image of goddess, ix. 287;
priest of Earth not to wear a, x. 4.
See also Masks
Masked dances, vii. 95 sq., 111, 186, viii. 208 n. 1, 339, ix. 236;
at Carnival, viii. 333, 334;
in ritual of Demeter, viii. 339;
to promote fertility, ix. 236;
and ceremonies of savages, ix. 374 sqq.;
bull-roarers used at, xi. 230 n.
See also Dances
Maskers, representing the dead, ii. 178;
in Thrace at Carnival, vii. 26 sqq.;
representing demons, vii. 95, 186 sq.;
in the Grisons, ix. 239;
in the Tyrol and Salzburg, ix. 242 sqq.;
as representatives of the spirits of fertility, both vegetable and animal, ix. 249 sq.;
supposed to be inspired by the spirits whom they represent, ix. 380, 382, 383
Masks worn by shamans in pursuit of lost souls, iii. 57 sq.;
hung on trees at time of sowing, iv. 283;
worn by actors who represent demons or spirits, vii. 95, 186;
worn by Egyptian kings, vii. 260 sq.;
worn in masked dances, not to be seen by women on pain of death, viii. 208 n. 1;
worn by women, viii. 232 sq., 234;
worn by mummers at Carnival, viii. 333;
worn by Cingalese devil-dancers, ix. 38;
worn at expulsion of demons, ix. 111, 127, 145, 213;
worn at ceremonies to promote the growth of the crops, ix. 236, 240, 242 sqq., 247, 248 sq.;
worn by the Perchten, ix. 242, 243, 245, 247;
intended to ban demons, ix. 246;
worn by priests who personate gods, ix. 287;
worn in religious dances and performances, ix. 375, 376 n. 2, 378, 379, 380, 382;
representing mythical personages, ix. 375, 376 n. 2, 378, 379, 382 sq.;
representing totemic animals, ix. 380;
burned at end of masquerade, ix. 382;
thought to be animated by demons, ix. 382;
worn by girls at puberty, x. 31, 52;
worn at Duk-duk ceremonies in New Britain, xi. 247;
worn by members of a secret Wolf society among the Nootka Indians, xi. 270, 271.
See also Mask, Maskers, and Masquerade
Masnes, a giant, in a legend of Sardes, v. 186
Masoka, the spirits of the dead, worshipped by the Wahehe of German East Africa, vi. 188 sq.
Maspéro, Sir Gaston, on the confusion of magic and religion in ancient Egypt, i. 230;
on the assimilation of Egyptian kings to gods, ii. 133 sq.;
edits the Pyramid Texts, vi. 4 n. 1;
on the nature of Osiris, vi. 126 n. 2, vii. 260 n. 2
Masquerade at the Carnival in Thrace, vi. 99 sq.;
at sowing festival in Borneo, vii. 95 sq., 98, 186 sq.;
of boys among the Lengua Indians, x. 57 n. 1
Masquerades, Roman, of men personating the dead, ii. 178;
of kings and queens, iv. 71 sq., 78, 88, 89;
Californian, of men personating the dead, vi. 53;
in modern Europe, intention of certain, ix. 251 sq.
See also Masks and Maskers
“Mass of the Holy Spirit,” i. 231 sq.
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Mass of Saint Sécaire, i. 232 sq.
Massacres for sick kings of Uganda, vi. 226
Massagetae sacrifice horses to the sun, i. 315
Massaya, volcano in Nicaragua, human victims sacrificed to, v. 219
Massebah (plural masseboth), sacred stone or pillar in ancient Israel, v. 107, 108
Masset, in Queen Charlotte Islands, dances of Haida women at, while their husbands were away at war, i. 133
Massim, the, of British New Guinea, seclusion of manslayers among, iii. 169
Masson, Bishop, on Annamite indifference to death, iv. 136 sq.
Mastarna, an Etruscan, ii. 196 n.
Master of the Fish, sacrifices offered by the Tarahumares to the, viii. 252
——, the Heavenly, the head of Taoism in China, i. 413
—— of Life, first-fruits offered by the Arkansas Indians to the, viii. 134
—— of the Revels, ix. 333 sq.
—— of Sorrows at corpse-burning among the Chams, i. 280
Master craftsman regarded as a magician, ix. 81
Masur, in Dutch New Guinea, belief in the transmigration of human souls into cassowaries at, viii. 295
Masuren, a district of Eastern Prussia, “Easter Smacks” in, ix. 269;
Midsummer fire kindled by the revolution of a wheel in, x. 177, 335 sq.;
divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 52, 53;
divination by orpine at Midsummer in, xi. 61;
camomile gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 63;
fire kindled by friction of oak at Midsummer in, xi. 91
Mata, the smallpox goddess, sacrifice of first-born sons to, iv. 181
Matabele, magical effigies among the, i. 63;
their rain-charm, i. 291;
the power of witch-doctors among the, i. 351;
their relation to the human god of the Mashona, i. 393 sq.;
woman's part in agriculture among the, vii. 115;
their festival of new fruits, viii. 70 sq.;
their way of getting rid of caterpillars, viii. 275;
fumigate their gardens, x. 337
——, kings of the, as priests, i. 48;
as rain-makers, i. 351 sq.
——, Lobengula, king of the, iii. 114
Matabeleland, i. 394
Mataboole, rank next below chiefs in Tonga, viii. 130 n. 2, 131
Matacos, Indian tribe of the Gran Chaco, their belief as to the souls of the dead, iii. 373 n.;
their custom of secluding girls at puberty, x. 58
Mataguayos, Indian tribe of the Gran Chaco, their custom of secluding girls at puberty, x. 58
Mateer, Rev. S., on the worship of demons in Travancore, ix. 94
Mater Dolorosa, the ancient and the modern, ix. 349
Materbert, off New Britain, natives of, carried fire about with them, ii. 258
Material vehicles of immaterial things (fear, misfortune, disease, etc.), ix. 1 sqq., 22 n. 2, 23 sqq.
Materialization of prayer, ix. 22 n. 2
Maternal uncle preferred to father, mark of mother-kin, ii. 285;
in marriage ceremonies in India, v. 62 n. 1
Maternity and paternity of the Roman deities, vi. 233 sqq.
Matiamvo, a potentate in Angola, the manner of his death, iv. 35 sq.
Matlalcuéyé, wife of Tlaloc, the Mexican thunder-god, human sacrifices offered to, vii. 237
“Matriarchate,” v. 46; inappropriateness of the term, ii. 271 n. 2
Matronalia, Roman festival on the 1st of March, ix. 346
Matse tribe of Togoland, two royal families in the, ii. 293;
their sacrifice of new corn to the Earth Goddess, viii. 115;
their transference of sorrow to leaves, ix. 3
Matthes, Dr. B. F., on harvest festival in Celebes, viii. 122 sq.;
on sympathetic relation between man and animal among the Malays, xi. 197
Matthews, Dr. Washington, on unwillingness of Indians to speak of their gods at certain times, iii. 385
Mattogrosso, contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210;
the Pleiades worshipped by some tribes of, vii. 309
Matuana, Zulu chief, drank gall of foes, viii. 152
Matuku, in Fiji, iii. 39, 40
Mauhes, Indians of Brazil, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 59;
ordeal of young men among the, x. 62
Maui, Fijian god of earthquakes, v. 202 n.
Maundrell, H., on the discoloration of the river Adonis, v. 225 n. 4
Maundy Thursday, church bells silent on, x. 125 n. 1
Maurer, Konrad, on succession to the kingdom in Scandinavia, ii. 280 n. 1;
on Icelandic story of the external soul, xi. 125 n. 1
Mauretanians, rain-charm of the, i. 286
Maury, A., on the Easter ceremonies compared with those of Adonis, v. 257 n. 1
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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, iv. 94 sq.
Mausolus, contests of eloquence in his honour, v. 95;
his ashes swallowed by his widow Artemisia, viii. 158
Mauss, M., and H. Hubert, Messrs., on taboo as negative magic, i. 111 n. 2
Mawu, god, in the language of the Hos of Togoland, i. 396 sq.;
Supreme Being of Ewe negroes, ix. 74 sq., 76 n. 1
Mawu Sodza, a Ewe goddess, viii. 115
Maximian and Diocletian, reign of, ix. 308
Maxims of Pythagoras, their superstitious nature, i. 213 sq.
Maximus, Tyrius, on conical image at Paphos, v. 35 n.;
on the rites of Demeter at the threshing-floor, vii. 62 n. 1
Maxwell, W. E., on the stratification of religious beliefs among the Malays, ix. 90 n. 1
May, J. D., viii. 281 n. 2
May, modern Greek Feast of All Souls in, vi. 78 n. 1;
puppets thrown into the Tiber at Rome in, viii. 107;
Roman festival of ghosts in, ix. 154 sq.;
Mexican human sacrifices in, ix. 276, 280;
dances of Castilian peasants in, ix. 280
——, the 2nd of, called Walburgis Day in Bavaria, ii. 75 n. 2
——, King of, ii. 84, 85 sq.;
King and Queen of, iv. 266, ix. 406
——, Queen of, ii. 84, 87 sq.;
in the Isle of Man, iv. 258
May Bride, the, ii. 95, iv. 266;
the, at Whitsuntide, in Brunswick, ii. 96
—— bridegroom, ii. 91, 93
—— -bushes, ii. 84, 85, 89, 90, 142;
placed at doors of stables and byres, ii. 52
—— Day, the first of May, dance of milkmaids on, ii. 52;
witches rob cows of milk on, ii. 52 sqq., ix. 267;
precautions against witchcraft on, ii. 52 sqq.;
green bushes placed at doors of loved maidens on, ii. 56;
celebration of, ii. 59 sqq.;
licence of, ii. 67, 103 sq.;
a festival of flowers in Peloponnese, ii. 143 n. 2;
in Sweden, iv. 254;
in the Isle of Man, iv. 258, x. 157;
magpies' eggs and young carried from house to house on, viii. 321 n. 3;
in the Tyrol, “Burning out of the Witches” on, ix. 158 sq.;
dance of witches on the Blocksberg on, ix. 163 n. 1;
ceremonies concerned with vegetation on, ix. 359;
bonfires on, x. 146 sqq.;
bonfires on, a precaution against witchcraft, x. 295;
sheep burnt as a sacrifice on, x. 306;
witches active on, xi. 19, 184 n. 4, 185
the Eve of (Walpurgis Night), witches steal milk from cattle on, ii. 52;
ceremony at Meiron in Galilee on, v. 178;
Snake Stones thought to be formed on, x. 15;
witches active on, ix. 158 sqq., xi. 73;
a witching time, x. 295.
See Walpurgis
—— -flowers over the door a protection against elves and witches, ii. 53
—— Fools, ii. 91
—— garlands, ii. 60 sqq., 90 sq.
—— Lady in Cambridge, ii. 62;
representative of the spirit of vegetation, ii. 79
—— morning, custom of herdsmen on, ix. 266
—— -pole, apparently thought to fertilize women and cattle, ii. 52;
at Midsummer in Sweden, ii. 65;
carried on May Day in Warwickshire, ii. 88 sq.;
or Midsummer-tree in Sweden and Bohemia, v. 250;
set up in front of house of mayor or burgomaster, viii. 44
—— -poles, ii. 59, 65 sqq.;
village, in England, ii. 66 sqq.;
permanent, ii. 70 sq.
—— Rose, the Little, ii. 74
—— -tree, apparently thought to fertilize women and cattle, ii. 52;
burned at the end of the year, ii. 71;
horse-race to, iv. 208;
brought into village and called summer, iv. 246;
carried about, x. 120, xi. 22
—— -trees, ii. 59 sq., 64, 68 sq., iv. 251 sq.;
at Whitsuntide, iv. 208, 210, 211
Mayas of Yucatan, their annual expulsion of the demon of evil, ix. 171;
their calendar, ix. 171;
their five supplementary days, ix. 171, 340
Mayenne, French department of, May carols and trees in, ii. 63
Mayo, County, story of Guleesh in, x. 228
Mayos or Mayes, on May Day in Provence, ii. 80
Mbaya Indians of South America, self-sacrifice of old woman among the, iv. 140;
their custom of infanticide, iv. 197
M'Bengas of the Gaboon, birth-trees among the, xi. 160
Mbengga, in Fiji, the fire-walk in, xi. 10 sq.
Mbete, priest, in Fiji, i. 378
Me Bau, a Thay goddess, ix. 98
Méac (February), a Cambodian month, iv. 148
Meakin, Budgett, on Midsummer fires in Morocco, x. 214 n.
Meal offered to the wind, i. 329 n. 5;
sprinkled to keep off evil spirits, iii. [pg 366] 112;
rubbed on man as a purificatory rite, iii. 113
“Meal and ale,” standing dish at harvest supper, vii. 160, 161
Measuring shadows at laying foundations, iii. 89 sq.
Measuring-tape deified, iii. 91 sq.
Meat and milk, dietary rules as to, viii. 83 sq.
Meath, County, hunting the wren in, viii. 320 n.;
Hill of Ward in, x. 139;
Uisnech in, x. 158
Meaux, Midsummer bonfires in the diocese of, x. 182
Mecca, pilgrims to, not allowed to wear knots and rings, iii. 293 sq.;
stone-throwing at, ix. 24
Mechanisms, primitive, for determining the time of year by observation of the sun, vii. 314
Mecklenburg, contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210, 211;
locks unlocked at childbirth in, iii. 296;
wolves and other animals not to be called by their proper names between Christmas and Twelfth Night in, iii. 396 sq.;
harvest customs in, vii. 229, 274;
the Corn-wolf in, vii. 273;
the Harvest-goat in, vii. 283;
cure for fever in, ix. 56;
precaution against witches on Walpurgis Night in, ix. 163 n. 1;
cattle beaten on Good Friday in, ix. 266;
mode of reckoning the Twelve Days in, ix. 327;
need-fire in, x. 274 sq.;
simples gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 48;
mugwort at Midsummer in, xi. 60;
the divining-rod in, xi. 67;
treatment of the afterbirth in, xi. 165;
children passed through a cleft oak as a cure in, xi. 171 sq.;
custom of striking blindfold at a half-buried cock in, xi. 279 n. 4
Medea and her magic cauldron, v. 180 sq.
—— and Aeson, viii. 143
Medes, the king of, not to be seen by anybody, iii. 121;
law of the, iii. 121
Medicine differentiated from magic, i. 421 n. 1;
in Bolang Mongondo nothing but sacrifice, magic, and talismans, ix. 86
Medicine-bag, instrument of pretended death and resurrection at initiation, xi. 268 sq.
—— -man bleeds a man, i. 91;
bottles up departing souls, iii. 31;
dance of, at blessing maize or dead game, viii. 71 sq.;
propitiates rattlesnake, viii. 217;
atones for slaughter of wolf, viii. 220;
conjures soul of infant into coco-nut, xi. 154 sq.;
his mode of cure in Uganda, xi. 181 sq.;
in Australia, initiation of, xi. 237 sqq.
See also Medicine-men
Medicine-men (magicians, sorcerers), drive away rain, i. 253;
their political power in South-east Australia, i. 336;
power of, among African tribes, i. 342 sqq.;
power of, among the American Indians, i. 355 sqq.;
develop into gods and kings, i. 375, 420 sq.;
progressive differentiation of, i. 420 sq.;
the oldest professional class, i. 420;
employed to recover lost souls, iii. 42 sq., 45, 47 sq., 54, 56, 58, 66;
swinging of, as a mode of cure, iv. 280 sq.;
of Zulus, feel ancestral spirits in their shoulders, v. 74 n. 4;
of Wiimbaio, extract disease in shape of crystals, v. 75 n. 4;
assimilated to women or thought to be transformed into women, vi. 256;
need of, to circumvent evil spirits, ix. 76;
whirl bull-roarers, xi. 231;
in initiatory rites, xi. 237.
See also Magicians, Shamans, Sorcerers, and Wizards
Medium inspired by dead king of Uganda, vi. 171
Mediums, inspired, in Bali, i. 378 sq.;
human, inspired by the spirits of crocodiles, lions, leopards, and serpents, viii. 213
Medontids at Athens, changed from kings to magistrates, ii. 290;
reduction in their tenure of office, vii. 86
Mefitis, Italian goddess of mephitic vapours, v. 204, 205
Megalopolis, battle of gods and giants in plain of, v. 157
Megara, annual kingship at, i. 46;
besieged by Minos, xi. 103
Megara, sacred caverns or vaults, viii. 17 n. 6
Megarian girls offer their hair to Iphinoe, i. 28
Megassares, king of Hyria, v. 41
Megha Raja, the lord of rain, his figure painted in a rain-charm, i. 296
Meilichios, epithet of Dionysus, vii. 4
Meiners, C., on purification by blood, v. 299 n. 2
Meinersen, in Hanover, need-fire at a village near, x. 275
Meiningen, use of pigs' bones at sowing in, vii. 300
Meiron, in Galilee, burnings for dead Jewish Rabbis at, v. 178 sq.
Meissen or Thuringia, horse's head thrown into Midsummer fire in, xi. 40
Mekeo, district of British New Guinea, homoeopathic magic of drums in, i. 134 sq.;
taboos observed for the sake of the crops in, ii. 106;
double chieftainship in, iii. 24 sq.;
customs observed by widowers in, iii. 144 [pg 367] sq.;
women after childbirth tabooed in, iii. 148
Mela's description of the Corycian cave, v. 155 n., 156
Melampus and Iphiclus, i. 158
Melancholy, characteristic of men of genius, viii. 302 n. 5
Melanesia, homoeopathic magic of stones in, i. 164;
contagious magic of wounds in, i. 201;
confusion of religion and magic in, i. 227 sq.;
wizards in, the variety of their functions, i. 227 sq.;
weather doctors in, i. 321;
wind-charms in, i. 321;
supernatural power of chiefs in, i. 338 sqq.;
continence observed while the yam vines are training in, ii. 105;
close relation of mother's brother to his nephews in, ii. 285;
practice of lengthening the head artificially in, ii. 298 n. 2;
attempt to recover a lost soul in, iii. 65;
ghost-haunted stones in, iii. 80;
magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 127 sq.;
tabooed persons not allowed to handle food in, iii. 141;
cleanliness from superstitious motives in, iii. 158 n. 1;
story of the type of Beauty and the Beast in, iv. 130 n. 1;
belief in conception without sexual intercourse in, v. 97 sq.;
magicians buried secretly in, vi. 105;
conception of the external soul in, xi. 197 sqq.
See also Melanesians
Melanesian and Papuan stocks in New Guinea, xi. 239
—— wizard, his soul as an eagle, iii. 34
Melanesians of the Bismarck Archipelago, unwilling to tell their names, iii. 329;
mother-kin among the, vi. 211;
of New Britain, their use of flowers and leaves as talismans, vi. 242 sq.;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
their belief in demons, ix. 82 sq.;
their stories of the origin of death, ix. 303 sq.
—— of Florida, one of the Solomon Islands, their fear of offending ghosts after eating of certain foods, viii. 85
Melawie River, the Dyaks of the, iii. 71
Melcarth, the god of Tyre, identified with Hercules, v. 16, 111;
worshipped at Amathus in Cyprus, v. 32, 117;
the burning of, v. 110 sqq.;
worshipped at Gades, v. 112 sq., vi. 258 n. 5
Melchior, one of the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 sqq.
Melchizedek, king of Salem, v. 17
Meleager, his life bound up with a firebrand, ii. 265, xi. 103;
and the olive-leaf, xi. 103 n. 2
Melech and Moloch, vi. 219 sq.
Melenik, in Macedonia, rain-making at, i. 274;
fiends scalded to death on New Year's Eve at, ix. 320
Meles, king of Lydia, banished because of a dearth, v. 183;
causes lion to be carried round acropolis, v. 184
Melicertes, Isthmian games at Corinth celebrated in his honour, iv. 93, 103;
son of Athamas and Ino, iv. 161;
changed with his mother into marine divinities, iv. 162;
in Tenedos, human sacrifices to, iv. 162;
a form of Melcarth, v. 113
Melite in Phthia, Aspalis, a form of the Hanged Artemis, at, v. 291 sq.
Melito on the father of Adonis, v. 13 n. 2
Mell, last corn cut, vii. 151 sq.
Mell-doll, vii. 151
—— -sheaf, vii. 151 sq.
—— -supper, vii. 151
Melos, milk-stones in, i. 165
Melur, in the Neilgherry Hills, the fire-walk at, xi. 8 sq.
Memnonium at Thebes, vi. 35 n.
Memorial stones, flat and standing, in honour of women and men respectively, among the Khasis, vi. 203
Memphis, statues of Summer and Winter at, iv. 259 n. 1;
head of Osiris at, vi. 11;
oath of the kings of Egypt at, vi. 24;
festival of Osiris in the month of Khoiak at, vi. 108;
Apis the sacred bull of, vi. 119 n., viii. 34;
the sanctuary of Serapis at, vi. 119 n.
Men, masked, personating the dead, ii. 178, vi. 53;
injured through their shadows, iii. 78 sqq.;
create gods in their own likeness, iv. 194;
make gods, vi. 211;
dressed as women, vi. 253 sqq.;
dressed as women at marriage, vi. 261 sq.;
dressed as women to deceive dangerous spirits, vi. 262 sq.;
dressed as women at circumcision, vi. 263;
parts of, eaten to acquire their qualities, viii. 148 sqq.;
disguised as animals, processions of, viii. 325 sqq.;
evil transferred to, ix. 38 sqq.;
possessed by spirits in China, ix. 117;
disguised as demons, ix. 170 sq., 172, 173, 213, 214 sq., 235;
as scapegoats, ix. 194 sqq.;
divine, as scapegoats, ix. 217 sqq.;
masked, as representatives of the spirits of fertility, both vegetable and animal, ix. 249 sq.;
sacrifices of deified, ix. 409;
disguised as women, x. 107
—— and asses, redemption of firstling, iv. 173
“—— of God,” prophets, v. 76
—— and women, difference of language between, iii. 348 sq.;
inspired by the spirits of dead kings and chiefs, vi. 171, 172, 192 sq.;
forbidden by [pg 368] Mosaic law to interchange dress, ix. 363;
eat apart, x. 81
Men's blood not to be seen by women, iii. 252 n.
Men Tyrannus, Phrygian moon-god, v. 284;
custom as to pollution of death at his shrine, vi. 227
Mên-an-tol, “holed stone” in Cornwall, xi. 187
Mendalam River in Borneo, vii. 97, 98, 187
Mendes, in Egypt, mummy of Osiris at, iv. 4;
the ram-god of, iv. 7 n. 2;
the goat the beast-god of, viii. 172
Menedemus, sacrifices without the use of iron to, iii. 226 sq.
Menelaus, husband of Helen and king of Sparta, ii. 279
Menelik, Emperor of Abyssinia, forbids sanguinary fights for purpose of procuring rain, i. 258
Mengap, a Dyak liturgy, ix. 383
Menoeceus, his voluntary death, iv. 192 n. 3
Menomini Indians, ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 268 n. 1
Menstruation, women tabooed at, iii. 145 sqq.;
seclusion of girls at the first, x. 22 sqq.;
the first, attributed to defloration by a spirit, x. 24;
reasons for secluding women at, x. 97
Menstruous blood, the dread of, x. 76.
See also Blood
—— fluid, medicinal applications of the, x. 98 n. 1
—— woman forbidden to touch roof-thatch, i. 179 n. 1
—— women, avoidance of, by hunters, iii. 211;
disability of, viii. 253 sq.;
keep their heads or faces covered, x. 22, 24, 25, 29, 31, 44 sq., 48 sq., 55, 90, 92;
not allowed to cross or bathe in rivers, x. 77;
not allowed to go near water, x. 77;
supposed to spoil fisheries, x. 77, 78, 90 sq., 93;
painted red, or red and white, x. 78;
not allowed to use the ordinary paths, x. 78, 80, 84, 89, 90;
not allowed to approach the sea, x. 79;
not allowed to enter cultivated fields, x. 79;
obliged to occupy special huts, x. 79, 82, 85 sqq.;
supposed to spoil crops, x. 79, 96;
not allowed to cook, x. 80, 82, 84, 90;
not allowed to drink milk, x. 80, 84;
not allowed to handle salt, x. 81 sq., 84;
kept from wells, x. 81, 82, 97;
obliged to use separate doors, x. 84;
not allowed to lie on high beds, x. 84;
not allowed to touch or see fire, x. 84, 85;
not allowed to cross the tracks of animals, x. 84, 91, 93;
excluded from religious ceremonies, x. 85;
not allowed to eat with men, x. 85, 90;
thought to spoil the luck of hunters, x. 87, 89, 90, 91, 94;
not allowed to ride horses, x. 88 sq., 96;
not allowed to walk on ice of rivers and lakes, x. 90;
dangers to which they are thought to be exposed, x. 94;
not allowed to touch beer, wine or vinegar, x. 96;
not allowed to salt or pickle meat, x. 96 n. 2;
not allowed to cross running streams, x. 97;
not allowed to draw water at wells, x. 97;
used to protect fields against insects, x. 98 n. 1
Menstruous women dreaded and secluded, iii. 145 sqq., 206;
in Australia, iii. 145, x. 76 sqq.;
in America, iii. 145 sqq., x. 85 sqq.;
in the Torres Straits Islands, x. 78 sq.;
in New Guinea, x. 79;
in Galela, x. 79;
in Sumatra, x. 79;
in Africa, x. 79 sqq.;
among the Jews and in Syria, x. 83 sq.;
in India, x. 84 sq.;
in Annam, x. 85
Mentawei Islands, ceremony at reception of strangers in the, iii. 104
Mentras of Malacca use a special language in searching for lignum aloes, iii. 404;
their tradition as to primitive man, vi. 140
Mephitic vapours, worship of, v. 203 sqq.
Mequinez in Morocco, custom of throwing water on each other at Midsummer at, x. 216
Mercato Nuovo at Florence, the Old Woman sawn through at Mid-Lent in the, iv. 241
Mercurial temperament of merchants and sailors, vi. 218
Merenra, king of Egypt, worshipped in his lifetime, i. 418
Meriahs, human victims sacrificed for good crops among the Khonds, iv. 139, vii. 245, 246, 249, 250
Merkel, R., on the grove of Helernus, ii. 190 n. 2
Merker, Captain M., on the power of medicine-men among the Masai, i. 343 sq.
Merlin, the wizard, his magic sleep, i. 306
Merodach or Marduk, Babylonian deity, ix. 356. See Marduk
Meroe, Ethiopian kings of, put to death, iv. 15
Merolla, G., da Sorrento, on food taboos in Congo, iii. 137;
on the custom of putting the Chitomé to death, iv. 14 sq.;
on seclusion of girls at puberty on the Congo, x. 31 n. 3
Merovingian kings may have touched for scrofula, i. 370
Merrakech, in Morocco, custom of throwing water on each other at Midsummer at, x. 216;
New Year fires at, x. 217
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Merseburg, binder of last sheaf called the Oatsman near, vii. 221
Merton College, Oxford, King of the Bean at, ix. 332 sq.
Mesha, king of Moab, his god Kemosh, v. 15;
sacrifices his first-born, v. 110
Mesopotamia, artificial fertilization of the date-palm in, ix. 272 sq.;
Atrae in, x. 82
Mespelaer, in Belgium, St. Peter's fires at, x. 195
Messaria, in Cythnos, children passed through holed rock near, xi. 189
Messenia, Andania in, ii. 122
Messiah, pretended new, in America, i. 409;
pretended Jewish, at Smyrna, iv. 46;
“the Anointed One,” v. 21
Metageitnion, an Attic month, vii. 77, viii. 17 n. 2, ix. 354
Metal instruments, the clash of, a protection against witches, ix. 158
Metapontum, head of Demeter on a coin of, vii. 68 n. 1
Meteor as signal for festival, v. 259
Meteorite, powdered, in a charm, viii. 166 sq.
Meteors, superstitions as to, iv. 58 sqq.
See also Falling Stars
Metharme, daughter of Pygmalion, v. 41
Methide plant growing over grave of Osiris, vi. 111
Metis, swallowed by her husband Zeus, iv. 192
Meton, his cycle of nineteen years, vii. 81 n. 3
“Metropolis of the Corn,” Athens called the, by Delphic oracle, vii. 58
Metsik, a forest-spirit, the patron of cattle, ii. 55;
his effigy carried out of the village by the Esthonians on Shrove Tuesday, iv. 233, 252 sq.
Metz, F., on the fire-walk among the Badagas, xi. 9
Metz, cats burnt alive in Midsummer fire at, xi. 39
Mexican calendar, its mode of intercalation, vi. 28 n. 3
—— custom of veiling the images of the gods during the king's sickness, iii. 95 n. 8;
of making images of gods out of dough and eating them sacramentally, viii. 86 sqq.
—— human sacrifices in connexion with the maize crop, vii. 236 sqq., 251;
assimilation of the victims to the gods in, vii. 261, ix. 275 sqq.
—— Indians, confession of sins among the, iii. 216 n. 2
—— kings, oath taken by them at their accession, i. 356, 416
—— sacraments, viii. 86 sqq.
—— temples, their form, ix. 279
Mexicans, their custom of eating a man as an embodiment of a god, viii. 92 sq.
——, the ancient, their human sacrifices to the sun, i. 314 sq.;
human sacrifices of, vi. 107, vii. 236 sqq.;
their customs at maize-harvest, vii. 174 sqq.
Mexico, the Huichol Indians of, i. 123, 154 sq., 302, iii. 197, vii. 177, viii. 93;
Indians of, their charm to cause sleep, i. 148;
the Tarahumare Indians of, i. 150, 155, 249, 284, ii. 156 sq., vii. 227 sq., viii. 252, ix. 10, 236;
the Tepehuanes of, iii. 325, 424, ix. 10;
rule as to the felling of timber in, vi. 136;
the Zapotecs of, vii. 174, xi. 212;
the Tzentales of, viii. 241;
heaps of stones and sticks to which passers-by add, in, ix. 10;
the Cora Indians of, ix. 238, 381;
effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 127 sq.
——, ancient, custom as to children's cast teeth in, i. 179;
treatment of the navel-string in, i. 196 sq.;
custom of passing new-born children through the smoke of fire in, ii. 232 n. 3;
virgin-priestesses of fire in, ii. 245;
continence at brewing pulque in, iii. 201 sq.;
tears of human victims a sign of rain in, vii. 248 n. 2;
magic ointment in, viii. 165;
use of skins of human victims in, ix. 265 sq., 297, 298 sq.;
killing the god in, ix. 275 sqq.;
story of the creation of the sun in, ix. 410;
ceremony of new fire in, x. 132;
representation of the sun as a wheel in, x. 334 n. 1
Meyer, Professor Eduard, on prophecy in Canaan, v. 75 n. 5;
on the Hittite language, v. 125 n.;
on costume of Hittite priest or king, v. 133 n., 141 n. 1;
on the rock-hewn sculptures of Boghaz-Keui, v. 133 n.;
on Anubis at Abydos, vi. 18 n. 3;
on the hawk as an Egyptian emblem, vi. 22 n. 1;
on the date of the introduction of the Egyptian calendar, vi. 36 n. 2;
on the nature of Osiris, vi. 126 n. 2, vii. 260 n. 2;
on the relation of Byblus to Egypt, vi. 127 n. 1;
on the Lycian language, vi. 213 n. 1;
on the age of the Egyptian calendar, ix. 340 n. 4
Meyer, Professor Kuno, on an Irish legend, iv. 159 n. 1
Mezentius, king of Caere, his battle with Latinus, iv. 283
Mhaighdean-Bhuana (or Maighdean-Buana), the Corn-maiden in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 156, 164 sq.
Míamis, Indian tribe of North America, their myth of the Corn-spirit, vii. 206 sq.
Miao-Kia, aborigines of China, their sacred trees and groves, ii. 31
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Micah, the prophet, on man's duty, i. 223, iv. 174;
on sacrifice, iv. 171
Mice asked to give new teeth, i. 178, 179;
and shorn hair, superstition as to, iii. 270;
not to be called by their proper names, iii. 397, 399, 415;
thought to understand human speech, iii. 399;
eaten by the Jews as a religious rite, viii. 24;
their ravages on the crops, viii. 33, 282;
the genius of, viii. 243;
superstitious precautions taken by farmers against, viii. 276 sqq., 281;
superstition as to white, viii. 279, 283;
white, under the altar of Apollo, viii. 283.
See also Mouse
—— and rats, teeth of, in magic, i. 178 sqq.
—— and twins, supposed connexion between, i. 118
Michael, in the Isle of Man, x. 307
Michael Angelo, the Pietà of, v. 257
Michaelmas, 29th September, festival of the dead among the Letts at, vi. 74;
cakes baked at, x. 149.
See also St. Michael
Michemis, a Tibetan tribe, a funeral ceremony among the, x. 5
Micksy, rivulet, holy oak on the, ii. 371 sq.
Microseris Forsteri, roots of, dug and eaten by Australian aborigines, vii. 127
Mid-Lent, the fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. 222 n. 1;
also called Dead Sunday, iv. 221;
custom of “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 234, 236 sq.;
ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, iv. 240 sqq.
Midas and his ass's ears, iii. 258 n. 1
—— and Gordias, names of Phrygian kings, v. 286
——, King of Gordium, iii. 316
——, King of Phrygia, father of Lityerses, vii. 217;
the tomb of, v. 286
Middle Ages, belief as to consummation of marriage being prevented by knots and locks in the, iii. 299;
the Yule log in the, x. 252;
the need-fire in the, x. 270
Middleton, J. H., on the temple of Apollo at Delphi, vii. 14 n. 3;
on “crying the neck” in Cornwall, vii. 266
Midianites, the slaughter of the, iii. 177
Midsummer, precautions against witches at, ii. 127;
new fire made at, ii. 242;
reason for celebrating the death of the spirit of vegetation at, iv. 263 sq.;
gardens of Adonis at, v. 244 sqq.;
old heathen festival of, in Europe and the East, v. 249 sq.;
divination at, v. 252 sq.;
wells crowned with flowers at, xi. 28;
processions of giants at, xi. 33 sqq.;
sacred to Balder, xi. 87
—— bonfire called “fire of heaven,” x. 334
—— bonfires in Sweden, ii. 65;
intended to drive away dragons, x. 161.
See Midsummer fires
—— Bride and Bridegroom in Sweden and Norway, ii. 92, v. 251
“—— Brooms” in Sweden, xi. 54
—— Day (St. John's Day), cattle crowned on, ii. 127;
ancient Roman festival of, ii. 272, x. 178;
ceremonies concerned with vegetation on, ix. 359;
charm for fig-trees on, x. 18;
water claims human victims on, x. 26 sqq.;
regarded as unlucky, xi. 29.
See also St. John's Day
—— Day or Eve, custom of bathing on, v. 246 sqq., xi. 29 sq.;
pagan origin of the custom, v. 249
—— Eve (St. John's Eve), May-poles and bonfires in Sweden on, ii. 65;
trees burned on, ii. 66, 141, v. 250;
activity of witches and warlocks on, ii. 127, ix. 158, 160, x. 176 sq., xi. 19, 73 sqq.;
bonfires in Cornwall on, ii. 141;
figures of Kupalo carried over bonfires in Russia on, iv. 262, v. 250 sq.;
Snake Stones thought to be formed on, x. 15;
trolls and evil spirits abroad on, x. 172;
the season for gathering wonderful herbs and flowers, xi. 45 sqq.;
the magic flowers of, xi. 45 sqq.;
divination on, xi. 46 n. 3, 50, 52 sqq., 61, 64, 67 sqq.;
dreams of love on, xi. 52, 54;
fern-seed blooms on, xi. 65, 287;
the divining-rod cut on, xi. 67 sqq.;
treasures bloom in the earth on, xi. 288 n. 5;
theoak thought to bloom on, xi. 292, 293.
See also St. John's Eve
—— festival, in Europe, ii. 272 sq., x. 161 sqq.;
named after St. John, v. 244;
the bonfires, processions with torches, and rolling wheels of the, x. 161;
Kirchmeyer's account of the, x. 162 sq.;
of fire and water among the Mohammedan peoples of North Africa, x. 213 sqq.;
common to peoples on both sides of the Mediterranean, x. 219, xi. 31;
the most important of the year among the primitive Aryans of Europe, xi. 40;
its relation to Druidism, xi. 45
—— fires, x. 160 sqq.;
and couples in relation to vegetation, v. 250 sq.;
leaping over the fires to make flax or hemp grow tall, v. 251;
in Germany, x. 163 sqq.;
in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, x. 171 sq.;
in Austria, x. 173 sqq.;
cows driven through, to guard them against witchcraft, x. 175, 176, 185, 188;
regarded as a protection against witchcraft, x. 176, 180;
in Russia and Lithuania, x. [pg 371] 176 sqq.;
among the Magyars, x. 178 sq.;
among the Esthonians, x. 179 sq.;
in Finland and among the Cheremiss, x. 180 sq.;
in France, x. 181 sqq.;
in Belgium, x. 194 sqq.;
in England, x. 196 sqq.;
in Wales, x. 156, 200 sq.;
in Ireland, x. 201 sqq.;
in Scotland, x. 206 sq.;
in Spain and the Azores, x. 208 sq.;
in Italy, x. 209 sq.;
in Malta, x. 210 sq.;
in Greece, the Greek islands, and Macedonia, x. 211 sq.;
in America, x. 212 sq.;
among the Mohammedans of North Africa, x. 213 sqq.;
animals burnt in the, xi. 38 sqq.
See also Cattle and Leaping
Midsummer flowers and plants used as talismans against witchcraft, xi. 72
—— Men, orpine, xi. 61
—— morning, church bells rung on, to drive away witches, ii. 127
—— mummers clad in green fir branches, xi. 25 sq.
—— solstice, rain-making ceremony performed at the, viii. 179.
See also Solstice
—— tree burned in Bohemia, ii. 66
Midwinter fires, x. 246 sqq.
Migrations of princes in ancient Greece a trace of female descent of the kingship, ii. 278 sq.
Mijatovich, Chedo, on the Zadrooga or Servian house-community, x. 259 n. 1
Mikado, the, an incarnation of the sun goddess, i. 417, iii. 2;
rules of life of, iii. 3 sqq.;
not allowed to set foot on ground, iii. 3, x. 2 sq.;
the sun not allowed to shine on him, iii. 3, x. 18 sq.;
supposed effect of using his dishes or clothes, iii. 131;
custom as to cutting his hair and nails, iii. 265;
his absolution and remission of sins, ix. 213 n. 1
Mikados, their relations to the Tycoons, iii. 19;
human sacrifices formerly offered at the graves of the, iv. 218
Miklucho-Maclay, Baron, on the ignorance of the art of making fire on the Maclay coast of New Guinea, ii. 253 sq.;
on protective ceremony in New Guinea, iii. 109
Milan, alleged incarnation of the Holy Ghost at, i. 409;
festival of the Three Kings of Twelfth Day at, ix. 331
Milcom, the god of Ammon, v. 19
Mildew worshipped by the Romans, viii. 282
Mildew Apollo, viii. 282
Milk, offered at graves, i. 287, v. 87;
stolen by witches from cows on Walpurgis Night or May Day (Beltane), ii. 52 sqq., ix. 267, x. 154;
stolen by witches from cows on Midsummer Eve, ii. 127, x. 176 sq., 185, xi. 74;
poured on grave of ancestor, ii. 223;
offered to the fig-tree of Romulus, ii. 318;
stolen by witches on Eve of St. George, ii. 334 sqq.;
not given away on St. George's Eve, ii. 339;
customs observed when the king of Unyoro drinks, iii. 119;
not drunk by those who have handled a corpse, iii. 141;
not to be drunk by wounded men, iii. 174 sq.;
consecrated by lying-in woman, iii. 225 n.;
wine called, iii. 249 n. 2;
serpents fed with, v. 84 sqq., 87;
omens from boiling, viii. 56, xi. 8;
taboos referring to, viii. 83 sq.;
temporary abstinence from, viii. 161;
offered to snakes, viii. 288;
heifers beaten to make them yield, ix. 266 sq.;
girls at puberty forbidden to drink, x. 22, 30, 38;
poured on fire-place, x. 30;
not to be drunk by menstruous women, x. 80, 84;
stolen by witches from cows, x. 343;
libations of, poured on fire, xi. 8, 9;
libations of, poured into a stream, xi. 9;
poured on sick cattle, xi. 13
Milk and butter stolen from cow's by witches at Midsummer, ii. 127, x. 185;
thought to be improved by the Midsummer fires, x. 180;
witchcraft fatal to, xi. 86
—— and cattle, importance of, for the early Italians, ii. 324
—— of cows, charm to increase the, i. 198 sq.;
chiefs held responsible for the, i. 354;
thought to be promoted by green boughs on May Day, ii. 52
—— and meat (flesh), dietary rules as to, iii. 292, viii. 83 sq.
—— of pig thought to cause leprosy, viii. 24, 25
——, women's, promoted by milk-stones, i. 165
Milk pails wreathed with garlands on May Day, ii. 52;
wreathed with rowan on May Day, ii. 53;
wreathed with flowers on St. George's Day, ii. 338, 339
—— -stones, magical, produce milk, i. 165
—— -tie as a bond of kinship, xi. 138 n. 1
—— -tree not to be cut while the corn is in the ground, ii. 49
—— -vessels not to be touched by menstruous women, x. 80
Milking cows as a rain-charm, i. 284;
through a hole in a branch or a “witch's nest,” xi. 185
Milkmaids on May Day, dance of, ii. 52
Milkmen of the Todas sacred or divine, i. 402 sq.;
taboos observed by, iii. 15 sqq.
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Milky juice of wild fig-tree in religious rite, ii. 313, ix. 258
Mill, women mourning for Tammuz eat nothing ground in a, v. 230;
Tammuz ground in a, vii. 258
Mill-stones crowned at Vesta's festival in June, ii. 127 n. 3
Millaeus on judicial torture, xi. 158
Miller, Hugh, on absence of soul in sleep, iii. 40 sq.
Miller's wife a witch, story of the, x. 319 sq.
Millet, homoeopathic magic of, i. 145;
cultivated in Africa, vii. 115, 117;
cultivated in Assam, vii. 123;
cultivated in New Guinea, vii. 123;
the deity of, worshipped by the Ainos, viii. 52;
first-fruits of, offered to the dead, viii. 111, 112
Millingtonia, the sacred tree of the Todas, viii. 314
Milne, Mrs. Leslie, on Shan custom as to cutting bamboos, vi. 136
Miltiades, funeral games celebrated in his honour in the Thracian Chersonese, iv. 93 sq.
Milton on chastity, ii. 118 n. 1;
on the laments for Tammuz, v. 226 n.;
on the Harvest Queen, vii. 147
Mimicry the principle of religious or magical dramas, ix. 374
Miming, a satyr of the woods, in the Balder legend, x. 103
Minahassa, a district of Celebes, rain-making in, i. 277;
inspired priests among the Alfoors of, i. 382 sq.;
ceremony at house-warming among the Alfoors of, iii. 63 sq., xi. 153;
reluctance to be photographed in, iii. 99;
Alfoors of, forbidden to pronounce the names of parents-in-law, iii. 340 sq.;
special language at rice-harvest in, iii. 412;
mock human sacrifices in, iv. 214 sq.;
quail associated with rice in, vii. 296;
customs as to sowing and plucking the new rice in, viii. 54;
dummies to deceive demons in, viii. 100;
festival of “eating the new rice” in, viii. 123;
hair of slain foe used to impart courage in, viii. 153;
expulsion of demons in, ix. 111 sq.
Minangkabau, the Sultan of, revered by the Battas, i. 399
Minangkabauers of Sumatra, their use of magical images, i. 58;
their homoeopathic magic at building a rice barn, i. 140;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 193;
their treatment of women in childbirth, iii. 32;
their conception of the soul as a bird or a fly, iii. 36;
their belief as to absence of soul in sleep, iii. 41;
their customs as to the Mother of Rice, vii. 191 sq.;
their respect for crocodiles, viii. 211 sq.;
their respect for tigers, viii. 215 sq.;
their belief as to menstruous women, x. 79;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 229 n.
Mindanao, one of the Philippines, the Bogabos of, iii. 323, vii. 240
Minden, dances round an oak in the principality of, ii. 371
Miners, special language employed by, iii. 407, 409
Mingoli, spirits of the dead, among the Boloki, ix. 77
Mingrelia, holy image ducked as a rain-charm in, i. 308
Miniature fields dedicated to spirits in Nias, vii. 233 sq.
Minnetarees, Indian tribe of North America, their personification of maize as an Old Woman, vii. 204 sq.;
ceremony for securing good crop of maize among the, vii. 209 n. 2;
their belief in the resurrection of bisons, viii. 256
Minnigaff, parish in Galloway, “cutting the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 279
Minoan age of Greece, v. 34
Minorca, seven-legged images of Lent in, iv. 244 n. 1
Minos, king of Cnossus, his reign of eight years, iv. 70 sqq.;
tribute of youths and maidens sent to, iv. 74 sqq.
——, king of Crete, besieges Megara, xi. 103
—— and Britomartis, iv. 73
Minotaur, the, legend of, iv. 71, 74;
perhaps an image of the sun, iv. 75, 77
—— and the labyrinth, iv. 71, 74, 77
—— and Pasiphae, iv. 71, vii. 31
Mint, flowers of, gathered on St. John's Day, xi. 51
Minucius Felix on the Ephesian Artemis, i. 38 n. 1;
on the rites of Osiris, vi. 85 n. 3;
on the Salii, ix. 231 n. 3
Minyas, king of Orchomenus, his treasury, iv. 164
Miotse, the, of China, drive away the devil by means of a kite, ix. 4
Mirabeau, hunting the wren at, viii. 321
Miracles, god-man expected to work, i. 376;
not conceived by early man as breaches of natural law, i. 376 sq.
Miraculous births of gods and heroes, v. 107
Mirasans, the, of the Punjaub, their worship of snakes, viii. 316 sq.
Miris of Assam, fear to offend woodland spirits, ii. 39;
new fire made after a death among the, ii. 267 n. 4;
woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 123;
eat tiger's flesh to make them brave, viii. 145
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Mirror or burning-glass, fire made by means of, ii. 243, 245 n.
Mirrors, superstitions as to, iii. 92 sq., 94 sqq.;
covered after a death, iii. 94 sq.
Mirzapur, the Chero of, i. 209;
taboos and ceremonies connected with the rearing of silk-worms in, iii. 193 sq.;
the Majhwârs of, iii. 234, ix. 36, 60;
the Pankas of, iii. 402;
remedy for locusts in, viii. 276;
transference of disease in, ix. 6;
sacrifices at cairns in, ix. 27;
the Korwas and Pataris of, their use of scapegoats, ix. 192;
the Bhuiyars of, x. 84
Miscarriage in childbed, dread of, iii. 149, 152 sqq.;
supposed danger of concealing a, iii. 211, 213
Misfortune swept out of house with brooms, ix. 5;
burnt in Midsummer fires, x. 215;
got rid of by leaping over Midsummer fires, x. 215
Misrule, the Lord of, ix. 251, 312;
at Bodmin in Cornwall, ii. 319 n. 1;
in England, ix. 331 sqq.
Missel-thrush and mistletoe, xi. 316
Missiles hurled at dangerous ghosts or spirits, ix. 17 sqq.
Mississippi, lighted torch carried before chiefs among the Indians of the, ii. 263 sq.
Missouri, the, cottonwood trees in the valley of, ii. 12
“Mist-healing,” Swiss expression for kindling a need-fire, x. 279
Mistletoe, worshipped by the Druids, ii. 358, 362, xi. 76 sq., 301;
wreath of, on pole to which a wren is fastened, viii. 321;
the divining-rod made of, xi. 69, 291;
cut on the sixth day of the moon, xi. 77;
makes barren animals and women to bring forth, xi. 77, 78, 79;
cut with a golden sickle, xi. 77, 80;
thought to have fallen from the sky, xi. 77, 80;
called the “all-healer,” xi. 77, 79, 82;
an antidote to all poison, xi. 77, 83;
gathered on the first day of the moon, xi. 78;
not to touch the earth, xi. 78, 80, 280;
a cure for epilepsy, xi. 78, 83, 84;
extinguishes fire, xi. 78, 84 sq., 293;
venerated by the Ainos of Japan, xi. 79;
growing on willow specially efficacious, xi. 79;
confers invulnerability, xi. 79 sq.;
its position as a parasite on a tree the source of superstitions about it, xi. 80, 81, 84;
not to be cut but shot or knocked down with stones, xi. 81 sq.;
in the folk-lore of modern European peasants, xi. 81 sqq.;
medical virtues ascribed to, xi. 82 sqq.;
cut when the sun is in Sagittarius, xi. 82, 86;
growing on oak a panacea for green wounds, xi. 83;
mystic qualities ascribed to mistletoe at Midsummer (St. John's Day or Eve), xi. 83, 86;
these virtues a pure superstition, xi. 84;
cut at the full moon of March, xi. 84, 86;
called “thunder-besom” in Aargau, xi. 85, 301;
a master-key to open all locks, xi. 85;
a protection against witchcraft, xi. 85 sq.;
given to first cow that calves after New Year, xi. 86;
gathered especially at Midsummer, xi. 86 sq.;
grows on oaks in Sweden, xi. 87;
ancient Italian belief that mistletoe could be destroyed neither by fire nor water, xi. 94;
life of oak in, xi. 280, 292;
a protection against witchcraft and Trolls, xi. 282, 283, 294;
a protection against fairy changelings, xi. 283;
hung over doors of stables and byres in Brittany, xi. 287;
thought to disclose treasures in the earth, xi. 287, 291 sq.;
gathered at the solstices, Midsummer and Christmas, xi. 291 sqq.;
traditional privilege of, xi. 291 n. 2;
growing on a hazel, xi. 291 n. 3;
growing on a thorn, xi. 291 n. 3;
perhaps conceived as a germ or seed of fire, xi. 292;
sanctity of mistletoe perhaps explained by the belief that the plant has fallen on the tree in a flash of lightning, xi. 301;
two species of, Viscum album and Loranthus europaeus, xi. 315 sqq.;
found most commonly on apple-trees, xi. 315, xi. 316 n. 5;
growing on oaks in England, xi. 316;
seeds of, deposited by missel-thrush, xi. 316;
ancient names of, xi. 317 sq.;
Virgil on, xi. 318 sqq.;
Dutch names for, xi. 319 n. 1
Mistletoe and Balder, x. 101 sq., xi. 76 sqq., 302;
his life or death in the mistletoe, xi. 279, 283
—— and the Golden Bough, xi. 315 sqq.
Mistress, sanctuary of the, at Lycosura, in Arcadia, taboos observed, at the, iii. 227 n., 314, viii. 46;
cow-headed or sheep-headed statuettes of women found at the, viii. 21 n. 4
—— of the Earth, worshipped in Timor, ix. 85
“—— of Turquoise,” goddess at Sinai, v. 35
Mitani, ancient people of Northern Mesopotamia, v. 135 n.
Mitchell, Sir Arthur, on a barbarous cure for murrain in Scotland, x. 326
Mithr, Armenian fire-god, x. 131 n. 3
Mithra, Persian deity, popularity of his worship in the Rotnan Empire, v. 301 sq.;
identified with the Unconquered Sun, v. 304;
his nativity on December 25th, v. 304
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Mithraic mysteries, initiation into the, xi. 277
—— religion a rival to Christianity, v. 302;
festival of Christmas borrowed from the, v. 302 sqq.
—— sacrifice of bull, viii. 10
Mithridates, his siege of Cyzicus, viii. 95 n. 2
Mitigations of human sacrifices, vii. 33, ix. 396 sq., 408
Mittelmark, district of Prussia, the last sheaf called the Old Man in, vii. 219
Mizimu, spirits of the dead, among the Wadowe of East Africa, xi. 312
Miztecs of Mexico, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 54 sq.
Mlanje, in British Central Africa, xi. 314 n. 1
Mnasara tribe of Morocco kindle fires at Midsummer, x. 214
Mnevis, sacred Egyptian bull of Heliopolis, iv. 72, vi. 11, viii. 34 sq., ix. 217
Moa, island of, taboos observed by women and children during war in, i. 131;
treatment of the navel-string in, i. 187;
theory of earthquakes in, v. 198;
annual expulsion of diseases in a proa in, ix. 199
Moab, Arabs of, i. 153, 157, 276, iii. 280, vii. 138;
their custom of shaving prisoners, iii. 273;
their custom at harvest, vi. 48, 96;
their remedies for ailments, vi. 242.
See also Arabs
——, king of, and his god Kemosh, v. 15;
sacrifices his son on the wall, iv. 166, 179
——, the wilderness of, v. 52 sq.;
the springs of Callirrhoe in, v. 214 sqq.
Moabite stone, the inscription on the, v. 15 n. 3, 20 n. 2, 163 n. 3
Moabites, King David's treatment of the, iii. 273 sq.;
burn the bones of the kings of Edom, vi. 104
Mock battle at festival of new fruits among the Creek Indians, viii. 75.
See Sham fight
—— executions, iv. 148, 158
—— human sacrifices, iv. 214 sqq.;
sacrifices of finger-joints, iv. 219
—— kings, iv. 148 sqq., ix. 403 sq.
—— marriage of human victims, ix. 257 sq.
—— sultan in Morocco, iv. 152 sq.
—— sun in charm to secure sunshine, i. 314
Mockery of Christ, ix. 412 sqq.
Mocobis, the, of Paraguay, their reverence for the Pleiades, vii. 309
Modai, invisible spirits, among the Kacharis, ix. 93
Models in cardboard offered to the dead instead of the things themselves, vi. 63 sq.
Moesia, Durostorum in Lower, ix. 309
Moffat, Dr. R., on the power of rain-makers in South African tribes, i. 351;
on the observation of the Pleiades by the Bechuanas, vii. 316
Mogador, in Morocco, devils nailed into a wall at, ix. 63
Moggridge, Mr., on sin-eating in Wales, ix. 44 n. 2
Mogk, Professor Eugen, on May-trees and Whitsuntide-trees in Saxony, ii. 68 sq.;
as to the purificatory intention of the European fire-festivals, x. 330
Mohammed forbade the artificial fertilization of the palm, ii. 25 n. 1;
on the fig, ii. 316;
bewitched by a Jew, iii. 302 sq.;
said to have stoned the devil, ix. 24
Mohammed ben Isa or Aïsa, of Mequinex, founder of the order called Isowa or Aïsawa, vii. 21
Mohammedan belief as to falling stars, iv. 63 sq.
—— calendar lunar, x. 216 sq., 218 sq.
—— custom of raising cairns near sacred places, ix. 21
—— New Year festival in North Africa, x. 217 sq.
—— peoples of North Africa, their custom of bathing at Midsummer, v. 249;
Midsummer fires among the, x. 213 sqq.
—— popular belief, traces of the bird-soul in, iii. 36 n. 3
—— saints as givers of children, v. 78 n. 2;
reverence for, in North Africa, ix. 21, 22
—— students of Fez, their annual mock sultan, iv. 152 sq.
Mohammedanism, its success due to its founder, vi. 160 sq.
Mohammedans of India, no fire in their houses after a death, ii. 268 n.;
the Suni, of Bombay, cover mirrors after a death, iii. 95;
of Oude, their mode of drinking moonshine, vi. 144
Moharram, first Mohammedan month, x. 217
Moire, sister of Tylon, v. 186
Mole-cricket in homoeopathic magic, i. 156
—— -hill, earth from a, thrown at fairies, i. 329
Moles, hearts of, eaten by diviners to acquire prophetic power, viii. 143
“—— and Field-mice,” fire ceremony on Eve of Twelfth Night in Normandy, ix. 317
—— and field-mice driven away by torches, x. 115, xi. 340
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Molina, J. I., on Araucanian belief as to toads, i. 292 n. 3;
on the annual expulsion of evils in Peru, ix. 130 n.
Moloch, sacrifice of children to, iv. 75, 168 sqq., v. 178;
meaning of the name, v. 15;
the king, vi. 219 sqq.
—— and Melech, vi. 219 sq.
Molonga, a demon of Queensland personified by a man, ix. 172
Molsheim in Baden, bonfires and burning discs on the first Sunday in Lent near, x. 117
Molucca Islanders, their festival of heaven, i. 399 sq.
Moluccas, clove-trees in blossom treated like pregnant women in the, ii. 28;
fear of offending forest-spirits in the, ii. 40;
abduction of human souls in the, iii. 61 sq.;
ceremony on return from a journey in the, iii. 113
Mombasa, in British East Africa, king of, expected to give rain, i. 396;
preceded on the march by fire, ii. 264;
avoidance of the word smallpox at, iii. 400
Mommsen, August, on a Delphic ceremony, i. 46 n. 1;
on the Sacred Marriage, ii. 137 n. 1;
on the Eleusinian games, vii. 77 n. 4;
on the Anthesteria, ix. 153 n. 1;
on the Cronia at Athens, ix. 352 n. 1
Mommsen, Theodor, on dictatorship of Tusculum, i. 23 n. 3;
on the costume of a Roman king, ii. 174 n. 1;
on the triumphal golden crown, ii. 175 n. 1;
on the election of the Roman kings, ii. 296;
on the date of the festival of Osiris at Rome, vi. 95 n. 1;
on the Roman custom of knocking in a nail annually, ix. 67 n. 2
Mon, island of, belief of Esthonian reapers in, as to cutting the first corn, vii. 285
Monarchy in ancient Greece and Rome, tradition of its abolition, i. 46;
rise of, i. 216 sqq.;
essential to emergence of mankind from savagery, i. 217;
hereditary and elective, combination of the two, ii. 292 sqq.
Monbuttu (Monbutto) or Mangbettou of Central Africa, their custom of lengthening the heads of chiefs' children, ii. 297;
their king takes his meals in private, iii. 118 sq.;
women the agricultural labourers among the, vii. 119
Mondard, the great, a straw-man placed on oldest apple-tree while apples are ripening, viii. 6
Mondays, witches dreaded on, xi. 73
Money, the oldest Italian, i. 23;
magical stones to bring, i. 164
Mongol transference of evil, ix. 7 sq.
Mongolia, rain-making in, i. 305;
incarnate human gods in, i. 413
Mongolian peoples, their custom of stuffing skins of sacrificed animals or stretching them on a framework, viii. 257 sq.
—— story, milk-tie in a, x. 138 n. 1;
the external soul in a, xi. 143 sq.
Mongols feared by the Chinese government, i. 413;
their recall of the soul, iii. 44;
their recovery of souls from demons, iii. 63;
reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
sacred books of the, only to be read in spring or summer, iii. 384;
funeral customs of the, v. 293
Monkey sacrificed for riddance of evils, ix. 208 sq.
Monkeys (apes) not to be called by their proper name, iii. 402, 403, 408, 413;
sacred at Fishtown, viii. 287
Monmouthshire, All Souls' Day in, vi. 79
Monomotapa, in East Africa, the king of, his sacred fire, ii. 264;
forbidden to wear foreign stuffs, iii. 115;
his way of prolonging his life, vi. 222 sq.
Monster supposed to swallow and disgorge novices at initiation, xi. 240 sq., 242
Mont des Fourches, in the Vosges, witch-hare at, x. 318
Montagne du Doubs, in Franche-Comté, bonfires on the Eve of Twelfth Night in the, ix. 316
Montaigne on ceremonial extinction of fires, x. 135 n. 2
Montalto, in Calabria, custom of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, iv. 241
Montanists, their view that the Creation took place at the spring equinox, v. 307 n. 2
Montanus, on the Yule log, x. 248
Montanus the Phrygian, claimed to be the incarnate Trinity, i. 407
Monteiro, Major, his expedition in South Africa, i. 393 n. 2
Montenegro, the Yule log in, x. 263
Montezuma, King of Mexico, worshipped as a god, i. 416;
not to be looked on by his subjects, iii. 121;
not allowed to set foot on ground, x. 2
Month during which men disguised as devils go about, ix. 132;
of general licence before expulsion of demons, ix. 148;
intercalary, ix. 342 sqq.
—— and moon, names for, in Aryan languages, ix. 325
Months, the Egyptian, table of, vi. 37 n.;
ancient Greek, lunar and therefore shifting in the solar year, vii. 52 sq., 82;
lunar, observed by savages, vii. 117, 125
Montols of Northern Nigeria, their belief [pg 376] in their sympathetic relation to snakes, xi. 209 sq.
Monumbos, the, of German New Guinea, uncleanness of man-slayers among the, iii. 169;
pregnant women do not use sharp instruments among, iii. 238;
their masked dances, ix. 382
Monyo, village of Burma, tamarind-tree worshipped at, ii. 46
Moon, Esquimau custom at the new, i. 121 sq.;
wives sing to the, in the absence of their husbands, i. 125;
ceremony at an eclipse of the, i. 311;
charm to hasten the, i. 319;
Diana conceived as the, ii. 128;
women pray to the moon for an easy delivery, ii. 128 n. 2;
woman chosen to represent the, ii. 146;
ceremonies at new, iii. 15;
represented by a cow, iv. 71 sq.;
myth of the setting and rising, iv. 73;
married to Endymion, iv. 90;
human victims sacrificed to the, v. 73, vii. 261;
albinoes thought to be the offspring of the, v. 91;
Osiris and the, vi. 129 sqq.;
popularly regarded as the cause of growth and decay, vi. 132, 138;
practical rules based on a theory of the influence of the, vi. 132 sqq., 140 sqq.;
popularly regarded as the source of dew and moisture, vi. 137 sq.;
worshipped by the agricultural Indians of tropical America, vi. 138 sq.;
viewed as the husband of the sun, vi. 139 n.;
Athenian superstition as to an eclipse of the, vi. 141;
children presented to the, vi. 144 sqq.;
thought to have a harmful influence on children, vi. 148;
the Greek calendar regulated by the, vii. 80;
Basutos attempt to reckon by the, vii. 117;
pigs sacrificed to the, viii. 25;
bodily ailments transferred to the, ix. 53 sq.;
the “dark” and the “light,” ix. 140, 141 n. 1;
temple of the, ix. 218;
hearts of human victims offered to the, ix. 282;
the goddess of the, personated by an actor or dancer, ix. 381;
impregnation of women by the, x. 75 sq.;
the sixth day of the, mistletoe cut on, x. 77;
the first day of the, mistletoe gathered on, x. 78;
the full, transformation of werewolves at, x. 314 n. 1;
reflected in Diana's Mirror, xi. 303
—— and Endymion, i. 18
——, the goddess of the, ix. 341, 381
——, the infant god, vi. 131, 153
—— and month, names for, in Aryan languages, ix. 325
——, the new, ceremonies at, vi. 141 sqq.;
dances at, vi. 142;
custom of showing money to, or turning it in the pocket, vi. 148 sq.
Moon and Sun, their marriage celebrated by the Blackfoot Indians, ii. 146 sq.;
mythical and dramatic marriage of the, iv. 71, 73 sq., 78, 87 sq., 90, 92, 105
——, the waning, theories to explain, vi. 130;
thought to be broken or eaten up, vi. 130;
rule that things should be cut or gathered at, vi. 133;
rule that timber should be felled at, vi. 133, 135 sq.;
cure for toothache at, ix. 60
Moon Being of the Omahas, vi. 256
—— -god conceived as masculine, v. 73;
inspiration by the, v. 73;
in ancient Babylonia, vi. 138 sq.
Mooney, James, on the belief of the North American Indians that their names are parts of themselves, iii. 318 sq.;
on want of discrimination between animals and men in Cherokee mythology, viii. 204 sq.;
on Cherokee ideas as to trees struck by lightning, xi. 29
Moonshine drunk as a medicine in India, vi. 144;
thought to be beneficial to children, vi. 144
Móooi, Tongan god who causes earthquakes, v. 201
Mooraba Gosseyn, a Brahman, incarnation of the elephant-headed god Gunputty, i. 405
Moore, G. F., on the burnt sacrifice of children, vi. 219 n. 1
Moore, Manx Surnames, quoted by Sir John Rhys, x. 306
Moors obliterate marks in sand from superstitious motives, i. 214
—— of Algiers, no fire in their houses after a death, ii. 268 n.
—— of Morocco, use boars to divert evil spirits, ix. 31;
their superstition as to the “sultan of the oleander,” x. 18
Moorunde tribe of Australia, the dead not named in the, iii. 358
Moosheim, in Wurtemberg, leaf-clad mummer at Midsummer festival at, xi. 26
Mopane country, South Africa, souls of dead chiefs supposed to transmigrateinto lions in the, viii. 287
Moquis of Arizona, their use of stone implements in religious ritual, iii. 228;
their theory of transmigration into their totemic animals, viii. 178;
their totem clans, viii. 178
Moral evolution, iii. 218 sq.
—— guilt regarded as a corporeal pollution, iii. 217 sq.
Morality developed out of taboo, iii. 213 sq.;
shifted from a natural to a supernatural [pg 377] basis, iii. 213 sq.;
survival of savage taboos in civilized, iii. 218 sq.
Morasas, the, of South India, sacrifice of finger-joints among the, iv. 219
Moravia, precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night among the Germans of, ii. 55, ix. 162;
custom observed by the Germans of, on Laetare Sunday, ii. 63;
“Meeting the Spring” in, ii. 333;
“Carrying out Death” in, iv. 238 sq., 249;
drama of Summer and Winter in, iv. 257 sq.;
the Feast of All Souls in, vi. 73;
harvest custom in, vii. 162;
the Wheat-Bride in, vii. 162;
the Shrovetide bear in, viii. 326 n. 1;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268, 269;
fires to burn the witches in, x. 160;
Midsummer fires in, x. 175;
the divining-rod in, xi. 67
Moravian belief that serpents get their poison annually on St. George's Day, ii. 344 n. 4
Moravians cull simples at Midsummer, xi. 49, 54
—— of Silesia, their custom of “Carrying out Death,” iv. 237
Moray Firth, disappearance of herring in the, viii. 251
Morayshire, remedy for a murrain in, x. 326;
medical use of mistletoe in, xi. 84
Morbihan in Brittany, mistletoe hung over the doors of stables and byres at, xi. 287
Morbus regius, jaundice, i. 371 n. 4
Mordecai, his name equivalent to Marduk or Merodach, ix. 365;
his triumphal ride in Susa, ix. 403
—— and Esther equivalent to Marduk and Ishtar, ix. 405;
the duplicates of Haman and Vashti, ix. 405 sq.
—— and Haman, ix. 364 sqq.;
as temporary kings, ix. 400 sq.
Moresby, Captain John, his reception in Shepherd's Isle, iii. 104 sq.
Moresin, Thomas, on St. Peter's fires in Scotland, x. 207
Moret, Alexandre, on the divinity of Egyptian kings, i. 418 sq.;
on assimilation of Egyptian kings to gods, ii. 134 n. 1;
on Amenophis IV., vi. 123 n. 1;
on the Sed festival, vi. 155 sq.
Morgan, L. H., as to Otawa totems, viii. 225 n. 1
Morgan, Professor M. H., on an ancient Greek mode of making fire, ii. 207 n. 1
Mori, a district of Central Celebes, belief of the natives as to a spirit in the moon, vi. 139 n.
Mori clan of the Bhils in Central India, their totem the peacock, viii. 29
Moriah, Mount, traditionally identified with Mount Zion, vi. 219 n. 1
Morice, Father A. G., on the seclusion- of menstruous women among the Tinneh Indians, iii. 146 sq.;
on customs and beliefs of the Carrier Indians as to menstruous women, x. 91 sqq.;
on the honorific totems of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273 sqq.
Morlaks, the Yule log among the, x. 264
Morlanwelz, in Belgium, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 107
Morning, certain animals not to be named in the, iii. 402
Morning Star, the, appearance of, perhaps the signal for the festival of Adonis, v. 258 sq.;
human sacrifice at sowing enjoined by the, vii. 238;
named in Nias, vii. 315;
personated by a man in a dance or dramatic ceremony, ix. 238, 381;
the god of the, ix. 381;
girl at puberty bathes at the rising of the, x. 40;
the rising of the, the signal for kindling new fire at the winter solstice, x. 133
Morocco, magic use of a fowl or pigeon in, i. 151;
artificial fertilization of fig-trees in, ii. 314;
iron used as a protection against demons in, iii. 233;
disposal of cut hair in, iii. 275;
nail-parings preserved for the resurrection in, iii. 280;
annual temporary king in, iv. 152 sq.;
custom of prostitution in an Arab tribe in, v. 39 n. 3;
live goats torn to pieces and devoured by a religious sect in, vii. 21;
the Barley Bride in, vii. 178 sq.;
homoeopathic magic of flesh diet in, viii. 147;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
cairns near Azemmour in, ix. 21;
boars used to divert evil spirits in, ix. 31;
devils nailed into a wall in, ix. 63;
the tug-of-war in, ix. 178 sq., 182;
games of ball played in, to procure rain or sunshine, ix. 179 sq.;
custom of beating people for their good in, ix. 265, 266;
magical virtue ascribed to rainwater in, x. 17 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 213 sqq.;
water thought to acquire marvellous virtue at Midsummer in, xi. 30 sq.;
magical plants gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 51
Morris-dancers, ix. 250 sq.
Morrison, Rev. C. W., on belief of Australian aborigines as to childbirth, v. 103 n. 3
Mortality, savage explanations of human, ix. 302 sqq.
—— of the gods, iv. 1 sqq.
Mortlock Islanders, their belief in spirits, ix. 82
Moru tribe of Central Africa, viii. 314.
See Madi
Morven, x. 290;
consumptive people [pg 378] passed through rifted rocks in, xi. 186 sq.
Mosaic law forbids interchange of dress between men and women, ix. 363
—— laws, their similarity to savage customs, iii. 219 n. 1
Mosbach, in Bavaria, the last sheaf called Goat at, vii. 283
Moschus on Europa and the bull, iv. 73 n. 1
Moscow, annual new fire in villages near, x. 139
Moselle, the Treveri on the, ii. 126 n. 2;
the Fox in the corn in the department of the, vii. 296;
bonfires on the, x. 109;
Konz on the, x. 118, 163 sq.
Moses, the tomb of, ix. 21;
on the uncleanness of women at menstruation, x. 95 sq.
Moslem custom of raising cairns, ix. 21
Mosquito Indians of Central America preserve bones of deer and shells of eggs, viii. 258 n. 2
—— -makers, magicians in Tana, i. 341
—— territory, Central America, seclusion of menstruous women in the, x. 86
Moss, W., iv. 284 n. 4
Mossos of China, their annual expulsion of demons, ix. 139
Mostar, in Herzegovina, custom observed by bride at, ii. 230 sq.
Mostene in Lydia, double-headed axe at, v. 183 n.
Mosul, the “Mother of the Grape-cluster” at, iv. 8;
cure for headache at, ix. 64
Mosyni or Mosynoeci, in Pontus, kept their king in close custody, iii. 124
Mota, in the New Hebrides, belief as to conception in women in, v. 97 sq.;
conception of the external soul in, xi. 197 sq.
“Mother” and “Father” as epithets applied to Roman goddesses and gods, vi. 233 sqq.
“Mother of the Clan” in the Pelew Islands, vi. 205, 206
Mother, dead, worshipped, vi. 175, 185
—— of a god, v. 51, 52
—— of the gods, Attis associated with the, i. 21, v. 266;
the Phrygian, her worship adopted by the Romans, v. 265;
first-fruits offered in Thera to the, v. 280 n. 1;
popularity of her worship in the Roman Empire, v. 298 sq.;
Mexican goddess, ix. 289;
woman annually sacrificed in the character of the, ix. 289 sq.
—— or Grandmother of Ghosts at Rome, viii. 94, 96, 107
—— of the Grape-cluster, iv. 8
——, the Great, Cybele, at Rome, v. 280;
name given to the last sheaf, vii. 135 sq.
“—— of Kings,” in Central African kingdom, ii. 277
—— of the Maize, among the Indians of Peru, vii. 172 sqq.
—— of the Rain, at a rain-making ceremony among the Arabs of Moab, i. 276
—— of the Rice, in Sumatra and Celebes, vii. 191 sqq.
Mother-corn, name given to last sheaf threshed, vii. 147
—— -cotton in the Punjaub, vii. 178
—— Earth prayed to for rain, i. 283;
festival in her honour in Bengal, v. 90;
fertilized by Father Sky, myth of, v. 282;
sickness caused by, viii. 105
—— Goddess of Western Asia, sacred prostitution in the worship of the, v. 36;
lions as her emblems, v. 137, 164;
her eunuch priests, v. 206;
of Phrygia conceived as a Virgin Mother, v. 281
—— -kin, the system of tracing relationship through women, ii. 271, iii. 333;
in succession to Roman kingship, ii. 271;
among the Aryans, ii. 283 sqq.;
superiority of maternal uncle to father under mother-kin, ii. 285;
succession in royal houses with, v. 44;
trace of, at Rome and Nemi, v. 45;
among the Khasis of Assam, v. 46, vi. 202 sqq.;
among the Hittites, traces of, vi. 141 sq.;
and Mother Goddesses, vi. 201 sqq., 212 sqq.;
and father-kin, vi. 202, 261 n. 3;
favours the superiority of goddesses over gods in religion, vi. 202 sqq., 211 sq.;
among the Pelew Islanders, vi. 204 sqq.;
does not imply that government is in the hands of women, vi. 208 sqq.;
among the Melanesians, vi. 211;
in Africa, vi. 211;
in Lycia, vi. 212 sq.;
in ancient Egypt, vi. 213 sqq.;
traces of, in Lydia and Cos, vi. 259;
favours the development of goddesses, vi. 259;
in royal families, ix. 368 n. 1
See also Female kinship
—— -in-law, the savage's dread of his, iii. 83 sqq.;
her name not to be mentioned by her son-in-law, iii. 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346
—— Plastene on Mount Sipylus, v. 185
—— -seed, among the Malays, vii. 198
—— -sheaf, in Brittany, vii. 135, 209
“Mother's Air,” a tune on the flute, v. 288
Mother's brother preferred to father, mark of mother-kin, ii. 285
Mothers, African kings forbidden to see [pg 379] their, iii. 86;
named after their children, iii. 332, 333, 339
Motherwort, garlands of, at Midsummer, x. 162
Motlav, recall of lost souls in, iii. 56;
belief as to conception in women in, v. 98.
Motu of New Guinea, their way of detaining the sun, i. 317;
taboos observed for the sake of the crops among the, ii. 106;
tabooed persons not allowed to handle food among the, iii. 141;
chastity of hunters and fishers among the, iii. 192;
hunters and fishers regarded as holy among the, iii. 196;
continence observed by them before and during a trading voyage, iii. 203 sq.;
unwilling to tell their names, iii. 329
Motumotu or Toaripi of New Guinea, magical telepathy among the, i. 125;
their way of detaining the sun, i. 317;
think that storms are sent by a sorcerer, i. 326 sq.;
sorcerers as chiefs among the, i. 337;
their belief as to reflections in a mirror, iii. 92;
taboos observed by manslayers among the, iii. 167;
continence before fishing or hunting among the, iii. 196;
unwilling to tell their names, iii. 329;
homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet among the, viii. 145.
See also Toaripi
Moulin, parish of, in Perthshire, Hallowe'en fires in, x. 230
Moulins-Engilbert, spring of St. Gervais near, i. 307
Moulton, Professor J. H., iv. 124 n. 1;
on the etymology of Quirinus, ii. 182 n. 2;
on the relation of the Italian and Celtic languages, ii. 189 n. 3;
on the etymology of Flamen, ii. 247 n. 5;
on proposed etymologies of Demeter, vii. 41 n., 131 n. 4;
on the Twelve Days, ix. 325 n. 3;
on the proposed identification of Haman and Hammedatha with two Persian archangels, ix. 373 n. 1;
on the etymology of Soranus, xi. 15 n. 1
Mounds of Semiramis, ix. 370, 371, 373
——, sepulchral, iv. 93, 96, 100, 104
Mountain of Parting, in Mexico, ix. 279
Mountain arnica gathered at Midsummer, xi. 57 sq.;
a protection against thunder, lightning, hail, and conflagration, xi. 58
—— -ash, a protection against witches, ii. 53;
pastoral crook cut from a, ii. 331;
parasitic, used to make the divining rod, xi. 69;
mistletoe on, xi. 315.
See also Rowan
—— scaur, external soul in, xi. 156
Mountains, first berries of the season offered to the, viii. 133 sq.
Mourne Mountains, x. 159
Mourners, customs observed by, iii. 31 sq., 159 n., 315;
plug their nostrils, iii. 32;
tabooed, iii. 138 sqq., x. 20;
refrain from scratching their heads with their fingers, iii. 159 n.;
heads of, smeared with mud or clay, iii. 182 n. 2;
taboos observed by, in India, iii. 235 sq.;
hair and nails of, cut at end of mourning, iii. 285 sq.;
touch coral rings as a form of purification, iii. 315;
shave their heads in order to escape recognition by the ghost, iii. 357 sq.;
rub themselves with the juices of the dead, viii. 163;
drink the juices of the dead, viii. 163 n. 3;
the purification of, intended to protect them against the spirits of the dead, ix. 105 n. 1;
whip themselves at a funeral to keep off evil spirits, ix. 260 sq.;
wear special caps, x. 20;
pass over fire as a purification after a funeral, xi. 17, 18;
customs observed by, among the Bella Coola Indians, xi. 174
Mournful character of the rites of sowing vi. 40 sqq.
Mourning of slayers for the slain, iii. 181;
for a dead whale, iii. 223;
for Tammuz, v. 9 sqq., 230;
for Adonis, v. 224 sq., 226 sq.;
of Egyptian reapers, v. 232, vi. 45, 117;
for Attis, v. 272;
for Osiris, vi. 12;
for the corn-god at Midsummer, vi. 34;
for the Old Woman of the Corn, vi. 47;
at cutting wood of sacred tree, vi. 47 sq.;
of Demeter for the descent of Persephone at the time of the autumn sowing, vii. 46;
pretended, for insects that destroy the crops, viii. 279 sq.;
the great, for Isfendiyar, x. 105.
See also Lamentations and Laments
Mourning costume of men in Lycia, vi. 264;
perhaps a mode of deceiving the ghost, vi. 264
Mouse, soul in form of, iii. 37, 39 n. 1.
See also Mice
Mouse Apollo, viii. 282 sq.
Mouse-ear hawkweed (Hieracium pilosella) gathered at Midsummer, xi. 57
Mouse's head hung round child's neck at teething, i. 180
Mouth closed to prevent escape of soul, iii. 31, 33, 71;
soul in the, iii. 33;
spirits supposed to enter the body through the, iii. 116;
covered to prevent entrance of demons, etc., iii. 122;
of the dead, Egyptian ceremony of opening the, vi. 15;
of dead fox tied up, viii. 267
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Movement of thought from magic through religion to science, xi. 304 sq.
Movers, F. C., on the Sacaea, ix. 368, 387, 388, 391, 401
Mowat, in British New Guinea, magical powers of chief at, i. 338;
continence observed during the turtle season at, iii. 192;
boys beaten at, to make them strong, ix. 265
Moxos Indians of Bolivia, magical telepathy among the, i. 123
Moylar, male children of sacred prostitutes in Southern India, v. 63
Mozcas. See Chibchas
Mpongwe of the Gaboon, woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 119
Mpongwe kings of the Gaboon, buried secretly, vi. 104
Mrus, the, of Aracan, their custom of placing grass on a pile, ix. 12 n. 1
Muata Jamwo, a potentate of Angola, lights a new fire on his accession, ii. 262;
not to be seen eating or drinking, iii. 118;
precaution as to his spittle, iii. 290
Mucelis of Angola, all fires among them extinguished on king's death, ii. 262
Mud, rain-makers smear themselves with, i. 350;
smeared on feet of bed of Flamen Dialis, iii. 14;
plastered on heads of man-slayers, iii. 182;
on heads of women in mourning, iii. 182 n. 2
Muganda (singular of Baganda, plural), viii. 231
Mugema, the earl of Busiro, vi. 168
Müglitz, in Moravia, the Wheat Bride at reaping at, vii. 162
Mugumu or Mugomo, a species of fig-tree revered by the Akikuyu, ii. 42
Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), in magic, i. 209;
wreaths of, at Midsummer, x. 163, 165, 174;
a preventive of sore eyes, x. 174;
a preservative against witchcraft, x. 177;
gathered on Midsummer Day or Eve, xi. 58 sqq.;
a protection against thunder, ghosts, magic, and witchcraft, xi. 59 sq.;
thrown into the Midsummer fires, xi. 59;
used in exorcism, xi. 60
Mühlbach, in Transylvania, trial of witch at, iii. 39
Mukasa, god of the Victoria Nyanza Lake, worshipped by the Baganda, ii. 150;
provided with human wives, ii. 150;
probably a dead man, vi. 196 sq.;
gives oracles through a woman, vi. 257;
fish offered to, viii. 253
Mukuru, an ancestor (plural Ovakuru, ancestors), among the Herero, vi. 185 sq.
Mukylcin, the Earth-wife, among the Wotyaks, ii. 146
Mulai Rasheed II., Sultan of Morocco, iv. 153
Mule, asthma transferred to a, ix. 50
Mules excluded from sanctuary of Alectrona, viii. 45
Mulgarradocks, medicine-men in South-western Australia, i. 336
Mull, the island of, the harvest Maiden in, vii. 155, 166;
the need-fire in, x. 148, 289 sq.;
the Beltane cake in, x. 149;
remedy for cattle-disease in, x. 325;
consumptive people passed through rifted rocks in, xi. 186 sq.
Mullein, sprigs of, passed across Midsummer fires protect cattle against sickness and sorcery, x. 190;
bunches of, passed across Midsummer fires and fastened on cattle-shed, x. 191;
yellow (Verbascum), gathered at Midsummer, xi. 63 sq.;
yellow hoary (Verbascum pulverulentum), its golden pyramid of blooms, xi. 64;
great (Verbascum thapsus), called King's Candle or High Taper, xi. 64
Müller, K. O., on a custom of the Spartan kingship, iv. 59;
on the eight years' cycle in ancient Greece, iv. 69 n. 1;
on octennial celebration of Olympic festival, iv. 90;
on mitigation of human sacrifice, iv. 165 n. 1, 166 n. 1;
on Sandan, ix. 389 sq.
Müller, F. Max, and the Rosy Dawn, i. 333 sq.
Müller, Professor W. Max, on Hittite name for god, v. 148 n.
Mulongo, “twin,” term applied by the Baganda to the navel-string, i. 195, 196
Mulungu, spirits of the dead, among the Yaos, viii. 111 sq.
Mumbo Jumbos, iv. 178
Mummers dressed in leaves, branches, and flowers, ii. 74 sqq., 78 sqq.;
the Whitsuntide, iv. 205 sqq.;
at Hallowe'en in the Isle of Man, x. 224.
See also Maskers
Mundaris, of Assam, their sacred groves, ii. 39, 46, 47;
their annual saturnalia at harvest, ix. 137
Mundas of Bengal, marriage to trees among the, ii. 57;
gardens of Adonis among the, v. 240
Mungarai, Australian tribe, their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 101
Muni, or Rishi Agastya, figure of, in ceremony to stop rain, i. 296
Munich, annual expulsion of the devil at, ix. 214 sq.
Munro, Dr. R., on crannogs, ii. 352
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Munster, rain-producing fountain in, i. 301;
dearth in, attributed to king's incest, ii. 116;
taboos observed by the ancient kings of, iii. 11;
tax on fires paid to the king of, x. 139;
Midsummer fires in, x. 203
Münsterberg, precautions against witches in, xi. 20 n.
Münsterland, Easter fires in, x. 141;
the Yule log in, x. 247
Munychian Artemis, iv. 166 n. 1
See Artemis
Munzerabad, district of South India, expulsion of the demon of cholera or smallpox in, ix. 172
Münzesheim, in Baden, the Corn-goat at harvest at, vii. 283
Muota Valley in Switzerland, custom observed on Twelfth Night in the, ix. 166
Mura-muras, the remote predecessors of the Dieri, appealed to for rain, i. 255 sq.
Muralug, dread of women at menstruation in, x. 78
Murder, heaps of sticks or stones on scenes of, ix. 15
—— of children to secure their rebirth in barren women, v. 95
Murderer, fire of oak-wood used to detect a, xi. 92 n. 4
Murderers, taboos imposed on, iii. 187 sq.;
their bodies destroyed, iv. 11
Murli, female devotee, in Mahratta, v. 62
Murom, district of Russia, the “Funeral of Kostroma” in, iv. 262
Murrain, brazen oxen, a talisman against, viii. 281;
need-fire kindled as a remedy for, x. 278, 282, 290 sqq.;
burnt sacrifices to stay a, in England, Wales, and Scotland, x. 300 sqq.;
calf burnt alive to stop a, x. 300 sq.;
cattle buried to stop a, x. 326.
See also Cattle disease
Murrams, the, of Manipur, foods tabooed to chief of, iii. 292
Murray, Sir James, on kern or kirn, vii. 151 n. 3
Murray, Miss Margaret A., on human sacrifices to Osiris, vii. 260 sq.
Murray, the country of, Beltane fires in, x. 154 n. 1
Murray Island, in Torres Straits, ceremony to raise the wind in, i. 322
—— Islands, in Torres Straits, the fire-drill in the, ii. 209
—— River, in Australia, tribes of the Lower, avoid mentioning the names of the dead, iii. 351;
namesakes of the dead change their names among the tribes of the Lower, iii. 355;
wild yams on the, vii. 127;
natives of the, their dread of menstruous women, x. 77;
novices slain and resuscitated by Thrumalun on the, xi. 233
Murring tribe of New South Wales, their custom as to extracted teeth, i. 176
Muses at the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, iv. 89
Music as a means of prophetic inspiration, v. 52 sq., 54 sq., 74;
and religion, v. 53 sq.;
in exorcism, v. 54 sq.
Muskau, in Lausitz, marriage oaks at, xi. 165
Muskoghees eat the hearts of foes to make themselves brave, viii. 150
Musquakie Indians, infant burial among the, v. 91 n. 3
Mutch, Captain J. S., on the dramatic contest between Summer and Winter among the Esquimaux, iv. 259 n. 1
Mutilation of the images of Hermes at Athens, iii. 75;
of dead bodies of kings, chiefs, and magicians, vi. 103 sqq.;
of dead magicians to prevent their souls from becoming dangerous ghosts, vi. 188;
of dead men intended to disable their ghosts, viii. 271 sqq.;
of ox, magical equivalent to mutilation of enemy, viii. 271
Muysca Indians of Colombia not allowed to look at their chiefs, iii. 121
Muyscas, the, of New Granada, their way of procuring rain, i. 303 sq.
See Chibchas
Muzaffarpur, district in India, rain-charm by means of frogs in, i. 293 sq.
Muzimbas or Zimbas, of South-East Africa, worship their king as a god, i. 392
Muzimos, spirits of the dead, among the Maraves, viii. 111
Muzimu, the human spirit or soul, among the Winamwanga, viii. 112 n. 3
Muzzaffarnagar, in the Punjaub, ceremony for stopping rain at, i. 296
Mwamba, chief of the Wemba, swallowed the ashes of his victims to avert their furies, viii. 158
Mwanga, king of the Baganda, converted to Christianity, ii. 150
Mycenae, golden lamb of, i. 365;
royal graves at, v. 33, 34;
shield of Euphorbus at, viii. 300
Mycenaean age of Greece, v. 34
Myconus, sacrifices to Subterranean Zeus and Subterranean Earth at, vii. 66
Mylasa in Caria, v. 182 n. 4
Mylitta, Babylonian goddess, ix. 372 n. 2, 390;
sacred prostitution in her worship, v. 36, 37 n. 1
Myndus, in Asia Minor, rain-making pebbles at, i. 305
Myres, Professor J. L., on the season of threshing in Greece, vii. 62 n. 5
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Myrrh or Myrrha, the mother of Adonis, v. 43, 227 sq.
Myrrh-tree, Adonis born of a, v. 227, vi. 110
Myrtle-tree with pierced leaves at Troezen, i. 25
—— -trees of the Patricians and Plebeians at Rome, xi. 168
Myrtles of Latium, ii. 188
Mysore in Southern India, rain-making in, i. 285;
mimic rite of circumcision in, iv. 220;
sacred women in, v. 62 n.;
the Komatis of, v. 81 sq.;
Munzerabad in, ix. 172
Mysteries as magical ceremonies, ix. 374
—— of Attis, v. 274 sq.
—— of Dionysus, vii. 15
——, Eleusinian, ii. 138 sq., vii. 35, 37 sqq., 65 sqq., 69 sq., 78 sq., 111, 161 sq., 188;
founded by Demeter, vii. 37;
the myth of Demeter and Persephone acted at the, vii. 39, 66;
the Great, their date, vii. 51 sqq.;
instituted by Eumolpus, vii. 70;
associated with belief in immortality, vii. 90 sq.;
designed to promote the growth of the corn, vii. 110 sq.
See also Eleusinian Mysteries
——, Greek, bull-roarers swung at, vii. 110
—— at Mantinea, vii. 46 n. 2
—— of Sabazius, v. 90 n. 4
Myth of Adonis, v. 1 sqq.;
and ritual of Attis, v. 263 sqq.;
myth of Demeter and Persephone, vii. 35 sqq.;
myth less constant than custom, viii. 40
Mythical beings represented by men and women, ix. 385 sq.
Mythologists, two rival schools of, their views not necessarily exclusive of each other, ix. 385 sq.
Mythology, Roman, vi. 235
Myths explanatory of festivals, ii. 142 sq.;
supposed to originate in verbal misapprehensions or a disease of language, vi. 42;
in relation to magic, ix. 374;
performed dramatically in dances, ix. 375 sqq.;
dramatized in ritual, x. 105
—— of creation, iv. 106 sqq.
—— of gods and spirits to be told only in spring and summer, iii. 384;
not to be told by day, iii. 384 sq.;
to be told only in winter, iii. 385 sq.
——, Italian, of kings or heroes begotten by the fire-god, vi. 235
—— of the origin of death, ix. 302 sqq.
Mytilene, titular kings at, i. 45, 46 n. 4
Na Ivilankata, a Fijian clan, members of, walk over oven of hot stones, xi. 10
Naaburg, in Bavaria, custom at sowing at, v. 239
“Naaman, wounds of the,” Arab name for the scarlet anemone, v. 226
Nabataeans, Agriculture of the, ii. 100
Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, v. 174
Nabu, a Babylonian god, ix. 358 n.;
marriage of, ii. 130;
his temple in Borsippa, iv. 110
Nága, serpent god, v. 81
Naga-padoha, the agent of earthquakes, among the Battas, v. 200
—— tribes of Manipur, their belief as to the state of the spirits of the dead, iv. 11
Nagas, demi-gods, concerned in the production of rain, i. 294
—— of Assam, their burial custom, viii. 100;
believe that the dead are reborn as butterflies or flies, viii. 290 sq.;
the tug-of-war among the, ix. 177;
their ceremony of the new fire, x. 136
—— of the Mahabharata, i. 383 n. 4
Nagin, “wives of the snake,” in Behar, ii. 149
Nagir, island of Torres Straits, mode of imparting courage in, viii. 153
Nagpur, the cobra the crest of the Maharajah of, iv. 132 sq.;
story of the type of Beauty and the Beast told in, iv. 132 sq.
Nagual, external soul, among the Indians of Guatemala and Honduras, xi. 212 sqq., 220, 226 n. 1
Nahak, rubbish used in magic, in Tana, i. 341
Nahals, the, a forest tribe of the Central Provinces in India, their worship of trees, viii. 119
Nahanarvals, German tribe, priest dressed as a woman among the, vi. 259
Nahr Ibrahim, the river Adonis, v. 14, 28
Nahum, the prophet, on Nineveh, ix. 390
Nahuntí, an Elamite goddess, ix. 369 n. 1
Nahuqua Indians of Brazil, their use of bull-roarers, xi. 230
Nail of coffin in magic, i. 210, 211
Nail-parings swallowed, iii. 246.
See also Nails
Nails, golden or silver, driven into a sacred tree, ii. 36;
knocked into trees, walls, etc., ii. 42, 76, ix. 56 sqq.;
knocked into doors to keep out witches, ii. 339 sq.;
used as charms against fairies, demons, and ghosts, iii. 233, 234, 236;
knocked as a solemn ceremony by the highest magistrate at Rome, ix. 64 sqq.;
annually knocked into walls to record the years, ix. 67, 67 n. 2;
knocked into ground as cure for [pg 383] epilepsy, ix. 68, 330;
knocked into idols or fetishes, ix. 69 sq.
Nails, pegs, or pins knocked into images, i. 61, 64, 65, 68, 69
Nails, parings of, used in magic, i. 57, 64, 65, 66;
of father of twins not to be cut for a time, ii. 102;
of owners of silk-worms not to be cut for a time, iii. 194;
parings of, swallowed by attendants, iii. 246;
of children not pared, iii. 262 sq.;
parings of, swallowed by treaty-makers, iii. 274;
clippings of, in popular cures, ix. 68 n. 2
—— and hair, cut, disposal of, iii. 267 sqq.;
as rain-charms, iii. 271, 272;
deposited in sacred places, iii. 274 sqq.;
stowed away in any secret place, iii. 276 sqq.;
kept for use at the resurrection, iii. 279 sqq.;
burnt to prevent them from falling into the hands of sorcerers, iii. 281 sqq.;
in popular cures, ix. 57, 58
—— and teeth of sacred kings preserved as amulets, ii. 6
Nakedness of women in rain-charms, i. 248, 282, 283
Nakelo tribe in Fiji, custom at burial of chief in the, iii. 29
Nakiza, the river, worshipped by the Baganda, ix. 27
Namal tribe of West Australia, their belief as to birth of children, v. 105
Namaquas, their fear of falling stars, iv. 61;
their belief in the homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet, viii. 141
Nambutiris of Malabar, their use of magical images, i. 64
Name, the personal, regarded as a vital part of the man, iii. 318 sqq.;
identified with the soul, iii. 319;
the same, not to be borne by two living persons, iii. 370;
changed as a cure for ill health, iv. 158
Names of kings changed in time of drought, i. 355;
of common objects changed when they coincide more or less with the names of relations, iii. 335, 336, 337, 339, 339 sq., 340, 341, 345, 346;
of relations tabooed, iii. 335 sqq.;
changed to deceive ghosts, iii. 354 sqq.;
of common objects changed when they are the names of the dead, iii. 358 sqq., 375, or the names of chiefs and kings, iii. 375, 376 sqq.;
of ancestors bestowed on their reincarnations, iii. 368 sq.;
of kings and chiefs tabooed, iii. 374 sqq.;
of supernatural beings tabooed, iii. 384 sqq.;
of gods tabooed, iii. 387 sqq.;
of spirits and gods, magical virtue of, iii. 389 sqq.;
of Roman gods not to be mentioned, iii. 391 n. 1;
lucky, iii. 391 n. 1;
of dangerous animals not to be mentioned, iii. 396 sqq.;
conventional, for common objects on long and perilous journeys, iii. 404 n. 3;
royal, signifying relation to deity, v. 15 sqq.;
Semitic personal, indicating relationship to a deity, v. 51;
Hebrew, ending in -el or -iah, v. 79 n. 3;
on chimney-piece, divination by, x. 237;
of savages kept secret, xi. 224 n. 2
Names of the dead tabooed, iii. 349 sqq.;
not borne by the living, iii. 354;
revived after a time, iii. 365 sqq.
——, new, given to the sick and old, iii. 319;
taken by novices at initiation, iii. 320, 383, xi. 259
——, personal, tabooed, iii. 318 sqq.;
kept secret from fear of magic, iii. 320 sqq.;
different in summer and winter, iii. 386
Namesakes of the dead change their names to avoid attracting the attention of the ghost, iii. 355 sqq.;
of deceased persons regarded as their reincarnations, iii. 365 sqq.
Naming the dead a serious crime, iii. 352, 354;
of children, solemnities at the, connected with belief in the reincarnation of ancestors in their namesakes, iii. 372
Namoluk, one of the Caroline Islands, traditionary origin of fire in, xi. 295
Namosi, in Fiji, human sacrifice at cutting a chief's hair in, iii. 264
Namuci and Indra, legend of, xi. 280
Namur, Lenten fires in, x. 108
Nana, mother of Attis, v. 263, 269, 281
Nana or Nanaea, goddess of Elymais, i. 37 n. 2
Nandi of British East Africa, power of medicine-men among the, i. 344;
their custom as to an unchaste girl, ii. 112;
their fire-drill, ii. 210;
taboos observed by those who have handled the dead among the, iii. 141;
purification of man-slayers among the, iii. 175;
their use of shorn hair as hostage for a prisoner, iii. 273;
their use of magic knots on a journey, iii. 310;
names of absent warriors not mentioned among the, iii. 330;
reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
certain words tabooed to warriors among the, iii. 401;
their belief as to stepping over things, iii. 423;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 85;
their ceremony at the ripening of the eleusine grain, vi. 47;
boys dressed as women and girls dressed as men at circumcision among the, vi. 263;
woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 117;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 317;
their ceremonies at eating the new eleusine grain, viii. 64;
warriors eat hearts of foes to become brave among the, viii. 149;
man-slayers drink the blood of their enemies among the, viii. 155;
their custom of driving sick cattle round a fire, xi. 13;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 229 n.
Nanga, sacred enclosure in Fiji, viii. 125, xi. 243, 244
Nanja spots, local totem centres in Central Australia, i. 96, 97;
trees, haunted by disembodied spirits, i. 96
Nanjundayya, H. V., on serpent worship in Mysore, v. 81 sq.
Nanna, the wife of Balder, x. 102, 103
Nanny, a Yorkshire witch, x. 317
Nanumea, island of, precautions against strangers in, iii. 102 sq.
Naples, custom observed by boys on the first Sunday of April at, iv. 241;
grotto del cani at, v. 205 n. 1;
custom of bathing on St. John's Eve at, v. 246;
protected against flies and grasshoppers, viii. 281;
feast of the Nativity of the Virgin at, x. 220 sq.
Náráyan-chakra, a rain-making stone, i. 305
Narbrooi, a spirit or god of the forest, in New Guinea, iii. 60 sq.
Narcissus and his reflection, iii. 94
Narmer, the mace of, king of Egypt represented as Osiris on, vi. 154
Narrative spells, vii. 104 sqq.
Narrinyeri, the, of South Australia, take great care of the refuse of their food, iii. 126 sq.;
names of the recent dead not mentioned among, iii. 372;
their custom at breaking bones of animals, viii. 259 n.
Narrow openings, creeping through, in order to escape ghostly pursuers, xi. 177 sqq.
Nass River in British Columbia, the Indians of the, believe that a physician may swallow his patient's soul, iii. 76
Nat, spirit, in Burma, ii. 46
Nat superstition in Burma, ix. 90 n. 1
Natal, the Caffres of, their rain-charm by means of a black sheep, i. 290
Natchez Indians of North America, their rain-making, i. 249;
claim kindred with the sun, i. 313 n. 3;
special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal among the, i. 401 n. 3;
their perpetual fires, ii. 262 sq.;
customs of man-slayers among the, iii. 181;
their festival of new corn, viii. 77 sqq.;
their festival of New Fire, viii. 135 sqq.
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Nathuram, image supposed to make women fruitful, xi. 3
National character partly an effect of geographical and climatic conditions, vi. 217
Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice, v. 303 sqq.
“—— of the sun's walking-stick,” ancient Egyptian festival, i. 312
—— of the Virgin, feast of the, x. 220 sq.
Nats, spirits in Burma, iii. 90, ix. 175 sq.;
propitiation of, ix. 96
Natural calendar of the husbandman, shepherd, and sailor, vi. 25
—— death of sacred king or priest, supposed fatal consequences of, iii. 6, 7;
regarded as a calamity, iv. 11 sq.
—— law, the conception of, gradually evolved, i. 374;
not grasped by primitive man, i. 376
—— timekeepers, vii. 53
Nature, conception of immutable laws of, not primitive, i. 374;
the order and uniformity of, ii. 376;
of Osiris, vi. 96 sqq.
Nauders in the Tyrol, sacred larch-tree at, ii. 20
Naudowessies, Indian tribe of North America, ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 267
Naueld, need-fire, in Norway, x. 280
Nauras Indians of New Granada ate the hearts of Spaniards to make themselves brave, viii. 150
Nauroz and Eed festivals in Dardistan, women swing at the, iv. 279
Nauru, in the Marshall Islands, lives of people bound up with a fish in, xi. 200
Navajoes of New Mexico, their ceremony at the return of a man from captivity, iii. 112 sq.;
keep their names secret, iii. 325;
tell their stories only in winter, iii. 385;
their story of the external soul, xi. 151 sq.;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 n., 231
Navarre, rain-making, by means of images of St. Peter in, i. 307
Navel-string, contagious magic of, i. 182-201;
planted with or under a tree, i. 182, 184, 186, 196;
worn as an amulet, i. 183, 187, 197, 198;
thrown into the sea, i. 184, 185, 190, 191;
hung on a tree, i. 185, 186, 190, 198, ii. 56;
regarded as brother or sister of child, i. 186, 189, xi. 162 n. 2;
called the “twin,” i. 195;
worn as amulet by camels, i. 195;
used in divination, i. 196;
of the living king of Uganda preserved and inspected every new moon, i. 196, vi. 147 sq.;
seat of external soul, i. 200 sq.;
used to recall the soul, iii. 48;
term applied to last [pg 385] handful of corn, vii. 150;
buried under a plant or tree, xi. 160 sq., 161, 163
Navel-strings of dead kings of Uganda preserved, vi. 167, 168, 171;
preserved by the Baganda as their twins and as containing the ghosts of their afterbirths, vi. 169 sq.
Navona, Piazza, at Rome, ceremony of Befana on the, ix. 166 sq.
Nawng Tung Lake, in Burma, virgins dedicated in marriage to the spirit of the lake, ii. 150 sq.
Naxos, Dionysus Meilichios in, vii. 4
Nayan, a rebel against Kublai Khan, iii. 242
Nazarite, vow of the, iii. 262
Ndem Efik, tutelary deity of Calabar, iii. 22
Ndembo, secret society on the Lower Congo, xi. 251 sqq.
Ndjambi, Njambi, Njame, Zambi, Nyambe, etc., name of the supreme god among various tribes of Africa, vi. 186, with note 5
—— Karunga, the supreme god of the Herero, vi. 186
Ndok, biennial expulsion of spirits at Calabar, ix. 204
Ndolo, on the Moeko River, West Africa, chief with external soul in hippopotamus at, xi. 200
Nebseni, the papyrus of, vi. 112
Nebuchadnezzar, his record of the festival of Marduk, ix. 357
Neck, crying the, at harvest in Devonshire, vii. 264 sqq.
—— of the corn-spirit, vii. 268
Neckar, the river, requires three human victims at Midsummer, xi. 26;
loaf thrown into the river, xi. 28
Necklace, girl's soul in a, xi. 99 sq.
Necropolis, ancient, in the Roman forum, ii. 186;
near Albano, ii. 201 sq.
Neda, River, at Phigalia, cave of Demeter in the ravine of the, viii. 21
Need-fire, x. 269-300;
made without metal, iii. 229;
John Ramsay's account of, x. 147 sq.;
kindled as a remedy for cattle-plague, x. 270 sqq., 343;
cattle driven through the, x. 270 sqq.;
derivation of the name, x. 270 n.;
kindled by the friction of a wheel, x. 270, 273, 289 sq., 292;
kindled with oak-wood, x. 271, 272, 275, 276, 278, 281, 289 sq., 294;
called “wild-fire,” x. 272, 273, 277;
kindled by nine kinds of wood, x. 278, 280;
kindled by fir-wood, x. 278, 282;
kindled as a remedy for witchcraft, x. 280, 292 sq., 293, 295;
called “living fire,” x. 281, 286;
healing virtue ascribed to, x. 281, 286;
kindled by lime-wood, x. 281, 283, 286;
kindled by poplar-wood, x. 282;
regarded as a barrier interposed between cattle and an evil spirit, x. 282, 285 sq.;
kindled by cornel-tree wood, x. 286;
revealed by an angel from heaven, x. 287;
used to heat water, x. 289;
kindled on an island, x. 290 sq., 291 sq.;
kindled by birch-wood, x. 291;
kindled between two running streams, x. 292;
kindled to prevent fever, x. 297;
probable antiquity of the, x. 297 sq.;
kindled by elm-wood, x. 299;
the parent of the periodic fire-festivals, x. 299, 343;
Lindenbrog on, x. 335 n. 1;
used by Slavonic peoples to combat vampyres, x. 344;
sometimes kindled by the friction of fir, plane, birch, lime, poplar, cornel-wood, xi. 91 n. 1
Neftenbach, in Canton of Zurich, the Corn-mother at harvest at, vii. 232
Negative magic or taboo, i. 111 sqq., 143
Negritos of the Philippine Islands, their religion a fear of the dead, ix. 82
Negro children pale at birth, xi. 251 n. 1, 259 n. 2;
gods black and snub-nosed, iii. 387
Negroes of Guiana, their homoeopathic cure for stammering, i. 156
—— of Surinam. See Bush negroes
Nehrung, in East Prussia, custom at sowing among the Kurs of, i. 137
Neil, R. A., on Hyes Attes, viii. 22 n. 4;
on Gaelic name for mistletoe, xi. 82 n.
Neilgherry Hills, the Todas of the, i. 402, ix. 37, x. 136;
the Burghers or Badagas of the, viii. 55, ix. 36, 37, xi. 8 sq.
Neisse, in Silesia, Oats-king and Oats-queen about, vii. 164;
precautions against witches in the district of, xi. 20 n.
Neit, Neith or Net, Egyptian goddess, patroness of matrimony, ii. 131, v. 282 n., vi. 51 n. 1
Nekht, the papyrus of, vi. 112
Nel Gwynne, ii. 52
Nellingen in Lorraine, simples gathered on Midsummer Day at, xi. 47
Nelson, A. E., on custom as to cutting the last corn at harvest in India, vii. 234 n. 2
Nelson, E. W., on the supposed effect of a breach of taboo among the Esquimaux, iii. 206;
on the bladder festival of the Esquimaux, iii. 228, viii. 249 n. 1;
on taboos observed by Esquimaux after a death, iii. 237;
on the masquerades of the Esquimaux, ix. 379 sqq.
Nemean games, celebrated in honour of Opheltes, iv. 93;
held every two years, vii. 86
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Nemi, sanctuary of Diana at, i. 2 sqq.;
the priest of Diana at, i. 8 sqq., 40, 41, ii. 376, 386, 387, iv. 28, 212 sq., 220, xi. 315;
the King of the Wood at, i. 11, 40 sqq., ii. 378 sqq., iv. 205 sq., 212 sqq., x. 2;
Virbius at, i. 20, 40, 41, ii. 378, 379;
derivation of the name, ii. 9;
sacred marriage of Diana and Virbius perhaps annually celebrated at, ii. 129;
Dianus and Diana at, ii. 376 sqq., v. 45;
sacramental bread at, xi. 286 n. 2;
at evening, xi. 308 sq.
——, the Lake of, i. 1 sqq.;
annual tragedy perhaps formerly enacted at, xi. 286
——, the sacred grove of, i. 2, 8, 12, 17, 40, 41, ii. 378, xi. 315;
perhaps composed of oaks, ii. 379, 386
Nemontemi, the five supplementary days of the Aztec calendar, ix. 339
Nemus, meaning of the word, i. 2 n. 1;
supposed town of, i. 3 n. 1;
a grove or woodland glade, ii. 9
Neolithic implements found in the peatbogs of Denmark and Scandinavia, ii. 352
Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, in Epirus, ii. 278
Nepaul, the Newars of, i. 294 sq.;
fossil ammonites found in, ii. 27 n. 2;
the Dassera festival of, iv. 277, ix. 226 n. 1
Nephele, wife of King Athamas, iv. 161
Nephews, uncles named after their, iii. 332
Nephthys watches over childbirth, ii. 133;
Egyptian goddess, sister of Osiris and Isis, vi. 6;
mourns Osiris, vi. 12;
the birth of, ix. 341
Neptune and Salacia, vi. 231, 233
Nepu, sorcerers, in New Guinea, i. 337
Nerechta, district of Russia, Whitsuntide custom in, ii. 93
Nerio, wife of Mars, vi. 232
Nero consecrates his first beard, i. 29
Nerthus, old German goddess, xi. 28 n. 1;
procession of, ii. 144 n. 1
Nestelknüpfen, spell laid on man and wife, x. 346 n. 2
Net to catch the sun, i. 316;
the soul or genius of a, ii. 147
Nets, marriage of girls to, ii. 147;
to catch souls, iii. 38, 69 sq.;
taboos observed at the making of fishing nets, iii. 192;
as amulets, iii. 300, 307;
treated as living beings, viii. 240 n. 1;
fumigated with smoke of need-fire, x. 280
Nettles, whipping with, ix. 263;
Indians beaten with, as an ordeal, x. 64
Neuautz, in Courland, pig's tail at sowing barley at, vii. 300
Neuchatel, Midsummer fires in the canton of, x. 172
Neuenkirchen, in Oldenburg, plague hammered into a doorpost at, ix. 64
Neuerburg, in the Eifel, King and Queen of the Bean near, ix. 313
Neugramatin, in Bohemia, custom of beating young women with green boughs in the Christmas holidays at, ix. 270
Neuhausen, near Merseburg, binder of last sheaf wrapt in ears of oats at, vii. 221
Neuhof, near Marburg, remedy for gout at, ix. 56
Neumann, J. B., on the belief in demons among the Battas, ix. 87;
on the Batta doctrine of souls, xi. 223 n. 2
Neumark, “Easter Smacks” in, ix. 269
Neusass, in West Prussia, the last sheaf called the Old Woman at, vii. 137
Neustadt, in Silesia, Midsummer fires at, x. 170;
near Marburg, the need-fire at, x. 270
Neuwied, Prince of, on a Minnetaree ceremony, vii. 209 n. 2
New, Charles, on the exorcism of strangers in East Africa, iii. 103
New birth, simulation of, among the Akikuyu, i. 75 sq., 96 sq.;
of Brahman sacrificer, i. 380 sq.;
through blood in the rites of Attis, v. 274 sq.;
savage theory of, v. 299;
of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 155 sq.;
of novices at initiation, xi. 247, 251, 256, 257, 261, 262 sq.
See also Birth
—— body obtained at initiation, xi. 252
—— -born children brought to the hearth, ii. 232
—— Britain, Gazelle Peninsula in, i. 175, iii. 202, iv. 65, vii. 123, ix. 303;
contagious magic by means of personal relics in, i. 175;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 208;
rain-making in, i. 248 sq.;
the Sulka of, i. 252, 304, ii. 148, 155 n. 1, iii. 151, 331, 384, iv. 65;
charm to make the wind blow in, i. 320;
magical powers ascribed to chiefs in, i. 340;
new-born children passed through the smoke of fire in, ii. 232 n. 3;
artificial deformation of heads in, ii. 298 n. 2;
avoidance of wife's mother in, iii. 85;
magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 128;
names of relations by marriage tabooed in, iii. 344;
theory of earthquakes in, v. 201;
the Melanesians of, their belief in demons, ix. 82 sq.;
expulsion of devils in, ix. 109 sq.;
the Duk-duk society of, x. 11, xi. 246 sq.
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New Calabar River, human victims thrown into the, ii. 158
—— Caledonia, magical effigies in, i. 78;
the Belep of, i. 150;
homoeopathic magic of stones in, i. 162 sqq.;
magic blent with the worship of the dead in, i. 164;
rain-making by means of a human skeleton in, i. 284 sq., 314, ii. 47;
ceremonies for making sunshine and drought in, i. 312 sq., 314;
ideas as to reflections among the natives of, iii. 92 sq.;
taboos observed by men who bury corpses in, iii. 141;
continence at the building of a canoe in, iii. 202;
names of relations tabooed in, iii. 344;
belief as to woman stepping over a cable in, iii. 424;
ceremony at eating first yams in, viii. 53;
bodies of slain foes eaten to acquire their bravery in, viii. 151;
burying the evil spirit in, ix. 110;
taro plants beaten to make them grow in, ix. 264
—— Caledonians, the, their ways of making rain and sunshine, i. 314;
their way of detaining the soul in the body, iii. 31
—— College, Oxford, Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
—— corn, eaten sacramentally, viii. 48 sqq.
——, everything, excites awe of savages, iii. 230 sqq.
—— fire, made by friction in rain-charm, i. 290;
made by the friction of sticks at Rome, ii. 207, 227;
made by the friction of sticks at rebuilding a village, ii. 217, 222;
made by friction at taking possession of a new house, ii. 237 sq.;
made by the friction of wood after a birth, ii. 239;
made at Midsummer, ii. 243;
made at beginning of a king's reign, ii. 262, 267;
made by friction of wood, iii. 286, vii. 310 sq., x. 264;
made at festivals of new fruits, viii. 65, 74, 75, 78;
festival of, among the Natchez, viii. 135;
kindled on Easter Saturday, x. 121 sqq.;
made at the New Year, x. 134 sq., 138, 140.
See also Fire, new
—— fruits, ceremonies at eating, viii. 52 sqq.
—— Granada, the Muyscas of, i. 303;
their belief as to water-serpents, ii. 156;
the Nauras Indians of, viii. 150
—— Guinea, the Toaripi or Motumotu of i. 125, 317, 327, iii. 92;
the Motu of, i. 317, ii. 106, iii. 141, 192, 203;
taboos on pregnant women in, i. 141 n. 1;
charms to detain the sun in, i. 317;
some of the natives of, reported to be ignorant of the art of making fire, ii. 253 sq.;
Geelvink Bay in, iii. 60;
use of effigies as substitutes for souls in, iii. 63 n. 2;
the Maclay Coast of, iii. 109;
seclusion and purification of man-slayers in, iii. 167 sqq.;
the Gebars of, iii. 190;
Mowat in, iii. 192;
the Wanigela River of, iii. 192;
dread of sorcery in, iii. 246;
cut hair destroyed for fear of witchcraft in, iii. 282 n.;
names of relations tabooed in, iii. 342 sq.;
bull-roarers used to ensure good crops in, vii. 110;
division of agricultural work between the sexes in, vii. 124;
mourners rub themselves with the juices of the dead in, viii. 163;
belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals in, viii. 295 sq.
New Guinea, British, charms used by hunters in, i. 109;
the Mekeo district of, i. 134, iii. 144, 148;
charm against snake-bite in, i. 152 sq.;
contagious magic of bodily impressions in, i. 213;
influence of magicians in, i. 337 sq.;
belief as to demons of trees in, ii. 42;
the Sinaugolo tribe of, iii. 147;
the Roro district of, iii. 148;
the Motumotu tribe of, iii. 167, 196, 329, viii. 145;
the Koita of, iii. 168;
the Roro-speaking tribes, iii. 168, 193;
the Massim of, iii. 169;
the Motu of, iii. 329;
changes in the languages of, caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 361 sq.;
belief in ghosts in, ix. 84 sq.;
Mowat in, ix. 265;
festival of wild mango in, x. 7;
custom observed after childbirth in, x. 20;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 35;
dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, x. 79;
the Toaripi of, x. 84;
use of bull-roarers in, xi. 228 n. 2
—— Guinea, Dutch, Windessi in, iii. 169;
Doreh in, iii. 170, ix. 178;
the Nufoors of, iii. 329, 332, 415;
the Papuans of Doreh Bay in, iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression);
Kaimani Bay in, vii. 123;
the Papuans of Ayambori in, vii. 123;
the Papuans of, their belief in demons, ix. 83
—— Guinea, German, the Yabim of, i. 182, iii. 151, 170, 186 n. 1, 306, 342, 354, 386, vii. 228, viii. 275, 295 sq., ix. 188, 232;
contagious magic of personal remains in, i. 213;
charm to hasten the moon in, i. 319;
magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 128;
the Monumbos of, iii. 169, xi. 382;
precaution as to spittle in, iii. 289;
the Kai of, v. 96, vii. 99 sqq., 313, viii. 33, 152, ix. 264, xi. 182;
the Tami of, v. 198;
the Bukaua [pg 388] of, vii. 103 sq., 313, viii. 124, ix. 83 sq.;
rites of initiation in, xi. 193, 239 sqq.
New Guinea, North-West, spirits of ancestors thought to live on trees in, ii. 32
—— Guinea, South-Eastern, annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 134
—— Hebrideans, their story of the origin of death, ix. 304
—— Hebrides, Tana (Tanna) in the, i. 206, viii. 125;
rain-making in the, i. 308;
supernatural powers of chiefs in the, i. 339;
artificial deformation of heads in the, ii. 298 n. 2;
ghosts impound souls in the, iii. 56;
Lepers' Island in the, iii. 65;
magic of refuse of food in the, iii. 127;
Vaté in the, iv. 12;
burial alive in the, iv. 12;
the natives of the, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
conception of the external soul in the, xi. 197 sqq.
—— Ireland, names of relations by marriage tabooed in, iii. 344;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 32 sqq.;
Duk-duk society in, xi. 247
—— Mexico, the aridity of, i. 306;
the Navajoes of, iii. 325;
the Pueblo Indians of, vi. 54;
the Zuni Indians of, viii. 175, x. 132;
the Indians of, their attempts to escape the pursuit of smallpox, ix. 123;
and Arizona, use of bull-roarers in, xi. 230 n., 231
—— moon, ceremonies at the, vi. 141 sqq.
See also Moon
—— names given to the sick and old, iii. 319;
at initiation, iii. 320, 383, xi. 259
—— potatoes, how eaten, viii. 51
—— rice, ceremonies at eating the, viii. 54 sqq.
—— South Wales, custom observed at nose-boring in, i. 94;
the Kamilaroi of, i. 101, viii. 151, 162;
natives of, bury their dead at flood tide, i. 168;
the Murring tribe of, i. 176;
tribes of, their custom as to extracted teeth, i. 176;
way of stopping rain in, i. 253;
the Keramin tribe of, i. 304;
the Ta-ta-thi of, i. 304;
natives of, their charm for raising a wind, i. 321 n. 1;
the Hunter River tribes of, iii. 84;
the Yuin tribes of, iii. 84, 320;
rule as to covering the mouth observed by newly initiated men in, iii. 122;
the Ngarigo tribe of, iii. 141, iv. 60;
aboriginal tribes of, mourning custom among the, iii. 182;
namesakes of the dead change their names in, iii. 355;
sacrifice of first-born children among the aborigines of, iv. 179 sq.;
the aborigines of, their ideas as to the Pleiades, vii. 308;
the Wollaroi of, viii. 163;
fish invited to come and be caught among the aborigines of, viii. 312 n.;
dread of women at menstruation in, x. 78;
the Wongh tribe of, xi. 227;
the drama of resurrection at initiation in, xi. 235 sqq.
New vessels used for new fruits, viii. 81, 83
—— water at Easter, x. 123
—— World, bathing on St. John's Day in the, v. 249;
All Souls' Day in the, vi. 80;
Easter ceremonies in the, x. 127 sq.;
magical virtue of plants at Midsummer in the, xi. 50 sq.
—— yams, ceremonies at eating, viii. 53, 58 sqq., ix. 134 sqq.;
festival of the, in West Africa, viii. 115 sq.;
festival of the, in Tonga, viii. 128 sqq.
—— Year, dated by the Pleiades, vii. 116, 310, 312, 315;
the Chinese, viii. 10;
expulsion of evils at the, ix. 127, 133, 149 sq., 155;
in Siam, ix. 149 sq.;
not reckoned from first month, ix. 149 n. 2;
in Japan, ix. 154 n.;
sham fight at the, ix. 184;
the Tibetan, ix. 197, 203, 218;
ceremony at the Tibetan, ix. 197 sq.;
new fire made at the, x. 134 sq., 138, 140;
the Celtic, on November first, x. 224 sq.;
the Fijian, Tahitian, and Hawaiian, xi. 244
—— Year festival in Laos, i. 251;
at Babylon, iv. 100, 115, ix. 356 sqq.;
of the Kayans at the end of harvest, vii. 93, 96 sq., 98, 99;
among the Iroquois, ix. 127, 209 sq.;
among the Tenggerese of Java, ix. 184;
among the Mohammedans in North Africa, x. 217 sq.
—— Year's Day, festival of the dead on, vi. 53, 55, 62, 65;
part of Christmas Boar given to cattle on, vii. 302;
festival of new yams among the Igbiras on, viii. 115;
at Onitsha, on the Niger, ix. 133;
among the Wotyaks, ix. 155;
in Corea, annual riddance of evil on, ix. 202;
in Tibet, ceremony on, ix. 203;
in Breadalbane, ix. 209;
among the Swahili, ix. 226 n. 1;
young women beat young men on, ix. 271;
of the Jewish calendar, ix. 359
—— Year's Eve, divination by shadows on, iii. 88;
Highland custom of beating a man in a cow's hide on, viii. 322;
in Corea, ix. 147;
“Shooting the Witches” on, ix. 164;
in Macedonia, ix. 320.
See also St. Sylvester's Day
—— Year's Night, omens on, iv. 66 sq.
—— Zealand, customs as to the navel-string in, i. 182;
fires in the forests of, ii. 256;
sanctity of chiefs in, iii. [pg 389] 134 sqq.;
customs as to eating observed by chiefs in, iii. 138;
sacredness of chiefs' blood in, iii. 248;
sacredness of chiefs' heads in, iii. 256 sq.;
customs at hair-cutting in, iii. 264 sq.;
disposal of cut hair in, iii. 274;
magic use of spittle in, iii. 288;
names of chiefs not to be pronounced in, iii. 381;
Rotomahana in, v. 207, 209 n.;
effect of contact with a sacred chief in, viii. 28;
eyes of slain chiefs swallowed by warriors in, viii. 153;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
human scapegoats in, ix. 39.
See also Maori
Newars of Nepaul, their worship of frogs, i. 294 sq.
Newberry, Professor P. E., on Osiris as a cedar-tree god, vi. 109 n. 1
Newman, Ch. L., on the human god of the Makalakas, i. 394 n. 3
Newman, J. H., on music, v. 53 sq.
Newstead, Byron's oak at, xi. 166
Ngai, Masai god, festivals of prayer in honour of, i. 344;
god of the Akikuyu, sheep and goats sacrificed to, ii. 44, iii. 204 n. 3;
children of, ii. 150, v. 68
Nganga, medicine-man, among the Boloki, ix. 76;
“the Knowing Ones,” initiates, on the Congo, xi. 251
Ngarigo tribe of New South Wales, novices not allowed to touch food with their hands in the, iii. 141 sq.;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 60;
ate the hands and feet of their foes, viii. 151
Ngarong, secret helper, of the Ibans of Borneo, xi. 224 n. 1
Ngoc hoang, in Annam, his message of immortality to men, ix. 303
Ngoio, a province of Congo, rule of succession to the chiefship in, iv. 118 sq.
Ngoni, the, of British Central Africa, their fear of being photographed, iii. 98;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82.
See also Angoni
Ngumbu, of South Cameroons, their fire-drill, ii. 210
Nguôn So'n valley in Annam, iii. 155
Nguruhi, the supreme god of the Wahehe, vi. 188 sq.
Nguu, district of German East Africa, ghost consulted as oracle in, xi. 312
Niam-Niam, the, of Central Africa, women the agricultural labourers among, vii. 119
Niambe, the supreme god of the Barotse, vi. 193
Nias, island of, magical ceremony to catch wild pigs in, i. 109;
homoeopathic magic at planting rice in, i. 143;
conception of the soul in, iii. 29;
recovery of lost souls in, iii. 64, 67;
taboos observed by hunters in, iii. 196;
superstition as to personal names among the natives of, iii. 323;
taboos observed during the hunting season in, iii. 410;
special language of hunters in, iii. 410;
special language employed by reapers in, iii. 410 sq.;
custom of succession to the chieftain-ship in, iv. 198 sq.;
mock human sacrifices at funerals in, iv. 216;
conduct of the natives of, in an earthquake, v. 201 sq.;
head-hunting in, v. 296 n. 1;
division of agricultural work between the sexes in, vii. 124;
harvest custom in, vii. 233 sq.;
the Pleiades observed in, vii. 315;
crops guarded against wild pigs in, viii. 32;
mode of diverting dangerous spirits from pregnant women in, viii. 102 sq.;
first-fruits offered to ancestors in, viii. 124;
polite treatment of destructive ants in, viii. 276;
expulsion of demons in, ix. 113 sqq.;
explanation of human mortality in, ix. 303;
story of the external soul told in, xi. 148;
ceremonies performed by candidates for the priesthood in, xi. 173 sq.
Nias, the natives of, believe in demons of trees, ii. 33 sq.;
their custom of bunging up the nose and mouth of corpses, iii. 31;
their fear of a rainbow, iii. 79;
their custom of scrubbing the things they buy, iii. 107
Nibelungenlied, the, Brunhild and Gunther in, ii. 306
Nicaragua, maize mixed with human blood eaten at festivals in, viii. 91 sq.
——, Indians of, rules observed by them between sowing and harvest, ii. 105;
sacrifice human victims to volcanoes, v. 219;
their transference of weariness to heaps of stones, ix. 9
Niceros and the were-wolf, story of, x. 313 sq.
Nicholas Bishop, the Boy Bishop elected on St. Nicholas's Day, ix. 338
Nicholson, General, worshipped as a god in his life, i. 404
Nicholson, R. A., iii. 51 n.
Nicknames used in order to avoid the use of the real names, iii. 321, 331
Nicobar Islanders reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
their annual expulsion of demons in little ships, ix. 201 sq.
—— Islands, homoeopathic magic at sowing in the, i, 141;
pregnant woman used to fertilize the gardens in the, ii. 101;
customs as to shadows at burialsin the, iii. 80 sq.;
rain attributed to [pg 390] wrath of spirits in the, iii. 231;
changes in the language of the, caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 362 sq.;
assumption of the names of dead grandparents in the, iii. 370;
demon of disease sent away in a boat from the, ix. 189 sq.
Nicobarese mourners change their names and shave themselves for fear of the ghost, iii. 357 sq.;
their sham fights in honour of the dead, iv. 96 sq.;
their belief in demons, ix. 88;
their ceremony of exorcism by means of pig's blood and leaves, ix. 262
Nicolaus Damascenus on a bad king of Lydia, i. 366
Nicolson, Sheriff Alexander, on the last sheaf in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 164 sq.
Nicosia, in Sicily, ceremonies to procure rain at, i. 300
Nidugala, in the Neilgherry Hills, the fire-walk at, xi. 8
Niebuhr, B. G., on Servius Tullius, ii. 196 n.;
on the list of Alban kings, ii. 269
Nieces, aunts named after their, iii. 332
Nieder-Lausitz, the Midsummer log in, xi. 92 n. 1
Niederehe, in the Eifel Mountains, Midsummer flowers at, xi. 48
Niederpöring in Bavaria, pretence of beheading Whitsuntide mummer at, iv. 206 sq.
Nietzold, J., on the marriage of brothers with sisters in ancient Egypt, vi. 216 n. 1
Nieuwenhuis, Dr. A. W., on the Kayan fear of being photographed, iii. 99;
on the fear of strangers among the Kayans of Borneo, iii. 104;
on the association of agriculture with religion among the Kayans, vii. 93;
on the Kayan fear of strangers at religious rites, vii. 94 n. 2;
on a Kayan masquerade, vii. 95;
on the New Year festival of the Kayans, vii. 96 sqq.;
on games as religious rites among the Kayans, vii. 97 sqq., 107;
on the masked dances of the Kayans, ix. 382 sq.
Niger, the Bambaras of the, ii. 42;
Onitsha on the, ix. 133, 210;
use of human scapegoats on the, ix. 210 sq.;
belief as to external human souls lodged in animals on the, xi. 209
——, the Lower, customs observed by executioners among tribes of, iii. 172 n. 1, viii. 155
Niger Delta, tests of the reincarnation of the dead in the, i. 411 n. 1;
deceiving the ghosts of women who died in childbed in the, viii. 98;
burial custom in the, viii. 98
Nigeria, the Tomas or Habes of, iii. 124;
natives of, loth to mention the owl by its proper name, iii. 401;
custom of putting kings to death in, iv. 34 sq.
——, Northern, the Jukos of, viii. 160
——, Southern, chief as fetishman in, i. 349 sq.;
trees inhabited by the spirits of the dead in, ii. 32;
disposal of cut hair and nails in, iii. 278;
the Ijebu tribe of, iv. 112;
the Ibo of, x. 4;
theory of the external soul in, xi. 150, 200, 203 sqq.
Night, burial at, iii. 15;
King of the, at Porto Novo, iii. 23.
See also Twelfth Night
Night-jars, the lives of women in, among the Wotjobaluk, xi. 215;
called women's “sisters” among the Kulin, xi. 216
Nightingale, the flesh of, in homoeopathic magic, i. 154
Nights, custom of reckoning by, ix. 326 n. 2
See also Twelve Nights
Nigmann, E., on the religion of the Wahehe, vi. 188 sq.
Nihongi, a Japanese work, ix. 213
Nijegorod Government in Russia, smouldering faggots in stove not to be broken up in the, ii. 232
Nikclerith, Neane, buries cow alive, x. 324 sq.
Nikunau, one of the Gilbert Islands, sacred stones in, v. 108 n. 1
Nile, young virgin drowned as a sacrifice to the, ii. 151;
the rise and fall of the, vi. 30 sqq.;
rises at the summer solstice in June, vi. 31 n. 1, 33;
commanded by the king of Egypt to rise, vi. 33;
thought to be swollen by the tears of Isis, vi. 33;
gold and silver thrown into the river at its rising, vi. 40;
the rise of, attributed to Serapis, vi. 216 sq.
——, the Blue, custom as to kings of Fazoql on, iv. 16
——, the “Bride” of the, ii. 151, vi. 38
——, the Upper, medicine-men as chiefs among the tribes of, i. 345;
rain-makers on, i. 345 sqq.;
Kings of the Rain on, ii. 2;
the Alur of, x. 64
——, the White, the Shilluk of, iv. 17;
tribes of, never shed human blood in their villages, iii. 246 sq.;
the Dinka of, viii. 37, 114, ix. 193
Nilles, N., on the blessing of the herbs on August 15th, i. 15 n. 2
Nilsson, Professor M. P., on custom of sacred prostitution, v. 37 n. 2, 57 n. 1, 58 n. 2;
on the sacrifice of a bull to Zeus Sosipolis at Magnesia, vi. 239 n. 1, [pg 391] viii. 8 n. 2;
on “Bringing home the Maiden,” vii. 58 n. 1;
on the festival of the Threshing-floor at Eleusis, vii. 62 n. 6
Nim tree, leaves of, as an amulet, iii. 234
Nimm, a river goddess of the Ekoi, ix. 28
Nine, ruptured child passed nine times on nine successive mornings through a left ash-tree and attended by nine persons, xi. 170
—— bonfires on Midsummer Eve an omen of marriage, x. 174, 185, 189, 339
—— cows milked for king, iii. 292
—— different kinds of wood burnt in the Beltane fires, x. 155;
used for the Midsummer bonfires, x. 172, 201;
used to kindle need-fire, x. 271, 278, 280;
burnt in the need-fire, x. 278
—— fallen leaves in magic, i. 109
—— grains of oats in divination, x. 243
—— handfuls of each kind of grain at autumnal festival, viii. 49
—— knots in magic, iii. 302, 303, 304
—— leaps over Midsummer fire, x. 193
—— male animals of all sorts sacrificed at a festival held in Upsala every nine years and lasting nine days, ii. 364 sq.
—— men in purification of Orestes, i. 26;
employed to make fire by the friction of wood, x. 148, 155
—— ridges of earth brought from nine mountains in a magical ceremony performed nine times, ix. 8;
ridges of ploughed land in divination, x. 235
—— skeins of red wool in magic, iii. 307
—— sorts of flowers on Midsummer Eve, to dream on, x. 175, xi. 52;
gathered for purposes of divination or medicine on Midsummer Eve, xi. 52 sq.
—— stalks of rice in bunches to make up the Rice Mother, vii. 195
—— times to crawl under a bramble as a cure, xi. 180
—— times nine men make need-fire, x. 289, 294, 295
—— (thrice three) times passed through a girth of woodbine, xi. 184;
passed through a holed stone, xi. 187
—— turns round a rick, x. 243
—— waves, tops of, thrown on patient's head, xi. 186 sq.
Nineteen years' cycle of Meton, vii. 81 n. 3
Nineveh, capital of Assyria, ii. 130;
the end of, v. 174;
tomb of Sardanapalus at, ix. 388 n. 1;
the burning of Sandan at, ix. 390
Ningu, the paramour of Tiamat, tablets of destiny wrested from, iv. 110
Ninus, Assyrian hero, ix. 391
Nirriti, goddess of evil, in Brahman ritual, ix. 25
Nirvana, Buddhist monks seek to attain, through voluntary death by fire, iv. 42
Nisan, a Jewish month, vii. 259 n. 1, ix. 356, 361, 415
Nishga Indians of British Columbia, their use of effigies as substitutes to save the lives of people, viii. 106 sq.
Nishinam Indians of California, ceremony performed by childless women among the, i. 70 sq.;
secrecy of personal names among the, iii. 326;
husbands never call their wives by name among the, iii. 338
Niska Indians of British Columbia, their cannibal rites, vi. 20;
rites of initiation among the, xi. 271 sq.
Nisus and his purple or golden hair, story of, xi. 103
Niué or Savage Island, iv. 219.
See Savage Island
Njamus, the, of British East Africa, their sacrifices of sheep at irrigation channels, vi. 38 sq.
Nkimba, secret society on the Lower Congo, xi. 255 n. 1
No, annual expulsion of demons in China, ix. 145 sq.
Noa, common, opposed to tapu, sacred, iii. 109
Noah's ark, i. 334
Nobosohpoh, a Khasi state, two royal families in, ii. 295
Nocturnal creatures the sex totems of men and women, xi. 217 n. 4
Noessa Laut, East Indian island, fishermen's magic in, i. 109;
hunter's magic in, i. 114;
treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 187
Nograd-Ludany, in Hungary, Midsummer fires at, x. 179
Noguès, J. L. M., on the wonderful herbs of St. John's Eve, xi. 45
Noises made to expel demons, ix. 109 sqq., 147
Nöldeke, Professor Th., on the sacrifice of the first-born, iv. 179 n. 4;
on Purim and Esther, ix. 366 sq., 367 n. 1, 368 n.;
on proposed derivation of some names in the Book of Esther, ix. 368 n.;
on Omanos and Anadates, ix. 373 n. 1
Nomarchs in Egypt originally worshipped as gods, i. 390 n. 1
Nonae Caprotinae, Roman celebration of the, ii. 313 sq., ix. 258
Nonnus, on death of Dionysus, vii. 12 sq.
Noon, fear to lose the shadow at, iii. 87;
sacrifices to the dead at, iii. 88;
superstitious dread of, iii. 88
Noose, sun caught in a, i. 316
Nootka Indians of British Columbia, [pg 392] superstitions as to twins among the, i. 263 sq.;
their idea of the soul, iii. 27;
their recovery of lost souls, iii. 67 n.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, iii. 146 n. 1, x. 43 sq.;
their preparation for war, iii. 160 sq.;
their custom of devouring dogs, vii. 20;
their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 225;
their fear of offending fish, viii. 251;
ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 270 sq.
Nootka Sound, the Indians of, their preparation for whaling, iii. 191
—— wizard, his magic to procure fish, i. 108
Nord, the department of, giants at Shrove Tuesday in, xi. 35
Norden, E., on the Golden Bough, xi. 284 n. 3
Nördlingen, in Bavaria, last thresher wrapt in straw at, vii. 221 sq.;
strangers tied up in sheaves at harvest at, vii. 225;
saying as to wind in corn at, vii. 296
Nore, A. de, on the Yule log in France, x. 250 sq., 253
Norfolk, Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1;
use of orpine for divination in, xi. 61 n. 4
Norman peasants gather seven kinds of plants on St. John's Day, xi. 51 sq.
Normandy, rain-producing spring in, i. 301;
Burial of Shrove Tuesday in, iv. 228;
rolling in dew on St. John's Day in, v. 248;
pretence of tying up landowner in last sheaf at harvest in, vii. 226;
the quail at harvest in, vii. 295;
the Bocage of, vii. 295, ix. 183 sq., 316, 323;
Midsummer fires in, x. 185 sq.;
the Yule log in, x. 252;
torchlight processions on Christmas Eve in, x. 266;
processions with torches on the Eve of Twelfth Day in, x. 340;
wonderful herbs and flowers gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 46;
wreaths of mugwort a protection against thunder and thieves in, xi. 59;
vervain gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 62
Norrland, Midsummer bonfires in, x. 172
Norse legends as to eating hearts of wolf, bear, and dragon, viii. 146
—— stories of the external soul, xi. 119 sq.
—— trinities, ii. 364
Norsemen, their custom of wounding the dying, iv. 13 sq.
North Africa, festivals of swinging in, iv. 284;
Midsummer festival of fire and water among the Mohammedans of, v. 249, x. 213 sqq.
North American Indian theory of brandy, viii. 147
—— American Indians, their exorcism of strangers, iii. 105;
their dread of menstruous women, iii. 145;
their customs on the war-path, iii. 158 sqq.;
ceremonies observed by manslayers among the, iii. 181 sqq.;
their chastity before hunting, iii. 197 sqq.;
their theory of names, iii. 318 sq.;
personal names kept secret among the, iii. 325 sq.;
namesakes of the dead change their names among the, iii. 356;
tell their mythic tales only in winter, iii. 385 sq.;
their funeral celebrations, iv. 97;
their firm belief in immortality, iv. 137;
the Corn Woman among the, vii. 177;
their theory of the lower animals, viii. 205 sq.;
their respect for rattlesnakes, viii. 217 sqq.;
their ceremonies at killing a wolf, viii. 220 sq.;
their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 224 sqq.;
their ceremonious treatment of dangerous animals, viii. 237;
their belief that each species of animals has its patron or genius, viii. 243 sq.;
may not break the bones of the animals they eat at feasts, viii. 258 n. 2;
their reluctance to let dogs gnaw the bones of animals, viii. 259;
revere their totem animals, viii. 311;
their personal totems, xi. 222 n. 5, 226 n. 1.
See also America and American Indians
—— Berwick, Satan preaches at, xi. 158
—— -West America, Indians of, do not speak of a person till his bones are finally disposed of, iii. 372
—— -Western Provinces of India, gods shut up in wood in the, ix. 61;
the tug-of-war in the, ix. 181.
See also India
Northampton, May garlands in, ii. 60 sq.
Northamptonshire, May-trees in, ii. 59 sq.;
May carols in, ii. 61 n. 1;
Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1;
cure for cough in, ix. 51;
sacrifice of a calf in, x. 300
Northern Territory, Australia, beliefs as to the birth of children in the, v. 103 sq.
Northumberland, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 168;
the Borewell, near Bingfield in, ii. 161;
child's first nail-parings buried under an ash-tree in, iii. 276;
the mell sheaf in, vii. 151;
Midsummer fires in, x. 197 sq.;
divination at Hallowe'en in, x. 245;
the Yule log in, x. 256;
need-fire in, x. 288 sq.;
ox burnt alive in, to stop a murrain, x. 301
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Nortia, Etruscan goddess, ix. 67
Norton Sound, the small sculpin of, i. 288
Norway, precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night in, ii. 54;
the Whitsuntide Bride and Bridegroom in, ii. 92;
buried timber in the peat-bogs of, ii. 352;
nail-parings burnt or buried for fear of elves in, iii. 283;
the Pea-mother in, vii. 132;
the Old Hayman killed at haymaking in, vii. 223;
harvest customs in, vii. 225, 282;
“Killing the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 280;
belief as to eating flesh of white snake in, viii. 146;
cairns in, ix. 14;
bonfires on Midsummer Eve in, x. 171;
the need-fire in, x. 280;
superstitions about a parasitic rowan in, xi. 281
Norwegian sailors, their use of rowan, ix. 267
—— witch sinks ship, i. 326
Norwich, greasing the weapon instead of the wound at, i. 203
—— Cathedral, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337;
Easter candle in, x. 122 n.
Nose stopped to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 31, 71
Nose-boring, custom observed by medicine-men at, in New South Wales, i. 94
Nostrils, soul supposed to escape by the, iii. 30, 32, 33, 122
Nosy Be, an island of Madagascar, worshipful black bull kept in, viii. 40 n.
Nottinghamshire, harvesters drenched with water in, v. 238 n.;
Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1;
the Hemlock Stone in, x. 157
Nouer l'aiguilette, spells cast on man and wife, x. 346 n. 2
Nouzon, in the Ardennes, the Yule log at, x. 253
Novelties, the savage distrust of, iii. 230 sqq.
November, festivals of the dead in, vi. 51, 54, 69 sqq.;
the month of sowing in Egypt, vi. 94;
annual ceremony at catching sea-slug in, ix. 143;
expulsion of demons in, ix. 204
—— the 1st, All Saints' Day, vi. 70 sq., 77, 82, 83, x. 225;
old New Year's Day in the Isle of Man, x. 224 sq.
—— the 2nd, All Souls' Day, vi. 69, 70 sq., 81
Novgorod, image of Perun at, ii. 365;
perpetual fire of oak-wood at, ii. 365
Novices at initiation, taboos observed by, iii. 141 sq., 156 sq.;
supposed to be swallowed and disgorged by a spirit or monster, xi. 235, 240 sq., 242, 246;
supposed to be newly born, xi. 247, 251, 256, 257, 261, 262 sq.;
begotten anew, xi. 248;
at initiation killed as men and brought to life as animals, xi. 272
Novitiate of priests and priestesses, v. 66, 68
Nuba negroes, office of rain-maker among the, ii. 3
Nubas, the, of Jebel-Nuba, taboos observed by women in the absence of their husbands among, i. 122;
will not cut a certain thorn-tree during the rainy season, ii. 49 n. 3;
their priestly king, iii. 132;
their customs at millet-harvest, viii. 114
Nuehr, a pastoral tribe of the Upper Nile, their reverence for their cattle, viii. 39
Nufoors of Dutch New Guinea unwilling to mention their names, iii. 329;
and the names of their relations by marriage, iii. 332, 341 sq.;
taboo observed by them at sea, iii. 415
Nulit language in Victoria, iii. 110
Nullakun tribe of Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, v. 101
Numa, an adept in drawing down lightning, ii. 181;
as Flamen Dialis, ii. 192;
builds the temple of Vesta, ii. 200 sq.;
his sons, ii. 270 n. 3;
a Sabine of Cures, ii. 270 n. 6;
a priestly king, ii. 289;
born on the day of the Parilia, April 21st, ii. 325, 329
—— and Egeria, i. 18, ii. 172 sq., 193, 380
Numa's birthday, ii. 325, 348;
“Numa's crockery,” ii. 202
Numbering the herds on St. George's Day, ii. 338
Numicius, the river, ii. 181
Nuns of St. Brigit, at Kildare, ii. 240 sq.
Nuremberg, the “Carrying out of Death” at, iv. 234
Nurin, a mythical maiden in a rain-making ceremony, i. 275 sq.
Nurtunjas, sacred poles among the Arunta, xi. 219
Nusku, Egyptian fire-god, i. 67
Nut, Egyptian sky-goddess, mother of Osiris, v. 283 n. 3, vi. 6, 16, ix. 341;
in a sycamore tree, vi. 110
Nut-trees, foreskins placed in, i. 95 n. 3
—— -water brewed at Midsummer, xi. 47
Nutlets of pines used as food, v. 278 n. 2
Nutritive and vicarious types of sacrifice, vi. 226
Nuts passed across Midsummer fires, x. 190;
in fire, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 237, 239, 241, 242, 245
Nyadiri, river in Mashonaland, iii. 9
Nyakang, the first of the Shilluk kings, iv. 18 sqq.;
the shrines of, iv. 19;
as rain-giver, iv. 19, 20;
worshipped as the god of his people, vi. 162 sqq.;
incarnate in various animals, vi. 163 sq.;
his [pg 394] mysterious disappearance, vi. 163;
his graves, vi. 163, 166;
historical reality of, vi. 164, 166 sq.;
his relation to the creator Juok, vi. 164 sq.;
compared to Osiris, vi. 167
Nyalich, synonym for Dengdit, the name of the Supreme Being of the Dinka, viii. 40 n.
Nyanja chief vulnerable by a sand-bullet, xi. 314
—— -speaking tribes of British Central Africa, their belief that skin-disease is caused by eating the totem, viii. 26;
of Angoniland, their customs as to girls at puberty, x. 25 sq.
Nyanza, Lake, incarnate human god of, i. 395
——, Lake Victoria, vii. 118
Nyanza region, kings banished for drought in the, i. 353
Nyassa, Lake, iii. 97, viii. 99, 112, ix. 10, x. 28, 81;
people to the east of, crawl through an arch as a precaution against sickness, evil spirits, etc., xi. 181
Nyassa-Tanganyika plateau, custom of carriers to deposit stones on heaps in the, ix. 10 sq.
Nyassaland, women will not name their husbands in, iii. 336
Nyeledit, the Supreme Being of the Nuehr, viii. 39
Nyikpla or Nyigbla, a negro divinity, associated with falling stars, iv. 61, viii. 45
Nymphs of oaks at Rome, ii. 172, 185;
of the Fair Crowns at Olympia, vi. 240
Nysa, in the valley of the Maeander, v. 205, 206 n. 1;
sacrifice of bull at, v. 292 n. 3
Nyuak, L., on guardian spirits of Sea Dyaks, v. 83
Oak, statue of Artemis under an, i. 38 n. 1;
worshipped by the Galatians, ii. 126;
sanctuary of the, at Dodona, ii. 176;
its diffusion in Europe, ii. 349 sqq.;
worship of the, ii. 349 sqq.;
the British (Quercus robur), in France, Germany, Russia, and England, ii. 355;
oracular, at Dodona, ii. 358;
sacred to Jupiter, ii. 361;
worshipped by the ancient Celts, ii. 362 sq.;
worshipped by the ancient Teutons, ii. 363 sqq.;
worshipped by the ancient Slavs, ii. 365;
worshipped by the ancient Lithuanians, ii. 365 sqq.;
revered by the Esthonians, ii. 367 sq.;
worshipped in modern Europe, ii. 370 sqq.;
effigy of Death buried under an, iv. 236;
dance round, at harvest, vii. 288;
sacred, of old Prussians, ix. 391;
associated with thunder, x. 145;
the principal sacred tree of the Aryans, xi. 89 sq.;
human representatives of the oak perhaps originally burnt at the fire-festivals, xi. 90, 92 sq.;
children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture or rickets, xi. 170 sqq.;
life of, in mistletoe, xi. 280, 292;
supposed to bloom on Midsummer Eve, xi. 292, 293;
struck by lightning oftener than any other tree of the European forest, xi. 298 sqq.
See also Oak-tree and Oaks
Oak of Errol, fate of the Hays bound up with the, xi. 283 sq.
——, evergreen, in making fire, ii. 251;
the Golden Bough grew on an, ii. 379
—— of the Guelphs, xi. 166 sq.
——, holy, of the old Prussians, iv. 42
—— planted by Byron, xi. 166
—— of Romove, xi. 286
“—— or rock, born of an,” i. 100 n. 1
——, sacred, in a Greek story, i. 158;
on the Capitol, ii. 176, 184;
at Delphi, iv. 80 sq.
—— or terebinth, sacred at Mamre, v. 37 n. 2
—— and thunder, the Aryan god of the, ii. 356 sqq., x. 265;
oak, sky, rain, and thunder, god of the, ii. 349 sq.
—— of the Vespasian family at Rome, xi. 168
—— and wild olive, pyre of Hercules made of, ix. 391
Oak branch in rain-charm, i. 309
—— branches, Whitsuntide mummer swathed in, iv. 207
—— crown sacred to Jupiter, ii. 176, 184, 189;
sacred to Juno, ii. 184, 189
—— -god married to the oak-goddess, ii. 142, 189 sq.;
how he became a god of lightning, thunder, and rain, ii. 372 sqq.
—— Grove, Chapel of the, at Rome, ii. 185;
Gate of the, at Rome, ii. 185;
Street of the, at Rome, ii. 186
—— groves in ancient Ireland, ii. 242 sq., 363
—— leaves, crown of, ii. 175, 176 sq., 184, iv. 80 sqq.;
“oil of St. John” found on St. John's Morning upon, xi. 82 sq.
—— log a protection against witchcraft, xi. 92
—— -mistletoe an “all-healer” or panacea, xi. 77, 79, 82;
a remedy for epilepsy, xi. 78, 83;
to be shot down with an arrow, xi. 82;
a panacea for green wounds, xi. 83;
a protection against conflagration, xi. 85, 293
—— -nymphs at Rome, ii. 172, 185
—— -spirit, the priest of the Arician grove a personification of an, xi. 285
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Oak-tree guarded by the King of the Wood at Nemi, i. 42;
worshipped in Syria, ii. 16;
pain pegged into an, ix. 58;
worshipped by the Cheremiss, x. 181
—— -trees revered by the Wends, ii. 55;
sacrifices to, ii. 366;
ague transferred to, ii. 57 sq.;
rupture nailed into, ix. 60;
toothache nailed into, ix. 60;
planted at marriage, xi. 165
—— twigs and leaves used to keep off witches, xi. 20
—— -wood, Vesta's fire at Rome fed with, ii. 186;
perpetual fire of, ii. 262, 365, 366, xi. 285 sq.;
ceremonial fires kindled by the friction of, ii. 372;
used to kindle the need-fire, x. 148, 271, 272, 275, 276, 278, 281, 289 sq., xi. 90 sq.;
used to kindle the Beltane fires, x. 148, 155;
used to kindle Midsummer fire, x. 169, 177, xi. 91 sq.;
used for the Yule log, x. 248, 250, 251, 257, 258, 259, 260, 263, 264 sq., xi. 92;
fire of, used to detect a murderer, xi. 92 n. 4
—— -woods on the site of ancient Rome, ii. 184 sqq.
—— -worship of the Druids, ii. 9, xi. 76 sq., 301
Oaken image dressed as a bride, ii. 140 sq.;
leaves in medicine, ix. 58
Oaks at Troezen, i. 26;
revered by heathen Lithuanians, ii. 9;
oracular, ii. 43;
sacred among the old Prussians, ii. 43;
sacred to Jupiter, ii. 175, 176;
in peat-bogs of Europe, ii. 350 sqq.;
in peat-bogs of Ireland, ii. 351;
in pile villages of Europe, ii. 352 sq.;
of Ireland, ii. 363;
sick people passed through holes in, ii. 371;
often struck by lightning, ii. 373;
mistletoe growing on, in Sweden, xi. 87;
planted by Sir Walter Scott, xi. 166;
mistletoe growing on, in England and France, xi. 316
Oath by passing between the pieces of a sacrificial victim, i. 289 n. 4;
taken by Mexican kings at their accession, i. 356, 416;
by the Styx, iv. 70 n. 1;
of Egyptian kings not to correct the vague Egyptian year by intercalation, vi. 26;
of women by the Pleiades, vii. 311;
not to hurt Balder, x. 101
Oaths on stones, i. 160 sq.;
by the king of Egypt, i. 419;
accompanied by eating a sacred substance, viii. 313
Oats, nine grains of, in divination, x. 243
Oats-bride, vii. 162, 163, 164
—— -bridegroom, vii. 163
—— -cow, reaper of last oats, vii. 289;
thresher of last oats, vii. 290
—— -fool, vii 148
—— -goat, at harvest, vii. 270, 282, 283, 284;
at threshing, vii. 286, 287;
mummer called the, viii. 327
—— -king, in Silesia, vii. 164
—— -man, at harvest, vii. 163, 221;
at threshing, vii. 223
—— -mother, the last sheaf, vii. 135
—— -queen, in Silesia, vii. 164
—— -sow, at making last sheaf, vii. 298
—— -stallion, the last sheaf, vii. 292
—— -wolf, in the last sheaf, vii. 271, 273;
woman who binds the last sheaf called, vii. 274
—— -woman, at harvest feast, vii. 163
Oban district, Southern Nigeria, belief as to external human souls lodged in animals in the, xi. 206 sqq.
Obassi Nsi, earth-god of the Ekoi, ix. 28
Obelisk, image of Astarte, v. 14
Obelisks, sacred, at Gezer, v. 108
Oberinntal, in Tyrol, the last thresher called Goat at, vii. 286
Oberkrain, the Slovenes of, their customs on Shrove Tuesday, ii. 93
Oberland, in Central Germany, the Yule log in the, x. 248 sq.
Obermedlingen, in Swabia, the Cow at threshing at, vii. 290 sq.;
fire kindled on St. Vitus's Day at, x. 335 sq.
Oberpfalz, Bavaria, the Old Man at threshing in some parts of, vii. 222
Objects, souls ascribed to inanimate, ix. 90
O'Brien, Murragh, executed for treason, iii. 244
Obscene images of Osiris, vi. 112
—— language in ritual, iii. 154, 155
—— songs sung by women on special occasions, viii. 280
Obscenities in the Eleusinian mysteries, the Festival of the Threshing-floor, and the Thesmophoria, vii. 62 sq.
Obscenity in rain-making, i. 267 sq., 269, 278, 284 n.
Observational power of savages, ix. 326
Obubura district of Southern Nigeria, human souls in fish in, xi. 204
Ocrisia, mother of Servius Tullius, conceives by the fire-god, ii. 195;
a slave-woman of Corniculum, ii. 270 n. 6
Octavian plunders the sanctuary at Nemi, i. 4;
his provision for knocking a nail into the temple of Mars, ix. 67 n. 1
Octennial cycle based on an attempt to harmonize lunar and solar time, iv. 68 sq.;
old, in Greece, vi. 242 n., vii. 80 sqq.
—— period of Greek games, vii. 80
—— tenure of the kingship, iv. 58 sqq. vii. 82, 85
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October, horse sacrificed at Rome in, ii. 229, 326, ix. 230;
the 1st of, a great Saxon festival, vi. 81 n. 3;
the vintage month in modern Greece, vii. 47;
the month of ploughing and sowing in Greece, vii. 50;
the 15th, annual sacrifice of horse at Rome on, viii. 42 sqq.;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 226 n. 1;
ceremony of the new fire in, x. 136;
the last day of (Hallowe'en), x. 139
Octopuses presented to Greek infants, i. 156
Ocymum sanctum, Holy Basil, worshipped in India, ii. 26 sq.
Ode branch of Ijebu tribe in Southern Nigeria, mysterious chief of the, iv. 112
Oder, the river, Whitsuntide custom on, ii. 84
Odessa, New Easter fire carried to, x. 130 n.
Odilo, abbot of Clugny, institutes Feast of All Souls, vi. 82
Odin, as a magician, i. 241 sq.;
King Olaf sacrificed to, for the crops, i. 367;
the Norse god of war, ii. 364;
thought to receive in Valhalla only the dead in war, iv. 13;
legend of the deposition of, iv. 56;
sacrifice of king's sons to, iv. 57, 160 sq., vi. 220;
human sacrifices to, iv. 160 sq., 188;
hanged on a tree, v. 290;
human victims dedicated by hanging to, v. 290
——, Othin, or Woden, the father of Balder, x. 101, 102, 103 n.
Ododop tribe of Southern Nigeria, chiefs of the, keep their external souls in buffaloes, xi. 208
O'Donovan, E., on a Turcoman remedy for fever by means of knotted threads, iii. 304
Oedipus, supposed effects of his incest with his mother, ii. 115;
his exposure, parricide, and incest, iv. 193
Oefoten, in Norway, laggards in reaping called goats at, vii. 282
Oels, in Silesia, expulsion of witches on Good Friday at, ix. 157;
Midsummer fires at, x. 170
Oeneus, king of Calydon in Aetolia, father of Tydeus, ii. 278
Oeniadae, the ancient, Prince Sunless at, x. 21
Oenomaus, king of Pisa, father of Hippodamia, ii. 300;
his chariot-race at Olympia, ii. 300, iv. 91;
his incest with his daughter, v. 44 n. 1
Oesel, the island of, the Esthonians of, i. 211, iii. 41 sq., vii. 298, viii. 51;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 211;
custom of reapers in, i. 329;
belief as to whirlwinds in, iii. 41 sq.;
belief as to falling stars in, iv. 66;
the last sheaf called the Rye-boar in, vii. 298;
the Christmas Boar in, vii. 302;
custom at eating the new corn in, viii. 51;
heaps of sticks or stones in, ix. 14;
Midsummer fires in, x. 180;
St. John's herbs in, xi. 49
Oeta, Mount, Hercules burnt on, v. 111, 116, 211
Offenburg, in the Black Forest, Midsummer fires at, x. 168
Offerings to dead kings, vi. 194;
at cairns, ix. 26 sqq.;
to demons, ix. 96.
See also Sacrifices
“Offscouring” (περίψημα), term applied to a human scapegoat, ix. 255 n. 1
Offspring, charms to procure, i. 70 sqq.
Ogboni, a secret society on the Slave Coast, xi. 229 n.
Ogginn, a white ox and a holy cave in the Caucasus, viii. 313 n. 1
Ogom, a fetish doctor of Nigeria, not allowed to quit his house, iii. 124
Ogre whose soul was in a bird, story of the, xi. 98 sq.
Ogres in stories of the external soul, xi. 100 sqq.
Ogress whose life was in a spinning-wheel, xi. 100
Ogun, war-god of the Yorubas, viii. 149 sq.
Oho-harahi, “Great Purification,” a Japanese ceremony performed on the last day of the year, ix. 213, 213 n. 1
Oijo, the Alafin of, paramount king of Yoruba-land, iv. 203
Oil not to be touched by people at home in absence of hunters, i. 120;
poured on stones as a means of averting bullets from absent warriors, i. 130;
to be made when the tide is high, i. 167;
poured on stone as a rain-charm, i. 305, 346;
and wine poured on sacred tree, ii. 50;
made by pure youths and maidens, iii. 201;
made by chaste women, iii. 201;
to be called water at evening and night, iii. 411;
human victim anointed with, vii. 246, 247
——, holy, poured on king's head, v. 21;
poured on sacred stones, v. 36;
as vehicle of inspiration, v. 74;
smeared on sick people, viii. 123
“—— of St. John,” found on oaks on St. John's (Midsummer) morning, xi. 82 sq., 293
Oiling the body forbidden for magical reasons to wives in the absence of their husbands, i. 120, 122;
as a protection against demons, iii. 201
—— the hair forbidden to women while their husbands are away at war, i. 127
Ointment, magical, applied to weapon instead of to wound, i. 202;
extracted from dead bodies, the fat of animals, etc., viii. 163 sqq.
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Oise, French department of, dolmen in, xi. 188
Ojebways, or Ojibways, the, magical images among, i. 55;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212;
their ceremony at an eclipse of the sun, i. 311;
their belief in tree-spirits, ii. 18;
custom observed by them on the war-path, iii. 160;
their reluctance to tell their names, iii. 326;
husbands and wives will not mention each other's names among the, iii. 338;
their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1;
their respect for rattle-snakes, viii. 219;
their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 225 sq.;
ritual of death and resurrection among, xi. 268
Okanaken Indians of British Columbia, their first-fruit ceremonies, viii. 134
Okhotsk Sea, whales in the, viii. 232
Oklahoma, the Yuchi Indians of, viii. 75
Okunomura, Japanese village, rain-making at, i. 297
Olachen fish, ceremonies at catching the first of the season, viii. 254 sq.
Olaf, king of Sweden, sacrificed to Odin for the crops, i. 367
Olala, secret society of the Niska Indians, xi. 271 sq.
Olaus Magnus, on were-wolves, x. 308
Olba, priestly kings of, v. 143 sqq., 161;
the name of, v. 148;
the ruins of, v. 151 sq.
Old animal, bone of, eaten to make eater old, viii. 143
—— Barley-woman, last sheaf at harvest called the, vii. 139
—— Calabar, viii. 108
—— Christmas Day (Twelfth Night), ix. 321
—— Corn-woman at threshing, vii. 147
—— Hay-man at haymaking, vii. 223
—— Man, name of the corn-spirit, iv. 253 sq.;
name given to the last sheaf, vii. 136 sqq., 148 sq., 218 sqq., 289;
at threshing, vii. 148 sq., 224
—— men, savage communities ruled by an oligarchy of, i. 216 sq.;
government by, in aboriginal Australia, i. 334 sq.
—— people killed, iv. 11 sqq.
—— Potato Woman, at digging potatoes, vii. 145
—— Rye-woman, the last sheaf called the, vii. 139;
binder of the last sheaf called the, vii. 140, 145;
killed in the last stalks cut, vii. 223;
killed in the last corn threshed, vii. 224;
last sheaf left for the, vii. 232
—— Testament, leprosy in the, viii. 27
—— Wheat-woman, vii. 139
—— Wife (Cailleach), name given to last corn cut, vii. 140 sqq., 164 sqq.;
(“Old Woman”), effigy burnt on the first Sunday of Lent, x. 116;
effigy burnt on the last day of Carnival, x. 120
Old Witch, burning the, at harvest, vii. 224
—— Wives, the Day of the, Thursday of Mid-Lent, iv. 241
—— Woman, Sawing the, a ceremony at Mid-Lent, iv. 240 sqq.;
name applied to the corn-spirit, iv. 253 sq.;
of the corn, mythical being of the Cherokee Indians, vi. 46 sq., vii. 177;
name given to the last corn cut or threshed, vii. 136 sq., 147, 223;
name given to the thresher of the last corn, vii. 147
—— Woman (Baba), a mummer at Carnival, viii. 332, 333, 334;
perhaps a rustic prototype of Demeter, viii. 334
—— Woman who Never Dies, North American Indian personification of maize, vii. 204 sqq.
—— women as representatives of the Corn-goddess, vii. 205 sq.
Oldenberg, Professor H., on the distinction between religion and magic, i. 225 n.;
on the magical nature of ancient Indian ritual, i. 228;
on the priority of magic to religion, i. 235 n. 1;
on the ritual observed by a Brahman in learning the Sakvarī song, i. 269 sq.;
on foundation-sacrifices, iii. 91 n.;
on King Vikramaditya, iv. 122 n. 2;
on the belief in ghosts and demons among the Hindoos of the Vedic ages, ix. 90 sq.;
on the Indian drama, ix. 385 n. 1
Oldenburg, mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95;
disposal of cut hair and nails in, iii. 275 sq.;
fox's tongue a remedy for erysipelas in, viii. 270;
popular cures in, ix. 49, 51, 52, 53, 58;
plague hammered into a wall in, ix. 64;
the immortal dame of, x. 100;
Shrove Tuesday customs in, x. 120;
Easter bonfires in, x. 140;
burning or boiling portions of animals or things to force witch to appear in, x. 321 sq.;
witch as toad in, x. 323;
children passed through a cleft oak as a cure in, xi. 171 sq.;
custom as to milking cows in, xi. 185;
sick children passed through a ring of yarn in, xi. 185
Oldfield, A., on the avoidance of the names of the dead among the Australian aborigines, iii. 350
Oldfield, H. A., on the Dassera festival in Nepaul, ix. 226 n. 1
Olea chrysophilla, used as fuel for bonfire, xi. 11
Oleae, the, at Orchomenus, iv. 163, 164
“Oleander, the Sultan of the,” x. 18, xi. 51;
gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51
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Oligarchy of old men, savage communities ruled by an, i. 216 sq.;
of old men the ruling body among the Australian aborigines, i. 335
Olive of the Fair Crown at Olympia, vi. 240
——, the sacred, at Olympia, vi. 240, xi. 80 n. 3
——, wild, and oak, pyre of Hercules made of, ix. 391
Olive-branches carried in procession and hung over doors at Athens, vi. 238
—— crown of victor in chariot-race at Olympia, iv. 91, vi. 240;
of Zeus at Olympia, iv. 91
—— -tree of Pallas, ii. 142 n. 2;
nails knocked into an, as a cure, ix. 60
—— wood, sacred images carved of, i. 39
Olives planted and gathered by pure boys and virgins, ii. 107
Olmütz, district of, the last sheaf called the Beggar in, vii. 232
Olo Ngadjoe (Oloh Ngadju), the, of Borneo, their belief as to albinoes, v. 91;
their use of puppets as substitutes for living persons, viii. 100 sq.
Olofaet, a fire-god, in Namoluk, xi. 295
Olonetz, the Government of, in Russia, collective suicide in, iv. 45 n. 1;
festival of the dead in, vi. 75
Olori, a guardian spirit of the Yorubas, iii. 252
Oltscha (Orotchis?), their bear-feast, viii. 197 n. 2
Olympia, home of Xenophon near, i. 7;
Mount Cronius at, i. 46 n. 4;
the sacred white poplar of Zeus at, ii. 220, xi. 90 n. 1, 91 n. 7;
Endymion at, ii. 299, iv. 90;
tomb of Endymion at, ii. 299, iv. 287;
Pelops and Hippodamia at, ii. 299 sq., iv. 91;
races for the kingdom at, ii. 299 sq., iv. 90, 90 sq.;
ram annually sacrificed to Pelops at, ii. 300, viii. 85;
sacred precinct of Pelops at, ii. 300, iv. 287;
Oenomaus at, ii. 300, iv. 91;
chariot-races at, ii. 300, iv. 90 sq.;
worship of Thunderbolt Zeus at, ii. 361;
girls' race at, iv. 91;
image of Zeus at, iv. 91;
victor's wreath of olive at, iv. 91, vi. 240;
the sacred olive at, iv. 91, vi. 240, xi. 80 n. 3;
the quack Peregrinus burns himself at, v. 181;
rule as to cutting olive branches to form the victors' crowns at, vi. 240, xi. 80 n. 3;
festival of Cronus at, ix. 352 sq.
Olympiads based on the octennial cycle, iv. 90;
mode of calculating the, vii. 80;
beginning of reckoning by, vii. 82
Olympic cycle of four or eight years, vii. 80
—— festival, death of Peregrinus by fire at the, iv. 42;
based on the octennial cycle, iv. 89 sq., vi. 242 n. 1;
based on astronomical, not agricultural considerations, iv. 105
—— games, iv. 105, vii. 80, 86;
said to have been founded in honour of Pelops, iv. 92
—— stadium, the, iv. 287
—— victors regarded as embodiments of Zeus, iv. 90 sq.;
or of the Sun and Moon, iv. 91, 105
Olympus, Mount, in Cyprus, iv. 81, v. 32
—— Mount, at Tempe, iv. 81, vi. 240
Olynthiac, river in Macedonia, fish in the, ix. 142 n. 1
Olynthus, tomb of, ix. 143 n.
Omagua Indians of Brazil, their belief in the influence of the Pleiades on human destiny, vii. 309
Omaha hunters cut out tongues of slain buffaloes, viii. 269
—— Indians, of North America, their rain-making, i. 249;
their charm to start a breeze, i. 320;
customs as to murderers among the, iii. 187;
names of relations by marriage tabooed among the, iii. 338;
effeminate men among the, vi. 255 sq.;
their belief as to boils caused by eating a totem animal, viii. 25;
the Elk clan among the, viii. 29, x. 11;
the Reptile clan among the, viii. 29;
their belief in the assimilation of men to their guardian animals, viii. 207;
their mutilation of men killed by lightning, viii. 272;
their women secluded at menstruation, x. 88 sq.
Omanos at Zela, ix. 373 n. 1
Omen, beasts and birds of, viii. 143
—— birds in Borneo, iii. 110;
stories of their origin, iv. 126, 127 sq.
Omens, homoeopathic magic to annul evil omens, i. 170-174;
from chicken bones, ii. 70;
reliance on, iii. 110;
from observation of the sky, iv. 58;
drawn from pig's liver, vii. 97;
from boiling milk, viii. 56, xi. 8;
mode of neutralizing bad, ix. 39;
from birds and beasts, x. 56;
from the smoke of bonfires, x. 116, 131, 337;
from flames of bonfires, x. 140, 142, 159, 165, 336, 337;
from cakes rolled down hill, x. 153;
from intestines of sheep, xi. 13
—— of death, xi. 54, 64
—— of marriage drawn from Midsummer bonfires, x. 168, 174, 178, 185, 189, 338 sq.;
from flowers, xi. 52 sq., 61
Omnipresence of demons, ix. 72 sqq.
Omo River, custom of strangling first-born children among tribes on the, iv. 181, 182
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Omonga, a rice-spirit who lives in the moon, vi. 139 n.
Omphale and Hercules, ii. 281 sq., v. 182, vi. 258, ix. 389
Omumborombonga (Combretum primigenum), the sacred tree of the Herero, ii. 213 sq., 218, 219 sq., 233
Omuongo tree, ceremony performed by the Ovambo before partaking of its fruit, viii. 71
Omuwapu tree (Grevia spec.), used by the Herero as a substitute for their sacred tree, ii. 219
On or Aun, King of Sweden, iv. 57, 160 sq., 188.
See also Aun
Onaght, in the Aran Islands, the rag well at, ii. 161
One shoe on and one shoe off, iii. 311 sqq.
One-eyed buffoon in New Year ceremony, ix. 402
Ongtong Java Islands, ceremony at the reception of strangers in the, iii. 107 sq.
Oni, the king of Ife, in West Africa, i. 365, iv. 204 n.
Onions used to foretell weather of the year, ix. 323
Onitsha, on the Niger, the king of, confined to his house, iii. 123;
ceremony at eating the new yams at, viii. 58;
sham funeral at, viii. 98 sq.;
annual expulsion of evils at, ix. 133;
use of human scapegoats at, ix. 210 sq.
Onktehi, the great spirit of the waters among the Dacotas, xi. 268, 269
Onstmettingen, in Swabia, the Sow at threshing at, vii. 299
Oodeypoor, in Rajputana, gardens of Adonis at, v. 241 sq.
Ooloo-Ayar Dyaks observe taboos after building a new house, ii. 40
Opening, special, made to carry out the corpses of childless women, i. 142
Opening everything in house to facilitate childbirth, iii. 296 sq.
—— the eyes and mouth of the dead, Egyptian funeral rite, vi. 15
—— of the Wine-jars, Dionysiac festival of the, ix. 352
Operations of husbandry regulated by observation of the moon, vi. 133 sqq.
Opheltes, Nemean games celebrated in honour of, iv. 91;
his grave at Nemea, iv. 93
Ophites, the, on the Holy Ghost as feminine, iv. 5 n. 3
Opis, a Hyperborean maiden, i. 33;
a name of Artemis, i. 34 n.
Opium made by the Wild Wa of Burma, vii. 242
Opossum, imitation of, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 155 sq.
Opprobrious language levelled at goddess to please her, i. 280
Ops, the wife of Saturn, vi. 233;
in relation to Consus, vi. 233 n. 6
Oracles given by king as representative of the god, i. 377;
given by inspired priests, i. 377 sqq.;
given by the spirits of dead kings, vi. 167, 171, 172;
given by men who are inspired by the spirits of crocodiles, lions, leopards, and serpents, viii. 213
Oracular oaks in ancient Prussia, ii. 43;
oak at Dodona, ii. 358, xi. 89 sq.
—— spring at Dodona, ii. 172
—— springs, iv. 79 sq.
—— trees among the Lithuanians, ii. 9
Oran, bathing at Midsummer in, x. 216
Orang-glai, the, of Indo-China, use a special language in searching for eagle-wood, iii. 404
Orange River, the Corannas of the, xi. 192
Oraons or Uraons of Bengal, their spring festival of sál flowers at the marriage of the Sun and Earth, ii. 76 sq., 94, 148, v. 46 sqq.;
gardens of Adonis among the, v. 240;
their annual festival of the dead, vi. 59;
human sacrifices for the crops among the, vii. 244 sq.;
their offerings of first-fruits to the Sun, viii. 117;
their belief in demons, ix. 92 sq.;
their use of a human scapegoat, ix. 196;
their belief as to the transformation of witches into cats, xi. 311 sq.
Orbigny, A. d', on the superstitions of the Yuracares as to the making of pottery, ii. 204;
on division of labour between men and women among the American Indians, vii. 120;
on the American Indian practice of bleeding themselves to relieve fatigue, ix. 12 sq.
Orchard, mock marriage before partaking of the fruits of a new, ii. 26, 101
Orchards, fire applied to, on Eve of Twelfth Day, ix. 317, 319, 320
Orchha, the Rajah of, celebrates annually the marriage of the Salagrama to the holy basil, ii. 27
Orchomenus in Arcadia, kingly government at, i. 47
—— in Boeotia, human sacrifice at, iv. 163 sq.
Orcus, Roman god of the lower world, his marriage celebrated by the pontiffs, vi. 231
Ordeal of battle among the Umbrians, ii. 321;
by poison, fatal effects of, iv. 197;
of chastity, v. 115 n. 2;
the poison, administered by young children, vii. 115;
of stinging ants undergone by girls at puberty, x. 61,
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and by young men, x. 62 sqq.;
of boiling resin, x. 311
Ordeals as an exorcism, x. 66;
undergone by novices at initiation among the Bushongo, xi. 264 sqq.
Order of nature, different views of the, postulated by magic and science, xi. 305 sq.
Oregon, the Salish Indians of, recovery of lost souls among, iii. 66;
avoidance of the names of the dead among the Indians of, iii. 352
Orestes at Nemi, i. 10 sq., 21 n. 2, 24;
the matricide, cleansed of his mother's murder at Troezen, i. 26;
cured of his madness in Laconia, i. 161;
appeases his mother's Furies by biting off his finger, iii. 166 n. 2;
pursued by his mother's Furies, iii. 188;
polled his hair, iii. 287;
flight of, iv. 213;
at Castabala, v. 115;
his purification by laurel and pig's blood, ix. 262
Organs of generation, effigies of male, vii. 12, 26, 29;
male and female, cakes in shape of, vi. 62
——, internal, of medicine-man, replaced by a new set at initiation, xi. 237, 238 sq.
Orgiastic rites of Cybele, v. 278
Orgies, sexual, as fertility charms, ii. 98 sqq.
Oriental mind untrammelled by logic, v. 4 n. 1
—— religions in the West, v. 298 sqq.;
their influence in undermining ancient civilization, v. 299 sqq.;
importance attached to the salvation of the individual soul in, v. 300
Origen, on the Holy Spirit, iv. 5 n. 3;
on the refusal of Christians to fight, v. 301 n. 1;
on Jesus Barabbas, ix. 420 n. 1
Origin of Osiris, vi. 158 sqq.;
of agriculture, vii. 128 sq.;
of astronomy, vii. 307;
of death, savage tales of the, ix. 302 sqq.;
of fire, primitive ideas as to the, xi. 295 sq.
Orinoco, Banivas of the, x. 66
——, Caribs of the, i. 134
——, Guaraunos of the, x. 85
——, Guayquiries of the, x. 85
——, Indians of the, employ women to sow the seed, i. 141 sq.;
their way of procuring rain by means of the dead, i. 287;
their use of frogs in a rain-charm, i. 292;
their ceremony at an eclipse of the moon, i. 311 sq.;
blow sacred trumpets to make palm-trees bear fruit, ii. 24;
their belief in the superior fertility of seeds sown by women, vii. 124;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 310;
eat the hearts of their enemies to make them brave, viii. 150;
their treatment of the wild beasts which the hunters have killed, viii. 236
Orinoco, Piaroas Indians of the, viii. 285
——, Tamanachiers of the, ix. 303
——, Tamanaks of the, x. 61 n. 3
Orion, the constellation, the soul of Horus in, iv. 5;
appearance of, a signal for sowing, v. 290 sq.;
observed in Bali, vii. 314 sq.;
observed by the Battas of Sumatra, vii. 315;
observed by the Kamchatkans, vii. 315
Orion's belt, the constellation, observed by the natives of Bougainville Straits, vii. 313;
observed by the Kamchatkans, vii. 315, 315 n. 5
—— sword and belt, the constellations, observed by the Masai, vii. 317
Orissa, absence of gardens and fruit-trees on the Khurda estate in, i. 279;
Queen Victoria worshipped as a deity in, i. 404;
rice treated as a pregnant woman in, ii. 29;
well where women obtain offspring in, ii. 160;
the Chasas of, viii. 26
Orkney Islands, magic knots in the, iii. 302;
chapel of St. Tredwells in the, ix. 29;
transference of sickness by means of water in the, ix. 49
Orlagau, in Thüringen, “whipping with fresh green” in the Christmas holidays at, ix. 271
Ornament, external soul of woman in an ivory, xi. 156
Ornaments, amulets degenerate into, xi. 156 n. 2
Orne, Midsummer fires in the valley of the, x. 185
Oro, Polynesian war god, iii. 69
——, West African bogey, xi. 229
Orontes, Syrian women bathe in the, to procure offspring, ii. 160
Ororo, families of royal descent among the Shilluks, iv. 24
Orotchis, of Siberia, their theory of thunder, iii. 232;
bear-festivals of the, viii. 197
Orpheus, prophet and musician, v. 55;
the legend of his death, vi. 99
—— and the willow, xi. 294
Orpine (Sedum telephium) at Midsummer, x. 196;
used in divination at Midsummer, xi. 61
Orvieto, Midsummer fires at, x. 210
Orwell in Cambridgeshire, harvest custom at, v. 237 n. 4
Osages, their mourning for their foes, iii. 181
Oscans, the enemies of Rome, ix. 231
Oschophoria, vintage festival at Athens, vi. 258 n. 6
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Osculati, G., on American Indian belief in transmigration, viii. 285
Osirian mysteries, the hall of the, at Abydos, vi. 108
Osiris threatened by magicians, i. 225;
threat of a magician that he will name Osiris aloud, iii. 390;
the mummy of, iv. 4;
his body broken into fourteen pieces, iv. 32, vi. 129;
identified with Adonis and Attis, v. 32, vi. 127 n.;
myth of, vi. 3 sqq.;
his birth, vi. 6, ix. 341;
introduces the cultivation of corn and the vine, vi. 7, 97, 112;
his violent death, vi. 7 sq.;
at Byblus, vi. 9 sq., 22 sq., 127;
his body rent in pieces, vi. 10;
the graves of, vi. 10 sq.;
his dead body sought and found by Isis, vi. 10, 50, 85;
tradition as to his genital organs, vi. 10, 102;
mourned by Isis and Nephthys, vi. 12;
invited to come to his house, vi. 12, 47;
restored to life by Isis, vi. 13;
king and judge of the dead, vi. 13 sq.;
his body the first mummy, vi. 15;
the funeral rites performed over his body the model of all funeral rites in Egypt, vi. 15;
all the Egyptian dead identified with, vi. 16;
his trial and acquittal in the court of the gods, vi. 17;
represented in art as a royal mummy, vi. 18;
specially associated with Busiris and Abydos, vi. 18;
his tomb at Abydos, vi. 18 sq., 197 sq.;
his emblems the sceptre or crook and the scourge or flail, vi. 20, 108, 153;
official festivals of, vi. 49 sqq.;
his sufferings displayed in a mystery at night, vi. 50;
his festival in the month of Athyr, vi. 84 sqq.;
dramatic representation of his resurrection in his rites, vi. 85;
his images made of vegetable mould, vi. 85, 87, 90 sq., 91;
the funeral rites of, described in the inscription of Denderah, vi. 86 sqq.;
his festival in the month of Khoiak, vi. 86 sqq., 108 sq.;
his “garden,” vi. 87 sq.;
ploughing and sowing in the rites of, vi. 87, 90, 96;
the burial of, in his rites, vi. 88;
the holy sepulchre of, under Persea-trees, vi. 88;
represented with corn sprouting from his dead body, vi. 89, vii. 263;
his resurrection depicted on the monuments, vi. 89 sq.;
as a corn-god, vi. 89 sqq., 96 sqq.;
corn-stuffed effigies of, buried with the dead as a symbol of resurrection, vi. 90 sq., 114;
date of the celebration of his resurrection at Rome, vi. 95 n. 1;
the nature of, vi. 96 sqq.;
his severed limbs placed on a corn-sieve, vi. 97;
human sacrifices at the grave of, vi. 97, vii. 260;
suggested explanations of his dismemberment, vi. 97, vii. 262;
sometimes explained by the ancients as a personification of the corn, vi. 107;
as a tree-spirit, vi. 107 sqq.;
his image made out of a pine-tree, vi. 108;
his backbone re-presented by the ded pillar, vi. 108 sq.;
interpreted as a cedar-tree god, vi. 109 n. 1;
his soul in a bird, vi. 110;
represented as a mummy enclosed in a tree, vi. 110, 111;
obscene images of, vi. 112;
as a god of fertility, vi. 112 sq.;
identified with Dionysus, vi. 113, 126 n. 3, vii. 3, 32;
a god of the dead, vi. 113 sq.;
universal popularity of his worship, vi. 114;
interpreted by some as the sun, vi. 120 sqq.;
reasons for rejecting this interpretation, vi. 122 sqq.;
his death and resurrection interpreted as the decay and growth of vegetation, vi. 126 sqq.;
interpreted as the moon by some of the ancients, vi. 129;
reigned twenty-eight years, vi. 129;
his soul thought to be imaged in the sacred bull Apis, vi. 130;
identified with the moon in hymns, vi. 131;
represented wearing on his head a full moon within a crescent, vi. 131;
distinction of his myth and worship from those of Adonis and Attis, vi. 158 sq.;
his dominant position in Egyptian religion, vi. 158 sq.;
the origin of, vi. 158 sqq.;
his historical reality asserted in recent years, vi. 160 n. 1;
his temple at Abydos, vi. 198;
his title Khenti-Amenti, vi. 198 n. 2;
compared to Charlemagne, vi. 199;
the question of his historical reality left open, vi. 199 sq.;
his death still mourned in the time of Athanasius, vi. 217;
his old type better preserved than those of Adonis and Attis, vi. 218;
the cults of Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and, vii. 214;
perhaps the dead corn-spirit represented by human victims slain on the harvest-field, vii. 259 sqq.;
represented in the form of Harpocrates, vii. 260;
image of him perhaps annually thrown into the Nile as a rain-charm, vii. 262 sq.;
black and green, vii. 263;
key to mysteries of, vii. 263;
and the pig, viii. 24 sqq.;
his body mangled by Typhon, viii. 30;
perhaps originally identified with the pig, viii. 31, 33 sq.;
in relation to sacred bulls, viii. 34 sqq.;
false graves of, viii. 100;
one of his members eaten by a fish, viii. 264
Osiris, Adonis, Attis, their mythical similarity, v. 6, vi. 201
—— and Adonis, similarity between their rites, vi. 127
—— and Dionysus, similarity between their rites, vi. 127
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Osiris and Isis perhaps personated by human couples, ix. 386
—— and Maneros, vii. 215
—— and the moon, vi. 129 sqq.
“—— of the mysteries,” vi. 89
Osiris-Sep, title of Osiris, vi. 87
Osnabrück, in Hanover, the Harvest-mother in, vii. 135
Ossa, Mount, and Olympus, iv. 81, vi. 240
Ossidinge district of the Cameroons, the chief as fetish-priest in the, i. 349
Oster-Kappeln, in Hanover, the oak of the Guelphs at, xi. 166 sq.
Osterode, Easter bonfires at, x. 142
Ostia, fresco at, i. 16
Ostiaks or Ostyaks, sacred groves and trees of the, ii. 11;
their ceremonies at killing bears, viii. 222 sq.
Ostrich, ghost of, deceived, viii. 245
Ostrich-feather, king of Egypt supposed to ascend to heaven on an, vi. 154, 155
Ostroppa, a Polish village, sacrifice for horses at, ii. 336 sq.
Ostyaks. See Ostiaks
Ot Danoms of Borneo, their precautions against strangers, iii. 103;
killing demon in effigy among the, viii. 101;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 35 sq.
Otati tribe of Queensland, their treatment of girls at puberty, x. 38
Otho, the Emperor, suicide of, iv. 140;
addicted to the worship of Isis, vi. 118 n. 1
Ottawa or Otawa Indians, their way of calming a tempest, i. 321;
tampering with a man's shadow among the, iii. 78;
drive away the ghosts of the slain, iii. 171;
their totem clans, viii. 224, 225 n. 1;
their reason for not burning fish bones, viii. 250
—— medicine-man, his mode of catching stray souls, iii. 45
Otter in rain-charm, i. 289
Otter's head, Aino custom as to eating, viii. 144
Otters, their bones not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, viii. 239
Otters' tongues torn out and worn as talismans, viii. 670
Ottery St. Mary's, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
Oude, burial of infants in, ix. 45
Oulad Abdi, Arab tribe of Morocco, prostitution practised by their women for the sake of the crops, v. 39 n. 3
Ounce, tooth of, a charm against toothache, i. 153;
ceremony at killing an, viii. 235
“Our Ancestress,” a Mexican goddess, ix. 289
“Our Mother among the Water,” Mexican goddess, ix. 278
Oura, ancient name of Olba, in Cilicia, v. 148, 152
Ourfa, in Armenia, rain-making at, i. 276, 285
Ouwira, theory of earthquakes in, v. 199
Ovaherero, ii. 212 n. 1, 213 n. 2.
See Herero
Ovakuanjama, the, of South-West Africa, viii. 109.
See Ovambo
Ovakumbi of Angola, their custom of placing stones in trees, i. 318 n. 6
Ovakuru (singular omukuru) ancestors, among the Herero, ii. 221, 223
Ovambo or Ovakuanjama of German South-West Africa, use of magical images among the, i. 63;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209 sq.;
pass new-born children through the smoke of fire, ii. 232 n. 3;
fire carried before an army to battle among the, ii. 264;
purification of man-slayers among the, iii. 176;
custom as to circumcision among the, iii. 227;
their ceremony at the new moon, vi. 142;
worship of the dead among the, vi. 188, viii. 109 sq.;
their ceremony before partaking of the fruits of a certain tree, viii. 71;
eat the hearts of foes to make them brave, viii. 149;
custom observed by young women at puberty among the, xi. 183
—— women, their custom at sowing corn, ii. 46
Ovamboland, importance of rain in, viii. 110 sq.
Overshadowed, danger of being, iii. 82 sq.
Ovid, on the spring at Nemi, i. 4, 17;
on the oak crown, ii. 176 sq.;
on the Roman use of whitethorn or buckthorn, ii. 191;
on the Parilia, ii. 327 n. 1;
on loosening the hair, iii. 311;
on the story of Pygmalion, v. 49 n. 4;
on the distinction between Ceres and the Earth Goddess, vii. 89 n. 4;
on the Roman festival of the dead in May, ix. 155 n. 1
Owl in homoeopathic magic, i. 156;
bird of Pallas, ii. 142 n. 2;
regarded as the guardian spirit of a tree, vi. 111 n. 1;
eyes of, eaten, to make eater see in dark, viii. 144 sq.;
represented dramatically as a mystery, ix. 377;
imitated by actor or dancer, ix. 381
Owls not mentioned by their proper name, iii. 401;
lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 202;
sex totem of women, xi. 217;
called women's “sisters,” xi. 218
Ox, man-slayers anointed with gall of, [pg 403] iii. 172, 175;
purification by passing through the body of an, iii. 173;
substituted for human victim in sacrifice, v. 146;
embodying corn-spirit, sacrificed at Athens, v. 296 sq.;
corn-spirit as, vii. 288 sqq.;
killed on harvest field, vii. 290;
slaughtered at threshing, vii. 291 sq.;
sacrificed at the Bouphonia, viii. 5;
as representative of the corn-spirit, viii. 9 sqq., 34;
effigy of, broken as a spring ceremony in China, viii. 10 sqq.;
sacrificed to boa-constrictor, viii. 290;
disease transferred to, ix. 31 sq.;
burnt alive to stop a murrain, x. 301
Ox, black, in rain-making, i. 291, iii. 154;
used in purificatory ceremonies after a battle, vi. 251 sq.;
Bechuana sacrifice of a, viii. 271
——, hornless, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151
——, white, sacrament of a, viii. 313 n. 1
Ox blood, bath of, iv. 201
—— -horns, external soul of chief in pair of, xi. 156
—— -stall (Bucolium) at Athens, vii. 30 sq.
—— -yoked Ploughing at Athens, vii. 31
Ox's knee not to be eaten by soldiers, i. 117
Oxen sacrificed for rain, i. 350, 352;
sacrificed instead of human beings, iv. 166 n. 1;
used in ploughing, vii. 129 n. 1;
pledged on Eve of Twelfth Day, ix. 319
Oxford. Child's Well at, ii. 161;
Lords of Misrule at, ix. 332
Oxfordshire, May garlands in, ii. 62, 62 n. 2
Oyampis, the, of French Guiana, their belief as to water-snakes, ii. 156
Oyo, kings of, among the Yorubas, put to death, iv. 41
Ozieri, in Sardinia, St. John's festival at, v. 244;
bonfires on St. John's Eve at, x. 209
Pacasmayu, in Peru, the temple of the moon at, vi. 138
Pachamamas, Earth-mothers, among the Peruvian Indians, vii. 173 n.
Pacific, oracular inspiration of priests in the Southern, i. 377 sq.;
human gods in the, i. 386 sqq.
Pacific Coast of North America, first salmon of the season treated with deference by the Indians of the, viii. 253
Padams of Assam, their mode of recovering a child lost in the forest, ii. 39
Paddy (unhusked rice), the Father and Mother of the, vii. 203 sq.
Paderborn, holy oak near, ii. 371
Padlocks as amulets, iii. 307
Padmavati, an Indian goddess, gardens of Adonis in her temple, v. 243
Padstow, in Cornwall, celebration of May Day, May-pole and Hobby Horse at, ii. 68
Padua, story of a were-wolf in, x. 309
Paestum, the ruins of, i. 236 n. 1
Pagae, in ancient Greece, annual kingship at, i. 46
Pagan origin of the Midsummer festival (festival of St. John), v. 249 sq.
Paganism and Christianity, their resemblances explained as diabolic counterfeits, v. 302, 309 sq.
Pages, medicine-men, among the Indians of Brazil, i. 358
Paha, on the Gold Coast, sacred crocodiles at, xi. 210
Pains in back at reaping, goat-skin used as cure for, vii. 285
Paint-house, in which girls are secluded at puberty, ii. 111
Painting bodies of manslayers, iii. 175, 178, 179, 180, 186 n. 1;
body of lion-killer, iii. 220
Paintings, prehistoric, of animals in caves, i. 87 n. 1
Pairing dogs, stick that has beaten, thought to make women fruitful, ix. 264
Pais, E., on Manius Egerius, i. 23 n.
Παῖς ἀμφιθαλής, a boy whose parents are both alive, vi. 236 n. 2
Pakambia, a rainy district of Celebes, the word for rain not to be mentioned in, iii. 413
Palaces, kings not allowed to leave their, iii. 122 sqq.
Palatinate, mimic contest between Summer and Winter in the, iv. 254 sq.
——, the Upper, trees asked for pardon on being felled in, ii. 18;
the Feast of All Souls in, vi. 72
Palatine Hill at Rome, sacred cornel-tree on the, ii. 10;
the emperor's palace on the, ii. 176;
grove of Vesta at foot of the, ii. 185;
hut of Romulus on the, ii. 200
Palazzo degli Conservatori at Rome, ii. 142 n. 2.
Pale colour of negro children at birth, xi. 251 n. 1, 259 n. 2
Palenque in Central America, ruins of, i. 48
Palenques, the, of South America, spare harmless animals which are not good for food, viii. 221
Palermo, drought at, i. 299 sq.;
ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent at, iv. 240
Pales, a pastoral Roman deity, ii. 326, 327, 328, 329, 348
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Palestine, rain-making in, i. 276;
figs in, ii. 315;
religious prostitution in, v. 58;
date of the corn-reaping in, v. 232 n.;
wild boars in, viii. 31 sq.;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15
Palestinian Aphrodite, v. 304 n.
Palestrina, the harmonies of, v. 54
Palettes or plaques of schist in Egyptian tombs, xi. 155 n. 3
Paley, F. A., on the fodder of cattle in Southern Europe, ii. 328 n. 1
Pallades, female consorts of Ammon, ii. 135
Palladius on the date of the artificial fertilization of fig-trees, ii. 314
Pallas, her olive-tree and owl, ii. 142 n. 2
Pallas, P. S., on the slaughter of sheep and cattle among the Kalmucks, viii. 314 n. 1
Pallegoix, Mgr., on the Siamese year, ix. 149 n. 2
Pallene, daughter of Sithon, the wooing of, ii. 307
Palm-branches, blessed on Palm Sunday, in ceremonies to procure rain, i. 300;
waved to drive off demons, ix. 260 n. 3;
children beaten with, on Palm Sunday, ix. 268;
ashes of, mixed with seed at sowing, x. 121;
stuck in fields to protect them against hail, x. 144;
(twigs of boxwood) burnt to avert a thunderstorm, xi. 30, 85 n. 4
—— Sunday, churches swept on, i. 300;
custom in Würtemberg on, ii. 71;
the branches consecrated on, used as a protection against witches, ii. 336;
“Sawing the Old Woman” on, iv. 243;
Russian custom on, ix. 268;
palm-branches consecrated on, used to protect fields against hail, x. 144;
boxwood blessed on, x. 184, xi. 30, 47;
fern-seed used on, xi. 288
—— -tree, thought to ensure fertility to barren women, ii. 51;
ceremony at tapping a palm-tree for wine, ii. 100 sq.;
child's hair fastened to, iii. 276.
See also Date-palm
—— -trees as life-indices, xi. 161, 163, 164
—— wine offered to trees, ii. 15;
ceremony at felling a palm for, ii. 19
Palodes, announcement of the death of the Great Pan at, iv. 6
Palol, sacred milkman of the Todas, i. 403 n. 1;
taboos observed by him, iii. 15 sq.
Palolo veridis, a sea-slug, its annual appearance in the Samoan sea, ix. 142 n.
Paloo, in Celebes, propitiation of the souls of slain enemies at, iii. 166
Paloppo, in Celebes, the regalia at, i. 363 sq.
Palsy called the king's disease in Loango, i. 371
Pampa del Sacramento, Peru, earthquakes in, v. 198
Pampas, bones of extinct animals in the, v. 158
Pamyles, an Egyptian, announcement of the birth of Osiris to, vi. 6
Pan, dedication of Greek hunters to, i. 6 n. 4;
death of the Great, iv. 6 sq.
See also Pans
Pan's image beaten by the Arcadians, ix. 256
Panaghia Aphroditessa at Paphos, v. 36
Panama, the Guami Indians of, iii. 325
Panamara in Caria, worship of Zeus and Hera at, i. 29
Panathenaic festival, iv. 89 n. 5
—— games at Athens, vii. 80
Pancakes in homoeopathic magic, i. 137;
to be eaten on the eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 241;
to scald fiends on New Year's Eve, ix. 320
Panchalas, the king of the, father of Draupadi in the Mahabharata, ii. 306
Panda, king of Zululand, iii. 377;
liberties taken with him by his subjects at the festival of first-fruits, viii. 67, 68
Pandarus, tattoo marks of, in the sanctuary of Aesculapius at Epidaurus, ix. 47 sq.
Pandharpur, in the Bombay Presidency, gardens of Adonis in temples at, v. 243
Pandion, king of Athens, son of Cecrops, the Eleusinian games founded in his reign, vii. 70
Panebian Libyans, their custom of cutting off the heads of their dead kings, iv. 202
Panes, annual bird-feast in the Acagchemem tribe of California, viii. 170
Pangaeum, Mount, in Thrace, King Lycurgus torn to pieces at, i. 366
Pango, title signifying god, bestowed on the king of Loango, i. 396
Pani, son of Rengo, the Maori god of sweet potatoes, viii. 133
Panionian festival, temporary king appointed for the, i. 46
Pankas of South Mirzapur will not call certain animals by their proper names, iii. 402
Panku, a being who causes earthquakes, in New Guinea, v. 198
Panoi, the land of the dead, in Melanesia, viii. 97
Panopeus, in Phocis, the ruins of, vii. 48
Pans, rustic Greek deities, in relation to goats, viii. 1 sqq.
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Pantang, taboo among the Jakuns and Binuas of the Malay Peninsula and the Dyaks of Borneo, iii. 405
Panther, ceremonies at the slaughter of a, among the Kayans of Borneo, iii. 219;
king of Benin represented with whiskers of a, iv. 86
Panua, tribe of Khonds, vii. 245
Papa Westray, one of the Orkney Islands, cairn to which people add stones in, ix. 29
Paparuda, gipsy girl employed in rain-making ceremony, i. 273 sq.
Papas, a name for Attis, v. 281, 282
Paphlagonian belief that the god is bound fast in winter, vi. 41
Paphos in Cyprus, v. 32 sqq.;
sanctuary of Aphrodite at, v. 32 sqq.;
founded by Cinyras, v. 41
Papirius Cursor, L., dedicates temple of Quirinus, ii. 182 n. 1
Papuan and Melanesian stocks in New Guinea, xi. 239
Papuans, the, of Tumleo, their treatment of spilt blood and rags, i. 205;
of Geelvink Bay, their belief in the abduction of souls by a forest spirit, iii. 60 sq.;
of New Guinea believe the soul to be in the blood, iii. 241;
of Finsch Haven unwilling to tell their names, iii. 329;
of Doreh Bay in New Guinea, their fear in regard to children who resemble their parents, iv. 287 (288 in Second Impression);
of Ayambori in Dutch New Guinea, division of agricultural work between men and women among the, vii. 123;
of Port Moresby and Motumotu districts, strong food to strengthen young lads among the, viii. 145;
of the northern coast of New Guinea believe in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 295;
their belief in demons, ix. 83;
life-trees among the, xi. 163
Papyrus of Nebseni, vi. 112;
of Nekht, vi. 112
Papyrus swamps, Isis in the, vi. 8
Paracelsus, a forerunner of science, viii. 307
Paradoxurus, souls of dead in various species of, viii. 294
Paraguay, the Caingua Indians of, ii. 258;
the Calchaquis Indians of, iii. 31;
the Isistines Indians of, iii. 159 n.;
the Chiquites Indians of, iii. 250 n. 1, viii. 241, xi. 226 n. 1;
the Abipones of, iii. 352, 360, vii. 308, viii. 140;
the Payagua Indians of, iv. 12 sq.;
the Guaranis of, vii. 309;
the Lengua Indians of, vii. 309;
the Mocobis of, vii. 309;
the Canelos Indians of, viii. 285
Parahiya, a tribe of Mirzapur, sacrifice to the evil spirits of trees, ii. 42
Paraka, in India, the people of, supposed to know the language of animals, viii. 146
Parallelism between witches and werewolves, x. 315, 321
Paramatta, island, magical powers of chief in, i. 339
Parasitic mountain-ash (rowan) used to make the divining-rod, xi. 69;
superstitions about a, xi. 281 sq.
—— orchid growing on a tamarind, ritual at cutting, xi. 81
—— plants, superstitions as to, ii. 250, 251 sq.
Pardon asked of tree at cutting it down, ii. 18, 19;
of animal asked before killing it, viii. 183
Paremêsvara Bhûminâtha (title of frog), prayer for rain to, i. 295, 295 n. 1
Parents of twins believed to possess power of fertilizing plantain-trees, ii. 102;
named after their children, iii. 331 sqq., 339
Parents-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, iii. 338, 339, 340, 341, 342
Parian chronicler, on the antiquity of the Eleusinian mysteries and games, vii. 70
Parigi, in Central Celebes, treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 188
Parilia, the, Roman festival of shepherds, ii. 123, 229, 273, 325 sqq.;
the shepherd's prayer at, ii. 123, 327;
flocks fumigated at, ii. 229, 327;
Numa born on the, ii. 273, 325;
shepherds leap over bonfires at, ii. 273, 327;
sheep driven over fires at, ii. 327;
offerings of milk and millet to Pales at, ii. 327;
compared to the festival of St. George, ii. 330 sqq., v. 308
Parinarium, a sacred tree in Busoga, iv. 215
Paris protected against dormice and serpents, viii. 281;
effigy of giant burnt in summer fire at, x. 38;
cats burnt alive at Midsummer in, x. 39
Parivarams of Madura, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 69
Parjanya, the ancient Hindoo god of thunder and rain, i. 270, ii. 368 sq.;
derivation of the name, ii. 367 n. 3
Parjas, a tribe of the Central Provinces, India, their ceremonial purification for killing a sacred animal, viii. 27 sq.;
their offerings of first-fruits to their ancestors, viii. 119
Parker, Professor E. H., on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 146 n. 1
Parkinson, John, on custom of killing chief after rule of three years among the Yorubas, iv. 112 sq.
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Parkinson, R., on contagious magic in New Britain, i. 175;
on the fear of demons in New Britain, ix. 83
Parkyns, Mansfield, on the Abyssinian festival of Mascal, ix. 133 sq.
Parnes, Mount, in Attica, lightning over, i. 33, ii. 361;
altar of sign-giving Zeus on, ii. 360
Parr, Thomas, his great age, v. 55 sq.
Parricide, Roman punishment of, ii. 110 n. 2;
of Oedipus, ii. 115
Parrot, external soul of warlock in a, xi. 97 sq.
—— and Punchkin, story of the, xi. 97 sq.
Parrot Island, in Guinea, human sacrifices to river at, ii. 158
Parrot's feathers worn as a protection against a ghost, iii. 186 n. 1;
eggs, a signal of death, iv. 40 sq.
Parrots, assimilation of men to, viii. 208
Parsee priests wear a veil over their mouth, ii. 241
Parsees ascribe sanctity to fire kindled by lightning, ii. 256;
their customs as to menstruous women, x. 85
Parsons, Harold G., on custom of king eating the heart of his predecessor, iv. 203 n. 5
Parthe, the River, at Leipsic, effigy of Death thrown into the, iv. 236
Partheniai, offspring of unmarried women at Sparta, i. 36 n. 2
Parthenon, sculptures in the frieze of the, iv. 89 n. 5;
sculptures in the eastern gable of the, iv. 89 n. 5
Parthenos as applied to Artemis, i. 36
Parthia, prince of, his structure at Nemi, i. 6
Parthian monarchs brothers of the Sun, i. 417 sq.;
worshipped as deities, i. 418
Parti, name of an Elamite deity, ix. 367
Partition of spiritual and temporal power between religious and civil kings, iii. 17 sqq.
Partridge, C., as to the election of a king of Idah, ii. 294 n. 2;
as to sacred chief on the Cross River, iii. 124;
as to human souls in fish, xi. 204
Partridge, transmigration of sinner into a, viii. 299
Parvati or Isa, an Indian goddess, wife of Mahadeva, v. 241;
gardens of Adonis in her worship, v. 242
—— and Siva, marriage of the images of, iv. 265 sq.
Paschal candle, x. 121, 122 n., 125
—— Mountains, in Münsterland, Easter fires on the, x. 141
Pasicyprus, king of Citium, v. 50 n. 2
Pasiphae identified with the moon, iv. 72
—— and the bull, iv. 71
—— and the Minotaur, vii. 31
Pasir, a district of eastern Borneo, treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 194
“Pass through the fire,” meaning of the phrase as applied to the sacrifice of children, iv. 165 n. 3, 172
Passage of flocks and herds over or between fires, ii. 327, x. 157, 285 (see further Cattle);
over or through fire a stringent form of purification, xi. 24;
through cleft trees as a cure, xi. 168 sqq.;
through cleft trees to get rid of spirits or ghosts, xi. 173 sqq.;
through a cleft stick after a funeral, xi. 175 sq.;
through narrow openings after a death, xi. 177 sqq.;
through an archway to escape from demons, xi. 179;
through an archway as a cure or preventive of maladies, xi. 180 sq.;
through a cleft stick to get rid of sickness or ghosts, xi. 182 sq.;
through a cleft stick in connexion with puberty and circumcision, xi. 183 sq.;
through hoops or rings as a cure or preventive of disease, xi. 184 sqq.;
through holed stones as a cure, xi. 186 sqq.;
through narrow openings as a cure or preventive, xi. 190;
through holes in the ground as a cure, xi. 190 sqq.;
through a yoke as a cure, xi. 192;
under a yoke or arch as a rite of initiation, xi. 193;
passage of Roman enemies under a yoke, xi. 193 sqq.;
passage of victorious Roman army under a triumphal arch, xi. 195.
See also Passing
Passes, Indian tribe of Brazil, drink the ashes of their dead as a mode of communion, viii. 157;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 59
Passes of mountains, cairns and heaps of sticks or leaves on, ix. 9 sqq., 29
Passier, in Sumatra, kings of, put to death, iv. 51 sq.
Passing between the pieces of a sacrificial victim, i. 289, 289 n. 4;
between two fires as a purification, iii. 114;
over fire to get rid of ghosts, xi. 17 sq.;
through cleft trees and other narrow openings to get rid of ghosts, etc., xi. 173 sqq.;
under a yoke as a purification, xi. 193 sqq.
See also Passage
—— children through cleft trees, xi. 168 sqq.;
children, sheep, and cattle through holes in the ground, xi. 190 sq.
Passover, tradition of the origin of the, iv. 174 sqq.;
accusations of murders at the, ix. 395 sq.;
the crucifixion of Christ at the, ix. 414 sqq.;
sacrifice of the first-born at, ix. 419
Paste kneaded with the blood of children in Peru, ix. 129
Pastern-bone of a hare in a popular remedy, x. 17
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Pastoral peoples, their reverence for their cattle, viii. 35, 37 sqq.
—— stage of society, the, viii. 35, 37
—— tribes, animal sacraments among, viii. 313
Pastures fumigated at Midsummer to drive away witches and demons, x. 170
Patagonia, acacia-tree worshipped in, ii. 16;
funeral customs of Indians of, v. 294
Patagonian Indians, their charm to make a child a horseman, i. 152
Patagonians burn their loose hair for fear of witchcraft, iii. 281;
effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, vi. 254;
their remedy for smallpox, ix. 122
Patani Bay, in Siam, the Malays of, their belief as to absence of soul in sleep, iii. 41;
speak respectfully of tigers, iii. 404;
Malay fishermen of, will not mention certain words at sea, iii. 408;
Malay family of, will not kill crocodiles, viii. 212
—— States, treatment of the afterbirth in the, i. 194, xi. 164
Patara, in Lycia, Apollo at, ii. 135
Pataris of Mirzapur call bears by a special title in the morning, iii. 403;
their use of scapegoats, ix. 192
Patches of unreaped corn left at harvest, vii. 233
Paternity, uncertainty of, a ground for a theological distinction, ii. 135;
of kings a matter of indifference under female kinship, ii. 274 sqq., 282;
primitive ignorance of, v. 106 sq.;
unknown in certain state of savagery, v. 282
—— and maternity of the Roman deities, vi. 233 sqq.
Pathian, a beneficent spirit, among the Lushais, ix. 94
Paths used by men forbidden to menstruous women, iii. 145;
separate, for men and women, x. 78, 80, 89
Patiala, in the Punjaub, professed incarnation of Jesus Christ at, i. 409 sq.
Patiko, in the Uganda Protectorate, dread of lightning at, xi. 298 n. 2
Patiné, a Cingalese goddess, ix. 181
Patmos, the month of Cronion in, ix. 351 n. 2
Paton, L. B., on the origin of Purim, ix. 360 n. 1
Paton, W. R., on the names of Eleusinian priests, iii. 382 n. 4, 383 n. 1;
on modern Greek Feast of All Souls in May, vi. 78 n. 1;
on human scapegoats in ancient Greece, ix. 257 sq., 259, 272;
on Adam and Eve, ix. 259 n. 3;
on the crucifixion, ix. 413 n. 2;
on the Golden Bough, xi. 319
Patrae, Laphrian Artemis at, v. 126 n. 2;
Flowery Dionysus at, vii. 4;
sanctuary of Demeter at, vii. 89
Patriarch of Jerusalem kindles the new fire at Easter, x. 129
Patriarchal family at Rome, ii. 283
Patrician myrtle-tree at Rome, xi. 168
Patronymics not in use among the Tuaregs, iii. 353
Patschkau, precautions against witches near, xi. 20 n.
Pâturages, processions with torches on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 108
Pau Pi, an effigy of the Carnival, at Lerida in Catalonia, iv. 225
Paulicians of Armenia worship each other as embodiments of Christ, i. 407
Paunch of bullock tabooed as food, i. 119
Pauntley, parish of, in Gloucestershire, Eve of Twelfth Day in, ix. 318
Pausanias, Greek antiquary, on the priest of Nemi, i. 11;
on Hippolytus at Troezen, i. 26 sq.;
on the offerings of the Hyperboreans, i. 33 n. 4;
his identification of Pasiphae and the moon, iv. 72;
on the necklace of Harmonia, v. 32 n. 2;
on bones of superhuman size, v. 157 n. 2;
on offerings to Etna, v. 221 n. 4;
on the Hanged Artemis, v. 291 n. 2;
on the bouphonia, viii. 5 n. 1
Pausanias, king of Sparta, funeral games in his honour, iv. 94
Pawnee story of the external soul, xi. 151
Pawnees, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331 n. 2;
ritual flight of sacrificers among the, ii. 309 n. 2;
their use of stone arrow-heads in sacrifices, iii. 228;
human sacrifices offered by the, at sowing their fields, vii. 238 sq., ix. 296, xi. 286 n. 2
Paxos, Greek island, death of the Great Pan announced at, iv. 6
Payaguas of South America, fight the wind, i. 330;
of Brazil, precaution as to chief's spittle among the, iii. 290;
of Paraguay, their voluntary deaths, iv. 12 sq.
Payne, Bishop, on the Bodia of Sierra Leone, iii. 15 n. 1
Payne, E. J., on the worship of the frog in America, i. 292 n. 3;
on the Incas of Peru, i. 415 n. 2;
on the religious aspect of early calendars, iv. 69 n. 2;
on the origin of moon-worship, vi. 138 n. 2;
on Cinteotl, the Mexican goddess of maize, ix. 286 n. 1
Payne, J. H., on the purification festival of the Cherokees, ix. 128
Pazzi family at Florence, fire-flints brought by one of them from the Holy Land, x. 126
Pea-mother, thought to be among the [pg 408] peas, vii. 132;
name given to wreath made out of the last pea-stalks, vii. 135
Pea wolf, supposed to be caught in the last peas of the crop, vii. 271
Peace, ceremony at making, among the Ba-Yaka, iii. 274
Peace-making ceremony among the Masai, ix. 139 n.
Peach, Chinese emblem of longevity, i. 169 n. 1
Peach-tree, goitre transferred to a, ix. 54
—— wood, bows of, used to shoot at demons, ix. 146, 213;
staves of, used at the expulsion of demons, ix. 213
Peacock, Miss Mabel, on a Lincolnshire saying, ii. 231
Peacock, the bird of Hera, ii. 142 n. 2;
Earth Goddess represented in the form of a, vii. 248 n. 1;
a totem of the Bhils, viii. 29;
transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299
Peacock's feather in a charm, viii. 167
Peaiman, sorcerer, among the Indians of Guiana, ix. 78
Peale, Titian R., as to the natives of Bowdich Island, ii. 254 n. 1
Pear-tree as protector of cattle, ii. 55;
as life-index of girl, xi. 165
—— -trees, torches thrown at, on first Sunday in Lent, x. 108;
rarely attacked by mistletoe, xi. 315
Pearls not to be worn by wives in the absence of their husbands, i. 122 sq.;
in homoeopathic magic, i. 174
Peas, boiled, distributed by young married couples on first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 n. 1
Peas-cow, name given to thresher of last peas, vii. 290
—— -pudding, taboo as to entering a sanctuary after eating, viii. 85
—— -pug, name given to cutter or binder of last peas, vii. 272
Pease-bear, name given to the man who gave the last stroke at threshing, viii. 327
Peat-bogs of Europe, ii. 350 sqq.
Pebbles in rain-making, i. 305;
thrown into Midsummer fires, x. 183
Pechuyos, the, of Bolivia, ate the powdered bones of their dead, viii. 157
Peg used to transfer disease to tree, ix. 7
Pegasus and Bellerophon, v. 302 n. 4
Pegging ailments into trees, ix. 58 sqq.
Pegu, dance of hermaphrodites in, v. 271 n.;
worship of nats in, ix. 96
Peguenches, Indian tribe of South America, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 59
Peitho, epithet of Artemis, i. 37 n. 1
Peking, the High Court of, i. 298;
the Colonial Office at, i. 412 sq.;
Ibn Batuta at, v. 289;
life-tree of the Manchu dynasty at, xi. 167 sq.
Peking Gazette, i. 355, iv. 274, 275
Pélé, goddess of the volcano Kirauea in Hawaii, v. 217 sqq.
Peleus, son of Aeacus, reigned in Phthia, ii. 278
Pelew Islanders, pray tree-spirit to leave tree which is to be felled, ii. 35;
their system of mother-kin, vi. 204 sqq.;
predominance of goddesses over gods among the, vi. 204 sqq.;
customs of the, vi. 253 sqq.;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 293;
their gods, ix. 81 sq.
—— Islands, human gods in the, i. 389;
special terms used with reference to persons of the blood-royal in the, i. 401 n. 3;
removal of fire from a house after a death in the, ii. 267 n. 4;
seclusion and purification of man-slayers in the, iii. 179;
continence of fishermen in the, iii. 193;
taboos observed by relations of murdered man in the, iii. 240;
story of the type of Beauty and the Beast in the, iv. 130 n. 1;
and the ancient East, parallel between, vi. 208;
prostitution of unmarried girls in the, vi. 264 sq.;
custom of slaying chiefs in the, vi. 266 sqq.;
deceiving the ghost of woman who has died in childbed in the, viii. 98
Pelias and Jason, iii. 311
Pelion, Mount, sacrifices offered on the top of, at the rising of Sirius, vi. 36 n.
Pellene, Artemis at, i. 15 n. 4
Pelopidae, the, migrations of, ii. 279
Peloponnese, May Day in, ii. 143 n. 2;
worship of Poseidon in, v. 203
Pelops succeeded his father-in-law on the throne, ii. 279;
Olympic games founded in his honour, iv. 92;
restored to life, v. 181, viii. 263;
his ivory shoulder, viii. 263 sq.
—— at Olympia, ii. 300, iv. 104, xi. 90 n. 1;
sacred precinct of, ii. 300, iv. 104, 287;
black ram sacrificed to, iv. 92, 104, viii. 85
—— and Hippodamia, at Olympia, ii. 299 sq., iv. 91
Peloria, a Thessalian festival resembling the Saturnalia, ix. 350
Pelorian Zeus, ix. 350
Peltophorum africanum, Sond., branches of the tree used at sowing corn, ii. 46
Pemali, taboo, among the Dyaks, ix. 39
Pemba, island off German East Africa, xi. 263
Pembrokeshire, the last sheaf called the Hag in, vii. 142 sqq.;
“cutting the neck” at harvest in, vii. 267;
hunting the wren in, viii. 320;
cure for warts in, ix. 53
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Penance observed after building a new house, ii. 40;
for killing a boa-constrictor, iii. 222;
for the slaughter of the dragon, iv. 78;
by drawing blood from ears, ix. 292
Penates, the, Roman gods of the storeroom (penus), ii. 205 sq.
Pendle, gathering of witches at Hallowe'en in the forest of, x. 245
Penelope won by Ulysses in a race, ii. 300
Peneus, the river, at Tempe, iv. 81, vi. 240
“Penitential of Theodore” on the custom of wearing cows' hides on New Year's Day, viii. 323 n. 1
Pennant, Thomas, on knots at marriage in the Highlands of Scotland, iii. 300 nn. 1 and 2;
on the custom of kindling twelve fires on Twelfth Day in Gloucestershire, ix. 321;
on weather forecasts for the year in the Highlands of Scotland, ix. 324;
on Beltane fires and cakes in Perthshire, x. 152;
on Hallowe'en fires in Perthshire, x. 230
Pennefather River in Queensland, belief as to reincarnation among the natives of the, i. 99 sq.;
beliefs as to the afterbirth among the natives of the, i. 183 sq.;
belief of the natives as to the birth of children, v. 103;
treatment of girls at puberty on the, x. 38;
effigies of strangers among the natives of the, xi. 159
Pennyroyal, the communion cup in the Eleusinian mysteries flavoured with, vii. 161 n. 4;
burnt in Midsummer fire, x. 213, 214;
gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51
Pentamerone, the, story of dragon twin in, xi. 105
Pentateuch, evidence of moral evolution in the, iii. 219
Pentheus, king of Thebes, torn to pieces by the Bacchanals, vi. 98, vii. 24, 25
Penza, Government of, in Russia, the “Funeral of Kostroma” in, iv. 262
Penzance, horn-blowing at, on the eve of May Day, ix. 163 sq.;
Midsummer fires at, x. 199 sq.
Peoples said to be ignorant of the art of kindling fire, ii. 253 sqq.
—— of the Aryan stock, annual festivals of the dead among the, vi. 67 sqq.
Peperuga, girl dressed in greenery at rain-making ceremony in Bulgaria, i. 274
Pepi the First, king of Egypt, vi. 5;
his pyramid, vi. 4 n. 1
Pepper rubbed into bodies of sufferers as a cure or exorcism, iii. 106;
rubbed into eyes of strangers, iii. 114
—— and salt, abstinence from, during fasts, i. 266, ii. 98
Pepys, Samuel, on Charles II. touching for scrofula, i. 369;
on the milkmaids' dance on May Day, ii. 52;
on the coronation ceremony of Charles the Second, ii. 322
Perak, Malay superstition as to toallong trees in, ii. 41;
superstition as to blood-sucking snail in, iii. 81 sq.;
belief as to the Spectral Huntsman in, iv. 178;
periodic expulsion of evils in, ix. 198 sqq.;
the rajah of, ix. 198 sq.
Perasia, Artemis, at Castabala, v. 115, 167 sqq.;
walk of her priestesses over fire, v. 115, 168
Perche, in France, homoeopathic cure for vomiting in, i. 83 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 188;
St. John's herb gathered on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 46;
the Chêne-Doré in, xi. 287 n. 1
—— and Beauce, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 198.
See Beauce
Perchta, Frau, a mythical old woman in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, ix. 240 sq.
Perchta's Day, Twelfth Night or the Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 240, 242, 244
Perchten, maskers in Salzburg and the Tyrol, ix. 240, 242 sqq.
Percival, R., on the fear of demons in Ceylon, ix. 94 sq.
Perdoytus, the Lithuanian wind-god (reported), i. 326 n. 5
Peregrinus, his death by fire at Olympia, iv. 42, v. 181
Perforating arms and legs of young men, girls, and dogs as a ceremony, x. 58
Perga in Pamphylia, Artemis at, v. 35
Pergamus, Aesculapius and Telephus at, iii. 85
Pergine, in the Tyrol, fern-seed on St. John's Night at, xi. 288 n. 6
Pergrubius, a Lithuanian god of the spring, ii. 347 sq.
Perham, Rev. J., on the blighting effect which the Dyaks ascribe to adultery, ii. 109 n. 1;
on the Head-feast of the Sea Dyaks, ix. 383 sq.
Periander, tyrant of Corinth, his burnt sacrifice to his dead wife, v. 179
Periepetam in Southern India, devil-dancer at, i. 382 n. 2
Perigord, rolling in dew on St. John's Day in, v. 248;
the Yule log in, x. 250 sq., 253;
magic herbs gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 46;
crawling under a bramble as a cure for boils in, xi. 180
Perils of the soul, iii. 26 sqq.
Perinthus, the month of Cronion in, ix. 351 n. 3
Periodic expulsion of evils in a material vehicle, ix. 198 sqq.
Periods of licence preceding or following [pg 410] the annual expulsion of demons, ix. 225 sq.
Periphas, king of Athens, called Zeus by his people, ii. 177
Περίψημα, “offscouring,” applied to human scapegoat, ix. 255 n. 1
Peritius, month of, festival of “the awakening of Hercules” in the, v. 111
Perkunas or Perkuns, the Lithuanian god of thunder and lightning, ii. 365 sqq.;
derivation of his name, ii. 367 n. 3;
his perpetual fire, xi. 91 n. 5
Permanence of simpler forms of religion, viii. 335;
of the belief in magic and witchcraft, in ghosts and demons, under the higher forms of religion, ix. 89 sq.
Permanent possession of human beings by deities, i. 386 sq.
Péronne, mugwort at Midsummer near, xi. 58
Perperia, appealed to for rain by the Greeks of Thessaly and Macedonia, i. 273
Perpetual holy fire in temples of dead kings, vi. 174
—— fires worshipped, v. 191 sqq.;
origin of the custom of maintaining, ii. 253 sqq.;
associated with royal dignity, ii. 261 sqq.
See also Fires
Perros-Guirec, in Brittany, Renan's home near, ix. 70
Perrot, G., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 138 n.
Persea-trees in the rites of Osiris, vi. 87 n. 5;
growing over the tomb of Osiris, vi. 88
Persephone, mother of Zagreus by Zeus, vii. 12;
carried off by Pluto, vii. 36, viii. 19;
a personification of the corn, vii. 39 sq.;
in Greek art, vii. 43 sq., 67 sq., viii. 88 sq.;
the descent of, vii. 46, viii. 17;
the Corn Maiden or Corn Daughter, vii. 53, 58 sq., 75, 184;
associated with the ripe ears of corn, viii. 58;
forty days of mourning for, ix. 348 sq.
——, name applied to spring, vi. 41
—— and Aphrodite, their contest for Adonis, v. 11 sq.
—— and Demeter, vii. 35 sqq.;
their myth acted in the mysteries of Eleusis, vii. 39, 187 sq.;
as a double personification of the corn, vii. 209 sqq.
—— and Pluto, viii. 9;
temple of, v. 205;
rustic prototypes of, viii. 334
Perseus in Egypt, iii. 312 n. 2;
the virgin birth of, v. 302 n. 4
—— and Andromeda, ii. 163
—— and the Gorgon, iii. 312
Persia, temporary kings in, iv. 157 sqq.;
cure for toothache in, ix. 59;
the feast of Purim in, ix. 393
Persian calendar, the oldest, March the first month of the year in, ix. 402
—— ceremony, “Ride of the Beardless One,” ix. 402
—— charm to make the wind blow, i. 320
—— fire-worship and priests, v. 191
—— framework of the book of Esther, ix. 362, 401
—— kings, sacred fire carried before, ii. 264;
their custom at meals, iii. 119;
their heads cleaned once a year, iii. 253;
married the wives of their predecessors, ix. 368 n. 1
Persians sacrifice horses to the sun, i. 315;
their reverence for fire, v. 174 sq.;
their festival of the dead, vi. 68;
annually expel demons, ix. 145;
the Sacaea celebrated by the, ix. 402;
their marriages at the vernal equinox, ix. 406 n. 3;
celebrate a festival of fire at the winter solstice, x. 269
Personation of gods by priests, v. 45, 46 sqq.;
by human victims, ix. 275 sqq.
Personification of abstract ideas not primitive, iv. 253;
of corn as mother and daughter, vii. 130, 207 sqq.
Person's destiny bound up with his navel-string or afterbirth, i. 198
Persons thought to influence and to be influenced by plants homoeopathically, i. 139 sqq., 144 sqq.;
tabooed, iii. 131 sqq.;
wrapt in corn as representatives of the corn-spirit, vii. 225 sq.
Perthshire, custom of unloosing knots at marriage in, iii. 299 sq.;
the harvest Maiden in, vii. 156 sq.;
Beltane fires and cakes in, x. 152 sq.;
traces of Midsummer fires in, x. 206;
Hallowe'en bonfires in, x. 230 sqq.;
need-fire in, x. 296 sq.
Peru, theocratic despotism of ancient, i. 218;
sacred new fire at the summer solstice in, ii. 243, x. 132;
earthquakes in, v. 202;
sacrifice of sons in, vi. 220 n. 4;
autumn festival in, ix. 262
——, the Aymara Indians of, i. 292, iii. 97, ix. 193
——, the Cholones of, i. 116
——, the Conchucos of, viii. 258 n. 1
——, the Conibos of, ii. 183 n. 2
——, the Incas of, i. 196, ii. 243 sq., ix. 128;
claim to be descended from the sun, i. 415.
See also Incas
——, Indians of, ceremony to obtain offspring among the, i. 71;
their charm to cause sleep, i. 148;
their magical stones for the increase of maize, potatoes, and cattle, i. 162;
their belief as to the relation of twins to rain and the weather, i. 265 sqq.;
their [pg 411] way of making sunshine, i. 314;
their festival to make alligator pears ripen, ii. 98;
their women pray to the moon for an easy delivery, ii. 128 n. 2;
their custom of marrying a girl to a sacred stone, ii. 146;
no fire in their houses after a death, ii. 268 n.;
their belief as to washing their heads, iii. 253;
preserved their cut hair and nails against the resurrection, iii. 279 sq.;
their custom of sprinkling blood on doorways, iv. 176 n. 1;
sacrifice of children among the, iv. 185;
cultivation of fields left to women among the, vii. 122;
their worship of the Pleiades, vii. 310;
worshipped whales and fish of several kinds, viii. 249 sq.;
washed their sins away in a river, ix. 3 sq.
See also Peruvian and Peruvians
Peru, the Piros Indians of, viii. 286
——, the Sencis of, i. 311
——, the Yuracares of, ii. 183 n. 2
Perun, the thunder-god of the Slavs, ii. 365, vii. 233;
sacrifice of first-born children to, iv. 183;
the oak sacred to, xi. 89
Peruvian Andes, i. 316
—— Indians, their use of magical images, i. 56;
their rain-charm by means of a black sheep, i. 290;
their preparation for office, iii. 159 n.;
confession of sins among the, iii. 216 n. 2;
their custom as to shooting stars, iv. 63 n. 1;
their theory of earthquakes, v. 201;
transfer weariness to heaps of stones, ix. 9;
their offerings at cairns, ix. 27
—— Vestals, ii. 243 sqq.
Peruvians, division of agricultural labours between the sexes among the, vii. 120;
their customs as to Mother of Maize, the Quinoa-mother, the Coca-mother, and the Potato-mother, vii. 171 sqq.
Pescara River, in the Abruzzi, washing in the, on St. John's Day, v. 246
Pescina, in the Abruzzi, Midsummer custom at, v. 246
Pessinus, priestly kings at, i. 47;
image of Cybele at, v. 35 n. 3;
priests called Attis at, v. 140;
local legend of Attis at, v. 264;
image of the Mother of the Gods at, v. 265;
people of, abstain from swine, v. 265;
high-priest of Cybele at, v. 285;
high-priest perhaps slain in the character of Attis at, vii. 255
Pessnitz, in the district of Dresden, thresher of last corn called the Bull at, vii. 291
Peter of Dusburg, his Chronicle of Prussia, ii. 366 n. 2
Petrarch at Cologne on St. John's Eve, v. 247 sq.
Petrie, Professor W. M. Flinders, on the date of the corn-reaping in Egypt and Palestine, v. 231 n. 3;
on the Sed festival, vi. 151 n. 3, 152 n. 3, 154 sq.;
on the marriage of brothers with sisters in Egypt, vi. 216 n. 1
Petrified cascades of Hierapolis, v. 207
Petroff, Ivan, on a custom of the Koniags of Alaska, vi. 106
Petronius on prayers to Jupiter for rain, ii. 362;
as to the soul in the nose, iii. 33 n. 3;
on human scapegoats at Marseilles, ix. 253 n. 2;
his story of the were-wolf, x. 313 sq.
Pett, Grace, a Suffolk witch, x. 304
Petworth, in Sussex, cleft ash-trees used for the cure of rupture at, xi. 170
Peucedanum leiocarpum, hog's wort, burnt as an offering to salmon, viii. 254
Pfeiffer, Madame, her reception among the Battas, iii. 104
Pfingstl, a Whitsuntide mummer, iv. 206 sq., 211
Phaedra and Hippolytus, i. 19, 25
Phalaris, the brazen bull of, iv. 75
Phalgun, an Indian month, equivalent to February, ii. 51, xi. 2
Phamenoth, an Egyptian month, vi. 49 n. 1, 130
Phaophi, an Egyptian month, vi. 49 n. 1, 94
Pharmacus, mythical personage, said to have been stoned to death, ix. 254 n. 1
Pharnace, daughter of Megassares, v. 41
Phatrabot, a Cambodian month, vi. 61
Phaya Phollathep, “Lord of the Heavenly Hosts,” temporary king in Siam, iv. 149
Phees (phi), evil spirits, in Siam, ix. 97, 98
Pheneus, lake of, ii. 8
Pherecydes, on the marriage of Zeus and Hera, ii. 143 n. 1;
on the voluntary self-sacrifice of Phrixus, iv. 163 n. 1
Phi, Siamese genii, iii. 90.
See also Phees
Phidias, his influence on Greek religion, v. 54 n. 1
Phigalia in Arcadia, sacrifice of hair at, i. 31;
the cave of Demeter at, viii. 21, 22 n.;
horse-headed Demeter of, viii. 21, 338
Philadelphia, in Lydia, subject to earthquakes, v. 194 sq.;
coin of, ix. 389
Philae, Egyptian relief at, vi. 50 n. 5;
sculptures illustrating the mystic history of Osiris in the temple of Isis at, vi. 89, 111;
the grave of Osiris at, vi. 111;
the dead Osiris in the sculptures at, vi. 112
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Philip and James, the Apostles, feast of, x. 158
Philip Augustus, king of France, and the privilege of St. Romain at Rouen, ii. 165
Philippine Islanders believe the souls of their ancestors to be in certain trees, ii. 29 sq.
—— Islands, the Tagalogs of the, ii. 18 sq.;
the Tagales of the, ii. 36;
the Bagobos of the, iii. 31, 315, vii. 240, viii. 124;
the Agutainos of the, iii. 144;
verbal taboos observed by natives of the, iii. 416;
grave of the Creator in the, iv. 3;
human sacrifices before sowing in the, vii. 240;
head-hunting in the, vii. 240 sq., 256;
the Efugaos of the, viii. 152;
the Italones of the, viii. 152;
the Igorrots of the, viii. 292;
the Negritos of the, ix. 82;
spirits of the dead in the, ix. 82;
the Tagbanuas of the, ix. 189
Philistines, the foreskins of the, coveted by the Israelites, i. 101 n. 2;
their corn burnt by Samson, vii. 298 n.;
their charm against mice, viii. 281, 283
Philo of Alexandria (Judaeus), his doctrine of the Trinity, iv. 6 n.;
on the date of the corn-reaping, v. 231 n. 3;
on the mockery of King Agrippa, ix. 418
Philo of Byblus, on the sacrifice of kings' sons among the Semites, iv. 166, 179
Philocalus, ancient Roman calendar of, v. 303 n. 2, 304 n. 3, 307 n., vi. 95 n. 1
Philochorus, Athenian antiquary, on the date of the Festival of the Threshing-floor, vii. 62
Philosophy as a solvent of religion, ii. 377;
primitive, iii. 420 sq.
——, school of, at Tarsus, v. 118
Philostephanus, Greek historian, on Pygmalion and Aphrodite, v. 49 n. 4
Philostratus, on death at low tide, i. 167;
on sacrifice to Hercules, i. 282 n. 1
Phlius, gilt image of goat at, vii. 17 sq.
Phocaeans, dead, propitiated with games, iv. 95
Phocylides, the poet, on Nineveh, ix. 390
Phoenicia, song of Linus in, vii. 216
Phoenician kings in Cyprus, v. 49
—— temples in Malta, v. 35;
sacred prostitution in, v. 37
—— vintage song, vii. 216, 257
Phoenicians, their custom of human sacrifice, iv. 166 sq., 178, 179
—— in Cyprus, v. 31 sq.
Phong long, ill luck caused by childbirth in Annam, iii. 155
Phosphorescence of the sea, superstitions as to the, ii. 154 sq.
Photius, on Lityerses, vii. 217 n. 1
Photographed or painted, supposed danger of being, iii. 96 sqq.
Phrixus and Helle, the children of King Athamas, iv. 161 sqq.
Phrygia, Attis a deity of, v. 263;
festival of Cybele in, v. 274 n.;
indigenous race of, v. 287;
Lityerses in, vii. 216 sq.;
Cybele and Attis in, ix. 386
Phrygian belief that the god sleeps in winter, vi. 41
—— cap of Attis, v. 279
—— cosmogony, v. 263 sq.
—— kings named Midas and Gordias, v. 286
—— moon-god, v. 73
—— priests named Attis, v. 285, 287
Phrygians, invaders from Europe, v. 287
Phyllanthus emblica worshipped by a forest tribe in India, viii. 119
Physical basis of magic, i. 174 sq.;
for the theory of an external soul, i. 201
Piaroas Indians of the Orinoco, their belief in the transmigration of human souls into tapirs, viii. 285
Piazza del Limbo at Florence, church of the Holy Apostles on the, x. 126
—— Navona at Rome, Befana on the, ix. 166 sq.
Picardy, the harvest cock in, vii. 277;
Lenten fire-customs in, x. 113;
Midsummer fires in, x. 187
Piceni, guided by a woodpecker (picus), iv. 106 n. 4;
traced their origin to a “sacred spring,” iv. 186
Picts, female descent of kingship among the, ii. 280 sq., 286
Pictures, supposed danger of, iii. 96 sqq.
Pidhireanes, a Ruthenian people, custom as to knots on grave-clothes among the, iii. 310
Piedmont, effigy of Carnival burnt on Shrove Tuesday in, iv. 224 n. 1;
belief as to the “oil of St. John” on St. John's morning in, xi. 82 sq.
Piers, Sir Henry, as to green bushes on the Eve of May Day, ii. 59;
his Description of Westmeath, ii. 59;
on candles on Twelfth Night in Ireland, ix. 321
Pietà of Michael Angelo, v. 257
Pietro in Guarano (Calabria), Easter custom at, x. 123
Pig, grunting like a, as a charm, ii. 23;
Roman expiatory sacrifice of, ii. 122;
the word unlucky, iii. 233;
a tabooed word to fishermen, iii. 395;
Greek expiatory sacrifice of, vii. 74;
corn-spirit as, vii. 298 sqq.;
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in relation to Demeter, viii. 16 sqq.;
not eaten in Crete, viii. 21 n. 1;
attitude of the Jews to the, viii. 23 sq.;
in ancient Egypt, viii. 24 sqq.;
used to decoy demons, ix. 113, 200, 201;
roast, at Christmas, x. 259;
sacrificed to stay disease in the herd, x. 302.
See also Pigs
Pig and Attis, viii. 22
——, black, sacrificed for rain, i. 291
—— and lamb as expiatory victims in the grove of the Arval Brothers at Rome, iii. 226
——, white or red, sacrificed for sunshine, i. 291
Pig's blood drunk by priests and priestesses as a means of inspiration, i. 382, 382 n. 2;
used to purge the earth from taint of sexual crime, ii. 107, 108, 109;
used in exorcism and purification for homicide, v. 299 n. 2, ix. 262
—— bones inserted in the sown field or in the seed-bag among the flax-seed, to make the flax grow tall, vii. 300
—— flesh not eaten by Zulu girls, i. 118;
forbidden to women at sowing seed, vii. 115;
sown with seed-corn, viii. 18;
not eaten by field labourers, viii. 33, 139;
reasons for not eating, viii. 139 sq.
See also Pork and Swine's flesh
—— liver, omens drawn from, vii. 97
—— milk thought to cause leprosy, viii. 24, 25
—— tail stuck in field at sowing to make the ears grow long, vii. 300
Pigeon in homoeopathic magic, i. 151;
used in a love-charm, ii. 345 sq.;
family of Wild, in Samoa, viii. 29;
external soul of ogre in a, xi. 100;
external soul of dragon in a, xi. 112 sq.
Pigeon's egg, external soul of fairy being in, xi. 132 sq., 139
Pigeons, special language employed by Malays in snaring, iii. 407 sq.;
souls of dead in, viii. 293;
deposit seed of mistletoe, xi. 316 n. 1
Pigs, magical ceremonies to catch wild pigs, i. 109;
magical stones to breed, i. 164;
sacrificed to souls of ancestors, i. 339;
sacrificed at the marriage of Sun and Earth, ii. 99;
bred by the people of the Italian pile villages, ii. 353 n. 3;
sacrificed once a year by the Egyptians to Osiris and the Moon, vi. 131, viii. 25;
sacrificed by Kayans at New Year's festival, vii. 97;
not to be eaten by enchanters of crops, vii. 100 sq.;
the enemies of the crops, vii. 100;
thrown into “chasms of Demeter and Persephone” at the Thesmophoria, viii. 17, 19, 34;
ancestral spirits in, viii. 123;
souls of dead in, viii. 286, 295, 296;
sacrificed at festival of wild mango tree in New Guinea, x. 9;
driven through Midsummer fire, x. 179;
driven through the need-fire, x. 272, 273, 274 sq., 275 sq., 276 sq., 277, 278, 279, 297;
offered to monster who swallows novices in initiation, xi. 240, 246.
See also Boar, Boars, Pig, and Swine
Piker or Pikere, Esthonian thunder-god, ii. 367 n. 4
Pilae, human effigies, hung up at the Compitalia, viii. 95 n. 1
Pilate, Pontius, crucifixion of Christ under, ix. 412 n. 1
—— and Christ, ix. 416 sq.
Pilcomayo River, the Chiriguanos on the, iv. 12
Pile-villages in the valley of the Po, ii. 8;
of Europe, ii. 352 sq.
Piles of sticks or stones. See Heaps
Pilgrimages on Yule Night in Sweden, x. 20 sq.
Pilgrims to Mecca not allowed to wear knots and rings, iii. 293 sq.
Pillar, fever transferred to a, ix. 53;
external soul of ogre in a, xi. 100 sq.
Pillars as a religious emblem, v. 34, 108, 108 n. 1;
sacred, in Crete, v. 107 n. 2
Pilsen, in Bohemia, Whitsuntide King at, ii. 86;
beheading the Whitsuntide King at, iv. 210 sq.
Pima Indians, the purification of manslayers among the, iii. 182 sqq., x. 21
Pindar on the rebirth of the dead, iv. 70, vii. 84;
on the music of the lyre, v. 55;
on Typhon, v. 156;
old scholiast on, as to the Eleusinian games, vii. 71, 74, 77, 78
Pine-cones, symbols of fertility, v. 278;
thrown into vaults of Demeter, v. 278;
on the monuments of Osiris, vi. 110
—— -resin burnt as a protection against witches, ix. 164
—— seeds or nutlets used as food, v. 278
—— -tree in the myth and ritual of Attis, v. 264, 265, 267, 271, 277 sq., 285, vi. 98 n. 5;
Marsyas hung on a, v. 288;
in relation to human sacrifices, vi. 98 n. 5;
Pentheus on the, vi. 98 n. 5;
in the rites of Osiris, vi. 108;
sacred to Dionysus, vii. 4
—— -trees in the peat-bogs of Europe, ii. 350, 351, 352
Pines, Scotch, struck by lightning, proportion of, xi. 298
Pinewood, fire of, at Soracte, xi. 14, 91 n. 1
Pinoeh, district of South-Eastern Borneo, [pg 414] treatment of infant's soul among the Dyaks of, xi. 154 sq.
Pins stuck into saint's image, ix. 70 sq.
Pinsk, district of Russia, custom observed on Whit-Monday in, ii. 80
Pinxterbloem, a kind of iris, at Whitsuntide, ii. 80
Pinzgau district of Salzburg, the Perchten maskers in, ix. 244
Pipal tree (Ficus religiosa), sacrifices to the spirits of the, ii. 42;
sacred in India, ii. 43
Pipe, sacred, of the Blackfoot Indians, iii. 159 n.
Pipiles of Central America practise sexual intercourse at the time of sowing, ii. 98;
expose their seeds to moonlight, vi. 135
Pippin, king of the Franks, need-fires in the reign of, x. 270
Pips of water-melon in homoeopathic magic, i. 143
Piraeus, processions in honour of Adonis at, v. 227 n.
Pirates, the Cilician, v. 149 sq.
Piros Indians of Peru, their belief in the transmigration of a human soul into a jaguar, viii. 386
Pirua, granary of maize, among the Indians of Peru, vii. 171 sqq.
Pisa, in Greece, Pelops at, ii. 279
Pit, sacrifices to the dead offered in a, iv. 96.
See also Pits
Pitch smeared on doors to keep out ghosts, ix. 153;
smeared on houses to keep off demons, ix. 153 n. 1.
See also Tar
Pitchforks ridden by witches, ix. 160, 162
—— and harrows a protection against witchcraft, ii. 54
Pithoria, in India, use of scapegoats at, ix. 191
Pitlochrie, in Perthshire, Hallowe'en fires near, x. 230
Pitr Pāk, the Fortnight of the Manes, in Bilaspore, vi. 60
Pitrè, Giuseppe, on the personification of the Carnival, iv. 224 n. 1;
on Good Friday ceremonies in Sicily, v. 255 sq.;
on St. John's Day in Sicily, xi. 29
Pits to catch wild pigs, i. 109
Pitsligo, parish of, in Aberdeenshire, the cutting of the clyack sheaf in, vii. 158 sqq.
Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, i. 69
Pitteri Pennu, the Khond god of increase, ix. 138
Pity of rain-gods, appeal to, i. 302 sq.
Placci, Carlo, on the new Easter fire at Florence, x. 127 n. 1
Place de Noailles at Marseilles, Midsummer flowers in the, xi. 46
Placenta (afterbirth) and navel-string, contagious magic of, i. 182-201;
Egyptian standard resembling a, vi. 156 n. 1
See also Afterbirth
Placianian Mother, a form of Cybele, worshipped at Cyzicus, v. 274 n.
Plague transferred to plantain-tree, ix. 4 sq.;
the Baganda god of, battened down in a hole, ix. 4;
transferred to camel, ix. 33;
blocked up in holes of buildings, ix. 64;
at Rome, attempted remedies for, ix. 65;
demon of, expelled, ix. 173;
sent away in scapegoat, ix. 193.
See also Disease and Epidemics
Plaiting the last standing corn before cutting it, vii. 142, 144, 153, 154, 157, 158
Plane and birch, fire made by the friction of, x. 220
Plane-tree, Dionysus in, vii. 3
Planer district of Bohemia, custom at threshing in the, vii. 149
Planets, human victims sacrificed to, among the heathen of Harran, vii. 261 sq.
Plantagenets, royal forests under the, ii. 7
Plantain-tree, the afterbirth and navel-string buried under a, i. 195, 196;
plague transferred to, ix. 4 sq.;
creeping through a cleft, as a cure, xi. 181
—— -trees, navel-strings of Baganda buried at foot of, i. 195;
fertilized by parents of twins, ii. 102.
See also Banana, Bananas
Planting, homoeopathic magic at, i. 136, 137, 143
Plants, homoeopathic magic to make plants grow, i. 136 sqq.;
influenced homoeopathically by a person's act or state, i. 139 sqq.;
influence persons homoeopathically, i. 144 sqq.;
spirits of, in shape of animals, ii. 14;
sexes of, ii. 24;
marriage of, ii. 26 sqq.;
thought to be animated by spirits, viii. 82 sq.;
spirits of, in the form of snakes, xi. 44 n.;
external soul in, xi. 159 sqq.;
and trees as life-indices, xi. 160 sqq.
Plaques or palettes of schist in Egyptian tombs, xi. 155 n. 3
Plastene, Mother, on Mount Sipylus, v. 185
Plataea, ceremonial extinction of fires at, i. 33;
festival of the Daedala at, ii. 140 sq.;
Archon of, forbidden to touch iron, iii. 227;
bull annually sacrificed to men who fell at the battle of, iii. 227;
escape of besieged from, iii. 311;
sacrifices and funeral games in honour of the slain at, iv. 95 sq.;
Eleutherian games at, vii. 80, 85
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Plates or basins, divination by three, at Hallowe'en, x. 237 sq., 240, 244
Plato on the magistrate called the King at Athens, i. 45;
on the pre-existence of the human soul, i. 104;
on human sacrifices, iv. 163;
on gardens of Adonis, v. 236 n. 1;
on the doctrine of transmigration, viii. 308;
on purification for murder, ix. 24 sq.;
on poets, ix. 35 n. 3;
on sorcery, ix. 47;
on the distribution of the soul in the body, xi. 221 n. 1
Plautus on Mars and his wife Nerio, vi. 232
Playfair, Major A., on the ceremony of the horse at rice-harvest among the Garos, viii. 337 sq.;
on the use of scapegoats among the Garos of Assam, ix. 208 sq.
Plebeian myrtle-tree at Rome, xi. 168
Plebeians, the Roman kings, ii. 289
Pleiades, the, morning rising of, time of the corn-reaping in Greece, i. 32, vii. 48 sq.;
worshipped by the Abipones, v. 258 n. 2;
the setting of, the time of sowing, vi. 41;
autumnal setting of, the signal for ploughing in Greece, vii. 45;
in primitive calendars, vii. 116, 122 n. 1, 307 sqq.;
associated with the rainy season, vii. 307, 309, 317, 318;
supposed to cause the rain to fall, vii. 307, 317;
worshipped, vii. 307, 308 sq., 310, 311, 312, 317;
legends of their origin, vii. 308 n., 311, 312;
the beginning of the year marked by the appearance of, vii. 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 315, xi. 244, 245 n.;
the time for sowing and planting determined by observation of, vii. 309, 311, 313 sqq.;
supposed to cause the maize to grow, vii. 310;
women swear by, vii. 311;
festival of the Guaycurus at the appearance of, ix. 262;
observed by savages, ix. 326
Pliny the Elder, on electric lights, i. 49 sq.;
on a cure for jaundice, i. 80;
on a tree-stone, i. 165 n. 1;
on death at ebb-tide, i. 167;
on contagious magic of wounds, i. 201;
on the sexes of trees, ii. 25 n.;
on the sacredness of woods, ii. 123;
on the forests of Germany, ii. 353 sq.;
on the use of acorns as food, ii. 355;
on the derivation of the name Druid, ii. 363 n. 2;
on lucky and unlucky trees, iii. 275 n. 3;
on the magical effect of clasping hands and crossing legs, iii. 298;
on knotted threads, iii. 303;
on the date of harvest in Egypt, vi. 32 n. 2;
on the influence of the moon, vi. 132;
on the grafting of trees, vi. 133 n. 3;
on the time for felling timber, vi. 136 n.;
on the time for sowing cereals in Greece and Asia, vii. 45 n. 2;
on the setting of the Pleiades, vii. 318;
on cure of warts, ix. 48 n. 2;
on cure for a stomachic complaint, ix. 50;
on cure for gripes, ix. 50;
on cure for epilepsy, ix. 68;
on “serpents' eggs,” x. 15;
onmedicinal plants, x. 17;
on the touch of menstruous women, x. 196;
on the fire-walk of the Hirpi Sorani, xi. 14;
on the mythical springwort, xi. 71;
on the Druidical worship of mistletoe, xi. 76 sq.;
on the virtues of mistletoe, xi. 78;
on the birds which deposit seeds of mistletoe, xi. 316 n. 1;
on the different kinds of mistletoe, xi. 317
Pliny the Younger, on boar-hunting, i. 6;
as to the historical reality of Christ, ix. 412 n. 1;
his letter to Trajan on the spread of Christianity in Asia Minor, ix. 420 sq.;
his government of Bithynia and Pontus, ix. 421
Ploska (in Wallachia?), rain-making at, i. 248
Plotinus, the death of, v. 87
Plough watered as a rain-charm, i. 282, 284;
sacred golden, i. 365;
in relation to Dionysus, vii. 5;
in primitive agriculture, vii. 113;
drawn round village to keep off epidemic, ix. 172 sq.;
piece of Yule log inserted in the, x. 251, 337
Plough-horses, part of the Yule Boar eaten by the, vii. 301
—— Monday, vii. 33;
rites of, viii. 325 sqq., ix. 250 sq.;
English celebration of, viii. 329 sqq.
—— -oxen, the first, vii. 5
Ploughing, by women as a rain-charm, i. 282 sq.;
Prussian custom at, v. 238;
in Greece, season of, vii. 45, 50;
the land thrice a year, Greek custom of, vii. 53 n. 1, 72 sq.;
with oxen, vii. 129 n. 1;
annually inaugurated by the Chinese emperor, viii. 14 sq.;
in spring, custom at the first, x. 18
——, ceremonies at, among the Chams of Indo-China, viii. 57;
at Calicut in India, ix. 235
——, ceremony of, performed by temporary King, iv. 149, 155 sq., 157;
in the rites of Osiris, vi. 87;
at Carnival, vii. 28, 29, viii. 331, 332, 334;
sacred at Athens, vii. 31
—— and sowing, rite of, at the Carnival, vii. 28
Ploughings, Sacred, in Attica, vii. 108
Ploughman worships the ploughshare, ix. 90
Ploughmen and sowers drenched with water as a rain-charm, v. 238 sq.;
and [pg 416] plough-horses, part of the Yule Boar given to, to eat, vii. 301, 303
Ploughs, bronze, used by Etruscans at founding of cities, iv. 157
Ploughshare worshipped by ploughman, ix. 90;
crawling under a, as a cure, xi. 180
Plover in connexion with rain, i. 259, 261
Plugging or bunging up maladies in trees, ix. 58
Plum-tree wood used for Yule log, x. 250
Plurality of souls, doctrine of the, xi. 221 sq.
Plutarch on Numa and Egeria, i. 18;
on hair offerings of boys at puberty, i. 28;
on the stone-curlew as a cure for jaundice, i. 80;
on Egeria, ii. 172;
on the birth of Romulus, ii. 196;
on the Roman Vestals, ii. 244 n. 1;
on the violent deaths of the Roman kings, ii. 320;
on the death of Tullus Hostilius, ii. 320 n. 3;
on the Parilia, ii. 325 n. 3, 329;
on the exclusion of gold from sanctuaries, iii. 226 n. 8;
on the abstinence from wine of the Egyptian kings, iii. 249;
on the death of the Great Pan, iv. 6;
human sacrifice at Orchomenus in the lifetime of, iv. 163;
on human sacrifices among the Carthaginians, iv. 167;
on the double-headed axe of Zeus Labrandeus, v. 182;
on the myth of Osiris, vi. 3, 5 sqq.;
on Harpocrates, vi. 9 n.;
on Osiris at Byblus, vi. 22 sq.;
on the rise of the Nile, vi. 31 n. 1;
on the mournful character of the rites of sowing, vi. 40 sqq.;
his use of the Alexandrian year, vi. 49, 84;
on an Egyptian ceremony at the winter solstice, vi. 50 n. 4;
on the date of the death of Osiris, vi. 84;
on the festival of Osiris in the month of Athyr, vi. 91 sq.;
on the dating of Egyptian festivals, vi. 94 sq.;
on the rites of Osiris, vi. 108;
on the grave of Osiris, vi. 111;
on the similarity between the rites of Osiris and Dionysus, vi. 127;
on the Flamen Dialis, vi. 229 sq.;
on the Flaminica Dialis, vi. 230 n. 2;
on immortality, vii. 15;
on the myth of Osiris, vii. 32 n. 6;
on mourning festival of Demeter, vii. 46;
on sacrifice, viii. 31;
on Apis, viii. 36;
on the custom of throwing puppets into the Tiber, viii. 108;
on “the expulsion of hunger” at Chaeronea, ix. 252;
on the Cronia and the rural Dionysiac festival, ix. 352 n. 1;
on oak-mistletoe, xi. 318 n. 1
Pluto, the breath of, v. 204, 205;
places or sanctuaries of, v. 204 sqq.;
cave and temple of, at Acharaca, v. 205;
carries off Persephone, vii. 36, viii. 19;
at Eleusis, sacrifices to, vii. 56
Pluto and Persephone, viii. 9;
rustic prototypes of, viii. 334
—— called Subterranean Zeus, vii. 66
Plutonia, places of Pluto, v. 204
Plutus, begotten by Iasion on Demeter in a thrice-ploughed field, vii. 208
Po, pile-villages in the valley of the, ii. 8, 353;
herds of swine in antiquity in the valley of the, ii. 354
Po Then, a great spirit, among the Thay of Indo-China, ix. 97
Po-nagar, the Cham goddess of agriculture, viii. 56, 57, 58
Pocahontas, an assumed name, iii. 318
Poelopetak, the Dyaks of, their names for soul-stuffs, vii. 182
Pogdanzig, in Prussia, witches' Sabbath at, xi. 74
Point Barrow, Alaska, the Esquimaux of, i. 328, viii. 258 n. 2, ix. 124
Pointing sticks or bones in magic among the Australian aborigines, iv. 60, x. 14
Poison, sympathetic magic of, in hunting and fishing, i. 116 sq., 125 sq.;
continence observed at brewing, iii. 200
Poison ordeal in Sierra Leone, iii. 15;
fatal effects of the use of the, iv. 197;
ordeal administered by young children, vii. 115
—— tooth of a serpent a charm against snake-bite, i. 153
Poisoning the fish of a river, common words tabooed in, iii. 415
Poitou, the Fox in the last standing corn in, vii. 297;
Midsummer fires in, x. 182, 190 sq., 340 sq.;
fires on All Saints' Day in, x. 246;
the Yule log in, x. 251 n. 1;
mugwort at Midsummer in, xi. 59
Poix, Lenten fires at, x. 113
Pok Klai, a Chin goddess, viii. 121
Poland, objection to iron ploughshares in, iii. 232;
“Carrying out Death” in, iv. 240;
the last sheaf called the Baba (Old Woman) in, vii. 144 sq.;
custom at threshing in, vii. 148;
Christmas custom in, vii. 275;
the harvest cock in, vii. 277;
need-fire in, x. 281 sq.
See also Poles and Polish
Polar bear, taboos concerning the, iii. 209
Polaznik, polazenik, polazaynik, Christmas visiter, among the Servians, x. 261, 263, 264
Pole, sacred, of the Arunta, x. 7
Pole-star, homoeopathic magic of the, i. 166
Polebrook in Northamptonshire, May carols at, ii. 61 n. 1
Polemarch, the, at Athens, iii. 22
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Poles, passing between two poles after a death, xi. 178 sq.;
passing between two poles in order to escape sicknessor evil spirit, xi. 179 sqq.
Poles, the Corn-mother among the, vii. 132 sq.
Polish custom at cutting last corn, vii. 150
—— Jews, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 66
Political evolution from democracy to despotism, i. 421
Polkwitz, in Silesia, custom of “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 237
Pollution caused by murder, ix. 25
——, ceremonial, of girl at puberty, viii. 268
—— of death, vi. 227 sqq., viii. 85 n. 3
—— and holiness not differentiated by savages, iii. 224
——, menstrual, widespread fear of, x. 76 sqq.
—— or sanctity, their equivalence in primitive religion, iii. 145, 158, 224.
See also Uncleanness
Polo, Marco, on custom of people of Camul, v. 39 n. 3
Polybius on the butchery of pigs in ancient Italy, ii. 354
Polyboea, sister of Hyacinth, v. 314, 316;
identified with Artemis or Persephone, v. 315
Polydorus, in Virgil, ii. 33
Polygnotus, his picture of Orpheus under the willow, xi. 294
Polyidus, a seer, restored Glaucus to life, v. 186 n. 4
Polynesia, sacred kings and priests not allowed to touch food with their hands in, iii. 138;
persons who have handled the dead not allowed to touch food with their hands in, iii. 140;
sacredness of the head in, iii. 245;
sanctity of the heads of chiefs and others in, iii. 254 sqq.;
names of chiefs tabooed in, iii. 381;
belief as to falling stars in, iv. 67;
remarkable rule of succession in, iv. 190;
prevalence of infanticide in, iv. 191, 196;
the beginning of the year marked by the rising of the Pleiades throughout, vii. 313;
fear of demons among the natives of, ix. 80 sq.
Polynesian chiefs sacred, iii. 136
—— mothers, their way of infusing a divine spirit into their unborn babes, iii. 69
—— myth of the separation of earth and sky, v. 283
Polynesians, oracular inspiration of priests among the, i. 377;
their mode of kindling fire, ii. 258;
their way of ridding themselves of sacred contagion, viii. 28
Polynices and Eteocles, their grave at Thebes, ii. 33
Polytheism evolved out of animism, ii. 45
Pomegranate, growing on the grave of fratricides, ii. 33;
causes virgin to conceive, v. 263, 269
Pomegranates forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, v. 280 n. 7;
sprung from blood of Dionysus, vii. 14;
seeds of, not eaten at the Thesmophoria, vii. 14;
not to be brought into the sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura, viii. 46
Pomerania, cut hair burnt in, iii. 282 sq.;
treatment of passers-by at harvest in, vii. 229 sq.;
sticks or stones piled on graves of suicides in, ix. 17;
hills called the Blocksberg in, x. 171 n. 3
Pometia sacked by the Romans, i. 22
Pommerol, Dr., on Granno and Grannus, x. 112
Pomona and Vertumnus, vi. 235 n. 6
Pomos of California, their expulsion of devils, ix. 170 sq.
Pompeii, plan of labyrinth at, iv. 76
Pompey the Great beheads the last king Cinyras of Byblus, v. 27
Pompilia, mother of Ancus Martius, ii. 270 n. 4
Ponape, one of the Caroline Islands, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 184 sq.;
special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal in, i. 401 n. 3;
kings and viziers in, iii. 25;
the king of, his long hair, iii. 259;
changes of vocabulary caused by fear of naming the dead in, iii. 362
Pond, G. H., on ritual of death and resurrection among the Dacotas, xi. 269
Pondomisi, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, attribute drought to wrath of dead chief, vi. 177
Pondos, of South Africa, their festival of new fruits, viii. 66 sq.
Pongal feast, in the Madras Presidency, vii. 244.
See Pongol
Pongau district of Salzburg, the Perchten maskers in, ix. 244
Pongol, a family festival among the Hindoos of Southern India, viii. 56;
Feast of Ingathering in Southern India, fires kindled at, xi. 1, 16
Ponnani River, near Calicut, iv. 49
Pons Sublicius at Rome built without iron, iii. 230
Pont à Mousson, calf killed at harvest at, vii. 290
Pontarlier, Eve of Twelfth Day in, ix. 316
Pontaven in Finistère, effigy (of Carnival) [pg 418] thrown into the sea on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 230
Pontesbury, in Shropshire, the Yule log at, x. 257
Pontifex Maximus at Rome, his relation to the Vestals, ii. 228
Pontiff of Zela in Pontus, ix. 370, 372
Pontiffs, the Roman, their mismanagement of the Julian calendar, vi. 93 n. 1;
celebrated the marriage of Orcus, vi. 231;
regulate Roman calendar, vii. 83
—— and Vestals threw puppets into the Tiber at Rome, viii. 107
Pontifical law at Rome, iii. 391 n. 1
Pontus, the Mosyni or Mosynoeci of, iii. 124;
sacred prostitution in, v. 39, 58;
rapid spread of Christianity in, ix. 420 sq.
Poona, rain-making at, i. 275;
incarnation of elephant-headed god at, i. 405
Poor Man, name applied to the corn-spirit after harvest, vii. 231
—— Old Woman, corn left on field for, vii. 231 sq.
—— Woman, name applied to the corn-spirit after harvest, vii. 231
Popayan, district of Colombia, the Indians of, will not kill deer, viii. 286
Pope or Patriarch of Fools, elected on St. Stephen's Day, ix. 334
Popinjay, shooting at a, x. 194
Popish Kingdome, The, of Thomas Kirchmeyer, x. 125 sq., 162
Poplar in magic, i. 145;
burned on St. Peter's Day, ii. 141
——, black, mistletoe on, xi. 318 n. 6
——, the silver, used to ban fiends, ii. 336
——, the white, at Olympia, a substitute for the oak, ii. 220;
used in sacrificing to Zeus at Olympia, xi. 90 n. 1, 91 n. 7
Poplar-wood used to kindle need-fire, x. 282
Poplars burnt on Shrove Tuesday, iv. 224 n. 1
Poppies as symbols of Demeter, vii. 43 sq.
Poppy, the, cultivated for opium, vii. 242
Populonia, an unmarried Roman goddess, vi. 231
Populus trichocarpa in homoeopathic magic, i. 145
Porcupine, a Bechuana totem, viii. 164 sq.;
respected by some Indians, viii. 243;
transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299;
as charm to ensure women an easy delivery, x. 49
Pork forbidden to enchanters of crops, vii. 100 sq.;
not eaten by field labourers, viii. 33;
taboo as to entering a sanctuary after eating, viii. 85;
reason for not eating, viii. 296.
See also Pig's flesh and Swine's flesh
Porphyry, on a human god in Egypt, i. 390;
on the souls of trees, ii. 12;
on Phoenician sacrifices of children, iv. 167, 179;
on the Bouphonia, viii. 5 n. 1;
on the homoeopathic diet of diviners, viii. 143 n. 7;
on demons, ix. 104
Porridge smeared on body as a purification, iii. 176
Port Charlotte in Islay, vii. 166;
stone used in cure for toothache near, ix. 62
—— Darwin, in Australia, conception in women not regarded as a direct result of cohabitation among the tribes about, v. 103
—— Lincoln tribe of South Australia, prohibition to mention the names ofthe dead in the, iii. 365;
their superstition as to lizards, xi. 216 sq.
—— Moresby, in British New Guinea, ix. 84;
taboos as to trading voyages at, iii. 203;
homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet at, viii. 145
—— Stephens (Stevens), in New South Wales, burial at flood tide among the natives at, i. 168;
medicine-men drive away rain at, i. 253
Porta Capena at Rome, i. 18, ii. 185, v. 273
Porta Querquetulana at Rome, ii. 185 n. 3
—— Triumphalis at Rome, xi. 195
Porto Novo, the negroes of, their beliefs and customs concerning twins, i. 265;
the King of Night at, ii. 23 sq.;
in Guinea, precaution taken by executioner against the ghosts of his victims at, iii. 171;
on the Slave Coast, vicarious human sacrifices at, iv. 117;
annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 205
Portrait statues, external souls of Egyptian kings deposited in, xi. 157
Portraits, souls in, iii. 96 sqq.;
supposed dangers of, iii. 96 sqq.
Portreath, sacrifice of a calf near, to cure disease of cows and horses, x. 301
Portugal, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167 sq.
Poseideon, an Attic month, vii. 62
Poseidon, sanctuary of, at Troezen, i. 27;
mated with Artemis, i. 36;
bull sacrificed to, i. 46;
represented as father of Demetrius Poliorcetes, i. 391;
identified with Erechtheus, iv. 87;
the Establisher or Securer, v. 195 sq.;
the earthquake god, v. 195, 202 sq.;
his intrigue with Demeter, v. 280, viii. 21;
first-fruits sacrificed to, viii. 133;
cake with twelve knobs offered to, ix. 351;
priest of, uses a white [pg 419] umbrella, x. 20 n. 1;
makes Pterelaus immortal, xi. 103
Posidonius, ancient Greek traveller in Gaul, on indifference of Celts to death, iv. 142;
on human sacrifices among the Celts, xi. 32
Poso, a district of Central Celebes, inspired priestesses in, i. 379 sq.;
ears of rice fed like children in, ii. 29;
belief as to tree-demons in, ii. 35;
ceremony performed by farmer's wife in, when the rice crop is not thriving, ii. 104;
stranger taken for a spirit in, vii. 236;
jawbones of deer and wild pigs propitiated by hunters in, viii. 244 sq.;
custom at the working of iron in, xi. 154
——, the Alfoors of, offer puppets to demons, iii. 62;
will not pronounce their own names, iii. 332;
may not pronounce the names of their fathers, mothers, grandparents, and parents-in-law, iii. 340;
forbidden to use ordinary language in harvest-field, iii. 411;
ask riddles while watching the crops, vii. 194;
think that every man has three souls, xi. 222
Possession by the spirits of dead kings or chiefs, iv. 25 sq., vi. 192 sq.;
of priest or priestess by a divine spirit, v. 66, 68 sq., 72 sqq.;
by an evil spirit, cured by passing through a red-hot chain, xi. 186
Posterli, annual expulsion of, at Entlebuch in Switzerland, ix. 214
Pot in ashes, imprint of, effaced from superstitious motives, i. 214
Potala Hill at Lhasa, ix. 197
——, palace of the Dalai Lama at Lhasa, i. 412 n. 1
Potato-dog, said to be killed at end of digging the potatoes, vii. 272 sq.
—— -mother, among the Indians of Peru, vii. 172, 173 n.
—— -wolf, said to be caught in the last potatoes, vii. 271;
name given to woman who gathers the last potatoes, vii. 274
Potatoes, magical stones for the increase of, i. 162;
fertilized by a fairy banner, i. 368;
customs at eating new, viii. 50, 51
Potawatomi Indians, their respect for rattlesnakes, viii. 218;
their women secluded at menstruation, x. 89
Potlatch, distribution of property, among the Carrier Indians, xi. 274
Potniae in Boeotia, goat substituted for child as victim in rites of Dionysus at, iv. 166 n. 1, vii. 24;
priest of Dionysus killed at, vi. 99 n. 1
Potrimpo, old Prussian god, his priest bound to sleep on bare earth for three nights before sacrificing, ii. 248
Pots of basil on St. John's Day in Sicily, v. 245
—— used by girls at puberty broken, x. 61, 69.
See also Vessels
Potter in Southern India, custom observed by a, v. 191 n. 2
Potters in Uganda bake their pots when the moon is waxing, vi. 135
Pottery, primitive, employed in Roman ritual, ii. 202 sqq.;
superstitions as to the making of, among the Yuracares of Bolivia and the Ba-Ronga of South Africa, ii. 204 sq.
Pouilly, near Dijon, ox killed on harvest-field at, vii. 290
Poverty, annual expulsion of, ix. 144 sq.
Powder, magic, rubbed into wounds for purpose of inoculation, viii. 159
Powers, Stephen, on the secrecy of personal names among the Californian Indians, iii. 326;
on the expulsion of devils among the Pomos of California, ix. 170 sq.
Powers, extraordinary, ascribed to first-born children, x. 295
Powhatan, an assumed Indian name, iii. 318
Pozega district of Slavonia, need-fire in, x. 282
Prabat, in Siam, Footprint of Buddha at, iii. 275
Practical man, the plain, i. 243
Praeneste, Fortuna Primigenia, goddess of, vi. 234;
founded by Caeculus, ii. 197, vi. 235
Praetorius, Matthaeus, on the old Lithuanian god Pergrubius, ii. 347 n. 1;
his work on old Lithuanian customs, viii. 50 n. 1
Praetors, the consuls at first called, ii. 291 n. 1
Prague, pieces of the May-tree burned in the district of, ii. 71;
the Feast of All Souls in, vi. 73
Prajapati, the creator, his mystic sacrifice in the daily ritual of the Brahmans, ix. 411
Pramantha, the upper part of the Brahman fire-drill, ii. 249
Prättigau in Switzerland, Lenten fire-customat, x. 119
Pratz, Le Page du, on the festival of new corn among the Natchez Indians, viii. 77 sqq.
Prauss, in Silesia, race of girls at harvest at, vii. 76
Prayer to the tulasi plant, ii. 26;
the Roman shepherd's, ii. 327;
to Pergrubius, [pg 420] ii. 347;
the materialization of, ix. 22 n. 2;
at sowing, ix. 138
Prayer, the Place of, viii. 113
—— and spell, vii. 105
Prayers to the sun, i. 72, 312;
for rain to ancestors, i. 285, 286, 287, 346;
for rain to skulls of racoons, i. 288;
for rain to dragon, i. 291 sq.;
to king's ancestors, i. 352;
to sunflower roots, ii. 13;
for rain to the spirit who controls the rain, ii. 46;
to Zeus for rain, ii. 359;
to Jupiter for rain, ii. 362;
to Thunder, ii. 367 sq.;
to an oak, ii. 372;
for rain to Nyakang, iv. 20;
to dead ancestors, vi. 175 sq., 178 sq., 183 sq.;
to dead kings, vi. 192;
for rain at Eleusis, vii. 69;
to the spirits of the dead, viii. 112, 113, 124 sq.;
to dead animals, viii. 184, 197, 224, 225, 226, 235, 236, 243, 253, 293;
to crocodile goddess, viii. 212;
to shark-idol, viii. 292;
at cairns or heaps of sticks or leaves, ix. 26, 28, 29 sq.;
of adolescent girls to the Dawn of Day, x. 50 sq., 53, 98 n. 1;
to the Rain-makers up aloft, x. 133;
to ancestral spirits, xi. 243
Preachers to fish, viii. 250 sq.
Precautions against witches on May Day, ii. 52 sqq., ix. 267;
against witches on St. George's Day, ii. 354 sqq.;
against witches on Walpurgis Night (Eve of May Day), ix. 158 sqq.;
against witches during the Twelve Days, ix. 164 sq.;
against witches on Midsummer Eve, xi. 73 sqq.
Precious stones, homoeopathic magic of, i. 164 sq.
Pre-existence of the human soul, belief in the, i. 104
Preference for a violent death, iv. 9 sqq.
Pregnancy, ceremony in seventh month of, i. 72 sq.;
husband's hair kept unshorn during wife's, iii. 261;
conduct of husband during wife's, iii. 294, 295;
superstitions as to knots during wife's, iii. 294 sq.;
funeral rites performed for a father in the fifth month of his wife's, iv. 189;
causes of, unknown, v. 92 sq., 106 sq.;
Australian beliefs as to the causes of, v. 99 sqq.
Pregnant cows sacrificed to ensure fertility, i. 141;
sacrificed to the Earth goddess, ii. 229
—— women, forbidden to spin or twist ropes, i. 114;
not to loiter in the doorways of houses where there are, i. 114;
employed to fertilize crops and fruit-trees, i. 140 sq., ii. 101;
taboos on, i. 141 n. 1;
their superstitions about shadows, iii. 82 sq.;
carry nim leaves or iron to scare evil spirits, iii. 234;
may not sew or use sharp instruments, iii. 238;
loosen their hair, iii. 311;
mode of protecting them against dangerous spirits, viii. 102 sq.;
fowls used to divert evil spirits from, ix. 31
Preller, L., on the marriage of Dionysus and Ariadne, ii. 138
Premature birth, Esquimau ideas as to, iii. 152;
to be announced publicly, iii. 213.
See Miscarriage
Presages as to shadows on St. Sylvester's day, iii. 88
Presteign in Radnorshire, the tug-of-war at, ix. 182 sq.
Pretence made by reapers of mowing down visiters to the harvest-field, vii. 229 sq.;
of throwing people into fire, x. 110, 148, 186, xi. 25
—— of human sacrifices substituted for the reality, iv. 214 sqq.;
at Christmas, vii. 302
Pretenders to divinity among Christians, i. 407 sqq.
Priapus, image of, at need-fire, x. 286
Pricking patient with needles to expel demons of disease, iii. 106
Priene, Panionian festival at, i. 46
Priest drenched with water as a rain-charm, i. 277, ii. 77;
rolled on fields as fertility charm, ii. 103;
chief acting as, ii. 215 sqq., viii. 126;
brings back lost soul in a cloth, iii. 48, 64;
recovers lost souls from the sun-god, iii. 64;
conjures lost soul into a cup, iii. 67;
catches the spirit of a god in a snare, iii. 69;
inspired by spirit of dead king and giving oracles in his name, iv. 200 sq.;
sows and plucks the first rice, viii. 54;
the corpse-praying, ix. 45.
See also Priests and High priest
—— of Aricia and the Golden Bough, x. i.
—— of Diana at Nemi, i. 8 sqq.;
at Aricia, the King of the Wood, perhaps personified Jupiter, xi. 302 sq.
—— of Dionysus at the Agrionia, iv. 163
—— of Earth, taboos observed by the, x. 4
—— and magician, their antagonism, i. 226
—— of Nemi, i. 8 sqq., 40, 41, ii. 376, 378, 386, 387, xi. 315.
See also King of the Wood
—— of Poseidon, x. 20 n. 1
—— of the Sun, x. 20 n. 1
—— of Zeus on Mount Lycaeus, ii. 359
Priestess of the holy fire among the Herero, ii. 215;
identified with goddess, v. 219;
head of the State under a system of mother-kin, vi. 203;
of Athena, x. 20 n. 1
Priestesses, inspired, i. 379 sq., 381 sq.;
as physicians, bring back lost souls, iii. 53 sq.;
more important than priests, [pg 421] v. 45, 46;
of Perasian Artemis walk over fire, v. 115, 168;
beat corpse to exorcize a demon, ix. 260;
not allowed to step on ground, x. 5
Priestesses, virgin, in the island of Sena, ii. 241 n. 1;
of fire in Peru, ii. 243 sq.;
of fire in Mexico, ii. 245;
of fire in Yucatan, ii. 245 sq.
Priesthood of Aphrodite at Paphos, v. 43;
vacated on death of priest's wife, v. 45;
of Hercules at Tarsus, v. 143
Priestly dynasties of Asia Minor, v. 140 sq.
—— functions exercised by chiefs in New Britain, i. 340;
gradually acquired by kings, i. 372
—— king and queen personating god and goddess, v. 45
—— kings, i. 44 sqq., v. 42, 43;
of Sheba, iii. 125;
of the Nubas, iii. 132;
of Olba, v. 143 sqq., 161;
Adonis personated by, v. 223 sqq.
Priests, magical powers attributed to priests by French peasants, i. 231-233;
inspired by gods in the Southern Pacific, i. 377 sq.;
ancient Egyptian, recover lost souls, iii. 68;
influence wielded by, iii. 107;
to be shaved with bronze, iii. 226;
their hair unshorn, iii. 259, 260;
foods tabooed to, iii. 291;
personate gods, v. 45, 46 sqq., ix. 287;
tattoo-marks of, v. 74 n. 4;
not allowed to be widowers, vi. 227 sqq.;
dressed as women, vi. 253 sqq.;
first-fruits belong to, viii. 125;
of sharks cover their bodies with the appearance of scales, viii. 292;
sacrifice human victims, ix. 279, 280 sq., 284, 286, 287, 290, 292, 294, 298, 301;
expected to pass through fire, xi. 2, 5, 8, 9, 14
—— of Astarte, kings as, v. 26
—— of Attis, the emasculated, v. 265, 266
——, Jewish, their rule as to the pollution of death, vi. 230
—— of Tetzcatlipoca, viii. 165
—— of Zeus at the Corycian cave, v. 145, 155
Primitive ritual, marks of, vii. 169
—— thought, its vagueness and inconsistency, xi. 301 sq.
Primroses on threshold as a charm against witches, ii. 52
Prince Sunless, x. 21
Prince of Wales Islands, Torres Strait, the Kowraregas of, iii. 346, 358 sq.;
natives of, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 64 sq.;
their treatment of girls at puberty in, x. 40
Princess royal, ceremonies at the puberty of a, x. 29, 30 sq.
Princesses married to foreigners or men of low birth, ii. 274 sqq.;
licence accorded to, in Loango, ii. 276 sq.
Prisoner condemned to death, treated as king for five days, iv. 113 sq., ix. 355
Prisoners shaved and their shorn hair kept as security for their good behaviour, iii. 273;
released at festivals, iii. 316
Private magic, i. 214 sq.
Privilege of the chapter of Rouen Cathedral to pardon a criminal once a year, ii. 165
Proa, demons of sickness expelled in a, ix. 185 sqq.;
diseases sent away in a, ix. 199 sq.
See also Ship
Proarcturia, a Greek festival, vii. 51
Procession to the Almo in the rites of Attis, v. 273;
with lighted tar-barrels on Christmas Eve at Lerwick, x. 268
Processions with ships perhaps rain-charms, i. 251 n. 3;
for rain in Sicily, i. 300;
carved on rocks at Boghaz-Keui, v. 129 sqq.;
in honour of Adonis, v. 224 sq., 227 n., 236 n. 1;
with bears from house to house, viii. 192;
with sacred animals, viii. 316 sqq.;
of men disguised as animals, viii. 325 sqq.;
for the expulsion of demons, ix. 117, 233;
of monks and maskers at the Tibetan New Year, ix. 203;
of mummers in Salzburg and the Tyrol, ix. 240, 242 sqq.;
to drive away demons of infertility, ix. 245;
bell-ringing, at the Carnival, ix. 247;
of maskers, W. Mannhardt on, ix. 250;
with lighted torches through fields, gardens, orchards, etc., x. 107 sq., 110 sqq., 113 sqq., 141, 179, 233 sq., 266, 339 sq.;
on Corpus Christi Day, x. 165;
to the Midsummer bonfires, x. 184, 185, 187, 188, 191, 192, 193;
across fiery furnaces, xi. 4 sqq.;
of giants (effigies) at popular festivals in Europe, xi. 33 sqq.
—— and dances in honour of the dead, viii. 111
Proclus on Dionysus, vii. 13
Procopius, on the custom of putting the sick and old to death among the Heruli, iv. 14;
on the god of lightning of the Slavs, ii. 365;
on the annual disappearance of the sun for forty days in Thule, ix. 125 n. 1
Procreation, savage ignorance of the causes of, v. 106 sq.
Procreative virtue attributed to fire, ii. 233
Procris, her incest with her father Erechtheus, v. 44
Proculus, Julius, bids the Romans worship Romulus as a god, ii. 182
Proerosia, “Before the Ploughing,” a Greek festival of Demeter, vii. 50 sqq., 60, 108
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Profligacy at rites designed to promote the fertility of trees and plants, ii. 97, 104;
of human sexes supposed to quicken the earth, v. 48;
at Holi festival in India, xi. 2
Progress, the magician's, i. 214 sqq.;
intellectual, dependent on economic progress, i. 218;
industrial and political, i. 421
Prohibited degrees of kinship, the system of, perhaps based historically on superstition, ii. 117
Promathion's History of Italy, ii. 196, 197
Prometheus, his theft of fire, ii. 260
Propertius, on the Vestals, i. 18 n. 5;
on the throwing of stones at a grave, ix. 19 sq.
Property, rules as to the inheritance of, under mother-kin, vi. 203 n. 1;
landed, combined with mother-kin tends to increase the social importance of women, vi. 209
Prophecy, Hebrew, distinctive character of, v. 75;
spirit of, acquired by eating certain food, viii. 143;
the Norse Sibyl's, x. 102 sq.
Prophet regarded as madman, v. 77.
See also Prophets
Prophetess of Apollo at Patara, ii. 135
Prophetesses inspired by dead chiefs, vi. 192 sq.;
inspired by gods, vi. 207
Prophetic inspiration through the spirits of dead kings and chiefs, iv. 200 sq., vi. 171, 172, 192 sq.;
under the influence of music, v. 52 sq., 54 sq., 74
—— marks on body, v. 74
—— powers conferred by certain springs, ii. 172
—— water drunk on St. John's Eve, v. 247
Prophets in relation to kedeshim, v. 76;
or mediums inspired by the ghosts of dead kings, iv. 200 sq., vi. 171, 172
—— Hebrew, their ethical religion, i. 223;
on the burnt sacrifice of children, iv. 169 n. 3;
their resemblance to those of Africa, v. 74 sq.
—— of Israel, their religious and moral reform, v. 24 sq.
Propitiation essential to religion, i. 222;
of the souls of the slain, iii. 166;
of spirits of slain animals, iii. 190, 204 sq.;
of ancestors, iii. 197, v. 46;
of the spirits of plants before partaking of the fruits, viii. 82 sq.;
of wild animals by hunters, viii. 204 sqq.;
of vermin by farmers, viii. 274 sqq.;
of ancestral spirits, ix. 86;
of demons, ix. 93, 94, 96, 100
Proserpine River in Queensland, the aborigines of the, their dread of women's cut hair, iii. 282;
the Kia Blacks of the, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 39
Prosopis spicigera, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 248, 249, 250 n.
Prostitution before marriage, practice of, ii. 282, 285, 287
——, sacred, before marriage, in Western Asia, v. 36 sqq.;
suggested origin of, v. 39 sqq.;
practised for the sake of the crops, v. 39 n. 3;
in Western Asia, alternative theory of, v. 57 sqq.;
in India, v. 61 sqq.;
in Africa, v. 65 sqq.
—— of unmarried girls in the Pelew Islands, vi. 264 sq.;
in Yap, one of the Caroline Islands, vi. 265 sq.
Prothero, G. W., as to a May-pole, ii. 71 n. 1;
on the passage of sick women through a church window, xi. 190 n. 3
Provence, priests thought to possess the power of averting storms in, i. 232;
rain-making by means of images of saints in, i. 307;
May-trees in, ii. 69;
Mayos on May Day in, ii. 80;
mock execution of Caramantran on Ash Wednesday in, iv. 227;
bathing at Midsummer in, v. 248;
Midsummer fires in, x. 193 sq.;
the Yule log in, x. 249 sqq.
Prpats, boy employed in rain-making ceremony in Dalmatia, i. 274
Prporushe, young men employed in a rain-making ceremony in Dalmatia, i. 274
Prunus padus, L., branches of, used to avert evil influences, ii. 344
Prussia, contagious magic of clothes in, i. 206 sq.;
customs at driving the herds out to pasture for the first time in, ii. 340 sq.;
wolves not to be called by their proper name during December in, iii. 396;
harvest customs in, v. 238, vii. 136, 137, 139, 150 sq., 209, 219, 280, 281 sq., 289, 292;
divination at Midsummer in, v. 252 sq.;
women's race at close of rye-harvest in, vii. 76 sq.;
the Corn-goat in, vii. 281 sq.;
the Bull at reaping in, vii. 292;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268;
custom before first ploughing in spring in, x. 18;
Midsummer fires in, x. 176 sq.;
mullein gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 63 sq.;
witches' Sabbath in, xi. 74.
See also Prussians
——, Eastern, the Kurs of, their custom at sowing, i. 137;
dances of girls on Shrove Tuesday in, i. 138 sq.;
“to chase out the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 280;
herbs gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 48 sq.;
divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 53, 61;
belief as to mistletoe growing on a thorn in, xi. 291 n. 3
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Prussia, West, pretence of birth of child on harvest-field in, vii. 150 sq., 209;
sticks or stones piled on graves of suicides in, ix. 17
Prussian rulers, formerly burnt, ix. 391
Prussians, the heathen, sacrificed to Pergrubius on St. George's Day, ii. 347
——, the old, their worship of trees, ii. 43;
their funeral feasts, iii. 238;
supreme ruler of, iv. 41 sq.;
their prayers and offerings for the flax crop, iv. 156;
their custom at sowing, vii. 288;
their offerings of first-fruits, viii. 133;
their worship of serpents, xi. 43 n. 3
Pruyssenaere, E. de, on the privations of the Dinka in the dry season, iv. 30 n. 1;
on the reverence of the Dinka for their cattle, viii. 38 sq.
Prytaneum at Athens, ii. 137, vii. 32;
perpetual fire in the, ii. 260
Psalmist (cvi. 35-38) on Hebrew idolatry, iv. 168 sq.
Psammetichus I., king of Egypt, dedicates his daughter to Ammon, ii. 134
Pshaws of the Caucasus, their rain-charm, i. 282;
taboos observed by an annual official among the, iii. 292 sq.
Pskov, Government of, holy oak on the borders of, ii. 371 sq.
Psoloeis, the, at Orchomenus, iv. 163, 164
Psylli, a Snake clan, make war on the south wind, i. 331;
expose their infants to snakes, viii. 174 sq.
Ptarmigans and ducks, dramatic contest of the, among the Esquimaux, iv. 259
Pterelaus and his golden hair, xi. 103
Pteria, captured by Croesus, v. 128
Ptolemy Auletes, king of Egypt, offered by Cato the priesthood of Aphrodite at Paphos, v. 43
Ptolemy and Berenice, annual festival in honour of, vi. 35 n. 2
Ptolemy I. and Serapis, vi. 119 n.
—— II., king of Egypt, iv. 15
—— III. Euergetes, his attempt to correct the vague Egyptian year by intercalation, vi. 27
—— V. on the Rosetta Stone, vi. 152 n.
Ptolemy Soter, v. 264 n. 4
Puberty, girls' hair torn out at, iii. 282;
ceremonial pollution of girl at, viii. 268;
girls secluded at, x. 22 sqq.;
fast and dream at, xi. 222 n. 5;
pretence of killing the novice and bringing him to life again during initiatory rites at, xi. 225 sqq.
Public expulsion of evils, ix. 109 sqq.
—— magic, i. 215
Public scapegoats, ix. 170 sqq.
Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 54;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 312;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 n., 231
Puhru, “assembly,” ix. 361
Puithiam, sorcerer, among the Lushais, ix. 94
Pul, an astrologer, vii. 125 sq.
Pulayars of Travancore, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 69
Pulling each other's hair, a Lithuanian sacrificial custom, viii. 50 sq.
Pulque, Mexican wine made from aloes, iii. 249, 250 n. 1;
continence at brewing, iii. 201 sq.
Pulse cultivated in Bengal, vii. 123
Pulverbatch, in Shropshire, the Yule log at, x. 257;
belief in the bloom of the oak on Midsummer Eve at, xi. 292
Pumi-yathon, king of Citium and Idalium, v. 50
Pumpkin, external soul in a, xi. 105
Puna Indians add stones to cairns in the Andes, ix. 9
Punchkin and the parrot, story of, xi. 97 sq., 215, 220
Punjaub, rain-making in the, i. 278;
General Nicholson worshipped in his lifetime in the, i. 404;
human sacrifices to cedar-tree in the, ii. 17;
no grass or green thing to be cut in the, till after the festival of the ripening grain, ii. 49 n. 3;
wells resorted to by barren women for the sake of offspring in the, ii. 160;
belief as to tattooing in the, iii. 30;
belief as to the shadow of a pregnant woman in the, iii. 83;
belief among the Hindoos of the, as to length of residence in heaven, iv. 67;
belief as to a man's star in the, iv. 68;
belief in the reincarnation of infants in the, v. 94;
children at birth placed in winnowing-fans in the, vii. 7;
the Mother-cotton in the, vii. 178;
customs as to the first-fruits of sugar and cotton in the, viii. 119;
worship of snakes in the, viii. 316 sq.;
the Snake tribe in the, viii. 316, 317;
human scapegoats in the, ix. 196;
supernatural power ascribed to the first-born in the, x. 295;
passing unlucky children through narrow openings in the, xi. 190
Puplem, general council, among the Indians of San Juan Capistrano, vii. 125
Puppet made of branches representing the tree-spirit, ducked in water, ii. 75, 76;
substituted for human victim, v. 219 sq.;
made out of last sheaf, vii. [pg 424] 137, 138, 231;
at threshing, vii. 148, 149;
at harvest, vii. 150;
representing the corn-spirit, vii. 224
Puppet-shows as a rain-charm, i. 301 n.
Puppets or dolls employed for the restoration of souls to their bodies, iii. 53 sqq., 62 sqq.;
of rushes thrown into the Tiber, viii. 107;
used to attract demons of sickness from living patients, ix. 187.
See also Dolls, Effigies, Images
Puppies, red-haired, sacrificed by the Romans to the Dog-star, vii. 261, viii. 34
Puppy, blind, stomachic complaint transferred to a, ix. 50
Pur in the sense of “lot,” ix. 361
Purest person cuts the last corn, vii. 158
Purgation, ceremonial, before partaking of new fruits, viii. 72 n. 2, 73, 75 sq., 76, 83, 90.
See also Purification
Purgatory, popular beliefs as to souls in, iv. 66, 67
Purge as mode of ceremonial purification, iii. 175
Purification by passing between the pieces of a sacrificial victim, i. 289 n. 4;
by pig's blood, ii. 107, 108, 109, v. 299 n. 2, ix. 262;
of hunting dogs and hunters, ii. 125;
by fire, ii. 327, 329, v. 115 n. 1, 179 sqq., x. 296, xi. 16 sqq.;
of city, iii. 188;
of hunters and fishers, iii. 190 sq.;
of moral guilt by physical agencies, iii. 217 sq.;
by cutting the hair, iii. 283 sqq.;
by swinging, iv. 282 sq.;
things used in, how disposed of, vii. 9;
after contact with a pig, viii. 24;
by washing, ceremonies of, viii. 27 sq.;
before partaking of new fruits, viii. 59, 60, 63, 69 sq., 71, 73, 75 sq., 82, 83, 135;
by emetics, viii. 73, 75 sq., 83 sq.;
for slaughter of a serpent, viii. 219 sq.;
by leaping through fire, viii. 249;
before eating the first salmon, viii. 253;
by bathing or washing, ix. 3 sq.;
by means of stone-throwing, ix. 23 sqq.;
religious, intended to keep off demons, ix. 104 sq.;
of mourners intended to protect them from the spirits of the dead, ix. 105 n. 1;
by standing on sacrificed human victim, ix. 218;
by beating, ix. 262, x. 61, 64 sqq.;
by stinging with ants, x. 61 sqq.;
after a death, xi. 178;
by passing under a yoke, xi. 193 sqq.
See also Purificatory and Expiation
——, ancient Greek, ritual of, iii. 312;
by laurel and pig's blood, ix. 262
—— of Apollo at Tempe, iv. 81, vi. 240 sq.
——, Chinese ceremonies of, in spring and autumn, ix. 213 n. 1
——, Feast of the (Candlemas), ix. 332
—— festival among the Cherokee Indians, ix. 128
——, the Great, a Japanese ceremony, ix. 213 n. 1
—— of manslayers, i. 26, iii. 165 sqq., viii. 148 sq., ix. 262;
intended to rid them of the ghosts of the slain, iii. 186 sq.
—— of the matricide, Orestes, i. 26, ix. 262
—— of Pimas after slaying Apaches, iii. 182 sqq.
Purificatory ceremonies at reception of strangers, iii. 102 sqq.;
on return from a journey, iii. 111 sqq.;
after a battle, vi. 251 sq.
—— rites, for sexual crimes, ii. 107 sqq., 115, 116;
designed to raise a barrier against evil spirits, ii. 128
—— theory of the fires of the fire-festivals, x. 329 sq., 341, xi. 16 sqq.;
more probable than the solar theory, x. 346
Purim, in relation to Zakmuk, ix. 359 sqq.;
the Jewish festival of, ix. 360 sqq.;
in relation to the Sacaea, ix. 362 sqq.;
custom of burning effigies of Haman at, ix. 392 sqq.;
compared to the Carnival, ix. 394;
its relation to Persia, ix. 401 sqq.
Purity, ceremonial, observed by incense-gatherers in ancient Arabia, ii. 106 sq.;
observed in war, iii. 157.
See also Chastity and Continence
Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) gathered at Midsummer, xi. 65
Purra or poro, secret society in Sierra Leone, xi. 260 sq.
Puruha, a province of Quito, sacrifice of first-born children among the Indians of, iv. 185
Pururavas and Urvasi, ancient Indian story of, ii. 250, iv. 131
Purushu, great primordial giant, in the Rig Veda, ix. 410
Pûs, an Indian month, ix. 230
Putanges, canton of, in Normandy, pretence of tying up landowner in last sheaf at, vii. 226
Puttenham, George, on the Midsummer giants, xi. 36 sq.
Puwe-wai, god of the rice-fields, in Poso, ii. 104
Puy-de-Dôme, saying as to binder and reaper in, vii. 292
Puyallup Indians, taboo on the names of the dead among the, iii. 365
Pyanepsia, an Attic festival, vii. 52
Pyanepsion, Attic month (October), vi. 41, vii. 52;
the season of the autumn sowing, vii. 45 sq., 116
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Pygmalion, king of Citium and Idalium in Cyprus, v. 50
——, king of Cyprus, father-in-law of Cinyras, v. 41, 49;
his love for an image of Aphrodite, v. 49 sq.
——, king of Tyre, v. 50
Pygmies of Central Africa said not to know how to kindle fire, ii. 255;
their continence before hunting, iii. 197;
burn their cut hair, iii. 282
Pylos, burning the Carnival at, iv. 232 sq.
Pymaton of Citium, v. 50 n. 2
Pyramid of King Pepi the First, ii. 4 n. 1
Pyramid Texts, vi. 4 sqq., 9 n.;
intended to ensure the life of dead Egyptian kings, vi. 4 sq.;
Osiris and the sycamore in the, vi. 110;
the mention of Khenti-Amenti in the, vi. 198 n. 2
Pyramids at Sakkara, inscriptions on the, vi. 4;
Egyptian texts of the, ix. 340, 341 n. 1
Pyramus, river in Cilicia, v. 165, 167, 173
Pyre at festivals of Hercules, v. 116;
at Tarsus, v. 126;
of dead kings at Jerusalem, v. 177 sq.;
traditionary death of Asiatic kings and heroes on a, ix. 387, 388, 389 sqq.
—— or Torch, name of great festival at the Syrian Hierapolis, v. 146, ix. 392
Pyrenees, prehistoric cave-paintings in the, i. 87 n. 1;
tree burned on Midsummer Eve in the, ii. 141;
Midsummer fires in the French, x. 193
Pyrites, iron, fire made by means of, ii. 258
Pythagoras, his maxim about footprints, i. 211;
his maxim as to bodily impressions on bed-clothes, i. 213;
superstitious nature of the maxims attributed to, i. 213 sq., iii. 314 n. 2;
his epitaph on the tomb of Apollo at Delphi, iv. 4;
his reincarnations, viii. 263, 300;
his doctrine of transmigration, viii. 300, 301;
his saying as to swallows, ix. 35 n. 3
Pythaists at Athens, their observation of lightning and their sacrifices at Delphi, i. 33
Pythian games at Delphi, iv. 80 sq.;
originally identical with the Festival of Crowning, iv. 80, vi. 242 n. 1;
crown of oak leaves at first the prize in the, iv. 80;
celebrated in honour of the dragon or Python, iv. 80, 93;
originally celebrated every eight years, iv. 80, vii. 80, 84;
their period, vi. 242 n. 1
Python at Delphi, the Pythian games celebrated in his honour, iv. 93
——, sacred, associated with the fertility of the earth, ii. 150;
punishment for killing a, iii. 222;
worshipped by the Baganda, v. 86.
See also Pythons
Python clan, a python expected to visit every newborn child of the, viii. 174
—— -god, human wives of the, v. 66
Pythons, dead kings turn into, iv. 84;
worshipped in West Africa, v. 83 n. 1;
dead chiefs reincarnated in, vi. 193
Qua, near Old Calabar, sacred palm-tree at, ii. 51
Quack, the, a Whitsuntide Mummer, ii. 81
Quadrennial period of Greek games, vii. 77 sqq.
Quail, omens as to price of corn from cry of, vii. 295;
corn-spirit as, vii. 295, 296
“Quail-hunt,” legend on coins of Tarsus, v. 126 n. 2
Quails sacrificed to Hercules (Melcarth), v. 111 sq.;
migration of, v. 112
Quarrelling at home forbidden in absence of husband, i. 120, 130
Quarter-ill, a disease of cattle, need-fire used as a remedy for, x. 296
Quartz used at circumcision instead of iron, iii. 227
Quartz crystals, magic of, i. 176. sq.;
used in rain-making, i. 254, 255, 304
—— stones, white, in rain-making, i. 346
Quatuordecimans of Phrygia celebrate the Crucifixion on March 25th, v. 307 n.
Quatzow, village of Mecklenburg, taboo on names of animals at, iii. 397
Quauhtitlan, city in Mexico, women sacrificed to the fire-god in, ix. 301
Quedlinburg, in the Harz Mountains, need-fire at, x. 276
Queen, name given to the last sheaf, vii. 146;
name given to the last corn cut at harvest, vii. 153
——, the Harvest, in England, vii. 146 sq., 152
—— of Athens married to Dionysus, ii. 136 sq., vii. 30 sq.
—— of the Bean on Twelfth Night, ix. 313, 315
—— of the Corn-ears, drawn in procession at the end of harvest, vii. 146
—— of Egypt the wife of Ammon, ii. 131 sqq., v. 72
—— of Heaven, great Oriental goddess, v. 303 n. 5;
incense burnt in honour of the, v. 228;
the wife of the Sky-god, xi. 303
—— of May, representative of the spirit of vegetation, ii. 79, 84;
in France, ii. 87;
in England, ii. 87 sq.;
in the Isle of Man, iv. 259;
married to the King of May, iv. 266
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—— of the Roses at Grammont, x. 195
—— of Summer on St. Peter's Day in Brabant, x. 195
—— of Winter in the Isle of Man, iv. 258
Queen Charlotte Islands, the Haida Indians of, i. 70, 133, 168, iii. 72 n. 1, vii. 20, x. 44;
their propitiation of slain animals, viii. 226.
See Haida Indians
—— Charlotte Sound, mourning customs among the Indians of, iii. 143 sq.
Queen sister in Uganda, licence accorded to the, ii. 275 sq.
Queen's County, Midsummer fires in, x. 203;
divination at Hallowe'en in, x. 242
Queens, licence accorded to, in Central Africa, ii. 277
Queensland, beliefs as to the afterbirth in, i. 183 sq.;
rain-making in, i. 254 sq.;
the Turrbal tribe of, iii. 156 n. 1, iv. 60;
namesakes of the dead change their names in some tribes of, iii. 355 sq.;
the Gudangs of, iii. 359;
Maryborough in, iii. 424;
the Yerrunthally tribe of, iv. 64;
exposure of first-born children among some tribes of, iv. 180;
cannibalism in, viii. 151;
sorcery in, x. 14;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 37 sqq.;
dread of women at menstruation in, x. 78;
use of bull-roarers in, xi. 233
——, aborigines of, custom of knocking out teeth among the, i. 99;
their belief as to scratching and rain, iii. 159 n.;
their superstition as to personal names, iii. 320;
their beliefs as to the birth of children, v. 102 sq.;
their belief as to the bones of dugong, viii. 258 n. 2
——, Central, expulsion of a demon among the tribes of, ix. 172
——, natives of, their superstitions as to falling stars, iv. 60;
their mode of ascertaining the fate of an absent friend, xi. 159 sq.
Quellendorff in Anhalt, custom at sowing at, i. 139
Quercus aegilops, its acorns eaten in Greece, ii. 356
—— ballota, its acorns eaten in Greece, ii. 356
—— ilex, the evergreen oak, its acorns eaten in Spain, ii. 356
—— robur, the British oak, its diffusion in Europe, ii. 355
Querquetulani, Men of the Oak, a tribe of the Latin League, ii. 188
Quetzalcoatl, a Mexican god, ix. 281, 300;
personated by a priest, viii. 90;
man sacrificed in the character of, ix. 281 sq.
Quiches of Central America, their offerings of first-fruits, viii. 134
Quicken-tree, an English name for the rowan or mountain-ash, ix. 267 n. 1
“Quickening” heifers with a branch of rowan, ix. 266 sq.
Quilacare, in South India, suicide of the kings of, iv. 46 sq.
Quimba, a secret society on the Lower Congo, xi 256 n.
Quimper, Midsummer fires at, x. 184
Quinoa-mother, among the Indians of Peru, vii. 172
Quirinal hill, temple of Quirinus on the, ii. 182, 185;
villa of Atticus on the, ii. 182 n. 1
Quirinus, Romulus worshipped after death under the name of, ii. 182, 193 n. 1;
sanctuary of, on the Quirinal at Rome, ii. 185;
Patrician and Plebeian myrtle-trees in the sanctuary of, xi. 168
—— and Hora, vi. 233
Quiteve, title of the king of Sofala, revered as a god by his people, i. 392, iv. 37 sq.
Quito, the kings of, vii. 236
Quivering of the body in a rain-charm, i. 260, 261
Quixos Indians, their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 285;
cause themselves to be whipped with nettles before a hunting expedition, ix. 263
Quonde in Nigeria, custom of king-killing at, iv. 35
Quop district of Borneo, ceremony at securing the soul of the rice in the, vii. 188
Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, i. 418, 419, vi. 6, 8, 12, viii. 30, ix. 341;
how Isis discovered his name, iii. 387 sqq.;
identified with many originally independent local deities, vi. 122 sqq.
Rabbah, in Ammon, captured by King David, iii. 273, v. 19
Rabbis, burnings for dead Jewish, v. 178 sq.
Rabbit used in stopping rain, i. 295
Rabbit-kangaroo in homoeopathic magic, i. 154
Rabbits in homoeopathic magic, i. 155
Race, charm to secure victory in, i. 150;
to May-tree to determine the Whitsuntide king, ii. 84;
succession to kingdom determined by a, ii. 299 sqq.;
for a bride, ii. 300 sqq.;
for the kingdom at Olympia, iv. 90;
to sheaf on harvest-field, vii. 137;
of reapers to last sheaf, vii. 291.
See also Races
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Races at Whitsuntide, ii. 69, 84;
on horseback to the May-pole to determine the Whitsuntide King, ii. 89;
to determine the successor to the kingship, iv. 103 sqq.;
at harvest, vii. 76 sq.;
in connexion with agriculture, vii. 98;
to ensure good crops, ix. 249;
at fire-festivals, x. 111;
to Easter bonfire, x. 122;
at Easter fires, x. 144;
with torches at Midsummer, x. 175.
See also Chariot-races, Foot-races, Horse-races and Torch-races
Racoons, prayers for rain to skulls of, i. 288
Radica, a festival at the end of the Carnival at Frosinone, iv. 222
Radigis, king of the Varini, marries his stepmother, ii. 283
Radium, atomic disintegration of, viii. 305;
bearing of its discovery on the probable duration of the sun, xi. 307 n. 2
Radloff, W., on a Mongolian way of stopping rain, i. 305 sq.
Radnorshire, the tug-of-war at Presteign in, ix. 182
Radolfzell, in Baden, the Rye-sow or Wheat-sow near, vii. 298
Rafts, evils expelled on, ix. 199, 200 sq.
Rag well in the Aran Islands, ii. 161
Ragnit, in East Prussia, sacred oak near, ii. 371
——, in Lithuania, the Old Woman in the last standing corn at, vii. 223
Rags hung on trees, ii. 16, 32, 42
Ragusa, in Sicily, effigy of dragon carried on St. George's Day at, ii. 164 n. 1
Rahab or Leviathan, a dragon of the sea, iv. 106 n. 2
Rahu, a tribal god in India, xi. 5
Raiatea, deified king of, i. 387 sq.
Rain, extraction of teeth in connexion with, i. 98 sq.;
the magical control of, i. 247 sqq.;
made by homoeopathic or imitative magic, i. 247 sqq.;
charms to prevent or stop rain, i. 249, 252, 252 sq., 262, 263, 270 sqq., 290, 295 sqq., 305 sq.;
prayers for, i. 285, 286, 287, 288, 346, ii. 46, iv. 20, x. 133;
kings expected to give, i. 348, 350, 351 sq., 353, 355, 356, 392 sq., 396;
supposed to fall only as a result of magic, i. 353;
sacrifices for, ii. 44;
excessive, supposed to be an effect of sexual crime, ii. 108, 111, 113;
Zeus as the god of, ii. 359 sq.;
prevented by the blood of a woman who has miscarried in child-bed, iii. 153;
caused by cut or combed out hair, iii. 271, 272;
word for, not to be mentioned, iii. 413;
procured by bones of the dead, v. 22;
excessive, ascribed to wrath of God, v. 22 sq.;
instrumental in rebirth of dead infants, v. 95;
regarded as the tears of gods, vi. 33;
thought to be controlled by the souls of dead chiefs, vi. 188, viii. 109;
prayer for, at Eleusis, vii. 69;
charms to produce, ix. 175 sq., 178 sq.;
or drought, games of ball played to produce, ix. 179 sq.;
dances to obtain, ix. 236 sq., 238;
festival to produce, ix. 277;
divinities of the, ix. 381;
Midsummer bonfires supposed to stop, x. 188, 336;
bull-roarers used as magical instruments to make, xi. 230 sqq.
See also Rain-charm
Rain, Mother of the, in rain-making ceremony among the Arabs of Moab, i. 276
Rain-bird, i. 287
—— -bride in Armenia, i. 276
“—— -bush,” ii. 46
—— -charm, by throwing water on leaf clad mummers, i. 272 sqq., iv. 211;
by ploughing, i. 282 sq.;
by pouring water, iii. 154 sq.;
in rites of Adonis, v. 237;
by throwing water on the last corn cut, v. 237 sq., vii. 134, 146, 170 n. 1, 268;
by pouring water on flesh of human victims, vii. 250, 252.
See also Rain-making
—— clan of the Dinka, iv. 30, 31
—— -clouds, smoke made in imitation of, x. 133.
See also Clouds
—— Country, the, in Central Australia, i. 259
—— -doctor among the Toradjas of Celebes, his procedure and the taboos which he observes, i. 271 sq.
—— -dragon banished in time of drought, i. 298
—— -drops from eaves in magic, i. 253
—— -god, as dragon, i. 297, 298;
of the Ewe negroes, iv. 61, American Indian, represented with tears running from his eyes, vi. 33 n. 3
—— gods compelled to give rain by threats and violence, i. 296 sqq.;
appeal to the pity of the, i. 302 sq.;
of Mexico, ix. 283
—— King, leaf-clad mummer sprinkled with water at Poona, i. 275;
on the Upper Nile, killed in time of drought, ii. 2
—— -maker among the Arunta, costume of the, i. 260;
assimilates himself to water, i. 269 sqq.
—— -makers, their importance in savage communities, i. 247;
in Africa, their rise to political power, i. 342 sqq., 352;
on the Upper Nile, i. 345 sqq., ii. 2;
unsuccessful, punished or killed, i. 345, [pg 428] 352 sqq.;
killed in time of drought, ii. 2, 3;
their hair unshorn, iii. 259 sq.;
among the Dinka not allowed to die a natural death, iv. 32, 33;
(mythical), x. 133
Rain-making by imitative magic, i. 247 sqq.;
by means of human blood, i. 256 sqq., iii. 244;
by wetting flower-clad or leaf-clad mummers, i. 272 sqq.;
by bathing and sprinkling of water, i. 277 sq.;
by ploughing, i. 282 sq.;
by means of the dead, i. 284 sqq.;
by means of animals, i. 287 sqq.;
by means of stones, i. 304 sqq.;
ceremonies of the Shilluks, iv. 20
—— song, sung by women, ii. 46
“—— -stick,” in Queensland, i. 254
—— -stones, for procuring rain, i. 254, 305, 345, 346
—— -temple, in Angoniland, i. 250
—— totem in the Kaitish tribe, ceremony performed by the headman of the totem to procure rain, i. 258 sq.
—— -water in Morocco, magical virtues ascribed to, x. 17 sq.
Rainbow, a net for souls, iii. 79
—— in rain-charm, picture of, i. 258;
imitation of, i. 288
—— totem in the Nullakun tribe of Northern Australia, v. 101
Rainless summer on the Mediterranean, v. 159 sq.;
in Greece, vii. 69
Rains, autumnal, in Greece, vii. 52
Rainy season, general clearance of evils at the beginning or end of the, ix. 224;
expulsion of demons at the beginning of the, ix. 225
Raipoor, the ancient Mandavie, iv. 132 n. 1
Raipur, in India, ix. 44
Rajah of Bilaspur, custom after the death of a, iv. 154, ix. 44 sq.
—— of Manipur, his sins transferred to a criminal, ix. 39
—— of Tanjore, his sins after death transferred to twelve Brahmans, ix. 44
—— of Travancore, his sins at death transferred to a Brahman, ix. 42 sq.
——, temporary, after death of rajah, iv. 154
Rajahs among the Malays, supernatural powers attributed to, i. 361;
two, in Timor, the civil rajah and the fetish or taboo rajah, iii. 24
Rajamahall, in India, persons who have died of dropsy thrown into river among hill tribes near, i. 79;
sacrifices of first-fruits among hill tribes near, viii. 117 sq.;
ceremony at killing tiger among hill tribes near, viii. 217
Rajaraja, king, dancing-girls in his temple at Tanjore, v. 61
Rajbansis of Bengal, their rain-making ceremony, i. 284 n.
Rajputana, gardens of Adonis in, v. 241 sq.
Rakelimalaza, a Malagasy god, taboos observed at his sanctuary, viii. 46
Raking a rick in the devil's name, x. 243;
the ashes, a mode of divination at Hallowe'en, x. 243
Raleigh, Sir Walter, his colonists on Roanoke Island, iii. 357
Ralì, the fair of, in the Kanagra district of India, iv. 265
Ralston, W. R. S., on the Russian house-spirit Domovoy, ii. 233 n. 1;
on sacred fire of Perkunas, xi. 91 n. 3
Ram with golden fleece, iv. 162;
as vicarious sacrifice for human victim, iv. 165, 177;
sacrificed to Ammon, viii. 41;
Tibetan goddess riding on a, viii. 96;
killing the sacred, viii. 172 sqq.;
consecration of a white, viii. 313.
See also Rams
——, black, in rain-making, iii. 154;
sacrificed to Pelops, iv. 92, 104, viii. 85
Ram-god of Mendes, iv. 7 n. 3
Ram's skull in charm to avert demons, viii. 96
Rama, his wife Sita, ii. 26;
his battle with the King of Ceylon, xi. 102
Ramadan, the fast of, vii. 316
Ramanga, men who eat up the nail-parings and lick up the spilt blood of nobles among the Betsileo, iii. 246
Rambree, sorcerers dressed as women in the island of, vi. 254
Rameses II., king of Egypt, his treaty with the Hittites, v. 135 sq.;
his order to the Nile, vi. 33
Ramin, in Stettin, harvest custom at, vii. 230
Ramirez manuscript on Mexican religion, ix. 283 n. 1
Ramman, Babylonian and Assyrian god of thunder, v. 163 sq.
Rampart, old, of Burghead, x. 267 sq.
Rams, testicles of, in the rites of Attis, v. 269
Rams' horns attached to pillars, viii. 117
Ramsay, John, of Ochtertyre, on Bridget's bed on the night before Candlemas, ii. 94 n. 3;
on the Highland custom of beating a man in a cow's hide on the last day of the year, viii. 322 sq.;
on Beltane fires, x. 146 sqq.;
on Midsummer fires, x. 206;
on Hallowe'en fires, x. 230 sq.;
on burying cattle alive, x. 325 sq.
Ramsay, Sir William M., on the worship of unmarried goddesses in Western Asia, i. 36 n. 2;
on Hittite hieroglyphs, i. 87 n. 1;
on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 134 n. 1, 137 n. 4;
on [pg 429] priest-dynasts of Asia Minor, v. 140 n. 2;
on the god Tark, v. 147 n. 3;
on the name Olba, v. 148 n. 1;
on Hierapolis and Hieropolis, v. 168 n. 2;
on Attis and Men, v. 284 n. 5;
on cruel death of the human representative of a god in Phrygia, v. 285 sq.;
on the early spread of Christianity in Pontus, ix. 421 n. 1
Ranchi, district of Chota Nagpur, annual expulsion of disease in, ix. 139
Rangoon, scruples with regard to the human head at, iii. 253;
Chins at, ix. 123
Rao of Kachh, the, his sacrifice of a buffalo, i. 385 n. 1
Raoul-Rochette, D., on Asiatic deities with lions, v. 138 n.;
on the burning of doves to Adonis, v. 147 n. 1;
on apotheosis by death in the fire, v. 180 n. 1
Rape of Persephone, vii. 66
Rapegyrne, old Scottish name for the harvest Maiden, vii. 155 n. 2
Raratonga, in the Pacific, custom as to children's cast teeth in, i. 179;
custom of succession in, iv. 191
Rarhi Brahmans of Bengal, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 68
Rarian plain at Eleusis, vii. 36, 234, viii. 15;
corn first sown by Triptolemus in the, vii. 70, 74;
expiation for the defilement of the, vii. 74;
the Sacred Ploughing on the, vii. 108
Raskolnik, Russian Dissenter, i. 285
Raskolniks, their hatred of mirrors, iii. 96
Raspberries, wild, ceremony at gathering the first, viii. 80 sq.
Rat, the “god rat,” an idol to which sacrifices are offered when rats infest the fields, viii. 283;
transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299;
external soul of medicine-man in, xi. 199.
See also Rats
Rat's hair as a charm, i. 151
Rathcroghan, in Roscommon, site of the palace of the kings of Connaught, iii. 12 n. 1
Rats asked to give new teeth, i. 179;
superstitious precautions of farmers against, viii. 277, 278, 283;
ravages committed by, viii. 282 n. 8
See also Rat
—— and mice, in magic concerned with teeth, i. 178 sqq.
Rattan, creeping through a split, to escape a malignant spirit, xi. 183
Rattle, wooden, swung by twins to make fair or foul weather, i. 263;
of deer-hoofs used by shaman, iii. 58;
shaken before human victim, ix. 286;
used at a festival in East Africa, x. 28
Rattles in myth and ritual of Dionysus, vii. 13, 15;
to accompany dance, vii. 205;
to frighten or keep out ghosts, ix. 154 n., x. 52
Rattlesnake dance to secure immunity from snake-bites, i. 358
Rattlesnakes, attempt to deceive the spirits of, iii. 399;
respected by the North American Indians, viii. 217 sqq.
Ratumaimbulu, Fijian god of fruit-trees, v. 90
Ratzeburg, harvest custom near, vii. 229
Rauchfiess, a Whitsuntide mummer, in Silesia, carted out of village and thrown into water, iv. 207 n. 1
Raven, prophetic vision ascribed to the, i. 197;
used in wind-charm, i. 320;
soul as a, iii. 34;
transformation into a, iii. 324;
the great black (Corvus umbrinus), respected by Sudanese negroes, viii. 221
Raven clan among the Niska Indians, xi. 271
—— legends among the Esquimaux, ix. 380
Raven's eggs in homoeopathic magic, i. 154
Ravensberg, in Westphalia, the Fox in the corn at, vii. 296
Raw flesh, Flamen Dialis forbidden to touch or name, iii. 13, 239;
Brahman teacher not to look on, iii. 239;
relations of slain man not to touch, iii. 240
Ray, S. H., on the names for fire-sticks in the Torres Straits Islands, ii. 209 n. 3
Ray-fish, cure for wound inflicted by a, i. 98 n. 1
Raymi, a festival of the summer solstice, among the Incas of Peru, x. 132
Readjustment of Egyptian festivals, vi. 91 sqq.
Reaper of the last sheaf, called the Wolf, vii. 273;
called Goat, Corn-goat, Oats-goat, or Rye-goat, vii. 283;
called the Cow, Barley-cow, or Oats-cow, vii. 289
Reapers, special language or words employed by, iii. 410 sq., 411 sq., vii. 193;
contests between, vii. 136, 140, 141, 142, 144, 152, 153 sqq., 164 sq., 219, 253;
throw their sickles at the last standing corn, vii. 136, 142, 144, 153, 154 sq., 155 n. 1, 267, 268, 279, 296;
blindfolded, vii. 144, 153 sq.;
pretend to mow down visitors to harvest-field, vii. 229 sq.;
of rice use a special form of speech in order to deceive the rice-spirit, vii. 184;
cries of, vii. 263 sqq.;
their remedies for pains in the back, vii. 285;
race of, to last corn, vii. 291;
throw sickles blindfold at last sheaf, xi. 279 n. 4
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——, Egyptian, their lamentations, v. 232, vi. 45, vii. 261, 263;
invoke Isis, vi. 117
Reaping, tug-of-war at, ii. 100;
Indonesian mode of, vii. 181 sq., 184;
contests in, vii. 218 sqq.;
pains in back at, vii. 285;
girdle of rye a preventive of weariness in, x. 190
Reaping-match of Lityerses, vii. 217
Reaping rice, homoeopathic magic at, i. 139 sq.
Reasoning, definite, at the base of savage custom, iii. 420 n. 1
Reay, in Sutherland, the need-fire at, x. 294 sq.
Rebirth from a golden cow, ceremony of, iii. 113;
of ancestors in their descendants, iii. 368 sq.;
of a father in his son, iv. 188 sqq.;
of the parent in the child, iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression);
of infants, means taken to ensure the, v. 91, 93 sqq.;
of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 155 sq.
See also Birth
—— of the dead, according to Pindar, iv. 70, vii. 84;
precautions taken to prevent, v. 92 sq.
See also Reincarnation
Recall of the soul, iii. 30 sqq.
Reckoning intervals of time, Greek and Latin modes of, iv. 59 n. 1
Red, bodies of manslayers painted, iii. 175, 179;
faces of manslayers painted, iii. 185, 186 n. 1;
the colour of Lower Egypt, vi. 21 n. 1;
girl's face painted red at puberty, x. 49 sq., 54;
women at menstruation painted, x. 78
—— and black, faces of bear-hunters painted, viii. 226;
effigy of snake painted, viii. 316
—— and white, manslayers painted, iii. 186 n. 1;
leopard-hunters painted, viii. 230;
girls at puberty painted, x. 35, 38, 39, 40;
women at menstruation painted, x. 78
—— and yellow paint on human victim to represent colours of maize, vii. 261, ix. 285
Red Altar, the, on Snowdon, i. 307
—— colour in magic, i. 79, 81, 83
—— earth or paint smeared on girls at puberty, x. 30, 31
—— feathers of parrot worn as a protection against a ghost, iii. 186 n. 1
—— -haired men sacrificed by ancient Egyptians, vi. 97, 106, vii. 260, 261, 263, viii. 34
—— -haired puppies sacrificed by the Romans, vii. 261, viii. 34
—— horse sacrificed as a purification of the land by the Battas, ix. 213
—— -hot iron chain, passing persons possessed by evil spirits through a, xi. 186
Red Island, Torres Straits, seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 39 sq.
—— Karens of Burma, their festival in April, ii. 69 sq.
—— ochre round a woman's mouth, mark of menstruation, x. 77
—— oxen sacrificed by ancient Egyptians, viii. 34
—— sealing-wax a cure for St. Anthony's fire, i. 81
—— thread in popular cure, ix. 55
—— wool in magic, iii. 307
—— woollen threads, a charm against witchcraft, ii. 336
Reddening the faces of gods, custom of, ii. 175 sq.
Reddis or Kapus in the Madras Presidency, their women procure rain bymeans of frogs, i. 294
Redemption of firstling men and asses among the Hebrews, iv. 173;
from the fire in Lent, x. 110
Reed, W. A., on the religion of the Negritos, ix. 82;
on a superstition as to a parasitic plant in the Philippines, xi. 282 n. 1
Reed, split, used in Roman cure for dislocation, xi. 177
Reef, plain of, in Tiree, witch as black sheep on the, x. 316
Reef Islands, avoidance of relations by marriage in, iii. 344;
ceremony at eating the new fruits in the, viii. 52 sq.
Reflection, the soul identified with the, iii. 92 sqq.
Reflections in water or mirrors, supposed dangers of, iii. 93 sq.
Reform, the prophetic, in Israel, v. 24 sq.
Reformations of Hezekiah and Josiah, v. 25
Refuse of food burnt by magician to cause disease, i. 341;
magic wrought by means of, iii. 126 sqq.
Regaby, in the Isle of Man, November 1st as New Year's Day at, x. 224
Regalia propitiated with prayer and sacrifice, i. 363;
carried to battle, i. 363;
smeared with blood, i. 363;
treated as fetishes, i. 363;
employed as instruments of divination, i. 365;
regarded as a palladium, i. 365;
sanctity of, in Celebes, iv. 202
—— of Malay kings regarded as powerful talismans, i. 362 sqq.;
supernatural powers of, i. 398
Regeneration from a golden cow, ceremony of, iii. 113
Regia, the king's palace at Rome, ii. 201, 228
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Regicide among the Slavs, iv. 52;
modified custom of, iv. 148
Regifugium at Rome, ii. 290, iv. 213;
perhaps a relic of a contest for the kingdom, ii. 308 sqq.
Regillus, appearance of Castor and Pollux at the battle of Lake, i. 50
Regina nemorum, an epithet of Diana, i. 40 n. 3
Regnitz, the River, puppets representing Death thrown into, iv. 234
Rehoboam, King, his family, v. 51 n. 2
Reichenbach, in Silesia, the last sheaf called the Old Man at, vii. 138
Reinach, Salomon, on Hippolytus, i. 27 n. 6;
on prehistoric cave-paintings, i. 87 n. 1;
on Greek custom of carrying infants round the hearth, ii. 232 n. 2;
on virgin priestesses among the Celts, ii. 241 n. 1;
on the death of the Great Pan, iv. 7 n. 2;
on the benefits of a thrashing, ix. 264 n. 2;
on Jesus Barabbas, ix. 420 n. 1
Reincarnation, belief of the aboriginal Australians in, i. 96, 99 sq., v. 99 sqq.;
the initiatory rites of the Australians perhaps intended to ensure, i. 101, 106;
certain funeral rites perhaps intended to ensure, i. 101 sqq.;
of ancestors in their descendants, iii. 368 sqq.;
of human souls, belief in, a motive for infanticide, iv. 188 sq.;
of animals, viii. 247, 249, 250
—— of the dead, iii. 365 sqq., v. 82 sqq.;
in newly born infants, i. 103 sqq.;
in America, iii. 365 sqq., v. 91;
in Australia, v. 99 sqq.
See also Rebirth
Reindeer, blood of, smeared on fire-boards, ii. 225;
protected by sacred fire-boards, ii. 225;
taboos concerning, iii. 208;
propitiation of the spirit who controls the, viii. 245 sq.;
dogs not allowed to gnaw the leg-bones of, viii. 246;
sacrificed to the dead, xi. 178
Reinegg, J., on a sacrament of the Abchases, viii. 312 n. 1
Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, O. Frh. von, on the Yule log, x. 249
Reipus, payment made on the remarriage of a widow in Salic law, ii. 286 n. 1
Reiskius, Joh., on the need-fire, x. 271 sq.
Rekub-el, Syrian god, v. 16
Relations, names of, tabooed, iii. 335 sqq.;
of the dead take new names for fear of the ghost, iii. 356 sqq.;
spirits of near dead, worshipped, v. 175, 176;
at death become gods, vi. 180
Relationship, terms of, used as terms of address, iii. 324 sq.;
classificatory system of, xi. 234 n. 1, 314 n. 4
Release of prisoners at festivals, iii. 316
Relics of dead princes preserved as regalia, i. 363;
of tree-worship in modern Europe, ii. 59 sqq.;
corporeal, of dead kings confer right to throne, iv. 202
Relief, archaic Greek, at Nemi, i. 11 n. 1
Religion defined, i. 222;
two elements of, a theoretical and a practical, i. 222 sq.;
opposed in principle to science, i. 224;
transition from magic to, i. 237 sqq., ii. 376 sq.;
combined with magic, i. 347;
passage of animism into, iii. 213;
volcanic, v. 188 sqq.;
how influenced by mother-kin, vi. 202 sqq.;
influenced by agriculture, vii. 93, 108;
movement of thought from magic through religion to science, xi. 304 sq.
——, the Age of, iv. 2
—— and magic, i. 220-243, 250, 285, 286, 347, ii. 376 sq.;
Hegel on, i. 423 sqq.;
combination of, v. 4
—— and music, v. 53 sq.
Religions, the great historical, less permanent than the belief in magic and witch-craft, in ghosts and goblins, ix. 89 sq.
Religious associations among the Indians of North America, xi. 266 sqq.
—— dramas sometimes originate in magical rites, ii. 142 sq.
—— ideals a product of the male imagination, vi. 211
—— systems, great permanent, founded by great men, vi. 159 sq.
Reluctance to accept sovereignty on account of taboos attached to it, iii. 17 sqq.
Remedies, magical, not allowed to touch the ground, x. 14
Remission of sins through the shedding of blood, v. 299
Remnants of food buried as a precaution against sorcery, iii. 118, 119, 127 sq., 129
Remon branch of the Ijebu tribe, chief of the, formerly killed after a rule of three years, iv. 112 sq.
Remulus, ii. 180.
See Romulus
Remus and Romulus, the birth of, vi. 235.
See Romulus
Renan, Ernest, on the danger underlying civilization, i. 236 n. 1;
on Tammuz and Adonis, v. 6 n. 1;
his excavations at Byblus, v. 14 n. 1;
on Adommelech, v. 17;
on the vale of the Adonis, v. 29 n.;
on the burnings for the kings of Judah, v. 178 n. 1;
on the discoloration of the river Adonis, v. 225 n. 4;
on the worship of Adonis, v. 235;
on custom of sticking pins into a saint's statue, ix. 70
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Renewal, annual, of king's power at Babylon, iv. 113, 115, ix. 356, 358
—— of fire, annual, in China, x. 137.
See also Fire
Rengen, in the Eifel Mountains, Midsummer flowers at, xi. 48
Renouf, Sir P. le Page, on the divinity of Egyptian kings, i. 418; on Osiris as the sun, vi. 126
Representative of tree-spirit clad in leaves and blossoms, ii. 75, 76, 79 sqq.
Reproductive powers, beating people to stimulate their, ix. 272
Reptile clan of the Omaha Indians, their belief as to the effect of touching a snake, viii. 29
Repulsion and attraction, forces of, viii. 303 sqq.
Resemblance of children to their parents, how explained by savages, i. 104;
of child to father, supposed danger of, iii. 88 sq., iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression);
of the rites of Adonis to the festival of Easter, v. 254 sqq., 306
Resemblances of paganism to Christianity explained as diabolic counterfeits, v. 302, 309 sq.
Reshef, Semitic god, v. 16 n. 1
Resoliss, parish of, in Ross-shire, burnt sacrifice of a pig in, x. 301 sq.
Rest for three days, compulsory, among the Esquimaux after the capture of a ground seal, walrus, or whale, viii. 246
Resurrection, cut hair and nails kept for use at the, iii. 279 sq.;
of the god, iv. 212, vii. 1, 12, 14, 15, ix. 400;
of the tree-spirit, iv. 212;
of a god in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, iv. 221;
enacted in Shrovetide or Lenten ceremonies, iv. 233;
of the gods, viii. 16;
of animals, viii. 200 sq., 256 sqq.;
of fish, viii. 250, 254;
bones of men preserved for the, viii. 259;
in popular tales, viii. 263 sq.;
the divine, in Mexican ritual, ix. 288, 296, 302;
of Semitic gods, ix. 398;
of Eabani, ix. 399;
ritual of death and resurrection at initiation, xi. 225 sqq.
—— of Attis at the vernal equinox, v. 272 sq., 307 sq.
—— of the Carnival, iv. 252
—— of the dead effected by giving their names to living persons, iii. 365 sqq.;
conceived on the pattern of the resurrection of Osiris, vi. 15 sq.
—— of the effigy of Death, iv. 247 sqq.
—— of Hercules (Melcarth), v. 111 sq.
—— of Kostrubonko at Eastertide, iv. 261
—— of Osiris dramatically represented in his rites, vi. 85;
depicted on the monuments, vi. 89 sq.;
date of its celebration at Rome, vi. 95 n. 1;
symbolized by the setting up of the ded pillar, vi. 109
Resurrection of Tylon, v. 186 sq.
—— of the Wild Man, iv. 252
Retaliation in Southern India, law of, iv. 141 sq.
Retoroños, the, of Bolivia, ate the powdered bones of their dead, viii. 157
Reuzes, wicker giants in Brabant and Flanders, xi. 35
Revelry at Purim, ix. 363 sq.
Revels, Master of the, at the English court, ix. 333 sq.
Revenge, suicide as a mode of, iv. 141
Revin, Midsummer fires at, x. 188
Revolution, social, from democracy to despotism, i. 371
Revolve from left to right, small fir-trees made to, on Midsummer Day, ii. 66
Revolving image, viii. 322 n.
Rex Nemorensis, the King of the Wood at Nemi, i. 11
Rhamnus catharticus, buckthorn, used as a protection against witches, ix. 153 n. 1
Rhea and Cronus, iv. 194, ix. 351
Rhegium in Italy, founded in consequence of a vow to Apollo, iv. 187 n. 5
Rhenish Prussia, Lenten fires in, x. 115
Rhetra, religious capital of the Western Slavs, inspired priest at, i. 383
Rheumatism in homoeopathic magic, i. 155;
ascribed to magic, i. 207 sq., 213;
popular remedy for, by means of pepper, iii. 106;
popular remedy for, by means of bees, iii. 106 n. 2;
crawling under a bramble as a cure for, xi. 180
Rhine, dramatic contest between Winter and Summer on the middle, iv. 254;
bathing in the, on St. John's Eve, v. 248
——, the Lower, need-fire on, x. 278;
St. John's wort on Midsummer Day on, xi. 54
Rhinoceros' horn and hide, shavings of, swallowed by warriors to make them strong, viii. 143
Rhinoceros hunters not allowed to wash, i. 115
Rhinoceroses, souls of the dead transmigrate into, iv. 85
Rhins, J. L. Dutreuil de, on ceremony of beating an effigy of an ox in spring at Kashgar, viii. 13
Rhodes, Lindus in, i. 281;
the Telchines of, i. 310;
rolling on the grass on St. George's morning in, ii. 333;
human sacrifices to Baal in, iv. 195;
described by Strabo, v. 195 n. 3;
worship of Helen in, v. 292
Rhodesia, the Winamwanga of, viii. 112, [pg 433] xi. 297;
the Yombe of, viii. 112;
the Wemba of, viii. 158;
the Awemba of, viii. 272 sq.
Rhodesia, Northern, the Bantu tribes of, their worship of ancestral spirits, vi. 174 sqq.;
their worship of dead chiefs or kings, vi. 191 sqq.
Rhodians worship the sun, i. 315;
dedicate chariot and horses to the sun, i. 315, 316, viii. 45;
the Venetians of antiquity, v. 195;
their annual sacrifice of a man to Cronus, ix. 353 sq., 397
Rhodomyrtus tomentosus, used to kindle fire by friction, xi. 8
Rhön Mountains, Lenten custom in the, x. 117
Rhyndacos, the river, boundary of Bithynia, ix. 421 n. 1
Rhys, Professor Sir John, on Coligny calendar, i. 17 n. 2, ix. 343 n.;
on the relation of Irish Druidism to Christianity, ii. 363;
as to The Book of Rights, iii. 12 n. 2;
on personal names, iii. 319;
on Lammas, iv. 101;
on custom of sticking pins in a saint's statue, ix. 70 sq.;
on Beltane fires, x. 157;
on driving cattle through fires, x. 159;
on old New Year's Day in the Isle of Man, x. 224;
on Hallowe'en bonfires in Wales, x. 239 sq.;
on burnt sacrifices in the Isle of Man, x. 305 sqq.;
on alleged Welsh name for mistletoe, xi. 286 n. 3
Riabba, in Fernando Po, residence of the native king, iii. 8
Ribald jests at the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 38
—— songs in rain-charm, i. 267
Ribble, Hallowe'en cakes on the banks of the, x. 245
Ribhus, Vedic genii of the seasons, ix. 325
Ribwort gathered at Midsummer, xi. 49
Ricci, S. de, on the Coligny calendar, ix. 343 n.
Rice, homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 136;
homoeopathic magic at reaping, i. 139 sq.;
charm to make rice grow, i. 140;
homoeopathic magic at planting, i. 143;
in bloom treated like pregnant woman, ii. 28 sq., vii. 183 sq.;
chastity at sowing, ii. 106;
used to attract the soul conceived as a bird, iii. 34 sqq., 45 sqq.;
strewn on bridegroom's head, iii. 35;
used to attract wandering souls, iii. 62;
used in exorcism, iii. 106;
in water, divination by, iii. 368;
special language employed at harvest in order not to frighten the spirit of the, iii. 412;
Dyak story as to the first planting of, iv. 127 sq.;
cultivated in Assam, vii. 123;
cultivated in New Guinea, vii. 123;
the first rice cut, ceremony at bringing home, vii. 185 sq.;
spirituous liquor distilled from, vii. 242;
spirits that cause the growth of, thought to be in goat form, vii. 288;
“eating the soul of the rice,” viii. 54;
the first, sowed and reaped by priest, viii. 54;
the new, ceremonies at eating the, viii. 54 sqq.
Rice (paddy), Father and Mother of the, among the Szis of Burma, vii. 203 sq.
——, Rajah or King of the, in Mandeling (Sumatra), vii. 197
——, soul of, vii. 180 sqq.;
not to be frightened, iii. 412;
in the first sheaf cut, vi. 239;
as bird, vii. 182 n. 1;
caught or detained, vii. 184 sqq.;
recalled, vii. 189 sq.;
in a blue bird, vii. 295
Rice barn, homoeopathic magic at building a, i. 140
—— -bride and -bridegroom, marriage of, at rice-harvest in Java, vii. 199 sq.
—— -cakes, sacrificial, as substitutes for human beings, viii. 89;
mystically transformed into bodies of men by manipulation of priest, viii. 89
—— -child at harvest in the Malay Peninsula, vii. 197 sqq.
—— -ears, the young, fed like children, ii. 29
—— -fields, sacred, among the Kayans, vii. 93, 108
—— -goddess in Lombok, vii. 202
—— -harvest, special language employed by reapers at, iii. 410 sq., 411 sq.;
marriage ceremony in Java at, vii. 199 sq.;
ceremony of the Horse at, viii. 337 sqq.;
carnival at the, ix. 226 n. 1
—— -mother in the East Indies, vii. 180 sqq.;
A. C. Kruyt on the, vii. 183 n. 1;
among the Minangkabauers of Sumatra, vii. 191 sqq.;
in the Malay Peninsula, vii. 197 sqq.
—— -sieve, infant at birth placed in, vii. 8
—— -spirit conceived as husband and wife, vii. 201 sqq.
Richalm, Abbot, his fear of devils, ix. 105 sq.
Richard Cœur-de-Lion at Rouen, ii. 164, 165
Richter, O., on the valley of Egeria, i. 18 n. 4
Rickard, R. H., on the seclusion of girls at puberty in New Ireland, x. 34
Rickets, children passed through cleft ash-trees as a cure for, xi. 168;
children passed through cleft oaks as a cure for, xi. 170;
children passed through a holed stone as a cure for, xi. 187
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Rickety children passed through a natural wooden ring, xi. 184
Riddles in rain-making ceremony, iii. 154;
asked while the people watch the crops in the fields, vii. 194;
asked at certain seasons or on certain occasions, ix. 121 n. 3
“Ride of the Beardless One,” a Persian New Year ceremony, ix. 402 sq.
Ridgeway, Professor William, as to Homeric kings, i. 366 n. 3;
on a Whitsuntide custom, ii. 103 n. 3;
on the magical virtue of iron, iii. 230 n. 7;
on the marriage of brothers and sisters, vi. 216 n. 1;
on the Thracian Carnival ceremonies, vii. 29 n. 2;
on the marriage of Zeus and Demeter at Eleusis, vii. 65;
on Dionysus Bassareus, viii. 282 n. 5;
on Lycaean Zeus, ix. 353 n. 4;
on the origin of Greek tragedy, ix. 384 n. 2
Ridley, Rev. W., on the annual expulsion of ghosts in Australia, ix. 23 sq.
Riedel, J. G. F., on the belief in the spirits of the dead in Timor, ix. 85;
on the Kakian association in Ceram, xi. 249
Rif, province of Morocco, Midsummer fires in, x. 214 n., 215;
bathing at Midsummer in, x. 216
Rig Veda, hymn about frogs in the, i. 294;
hymns of the, in honour of Parjanya, ii. 368 sq.;
on the slaying of Vṛtra by Indra, iv. 106 sq.;
the sun called “the golden swing in the sky” in the, iv. 279;
story of creation in the, ix. 410;
how Indra cured Apala in the, xi. 193
Riga, Midsummer festival at, x. 177
Right foot foremost, iii. 189, vii. 203
—— hand, luckiness of the, x. 151 n.
—— -hand turn (deiseal, dessil) in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 150 n. 1, 154
—— shoe of bridegroom to be untied, iii. 300 n. 2
Ring, golden, worn as a charm, i. 137;
broken, iii. 13;
on ankle as badge of office, iii. 15;
competition for, at harvest supper, vii. 160;
suspended in Purim bonfire, ix. 393;
divination by a, x. 237;
crawling through a, as a cure or preventive of disease, xi. 184 sqq.;
worn by initiates as token of the new birth, xi. 257.
See also Rings
Ringhorn, Balder's ship, x. 102
Ringing church bells on Midsummer Eve, custom as to, xi. 47 sq.
See also Bells
“—— out the grass,” ii. 344
Rings used to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 31;
as spiritual fetters, iii. 313 sq.;
as amulets, iii. 235, 314 sqq., x. 92;
not to be worn, iii. 314;
not to be worn in the sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura, viii. 46;
head-ache transferred to, ix. 2;
mourners creep through, xi. 178, 179.
See also Ring
Rings and knots tabooed, iii. 293 sqq.
Rio de Janeiro, ordeal of girls at puberty among the Indians about, x. 59
—— Enivra, the Tauaré Indians of, viii. 157
—— Grande in Brazil, the Carayahis, Indian tribe on the, iii. 348
—— Negro in Brazil, ashes of the dead drunk by Indians of the, viii. 157;
ordeals of young men among the Indians of the, x. 63
Risley, Sir Herbert H., on Indian fire-walk, xi. 5 n. 3
Rites of irrigation in Egypt, vi. 33 sqq.;
of sowing, vi. 40 sqq.;
of harvest, vi. 45 sqq.
—— of Plough Monday, viii. 325 sqq.
Ritual, children of living parents in, vi. 236 sqq.;
of the Bechuanas at founding a new town, vi. 249;
primitive, marks of, vii. 169;
magical or propitiatory, vii. 169, 170;
myths dramatized in, x. 105;
of death and resurrection at initiation, xi. 225 sqq.
—— of Adonis, v. 223 sqq.
—— of Attis, v. 263 sqq.
—— of Dionysus, vii. 14 sq.
Ritual dance in honour of Demeter and Persephone, viii. 339
—— murder, accusations of, brought against the Jews, ix. 394 sqq.
River of Good Fortune, in West Africa, ix. 28
Rivers, Dr. W. H. R., on the confusion of magic and religion among the Todas, i. 230 n.;
on the sacred milkmen of the Todas, i. 403 n. 1, vi. 228;
on the differentiation of medicine-men from sorcerers among the Todas, i. 421 n. 1;
on restrictions imposed on holy dairymen among the Todas, iii. 17;
as to Melanesian theory of conception in women, v. 97 sq.;
on tamaniu, xi. 199 n. 1
Rivers, hair offered to, i. 31;
girls sacrificed in marriage to, i. 151 sq.;
horses sacrificed to, ii. 16 sq.;
as lovers of women in Greek mythology, ii. 161 sq.;
prohibition to cross, iii. 9 sq.;
hair dedicated to, iii. 261, 261 n. 5;
as the seat of worship of deities, v. 160;
bathing in, at Midsummer, v. 246, 248, 249, xi. 30;
gods worshipped beside, v. 289;
used to sweep away evils, ix. 3 sq., 5;
offerings and prayers to, ix. 27 sq.;
menstruous women not allowed to cross or bathe [pg 435] in, x. 77, 97;
claim human victims at Midsummer, xi. 26 sqq.
Rivos, harvest-god of Celts in Gaul, i. 17
Rivros, a Celtic month, i. 17 n. 2, ix. 343
Rizano, in Dalmatia, the Yule log at, x. 263
Rizpah and her sons, v. 22
“Road of Jerusalem,” iv. 76
Roasted food prescribed for man-slayers, iii. 169
Robber caste in South India, the law of retaliation among a, iv. 141 sq.
Robbers, charm used by, vii. 235
Robertson, Sir George Scott, on the dances of Kafir women in the Hindoo Koosh, i. 133 sq.;
on ceremonial purity among the Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh, iii. 14 notes
Robertson, Rev. James, on the Beltane fires in the parish of Callander, x. 150 sqq.
Robigo or Robigus, mildew, worshipped by the Romans, viii. 282 n. 7
Robinson, C. H., on human life bound up with that of an animal, xi. 209
Robinson, Edward, on the vale of the Adonis, v. 29 n.
Robinson, Captain W. C., on human victims among the Khonds, iv. 139 n. 1
Roccacaramanico, in the Abruzzi, Easter ceremonies at, v. 256 n. 2
Rochholz, C. L., on need-fire, x. 270 n.
Rock-crystal in charm to prevent rain, i. 290;
used to stop rain, i. 305
—— -crystals in rain-charms, i. 346
—— -hewn sculptures at Ibreez, v. 121 sq.;
at Boghaz-Keui, v. 129 sqq.
Rockhill, W. W., on the custom of swinging in Corea, iv. 284 sq.;
on dance of eunuchs in Corea, v. 270 n. 2;
on the annual expulsion of the devil at Lhasa, ix. 221 n. 1
Rocks in rain-making, i. 306, 309;
sick people passed through holes in, xi. 186 sq., 189 sq.
Rodents, souls of dead in, viii. 291
Rods, iron, in magic, i. 346 sq.
Roepstorff, F. A. de, on the Nicobar custom of not mentioning the names of the dead, iii. 362 sq.
Roeskilde, in Zealand, the last sheaf called the Rye-beggar near, vii. 231
Rogations, ancient Mexican festival compared to, ix. 277;
Monday of, ii. 166
Rohde, Erwin, on purification by blood, v. 299 n. 2;
on Hyacinth, v. 315;
on an argument for immortality, vii. 91 n. 2;
on the Anthesteria, ix. 153 n. 1
Röhrenbach, in Baden, the Corn-sow or Oats-sow at making up the last sheaf at, vii. 298
Roko Tui, the Sacred King of Fiji, iii. 21
Rolling on the fields as a fertility charm, ii. 103;
at harvest, ii. 104
—— cakes on the ground for omens on St. George's Day, ii. 338;
on May Day, x. 153
—— down a slope on May Day, ii. 103
—— Easter eggs down hill, ix. 269
Rollo, how he learned the speech of animals, viii. 146
Röllshausen, in Hesse, the Little Whitsuntide Man at, ii. 81
Romagna, belief as to falling stars in the, iv. 66;
Befana (Epiphany) in the Tuscan, ix. 167
Roman calendar, vii. 83 sq.
—— celebration of the Nonae Caprotinae, ii. 313 sq., ix. 258
—— custom of keeping a perpetual fire in every house, ii. 260;
of presenting women with key as symbol of easy delivery, iii. 296;
of sacrificing human beings at the grave, iv. 143
—— deities called “Father” and “Mother,” vi. 233 sqq.;
of the corn, vii. 210 n. 3
—— emperor, funeral pyre of, v. 126 sq.
—— emperors, fire carried before, ii. 264
—— financial oppression, v. 301 n. 2
—— Forum, temple of Vesta in the, i. 13.
See also Forum
—— funerals, personation of the illustrious dead at, ii. 178
—— game of Troy, iv. 76 sq.
—— genius symbolized by a serpent, v. 86
—— gods, their names not to be mentioned, iii. 391 n. 1;
the marriage of the, vi. 230 sqq.;
compared to Greek gods, vi. 235
—— husbandman, his prayers to Mars, ix. 229
—— king and queen as representatives of Jupiter and Juno in a Sacred Marriage, ii. 192
—— kings as deities in a Sacred Marriage, ii. 172 sq., 192, 193 sq., 318 sq.;
as personifications of Jupiter, ii. 174 sqq., 266 sq.;
as public rain-makers, ii. 183;
list of, ii. 269 sq.;
rule of succession among, ii. 270 sq.;
plebeians, not patricians, ii. 289;
how nominated, ii. 295 sq.;
as personifications of Saturn, ii. 311, 322;
their mysterious or violent ends, ii. 312 sqq.;
their obscure birth, ii. 312 sq.
—— kingship, descent of, in the female line, ii. 270 sq.;
abolition of the, ii. 289 sqq.;
a religious office, ii. 289
—— law, revival of, v. 301;
as to knocking a nail into a wall on 13th September, ix. 66
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Roman maxim about cutting hair and nails at sea, iii. 271
—— mode of execution, iv. 144
—— mythology, fragments of, vi. 235
—— personal names derived from cattle, ii. 324 n. 1
—— priests shaved with bronze, iii. 226
—— religion, rule as to knots in, iii. 294
—— rule as to wine offered in libations, iii. 249 n. 2
—— Saturnalia, ix. 306 sqq.
—— soldiers, celebration of the Saturnalia by, ix. 308 sq.
—— writers on curses at sowing, i. 281
—— women washed their heads on Diana's day, iii. 253
—— year, the old, began in March, ix. 229
Romans, sacrificed pregnant victims to ensure fertility, i. 141;
their punishment of parricide, ii. 110 n. 2;
their fire-customs compared to those of the Herero, ii. 227 sqq.;
their superstition as to egg-shells, iii. 129;
the soul to be in the blood, iii. 241;
vows of the, iii. 262 n. 2;
their evocation of gods of besieged cities, iii. 391;
their funeral customs, iv. 92, 96;
their indifference to death, iv. 143 sq.;
their custom of vowing a “Sacred Spring,” iv. 186 sq.;
their custom of catching the souls of the dying, iv. 200;
adopt the worship of the Phrygian Mother of the Gods, v. 265;
correct the vague Egyptian year by intercalation, vi. 27 sq.;
their expiation for prodigies, vi. 244;
their marriage custom, vi. 245;
their sacrifice of red-haired puppies to avert blighting influence of Dog-star, vii. 261, viii. 34;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 318;
sacrificed the first-fruits of corn and wine to Ceres and Liber, viii. 133;
their worship of mildew, viii. 282;
their cure for fever, ix. 47;
their cure for epilepsy, ix. 68;
their festival in honour of ghosts, ix. 154 sq.;
their seasons of sowing, ix. 232;
their mode of reckoning a day, ix. 326 n. 2;
their belief as to menstruous women, x. 98 n. 1;
their cure for dislocation, xi. 177;
deemed sacred the places which were struck by lightning, xi. 299
——, the ancient, their ceremonies for procuring rain, i. 309, 310;
their belief as to the wasting effect of incest, ii. 115;
their superstitious objection to clasped hands and crossed legs, iii. 298;
their religion, full of relics of savagery, ix. 234.
See also Rome
Romanus Lecapenus, emperor, how he took the life of Simeon, prince of Bulgaria, xi. 156
Rome, the Porta Capena at, i. 18;
temple of Concordia at, i. 21 n. 2;
the Sacrificial King at, i. 44, 46, ii. 1;
rain-making ceremony at, i. 310, ii. 183; sacred trees in, ii. 10;
the kings of, ii. 171 sqq.;
founded by settlers from Alba Longa, ii. 178;
Capitoline hill at, ii. 184, 189;
Capitoline Jupiter at, ii. 187;
“fig-town,” ii. 218;
founded by shepherds and herdsmen, ii. 324;
founded at the Parilia, April 21st, ii. 325, 326;
name of guardian deity of Rome kept secret, iii. 391;
funeral games at, iv. 96;
Regifugium at, iv. 213;
custom observed by boys at Mid-Lent in, iv. 241;
masks hung on trees at time of sowing at, iv. 283;
Phrygian Mother of the Gods brought to, v. 265;
temple of Victory at, v. 265;
high-priest of Cybele at, v. 285;
resurrection of Osiris celebrated at, vi. 95 n. 1;
sacrifice of she-goat to Vedijovis at, vii. 33;
annual sacrifice of October horse at, viii. 42 sqq.;
the festival of the Compitalia at, viii. 94, 107;
the Mother or Grandmother of Ghosts at, vii. 94, 96, 107;
the Sublician bridge at, viii. 107;
vintage inaugurated by Flamen Dialis at, viii. 133;
Piazza Navona at, ix. 166 sq.;
colleges of the Salii at, ix. 232;
the Saturnalia at, ix. 307 sq.;
the sacred fire of Vesta at, ii. 207, x. 138, xi. 91;
myrtle-trees of the Patricians and Plebeians at, xi. 168;
oak of the Vespasian family at, xi. 168;
the Sister's Beam at, xi. 194;
the Porta Triumphalis at, xi. 195
——, ancient, oak woods on the site of, ii. 184 sqq.;
the knocking of nails in, ix. 64 sqq.;
human scapegoats in, ix. 229 sqq.;
Midsummer Day in, x. 178
Romove, Romow, or Romowe, its sacred oak and perpetual fire of oak-wood, ii. 366 n. 2, xi. 91, 286
Romsdal, Norway, the Old Hay-man at haymaking in the, vii. 223
Romulus, fig-tree of, ii. 10, 318;
Capitoline temple of Jupiter built by, ii. 176;
death of, ii. 181 sq., 313;
worshipped after death as Quirinus, ii. 182, 193 n. 1;
married to Hersilia, ii. 193 n. 1;
legend of his birth from the fire, ii. 196, vi. 235;
hut of, ii. 200;
son of a Vestal virgin, ii. 228;
his children, ii. 270 n. 3;
the name thought by some to mean “fig-man,” ii. 318;
celebrates the Parilia, ii. 329;
cut in pieces, vi. 98;
birth of, vi. 235;
his disappearance at the Goat's [pg 437] Marsh on the Nonae Caprotinae, ix. 258;
said to have been cut to pieces by the patricians, ix. 258
Romulus or Remulus, king of Alba, his rivalry with Jupiter, ii. 180
—— and Remus, said to be sons of the fire, ii. 196;
their legend perhaps a reminiscence of a double kingship, ii. 290;
suckled by she-wolf under a fig-tree, ii. 318;
reputed sons of Mars by a Vestal Virgin, vi. 234 sq.
—— and Tatius, ii. 290
Rongrong village in Assam, hobby-horse at, viii. 337
Roocooyen Indians of French Guiana, their tug-of-war, ix. 181;
their custom of stinging young people with ants and wasps, ix. 263.
See Rucuyennes
Roof, children's cast teeth deposited on the, i. 178 sq., 180;
hole in, used in ritual, iii. 316;
spirits enter through the, viii. 123;
remains of slain bear let down through the, viii. 189 sq., 196;
dances on the, ix. 315;
the external soul in, xi. 156
Roofing the king's palace in Uganda, custom as to, iii. 254
Roofs of new houses, sacrifices offered on, ii. 39
Rook, island of, custom of killing all first-born children in the, iv. 180;
expulsion of devil in the, ix. 109;
initiation of young men in the, xi. 246
Roots, the first of the season, ceremonies before eating, viii. 80 sqq.
—— and seeds, wild, collected by women, vii. 124 sqq.
Rope, ceremony of sliding down a, ix. 196 sqq.
Roper River, in Australia, gum-tree full of spirit-children on the, v. 101
Ropes used to keep off demons, ix. 120, 149, 154 n.;
used to exclude ghosts, ix. 152 sq., 154 n.
Roro district of British New Guinea, women after childbirth tabooed in the, iii. 148
—— -speaking tribes of British New Guinea, seclusion of homicides among the, iii. 168;
taboos observed before a hunt among the, iii. 193
Roscher, Dr. W. H., on the Sacred Marriage, ii. 137 n. 1, 143 n. 1;
on Janus as the god of doors, ii. 383 n. 3;
on the death of the Great Pan, iv. 7 n. 2;
on Pan, viii. 2 n. 9;
on the beating of Mamurius Veturius, ix. 231 n. 3;
on the Salii, ix. 231 n. 3;
on the Roman ceremony of passing under a yoke, xi. 194 n. 2
Roscoe, Rev. John, on rite of adoption among the Bahima, i. 75;
on descent of the totem in Uganda, ii. 276 n. 2;
on the belief of the Baganda in conception caused by a wild banana-tree, ii. 318 n. 1;
on succession to the kingship among the Banyoro, ii. 322 n. 2;
on avoidance of wife's mother in Uganda, iii. 85 n. 1;
on the Baganda belief as to shadows, iii. 87 n. 5;
as to menstruation customs in Uganda, iii. 145 n. 4;
on taboos observed by Baganda fishermen, iii. 195 n. 1;
as to roofing the king's palace in Uganda, iii. 254 n. 5;
on disposal of cut hair and nails in Uganda, iii. 277 n. 10;
on change of vocabulary caused by fear of naming the dead among the Basagala, iii. 361 n. 2;
on the bearing of the human victims in Uganda, iv. 139;
on the custom of strangling first-born males in Uganda, Koki, and Bunyoro, iv. 182 n. 2;
on consultation of souls of dead kings of Uganda, iv. 201 n. 1;
on serpent-worship among the Baganda and Banyoro, v. 86 n. 1;
on the Baganda belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 92 sq.;
on potters in Uganda, vi. 135;
on the religion of the Bahima, vi. 190 sq.;
on the worship of the dead among the Baganda, vi. 196;
on Mukasa, the chief god of the Baganda, vi. 196 sq.;
on massacres for sick kings of Uganda, vi. 226;
on woman's share in agriculture among the Baganda, vii. 118;
on human sacrifices for the crops among the Wamegi, vii. 240 n. 4;
on the transference of abscesses among the Bahima, ix. 6;
on the worship of the river Nakiza, ix. 27 sq.;
on the use of scapegoats among the Baganda and Bahima, ix. 32;
on life-trees of kings of Uganda, xi. 160;
on passing through a cleft stick or a narrow opening as a cure in Uganda, xi. 181
Roscommon, Twelfth Night in, ix. 321 sq.;
divination at Hallowe'en in, x. 243
Rose, H. A., on the sacrifice of the first-born in India, iv. 181
Rose, the Little May, ii. 74
——, the Sunday of the, fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. 222 n. 1
——, the white, dyed red by the blood of Aphrodite, v. 226
Rose-bushes a protection against witches, ii. 338;
used by mourners, probably to keep off the ghost, iii. 143
—— -tree, death in a blue, xi. 110
Rosemary burnt on May Day as a protection against witches, ix. 158 sq.;
branches of, used to beat people with in the Christmas holidays, ix. 270, 271
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Rosenheim, district of Upper Bavaria, the Straw-bull at harvest in, vii. 289 sq.
Roses, the smoke of, a protection against witchcraft, ii. 339;
festival of the Crown of, x. 195;
the King and Queen of, x. 195
Rosetta stone, the inscription, vi. 27, 152 n.
Roslin, the last sheaf called the Bride at, vii. 163
Rosmapamon, in Brittany, Renan's home at, ix. 70
Ross, Isabella, on the harvest Maiden in Sutherlandshire, vii. 162 n. 3
Ross-shire, the corp chre in, i. 69;
Beltane cakes in, x. 153;
burnt sacrifice of a pig in, x. 301 sq.
Rostowski, S., on the heathen religion of the Lithuanians, ii. 366 n. 2
Rostra, the, in the Forum, ii. 178
Rotation of crops, vii. 117
Rotenburg on the Neckar, offering to the river on St. John's Day at, xi. 28;
the wicked weaver of, xi. 289 sq.
Roth, H. Ling, on Tasmanian modes of making fire, ii. 258 n. 1
Roth, W. E., on changes of names caused by fear of ghosts among the natives of Queensland, iii. 356;
on belief in conception without sexual intercourse among the natives of Queensland, v. 103 n. 2
Rotomahana in New Zealand, pink terraces at, v. 207, 209 n.
Rottenburg in Swabia, burning the Angel-man at, x. 167;
precautions against witches on Midsummer Eve at, xi. 73
Rotti, an East Indian island, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 191;
compensation to tree-spirit for felling tree in, ii. 36;
spiritual ruler in, iii. 24;
custom as to cutting child's hair in, iii. 276, 283;
custom as to knots at marriage in, iii. 301;
story of the type of Beauty and the Beast in, iv. 130 n. 1
Rottweil, the Carnival Fool at, iv. 231
Rotuma, treatment of navel-string in, i. 184
Rouen, St. Romain at, ii. 164 sqq.;
church of St. Ouen at, ii. 165;
ceremony of pardoning a prisoner on Ascension Day at, ii. 166 sqq., ix. 215 sq.
Roumania, rain-making ceremonies in, i. 273 sq.;
festival of Green George among the gipsies of, ii. 75 sq.;
the Jews of, their custom at hard labour in childbirth, iii. 298
Roumanians of Transylvania, their precautions against witches on St. George's Day, ii. 338;
their dread of noon, iii. 88;
their fear as to their shadows at building, iii. 89 sq.;
their fear of wounding ghosts, iii. 238;
pile branches' on certain graves, ix. 16;
their belief in demons, ix. 106 sq.;
their belief as to the sacredness of bread, x. 13
Round temple of Diana, i. 13;
temple of Vesta, i. 13, ii. 206;
temple of the Sun, ii. 147;
huts of the ancient Latins, ii. 200 sqq.
Rouse, Dr. W. H. D., on the blessing of the fruits in Greece on August 15th, i. 15 n. 3;
on Jack-in-the-Green, ii. 82;
on image of Demeter, vii. 208 n. 1
Rowan or mountain-ash, hoops wreathed with, carried on May Day, ii. 63;
used as a charm, ii. 331;
pastoral crook cut from a, ii. 331;
herd-boy's wand of, ii. 341;
parasitic, esteemed effective against witchcraft, xi. 281;
superstitions about a, xi. 281 sq.;
how it is to be gathered, xi. 282;
not to be touched with iron and not to fall on the ground, xi. 282
Rowan tree, a protection against witches, ii. 53, 54, ix. 267, x. 154, 327 n. 1, xi. 184 n. 4, 185;
cattle beaten with branches of, on May Day, ix. 266 sq.;
hoop of, sheep passed through a, x. 184.
See also Mountain-ash
Rowmore, Garelochhead, vii. 158 n. 1
Roxburgh in Queensland, rain-making at, i. 255
Royal blood not to be shed on the ground, iii. 241 sqq.
—— disease, jaundice called the, i. 371 n. 1
—— families, two, supplying a king alternately, in the Matse tribe of Togoland, ii. 293;
animals sacred to, iv. 82
—— family, in four branches, providing a king in turn, among the Igaras of the Niger, ii. 294;
divided into two branches, in the Langrim State of the Khasis, ii. 295
—— personages conceived as charged with spiritual electricity, i. 371
Royalty, conservative of old customs, ii. 288;
the burden of, iii. 1 sqq.
Rubens, head of giant effigy at Douay said to have been painted by, xi. 33
Rucuyennes of Brazil, ordeal of young men among the, x. 63.
See Roocooyennes
Rue, curses at sowing, i. 281;
houses fumigated with, as a protection against witches, ix. 158;
burnt in Midsummer fire, x. 213
Rue aux Ours at Paris, effigy of giant burnt in the, xi. 38
Rugaba, supreme god in Kiziba, vi. 173
Rügen, holy shrine in, ii. 241 n. 4;
the [pg 439] binder of the last sheaf called Rye-wolf, Wheat-wolf, or Oats-wolf in, vii. 274;
sick persons passed through a cleft oak in, xi. 172
Ruhla, in Thüringen, the Little Leaf Man at, ii. 80
Rukmini, wife of Krishna, ii. 26
Rukunitambua, a heathen temple in Fiji, iii. 264
Rulers expected to have power over nature, i. 353 sq.
Rules of life observed by sacred kings and priests, iii. 1 sqq.;
based on a theory of lunar influence, vi. 132 sqq., 140 sqq.
Rum, island of, and the Lachlin family, xi. 284
Rumina, a Roman goddess, unmarried, vi. 231
Runaway slaves, charms to catch, i. 152, 317, iii. 305 sq.
Runaways, knots as charm to stop, iii. 305 sq.
Runes, magic, i. 241;
how Odin learned the, v. 290
Running, contests in, at New Year festival among the Kayans, vii. 98.
See also Foot-races and Races
Rupert's Day, effigy burnt on, x. 119
Rupt in the Vosges, Lenten fires at, x. 109;
the Yule log at, x. 254
Rupture, cured by plugging a snail into a tree, ix. 52;
nailed into oaks, ix. 60;
children passed through cleft ash-trees or oaks as a cure for, xi. 168 sqq., 170 sqq.
Rurikwi, river in Mashonaland, chiefs not allowed to cross, iii. 9
Rush, the small (Juncus tenuis), in homoeopathic magic, i. 144
Rush-cutter (Binsenschneider), a mythical being supposed to mow down the crops on St. John's Day, vii. 230 n. 5
Russell, F., on purification of manslayers among the Pimas, iii. 183 sq.
Russia, thieves' candles in, i. 236;
rain-making in, i. 248;
bathing as a rain-charm in, i. 277;
rain-making by means of the dead in, i. 285;
St. George's Day in, ii. 79, 332 sqq.;
priest rolled on the fields to fertilize them in, ii. 103;
sect of the Skoptsy in, ii. 145, 145 n. 2;
belief as to the souls of ancestors in the fire on the hearth in, ii. 232 sq.;
fear of having one's likeness taken in, iii. 100;
use of knots as amulets in, iii. 306 sq.;
funeral ceremonies of Kostrubonko, etc., in, iv. 261 sqq.;
annual festivals of the dead in, vi. 75 sqq.;
harvest customs in, vii. 146, 215, 233;
the Wotyaks of, ix. 155 sq.;
the Cheremiss of, ix. 156;
Midsummer fires in, x. 176, xi. 40;
need-fire in, x. 281, xi. 91;
treatment of the effigy of Kupalo in, xi. 23;
the Letts of, xi. 50;
purple loose-strife gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 65;
fern-seed at Midsummer in, xi. 65, 66, 287 sqq.;
birth-trees in, xi. 165.
See also Russian and Russians
Russia, the Jews of South, their custom as to cast teeth, i. 178
——, South-Eastern, the Cheremiss of, ii. 44
——, White, worship of Leschiy, a woodland spirit in, ii. 125;
charm to protect corn from hail in, vii. 300
Russian celebration of Whitsuntide, ii. 64, 79 sq., 93
—— feast of Florus and Laurus, x. 220
—— girls, their mock burial of flies on the 1st of September, viii. 279 sq.
—— Midsummer custom, v. 250 sq.
—— villagers, their precautions against epidemics, ix. 172 sq.
—— wood-spirits, viii. 2
Russians, sect of the Christs among the, i. 407 sq.;
their dread of noon, iii. 88;
religious suicides among the, iv. 44 sq.;
the heathen, their sacrifice of the first-born children, iv. 183;
their custom on Palm Sunday, ix. 268;
their story of Koshchei the deathless, xi. 108 sqq.
Rust of knife in homoeopathic magic, i. 158
Rustem and Isfendiyar, x. 104 sq.
Rustic Calendars, the Roman, vi. 95 n. 1
Rustling of leaves regarded as the voice of spirits, ii. 30
Ruthenia, Midsummer bonfires in, x. 176
Ruthenian burglars, their charms to cause sleep, i. 148
Ruthenians, their treatment of the after-birth of cows, i. 198;
St. George's Day among the, ii. 335
Rutuburi, a dance of the Tarahumare Indians, ix. 237
Rye, girdles of, a preventive of weariness in reaping, x. 190
Rye-beggar, name given to last sheaf in Zealand, vii. 231
—— -boar, name given to last sheaf among the Esthonians of Oesel, vii. 298, 300
—— -bride, name given to last sheaf in the Tyrol, vii. 163
—— -dog, said to be killed at end of reaping, vii. 272
—— -goat, said to be in the corn, vii. 282;
name given to reaper of last corn, vii. 283
—— -harvest, women's race at, vii. 76 sq.
—— -mother, said to be in the rye, vii. [pg 440] 132;
name given to wreath made out of the last rye, vii. 135
Rye-pug, name given to thresher of last rye, vii. 273
—— -sow, name given to reaper or binder of last rye, vii. 270;
name given to last rye cut, vii. 298;
name given to thresher of last rye, vii. 298
—— -wolf, name given to reaper or binder of last rye, vii. 270, 273, 274;
caught in the last sheaf, vii. 271, 273;
moves in the standing rye, vii. 271;
children warned against the, vii. 272
—— -woman, the Old, said to sit in the corn, vii. 133;
reaper of last rye said to kill the, vii. 223;
the Old, said to live in the last stalks of rye and to be killed when they are cut, vii. 223
Saa, one of the Solomon Islands, offerings of first-fruits to the dead in, viii. 127;
souls of dead in sharks at, viii. 297
Saale, the river, claims a human victim on Midsummer Day, xi. 26
Saaralben in Lorraine, simples collected on Midsummer Day near, xi. 47
Saaz district of Bohemia, the Shrovetide Bear in the, viii. 326
Sabaea or Sheba, the kings of, confined to their palace, iii. 124
Sabarios, a Lithuanian festival, about the time of the autumn sowing, viii. 49
Sabatei-Sevi, a pretended Jewish Messiah, iv. 46
Sabazius, a Thracian and Phrygian god identified with Dionysus, vii. 2 n. 1;
mysteries of, v. 90 n. 4
Sabbath, breach of, supposed to cause the disappearance of herring, viii. 251
Sabbaths, agricultural, vii. 109;
of witches on the Eve of May Day and Midsummer Eve, x. 171 n. 3, 181, xi. 73, 74
Sabi, taboo, in western tribes of British New Guinea, iii. 343
Sabine country, the oak woods of the, ii. 354
—— priests to be shaved with bronze, iii. 226
Sable-hunters, rules observed by, viii. 238
Sacaea, a Babylonian festival, iv. 113 sqq.;
the mock king of, perhaps represented Tammuz, vii. 258 sq.;
in relation to Purim, ix. 359 sqq.;
celebrated by the Persians, ix. 402
—— and Zakmuk, ix. 355 sqq., 399, 402
Sacer, taboo, iii. 225 n.
Sacrament in the rites of Attis, v. 274 sq.;
in the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 161 sq.;
of swine's flesh, viii. 20, 24;
of first-fruits, viii. 48 sqq.;
combined with a sacrifice of them, viii. 86;
totemic, viii. 165;
of eating a god, viii. 167;
types of animal, viii. 310 sqq.
Sacramental bread, at Aricia (Nemi), viii. 95, xi. 286 n. 2
—— character of harvest supper, vii. 303
—— eating of corn-spirit in animal form, viii. 20
—— meal of new rice, viii. 54;
at initiation in Fiji, xi. 245 sq.
Sacraments among pastoral tribes, viii. 313
Sacred and unclean, correspondence of rules regarding the, iii. 145
Sacred beasts in Egypt, i. 29 sq.;
held responsible for the course of nature, i. 354
—— chiefs and kings regarded as dangerous, iii. 131 sqq., 138;
their analogy to mourners, homicides, and women at menstruation and childbirth, iii. 138
—— dramas, as magical rites, ix. 373 sqq.
—— feather girdle of king of Tahiti, i. 388
—— flutes played at initiation, xi. 241
—— groves, in ancient Greece and Rome, ii. 121 sqq.;
apologies for trespass on, ii. 328
—— harlots, in Asia Minor, v. 141;
at Zela, ix. 370, 371;
in the worship of Ishtar, ix. 372
—— herds of cattle at shrines, iv. 20, 25
—— kings put to death, x. 1 sq.
—— Marriage, the, ii. 120 sqq.;
of Roman kings, ii. 172 sq., 192, 193 sq., 318 sq.;
of king and queen, iv. 71;
of actors disguised as animals, iv. 71, 83;
of gods and goddesses, iv. 73;
of Zeus and Hera, iv. 91;
of priest and priestess as representing god and goddess, v. 46 sqq.;
represented in the rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 140;
in Cos, vi. 259 n. 4;
at Eleusis, vii. 65 sqq.
See also Marriage
—— men, inspired by image of Apollo, i. 386;
at Andania, ii. 122, v. 76 n. 3;
(kedeshim), at Jerusalem, v. 17 sq.;
and women, v. 57 sqq.;
in West Africa, v. 65 sqq.;
in Western Asia, v. 72 sqq.
—— persons not allowed to set foot on the ground, x. 2 sqq.;
not to see the sun, x. 18 sqq.
—— ploughings in Attica, vii. 108
—— prostitution, v. 36 sqq.;
suggested origin of, v. 39 sqq.;
in Western Asia, alternative theory of, v. 55 sqq.;
in India, v. 61 sqq.;
in West Africa, v. 65 sqq.
—— slaves, v. 73, 79, ix. 370
—— spears used to stab sacrificial victims, iv. 19, 20, v. 274, ix. 218
“—— spring, the,” among the ancient Italian peoples, iv. 186 sq.
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Sacred sticks and stones (churinga) among the Arunta, xi. 234. See Churinga
—— sticks representing ancestors, among the Herero, ii. 222 sqq.
—— stocks and stones among the Semites, v. 107 sqq.
—— stool among the Shilluk, iv. 24
—— things deemed dangerous, viii. 27 sqq.
—— Way, the, at Rome, ii. 176, viii. 42
—— women among the ancient Germans, i. 391;
the fourteen, at Athens, ii. 137, vii. 32;
in India, v. 61 sqq.;
in West Africa, v. 65 sqq.;
in Western Asia, v. 70 sqq.;
at Andania, v. 76 n. 3
Sacrifice, gods become immortal by, i. 373 n. 1;
of the king's son, iv. 160 sqq.;
of the first-born, iv. 171 sqq., 179 sqq.;
of finger-joints, iv. 219;
of virginity, v. 60;
of virility in the rites of Attis and Astarte, v. 268 sq., 270 sq.;
of virility in ancient Egypt, among the Ekoi of Nigeria, etc., v. 270 n. 2;
nutritive and vicarious types of, vii. 226;
not to be touched, viii. 27;
annual, of a sacred animal, viii. 31;
of first-fruits, viii. 109 sqq.;
human, successive mitigations of, ix. 396 sq., 408;
the Brahmanical theory of, ix. 410 sq.;
of cattle at holy oak, x. 181;
of heifer at kindling need-fire, x. 290;
of an animal to stay a cattle-plague, x. 300 sqq.;
of reindeer to the dead, xi. 178.
See also Sacrifices
Sacrificer, the Brahman, consecration of, i. 380;
becomes Vishnu, i. 380;
simulated new birth of, i. 380 sq.
Sacrifices offered to ancestors, i. 286 sq., 290 sq.;
offered to souls of ancestors, i. 339;
offered to regalia, i. 363, 365;
offered to king's crown, i. 365;
offered to king's sceptre, i. 365;
offered to king's throne, i. 365;
to trees, i. 366;
offered to kings, i. 417;
offered to a sacred sword, ii. 5;
offered to trees, ii. 15, 16 sq., 19, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48;
offered on roofs of new houses, ii. 39;
at cutting down trees, ii. 44;
for rain, ii. 44, iv. 20;
to water-spirits, ii. 155 sqq.;
to ghosts, iii. 56, 166;
to the dead, iii. 88, iv. 92, 93, 94, 95, 97;
at foundation of buildings, iii. 89 sqq.;
to ancestral spirits, iii. 104, vi. 175, 178 sq., 180, 181 sq., 183 sq., 190;
offered to souls of slain enemies, iii. 166;
for the sick, iv. 20, 25;
to totems, iv. 31;
of children among the Semites, iv. 166 sqq.;
to earthquake god, v. 201, 202;
to volcanoes, v. 218 sqq.;
to the dead distinguished from sacrifices to the gods, v. 316 n. 1;
offered at the rising of Sirius, vi. 36 n.;
offered in connexion with irrigation, vi. 38 sq.;
to dead kings, vi. 101, 162, 166 sq.;
of animals to prolong the life of kings, vi. 221;
without shedding of blood, vi. 222 n. 2;
offered to nets, viii. 240 n. 1;
offered to wolves, viii. 284;
to a toad, viii. 291.
See also Sacrifice
Sacrifices, human, offered to man-gods, i. 386, 387;
to trees, ii. 15, 17;
at laying foundations, iii. 90 sq.;
in ancient Greece, iv. 161 sqq., ix. 253 sqq., 353 sq.;
mock human, iv. 214 sqq.;
offered at earthquakes, v. 201;
offered to Dionysus, vi. 98 sq.;
at the graves of the kings of Uganda, vi. 168;
to dead kings, vi. 173;
to dead chiefs, vi. 191;
to prolong the life of kings, vi. 220 sq., 223 sqq.;
for the crops, vii. 236 sqq.;
at festivals of new yams in Ashantee, viii. 62, 63;
in Mexico, viii. 88, ix. 275 sqq.;
of men and women as scapegoats, ix. 210 sqq., 217 sq.;
their influence on cosmogonical theories, ix. 409 sqq.;
of deified men, ix. 409;
at fire-festivals, x. 106;
traces of, x. 146, 148, 150 sqq., 186, xi. 31;
offered by the ancient Germans, xi. 28 n. 1;
among the Celts of Gaul, xi. 32 sq.;
the victims perhaps witches and wizards, xi. 41 sqq.;
W. Mannhardt's theory of human sacrifices among the Celts, xi. 43
——, vicarious, iv. 117; in ancient Greece, iv. 166 n. 1
“Sacrificial fonts” in Sweden, x. 172 n. 2
—— King at Rome, i. 44, 46, ii. 2
—— victims carried round city, iii. 188;
the tongues of, cut out, viii. 270;
beating people with the skins of, ix. 265
Sada, Saza, Persian festival of fire at the winter solstice, x. 269
Sadana, rice-bridegroom in Java, vii. 200 sq.
Saddle Island, Melanesia, superstition as to reflections in water in, iii. 93 sq.
Sadyattes, son of Cadys, viceroy of Lydia, v. 183
Saffron in charm to make the wind blow, i. 320;
at the Corycian cave, v. 154, 187
Saffron Walden, in Essex, May garlands at, ii. 60
Sagaing district of Burma, tamarind-tree worshipped for rain in the, ii. 46
Sagami, in Japan, rain-making at, i. 305
Sagar in India, use of scapegoat at, ix. 190 sq.
Sagard, Gabriel, on resurrections of the dead among the Indians of Canada, iii. 366 sq.;
on preachers to fish among the Hurons, viii. 250 sq.
Sage, divination by sprigs of red, on Midsummer Eve, xi. 61 n. 4
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Saghalien, the Ainos of, i. 114, viii. 180, 188;
opening everything to facilitate childbirth in, iii. 297;
the Gilyaks of, iii. 370, viii. 190 n. 1
Sagittarius, mistletoe cut when the sun is in the sign of, xi. 82
Sago, magic for the growth of, vi. 101
Sahagun, B. de, on old Mexican view of intoxication, iii. 249 sq.;
on the ancient Mexican calendar, vi. 29 n.;
Franciscan monk, his work on the Indians of Mexico, vii. 175;
on the sacrifice of the human representative of Tezcatlipoca, ix. 276;
on the Mexican dances, ix. 280;
on the sacrifice of human victims to the fire-god in Mexico, ix. 301 n. 1;
on the treatment of witches and wizards among the Aztecs, xi. 159
Sahara, the Tuaregs of the, iii. 117, 122, 353
Saibai, island of Torres Strait, magical images to procure offspring in, i. 72;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, iii. 147, x. 40 sq.
Sail Dharaich, Sollas, in North Uist, need-fire at, x. 294
Sailors at sea, special language employed by, iii. 413 sqq.
“Saining,” a protection against spirits, ix. 168
St. Andrews, witch burned at, iii. 309
St. Angelo ill-treated in drought in Sicily, i. 300
St. Anthony's fire treated by homoeopathic magic, i. 81 sq.
St. Antony, wood of, x. 110
St. Barbara's Day (the 4th of December), custom of putting rods in pickle on, ix. 270
St. Brandon, church of, in Ireland, sick women pass through a window of the, xi. 190
St. Bride, her Day (February 1st) in the Highlands of Scotland, ii. 94;
an old goddess of fertility, ii. 95;
at Kildare, ii. 242
St. Bridget, ii. 94 sq., 242.
See St. Brigit
St. Brigit, holy fire and nuns of, at Kildare, ii. 240 sqq.
St. Catherine's Day (December 6th), festival of weasels on, viii. 275
St. Christopher, name given to Midsummer giant at Salisbury, xi. 38
St. Columb Kill, festival of, x. 241
St. Columba worshipped as an embodiment of Christ, i. 407;
on the oaks of Derry, ii. 242 sq.
St. Columba's tomb in Iona, i. 160
St. Corona, church of, at Koppenwal, holed stone in the, xi. 188 sq.
St. Dasius, martyrdom of, at Durostorum, ii. 310 n. 1, ix. 308 sqq.;
his tomb at Ancona, ii. 310 n. 1, ix. 310
Saint-Denis-des-Puits, the oak of, xi. 287 n. 1
St. Denys, his seven heads, vi. 12
Saint Donan, in Brittany, superstition as to the wren at, viii. 318
St. Eany's well in the Aran Islands, women desirous of offspring pray at, ii. 161
St. Edmund's Day in November, Lord of Misrule elected at Merton College, Oxford, on, ix. 332
St. Eloi, Bishop of Noyon, his denunciation of heathen practices, xi. 190
St. Estapin, festival of, on August the 6th, xi. 188
St. Eustorgius, church of, at Milan, ix. 331
St. Fillan's well at Comrie, resorted to by women who wish to become mothers, ii. 161
St. Flannan, chapel of, in the Flannan Islands, iii. 393
St. Francis of Paola, the giver of rain, i. 300, 301 n.
St. Gall, the Canton of, the Corn-goat at harvest in, vii. 283
St. Gens, his image used in rain-making, i. 307
St. George and the Dragon, ii. 163 sq., iv. 107;
and the Parilia, ii. 324 sqq., v. 308, 309;
patron saint of cattle, horses, and wolves, ii. 330, 332, 336, 337, 338;
chapel of, ii. 337;
represented by a living man on horseback, ii. 337;
as a spirit of trees or vegetation, ii. 343 sq.;
as giver of offspring to women, ii. 344 sqq., v. 78, 79, 90;
in relation to serpents, ii. 344, 344 n. 4;
in Syria, ii. 346, v. 78;
perhaps the modern equivalent of Tammuz or Adonis, ii. 346;
Cappadocian saint and martyr, ii. 347;
swinging on the festival of, iv. 283
St. George's Day (23rd April), fertilization of barren women by fruit-trees on, ii. 56 sq., 344;
Green George on, ii. 75, 76, 79;
ceremony to fertilize the fields on, ii. 103;
cattle crowned on, as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 126 sq., 339;
effigy of a dragon carried at Ragusaon, ii. 164 n. 1;
great popular festival of herdsmen and shepherds in Eastern Europe, ii. 330 sqq., x. 223 n. 2;
the power of witches thought to be at its greatest height on, ii. 336;
love charms on, ii. 345 sq.;
among the South Slavs, ix. 54;
bells rung on, to make the grass grow, ix. 247
—— Eve, a time when witches steal milk [pg 443] from the cows, ii. 334 sq.;
snake's tongue cut on, viii. 270;
witches active on, ix. 158
St. Gervais, spring of, used in rain-making, i. 307
St. Guirec, in Brittany, his statue stuck with pins, ix. 70
St. Hippolytus, a resuscitation of the Greek Hippolytus, i. 21
St. Hitzibouzit, a Persian martyr, ix. 412 n. 2
St. Hubert blesses bullets with which to shoot witches, x. 315 sq.
St. James, on faith and works, i. 223;
on pure religion, i. 224;
name of, bestowed by Peruvian Indians on one of twins, i. 266
St. James's Day (July the 25th), the flower of chicory cut on, xi. 71
St. Jean, in the Jura, Midsummer fire-custom at, x. 189
St. Jerome on the Celtic speech of the Galatians, ii. 126 n. 2, xi. 89 n. 2
St. Johann, in Salzburg, the Perchten at, ix. 245
St. John blesses the flowers on Midsummer Eve, x. 171;
his hair looked for in ashes of Midsummer fire, x. 182 sq., 190;
fires of, in France, x. 183, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193;
prayers to, at Midsummer, x. 210;
claims human victims on St. John's Day (Midsummer Day), xi. 27, 29;
print of his head on St. John's Eve, xi. 57;
oil of, found on oak leaves at Midsummer, xi. 83, 293
—— the Baptist, bathing on his day, i. 277;
his Midsummer festival, ii. 273;
his chapel at Athens, ix. 53;
associated by the Catholic Church with Midsummer Day, x. 160, 181
—— (the Evangelist), festival of, ix. 334
——, gossips of, in Sicily, v. 145, 251
——, the Knights of, x. 194;
Grand Master of the Order of, x. 211
——, Sweethearts of, in Sardinia, ii. 92, v. 244 sq., 251
St. John, Spenser, on reasons for head-hunting in Sarawak, v. 296
St. John's blood found on St. John's wort and other plants at Midsummer, xi. 56, 57
—— College, Oxford, the Christmas candle at, x. 255
—— Day (Midsummer Day), barren fruit-trees threatened on, ii. 22;
swinging on, iv. 157, 280;
or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), custom of bathing on, v. 246 sqq.;
the Rush-cutter supposed to mow down the crops on, vii. 23;
in Abyssinia, ix. 133;
Midsummer fires on, x. 167 sqq., 171 sqq., 178, 179;
fire kindled by friction of wood on, x. 281;
fern-seed blooms on, xi. 287.
See also Midsummer
St. John's Eve (Midsummer Eve), in Sweden, ii. 65;
Russian ceremony on, iv. 262;
in Malta, x. 210 sq.;
wonderful herbs gathered on, xi. 45 sqq.;
sick children passed through cleft trees on, xi. 171
—— fires among the South Slavs, x. 178;
among the Esthonians, x. 180.
See also Midsummer fires
—— flower at Midsummer, xi. 50;
gathered on St. John's Eve (Midsummer Eve), xi. 57 sq.
—— girdle, mugwort, xi. 59
—— herbs gathered at Midsummer, xi. 46 sq., 49;
a protection against evil spirits, xi. 49
—— Midsummer festival in Sardinia, v. 244 sq.
—— Night (Midsummer Eve), precautions against witches on, xi. 20 n.
—— root (Johanniswurzel), the male fern, xi. 66
—— wort (Hypericum perforatum), gathered at Midsummer, v. 252 sq.;
a protection against witchcraft, ix. 160;
garlands of, at Midsummer, x. 169 n. 3, 196;
gathered on St. John's Day or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), xi. 49, 54 sqq.;
a protection against thunder, witches, and evil spirits, xi. 54, 55, 74;
thrown into the Midsummer bonfires, xi. 55
St. Joseph ill-treated in drought in Sicily, i. 300;
feast of, ix. 297
St. Juan Capistrano, in California, ordeal of nettles and ants among the Indians of, x. 64.
See San Juan Capistrano
St. Julien, church of, at Ath, xi. 36
St. Just, in Cornwall, Midsummer fire-custom at, x. 200
St. Kilda, not to be named in the Flannan Islands, iii. 393;
All Saints' Day in, vi. 80;
beating man clad in a cow's hide in, viii. 322, 323
St. Lawrence, the fire of, children thought to suffer from, if they touch young wrens in the nest, viii. 318;
family of, their lives bound up with an old tree at Howth Castle, xi. 166
St. Leonard, patron of cattle, horses, and pigs, i. 7 sq.;
blesses women with offspring, i. 8;
patron of prisoners, i. 8;
his shrines asylums, i. 8
Saint-Lô, the burning of Shrove Tuesday at, iv. 228 sq.
St. Louis, gift of healing by touch said to be derived by French kings from, i. 370
St. Luke, the festival of, on October [pg 444] 18th, souls of the dead thought to return on that day, vi. 55
Saintes-Maries, Midsummer custom at, v. 248, x. 194
St. Martin invoked in Switzerland to disperse a mist, x. 280
S. Martinus Dumiensis, on the date of the Crucifixion in Gaul, v. 307 n.
St. Mary, wells of, at Whitekirk and in the Isle of May, resorted to by women who wish to become mothers, ii. 161;
in Araceli, the church of, at Rome, ii. 184
—— at Lübeck, church of, x. 100
——, Isle of, custom of whalers in the, viii. 235
St. Matthew's Day (August 21st), festival of weasels on, viii. 275
St. Maughold, gives the veil to St. Bridget, ii. 95
St. Michael ill-treated in drought, i. 300
—— in Alaska, annual festival of the dead among the Esquimaux at, vi. 51;
bladder-festival of the Esquimaux at, viii. 249
St. Michael's cake, made at Michaelmas in the Hebrides, x. 149, 154 n. 3
St. Neot's, in Huntingdonshire, ii. 71 n. 1
St. Nicholas, patch of oats left at harvest for, vii. 233
St. Nicholas's Day (the 6th of December), the election of the Boy Bishop on, ix. 337, 338
St. Ninian, sacred trees near a chapel of, ii. 44
St. Nonnosius, relics of, in the cathedral of Freising, Bavaria, xi. 188 sq.
St. Olaf's Day (July 29th), lamb sacrificed by the Karels on, viii. 258 n. 2
St. Ouen, his church at Rouen, ii. 165;
early lives of, ii. 168
St. Patrick, canon attributed to, i. 367
—— and the Beltane fires, x. 157 sq.
St. Patrick's Chair, pilgrimage to, on Midsummer Eve, x. 205
—— Mount, near Downpatrick, x. 205
St. Paul, the Paulicians appeal to the authority of, i. 407;
on immortality, vii. 91
St. Paul's, London, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
St. Peter, prayed to for rain, his image dipped in water, i. 307 sq.
—— and St. Paul, celebration of their day in London, x. 196
St. Peter's, Canterbury, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
—— at Rome, new fire at Easter in, x. 125
—— Day (29th June), poplar burnt on, ii. 141;
the “Funeral of Kostroma” in Russia on, iv. 262;
bonfires in Belgium on, x. 194 sq.;
bonfires at Eton on, x. 197;
fires in Scotland on, x. 207
St. Peter's Day (22nd February), ashes exchanged as presents on, vii. 300;
expulsion of butterflies in Westphalia on, ix. 159 n. 1
—— Eve, bonfires on, x. 195, 198, 199 sq.;
Midsummer fires in Ireland on, x. 202;
gathering herbs on, xi. 45 n. 1
St. Pierre d'Entremont, in Normandy, game of ball on Shrove Tuesday at, ix. 183
St. Pons, his image used in rain-making, i. 307
St. Rochus's Day, need-fire kindled on, x. 282
St. Romain and the dragon of Rouen, ii. 164 sqq.;
the shrine (fierte) of, ii. 167, 168, 170 n. 1, ix. 216
St. Sécaire, Mass of, i. 232 sq.
St. Simon and St. Jude's Day (October 28th), the dead feasted among the Letts on, vi. 74
St. Stephen, church of, at Beauvais, Festival of Fools in the, ix. 336
St. Stephen's Day (December 26th), the hunting and burial of the wren on, viii. 319 sq.;
custom of beating young women on, ix. 270;
Lord of Misrule appointed in the Inner Temple on, ix. 333;
Festival of Fools on, ix. 334
St. Sylvester's Day (New Year's Eve), superstition as to shadows on, iii. 88;
precautions against witches on, ix. 164 sq.
—— Eve, evil spirits driven out of the houses at Trieste on, ix. 165
St. Tecla, the falling sickness cured in her church at Llandegla in Wales, ix. 52
St. Thomas's Day (21st December), the Twelve Days counted from, in some parts of Bavaria, ix. 327;
election of the Boy Bishop on, ix. 337 n. 1;
bonfires on, x. 266;
witches dreaded on, xi. 73
—— Eve, witches active on, ix. 160
—— Mount, near Madras, the fire-walk at, xi. 8 n. 1
St. Tredwels, chapel of, in one of the Orkney Islands, heap of stones to which each comer adds at, ix. 29
Saint-Valery in Picardy, torches carried through the fields on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 113
St. Vitus, festival of, omens drawn from barley and wheat sown a few days before the, v. 252
St. Vitus's dance, supposed to be caused by demoniac possession or the shadow [pg 445] of an enemy, iii. 83;
mistletoe a cure for, xi. 84
St. Vitus's Day, “fire of heaven” kindled on, x. 335
St. Wolfgang, Falkenstein chapel of, cleft rock through which pilgrims creep near, xi. 189
Saintonge, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 69;
the Yule log in, x. 251 n. 1;
wonderful herbs gathered on St. John's Eve in, xi. 45;
St. John's wort in, xi. 55;
vervain gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 62 n. 4;
four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63
—— and Aunis, burning the Carnival in, iv. 230;
Midsummer fires in, x. 192
Saints, violence done to images of saints in Sicily to procure rain, i. 300;
images of saints dipped in water as a rain-charm, i. 307 sq.;
as the givers of children to women, v. 78 sq., 91, 109;
cairns near shrines of Mohammedan, ix. 21, 22
Sais, in Egypt, the festival of Osiris at, vi. 49 sqq.;
the grave of Osiris at, vi. 50
Sakai, the, of the Malay Peninsula, power of medicine-men among, i. 360;
difference of dialect between husbands and wives among the, iii. 348
Sakalavas (Sakkalavas) of Madagascar, the worshipful sovereign of the, i. 397 sq.;
their chiefs not allowed to sail the sea or cross rivers, iii. 10;
taboos observed by their chiefs, iii. 10 sq.;
taboo on mentioning personal names among the, iii. 327;
customs as to names of dead kings among the, iii. 379 sq.;
sanctity of relics of dead kings among the, iv. 202;
their worship of a black bull, viii. 40 n.
Sakarang Dyaks of Borneo, their euphemisms for smallpox, iii. 416
Sakkalava. See Sakalavas
Sakkara, in Egypt, pyramids at, vi. 4
Sakvarī song, ancient Indian hymn, supposed to embody the might of the thunderbolt, i. 269 sq.
Sâl tree, festival of the flower of the, among the Oraons, ii. 76 sq., 148, v. 47
—— trees, sacred groves of, among the Khonds, ii. 41;
evil spirits of, among the Parahiya of Mirzapur, ii. 42
Salacia and Neptune, vi. 231, 233
Salagrama, fossil ammonite, an embodiment of Vishnu, ii. 26, 27 n. 2;
married to the tulasi plant, ii. 26 sq.
Salamis in Cyprus, human sacrifices at, iv. 166 n. 1, v. 145;
dynasty of Teucrids at, v. 145
Saldern, near Wolfenbuttel, the Corn-maiden at, at the end of reaping the rye at, vii. 150
Sale, nominal, of children, to deceive dangerous spirits, vii. 8
Salee, in Morocco, Midsummer fires at, x. 214, 216
Salem, Melchizedek, king of, v. 17
Saleyer, island off Celebes, certain words tabooed to sailors of, iii. 413 sq.
Salian Franks, custom as to the re-marriage of a widow among the, ii. 285
Salic law, re-marriage of widow under, ii. 285
Saligné, Commune de, Canton de Poiret, pretence of threshing the farmer's wife in, vii. 149 sq.
Salih, a prophet, annual festival of Bedouins at his grave in the Sinaitic Peninsula, iv. 97
Salii, the hymns of the, ii. 383 n. 4;
the dancing priests of Mars, ix. 231 sqq.;
rule as to their election, vi. 244
Salisbury, May garlands at, ii. 62;
the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337, 338;
Midsummer giants at, xi. 37 sq.
Salish or Flathead Indians, artificial deformation of the head among the, ii. 298;
recovery of lost souls among the, iii. 66;
their sacrifice of their first-born children to the sun, iv. 184;
ceremonies observed by them before eating the first wild berries or roots of the season, viii. 80 sq.
Salmon, twins thought to be, i. 263;
shamans responsible for supply of, i. 358;
taboos concerning, iii. 209;
resurrection of, viii. 250;
ceremonies at catching the first salmon of the season, viii. 253 sq., 255
Salmoneus, king of Elis, his mock thunder and lightning, i. 310, iv. 165;
personated Zeus, ii. 177;
killed by a thunderbolt, ii. 181
Salono, a Hindoo festival, v. 243 n. 1
Salop (Shropshire), fear of witchcraft in, x. 342 n. 4
Salsette, island near Bombay, use of iron as a talisman in, iii. 234, 236;
locks unlocked at childbirth in, iii. 296
Salt, abstinence from, i. 124, 266, ii. 98, 105, 149, 248, viii. 75, 93;
burnt to disperse fog, i. 314;
as a charm, ii. 331;
not to be eaten, iii. 10, 167, 182, 184, 194, 195, 196, viii. 190, 195, x. 19, 20, 60, 68, 69;
name of, tabooed, iii. 401;
the Mexican goddess of, ix. 278, 283;
used in a ceremony after marriage, x. 25 sq.;
abstinence from, associated with a rule of chastity, x. 26 sqq.;
not to be handled by menstruous women, x. 81 sq., 84;
divination by, x. 244
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Salt cake, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 238 sq.
—— -makers worship the goddess of Salt, ix. 283;
their dance, ix. 284
—— -pans, the divinity of, incarnate in a woman, i. 410;
continence observed by workers in, iii. 200
Saluting the rising sun, a Syrian custom, ix. 416
Salvation of the individual soul, importance attached to, in Oriental religions, v. 300
Salza district, ashes of pig's bone mixed with seed-corn in the, vii. 300
Salzburg, processions round the fields on St. George's Day in, ii. 344;
harvest custom in, vii. 146;
Queen of the Corn-ears in, vii. 146;
the Perchten maskers in, ix. 240, 242 sqq.
Salzwedel, Whitsuntide king at, ii. 84;
in the Altmark, the He-goat at harvest near, vii. 287
Samagitians, their sacred groves, ii. 43;
deemed birds and beasts of the woods sacred, ii. 125;
their annual festival of the dead, vi. 75
Samal, in North-Western Syria, Barrekub king of, v. 15 sq.
Samarai Archipelago, off New Guinea, Logea in the, iii. 354.
See Logea
Samarcand, homoeopathic charms applied to babies in, i. 157;
ceremonies to cause cold weather at, i. 329 n. 1;
New Year ceremony at, iv. 151;
temporary king at, iv. 151
Samaria captured by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, iv. 169;
the fall of, v. 25
Samaveda, the, ancient Indian collection of hymns, i. 269
Samban tribe of Dyaks, their belief as to the influence of Rajah Brooke on the crops, i. 362
Sambawa, East Indian island, human foundation-sacrifices in, iii. 91
Sambee, title signifying god, applied to the king of Loango, i. 396
Sambucus ebulus, dwarf elder, in rain-making, i. 273
Samhain, All Saints' Day (November 1st), New Year's Day in Ireland, x. 225
—— Eve of (Hallowe'en), new fire kindled in Ireland on, x. 139, 225;
Irish New Year dated from, x. 139, 225;
fiends and goblins let loose on, x. 226
Samhanach, Hallowe'en bogies, x. 227
Samhnagan, Hallowe'en fires, x. 230
Sami wood (Prosopis spicigera), used by the fire-priests of the Brahmans in kindling fire, ii. 248, 249, 250 n.
Samland, the Old Woman at harvest in, vii. 139;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 269;
fishermen will not go to sea on Midsummer Day in, xi. 26
Samnites, marriage custom of the, ii. 305;
guided by a bull, iv. 186 n. 4;
traced their origin to a “sacred spring,” iv. 186
Samoa, mode of determining a child's guardian god in, i. 100 n. 1;
gods of, in animal and human form, i. 389;
special terms used with reference to persons of the blood-royal in, i. 401 n. 3;
bleeding trees in, ii. 20;
the turtle clan in, their custom at cutting up a turtle, iii. 122;
persons who have handled the dead not allowed to touch food with their hands in, iii. 140;
names of chiefs not to be pronounced in, iii. 382;
expiation for disrespect to a sacred animal in, iv. 216 sq.;
circumcision practised in, iv. 220;
conduct of the inhabitants in an earthquake, v. 200;
butterfly god in, viii. 29;
the Wild Pigeon family in, viii. 29.
See also Samoan and Samoans
Samoan nobility, their perpetual fires, ii. 261
—— story of the recovery of a sick man's soul, iii. 65;
of woman who was impregnated by the sun, x. 74 sq.
Samoans, their sacrifices of first-fruits, viii. 132;
reckon their time by the periodic appearance of a sea-slug, ix. 142 n. 1
Samon, a month of the Gallic calendar, ix. 343
Samorin, title of the kings of Calicut, iv. 47 sq.
Samos, sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera in, ii. 143 n. 1;
the month of Cronion in, ix. 351 n. 2
Samothrace, Cadmus in, iv. 89 n. 4
Samothracian mysteries, iv. 89
Samoyed shamans, their familiar spirits in boars, xi. 196 sq.
—— story of the external soul, xi. 141 sq.
—— women thought to pollute things by stepping over them, iii. 424
Samoyeds of Siberia reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
cut out the eyes of the wild reindeer which they kill, viii. 268
Sampson, Agnes, a Scotch witch, ix. 38
Samsi-Adad, king of Assyria, husband of Shammuramat (Semiramis), ix. 370 n. 1
Samson, his burning the crops of the Philistines, vii. 298 n.;
effigy of, carried in procession of giants, xi. 36;
an African, xi. 314
Samuel, the prophet, consulted about asses, v. 75;
meaning of the name, v. 79
—— and Saul, v. 22
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Samyas monastery near Lhasa, the King of the Years annually detained for seven days in the, ix. 220
San Cristoval, in the Solomon Islands, ghosts supposed to imprison souls in, iii. 56;
mode of sacrificing a pig in, iii. 247
San Juan Capistrano, in California, Spanish mission at, viii. 169, 171 n. 1
——, Indians of, their ceremony at the new moon, vi. 142;
women's work among the, vii. 125;
their calendar, vii. 125 sq.;
ordeal of nettles and ants among the, x. 64
San Pellegrino, church of, at Ancona, the sarcophagus of St. Dasius in the, ix. 310
San Salvador in West Africa, native belief as to the soul of the king of, xi. 200
Sanctity, uncleanness, and taboo, their equivalence in primitive thought, iii. 285
—— of the head, iii. 252 sqq.;
of the corn, viii. 110
—— or pollution, their equivalence in primitive religion, iii. 145, 158, 224
—— and uncleanness not clearly differentiated in the primitive mind, x. 97 sq.
Sanctuary of Balder on the Sogne fiord in Norway, x. 104
Sand, souls of ogres in a grain of, xi. 120
Sanda-Sarme, a Cilician king, father-in-law of Ashurbanipal, v. 144
Sandacus, a Syrian, father of Cinyras, v. 41
Sandal of Perseus, at Chemmis in Upper Egypt, iii. 312 n. 2
Sandan, legendary or mythical hero of Western Asia, v. 125 sqq., ix. 368, 388 sqq.;
the burning of, v. 117 sqq.;
identified by the Greeks with Hercules, v. 125, 143, 161, ix. 388;
said to have founded Tarsus, v. 126;
burnt in effigy on a pyre at Tarsus, v. 126, ix. 389;
monument of, at Tarsus, v. 126 n. 2;
his figure on coins of Tarsus, v. 127
—— (Sandon, Sandes), Cappadocian and Cilician god of fertility, v. 125
—— and Baal at Tarsus, v. 142 sq., 161
Sandanis the Lydian, dissuades Croesus from marching against the Persians, ii. 315
Sanderval, O. de, on dances at sowing in West Africa, ix. 235
Sandes, identified with Hercules, ix. 389.
See Sandan
Sandflies imitated by maskers, ix. 381
Sandhill, in Northumberland, Midsummer fires at, x. 198
Sandon, or Sandan, name of the Lydian and Cilician Hercules, v. 182, 184, 185;
a Cilician name, v. 182.
See Sandan
Sandu'arri, a Cilician king, v. 144
Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), the king personated the god in the, i. 377;
precaution as to the spittle of chiefs in the, iii. 289;
belief in transmigration among natives of the, viii. 292 sq.
See also Hawaii
Sanga, in Angola, all fires extinguished at death of king of, ii. 262
Sangerhausen, Midsummer fires near, x. 169
Sangi group of islands in the East Indies, Siaoo in the, ii. 33, iii. 288, iv. 218.
See Siaoo
—— Islanders use a special language at sea, iii. 414
Sangro, river, in Italy, x. 210
Saning Sari, rice-goddess, among the Minangkabauers of Sumatra, represented by certain stalks or grains of rice, vii. 191, 192
Sanitation improved through superstition, iii. 130
Sankara and the Grand Lama, iii. 78
Sankuru River, in the Belgian Congo, xi. 264
Santa Catalina Istlavacan, birth-names of the Indians of, xi. 214 n. 1
Santa Cruz, Melanesian island, wind-charm in, i. 321;
avoidance of relations by marriage in, iii. 344
—— and Reef Islands, the rain-doctor in the, i. 272
Santa Felicita, successor of Mefitis, v. 205
Santa Maria Piedigrotta at Naples, church of, illuminated on the Nativity of the Virgin, x. 221
Santals, their belief as to the absence of the soul in dreams, iii. 38;
swinging as a religious or magical rite among the, iv. 279
Santiago (St. James), name given by the Peruvian Indians to one of twins, i. 266;
the horse of, i. 267
—— Tepehuacan, Indians of, their homoeopathic magic at sowing, planting, and fishing, i. 143;
propitiate a tree before felling it, ii. 37;
recovery of child's lost soul among the, iii. 67 sq.;
their dread of noon, iii. 88;
their custom at sowing, v. 239;
their annual festival of the dead, vi. 55;
transfer sickness to a well, ix. 4;
their fast at sowing, ix. 347 n. 4
Santorin, island of, its volcanic activity, v. 195
Santos, J. dos, on custom of putting kings of Sofala to death, iv. 37 sq.
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Sâone-et-Loire, the last sheaf called the Fox in, vii. 296, 297
Saparoea, East Indian island, fishermen's magic in, i. 109;
hunter's magic in, i. 114;
treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 187
Sapoodi Archipelago, the name Sapoodi tabooed to sailors at sea, iii. 414
Sapor, king of Persia, how he took the city of Atrae, x. 82 sq.
Sappho, on the mourning for Adonis, v. 6 n. 2;
on Adonis and Linus, vii. 216
Saqqarah, ancient Egyptian relief from, ix. 260 n. 3
Saracus, last king of Assyria, v. 174
Saragacos Indians of Ecuador, their seclusion of women at childbirth, iii. 152
Sarah and Abraham, ii. 114
Sarajevo, need-fire near, x. 286
Sarawak, the Berawans of, i. 74;
taboos observed by women during the search for camphor in, i. 124 sq.;
the Sea Dyaks of, i. 127, ix. 154;
the Dyaks of, i. 361, iii. 67, 339, iv. 277, vii. 314, viii. 152;
custom at making a clearing in the forest in, ii. 38 sq.;
head-hunting in, v. 295 sq.
Sarcolobus narcoticus, deceiving the spirit of the plant, ii. 23 sq.
Sardan or Sandan, the burning of, at Nineveh, ix. 389 sq.
See Sandan
Sardanapalus, legendary Assyrian monarch, his monument at Tarsus, v. 126 n. 2;
his monument at Anchiale, v. 172;
his death on the pyre, v. 172 sqq., ix. 387;
confounded with Ashurbanipal, v. 173 sq., ix. 387 sq.;
his effeminacy, vi. 257, ix. 387 sq.;
perhaps personated by the king of the Sacaea, ix. 368, 387 sq.;
his epitaph, ix. 388
—— and Hercules, v. 172 sqq.
Sardes in Lydia, ix. 389, 391;
captured by Cyrus, v. 174;
lion carried round acropolis of, v. 184, vi. 249
Sardines worshipped by the Indians of Peru, viii. 250
Sardinia, Sweethearts of St. John at Midsummer in, ii. 92, v. 244 sq.;
blood-revenge in, ii. 321;
gardens of Adonis in, v. 244 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, v. 245, x. 209
Sargal, in India, gardens of Adonis at, v. 243
Sariputi, village in Ceram, first-fruits of the rice offered to dead ancestors at, viii. 123
Sarmata Islands, marriage of the Sun and Earth in the, ii. 98 sq.
Sarmatian tribe moulded the heads of their children artificially, ii. 297
Sarn, valley of the, in Salzburg, the Perchten maskers in the, ix. 245
Sarna, the sacred grove of the Oraons, ii. 76
Sarna Burhi, goddess of the sacred grove, among the Oraons, ii. 76 sq.
Saron, ancient king of Troezen, perhaps a duplicate of Hippolytus, i. 26 n. 3
Saronic Gulf, Hippolytus on the shore of the, i. 19
Sarpedonian Artemis, in Cilicia, v. 167, 171
Sarum use, service-books of the, ix. 338
Sasabonsun, earthquake god of Ashantee, v. 201
Sassaks, the, of Lombok, their conception of the rice-spirit, vii. 201
Satan annually expelled by the Wotyaks, ix. 155 sq.;
annually expelled by the Cheremiss, ix. 156;
preaches a sermon in the church of North Berwick, xi. 158;
brings fern-seed on Christmas night, xi. 289
Satapatha Brâhmana, on the consecration of the sacrificer, i. 380;
on the confession of sins, iii. 217;
on transubstantiation, viii. 89;
on the sun as Death, xi. 174 n. 1
Satirical poems, Arab curses conveyed in, iii. 312
Saturday, persons born on a, can see ghosts, iii. 89, x. 285
——, Easter, new fire on, x. 121, 122, 124, 127, 128, 130
——, Holy, effigy of Queen of Lent beheaded on, iv. 244
Saturn, Roman god, his temple at Rome, i. 10 sq.;
personified at the Saturnalia, ii. 310 sq.;
the god of the seed, ii. 311;
his festival the Saturnalia, ii. 311, ix. 306 sqq.;
perhaps personified by Roman kings, ii. 311, 322;
the husband of Ops, vi. 233;
the old Roman and Italian god of sowing, ix. 232, 306, 307 n. 1, 346;
(Cronus), sacrifice to, at Cyrene, ix. 253 n. 3;
man put to death in the character of, ix. 309;
dedication of the temple of, ix. 345 n. 1;
perhaps represented by a dynasty of sacred kings, ix. 386
—— and the Golden Age, ix. 306, 344, 386
—— and Jupiter, ii. 323
—— and Lua, vi. 233
——, the planet, malignant influence of, iii. 315;
its period of revolution round the sun, vi. 151 sq.
Saturnalia, the Roman, ii. 310 sqq., ix. 306 sqq.;
how celebrated by Roman soldiers on the Danube, ii. 310, ix. 308 sq.;
Saturn personified at the, ii. 310 sq., ix. 309;
the festival of sowing, ii. 311 sq.;
the [pg 449] King of the, ii. 311, ix. 308, 311, 312;
licence granted to slaves at, ii. 312, ix. 307 sq.;
its relation to the Carnival, ix. 312, 345 sqq.;
its relation to Lent, ix. 345 sqq.
Saturnalia, licentious festival in general, at the marriage of Sun and Earth in Leti, Sarmata, and other East Indian islands, ii. 99;
traces of, at May Day and Whitsuntide, ii. 272;
preceding the trial and execution of kings at Fazolglou on the Blue Nile, iv. 16;
at ceremonies of the new yams in Ashantee, viii. 62 sq.;
at ceremonies of new fruits among the Pondos, viii. 66 sq.;
at New Year among the Iroquois, ix. 127;
at harvest among the Hos and Mundaris of North-Eastern India, ix. 136 sq.;
such licentious festivals generally precede or follow an annual expulsion of evils, ix. 225 sq.;
modern European analogies in Twelfth Night, the Festival of Fools, the Lord of Misrule, etc., ix. 312 sqq.;
in ancient Greece, ix. 350 sqq.;
in Western Asia, ix. 354 sqq.;
wide prevalence of such festivals, ix. 407 sqq.;
at celebration of puberty of a princess royal among the Zulus, x. 30 sq.;
at New Year among the Swahili, x. 135;
traces of, at Christmas, xi. 291 n. 2
Saturnine temperament of the farmer, vi. 218
Satyrs in relation to goats, viii. 1 sqq.
Saucers, divination by seven, on Midsummer Eve, x. 209
Sauks, an Indian tribe of North America, their fast before war, iii. 163 n. 2;
effeminate sorcerers among the, vi. 255
Saul, burial of, v. 177 n. 4
—— and David, v. 21
Saul's madness soothed by music, v. 53, 54
Savage, the, hidebound by custom, i. 217;
a slave to the spirits of his dead forefathers, i. 217;
his awe and dread of everything new, iii. 230;
our debt to, iii. 419 sqq.;
not illogical, viii. 202;
his belief that animals have souls, viii. 204 sqq.;
unable to discriminate clearly between animals and men, viii. 206 sqq., 310;
his faith in the immortality of animals, viii. 260 sqq.;
observational powers of, ix. 326;
secretiveness of, xi. 224 sq.;
his dread of sorcery, xi. 224 sq.
Savage community, the, ruled by a council of elders, i. 216 sq.
—— conception of deity different from ours, i. 375 sq.
—— custom the product of definite reasoning, iii. 420 n. 1
Savage Island, contagions magic of footprints in, i. 208;
kings killed on account of dearth in, i. 354 sq.;
cessation of monarchy in, iii. 17;
castaways and returned natives killed in, iii. 113;
mimic rite of circumcision in, iv. 219 sq.
—— philosophy, iii. 420 sq.
Savagery, the rise of monarchy essential to the emergence of mankind from, i. 217;
underlying civilization, i. 236
Savages believe themselves naturally immortal, iv. 1;
not to be judged by European standards, iv. 197 sq.;
lament for the animals and plants which they eat, vi. 43 sq.;
apologize to the animals which they kill, viii. 221 sqq.;
their regulation of the calendar, ix. 326
Savile, Lord, his excavations at Nemi i. 3 n. 2
Saviour Gods, title bestowed by the Athenians on Demetrius Poliorcetes and Antigonus, i. 390
Savo, one of the Solomon Islands, shark-ghost in, viii. 297
Savou, island of, treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 190;
dread of children who resemble their parents in, iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression)
Sâwan, Indian month, v. 242;
corresponding to August, ii. 149
“Sawing the Old Woman,” a Lenten ceremony, iv. 240 sqq.
Saws at Mid-Lent, iv. 241, 242
Saxe-Coburg, the Old Woman at harvest in, vii. 139
Saxo Grammaticus, old Danish historian, x. 102 n. 1;
as to ceremony of standing on stones, i. 160;
on kingship obtained by marriage, ii. 280 sq.;
on the story of Hamlet, ii. 281 n. 2;
on understanding the speech of animals, viii. 146;
his account of Balder, x. 103
Saxons, marriage with a stepmother among the, ii. 283;
their vow, iii. 262
—— of Transylvania, precautions against witches on St. George's Eve among the, ii. 337 sq.;
loose knots and unlock locks at childbirth, iii. 294, 296;
the hanging of an effigy of Carnival among the, iv. 230 sq.;
“Carrying out Death” among the, iv. 247 sqq.;
their custom at maize harvest, iv. 254;
harvest custom of the, v. 238;
gird themselves with corn at reaping to prevent pains in the back, vii. 285;
their belief as to a quail in the last corn, vii. 295;
their customs at sowing, viii. 274 sq.;
story of the external soul among the, xi. 116
Saxon cure for rupture, ix. 52
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Saxon kings, their marriage with their step-mothers, iv. 193
—— story of soul as mouse, iii. 39 n. 1
Saxony, May or Whitsuntide trees in, ii. 68 sq.;
the Bridal Pair at Whitsuntide in, ii. 91;
sacred oaks in, ii. 371;
Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 208;
custom of “carrying out Death” in, iv. 236;
Westerhüsen in, vii. 134;
harvest customs in, vii. 134, 149;
the last sheaf called the Old Man in, vii. 137;
Oats-bride and Oats-bridegroom at harvest in, vii. 163;
fires to burn the witches in, x. 160
——, Lower, the need-fire in, x. 272
——, the Wends of, ii. 69, vii. 149, xi. 297;
their precautions against witches, ix. 163
Sayce, A. H., on kings of Edom, v. 16;
on name of David, v. 19 n. 2
Sayids in India think that a snake should never be called by its proper name, iii. 401 sq.
Scaloi, Drought, effigy of, used by the Roumanians in a rain-making ceremony, i. 274
Scamander, the river, supposed to take the virginity of brides, ii. 162
Scanderbeg, Prince of Epirus, his bones used as talismans by the Turks, viii. 154
Scandinavia, female descent of the kingship in, ii. 279 sq.
Scandinavian custom of the Yule Boar, vii. 300 sqq.;
of the Yule Goat, viii. 327
Scania, province of Sweden, Midsummer fires in, x. 172
Scapegoat, plantain-tree as a, ix. 5;
decked with women's ornaments, ix. 192;
Jewish use of, ix. 210;
a material vehicle for the expulsion of evils, ix. 224
Scapegoats, he-goats employed as, among the Akikuyu, iii. 214 sq.;
inanimate objects as, ix. 1 sqq.;
animals as, ix. 31 sqq., 190 sqq., 208 sqq.;
birds as, ix. 35 sq.;
public, ix. 170 sqq.;
divine animals as, ix. 216 sq., 226 sq.;
divine men as, ix. 217 sqq., 226 sq.;
in general, ix. 224 sqq.
——, human, ix. 38 sqq., 194 sqq., 210 sqq.;
in classical antiquity, ix. 229 sqq.;
in ancient Greece, ix. 252 sqq.;
beaten, ix. 252, 255;
stoned, ix. 253, 254;
cast into the sea, ix. 254 sq.;
reason for beating the, ix. 256 sq.
Scarification as a mode of exorcizing demons and ghosts, iii. 105 sqq.;
of warriors, iii. 160 sq.;
of manslayer, iii. 180;
of bodies of whalers, iii. 191;
as a religious rite, viii. 75;
as a mode of conferring swiftness of foot, viii. 159;
of Zulu heaven-herds with heaven, viii. 160 sq.
“Scaring away the devil” at Penzance on the Eve of May Day, ix. 163 sq.
—— away the ghosts of the slain, iii. 168, 170, 171, 172, 174 sq.
Scarlet thread in charm against witchcraft, ix. 267
Scarli, poplar-trees burnt on Shrove Tuesday in Piedmont, iv. 224 n. 1
Sceptre of Agamemnon worshipped as a god at Chaeronea, i. 365
Schäfer, H., on the tomb of Osiris at Abydos, vi. 198 n. 1
Schaffhausen, the canton of, the cow at threshing in, vii. 291;
St. John's three Midsummer victims at, xi. 27
Schar Mountains in Servia, “living fire” kindled in time of epidemics in the, ii. 237;
the Slavs of the, ii. 238;
need-fire in the, x. 281
Scharholz, Midsummer log in Germany, xi. 92 n. 1
Schaumburg, Easter bonfires in, x. 142
Schechter, Dr. S., on Purim, ix. 364 n. 1
Scheil, Father, on Elamite inscriptions, ix. 367 n. 3
Scheroutz, in Russia, rain-making at, i. 277
Scheube, B., on the bear-festivals of the Ainos, viii. 185 sqq.
Schinz, Dr. H., on the huts of the Herero, ii. 213 n. 2;
on the firesticks of the Herero, ii. 218, 218 n. 1
Schlanow, in Brandenburg, custom at sowing at, v. 238 sq.
Schlegel, G., on Chinese festival of fire, xi. 5 n. 1
Schleswig, custom at threshing in, vii. 230;
custom at rape-seed threshing in, vii. 287
Schlich, W., on mistletoe, xi. 315 sq.;
on Loranthus europaeus, xi. 317
Schlochau, district of, witches' Sabbath in the, xi. 74
Schloss, Francis S., on the rule as to the felling of timber in Colombia, vi. 136 n. 4
Schlukenau, in Bohemia, “burying the Carnival” at, iv. 209
Schmeckostern, “Easter Smacks,” in Germany and Austria, ix. 268 sq.
Schmidt, A., on Greek mode of reckoning intervals of time, iv. 59 n. 1;
on the octennial cycle, vii. 82 n. 2
Schmidt, W., on the superstitions of the Roumanians of Transylvania, ix. 107 n. 1
Schmiedel, Professor P., on the burning of Winter at Zurich, iv. 261 n. 1
Schöllbronn in Baden, “thunder poles” at, x. 145
Schonen, Southern, the last sheaf called the Beggar in, vii. 231 sq.
Schönthal, the abbot of, his fear of demons, ix. 105 sq.
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Schönwert, village of Bohemia, expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 161
Schoolcraft, H. R., on the secrecy of personal names among the North American Indians, iii. 325;
on North American Indian indifference to death, iv. 137 sq.;
on human sacrifices among the Pawnees, vii. 239 n. 1;
on renewal of fire among the Iroquois, x. 134 n. 1
Schörzingen, the Carnival Fool at, iv. 231
Schrader, O., on the Twelve Days, ix. 326 n.
Schrenck, L. von, on the bear-festivals of the Gilyaks, viii. 191 sqq.
Schürmann, C. W., on the Port Lincoln tribe of South Australia, xi. 216 sq.
Schüttarschen, in Bohemia, custom at threshing at, vii. 150;
the mythical Wood-woman at harvest at, vii. 232
Schuyler, E., on the “Love Chase” among the Kirghiz, ii. 301;
on a human scapegoat in Turkestan, ix. 45
Schvannes, bonfires, on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 n. 1
Schwalm, the river, in Hesse, “the Little Whitsuntide Man” at Röllshausen on the, ii. 81
Schwaz, on the Inn, in the Tyrol, St. George's Day at, ii. 343 sq.;
the “grass-ringers” at, ix. 247
Schwegler, A., on Servius Tullius, ii. 196 n.;
on the “sacred spring,” iv. 187 n. 4;
on the death of Romulus, vi. 98 n. 2
Schweina, in Thuringia, Christmas bonfire at, x. 265 sq.
Schweinfurth, G., on the reverence of the Dinka for their cattle, viii. 37 sq.
Schwenda, witches burnt at, x. 6
Science, the way for, paved by magic, i. 219;
generalizations of, inadequate to cover all particulars, viii. 37;
movement of thought from magic through religion to, xi. 304 sq.;
and magic, different views of natural order postulated by the two, xi. 305 sq.
Scipio, his fabulous birth, v. 81
Scira, an Athenian festival, x. 20 n. 1
Scirophorion, an Attic month, viii. 5 n. 1, 8 n. 1
Scirum, in Attica, Sacred Ploughing at, vii. 108 n. 4
Scissors in a charm to render a bridegroom impotent, iii. 301
“Scoring above the breath,” cutting a witch on the forehead, x. 315 n. 2;
counter-spell to witchcraft, x. 343 n.
Scorpion, Arab treatment of a man stung by a, iii. 95 n. 8
Scorpion's bite, the pain of it transferred to an ass, ix. 49 sq.
Scorpions, homoeopathic charm against, i. 153;
Isis and the, vi. 8;
a bronze image of a scorpion a charm against, viii. 280 sq.;
image of bird with scorpion in its mouth a charm against, viii. 281;
souls of dead in, viii. 290
Scotch crannogs, oak timber in the, ii. 352
—— cure by knotted thread, iii. 304 sq.
—— fishermen, their use of iron as a talisman, iii. 233;
their superstitions as to herring, viii. 252
—— fowlers and fishermen, words tabooed by, iii. 393 sqq.
—— witch, ix. 38 sq.
Scotland, magical images in, i. 68-70, 236;
witches raise winds in, i. 322;
notion as to whirlwinds in the Highlands of, i. 329;
magical virtues ascribed to chiefs in the Highlands of, i. 368;
the Highlanders of, their precautions against witchcraft, ii. 53;
St. Bride's Day in the Highlands of, ii. 94;
fertilizing virtue ascribed to wells in, ii. 161;
new-born children passed through the smoke of fire in, ii. 232 n. 2;
race on horseback at a marriage in, ii. 304;
oaks in the peat-bogs of, ii. 350 sq.;
mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95;
fear of portraiture in, iii. 100;
need-fire in, iii. 229, x. 289 sqq.;
iron as a talisman after a death in, iii. 236;
sickness thought to be caused by knots in, iii. 302;
common words tabooed in, iii. 392 sqq.;
words tabooed by fishermen and others in, iii. 394 sq.;
harvest customs concerning the last corn cut in, v. 237, vii. 140 sqq.;
the Highlanders of, sow in the moon's increase, vi. 134;
the last corn cut at harvest called the Maiden in, vii. 155 sqq.;
custom of “dumping” at harvest in, vii. 226 sq.;
corn left unreaped at harvest for “the aul' man” in, vii. 233;
sayings as to the wren in, viii. 318;
custom of casting stones on cairns in the Highlands of, ix. 20;
cure for warts in, ix. 48;
witches burnt in, ix. 165;
Abbot of Unreason in, ix. 331;
sacred wells in, x. 12;
Celts called “thunder-bolts” in, x. 14 sq.;
Snake Stones in, x. 15 sq., xi. 311;
worship of Grannus in, x. 112;
Beltane fires in, x. 146 sqq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 206 sq.;
divination at Hallowe'en in, x. 229, 234 sqq.;
bonfires at Hallowe'en in the Highlands of, x. 230 sqq.;
animals burnt alive as a sacrifice in, x. 302;
“scoring above the breath,” a counter-charm for witchcraft in, x. 315 n. 2;
witches as hares in, x. 315 n. 1;
St. John's wort in, [pg 452] xi. 54;
the divining-rod in, xi. 67.
See also Highlands and Highlanders
Scotland, North-East, precautions against witches on May Day in, ii. 53
Scots pine, mistletoe on, xi. 315
Scott, Sir Walter, on witch at Stromness, i. 326;
on the fear of witchcraft, x. 343;
oaks planted by, xi. 166
Scottish Highlanders on the influence of the moon, vi. 132, 134, 140;
their belief in bogies at Hallowe'en, x. 227;
their belief as to Snake Stones, xi. 311
Scourging the man-god before death, a mode of purification, ix. 257;
girls at puberty, x. 66 sq.
Scourgings, mutual, of South American Indians, ix. 262
Scouvion, x. 108.
See Escouvion
Scratching the person with the fingers forbidden, i. 254, x. 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 47, 50, 53, 92;
as a magical rite to procure rain, i. 254 sq.;
rules as to, iii. 146, 156, 158, 159 n., 160, 181, 183, 189, 196;
as a religious rite, viii. 75
Scrofula, kings thought to heal scrofula by their touch, i. 368 sqq.;
chiefs of Tonga thought to heal scrofula by their touch, i. 371;
thought to be caused and cured by touching a sacred chief or king, iii. 133 sq., viii. 28;
vervain a cure for, xi. 62 n. 1;
creeping through an arch of vines as a cure for, xi. 180;
passage through a holed stone a cure for, xi. 187
Sculpin, the fish, called the rain-maker, i. 288
Scurrilities exchanged between vine-dressers and passers-by, vii. 258 n. 1
Scurrilous language at the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 38
Scylla, daughter of Nisus, the story of her treachery, xi. 103
Scythe used to behead cock on harvest-field, vii. 277, 278
Scythes whetted by reapers as if to mow down strangers in the harvest-field, vii. 229 sq.;
and bill-hooks set out to cut witches as they fall from the clouds, x. 345 sq.
Scythian kings, their regalia, i. 365;
human beings and horses sacrificed at their graves, v. 293;
married the wives of their predecessors, ix. 368 n. 1
Scythians put their kings in bonds in times of dearth, i. 354;
their oath by the king's hearth, ii. 265;
their belief in immortality, v. 294;
their treatment of dead enemies, v. 294 n. 3;
set store on heads of enemies, vii. 256 n. 1;
revellers disguised as, ix. 355
Sdach Méac, title of annual temporary king of Cambodia, iv. 148
Sea, navel-string and afterbirth thrown into the, i. 184, 185, 190, 191;
chief supposed to rule the, i. 337;
virgins married to the jinnee of the, ii. 153 sq.;
phosphorescence of the, ii. 154 sq.;
prohibition to look upon the, iii. 9, 10;
horror of the, iii. 10;
offerings made to the, iii. 10;
names of priests thrown into the, iii. 382 sq.;
special language employed by sailors at, iii. 413 sqq.;
scapegoats cast into the, ix. 254 sq.;
menstruous women not allowed to approach the, x. 79;
demands a human victim on Midsummer Day, xi. 26
——, bathing in the, on St. John's Day or Eve, v. 246, 248;
at Easter, x. 123;
at Midsummer, x. 208, 210, xi. 30
“—— of Erechtheus” on the Acropolis at Athens, iv. 87
Sea beasts, taboos observed by the Esquimaux in regard to the dead bodies of, iii. 205 sqq.;
Esquimau rules as to eating, viii. 84;
their bladders restored to the sea by the Esquimaux, viii. 247 sqq.
—— Dyaks of Banting, rules observed by women during the absence of warriors among the, i. 127 sq.
—— Dyaks or Ibans of Borneo, beat gongs in a storm, i. 328;
their worship of serpents, v. 83;
their festivals of the dead, vi. 58 sq.;
effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, vi. 253, 256;
their Head-feast in honour of the war-god, ix. 383 sq.
—— Dyaks of Sarawak, their sacred trees, ii. 40 sq.;
their stories of the origin of omen birds, iv. 126, 127 sq.;
their reasons for taking human heads, v. 295 sq.;
their Festival of Departed Spirits, ix. 154
—— -eagle in homoeopathic magic, i. 152
—— -god, human sacrifice to, ix. 255
—— -mammals, Esquimau atonement for killing, iii. 207;
taboos observed by the Esquimaux after the killing of, iii. 207 sqq.;
myth of their origin, iii. 207, viii. 246;
the goddess Sedna the mother of the, iii. 210
—— -slugs, ceremonies at the annual appearance of, in Fiji and Tumleo, ix. 141 sqq.
Seal, descendants of the, in Sutherlandshire, xi. 131 sq. See also Seals
Sealing up eyes, nose, and mouth of the dying to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 31
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Seals, supposed influence of lying-in women on, iii. 152;
taboos observed after the killing of, iii. 207 sq., 209, 213;
supposed to have sprung from the severed fingers of the goddess Sedna, iii. 207, viii. 246;
care taken of the bladders and bones of, viii. 247 sqq., 257;
the bones of, returned to the sea, viii. 258 n. 2
Sealskins in sympathy with the tides, i. 167
Season of festival a clue to the nature of a deity, vi. 24
Seasons, Athenian sacrifices to the, i. 310;
magical and religious theories of the, v. 3 sq.
Seats placed for souls of dead at the Midsummer fires, x. 183, 184
Seb (Keb or Geb), Egyptian earth-god, father of Osiris, by the sky-goddess Nut, v. 283 n. 3, vi. 6
Seclusion of travellers after a journey, iii. 113;
of those who have handled the dead, iii. 138 sqq.;
of women at menstruation, iii. 145 sqq., x. 76 sqq.;
of women at childbirth, iii. 147 sqq.;
of tabooed persons, iii. 165;
of man-slayers, iii. 166 sqq.;
of cannibals, iii. 188 sqq.;
of men who have killed large game, iii. 220 sq.;
of girls at puberty, x. 22 sqq.;
of girls at puberty in folk-tales, x. 70 sqq.;
reasons for the seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 76 sqq.;
of novices at initiation, xi. 233, 241, 250, 253, 257 n. 1, 258, 259, 261, 264, 266
Second sight enjoyed by persons born with a caul, i. 187 sq.
Secret graves of kings, chiefs, and magicians, vi. 103 sqq.
—— language learnt at initiation, xi. 253, 255 n. 1, 259, 261 n.
—— names among the Central Australian aborigines, iii. 321 sq.
—— societies in the Bismarck Archipelago, jurisdiction exercised by, i. 340;
among the Indians of British Columbia, vii. 20;
in North-Western America, ix. 377 sq.;
on the Lower Congo, xi. 251 sqq.;
in West Africa, xi. 257 sqq.;
in the Indian tribes of North America, xi. 267 sqq.;
and totem clans, related to each other, xi. 272 sq. See also Belli-Paaro, Duk-duk, Kakian, Ndembo, Nkimba, Purra, and Semo.
Secretiveness of the savage, xi. 224 sq.
Sed festival in ancient Egypt, vi. 151 sqq.;
its date perhaps connected with the heliacal rising of Sirius, vi. 152 sq.;
apparently intended to renew the king's life by identifying him with the dead and risen Osiris, vi. 153 sq.
Sedanda, an African king, his suicide, iv. 38
Sedbury Park oak, in Gloucestershire, mistletoe on the, xi. 316
Sedna, an Esquimau goddess of the lower world, iii. 152, 207, 208, 209, 211, 213, viii. 84, 246;
mother of the sea-mammals, iii. 210;
her annual expulsion by the Esquimaux, ix. 125 sq.
Sedum telephium, orpine, used in divination at Midsummer, xi. 61
Seed sown over weakly children to strengthen them, vii. 11;
sown by women, vii. 113 sqq.;
sown by children, vii. 115 sq.
See also Sowing
Seed-corn, fumigated with wood of sacred cedar, ii. 49;
fertilized at the Thesmophoria, vii. 63;
grain of last sheaf mixed with the, vii. 135;
holy grains mixed with the, to fertilize it, vii. 205;
taken from the last sheaf, vii. 278;
feathers of cock mixed with the, vii. 278, viii. 20;
ashes mixed with the, vii. 300;
bones of pigs mixed with the, vii. 300, viii. 20;
the Yule Boar mixed with the, vii. 301, viii. 20;
grain taken from the Corn-mother mixed with the, vii. 304;
pig's flesh sown with the, viii. 18, 20;
cakes made out of the last sheaf mixed with the, viii. 328;
charred remains of Midsummer log mixed with the, xi. 92
—— -rice, seed sown ceremonially mixed with the, iv. 149;
precautions at reaping the, vii. 181;
soul of the rice caught and mixed with the, vii. 189
—— -time, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 138
Seeds and roots, wild, collected by women, vii. 124 sqq.
Seeman, Berthold, on St. John's blood, xi. 56
Seers, their ears licked by serpents, viii. 147 n. 1
Segera, a sago magician of Kiwai, dismembered after death, vi. 101, 102
Seirkieran, perpetual fire in the monastery of, ii. 241 sq.
Seitendorf, in Moravia, custom of “carrying out Death” at, iv. 238 sq.
Seker (Sokari), title of Osiris, vi. 87
Selangor, Malay State, rice-crop supposed to depend on the district officer in, i. 361;
durian trees threatened near Jugra in, ii. 21;
bringing home the Soul of the Rice at Chodoi in, vii. 198;
demons of disease expelled in a ship from, ix. 187 sq.
Selemnus, the River, its water a cure for love, ix. 3
Seler, Professor Eduard, on the ancient Mexican calendar, vi. 29 n.;
Aztec [pg 454] text of Sahagun partially translated by, vii. 175;
on the Mexican festival of Toxcatl, ix. 149 n. 2, 277;
on nagual, xi. 213 n.
Seleucia, plague blocked up in hole at, ix. 64
Seleucus, a grammarian, v. 146 n. 1
Seleucus Nicator, king, his buildings at the temple of Zeus in Olba, v. 151
Seleucus the Theologian, v. 146 n. 1
Self-mutilation of Attis and his priests, v. 265
Seligmann, Dr. C. G., on the meaning of helaga in the Motu tribe of New Guinea, ii. 106 n. 2;
on the custom of putting Shilluk kings to death, iv. 17 sqq., vi. 163;
on the danger of allowing Shilluk kings to grow old, iv. 21;
on the right of candidates for the kingship to attack the Shilluk kings, iv. 22;
on the willingness of Shilluks to accept the fatal sovereignty, iv. 23;
on sickness as supposed to be caused by the soul of a dead Shilluk king, iv. 26;
on the divine spirit supposed to animate Shilluk kings, iv. 26 sq.;
on the Dinkas, iv. 30 sqq.;
on the custom of putting Dinka rain-makers to death, iv. 33;
on the five supplementary Egyptian days, vi. 6 n. 3;
on the worship of dead Shilluk kings, vi. 161 n. 2;
on the name of the Supreme Being of the Dinkas, viii. 40 n., 114 n. 2
Selkit, Egyptian goddess, patroness of matrimony, ii. 131
Selwanga, python-god of the Baganda, v. 86
Semang tribes of the Malay Peninsula, power of medicine-men among the, i. 360;
think that the souls of their dead chiefs transmigrate into wild beasts, iv. 85
Semangat, Malay word for the soul, iii. 28, 35, vii. 181, 183
Semele, mother of Dionysus, iv. 3;
how Zeus got Dionysus by, vii. 14;
descent of Dionysus into Hades to bring up, vii. 15
Semic in Bohemia, beheading the king on Whit-Monday at, iv. 209
Seminole Indians, souls of the dying caught among the, iv. 199;
their Green Corn Dance, viii. 76 sq.;
their fear of rattle-snakes, viii. 217
Semiramis, lustful Assyrian queen, ii. 275;
at Hierapolis, v. 162 n. 2;
as a form of Ishtar (Astarte), v. 176 sq.;
said to have burnt herself, v. 176 sq., ix. 407 n. 2;
the mythical, a form of the great Asiatic goddess, vi. 258;
mythical and historical, ix. 369 sqq.;
the mounds of, ix. 370, 371, 373, 388 n. 1;
her love for a horse, ix. 371, 407 n. 2;
the sad fate of her lovers, ix. 371;
perhaps supposed to be incarnate in a series of women, ix. 386
Semites, moral evolution of the, iii. 219;
sacrifices of children among the, iv. 166 sqq.;
agricultural, worship Baal as the giver of fertility, v. 26 sq.;
sacred stocks and stones among the, v. 107 sqq.;
traces of mother-kin among the, vi. 213
Semitic Baal in relation to the Minotaur, iv. 75
—— gods, uniformity of their type, v. 119
—— kings, the divinity of, v. 15 sqq.;
as hereditary deities, v. 51
—— language, Egyptian language akin to the, vi. 161 n. 1
—— personal names indicating relationship to a deity, v. 51
—— worship of Tammuz and Adonis, v. 6 sqq.
Semlicka, festival of the dead among the Letts, vi. 74
Semo, a secret society of Senegambia, xi. 261
Sena, island of, virgin priestesses in, ii. 241 n. 1
Sena-speaking people to the north of the Zambesi transfer sickness to effigy of pig, ix. 7
Senal Indians of California, their notion as to fire stored in trees, xi. 295
Sencis, the, of Peru, their ceremony at an eclipse of the sun, i. 311
Seneca, on sacred groves, ii. 123;
as to the soul on the lips, iii. 33 n. 3;
on the offerings of Egyptian priests to the Nile, vi. 40;
on the marriage of the Roman gods, vi. 231;
on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, vi. 233
Senegal, Cayor in, iii. 9;
Walo on the river, iii. 118;
precaution as to spittle in, iii. 289;
belief as to conception without sexual intercourse in, v. 93 n. 2;
myth of marriage of Sky and Earth in, v. 282 n. 2;
custom of throwing stones on cairns in, ix. 30 n. 2
Senegal and Niger region of West Africa, the wild fig-tree regarded as a fetish-tree in, ii. 317 n. 1
Senegambia, the Feloupes of, i. 297;
the Walos of, i. 370, xi. 79;
the Sereres of, iii. 70;
the Wolofs of, iii. 323;
the Mandingoes of, vi. 141;
Python clan in, viii. 174;
the Foulahs of, viii. 214;
stones thrown on graves of murderers in, ix. 16;
the Banmanas of, ix. 261;
secret society among the Soosoos of, xi. 261 sq.
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Senjero, sacrifice of first-born sons in, iv. 182 sq.
Sennacherib, his siege of Jerusalem, v. 25;
said to have built Tarsus, v. 173 n. 4
Sennar, a province of the Sudan, human hyaenas in, x. 313
Senseless Thursday, the last Thursday in Carnival, ceremony with whips and brooms in the Tyrol on, ix. 248
Seoul, capital of Corea, custom on New Year's Day at, iii. 283;
tiger eaten at, to make eater brave, viii. 145
Separation of children from their parents among the Baganda, x. 23 n. 2
—— of earth and sky, myth of the, v. 283
Sepharvites, their sacrifices of children, iv. 171
September, month of the maize harvest in modern Greece, vii. 48;
the 1st of, mock burial of flies by Russian girls on, viii. 279 sq.;
the 13th of, Roman custom of knocking a nail into a wall on, ix. 66;
expulsion of evils by the Incas of Peru in, ix. 128;
eve of the 1st of, new fire in villages near Moscow on the, x. 139;
the 8th of, feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, x. 220;
the fire-walk in, xi. 9
Seranglao archipelago, custom as to children's cast teeth in the, i. 179;
rule as to gathering coco-nuts in the, iii. 201
Serapeum at Alexandria, vi. 119 n.;
its destruction, vi. 217
Serapis, the later form of Osiris, vi. 119 n.;
the rise of the Nile attributed to, vi. 216 sq.;
the standard cubit kept in his temple, vi. 217
Sereres of Senegambia, detention of souls by sorcerers among the, iii. 70
Seriphos, custom of swinging on Tuesday after Easter in, iv. 283 sq.
Serpent in homoeopathic magic, i. 154 sq.;
dried, in ceremony for stopping rain, i. 295 sq.;
hung up as a wind-charm, i. 323;
or dragon of water, ii. 155 sqq.;
or dragon personated by kings, iv. 82;
the Brazen, worshipped to the time of Hezekiah, iv. 86;
sacred, on the Acropolis at Athens, iv. 86;
as the giver of children, v. 86;
at rites of initiation, v. 90 n. 4;
fed by a woman out of a saucer, type in Greek art, viii. 18 n. 2;
killing the sacred, viii. 174 sq.;
ceremonies performed after killing a, viii. 192 sq.;
the Brazen, set up by the Israelites in the wilderness, viii. 281;
girls at puberty thought to be visited by a, x. 31;
supposed to swallow girl at puberty, x. 57;
ten-headed, external soul in a, xi. 104 sq.;
twelve-headed, external soul of demon in a, xi. 143;
external soul of chief in a, xi. 201.
See also Serpents, Snake, and Snakes
Serpent-god, married to human wives, v. 66 sqq.;
thought to control the crops, v. 67
Serpent's fat a charm against witches on St. George's Day, ii. 335
—— flesh eaten to learn the language of animals, viii. 146
Serpents impart a knowledge of the language of birds, i. 158;
in relation to St. George, ii. 344 n. 4;
purificatory ceremonies observed after killing, iii. 221 sqq.;
not to be called by their proper names, iii. 398, 399, 401 sq., 407, 408, 411;
transmigration of the souls of the dead into, iv. 84;
reputed the fathers of human beings, v. 80 sqq.;
as embodiments of Aesculapius, v. 80 sq.;
worshipped in Mysore, v. 81 sq.;
as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82 sqq., xi. 211 sq.;
fed with milk, v. 84 sqq., 87;
thought to have knowledge of life-giving plants, v. 186;
souls of dead kings incarnate in, vi. 163, 173;
offerings to, viii. 17 sq.;
in the “chasms of Demeter and Persephone,” viii. 17 sq.;
lick the ears of seers, viii. 147 n. 1;
inspired human mediums of, viii. 213;
charms against, viii. 281;
souls of the dead in, viii. 291;
and lizards supposed to renew their youth by casting their skins, ix. 302 sqq.;
burnt alive at the Midsummer festival in Luchon, xi. 38 sq., 43;
witches turn into, xi. 41;
worshipped by the old Prussians, xi. 43 n. 3;
in the worship of Demeter, xi. 44 n.;
the familiars of witches, xi. 202.
See also Serpent, Snake, and Snakes
Serpents' eggs (glass beads) in ancient Gaul, x. 15
Servia, rain-making ceremony in, i. 273;
mode of kindling fire by friction of wood in, ii. 237;
divination on St. George's Day in, ii. 345;
Midsummer fire custom in, x. 178;
the Yule log in, x. 258 sqq.;
need-fire in, x. 281, 282 sqq.
See also Servian and Servians
Servian forest, the great, ii. 237, 237 n. 1
—— stories of the external soul, xi. 110 sqq.
—— women, their charm to hoodwink their husbands, i. 149
Servians, their belief as to souls in the form of butterflies, iii. 41;
their precaution [pg 456] against vampyres, ix. 153 n. 1;
house-communities of the, x. 259 n. 1
Servitude of Apollo and Cadmus for eight years for the slaughter of dragons, iv. 70 n. 1, 78
Servius, Virgilian commentator, on the grove of Egeria, i. 18 n. 4;
on Virbius, i. 20 sq., 40, ii. 129;
on the worship of Virbius, i. 20 n. 3;
on Virbius as the lover of Diana, i. 21, 40;
on Dido's costume, iii. 313;
on the magical virtue of knots, iii. 313 n. 1;
on the legend of Erigone, iv. 282;
on the death of Attis, v. 264 n. 4;
on the marriage of Orcus, vi. 231;
on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, vi. 233;
on Lityerses, vii. 217 n. 1
Servius Tullius, Roman king, his innovation in Roman currency, i. 23 n. 5;
laws of, ii. 115, 129;
and Fortuna, ii. 193 n. 1, 272;
legend of his birth from the fire, ii. 195 sq., vi. 235;
said to have been an Etruscan, ii. 196 n.;
succeeded by his son-in-law, ii. 270;
his descent, ii. 270 n. 6;
his death, ii. 320 sq.
Sesostris, so-called monument of, in Lydia, v. 185
Set, or Typhon, brother of Osiris, vi. 6, viii. 30;
murders Osiris, vi. 7 sq.;
accuses Osiris before the gods, vi. 17;
brings a suit of bastardy against Horus, vi. 17;
his combat with Horus, vi. 17;
reigns over Upper Egypt, vi. 17;
torn in pieces, vi. 98;
the Egyptian devil, viii. 30;
the birth of, ix. 341.
See also Typhon
Setonje, village in Servia, need-fire at, ii. 237, x. 282 sqq.
Sety I., king of Egypt, represented in the hall of the Osirian mysteries at Abydos, vi. 108
Seven or multiples of seven in offerings to the dead, ii. 32
Seven bonfires, lucky to see, x. 107, 108
—— ears of last year's crop to attract the corn, vii. 190;
of rice to form the Soul of the Rice at harvest, vii. 198
—— knots in magic, iii. 303, 304, 305, 308
—— leaps over Midsummer fire, x. 213
—— -legged effigy of Lent, iv. 244 sq.
—— months' child, vii. 26, 29
—— rice-stalks cut and brought home with the King of the Rice in Mandeling, vii. 197
—— sorts of plants gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51 sq.
—— years, a were-wolf for, x. 310 n. 1, 316 n. 2
—— youths and maidens, tribute of, to the Minotaur, iv. 74 sqq.
Sevenoaks, in Kent, May garlands at, ii. 62
Seventh month of pregnancy, ceremony performed in the, i. 72 sq.
Sewing forbidden to women in absence of whalers, i. 121;
forbidden to women in absence of warriors, i. 128;
as a charm to blind wolves, ii. 330;
as a charm to render wolves powerless, iii. 307
Sex totems among the natives of South-Eastern Australia, xi. 214 sqq.;
called “brother” and “sister” by men and women respectively, xi. 215
Sexes, of plants, recognized by some savages and by the ancients, ii. 24;
influence of the, on vegetation, ii. 97 sqq.;
division of labour between the, vii. 129;
danger apprehended from the relation of the, xi. 277 sq.
Sextus Pompeius, his consultation of the Thessalian witch, iii. 390
Sexual communism, tradition of, ii. 284, 287
—— crime, blighting effects attributed to, ii. 107 sqq.
—— intercourse practised to make the crops and fruits grow, ii. 97, 98 sqq.
—— orgies as a fertility charm, ii. 98 sqq.
Seyf el-Mulook and the jinnee, the story of, xi. 137
Sgaus, Karen tribe of Burma, will not mention their parents' names, iii. 337
Sgealoir, the burying-ground of, in North Uist, x. 294
Sgreball, three pence, tax paid to the king of Munster for each fire in Ireland, x. 139
Shades of dead animals, fear of offending, iii. 205, 206, 207
Shadow, the soul identified with the, iii. 77 sqq.;
injury done to a man through his, iii. 78 sqq.;
diminution of shadow regarded with apprehension, iii. 86 sq.;
loss of the, regarded as ominous, iii. 88;
not to fall on a chief, iii. 255
Shadow Day, a gipsy name for Palm Sunday, iv. 243
—— -plays as a rain-charm in Java, i. 301 n.
—— Queen, the, thought to pass under ground in spring and reappear in autumn, iv. 243
Shadows of sacred trees not to be trodden on by women, ii. 34;
of people drawn out by ghosts, iii. 80;
animals injured through their, iii. 81 sq.;
of trees sensitive, iii. 82;
of certain birds and people viewed as dangerous, iii. 82 sq.;
of people built into the foundations of edifices, iii. 89 sq.;
of mourners [pg 457] dangerous, iii. 142;
of certain persons dangerous, iii. 173
Shahpur district of the Punjaub, rain-making in the, i. 278
Shakespear, Lt.-Colonel J., on the belief in demons among the Lushais, ix. 94
Shakespeare on death at the turn of the tide, i. 168
Shaking of victim as sign of its acceptance, i. 384 sq..
Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, captures Samaria, iv. 169;
carries the Israelites into captivity, iv. 171
Sham-fights at installation of Shilluk kings, iv. 24;
in honour of the dead, iv. 96 sq.;
at annual festival in Hawaii, iv. 117 sq.;
at the first bringing in of the rice among the Kayans, vii. 98;
at the festival of new fruits among the Creek Indians, viii. 75;
(mimic battles) before going to war, viii. 207;
at festival of New Year among the Tenggerese of Java, ix. 184;
at the sacrifice of a woman among the Mexicans, ix. 289;
at festival of New Year among the Swahili, x. 135
—— graves and corpses to deceive demons, viii. 98 sqq.
Shaman, function of the, ix. 79 sq.
Shamanism, magical ritual of the Vedas akin to, i. 229;
among the Koryaks, ix. 101
Shamanistic faith and magic, period of, among the forefathers of the Indo-Germanic race, ix. 91
Shamans, the importance of, among the Maidu, i. 357 sq.;
expected to drive away demons and disease from the village, i. 358;
expected to inflict death and disease on hostile villages, i. 358;
bones of dead, placed in trees, ii. 32;
Buryat, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 56 sq.;
among the Thompson Indians, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 57 sq.;
Yakut, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 63;
among the Haídas kill the souls of foes, iii. 72 n. 1;
thought to swallow people's souls, iii. 76 sq.;
among the Navajos, ceremony performed by them over a returned captive, iii. 113;
in Corea, their control of demons, ix. 99, 100;
among the Koryaks, enjoy the favour of demons and pull out their invisible arrows, ix. 101, 126;
expel demons at the winter solstice, ix. 126;
among the Esquimaux, their grotesque masks of supernatural beings, ix. 379;
their second sight, ix. 380;
of the Yakuts and Samoyeds, keep their external souls in animals, xi. 196
Shamash, Babylonian sun-god, xi. 80 n. 3;
his human wives, v. 71
——, Semitic god, v. 16 n. 1
Shamashshumukin, king of Babylon, burns himself, v. 173 sq., 176
Shammuramat, Assyrian queen, and Semiramis, v. 177 n. 1, ix. 370 n. 1
Shampoo, the fatal, ix. 42
Shan custom on return from a funeral, iii. 51;
modes of disposing of cut hair and nails, iii. 277.
See also Shans
Shanga, city in East Africa, story of an African Samson at, xi. 314
Shanghai, geomancy at, i. 170
Shans of Burma, rules observed by wife of absent warrior among the, i. 128;
obtain rain by drenching images of Buddha, i. 308;
their theory of earthquakes, v. 198;
cut bamboos for building in the wane of the moon, vi. 136;
custom of executioners among the, viii. 155
—— of Indo-China, their human sacrifices for the crops, vii. 243
—— of Kengtung, their expulsion of demons, ix. 116 sq.
—— of Southern China, their annual expulsion of the fire-spirit, ix. 141
Shape, magical changes of, vii. 305
Shark, king of Dahomey represented with body of a, iv. 85
Shark Point, priestly king at, iii. 5, 123
—— -shaped hero named Sigai in the island of Yam, v. 139 n. 1
Sharks, ancestral spirits in, viii. 123, 127;
offerings of flying-fish set before images of, viii. 127;
temples dedicated to, viii. 292;
souls of dead in, viii. 292 sq., 297
Sharp instruments, use of, tabooed, iii. 205, 237 sqq.
Shaving forbidden, iii. 194; prisoners, reason of, iii. 273
Shawms blown to ban witches, ix. 160
Shawnee prophet, xi. 157
Sheaf buried as a magical rite, i. 69
—— of corn dressed up to represent Death, iv. 248
——, the first cut, thought to contain the soul of the rice, vi. 239, vii. 197 sq.;
lamentations over, vii. 215;
called the “Cross of the Horse” and trodden by the youngest horse on the farm, vii. 294
——, the largest and finest, buried in corn-field from seed-time to harvest, vii. 174 sq.
——, the last cut at harvest used to make Brüd's bed in the Highlands of Scotland, ii. 94 n. 2;
the Corn-mother in, vii. 133 sqq.;
thresher tied up in, vii. 134, 147, 148;
dressed or made up as a woman, [pg 458] vii. 134, 135, 136, 137, 139 sq., 140, 141, 145, 146, 148, 150, 153, 154, 155, 157, 159, 160, 162, 163, 166, 190 sq.;
drenched with water, vii. 134, 137, 145, 297;
given to cattle, vii. 134, 155, 158, 161, 170;
stones fastened to, vii. 135 sq., 138, 139;
harvester tied up in, vii. 134, 139, 145, 221, 222;
called the Harvest-mother, vii. 135;
called the Great Mother, vii. 135, 136;
called the Old Woman or Old Man, vii. 136 sqq.;
called the Grandmother, vii. 136;
person identified with, vii. 138 sq.;
corn-spirit caught in, vii. 139;
called the Cailleach (Old Wife), vii. 140 sqq.;
burnt and its ashes strewed on fields, vii. 146;
called the Bastard, vii. 150;
called the Child, vii. 151;
given to the cattle at Christmas, vii. 155, 158, 160 sq.;
cut by the youngest girl on the field, vii. 157, 158;
kept till Christmas, then given to a mare in foal, vii. 160, 161 n. 1;
given to the first mare that foals, vii. 160, 162;
called the Bride, vii. 162 sq.;
supposed to ward off fairies, vii. 165;
representative of the corn-spirit, vii. 168, viii. 48;
in Lower Burma, vii. 190 sq.;
called the Old Man, vii. 218 sqq.;
an object of desire and emulation, vii. 218 n. 2;
in India, vii. 222 sq., 234 n. 2;
called the Neck, vii. 266, 267, 268;
called the Head, vii. 268;
the corn-spirit caught in, vii. 270;
thresher of the last sheaf treated as an animal, vii. 271;
called the Bitch, vii. 272;
called the Wolf, vii. 273;
shaped like a wolf, vii. 274;
called the Cock, vii. 276;
live cock bound up with, vii. 278;
called the Hare, vii. 279;
called the Cat, vii. 280;
called the Goat, vii. 282, 283;
shaped like a goat, vii. 283;
made up in form of horned ox, vii. 289;
called the Buffalo-bull, vii. 289;
called the Cow, vii. 289;
race of reapers to, vii. 291;
called the Mare, vii. 292 sq.;
called the Fox, vii. 297;
made in form of fox, vii. 297;
called the Rye-boar, vii. 298;
called the Rye-sow, Wheat-sow, Corn-sow, or Oats-sow, vii. 298;
corn of, used to bake the Yule Boar, vii. 300 sq.;
the corn-spirit immanent in, vii. 301, viii. 48, 328;
loaves baked from, viii. 48;
used to bake cakes in form of goats, rams, and boars at Christmas, viii. 328;
the Yule log wrapt up in, x. 248;
reapers blindfold throw sickles at the, xi. 279 n. 4
See also Clyack, Kirn, Mell, Maiden
Sheaf, the last threshed called the Corn-goat, Spelt-goat, or Oats-goat, vii. 286;
shaped like a goat, vii. 287, called the Fox, vii. 297
Sheaf of oats made up to represent St. Bride or Bridget, ii. 94 sq.
Sheaves of wheat or barley burnt in Midsummer fires, x. 215
Sheba or Sabaea, the kings of, not allowed to quit their palace, iii. 124;
their priestly character, iii. 125 n.
Sheep torn by wolf in homoeopathic magic, i. 157;
driven through fire, ii. 327, xi. 11 sqq.;
bred by people of the Italian pile villages, ii. 353 n. 3;
used in purificatory ceremonies, iii. 174, 175;
shoulder-blades of, used in divination, iii. 229;
to be shorn when the moon is waxing, vi. 134;
to be shorn in the waning of the moon, vi. 134 n. 3;
reason for not eating, viii. 140;
ghosts of, dreaded, viii. 231;
used as scapegoat among the ancient Arabs, ix. 35;
made to tread embers of extinct Midsummer fires, x. 182;
driven over ashes of Midsummer fires, x. 192;
burnt to stop disease in the flock, x. 301;
burnt alive as a sacrifice in the Isle of Man, x. 306;
omens drawn from the intestines of, xi. 13;
passed through a hole in a rock to rid them of disease, xi. 189 sq.
——, black, sacrificed for rain, i. 290;
wetted as a rain-charm, i. 290;
witch in shape of a, x. 316
Sheep-headed women, statuettes of, found at Lycosura, viii. 21 n. 4
—— -skin, fumigation with, viii. 324
—— -skins, candidates at initiation seated on, vii. 38;
people beaten with, ix. 265
Sheitan dere, the Devil's Glen, in Cilicia, v. 150
Shell called “old man,” homoeopathic magic of, i. 158
Shells used in ritual of death and resurrection, xi. 267 n. 2, 269
—— of eggs preserved, viii. 258 n. 2
Shenty, Egyptian cow-goddess, vi. 88
Shepherd beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371
Shepherd's Isle, exorcism of strangers in, iii. 104
—— pouch thrashed as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 338
—— prayer, ii. 327 sq.
Shepherds, Roman, fumigate their flocks, ii. 327, viii. 42
Shepherds' festival, ancient Italian, ii. 326 sqq.
Sherbro, Sierra Leone, sacred society in the, xi. 259 sqq.
Shervaray Hills in Travancore, the Malayalies of the, iii. 402
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Shetland, tying up the wind in knots in, i. 326;
witches in, i. 326;
Yule in, ix. 167 sqq.
—— fishermen, their use of magical images, i. 69 sq.;
their tabooed words, iii. 394
Shields of manslayers struck to make them resound, iii. 178;
of the Salii struck with staves, iii. 233
Shifting cultivation, vii. 99
—— dates of Egyptian festivals, vi. 24 sq.
Shilluk kings animated by the divine spirit of Nyakang, iv. 18;
put to death before their strength fails, iv. 21 sq., vi. 163;
worshipped after death, iv. 24 sqq., vi. 161 sqq.
Shilluks, a tribe of the White Nile, iv. 17 sqq.;
custom of putting to death the divine kings, iv. 17 sqq., 204, 206;
their worship of Nyakang, the first of the Shilluk kings, iv. 18 sqq., vi. 162 sqq.;
ceremony on the accession of a new king of the, iv. 23 sq., 26 sq., 204;
their worship of dead kings, iv. 24 sqq., vi. 161 sq.;
transmission of soul of divine founder of dynasty to all successors among the, iv. 198, 204
Shin, Loch, Hugh Miller on, iii. 40
Shinto rain-making ceremony, i. 297;
priest exorcizes demons of plague, ix. 118
Shinty, the Scotch name for hockey, viii. 323, 324 n. 1
Ship, sicknesses expelled in a, ix. 185 sqq.;
demons expelled in a, ix. 201 sq.
Ships sunk by witches, i. 135;
ancient processions with, perhaps rain-charms, i. 251 n. 3
Shire River, the Makanga on the, viii. 287
Shirley Heath, cleft ash-tree at, xi. 168
Shirt worn by the effigy of Death, its use, iv. 247, 249
——, wet, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 236, 241
Shiverings and shakings as signs of inspiration, i. 377
Shoa, belief as to the shadow of an enemy in, iii. 83;
a province of Abyssinia, customs observed at eating in, iii. 116
Shoe untied at marriage, iii. 300;
custom of going with one shoe on and one shoe off, iii. 311 sqq.;
divination by thrown, x. 236
Shoes of priestess not to be made from skin of animal that died a natural death, iii. 14;
not to be brought into the sanctuary of Alectrona, viii. 45;
not to be worn in sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura, viii. 46;
of boar's skins worn by king at inauguration, x. 4;
magical plants at Midsummer put in, xi. 54, 60, 65
Shogun's palace in Japan, ix. 144
Shooter, Rev. J., on the agricultural labours of women among the Zulus, vii. 113 sq.;
on breaking a calabash and sacrifice of bulls at Zulu festival of first-fruits, viii. 68 n. 3
Shooting at the sun on Midsummer Day, xi. 291
“—— the Witches” on St. Sylvester's Day in Bohemia, ix. 164;
at witches in the clouds among the South Slavs, x. 345
Shooting stars, superstitions as to, iv. 58 sqq.
Shorea robusta, the sâl tree, sacred groves of, among the Khonds, ii. 41
Shortland, E., on taboo in New Zealand, iii. 134 n. 3
“Shot-a-dead” by fairies, x. 303
Shoulder-blades of sheep used in divination, iii. 229, 229 n. 4, viii. 234
Shoulders of medicine-men especially sensitive, v. 74 n. 4
Shouting as a means of stopping earthquakes, v. 197 sqq.
Shravan, an Indian month, iv. 55
Shrew-ash, how prepared, i. 83
—— -mouse in magic, i. 83
Shrine (fierte) of St. Romain at Rouen, ii. 167, 168, 170 n. 1;
of Aesculapius at Sicyon, v. 81
——, golden models of, found in royal graves at Mycenae, v. 33
Shrines of dead Shilluk kings, iv. 24 sq.;
of shark-shaped and crocodile-shaped heroes in Yam, v. 139 n. 1
Shropshire, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 78;
cutting “the neck” at harvest in, vii. 268;
“to loose the goose” at harvest in, vii. 277 n. 3;
“crying the Mare” at harvest in, vii. 293 sq.;
the sin-eater in, ix. 44;
the tug-of-war at Ludlow in, ix. 182;
fires on Twelfth Night in, ix. 321;
the Yule log in, x. 257;
fear of witchcraft in, x. 342 n. 4;
the oak thought to bloom on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 292, 293
Shrove Tuesday, dances on, to make the hemp or flax grow tall, i. 138 sq.;
straw puppet burnt by the Slovenes on, ii. 93;
Burial of the Carnival on, iv. 221 sqq.;
mock death of, iv. 227 sqq.;
drama of Summer and Winter on, iv. 257;
pig's flesh boiled on, vii. 300;
dances to make the flax thrive on, viii. 326;
the tug-of-war on, ix. 182 sq.;
game of ball on, ix. 183;
dances to promote the growth of the crops on, ix. 239, 347;
effigies burnt on, x. 120;
straw-man burnt on, xi. [pg 460] 22;
wicker giants on, xi. 35;
cats burnt alive on, xi. 40;
the divining-rod cut on, xi. 68;
custom of striking a hen dead on, xi. 279 n.
Shrovetide Bear, the, iv. 230, viii. 325 sq.
—— custom in the Erzgebirge, iv. 208 sq.;
in Bohemia, iv. 209
Shu, Egyptian god of light, v. 283 n. 3
Shumpaoli, god of the Makalaka, first-fruits offered to him, viii. 110 sq.
Shurii-Kia-Miau, aboriginal tribe in China, annual human sacrifice among the, iv. 145
Shushan (Susa), fast of the Jews in, ix. 397
Shuswap Indians of British Columbia, their contagious magic of foot-prints, i. 210;
their beliefs and customs concerning twins, i. 265;
their way of bringing on cold weather, i. 319;
their recovery of lost souls, iii. 67 n.;
their belief as to the shadows of mourners, iii. 83;
customs observed by mourners among the, iii. 142;
girls at puberty forbidden to scratch themselves among the, iii. 146 n. 1;
continence of hunters among the, iii. 198;
eat nutlets of pines, v. 278 n. 2;
their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 226 sq.;
their regard for the bones of beavers, viii. 238;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 53 sq.;
girls at puberty forbidden to eat anything that bleeds among the, x. 94;
fence themselves with thorn bushes against ghosts, xi. 174 n. 2;
personal totems among the, xi. 276 n. 1;
their belief as to trees struck by lightning, xi. 297 n. 3
Shway Yoe (Sir George Scott), on the worship of nats in Burma, ix. 96
Sia Indians, chastity of hunters among the, iii. 197 sq.
Siam, use of fire kindled by lightning in, ii. 256 n. 1;
modes of executing royal criminals in, iii. 241 sq.;
forbidden to walk over the head of a superior in, iii. 254;
tigers and crocodiles not named in their haunts in, iii. 403 sq.;
annual temporary kings in, iv. 149 sqq.;
catafalque burnt at funeral of king of, v. 179;
annual festival of the dead in, vi. 65;
sickness transferred from sick man to image in, viii. 103;
the Laosians of, ix. 97;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 149 sqq.;
human scapegoats in, ix. 212;
tree-spirit in serpent form in, xi. 44 n. 1.
See also Siamese
——, king of, divinity of, i. 401;
his perpetual fire, ii. 262;
not allowed to set foot on ground, x. 3
——, kings of, their bodies not to be touched under pain of death, iii. 226;
names of, concealed from fear of sorcery, iii. 375
Siamese, the, do violence to the gods in time of drought or excessive rain, i. 299;
fear to fell fine trees, ii. 41;
kindle a sacred fire by means of a metal mirror or burning-glass, ii. 245 n.;
their belief as to foundation sacrifices, iii. 90;
their superstition as to passing under a rope, iii. 250;
their belief as to a guardian spirit in the head, iii. 252 sq.;
mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 218;
their explanation of a first menstruation, x. 24;
their story of the external soul, xi. 102
Siamese children, ceremony at cutting their hair, iii. 265 sqq.;
disposal of their cut hair, iii. 275
—— monks, their respect for trees, ii. 13
—— objection to stamping coins with the image of the king, iii. 98 sq.
—— year of twelve lunar months, ix. 149 n. 2
Siaoo, or Siauw, East Indian island, belief as to sylvan spirits in, ii. 33;
magic wrought by means of spittle in, iii. 288;
puppets substituted for human sacrificial victims in, iv. 218;
children sacrificed to volcano in, v. 219
Sibaia, a good spirit in Nias, viii. 276
Siberia, the Jukagirs of, i. 122; the Buryats of, ii. 32;
the Orotchis of, iii. 232;
the Samoyeds of, iii. 353;
the natives of, will not call bears by their proper name, iii. 398;
Eastern, the Gilyaks of, viii. 190;
North-East, the Chuckchees of, viii. 221;
North-East, the Koryaks of, viii. 232;
marriage custom in, x. 75;
external souls of shamans in, xi. 196 sq.
Siberian sable-hunters, their respect for dead sables, viii. 238
Sibitti-baal, king of Byblus, paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser, v. 14
Sibree, Rev. J., on divinity of Betsileo chiefs, i. 397
Sibyl, the, and the Golden Bough, i. 11;
and Aeneas, i. 11;
the Grotto of, at Marsala, v. 247;
the Norse, her prophecy, x. 102 sq.
Sibyl's wish, the, x. 99
Sibylline Books, v. 265
Sicilians, Demeter's gift of corn to the, vii. 56 sq.;
their lamentations at being robbed of an image of Demeter, vii. 65
Sicily, stones tied to fruit-trees in, i. 140;
attempts to compel the saints to give rain in, i. 299 sq.;
barren fruit-trees threatened in, ii. 21 sq.;
date of the artificial fertilization of fig-trees in, ii. 314;
Syrian prophet in, v. 74; fossil bones in, v. 157;
hot springs in, v. [pg 461] 213;
gardens of Adonis in, v. 245, 253 sq.;
divination at Midsummer in, v. 254;
Good Friday ceremonies in, v. 255 sq.;
worship of Demeter and Persephone in, vii. 56, 65;
Ascension Day in, ix. 54;
Midsummer fires in, x. 210;
St. John's Day (Midsummer Day) regarded as dangerous and unlucky in, xi. 29;
bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 29;
St. John's wort as a balm in, xi. 55
Sick, sacrifices for the, iv. 20, 25;
thought to be possessed by the spirits of kings, iv. 25 sq.
Sick man, attempts to prevent the escape of the soul of, iii. 30 sqq.
—— and old people put to death, iv. 14
—— people passed through a hole in an oak, ii. 371;
not allowed to sleep, iii. 95;
sprinkled with pungent spices, iii. 105 sq.;
resort to cave of Pluto, v. 205 sq.
See also Sickness
—— -room, mirrors covered up in, iii. 95
Sickles thrown at last standing corn, vii. 136, 142, 144, 153, 154, 165, 267, 268, 279, 296
Sickness, homoeopathic magic for the cure of, i. 78 sqq.;
explained by the absence of the soul, iii. 42 sqq.;
caused by ancestral spirits, iii. 53;
ascribed to possession by demons and cured by exorcism, iii. 105 sq.;
thought to be caused by demons or ghosts, viii. 100 sqq., ix. 88, 94, 100, 102, 103, 109 sqq.;
cured or prevented by effigies, viii. 100 sqq.;
transferred to things, ix. 2 sq., 4 sq.;
transferred to people, ix. 6 sq.;
transferred to animals in Africa and other parts of the world, ix. 31 sqq., xi. 181;
transferred to animals in Europe, ix. 49 sqq.;
bonfires a protection against, x. 108, 109.
See also Disease
Sicknesses expelled in a ship, ix. 185 sqq.
Sicyon, the wooing of Agariste at, ii. 307;
shrine of Aesculapius at, v. 81;
the sanctuary of Wolfish Apollo at, viii. 283;
wolves at, viii. 283, 284
Sidon, kings of, as priests of Astarte, v. 26
Siebold, H. von, on the bear-festivals of the Ainos, viii. 185 n.
Sieg, the Yule log in the valley of the, x. 248
Siem, king, among the Khasis of Assam, vi. 210 n. 1
Siena, the, of the Ivory Coast, their totemism, xi. 220 n. 2
Sierck, town on the Moselle, the mayor of, officiates at the lighting of the Midsummer fire, x. 164
Sierra Leone, the Grebo people of, iii. 14;
custom of beating a king before proclaiming him in, iii. 18;
the Pleiades observed by the natives of, vii. 317 sq.;
birth-trees in, xi. 160;
secret society in, xi. 260 sq.
Sierra Nevada in Colombia, the Aurohuaca Indians of the, iii. 215, 216
Sieves in homoeopathic magic, i. 157;
in rain-making, i. 251;
water poured through, as a rain-charm, i. 285;
children at birth placed in, vii. 6 sqq.;
divination by, x. 236
Sigai, hero in form of shark, v. 139 n. 1
Sigurd and the dragon Fafnir, iii. 324, viii. 146
Sihanaka, the, of Madagascar, funeral custom of the, vi. 246;
transference of sickness to things among the, ix. 2 sq.
Sikhim, kings of, puppets in the hands of priests, iii. 20;
villagers in, their fear of being photographed, iii. 98;
the people of, believe that ores and veins of metal are the treasure of earth-spirits, iii. 407 n. 2;
offerings at cairns in, ix. 26;
demonolatry in, ix. 94;
custom after a funeral in, xi. 18
Silberberg, in Bohemia, custom at flax-dressing in, vii. 194
Silence observed by women in making pottery, ii. 204;
enforced during absence of fisher, viii. 256;
at transferring fever to willow, ix. 58;
compulsory, to deceive demons, ix. 132 sq., 140;
compulsory on girls at puberty, x. 29, 57;
at bathing on Easter Saturday night, x. 123;
at fetching water on Easter Saturday night, x. 124;
at digging the root of the yellow mullein at midnight on Midsummer Eve, xi. 63;
at cutting a branch of hazel to form a divining-rod by night on Midsummer Eve, xi. 67;
in passing a ruptured or rickety child through a cleft tree, xi. 171;
in creeping through a hoop of willow as a cure, xi. 184
Silenuses, minor deities associated with Dionysus, viii. 1 sq.
Silesia, custom as to children's cast teeth in, i. 181;
precautions against witches on May Day in, ii. 54 sq.;
Whitsuntide King in, ii. 84;
contest for the kingship at Whitsuntide in, ii. 89 sq.;
St. George's Day in, ii. 336 sq.;
Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 207 n. 1;
“Carrying out Death” in, iv. 236 sq., 239 sq., 250 sq., 264 sq., x. 119;
bringing in Summer in, iv. 246;
athletic sports at harvest in, vii. 76;
the Grandmother sheaf at harvest in, vii. 136;
the last sheaf called the Old Woman or Old Man in, vii. 138, 148 sq.;
Girlachsdorf in, vii. 138;
Hermsdorf in, vii. 139;
woman binder of last sheaf tied up in it in, vii. 139, 222;
loaf baked from corn [pg 462] of last sheaf in, vii. 148 sq.;
Langenbielau in, vii. 148;
the Wheat-bride, Oats-bride, Oats-king, and Oats-queen at harvest in, vii. 163 sq.;
Neisse in, vii. 164;
man who binds the last sheaf called the Beggar-man in, vii. 231;
Alt Lest in, vii. 231;
corn-stalks left on harvest-field in, vii. 233;
man who cuts or binds last sheaf called Wheat-dog or Peas-pug in, vii. 272;
reaping the last corn called “catching the Wolf” in, vii. 273;
the Harvest-cock in, vii. 277;
reaping the last corn called “catching the Cat” in, vii. 280;
reaper of last corn called the Tom-cat in, vii. 281;
Grüneberg in, vii. 281;
last sheaf shaped like a horned ox in, vii. 289;
Bunzlau in, vii. 289;
“catching the quail” at harvest in, vii. 295;
expulsion of witches on Good Friday in, ix. 157;
precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night in, ix. 162 sq.;
precautions against witches at Christmas and New Year in, ix. 164;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268, 269;
mode of reckoning the Twelve Days in, ix. 327;
Spachendorf in, x. 119;
fires to burn the witches in, x. 160;
Midsummer fires in, x. 170 sq., 175;
need-fire in, x. 278;
witches as cats in, x. 319 sq.;
divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 53 Silili, a Babylonian goddess, ix. 371
Silius Italicus, on the fire-walk of the Hirpi Sorani, xi. 14 n. 3
Silk-cotton trees reverenced, ii. 14 sq.
Silkworms, taboos observed by breeders of, iii. 194
Sill of door, unlucky children passed under the, xi. 190
Silvanus, the Roman wood-god, his representations in art, ii. 45 n. 2;
associated with Diana, ii. 121;
god of cattleas well as woods, ii. 124;
associated with the Fauns, viii. 2
Silver and gold as totems, iii. 227 n.
Silver poplar a charm against witchcraft, ii. 336
—— sixpence or button used to shoot witches with, x. 316
Silvia and Mars, story of, xi. 192
Silvii, the family name of the kings of Alba, ii. 178 sqq., 192, 379
Silvius, first king of Alba, ii. 179
Simbang, in German New Guinea, belief in the transmigration of human souls into crocodiles at, viii. 295
Simbirsk, Government of, in Russia, the “Funeral of Kostroma” in, iv. 262
Simeon, prince of Bulgaria, his life bound up with the capital of a column, xi. 156 sq.
Similarity in magic, law of, i. 52, 53
Similkameen Indians, of British Columbia, eat hearts of bears to make them brave, viii. 146
Simla, annual fair and dance near, x. 12
Simplification, danger of excessive simplification in science, i. 332 sq.
Simpson, W., as to Emperors of China, iii. 125 n. 3
Simurgh and Rustem, in Firdusi's Epic of Kings, x. 104
Sin regarded as something material, iii. 214, 216, 217 sq.;
transferred to things, ix. 3. See also Sins
Sin-eater, the, ix. 43 sq.
—— -eating in Wales, ix. 43 sq.
—— -offering, x. 82
Sinai, “Mistress of Turquoise” at, v. 35
Sinaitic Peninsula, annual festival of Bedouins in the, iv. 97
Sinaugolo tribe of British New Guinea, women after childbirth not allowed to handle food in the, iii. 147 sq.
Sinew of the thigh, customs and myths as to, viii. 264 sqq.
Sinews of sacrificial ox cut, vi. 252;
of dead men cut to disable their ghosts, viii. 272
Singa Bonga, spirit who dwells in the sun, the first-fruits of the harvest dedicated to him by the Hos of Bengal, viii. 117
Singalang Burong, a Dyak war-god, invoked in a long liturgy at the Head-feast, ix. 383, 384 n. 1;
the Ruler of the Spirit World, story of the marriage of his daughter to a mortal man, iv. 127 sq.
Singarmati Devi, Indian goddess, worshipped by breeders of silkworms in Mirzapur, iii. 194
Singer, charm to become a good, i. 156;
navel-string used to make a boy a fine, i. 197 sq.;
the best, chosen chief, ii. 298 sq.
Singhalese, their fear of demons, iii. 233 sq.;
their use of iron as a talisman against demons, iii. 233 sq.;
unlock locks to facilitate childbirth, iii. 297;
their custom of tying a knot as a charm on a threshing-floor, iii. 308 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 69. See also Cingalese
Singhalese custom as to cast teeth, i. 180
—— sorcerers, their use of magical images, i. 65
Singing to the moon by wives and sisters in the absence of the men, i. 125
Singleton, Miss A. H., on hunting the wren in Ireland, viii. 320 n. 1;
on an Irish cure for whooping-cough, xi. 192 n. 1
Sink or swim, in divination, i. 196;
test [pg 463] used to determine a new incarnation, i. 413
Sins, the remission of, through the shedding of blood, v. 299;
transferred to a buffalo calf, ix. 36 sq.;
transferred vicariously to human beings, ix. 39 sqq.;
of people transferred to animals, ix. 210;
the Jewish confession of, over the scapegoat, ix. 210;
the absolution of, pronounced by the Mikado, ix. 213 n. 1;
Delaware Indian remedies for, ix. 263
——, confession of, i. 266, iii. 114, 191, 195, 211 sq., 214 sqq., ix. 31, 36, 127;
originally a magical ceremony, iii. 217
Sinsharishkun, last king of Assyria, burned himself in his palace, v. 174
Sintang, district of West Borneo, use of rice to attract souls in, iii. 35
Sinuessa, in Campania, its waters thought to fertilize women, ii. 161
Siouan tribes of North America, names of clans not used in ordinary conversation among the, xi. 224 n. 2
Sioux Indians ate the hearts of brave enemies to make themselves brave, viii. 150;
their respect for turtles, viii. 243;
ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 268 sq.
—— girl sacrificed for the crops, vii. 238 sq.
Siphnos, titular kings in, i. 46 n. 4;
ceremonies at felling a tree in the island of, ii. 37
Siphoum, in Laos, taboos observed by salt-workers at, iii. 200
Sipi in Northern India, annual fair and dance at, x. 12
Sipylus, Mother Plastene on Mount, v. 185
Siriac or Sothic period in ancient Egypt, vi. 36
Sirius (the Dog-star), the soul of Isis in, iv. 5;
observed by Egyptian astronomers, vi. 27;
called Sothis by the Egyptians, vi. 34;
date of its rising in ancient Egypt, vi. 34;
heliacal rising of, on July 20th, vi. 34 n. 1, 93;
the star of Isis, vi. 34, 119;
its rising marked the beginning of the sacred Egyptian year, vi. 35;
its rising observed in Ceos, vi. 35 n. 1;
sacrifices offered at its rising on the top of Mount Pelion, vi. 36 n.;
in connexion with the Sed festival, vi. 152 sq.;
associated with Ishtar, ix. 359 n. 1;
how the Bushmen warm up, x. 332 sq.
Sis in Cilicia, v. 144
Sister, marriage with, in royal families, iv. 193 sq.
—— and brother not allowed to mention each other's names, iii. 344
—— of a god, v. 51
Sister's Beam (Sororium tigillum) at Rome, xi. 194, 195 n. 4
—— children preferred to man's own children, mark of mother-kin, ii. 285
Sisters, taboos observed by, in the absence of their brothers, i. 122, 123, 125, 127;
kings marry their, v. 316
—— of king, licence accorded to, ii. 274 sqq.
—— of hunters, taboos observed by, i. 122
Sisters-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, iii. 338, 342, 343
Sisyphus, the stone of, x. 298
Sit (Set), malignant Egyptian god, iii. 68. See Set
Sita, wife of Rama, the Holy Basil (tulasi) regarded as an embodiment of, ii. 26
Sithon, king of the Odomanti, and his daughter Pallene, ii. 307
Sitting on the ground prohibited to warriors, iii. 159, 162, 163
Situa, annual festival of the Incas, ix. 128
Siu, a Sea Dyak, and his bird wife, iv. 127 sq.
Siva, one of the persons of the Hindoo Trinity, i. 404;
his wife Gauri, ii. 77 sq.
—— and Pârvati, marriage of the images of, iv. 265 sq.
Six hundred and sixty-six, the number of the Beast, iv. 44
Sixpence, silver, witches shot with a, x. 316
Sixth day of the moon, mistletoe cut on the, xi. 77
Sixty years, cycles of, xi. 77 n. 1
Siyins of North-Eastern India, their belief in demons, ix. 93
Sizu in Cilicia, v. 144
Skates worshipped by the Indians of Peru, viii. 250
Skatsantzari, fiends or monsters in Macedonia, ix. 320
Skeat, W. W., on Malay rain-making, i. 262;
on the sanctity of the regalia among the Malays, i. 398;
on the Rice-mother and Rice-child among the Malays, vii. 197 sqq.
—— and Blagdon, C. O., on the power of medicine-men among the wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula, i. 360 sq.
Skein, tangled, as a talisman to keep off ghosts, ix. 153 n. 1
Skeleton drenched with water as a rain-charm, i. 284
Skene, W. F., on the Picts as Celts, ii. 286 n. 2
Skin of slain animal placed on a dead man to recruit his strength, iii. 68 sq.;
of sacrificial victim in Greek ritual, iii. [pg 464] 312;
of ox stuffed and set up, v. 296 sq., viii. 5;
body of Egyptian dead placed in a bull's, vi. 15 n. 2;
of sacrificial victim used in the rite of the new birth, vi. 155 sq.;
of sacrificed ram placed on statue of Ammon, viii. 41, 172;
of sacrificed bird or animal, uses of, viii. 170, 173 sq.
See also Skins
Skin-disease, bathing in dew at Midsummer as remedy for, v. 247, 248, x. 208;
caused by eating a sacred animal, viii. 25 sqq.;
supposed remedy for, ix. 266;
Mexican remedy for, ix. 298;
leaping over ashes of fire as remedy for, xi. 2;
traditional cure of, in India, xi. 192
Skinner, Principal J., on the burnt sacrifice of children, vi. 219
Skins of sacrificed animals hung in sacred groves, ii. 11;
of horses stuffed and set up at graves, v. 293, 294;
of sacrificed animals stuffed or stretched on frameworks, viii. 5, 257 sq.;
of sacrificial victims used to beat people, ix. 265;
creatures that slough their, supposed to renew their youth, ix. 302 sqq.
—— of human victims, uses made of, v. 293;
worn by men in Mexico, ix. 265 sq., 288, 290, 294 sq., 296 sqq., 301 sq.
Skipping-rope played by Gilyaks at bear-festival, viii. 192
Skoptsi or Skoptsy, the, a fanatical Russian sect, mutilate themselves, ii. 145 n. 1, iv. 196 n. 3
Skull of dead king, drinking out of, as a means of inspiration, iv. 200, vi. 171;
drinking out of a human, in order to acquire the qualities of the deceased, viii. 150;
of enemy, lad at circumcision seated on, viii. 153.
See also Skulls
Skull-cap worn by girls at their first menstruation, iii. 146;
worn by Australian widows, iii. 182 n. 2
Skulls used as charms to cause invisibility, i. 150;
of raccoons prayed to for rain, i. 288;
of bears nailed to sacred firs, ii. 11;
of dead used as drinking-cups among the Australian aborigines, iii. 372;
of dead kings of Uganda removed and kept, iv. 202 sq., vi. 169;
human, as protection against powers of evil, vii. 241;
the Place of, vii. 243;
spirits of ancestors in their, viii. 123;
of bears worshipped by the Ainos, viii. 181, 184;
of foxes consulted as oracles, viii. 181; of bears as talismans, viii. 197;
of turtles propitiated by turtle-fishermen, viii. 244;
of enemies destroyed, viii. 260
——, ancestral, used in magical ceremonies, i. 163; in rain-charm, i. 285;
rubbed as a propitiation, iii. 197;
offerings set beside, viii. 127
Sky, twins called the children of the, i. 267, 268;
appeal to the pity of the, as a rain-charm, i. 302 sq.;
Aryan god of the, ii. 374 sq.;
observation of the, for omens, iv. 58;
conceived by the Egyptians as a cow, v. 283 n. 3;
girls at puberty not allowed to look at the, x. 43, 45, 46, 69
—— and earth, myth of their violent separation, v. 283
Sky-god, Attis as a, v. 282 sqq.;
married to Earth-goddess, v. 282, with n. 2;
mutilation of the, v. 283;
invoked at Eleusis, vii. 69
—— -god Zeus, vii. 65
—— -goddess, the Egyptian, ix. 341
—— -spirit, sacrifice of children to, iv. 181
Skye, x. 289;
sacred wood in the island of, ii. 44;
the need-fire in, ii. 238, x. 148;
the last sheaf called the Cripple or Lame Goat at harvest in, vii. 164, 284
Sladen, Colonel, expulsion of fire-spirit among the Shans witnessed by, ix. 141
Slain, fear of the ghosts of the, iii. 165 sqq.
Slane, the hill of, Paschal fire lit by St. Patrick on the, x. 158
Slaughter of the Dragon, drama of the, at Delphi and Thebes, iv. 78 sqq., 89;
myth of the, iv. 105 sqq.
—— of prisoners often a sacrifice to the gods, v. 290 n. 2
Slave, charm to bring back a runaway, i. 152, 317;
whipped for rain or sunshine, i. 297;
treated as the representative of heaven, i. 399 sq.
Slave Indians will not taste blood, iii. 241;
do not pare nails of female children, iii. 263
—— priests at Nemi, i. 11
—— women, religious ceremony performed by, ii. 313, ix. 258
Slave Coast of West Africa, custom observed by the mother of stillborn twins on the, i. 269 n. 1;
the Ewe negroes of the, i. 317, iii. 263;
the Ewe-speaking peoples of the, ii. 15, 149, iii. 9, 116, 119, 222, 323, v. 83 n. 1, ix. 74;
negroes of the, their story of a fungus which revealed a murder, ii. 33;
negroes of the, allure the tree-spirit from the tree, ii. 35;
exorcism of demons from children on the, iii. 106;
Jebu on the, iii. 121;
children protected against demons by iron on the, iii. 235;
the Yoruba-speaking negroes of the, iii. 252, viii. 149;
custom at [pg 465] end of mourning on the, iii. 286;
precaution as to the spittle of kings on the, iii. 289;
Porto Novo on the, iv. 117;
Whydah on the, iv. 188;
sacred men and women on the, v. 65, 68;
the Adeli of the, viii. 116;
custom of widows on the, xi. 18 sq.;
use of bull-roarers on the, xi. 229 n.
See also Ewe negroes
Slaves succeed to kingdom in Ashantee in default of sons and sisters' sons, ii. 275;
succeed to kingdom in the Fantee country to exclusion of sons, ii. 275;
licence granted to, at Saturnalia, ii. 312, ix. 307 sq., 350 sq., 351 sq.;
female, licence accorded to, at the Nonae Caprotinae, ii. 313 sq.;
runaway, charm for recovering, iii. 305 sq.;
sacrificed as substitutes for their masters at the funeral of a king, iv. 117;
sacred, in Western Asia, v. 39 n. 1;
feasted by their masters, ix. 308, 350 sq.;
feasted by their mistresses, ix. 346.
See also Slave
—— of the Earth Gods among the Ewe negroes, viii. 61, 62 n. 1
Slavonia, “Carrying out Death” in, iv. 240;
Good Friday custom in, ix. 268;
the Yule log in, x. 262 sq.;
need-fire in, x. 282
—— (South), peasants of, threaten fruit-trees to make them bear fruit, ii. 21;
crown their cattle on St. George's Day as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 126 sq.;
the measures they take to bring down witches from the clouds, x. 345.
See also Slavonians and Slavs
Slavonian bride led thrice round the fire of her new home, ii. 230
—— custom of throwing a knife or a hat at a whirlwind, i. 329
Slavonians, South, housebreaker's charm to cause sleep among the, i. 148;
thief's charm among the, i. 153;
their custom as to cast teeth, i. 178;
their belief as to trees growing on graves, ii. 32 sq.;
their belief as to the fertilization of barren women by fruit-trees, ii. 56 sq., 344;
wash their cows in dew on Midsummer morning, ii. 127;
their custom of impregnating a woman by sparks of fire, ii. 231;
their belief as to stepping over a person, iii. 424;
transfer their laziness to a cornel-tree, ix. 54 sq.
See also Slavonia and Slavs
Slavonic countries, the corn-spirit as a dog or wolf in, vii. 271
—— custom of “Carrying out Death,” ix. 230
—— peoples, harvest customs concerning the last sheaf among the, vii. 144 sqq.;
“Easter Smacks” among the, ix. 268;
need-fire among the, x. 280 sqq., 344
Slavonic stories of the external soul, xi. 108 sqq.
—— year, the beginning of the, ix. 228
Slavs, tree-worship among the heathen, ii. 9;
love charms and divination on St. George's Day among the, ii. 345 sq.;
the thunder-god Perun of the, ii. 365;
custom of regicide among the, iv. 52;
festival of the New Year among the old, iv. 221;
the old, began their year with March, iv. 221 sq.;
“Sawing the Old Woman” among the, iv. 242;
the Corn-mother among the, vii. 132, 135;
black god and white god among the, ix. 92;
the oak a sacred tree among the, xi. 89;
oak-wood used to kindle sacred fires among the, xi. 91
—— of the Balkan Peninsula, their mode of kindling fire by friction, ii. 237;
will not blow on fire of hearth with their mouths, ii. 241;
locks and keys as amulets among the, iii. 308
—— of Carinthia, Green George on St. George's Day among the, ii. 75, 343
——, South, their magic of footprints, i. 211;
St. George's Day the chief festival of spring among the, ii. 339 sq.;
divine by the shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 n. 4;
names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 337;
practice of childless women among the, in order to obtain children, v. 96;
children of living parents at marriage among the, vi. 246;
Midsummer fires among the, x. 178;
the Yule log among the, x. 247, 258 sqq.;
divination from flowers at Midsummer among the, xi. 50;
their belief in the activity of witches at Midsummer, xi. 74 sq.;
need-fire sometimes kindled by the friction of oak-wood among the, xi. 91
——, the Western, religious capital of, i. 383
Slayers of leopards, rules of diet observed by, viii. 230 sq.
Slaying of the Dragon, annual drama at Furth in Bavaria, ii. 163 sq.;
of the king in legend, iv. 120 sqq.;
of the Dragon by Apollo at Delphi, vi. 240 sq.
Sleeman, General Sir William, on the use of scapegoats in India, ix. 190 sq.
Sleep, homoeopathic magic of the dead used to produce, i. 147 sqq.;
charms employed by burglars to cause, i. 148 sq.;
absence of soul in, iii. 36 sqq.;
forbidden in house after a death, iii. 37 sq.;
sick people not allowed to, iii. 95;
on the ground forbidden, iii. 110;
in bed forbidden, iii. 194;
forbidden [pg 466] to unsuccessful eagle-hunter, iii. 199;
magic, at initiation, xi. 256 sq.
Sleep of the god in winter, according to the Phrygians, vi. 41
“—— of war,” among the Blackfoot Indians, i. 147
Sleeper not to be wakened suddenly, iii. 39 sqq.;
not to be moved nor his appearance altered, iii. 41 sq.
Sleeping by day forbidden to women during the absence of warriors, i. 127 sq.;
on the ground, custom observed by certain priests, ii. 248
Sligo, County, the Druids' Hill in, x. 229
Sloe, twigs of the, burnt on May Day as a protection against witches, ix. 158 sq.
Slope of Big Stones in Harris, x. 227
—— of Virbius on the Esquiline hill at Rome, i. 4 n. 5, ii. 321
Sloth, the animal, imitated by masker, ix. 381
Sloughing the skin supposed to be a mode of renewing youth, ix. 302 sqq.
Slovenes, their custom of Green George on St. George's Day, ii. 79, 343
—— of Overkrain burn a straw puppet on Shrove Tuesday, ii. 93
Slovenians, their belief in the activity of witches on Midsummer Eve, xi. 75
Slow-footed animals not eaten by some savage tribes lest they make the eaters slow also, viii. 139 sq.;
eaten by preference by the Bushmen, viii. 140 sq.
Small Bird clan of the Dinkas, iv. 31
Smallpox not mentioned by its proper name, iii. 400, 410, 411, 416;
Chinese cure for, by means of beans and a winnowing-sieve, vii. 9 sq.;
clay figures offered as substitutes for living persons to the spirit of, viii. 106;
transference of, in Mirzapur, ix. 6;
demon of, transferred to a sow, ix. 33;
attempt to deceive the spirit of, ix. 112 n. 2;
blood of monkey used to exorcize the devil of, ix. 117;
spirit of, dismissed with tokens of respect and good-will, ix. 119;
spirit of, driven out of village by drumming and dancing, ix. 120;
flight from the evil spirit of, ix. 122 sq.;
barricade of cutting weapons erected against the evil spirit of, ix. 122;
demon of, expelled by means of an image, ix. 172;
expelled in a proa from Buru, ix. 186;
sent away in a canoe by the Yabim of New Guinea, ix. 188 sq.
Smearing the body as a means of imparting certain qualities, viii. 162 sqq.
—— blood on the person as a purification, iii. 104, 115;
on persons, dogs, and weapons as a mode of pacifying their souls, iii. 219;
on worshippers as a mode of communion with the deity, viii. 316
Smearing fat on person after a long absence, iii. 112
—— gall of eagle on eyes of blear-sighted persons, i. 154
—— lampblack on forehead to avert the evil eye, vi. 261
—— porridge on the face before and after a journey, iii. 112;
on the bodies of manslayers, iii. 176
—— red paint on girls at puberty, x. 31
—— sheep's entrails on body as mode of purification, iii. 174
—— white clay on people after festival of first-fruits, viii. 75;
on novices at initiation, xi. 255 n. 1, 259
Smell, evil, used to drive demons away, vi. 261, ix. 112
Smeroe, Mount, volcano in Java, idols worshipped on, v. 221
Smet, J. de, on human sacrifices among the Pawnees, vii. 239 n. 1
Smintheus Apollo, his worship said tohave been instituted in order to avert mice, viii. 283;
image of mouse in histemple in the Troad, viii. 283
Smith, George Adam, on fertility of Bethlehem, v. 257 n. 3
Smith, Professor G. C. Moore, on theStraw-bear at Whittlesey, viii. 329
Smith, W. Robertson, on rain thought to be caused by defilement, i. 301 n. 2;
on the hunting of souls, iii. 77 n. 1;
on the Raskolniks, iii. 96 n. 1;
on the covenant formed by eating together, iii. 130 n. 1;
on the Mosaic laws compared with savage customs, iii. 219 n. 1;
on Arab legend of king bled to death, iii. 243 n. 7;
on the original sanctity of domestic animals, iii. 247 n. 5;
on a vintage piaculum, iv. 8 n. 1;
on the date of the month Tammuz, v. 10 n. 1;
on anointing as consecration, v. 21 n. 3;
on Baal as god of fertility, v. 26 sq.;
on caves in Semitic religion, v. 169 n. 3;
on Tophet, v. 177 n. 4;
on the predominance of goddesses over gods in early Semitic religion, vi. 213;
on the sacrifice of children to Moloch, vi. 220 n. 1;
on the date of the month Lous at Babylon, vii. 259 n. 1;
on the bouphonia, viii. 5 n. 2;
on the sacrifice of wild boars in Cyprus, viii. 23 n. 3;
on ceremonial purification, viii. 27 n. 5;
on the annual sacrifice of a sacred animal, viii. 31 n. 1;
on the reverence of pastoral peoples for their cattle, viii. 35 n. 2;
as to disrespect for herring, viii. 251 n. 5;
on the sinew of the thigh, viii. 266 n. 1;
on a Syrian remedy for caterpillars, viii. 280 n.;
on an Arab [pg 467] cure for melancholy, ix. 4 n. 2;
on Semiramis, ix. 369 sq.
Smith, a spectral, x. 136
Smith Sound, the Esquimaux of, iii. 32 n. 2
Smith's craft regarded as uncanny, iii. 236 n. 5
Smiths sacred, i. 349;
viewed as inspired, iii. 237 n.
Smoke used in rain-making, i. 249, 291;
of cedar inhaled as means of inspiration, i. 383 sq.;
as a charm against witchcraft, ii. 330;
made in imitation of rain-clouds, x. 133;
used to stupefy witches in the clouds, x. 345;
used to fumigate sheep and cattle, xi. 12, 13
—— of bonfires, omens drawn from the, x. 116, 131, 337;
intended to drive away dragons, x. 161;
allowed to pass over corn, x. 201, 337
—— of Midsummer bonfires a preservative against ills, x. 188;
a protection against disease, x. 192;
beneficial effects of, x. 214 sq.
—— of Midsummer herbs a protection against thunder and lightning, xi. 48;
used to fumigate cattle, xi. 53
—— of need-fire used to fumigate fruit-trees, nets, and cattle, x. 280
Smoke-hole, remains of slain bear at festival brought into the house through the, viii. 189 sq., 196, 256, 256 n. 1
Smoking as a means of inducing prophetic trance or inspiration, iv. 201, vi. 172;
as a means of inducing state of ecstasy, viii. 72;
to appease a rattlesnake, viii. 219;
in honour of slain bears, viii. 224, 226
Smoking first tobacco of season, ceremony at, viii. 82
Smolensk Government, St. George's Day in the, ii. 333 sq.
Smut in wheat, ceremony to prevent, ix. 318
Smyth, R. Brough, on fire customs of the Australian aborigines, ii. 257;
on menstruous women in Australia, x. 13
Snail supposed to suck blood of cattle, iii. 81 sq.
Snails as scapegoats, ix. 52, 53
Snake, used in rain-making, i. 287 sq.;
rajahs of Manipur descended from a, iv. 133;
white, eaten to acquire supernatural knowledge, viii. 146;
worshipped, viii. 316 sq.;
said to wound a girl at puberty, x. 56;
seven-headed, external soul of witch in a, xi. 144;
external soul of medicine-man in a, xi. 199.
See also Snakes and Serpent
—— or lizard in annual ceremony for the riddance of evils, ix. 208
Snake-bites, homoeopathic charms against, i. 152 sq.;
cured by snake-stones, i. 165;
rattlesnake dance to ensure immunity from, i. 358;
inoculation against, viii. 160
Snake clan exposed their infants to snakes, viii. 174 sq.
—— -entwined goddess found at Gournia in Crete, v. 88
—— -priest, his ceremonies to appease spirit of slain serpent, viii. 219
—— skin a charm against witchcraft, ii. 336
—— -stones thought to cure snake-bites, i. 165; superstitions as to, x. 15 sq.;
belief of the Scottish Highlanders concerning, xi. 311
—— tribe in the Punjaub, their worship of snakes, viii. 316 sq.;
their treatment of dead snakes, viii. 317
Snake's tongue on St. George's Day or Eve, a charm to ensure talkativeness, ii. 345 n., viii. 270
Snakes, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 90;
human wives of, ii. 149, 150;
not called by their proper names, iii. 399, 401 sq., 407, 408, 411;
as fathers of human beings, v. 82;
fed with milk, v. 84 sqq.;
respected by North American Indians, viii. 217 sqq.;
sacred at Whydah, viii. 287;
souls of dead princes in, viii. 288;
souls of dead in, viii. 293, 294 sq.;
dead, accorded a regular funeral, viii. 317;
fat of, used as a hair-restorer, x. 14;
thought to congregate on Midsummer Eve or the Eve of May Day, x. 15 sq.;
rain-water used as a charm against, x. 17;
spirits of plants and trees in the form of, xi. 44 n.;
sympathetically related to human beings, xi. 209 sq.
See also Snake, Pythons, Rattlesnakes, and Serpents
Snapping the thumbs to prevent the departure of the soul, iii. 31
Snares set for souls, iii. 69
Snipe, fever transferred to a, ix. 51
Snorri Sturluson, on the dismemberment of Halfdan the Black, vi. 100
Snow, external soul of a king in, xi. 102
Snowdon, rain-making on, i. 307
“Sober” sacrifices, offered without wine by the ancient Greeks, i. 311 n. 1
Sobk, a crocodile-shaped Egyptian god, identified with the sun, vi. 123
Sochit or Sochet, epithet of Isis, vi. 117
Social progress, i. 420
—— ranks, inversion of, at festivals, ix. 350, 407
—— revolution from democracy to despotism, i. 371
Societies, secret, in North-Western [pg 468] America, ix. 377 sqq.;
and clans, totemic, related to each other, xi. 272 sq.
See also Secret societies
Society, uniformity of occupation in primitive, i. 245;
ancient, built on the principle of the subordination of the individual to the community, v. 300;
stratification of religion according to types of, viii. 35 sqq.;
three stages of, the hunting, the pastoral, and the agricultural, viii. 35, 37
Society Islanders, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 312
—— Islands, offering of first-fruits in the, viii. 132 sqq.
Socrates, church historian, on sacred prostitution, v. 37 n. 2;
on a reported murder of a Christian child by Jews, ix. 394 sq.
Söderblom, N., on an attempted reform of the old Iranian religion, vi. 83 n. 2
Sodewa Bai and the golden necklace, story of, xi. 99 sq.
Sodom and Gomorrah, the destruction of, v. 222 n. 1
Sods, grassy, a protection against witches, ii. 54; of turf, a protection against witchcraft, ii. 335, 338;
freshly cut, a protection against witches, ix. 163
Sodza, a lightning goddess, among the Hos of Togoland, ii. 370
Soemara, in Celebes, were-wolf at, x. 312
Soerakarta, district of Java, conduct of natives in an earthquake, v. 202 n. 1
Soest, customs at flax-pulling near, vii. 225
Sofala in East Africa, the Caffres of, their objection to be struck with anything hollow, i. 157;
king of, revered as a god by his people, i. 392;
kings of, put to death, iv. 37 sq.;
dead kings of, consulted as oracles, iv. 201;
the Makalanga near, x. 135 n. 2
Sogamoso or Sogamozo, in South America, the pontiff of, supernatural powers ascribed to, i. 416;
heir to the throne of, not allowed to see the sun, x. 19
Sogble, a lightning god, among the Hos of Togoland, ii. 370
Sogne Fiord in Norway, Balder's Grove on the, x. 104, xi. 315
Soissons, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337 n. 1
Sokari (Seker), a title of Osiris, vi. 87
Soku, West Africa, cut hair buried in cairns at, iii. 274 sq.
Sol invictus, title of Mithra, v. 304 n. 1
Solanum campylanthum, burned by Nandi women in the cornfields, vi. 47
Solaparuta in Sicily, custom on Palm Sunday at, i. 300
Solar festival in spring, xi. 3
Solar and lunar years, early attempts to harmonize, iv. 68 sq., vii. 80 sq., ix. 325 sq., 339, 341 sqq.
—— myth theory, i. 333
—— theory of the fires of the fire-festivals, x. 329, 331 sqq., xi. 15 sq., 72
Soldiers, foods tabooed to, in Madagascar, i. 117 sq.;
Roman, celebration of the Saturnalia by, ii. 310, ix. 308 sq.
See also Warriors
Solms-Laubach, Graf zu, on the artificial fertilization of fig-trees, ii. 314 n. 2
Solok district of Sumatra, rain-making in, i. 278
Solomon, King, his name used by Malay fowlers in snaring pigeons, iii. 408, 418;
puts Adoni-jah to death, v. 51 n. 2
——, the Baths of, in Northern Palestine, resorted to by childless wives in the hope of obtaining children, v. 78;
in Moab, visited by barren women in order to get children, v. 215 sq.
Solomon Islanders, their expulsion of demons, ix. 116
—— Islands, Florida, one of the, iii. 80, viii. 85, 126, 297;
places sacred to ghosts in the, iii. 80;
pigs sacrificed to ghosts in the, iii. 247;
San Cristoval in the, iii. 247;
fear of passing under a fallen tree in the, iii. 250;
Ugi, one of the, iii. 250, 277;
cut hair buried in the, to prevent it falling into the hands of sorcerers, iii. 277;
ghosts of gardens feared in the, viii. 85;
Guadalcanar one of the, viii. 126;
first-fruits offered to the dead in the, viii. 126 sq.;
Saa, one of the, viii. 127, 297;
belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals in the, viii. 296 sqq.;
Savo, one of the, viii. 297;
Ulawa, one of the, viii. 297, 298;
fatigue transferred to sticks, stones, or leaves in the, ix. 9
Solör, in Norway, harvest custom at, vii. 225
Solstice, the summer, and the Olympic festival, iv. 90;
swinging at, iv. 280;
the Nile rises at, vi. 31 n. 1, 33;
Basuto chiefs regulate the calendar at, vii. 117;
rain-making ceremony of the Zuni at, viii. 179;
new fire kindled by the Zuni at, x. 132, 133;
its importance for primitive man, x. 160 sq.
——, the winter, reckoned by the ancients the Nativity of the Sun, v. 303, x. 246;
Egyptian ceremony at, vi. 50;
Aztec festival of killing and eating a god at, viii. 90;
dramatic processions representing the corn spirit at, viii. 325;
festival of the Koryaks after, ix. 126 sq.;
new fire kindled by the Zuni at, x. 132;
Persian festival of fire at, x. 269
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Solstices observed by Californian Indians, vii. 125;
festivals of fire at the, x. 132 sq., 246, 247, 331 sq.;
the old pagan festivals of the two, consecrated as the birthdays of Christ and St. John the Baptist, x. 181 sq.;
fern-seed gathered at the, xi. 290 sq.;
mistletoe gathered at the, xi. 291 sq.
Solstitial fires perhaps sun-charms, xi. 292
Soma, Hindoo deity, x. 99 n. 2;
sacrifice of, in Vedic India, iii. 159 n.;
worship of the stone which presses out the juice of the, ix. 90
Somali, marriage custom of the, vi. 246, 247
Somersetshire, Midsummer fires in, x. 199
Somerville, Professor William, on the time for coupling ewes and rams, ii. 328 n. 4;
on the agricultural term “to stool,” vii. 193 n.
Somme, the river, ceremony of carrying lighted torches on the first Sunday in Lent in villages on, x. 113;
the department of, mugwort at Midsummer in, xi. 58
Sommerberg, the Grass King at Whitsuntide on the, ii. 86
Somosomo, a Fijian island, sacredness of priests and chiefs in, i. 389
Son, father thought to be reborn in his, iv. 188 sqq., 287 (288 in Second Impression);
abdication of father on birth of a son in Polynesia, iv. 190;
abdication of father when his son comes of age, in Fiji, iv. 191;
father fought and dispossessed by his son among the Corannas, iv. 191 sq.
“—— of the Father,” ix. 419 sq.
—— of God, alleged incarnation of the, in America, i. 409
—— of a god, v. 51.
See also Sons
—— of the king sacrificed for his father, iv. 160 sqq.
Son-in-law, his name not to be pronounced, iii. 338 sq., 344, 345
Songish or Lkungen tribe of Vancouver Island, their formal reception of the first salmon caught in the season, viii. 254
Songs of the corn-reapers, vii. 214 sqq.;
liturgical, revealed by gods, ix. 381
—— and dances, religious, of North-West American Indians, ix. 378 sq.
Sonnenberg, gout transferred to fir-tree in, ix. 56
Sonnerat, French traveller, on the fire-walk in India, xi. 6 sqq.
Sons, Roman kings not succeeded by their, ii. 270;
of king's sister preferred to king's own sons under female kinship, ii. 274 sq.
Sons of God, v. 78 sqq.
—— of gods, iv. 5
Soosoos of Senegambia, their secret society, xi. 261 sq.
Sopater accused of binding the winds, i. 325
Sophocles, on the calamities entailed by the crimes of Oedipus, ii. 115;
on the wooing of Dejanira by the river Achelous, ii. 161 sq.;
on the burning of Hercules, v. 111;
his play Triptolemus, vii. 54
Soracte, Mount, ix. 311;
sanctuary of Feronia at, iv. 186 n. 3;
fire-walk of the Hirpi Sorani on, xi. 14 sq.
“Soranian Wolves” (Hirpi Sorani), at Soracte, iv. 186 n. 4, xi. 14, 91 n. 7
Soranus, Italian god of Mount Soracte, xi. 14;
etymology of his name, xi. 15 n. 1, 16
Sorcerers regarded as chiefs, i. 337 sq., 342 sq.;
souls extracted or detained by, iii. 69 sqq.;
influence wielded by, iii. 107;
make use of cut hair and other bodily refuse, iii. 268 sq., 274 sq., 278, 281 sq.;
injure men through their names, iii. 320, 322, 334;
as protectors against demons, ix. 94;
exorcize demons, ix. 113;
Midsummer herbs a protection against, xi. 45;
detected by St. John's wort, xi. 55;
detected by fern root, xi. 67.
See also Magic, Magicians, Medicine-men
—— or priests, order of effeminate, vi. 253 sqq.
Sorcery, the dread of, iii. 268;
pointing sticks or bones in, x. 14;
bonfires a protection against, x. 156;
sprigs of mullein protect cattle against, x. 190;
mistletoe a protection against, xi. 85;
savage dread of, xi. 224 sq.
See also Magic, Witchcraft
—— and witchcraft, Midsummer plants and flowers a protection against, xi. 45, 46, 49, 54, 55, 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 72
Sorcha, the King of, in a Celtic tale, xi. 127 sq.
Sori, a person of the Batta Trinity, ix. 88 n. 1
Sorrentine Peninsula, puppet representing Lent sawn in two in the, iv. 245
Sorrowful One, the vaults of the, opened by the Boeotians in the month of sowing, vi. 41
Sorrows, the Master of, at funerals among the Chams, i. 280
Sositheus, his play Daphnis, vii. 217
Sothic or Siriac period in ancient Egypt, vi. 36
Sothis, Egyptian name for the star Sirius, vi. 34.
See Sirius
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Sotih, the, of Burma, revere a priestly king, iii. 237
Soul, belief in the pre-existence of the human, i. 104;
the perils of the, iii. 26 sqq.;
conceived as a mannikin, iii. 26 sqq.;
ancient Egyptian conception of the, iii. 28 sq.;
representations of the soul in Greek art, iii. 29 n. 1;
as a butterfly, iii. 29 n. 1, 41, 51 sq.;
absence and recall of the, iii. 30 sqq.;
attempts to prevent the soul from escaping from the body, iii. 30 sqq.;
sickness attributed to the absence of the, iii. 32, 42 sqq.;
tied by thread or string to the body, iii. 32 sq., 43, 51;
conceived as a bird, iii. 33 sqq.;
absent in sleep, iii. 36 sqq.;
in form of fly, iii. 36, 39;
in form of mouse, iii. 37, 39 n. 2;
in form of lizard, iii. 38;
caught in a cloth, iii. 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 64, 67, 75 sq.;
identified with the shadow, iii. 77 sqq.;
identified with the reflection in water or a mirror, iii. 92 sqq.;
supposed to escape at eating and drinking, iii. 116;
in the blood, iii. 240, 241, 247, 250;
identified with the personal name, iii. 319;
of rice not to be frightened, iii. 412;
of man-god transferred to his successor, iv. 10;
of a tree in a bird, vi. 111 n. 1;
of the rice in the first sheaf cut, vi. 239;
of the rice captured in a basket or box, vii. 185;
of rice in a blue bird, vii. 295;
thought to be seated in the liver, viii. 147 sq.;
the notion of, a quasi-scientific hypothesis, xi. 221;
the unity and indivisibility of the, a theological dogma, xi. 221.
See also Souls
—— of chief in sacred grove, xi. 161
—— of child deposited in a coco-nut, xi. 154 sq.;
deposited in a bag, xi. 155;
bound up with knife, xi. 157
——, external, in afterbirth (placenta) or navel-string, i. 200 sq.;
in folk-tales, xi. 95 sqq.;
in parrot, xi. 97 sq.;
in bird, xi. 98 sq.;
in necklace, xi. 99 sq.;
in a fish, xi. 99 sq., 122 sq.;
in cock, pigeon, starling, spinning-wheel, pillar, xi. 100 sq.;
in a bee, xi. 101;
in a lemon, xi. 102;
in a tree, xi. 102;
in a barley plant, xi. 102;
in a box, xi. 102, 117, 143 n. 4, 149;
in a firebrand, xi. 103;
in hair, xi. 103 sq.;
in snow, xi. 103 sq.;
in two or three doves, xi. 104;
in a ten-headed serpent, xi. 104 sq.;
in a pumpkin, xi. 105;
in a spear, xi. 105;
in a dragon, xi. 105;
in a gem, xi. 105 sq.;
in an egg, xi. 107, 125, 127, 140 sq.;
in a duck's egg, xi. 109 sq., 115 sq., 116, 119 sq., 120, 126, 130, 132;
in a blue rose-tree, xi. 110;
in a bird, xi. 111, 119, 142, 150;
in a pigeon, xi. 112 sq.;
in a light, xi. 116;
in a flower, xi. 117 sq.;
in grain of sand, xi. 120;
in a stone, xi. 125 n. 1, 156;
in a thorn, xi. 129;
in a gem, xi. 130;
in a pigeon's egg, xi. 132, 139;
in a dove's egg, xi. 133;
in a box-tree, xi. 133;
in the flower of the acacia, xi. 135 sq.;
in a sparrow, xi. 137;
in a beetle, xi. 138, 140;
in a bottle, xi. 138;
in a golden cockchafer, xi. 140;
in a dish, xi. 141 sq.;
in a precious stone, xi. 142;
in a bag, xi. 142;
in a white herb, xi. 143;
in a wasp, xi. 143 sq.;
in a twelve-headed serpent, xi. 143;
in a golden ring, xi. 143;
in seven little birds, xi. 144;
in a seven-headed snake, xi. 144;
in a quail, xi. 144 sq.;
in a vase, xi. 145 sq.;
in a golden sword and a golden arrow, xi. 145;
in entrails, xi. 147 sq.;
in a golden fish, xi. 147 sq., 220;
in a hair as hard as copper, xi. 148;
in a cat, xi. 150 sq.;
in a bear, xi. 151;
in a buffalo, xi. 151;
in a hemlock branch, xi. 152;
in folk-custom, xi. 153 sqq.;
in inanimate things, xi. 153 sqq.;
in a mountain scaur, xi. 156;
in ox-horns, xi. 156;
in roof of house, xi. 156;
in a tree, xi. 156;
in a spring of water, xi. 156;
in capital of column, xi. 156 sq.;
in a portrait statue, xi. 157;
in plants, xi. 159 sqq.;
in animals, xi. 196 sqq.;
of shaman or medicine-man in animal, xi. 196, 199;
kept in totem, xi. 220 sqq.
Soul of iron, xi. 154
“—— of Osiris,” a bird, vi. 110
—— of rice, vii. 180 sqq.;
eating the, viii. 54
—— of ruptured person passes into cleft oak-tree, xi. 172
——, succession to the, iv. 196 sqq.
—— of woman at childbirth deposited in a chopping-knife, xi. 153 sq.
Soul-boxes, amulets as, xi. 155
—— -cakes eaten at the Feast of All Souls in Europe, vi. 70, 71 sq., 73, 78 sqq.
—— -stones, xi. 156
—— -stuff in the East Indies, vi. 182 sq.; of ghosts, ix. 182
Soule, a ball contended for in Normandy, ix. 183
“Souling,” custom of, on All Souls' Day in England, vi. 79
“—— Day” in Shropshire, vi. 78
Soulless King, whose soul was in a duck's egg, Lithuanian story of the, xi. 113 sqq.
Souls strengthened with iron, i. 159 sq.;
ascribed to trees, ii. 12 sqq.;
of ancestors in trees, ii. 29 sq., 30, 31, 32;
of ancestors supposed to be in fire [pg 471] on the hearth, ii. 232;
every man thought to have four, iii. 27, 80;
light and heavy, thin, and fat, iii. 29;
transference of, iii. 49, 51;
impounded in magic fence, iii. 56;
abducted by demons, iii. 58 sqq.;
transmigrate into animals, iii. 65, viii. 285 sqq.;
brought back in a visible form, iii. 65 sqq.;
caught in snares or nets, iii. 69 sqq.;
extracted or detained by sorcerers, iii. 69 sqq.;
enclosed in tusks of ivory, iii. 70;
conjured into jars, iii. 70;
shut up in boxes, iii. 70, 76;
shut up in calabashes, iii. 72;
gathered into a basket, iii. 72;
transferred from the living to the dead, iii. 73;
wounded and bleeding, iii. 73;
supposed to be in portraits, iii. 96 sqq.;
of slain enemies propitiated, iii. 166;
of beasts respected, iii. 223;
immortal, attributed by savages to animals, viii. 204;
of people at a house-warming collected in a bag, xi. 153;
male and female, in Chinese philosophy, xi. 221;
the plurality of, xi. 221 sq.
Souls of the dead, trees animated by the, ii. 29 sqq.;
in certain fish, ii. 30;
all malignant, iii. 145;
cannot go to the spirit-land till the flesh has decayed from their bones, iii. 372 n. 5;
supposed to resemble their bodies, as these were at the moment of death, iv. 10 sq.;
associated with falling stars, iv. 64 sqq.;
transmitted to successors, iv. 198;
reincarnation of the, v. 91 sqq.;
brought back among the Gonds, v. 95 sq.;
in caterpillars, viii. 275 sq.;
received once a year by their relations, ix. 150 sqq.;
sit round the Midsummer fire, x. 183, 184
——, feasts of All, vi. 51 sqq.
——, human, attracted by rice, iii. 34 sqq., 45 sqq.;
transmigrate into totemic animals, xi. 223
South America. See America, South
—— American Indians, their insensibility to pain, iv. 138;
their indifference to death, iv. 138;
women's agricultural work among the, vii. 120 sqq.;
their practice of bleeding themselves to relieve fatigue, ix. 12 sq.;
attribute fatigue to a demon, ix. 20;
their mutual scourgings at ceremonies connected with the dead, ix. 262
—— Sea Islands, human gods in the, i. 387;
continence of fishermen in the, iii. 193;
the Pleiades worshipped in the, vii. 312
—— Slavonian housebreakers, their charm to cause sleep, i. 148.
See also Slavonians, South
—— Slavs, devices of women to obtain offspring among the, v. 96;
marriage customs of the, vi. 246.
See also Slavs, South
Southey, R., on women's agricultural work among the Brazilian Indians, vii. 122;
on custom of consuming the ashes of relations among the Brazilian Indians, viii. 157
Sovereignty, reluctance to accept the, on account of its burdens, iii. 17 sqq.
Sovkou, ancient Egyptian deity, represented by a masker, ii. 133
Sow, the white, of Alba Longa, ii. 187 n. 4;
corn-spirit as a, vii. 298 sqq.;
as scapegoat, ix. 33;
the cropped black, at Hallowe'en, x. 236, 240
Sower, the Wicked, driven away on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 107, 118
Sowerby, James, on mouse-ear hawk-weed, xi. 57;
on orpine, xi. 61 n. 4;
on yellow hoary mullein, xi. 64;
on the Golden Bough, xi. 284 n. 3;
on mistletoe, xi. 316 n. 5
Sowers carry locks as charm to keep off birds, iii. 308;
and ploughmen drenched with water as a rain-charm, v. 238 sq.
Sowing, homoeopathic magic at, i. 136 sqq.;
curses for good luck at, i. 281;
sexual intercourse before, ii. 98;
periods of abstinence observed before, ii. 98, 105;
tug-of-war before, ii. 100;
continence at, ii. 105, 106;
in Italy and Sicily, time of, ii. 311 n. 5;
Prussian custom at, v. 238 sq.;
rites of, vi. 40 sqq.;
in Greece, time for, vii. 45, 50, 318;
festival of Demeter at, vii. 46 n. 2;
sacrifice to Demeter at, vii. 57;
festival of the Kayans of Borneo at, vii. 93 sqq., 111;
masquerade of the Kayans at, vii. 186 sq.;
time of, determined by observation of the sun, vii. 187;
goat killed at, vii. 288;
the corn-spirit as a pig at, vii. 300;
cake called Christmas Boar eaten by farm-servants and cattle at time of barley sowing, vii. 303;
at Magnesia in the Greek month Cronion, viii. 7, 8 n. 1;
ceremonies at, among the Chams, viii. 57;
offerings at, in the North-Western provinces of India, viii. 117;
offerings at, among the Kachins of Burma, viii. 120 sq.;
customs observed by Saxons of Transylvania at, viii. 274 sq.;
prayer at, among the Khonds, ix. 138;
expulsion of demons at, ix. 225;
Saturn the god of, ix. 232, 346;
dances at, ix. 234 sqq.;
in Italy, season of the spring, ix. 346;
fast from flesh, eggs, and grease at, ix. 347 n. 4
——, goddesses of, personated by old women, ix. 238
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Sowing and planting, time of, determined by the observation of the Pleiades, vii. 309, 313 sqq.;
regulated by the phases of the moon, vi. 133 sqq.
—— and ploughing, ceremony of, in the rites of Osiris, vi. 87, 90, 96;
rite of, at the Carnival, vii. 28
Sowing corn, Ovambo custom at, ii. 46
—— the fields, human sacrifices at, vii. 236, 238 sq., 240 sq.
—— hemp seed, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 235
—— seed, to make children grow, vii. 11;
done by women, vii. 113 sqq.;
done by children, vii. 115 sq.
—— the winter corn, goat killed at, vii. 288
Sown fields, fire applied to, on Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 316, 318, 321
Sozomenus, church historian, on sacred prostitution, v. 37
Spachendorf, in Silesia, “the Burying of Death,” effigy burnt at, iv. 250, x. 119
Spades and hoes, human victim killed with, vii. 239, 251
Spae-wives and Gestr, Icelandic story of the, xi. 125 sq.
Spain, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167;
acorns used as food in, ii. 355, 356;
“Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 240, 242;
seven-legged effigies of Lent in, iv. 244;
custom of swinging at Christmas in, iv. 284;
bathing on St. John's Eve in, v. 248;
the Iberians of, vii. 129;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15;
the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day in, ix. 329;
Midsummer fires and customs in, x. 208;
bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 29;
vervain gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 62
Spanish cathedrals, the Boy Bishop in, ix. 338
Spark Sunday in Switzerland, x. 118
Sparks of fire supposed to impregnate women, ii. 197, 231;
of Yule log prognosticate chickens, lambs, foals, calves, etc., x. 251, 262, 263, 264
Sparrow, external soul of a jinnee in a, xi. 137
Sparrows, charms to keep them from the corn, viii. 274
Sparta, the two kings of, i. 46 sq.;
their relation to Castor and Pollux, i. 48-50
——, state sacrifices offered by the kings at, i. 46;
warned by oracle against a “lame reign,” iv. 38;
funeral games in honour of Leonidas and Pausanias at, iv. 94;
destroyed by an earthquake, v. 196 n. 4;
octennial tenure of kingship at, vii. 82, 85
Spartan king, his fire-bearer, ii. 264
—— kings, supposed divinity of, i. 48 sq.;
not to be touched, iii. 226
Spartans, their sacrifice of horses to the sun, i. 315 sq.;
their kings liable to be deposed every eighth year, iv. 58 sq.;
their attempt to stop an earthquake, v. 196;
their flute-band, v. 196;
their red uniform, v. 196;
at Thermopylae, v. 197 n. 1;
their regard for the full moon, vi. 141;
their brides dressed as men on the wedding night, vi. 260
Spear in magic, i. 347;
custom of wounding the dying with a, iv. 13 sq.;
sacred, used to slay human victim, ix. 218;
used to help women in hard labour, xi. 14;
external soul in a, xi. 105
Spearing taro stalks, as a charm, vii. 102, 103
Spears, sacred, used to slaughter sacrificial victims, iv. 19, 32, v. 274;
used to expel demons, ix. 115, 116
Spectral Huntsman, iv. 178
Speech, particular forms of, used in addressing social superiors, i. 402 n.;
special form of, used between a man and his wife's mother, iii. 346;
special form of, used by rice-reapers to deceive the rice-spirit, vii. 184.
See also Language and Words
Speicher, in the Eifel, St. John's fires at, x. 169
Speke, Captain J. H., his experience of the distrust of strangers in Africa, iii. 108 sq.
Spell recited at kindling need-fire, x. 290;
of witchcraft broken by suffering, x. 304
—— and prayer, vii. 105
Spells cast by strangers, iii. 112;
at hair-cutting, iii. 264 sq.;
for growth of crops, vii. 100;
narrative, vii. 104 sqq.;
imperative, vii. 105;
and incantations used in arts and crafts, ix. 81;
cast on cattle, x. 301, 302;
cast by witches on union of man and wife, x. 346
Spelt-goat, name given to the last sheaf threshed at harvest in Baden, vii. 286
Spencer, Baldwin, on reincarnation of the dead, v. 100 n. 3
Spencer, B., and F. J. Gillen, on a ceremony for the multiplication of white cockatoos, i. 89;
on the confusion of a man with his totem, i. 107 n. 4;
on infanticide among the Australian aborigines, iv. 180 n. 1, 187 n. 6;
on Australian belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 99;
on an Australian [pg 473] cure for headache, ix. 2;
on initiation of Australian medicine-men, xi. 238
Spencer, Herbert, his theory of the material universe compared to that of Empedocles, viii. 303 sqq.
Spenser, Edmund, on an Irish custom as to blood of friends, iii. 244 sq.
Sperchius, River, hair of Achilles devoted to the, iii. 261
Spermus, king of Lydia, marries the widow of his predecessor, ii. 281;
his wickedness, v. 183
Spices used in exorcism of demons, iii. 105 sq.
Spider imitated by actor or dancer, ix. 381
Spiders in homoeopathic magic, i. 152;
ceremony at killing, viii. 236 sq.;
used to extract vicious propensity, ix. 34
Spieth, J., on human gods among the Hos of Togoland, i. 397;
on the Ewe peoples, v. 70 n. 2;
on the ceremonies at eating the new yams among the Hos, viii. 59 sqq.;
on the religion of the Ewe negroes, ix. 76 n. 1
Spindle, woman winds thread on, while sugar-cane is planted, viii. 119
Spindles not to be carried openly on the highroads, i. 113;
not to be twirled while men are in council, i. 114
Spinning forbidden to women under certain circumstances, i. 113 sq.
—— on highroads forbidden in ancient Italy, i. 113, viii. 119 n. 5
—— of mummer at Carnival, viii. 333
Spinning-wheel, external soul of ogress in a, xi. 100
Spinning acorns or figs as a charm to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 102, 103
—— tops at sowing festivals, vii. 95, 97, 187
Spirit of Beans, Iroquois, vii. 177
——, Brethren of the Free, i. 408
—— of the Corn, Iroquois, vii. 177.
See Corn-spirit
—— of dead apparently supposed to decay with the body, iii. 372
—— or god of vegetation, effigies of, burnt in spring, xi. 21 sq.;
reasons for burning, xi. 23;
leaf-clad representative of, burnt, xi. 25
——, the Great, of the American Indians, iv. 3;
his gift of corn to men, vii. 177
—— of Squashes, Iroquois, vii. 177
—— of vegetation brought to houses, ii. 74.
See also Vegetation
Spirit animals supposed to enter women and be born from them, v. 97 sq.
—— -children left by ancestors, v. 100 sq.
—— -house shut during absence of warriors, i. 129
Spirits of dead fathers thought to attend warriors, i. 129;
of plants in shape of animals, ii. 14;
of trees threatened, ii. 20 sqq.;
of wild beasts killed in the chase, hunting dogs protected against, ii. 128;
women married to water-spirits, ii. 150 sqq.;
sacrifices to water-spirits, ii. 155 sqq.;
of slain enemies conciliated, iii. 182;
of slain animals propitiated by savages, iii. 190;
averse to iron, iii. 232 sqq.;
evil, fear of attracting the attention of, iii. 334;
of tin mines and gold mines treated with deference, iii. 407, 409 sq.;
taboos on common words based on a fear of, iii. 416 sqq.;
of ancestors in the form of animals, v. 83;
supposed to consort with women, v. 91;
of forefathers thought to dwell in rivers, vi. 38;
evil, averted from children, vii. 6 sqq.;
of the dead supposed to influence the crops, vii. 104;
distinguished from gods, vii. 169;
imitation of, vii. 186;
retreat of the army of, ix. 72 sq.;
guardian, ix. 98;
good and evil, personated by children, ix. 139;
Festival of Departed, ix. 154;
of water propitiated at Midsummer, xi. 31;
of plants and trees in the form of snakes, xi. 44 n. 1
See also Ancestral spirits, Dead, and Souls
—— of dead chiefs worshipped by the whole tribe, vi. 175, 176, 177, 179, 181 sq., 187;
thought to control the rain, vi. 188;
prophesy through living men and women, vi. 192 sq.;
reincarnated in animals, vi. 193.
—— of the hills, their treasures, xi. 69
—— of land, conciliation of the, iii. 110 sq.
Spiritual economy, mysterious law of, i. 405
—— husbands among the Akamba, ii. 316 sq.
—— power, its divorce from temporal power, iii. 17 sqq.
Spitting in contagious magic, i. 201;
in a purificatory rite, iii. 175;
forbidden, iii. 196;
as a protective charm, iii. 279, 286, 350, 395;
upon knots as a charm, iii. 302;
to avert evil omens, iv. 61;
at sight of falling stars, iv. 61, 63, 65;
to avert demons, iv. 63;
as a mode of transferring evil, ix. 3, 10, 11, 41 sq., 187;
at ceremony for expulsion of evils, ix. 208
Spittle, used in magic, i. 57, iii. 268, 269, 287 sqq.;
divination from, i. 99;
tabooed, iii. 287 sqq.;
effaced or concealed, iii. 288 sqq.;
used in making a covenant, iii. 290;
magical virtue of, vii. 247, 250;
as a protection against demons, ix. 118
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Spoil taken from enemy purified, iii. 177
Spoletium, sacred grove near, ii. 122
Spoons used in eating by tabooed persons, iii. 141, 148, 189
Sports, athletic, at harvest, vii. 76 sq.
See also Contests, Games
Spottiswoode, in Berwickshire, harvest customs at, vii. 153 sq.
Sprachbrücken, in Hesse, the Harvest-goat at, vii. 283
Sprained leg, Scotch cure for, by means of nine knots in a black thread, iii. 304 sq.
Spree, the river, requires its human victim on Midsummer Day, xi. 26
Spreewald, the Wends of the, their wreaths at Midsummer, xi. 48
Sprenger, the inquisitor, his practice of shaving the heads of witches and wizards, xi. 158
Sprigs, green, placed on stumps of felled trees, ii. 37 sq.
Spring, magical ceremonies for the revival of nature in, iv. 266 sqq.;
called Persephone, vi. 41;
ceremony at beginning of, in China, viii. 10 sqq.;
rites to ensure the revival of life in, ix. 400
“——, the Sacred,” among the ancient Italian peoples, iv. 186 sq.
—— and summer, myths of divinities and spirits to be told only in, iii. 384
Spring customs and harvest customs compared, vii. 167 sqq.
—— equinox, drama of Summer and Winter at the, iv. 257;
custom of swinging at the, iv. 284;
(vernal), sacrifice to Cronus at the, ix. 352
—— festival of Dionysus, vii. 15
Spring, oracular, at Dodona, ii. 172;
sacrificial, at Upsala, ii. 364;
external soul in a, xi. 156.
See also Springs
Springbok, why Bushman hunters will not eat, viii. 141
Springs troubled to procure rains, i. 301;
hot, resorted to by women in order to get offspring, ii. 161, v. 213 sqq.;
which confer prophetic powers, ii. 172;
oracular, iv. 79 sq.;
worship of hot, v. 206 sqq.;
bathing in, at Midsummer, v. 246, 247, 248, 249;
underground, detected by divining-rod, xi. 67 sq.
Springwort, mythical plant, procured at Midsummer, xi. 69 sqq.;
reveals treasures, opens all locks, and makes the bearer invisible and invulnerable, xi. 69 sq.
Sprinkling with holy water, iii. 285 sq.
Sproat, G. M., on seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 43 sq.
Spruce trees free from mistletoe, xi. 315
Squashes, the spirit of, conceived by the Iroquois as a woman, vii. 177
Squeals of pigs necessary for fruitfulness of mangoes, x. 9
Squills used to beat human scapegoats and image of Pan, ix. 255 sq.
Squirrels in homoeopathic magic, i. 155;
asked to give new teeth, i. 180;
souls of dead in, viii. 291 sq.;
burnt in the Easter bonfires, x. 142, xi. 40
Squirting water as a rain-charm, i. 249 sq., 277 sq.;
on people at Midsummer, v. 248, x. 193
Sri, Hindoo goddess of crops, vii. 182
Srongtsan Gampo, king of Tibet, introduced Buddhism into Tibet, iii. 20
Stabbing men's shadows in order to injure the men, iii. 78, 79
—— reflections in water to injure the persons reflected, iii. 93
—— a transformed witch or were-wolf in order to compel him or her to reveal himself or herself, x. 315
Stade, Hans, captive among Brazilian Indians, on their distrust of books, iii. 231
Stadium, the Olympic, iv. 287
Staffordshire, All Souls' Day in, vi. 79;
the Yule log in, x. 256
Stag, emblem of longevity, i. 169 n. 1
Stamfordham, in Northumberland, need-fire at, x. 288 sq.
Stammering, homoeopathic charm to cure, i. 156
Standard of conduct shifted from natural to supernatural basis, iii. 213
——, Egyptian, resembling a placenta, vi. 156 n. 1;
Egyptian cubit, deposited in the temple of Serapis, xi. 217
Standing on one foot, custom of, iv. 149, 150, 155, 156;
on sacrificed human victim as a purificatory rite, ix. 218
Stanikas, male children of sacred prostitutes in Southern India, v. 63
Star, falling, in magic, i. 84;
falling, as totem, iv. 61
—— of Bethlehem, v. 259, ix. 330
——, the Evening, in Keats's last sonnet, i. 166
——, the Morning, said to have enjoined human sacrifices on the Pawnees, vii. 238;
personated by a man, ix. 238
—— of Salvation, v. 258
Star-spangled cap of Attis, v. 284
Starling, external soul of ogress in a, xi. 100
Stars, time when the stars are vanishing, i. 83 n. 2;
the souls of Egyptian gods in, iv. 5;
shooting, superstitions as to, iv. 58 sqq.;
shooting, associated with the souls of the dead, iv. 64 sqq.;
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their supposed influence on human destiny, iv. 65 sq., 67 sq.;
effect of agriculture in stimulating a knowledge of the, vii. 307;
their supposed influence on the weather, vii. 318
Starvation as a mode of executing royal criminals, iii. 242, 243
Statius, on the festival of Diana at Nemi, i. 12 n. 2;
on the grove of Egeria, i. 18 n. 4
Statue beheaded instead of man, iv. 158
Stebbing, E. B., on Loranthus vestitus in India, xi. 317 n. 2
Steele, Sir Richard, on titular kings in the Temple, ix. 333
Steiermark, Marburg in, the corn-spirit as wolf and bear at, viii. 327
Steinau, in Kurhessen, the Fox in the corn at, vii. 296
Steinen, Professor K. von den, on the discovery of fire by friction, ii. 257 n. 1;
on the bull-roarer, xi. 233 n. 2
Steinn in Hringariki, barrow of Halfdan at, vi. 100
Stelis, a kind of mistletoe, xi. 317, 318
Stella Maris, an epithet of the Virgin Mary, vi. 119
Stengel, P., on sacrificial ritual of Eleusis, v. 292 n. 3
Stepmother, marriage with a, as a title to the throne, ii. 283, iv. 193
Stepping over persons or things forbidden, iii. 159 sq., 194, 423 sqq.;
over dead panther, iii. 219;
or jumping over a woman, viii. 70 n. 1
See also Jumping
Sterile beasts passed through Midsummer fires, x. 203, 338
Sterilizing influence ascribed to barren women, i. 142
Sternberg, Leo, on the bear-festivals of the Gilyaks, viii. 196, 199 n. 1, 201 sq.;
on attitude of the Gilyaks towards animals, viii. 206;
on the belief in demons among the Gilyaks, ix. 101 sq.
Sternberg, in Mecklenburg, need-fire at, x. 274
Stettin, the Old Man at harvest in the villages near, vii. 220 sq.
Stevens, Captain John, on a temporary substitute for a Shah of Persia, iv. 158 sq.
Stevens, H. Vaughan, on fire-making among the Djakuns, ii. 236
Stevenson, Mrs. Matilda Coxe, on the Zuni custom of killing tortoises from a sacred lake, viii. 179
Stewart, Balfour, on the conservation of energy, viii. 262 n. 1
Stewart, C. S., on Polynesian atua, i. 387 n. 1
Stewart, Jonet, a wise woman, xi. 184
Stewart, W. Grant, on witchcraft in the Highlands, x. 342 n. 4
Stheni, near Delphi, old chestnut trees at, xi. 317
Sticks, fertilizing virtue attributed to certain, ix. 264 sq.
See also Digging-sticks
——, charred, of bonfires, protect fields against hail, x. 144
——, charred, of Candlemas bonfires, superstitious uses of, x. 131
——, charred, of Easter fire, superstitious uses of, x. 121;
preserve wheat from blight and mildew, x. 143
——, charred, of Midsummer bonfires, planted in the fields, x. 165, 166, 173, 174;
a charm against lightning and foul weather, x. 174, 187, 188, 190;
kept to make the cattle thrive, x. 180;
thrown into wells to improve the water, x. 184;
a protection against thunder, x. 184, 192
——, sacred, representing ancestors, ii. 214, 216, 222 sqq.
See also Churinga
—— and stones, evils transferred to, ix. 8 sqq.;
piled on the scene of crimes, ix. 13 sqq.
See also Throwing
—— whittled, in religious rites, viii. 185, 186 n., 192, 196, 278, ix. 261, x. 138 n. 1
Stiens of Cambodia propitiate the souls of the animals which they kill, viii. 237
Stiffness of back set down to witchcraft, x. 343 n., 345
Stigand, Captain C. H., on the sacrifice of the first-born among tribes to the south of Abyssinia, iv. 182
Stinging young people with ants and wasps, custom of, ix. 263, x. 61, 62 sq.;
as a form of purification, x. 61 sqq.
Stipiturus malachurus, emu-wren, men's “brother” among the Kurnai, xi. 216
Stlatlum Indians of British Columbia respect the animals and plants which they eat, vi. 44
Stockholm, leaf-market on the Eve of St. John at, ii. 65
Stocks, sacred, among the Semites, v. 107 sqq.
Stolen kail, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 234 sq.
Stomach of eater, certain foods forbidden to meet in, viii. 83 sqq.
Stone used in ceremony to facilitate childbirth, i. 74;
supposed to cure jaundice, i. 80;
bitten by a dog in homoeopathic magic, i. 157;
treading on a, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 160;
magic of heavy, vii. 100;
toothache [pg 476] nailed into a, ix. 62;
look of a girl at puberty thought to turn things to, x. 46;
external soul in a, xi. 125 n. 1, 156;
precious, external soul of khan in a, xi. 142;
magical, put into body of novice at initiation, xi. 271
Stone, the Hairy, at Midsummer, x. 212
——, holed, in magic, to make sunshine, i. 313
——, sacred, used in purification of murderer, i. 26;
(lapis manalis), used in rain-making at Rome, i. 310, ii. 183
Stone Age in Denmark, ii. 352;
agriculture in the, vii. 79, 132
—— -curlew as a cure for jaundice, i. 80
—— knives and arrow-heads used in religious ritual, iii. 228
—— -throwing as a fertility charm, i. 39;
at Mecca, rite of, ix. 24;
in ancient Greece, ix. 24 sq.
Stonehaven, the last sheaf called the Bride at, vii. 163
Stones anointed in order to avert bullets from warriors, i. 130;
tied to trees to make them bear fruit, i. 140;
magical, which cause boils, i. 147;
homoeopathic magic of, i. 160 sqq.;
oaths upon, i. 160 sq.;
employed to make fruits and crops grow, i. 162 sqq.;
thrown on grave as a rain-charm, i. 286;
rain-making by means of, i. 304 sqq., 345, 346;
in charms to make the sun shine, i. 312, 313, 314;
put in trees to prevent sun from setting, i. 318;
placed in trees to indicate height of sun, i. 318;
in wind charms, i. 319, 322 sq.;
oiled as a rain-charm, i. 346;
human souls conveyed into, iii. 66, 73;
ghosts in, iii. 80;
on which a man's shadow should not fall, iii. 80;
fastened to last sheaf, vii. 135 sq., 138, 139;
criminal crushed between, at Mexican harvest-festival, vii. 237;
worshipped, viii. 127 sq.;
heaped up near shrines of saints, ix. 21 sq.;
communion by means of, ix. 21 sq.;
thrown at demons, ix. 131, 146, 152;
thrown into Midsummer fire, x. 183, 191, 212;
placed round Midsummer fires, x. 190;
carried by persons on their heads at Midsummer, x. 205, 212;
at Hallowe'en fires, divination by, x. 230 sq., 239, 240;
used for curing cattle, x. 324, 325;
magical, inserted by spirits in the body of a new medicine-man, xi. 235
——, the Day of, the day of the new moon in the month of Bhadon (August), i. 279
Stones, holed, custom of childless women passing through, v. 36, xi. 187;
to commemorate the dead, vi. 203;
sick people passed through, xi. 186 sqq.
——, precious, homoeopathic magic of, i. 164 sq.
——, sacred, anointed, v. 36;
among the Semites, v. 107 sqq.;
among the Khasis, v. 108 n. 1
See also Churinga
—— and sticks, evil transferred to, ix. 8 sqq.;
piled on the scene of crimes, ix. 13 sqq.
See also Throwing
Stoning, execution by, ix. 24 n. 2
Stoning human scapegoats, ix. 253, 254
Stool at installation of Shilluk kings, iv. 24
Stoole, near Downpatrick, Midsummer ceremony at, x. 205
Stopfer, maskers in Switzerland, ix. 239
Storeroom (penus), sacred, ii. 205 sq.
Stories told as charms, vii. 102 sqq.
Storm fiend exorcized by bells, ix. 246 sq.
Storms, Catholic priests thought to possess the power of averting, i. 232;
thought to be caused by the spirits of the dead, ii. 183;
caused by cutting or combing the hair, ii. 271, 282
Stourton, in Warwickshire, the Queen of May at, ii. 88
Stout, Professor G. F., on an argument for immortality, viii. 261 n. 1
Stow, in Suffolk, witch at, i. 210
Stow, John, on Lords of Misrule, quoted, ix. 331 sq.;
on Midsummer fires in London, x. 196 sq.
Strabo, on a marriage custom of the Samnites, ii. 305;
on the use of acorn-bread in Spain, ii. 355;
on the concubines of Ammon, v. 72;
on Albanian moon-god, v. 73 n. 4;
on Castabala, v. 168 n. 6;
his description of the Burnt Land of Lydia, v. 193;
on the frequency of earthquakes at Philadelphia, v. 195;
his description of Rhodes, v. 195 n. 3;
on Nysa, v. 206 n. 1;
on the priests of Pessinus, v. 286;
on the Sacaea, ix. 355, 369, 402 n. 1;
on the sacred slaves at Comana, ix. 370 n. 4;
on the worship of the goddess Ma at Comana, ix. 421 n. 1;
on the sanctuary at Zela, ix. 421 n. 1;
on the Hirpi Sorani, xi. 14;
on the human sacrifices of the Celts, xi. 32
Strack, H. L., on the accusations of ritual murder brought against the Jews, ix. 395 n. 3
Strackerjan, L., on fear of witchcraft in Oldenburg, x. 343 n.
Strange land, ceremonies at entering a, iii. 109 sqq.
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Strangers, taboos on intercourse with, iii. 101 sqq.;
suspected of practising magical arts, iii. 102;
ceremonies at the reception of, iii. 102 sqq.;
dread of, iii. 102 sqq.;
spells cast by, iii. 112;
killed, iii. 113;
excluded from religious rites, vii. 94, 111, 187, 249;
slain as representatives of the corn-spirit, vii. 217;
regarded as representatives of the corn-spirit, vii. 225 sqq., 230 sq., 253;
preferred as human victims, vii. 242
Strangulation as a mode of executing royal criminals, iii. 242, 243
Strap of wolf's hide used by were-wolves, x. 310 n. 1
Strata of religion and society, viii. 36 sq.
Strath Fillan, the harvest Cailleach (Old Wife) in, vii. 166
Strathpeffer, in Ross-shire, Beltane bannocks near, x. 153
Strathspey, sheep passed through a hoop of rowan on All Saints' Day and Beltane in, xi. 184
Stratification of religion according to types of society, viii. 35 sqq.;
of religious beliefs among the Malays, ix. 90 n. 1
Stratonicea in Caria, eunuch priest at, v. 270 n. 2;
rule as to the pollution of death at, vi. 227 sq.
Straubing, in Lower Bavaria, the Corn-goat at cutting the last corn at, vii. 282
Straw, the Yule, vii. 301 sq.;
of Shrovetide Bear used to make geese and hens lay eggs, viii. 326;
wrapt round fruit-trees as a protection against evil spirits, ix. 164;
tied round trees to make them fruitful, x. 115
Straw-bear at Whittlesey, viii. 329
—— -bull, effigy placed on land of laggard farmer at harvest, vii. 289 sq.
—— -goat at threshing in Bavaria, vii. 286
—— -man placed on apple-tree on April 24th or 25th, viii. 6
Stream, burial under a running, iii. 15
Streams, menstruous women not allowed to cross running, x. 97;
need-fire kindled between two running, x. 292
Strehlitz, in Silesia, athletic sports at harvest near, vii. 76;
driving away witches on Good Friday near, ix. 157
Strength of people bound up with their hair, xi. 158 sq.
Strepsiades in Aristophanes, on the cause of rain, i. 285
Striking or throwing blindfold at corn, cocks, and hens, xi. 279 n. 4
String or thread used to tie soul to body, iii. 32 sq., 43, 51
String music in religion, v. 54
Strings, knotted, as amulets, iii. 309.
See also Cords, Knots, and Threads
Striped Petticoat Philosophy, The, x. 6
Stromberg Hill, burning wheel rolled down the, at Midsummer, x. 163
Stromness in the Orkneys, witch at, i. 326
“Strong names” of kings of Dahomey, iii. 374
Strudeli and Strätteli, female spirits of the wood, driven away on Twelfth Night at Brunnen, ix. 165
Strutt, Joseph, on Midsummer fires in England, x. 196
Struys, John, on dances of women during war in Madagascar, i. 131
Stseelis Indians of British Columbia, dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the, x. 89
Stuart, Mrs. A., on withered mistletoe, xi. 287 n. 1
Stuart Lake in British Columbia, Tinneh Indians about, x. 47
Stubbes, Phillip, his Anatomie of Abuses, ii. 66;
on May-poles, ii. 66 sq.
Stubble-cock, name of harvest-supper in Silesia, vii. 277
Students of Fez, their mock sultan, iv. 152 sq.
Stuhlmann, Fr., on ceremony at entering a strange land, iii. 109
Stukeley, W., on a Christmas custom at York, xi. 291 n. 2
Stumps of felled trees, green sprigs on, ii. 37 sq.
Stuttgart, saying as to wind in corn near, vii. 292
Styria, belief as to falling stars in, iv. 66;
the Corn-mother in, vii. 133;
the Corn-goat at harvest in, vii. 283;
fern-seed on Christmas night in, xi. 289
Styx, oath by the, iv. 70 n. 1;
the passage of Aeneas across the, xi. 294
Su-Mu, a tribe of Southern China, said to be governed by a woman, vi. 211 n. 2
Sub-totems in Australia, xi. 275 n. 1
Subincision, use of blood shed at, i. 92, 94 sq.;
among the aborigines of Central Australia, i. 92, 93, 95, 97, 154;
in South-Eastern Australia, i. 202;
at initiation of lads in Australia, xi. 227 sq., 234, 235
Sublician bridge at Rome, puppets of rushes annually thrown from the, viii. 107
Subordination of the individual to the community, the principle of ancient society, v. 300
Substitutes put to death instead of kings, iv. 56 sqq., 115, 160, 194 sq.;
slaves killed as substitutes for their masters at a king's funeral, iv. 117;
for human sacrifices, iv. 124, 214 sqq., v. 146 sq., 219 sq., 285, 289, vi. 99, 221, ix. 396 [pg 478] sq., 408;
voluntary, for capital punishment in China, iv. 145 sq., 273 sqq.;
temporary, for the Shah of Persia, iv. 157 sqq.;
voluntary, for corporal punishment in China, iv. 275 sq.;
for animal sacrifices, viii. 95 n. 2
“Substitutes for a person” in China, puppets burnt to avert misfortune, viii. 104
Substitution of souls as a remedy for sickness, iii. 57;
of puppet for soul of a sick man, iii. 62 sq.;
of animals for human victims, iv. 124, 165, 166 n. 1, 177, vii. 24, 33 sq., 249;
of child for parent in sacrifice, iv. 188, 194;
of criminals for innocent victims in human sacrifices, iv. 195;
of effigies for human victims in sacrifice, iv. 215, 217 sq., viii. 94 sqq.;
of rice-cakes for human victims, viii. 89;
of cakes for animal victims, viii. 95 n. 2
Subterranean Zeus, title of Pluto as god of fertility, vii. 66
Subugo tree revered by the Masai, ii. 16
Subura at Rome, viii. 42, 43, 44
Succession to the chieftainship or kingship alternating between several families, ii. 292 sqq.;
in Polynesia, customs of, iv. 190 sq.;
to the crown under mother-kin (female kinship), v. 44, vi. 18, 210 n. 1
—— to the kingdom, in ancient Latium, ii. 266 sqq.;
determined by a race, ii. 299 sqq.;
determined by mortal combat, ii. 322;
through marriage with the king's widow, ii. 283, iv. 193 sq.;
through marriage with a sister, iv. 193 sq.;
conferred by personal relics of dead kings, iv. 202 sq.
—— to the soul, iv. 196 sqq.
Sucla-Tirtha in India, expulsion of sins in, ix. 202
Sudan, the negroes of, their regard for the phases of the moon, vi. 141;
ceremony of new fire in the, x. 134;
human hyaenas in the, x. 313
Sudanese, their conduct in an earthquake, v. 198;
their respect for ravens, viii. 221
Sudeten Mountains in Silesia, bonfires on Midsummer Eve on the, x. 170
Suffering, principle of vicarious, ix. 1 sq.;
intensity of, a means to break the spell of witchcraft, x. 304
Sufferings and death of Dionysus, vii. 17
Suffetes of Carthage, v. 116
Suffocation as a mode of executing royal criminals, iii. 242
Suffolk, anointing the weapon instead of the wound in, i. 203;
contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210;
May Day custom as to hawthorn in bloom in, ii. 52;
cure for ague in, ix. 68;
belief as to menstruous women in, x. 96 n. 2;
duck baked alive as a sacrifice in, x. 303 sq.
Sufi II., Shah of Persia, temporary substitute for, iv. 158
Sugar-bag totem in Australia, v. 101
—— -cane cultivated, vii. 121, 123;
custom at planting, viii. 119;
first-fruits of, offered to the sugar-cane god, viii. 119
Suicide of Buddhist monks, iv. 42 sq.;
epidemic of, in Russia, iv. 44 sq.;
as a mode of revenge, iv. 141;
by hanging, iv. 282
——, hand of, cut off, iv. 220 n.
——, religious, iv. 42 sqq., 54 sqq.;
in India, iv. 54 sq.
Suicides, ghosts of, feared, iv. 220 n., v. 292 n. 3, ix. 17 sq.;
custom observed at graves of, v. 93
Suk, the, of British East Africa, power of medicine-men among the, i. 344 sq.;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 85;
women's work among the, vii. 117 sq.;
their rule as to partaking of meat and milk, viii. 84;
give children the fat and hearts of lions to eat, viii. 142;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 81
Sukandar River, in Mirzapur, ghosts shut up in a tree on the, ix. 60 sq.
Sulka (Sulkas), the, of New Britain, their way of stopping rain, i. 252 sq.;
their rain-making by means of stones, i. 304;
their sacred stones, ii. 148;
their notion as to the phosphorescence of the sea, ii. 155 n. 1;
their dread of a woman in childbed, iii. 151;
will not speak of their enemies by their proper name, iii. 331;
tell stories only at evening or night, iii. 384 sq.;
their belief as to meteors, iv. 65
Sulla at the temple of Diana on Mount Tifata, ii. 380; at Aedepsus, v. 212
“Sultan of the Oleander,” magical efficacy attributed by the Moors to the, x. 18
“—— of the Scribes,” an annual mock sultan at Fez, iv. 152 sq.
Sultan Bayazid and his soul, iii. 50
Sultans veiled, iii. 120
Sumatra, images used in evil magic in, i. 58;
magical images to obtain offspring in, i. 71;
pregnant woman not to stand at the door in, i. 114;
homoeopathic magic at sowing rice in, i. 136;
rain-charm by means of a black cat in, i. 291;
rain-charm by means of a stone in, i. 308 sq.;
ceremony at felling a tree in, ii. 37;
special language used in searching for camphor in, iii. 406 n. 2;
spirits of gold mines treated with deference in, [pg 479] iii. 409;
personification of the rice in, vii. 191 sq., 196 sq.;
observation of the Pleiades in, vii. 315;
kinship of men with crocodiles in, viii. 212;
tigers respected in, viii. 215 sqq.;
use of bull-roarers in, xi. 229 n.
Sumatra, the Battas (Bataks) of, i. 71, 193, 330, 398, ii. 41, 108, iii. 34, 45 sq., 104, 116, 296, 338, 405, v. 199, vi. 239, viii. 216, ix. 34, 87, 213;
totemism among, xi. 222 sqq.
——, Central, treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 193
——, Gayo, a district of, ii. 29, viii. 33
——, the Gayos of, ii. 125, iii. 409 n. 3, 410
——, Jambi kingdom in, iv. 154
——, the Karo-Bataks of, i. 277 sq., iii. 52, 263
——, the Kooboos of, xi. 162 n. 2
——, Lampong in, iii. 10
——, the Loeboes or Looboos of, vi. 264, xi. 182 sq.
——, Mandeling in, i. 192 sq., vii. 197, viii. 216
——, the Mandelings of, ii. 36, iii. 296
——, the Minangkabauers of, i. 58, 140, 193, iii. 32, 36, 41, vii. 191, viii. 211 sq., 215, x. 79
——, Northern, the Gayos of, ii. 36
——, Passier in, iv. 51
——, the Solok district of, i. 278
Sumba, East Indian island, custom as to the names of princes in, iii. 376;
annual festival of the New Year and of the dead in, vi. 55 sq.
Sumerians, their origin and civilization, v. 7 sq.
Summer, bringing in the, ii. 74, iv. 233, 237, 238, 246 sqq.;
myths of gods and spirits not to be told in, iii. 385 sq.;
on the Mediterranean rainless, v. 159 sq.;
in Greece rainless, vii. 69
—— called Aphrodite, vi. 41
——, King of, chosen on St. Peter's Day, x. 195
—— and winter, personal names different in, iii. 386;
dramatic battle of, iv. 254 sq.
Summer festival of Adonis, v. 226, 232 n.
—— solstice in connexion with the Olympic festival, iv. 90;
swinging at the, iv. 280.
See also Solstice
—— trees, carried from house to house in Silesia, iv. 246;
compared to May-trees, iv. 251 sq.
Sun, prayers for children offered to the spirit of the, i. 72;
prayers of women to the, after the departure of the warriors, i. 130;
charm of the setting, i. 165 sq.;
asked to give a new tooth, i. 181 sq.;
magical control of the, i. 311 sqq.;
charms to cause the sun to shine, i. 311 sqq.;
prayers to the, at an eclipse, i. 312;
ancient Egyptian ceremonies for the regulation of the, i. 312;
human sacrifices offered by the Mexicans to the, i. 314 sq.;
chief deity of the Rhodians, i. 315;
supposed to drive in chariot, i. 315;
chariots and horses dedicated by the Rhodians and kings of Judah to the, i. 315, viii. 45;
horses sacrificed to the, i. 315 sq.;
caught by net or string, i. 316;
worshipped by the Lithuanians, i. 317 sq.;
the father of the Incas, i. 415;
Parthian monarchs the brothers of the, i. 417 sq.;
incense deposited in sanctuaries of the, ii. 107;
marriage of a woman to the, ii. 146 sq.;
worshipped by the Blackfoot Indians, ii. 146;
virgins of, in Peru, ii. 243 sqq.;
not allowed to shine on sacred persons, iii. 3, 4, 6;
sacrifices to, in ancient Egypt, iii. 227 n.;
represented by a bull, iv. 71 sq.;
represented as a man with a bull's head, iv. 75;
perhaps personated by the Olympic victors, iv. 91, vii. 86;
sacrifice of first-born children to the, iv. 183 sq.;
called “the golden swing in the sky,” iv. 279;
Adonis interpreted as the, v. 228;
Osiris interpreted as the, vi. 120 sqq.;
called “the eye of Horus,” vi. 121;
worshipped in Egypt, vi. 122, 123 sqq.;
the power of regeneration ascribed to the, vi. 143 n. 4;
time of sowing determined by observation of the, vii. 187;
Japanese deities of the, vii. 212;
first-fruits offered to the, vii. 237, viii. 117;
temple of the, at Cuzco, vii. 310;
primitive mechanisms for observation of the, vii. 314;
festival of new fruits said to have been instituted by the, viii. 75;
origin of the Yuchi Indians from the mother of the, viii. 75;
the great chief of the Natchez descended from the, viii. 135;
appeal to the, at confession of sins, ix. 3;
reappearance of, in the Arctic regions, ceremonies at, ix. 124 sq., 125 n. 1;
spirit who lives in the, ix. 186;
hearts of human victims offered to the, ix. 279, 280 sq., 298;
Mexican story of the creation of the, ix. 410;
rule not to see the, x. 18 sqq.;
not to shine on girls at puberty, x. 22, 35, 36, 37, 41, 44, 46, 47, 68;
not to be seen by Brahman boys for three days, x. 68 n. 2;
impregnation of women by the, x. 74 sq.;
made to shine on women at marriage, x. 75;
sheep and lambs sacrificed to the, x. 132;
symbolized by a wheel, x. 334 n. 1, 335;
in the sign of the lion, xi. 66 sq.;
magical virtues of plants at Midsummer derived [pg 480] from the, xi. 71 sq.;
in the sign of Sagittarius, xi. 82;
calls men to himself through death, xi. 173, 174 n. 1;
fern-seed procured by shooting at, on Midsummer Day, xi. 291;
the ultimate cooling of the, xi. 307
——, the birth of the, at the winter solstice, heathen festival of, v. 303 sqq., x. 246, 331 sq.;
Christmas, an old pagan festival of, v. 303 sqq., x. 246, 331 sq.
—— and Earth, marriage of the, ii. 98 sq., 148, v. 47 sq.
——, eclipses of the, ceremonies at, i. 311, 312;
beliefs and practices as to, iv. 73 n. 2, 77, x. 162 n.;
defilement or poison thought to be caused by, x. 162 n.
——, father of Alectrona, viii. 45
——, the Great, title of head chief of Natchez Indians, ii. 262, 263, viii. 77 sqq.
—— and Moon, their marriage celebrated by the Blackfoot Indians, ii. 146 sq.;
mythical and dramatic marriage of, iv. 71, 73 sq., 78, 87 sq., 90, 92, 105;
conjunction of, viii. 15 n. 1
——, moon, and stars represented by globes at the Laurel-bearing festival at Thebes, iv. 88 sq.;
human victims sacrificed to, by the heathen of Harran, vii. 261 sq.
——, priest of the, among the Blackfoot Indians, ii. 146 sq.;
Athenian, uses a white umbrella, x. 20 n. 1
——, the rising, salutations to, vi. 193, ix. 416
——, the setting, homoeopathic magic of, i. 165 sq.;
charms to prevent, i. 316 sqq., ix. 30 n. 2
——, temple of the, round, among Blackfoot Indians, ii. 147;
at Cuzco, ii. 243, ix. 129, x. 132;
at Baalbec, v. 163;
among the Natchez, viii. 135
——, the Unconquered, Mithra identified with, v. 304
Sun-charms, i. 311 sqq., x. 331;
the solstitial and other ceremonial fires perhaps sun-charms, xi. 292
—— clan of the Bechuanas, their magic to cause the sun to shine, i. 313
—— -dial of the Dyaks, vii. 314 n. 4
—— -god, the, Egyptian ceremony to aid, i. 67 sq.;
sacrifice for sunshine to, i. 291;
no wine offered to, i. 311;
the titles of, transferred to the kings of Egypt, i. 418;
the Egyptian, i. 418, 419, vi. 123 sqq., ix. 341;
draws away souls, iii. 64 sq.;
supposed to drive in a four-horse car, iv. 91;
annually married to Earth-goddess, v. 47 sq.;
hymns to, vi. 123 sq.;
Sûrya, the Indian, xi. 1;
wakened from his sleep by the fires of the Pongol festival, xi. 46
Sun goddess, the Mikado an incarnation of the, i. 417, iii. 2;
of the Hittites, v. 133 n.;
the Japanese, ix. 213 n. 1
—— -stone used in making sunshine, i. 314
Sunda, names of father and mother not to be mentioned in, iii. 341;
names of princes or chiefs not to be uttered in, iii. 376;
names of certain animals tabooed in, iii. 415.
See also Sundanese
Sundal, in Norway, need-fire in, x. 280
Sundanese, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of house timber, i. 146;
expel tree-spirit before they fell the tree, ii. 36.
See also Sunda
Sunday, children born on a Sunday can see treasures in the earth, xi. 288 n. 5
—— of the Firebrands, the first Sunday in Lent, x. 110
—— in Lent, the first, fire-festival on the, x. 107 sqq.
—— of the Rose, the fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. 222 n. 1
Sunderbans, tigers called jackals in the, iii. 403
Sunderland, cure for cough in, ix. 52
Sunflower roots, revered by the Thompson Indians, ii. 13;
ceremony at eating the, viii. 81
Sung-yang, were-tiger in, x. 310
Suni Mohammedans of Bombay cover mirrors at a death, iii. 95
Sunkalamma, a goddess, her effigy made of rice and eaten sacramentally by the Malas of Southern India, viii. 93
Sunless, Prince, Acarnanian story of, x. 21
Sunset, stories not to be told before, iii. 384
Sunshine, use of fire as a charm to produce, x. 341 sq.
Süntevögel or Sunnenvögel, butterflies, expelled in Westphalia on St. Peter's Day, ix. 159 n. 1
Superb warbler, called women's “sister” among the Kurnai, xi. 215 n. 1, 216, 218
Superhuman power supposed to be acquired by actors in sacred dramas, ix. 382, 383
Superiority of the goddess in the myths of Adonis, Attis, Osiris, vi. 201 sq.;
of goddesses over gods in societies organized on mother-kin, vi. 202 sqq.;
legal, of women over men in ancient Egypt, vi. 214
Supernatural basis of morality, iii. 213 sq.
—— beings, their names tabooed, iii. 384 sqq.
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Superstition a crutch to morality, iii. 219;
spring pageants originate in, iv. 269
Superstitions as to the making of pottery, ii. 204 sq.;
as to shooting stars, iv. 60 sqq.;
associated with the Twelve Nights, ix. 326 sqq.;
as to women at menstruation, x. 76 sqq.;
associated with May Day and Hallowe'en, x. 224;
Index of, x. 270;
about parasitic rowans, xi. 281 sq.;
about trees struck by lightning, xi. 296 sqq.
Superstitious practices to procure good crops, vii. 100;
at the Midsummer festival of St. John the Baptist, xi. 45
Supper, the harvest, vii. 134, 138.
See Harvest-supper
Supplementary days in the Egyptian year, vi. 6, ix. 340 sq.;
in the ancient Mexican year, vi. 28 n. 3;
in the old Iranian year, vi. 67, 68;
in the year of the Mayas of Yucatan, ix. 171, 340;
in the Aztec year, ix. 339 sq.
See also Intercalary
Supply of kings, iv. 134 sqq.
Supreme Being of the Ewe negroes, ix. 74 sq., 76 n. 1
—— Beings, otiose, in Africa, iv. 19 n.
—— God of the Oraons, ix. 92 sq.
—— gods in Africa, vi. 165, 173 sq., 174, 186, with note 5, 187 n. 1, 188 sq., 190
Surenthal in Switzerland, new fire made by friction at Midsummer in the, x. 169 sq.
Surinam, the Bush negroes of, ii. 385, viii. 26
Surrey, the weald of, ii. 7
Survival of the fittest, the principle of, apparently enunciated by Empedocles, viii. 306;
stated by Aristotle, viii. 306
Sûrya, the Indian sun-god, xi. 1
Susa, to the south of Abyssinia, the king of, eats behind a curtain, iii. 119
——, in Persia, scene of the Book of Esther laid at, ix. 360, 366
Sussex, belief as to cast teeth in, i. 177 sq.;
the weald of, ii. 7;
belief in, as to ground on which blood has been shed, iii. 244;
superstition as to clipped hair in, iii. 270 sq.;
cleft ash-trees used for the cure of rupture in, xi. 169 sq.
Sutherland, the corp chre in, i. 69
Sutherlandshire, the harvest Maiden in, vii. 162;
custom at eating new potatoes in, viii. 51;
the need-fire in, x. 294 sq.;
sept of the Mackays, “the descendants of the seal,” in, xi. 131 sq.
Suzees of Sierra Leone, kings among the, iii. 18
Svayamvara, ancient Indian mode of determining a husband, ii. 306
Swabia, homoeopathic magic at sowing in, i. 138;
stones tied to fruit-trees in, i. 140;
the Harvest-May in, ii. 48;
May-trees in, ii. 68;
church bells rung on Midsummer morning in, to drive away witches, ii. 127;
disposal of cut hair in, iii. 276;
Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 207;
Shrovetide or Lenten ceremonies in, iv. 230, 233;
the Old Woman at harvest in, vii. 136;
Altisheim in, vii. 136;
the Oats-goat at harvest in, vii. 282;
Gablingen in, vii. 282;
last standing corn called the Cow in, vii. 289;
the Cow at threshing in, vii. 290;
Obermedlingen in, vii. 290;
the thresher of the last corn called the Sow in, vii. 298 sq.;
Friedingen in, vii. 298;
Onstmettingen in, vii. 299;
the “Twelve Lot Days” in, ix. 322;
“burning the witch” on the first Sunday in Lent in, x. 116;
custom of throwing lighted discs on the first Sunday in Lent in, x. 116 sq.;
Easter fires in, x. 144 sq.;
custom at eclipses in, x. 162 n.;
the Midsummer fires in, x. 166 sq.;
witches as hares and horses in, x. 318 sq.;
the divining-rod in, xi. 68 n. 4;
fern-seed brought by Satan on Christmas night in, xi. 289
Swabian custom as to child's teething, i. 180
—— story of soul in form of mouse, iii. 39 n. 1
Swahili of East Africa, their New Year's Day, ix. 226 n. 1;
their ceremony of the new fire, x. 140;
birth-trees among the, xi. 160 sq.;
their story of an African Samson, xi. 314
Swahili charm by means of knotted cords, iii. 305 sq.
Swallow, wooden effigy of, carried about the streets on the first of March, viii. 322 n.
Swallow dance among the Kobeua and Kaua Indians of Brazil, ix. 381
—— Song, the Greek, viii. 322 n.
Swallowing of souls by shamans, iii. 76 sq.
Swallows as scapegoats, ix. 35;
stones found in stomachs of, x. 17
Swami Bhaskaranandaji Saraswati, Hindoo gentleman worshipped as a god, i. 404
Swan, J. G., on the masked dances of the Indians of North-Western America, ix. 376 sq.
Swan, guardian spirit of a woman as a, i. 200
Swan-woman, Tartar story of the, xi. 144
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Swan's bone, used by menstruous women to drink out of, x. 48, 49, 50, 90, 92
Swans, transmigration of bad poets into, viii. 308
Swans' song in a fairy tale, xi. 124
Swanton, J. R., on the seclusion of girls at puberty among the Haida Indians, x. 45 n. 1
Swastika, carved on Hittite monument at Ibreez, v. 122 n. 1
Swazieland, knots as charms in, iii. 305
Swazies, the, of South-Eastern Africa, their rain-making, i. 249;
their king a rain-maker, i. 350 sq.
Swearing on stones, i. 160 sq.
Sweat, contagious magic of, i. 206, 213;
of famous warriors drunk, viii. 152
Sweating as a purification, iii. 142, 156, 184
Sweden, guardian-trees in, ii. 58;
birch-twigs on the eve of May Day in, ii. 64 sq.;
bonfires and May-poles at Midsummer in, ii. 65;
Midsummer Bride and Bridegroom in, ii. 92, v. 251;
cattle crowned in spring in, ii. 127 n. 2;
Frey and his priestess in, ii. 143 sq.;
customs observed in, at turning out the cattle to graze for the first time in spring, ii. 341 sq.;
oaks and pines in the peat-bogs of, ii. 352;
dramatic contest between Winter and Summer on May Day in, iv. 254;
Maypole or Midsummer-tree in, v. 250;
kings of, answerable for the fertility of the ground, vi. 220;
marriage custom in, to ensure the birth of a boy, vi. 262;
custom at threshing in, vii. 149, 230;
“Killing the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 280;
the Yule Boar in, vii. 300 sqq.;
Christmas customs in, vii. 301 sq.;
belief as to eating white snake in, viii. 146;
magpies' eggs and young carried from house to house on May Day in, viii. 321 n. 3;
the Yule Goat in, viii. 327 sq.;
heaps of stones or sticks to which passers-by add in, ix. 14;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15, 20 sq.;
offerings at cairns in, ix. 27;
customs observed on Yule Night in, x. 20 sq.;
Easter bonfires in, x. 146;
bonfires on the Eve of May Day in, x. 159, 336;
Midsummer fires in, x. 172;
the need-fire in, x. 280;
bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 29;
“Midsummer Brooms” in, xi. 54;
the divining-rod in, xi. 69, 291;
mistletoe to be shot or knocked down with stones in, xi. 82;
mistletoe a remedy for epilepsy in, xi. 83;
medical use of mistletoe in, xi. 84;
mistletoe used as a protection against conflagration in, xi. 85, 293;
mistletoe cut at Midsummer in, xi. 86;
mystic properties ascribed to mistletoe on St. John's Eve in, xi. 86;
Balder's balefires in, xi. 87;
children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture or rickets in, xi. 170;
crawling through a hoop as a cure in, xi. 184;
superstitions about a parasitic rowan in, xi. 281
Swedes, the heathen, their mimicry of thunder, i. 248 n. 1;
sacrifice their kings in times of dearth, i. 366 sq.
Swedish kings, traces of nine years' reign of, iv. 57 sq.
—— peasants stick leafy branches in corn-fields, ii. 47
—— popular belief that certain animals should not be called by their proper names, iii. 397
Sweeping misfortune out of house with brooms, ix. 5
—— out the town, annual ceremony of, ix. 135
Sweet potatoes cultivated in Africa, vii. 117;
cultivated in South America, vii. 121;
cultivated in Assam, vii. 123;
cultivated in New Britain, vii. 123;
offering of, to the god of sweet potatoes among the Maoris, viii. 133
Sweethearts of St. John at Midsummer in Sardinia, ii. 92, v. 244 sq.
Swelling and inflammation thought to be caused by eating out of sacred vessels or by wearing sacred garments, iii. 4
Swiftness in running, charm to ensure, i. 155
Swim or sink, in divination, i. 196;
test used to determine a new incarnation, i. 413
Swine, herds of, in ancient Italy, ii. 354;
a tabooed word to fishermen, iii. 394, 395;
not eaten by people of Pessinus, v. 265;
not eaten by worshippers of Adonis, v. 265;
not allowed to enter Comana in Pontus, v. 265;
souls of the dead in, viii. 296
——, wild, their ravages in the corn, viii. 31 sqq.
See also Pigs
Swine's flesh sacramentally eaten, viii. 20, 24;
not eaten by worshippers of Attis, viii. 22;
not eaten by Egyptian priests, viii. 24 n. 2
See also Pig's flesh and Pork
Swineherds, their horns, ii. 354;
forbidden to enter Egyptian temples, viii. 24
Swing in the Sky, the Golden, description of the sun, iv. 279
Swinging, festival of, at Athens, i. 46 n. 1;
at ploughing rite in Siam, iv. 150, 151, 156 sq.;
as a ceremony or magical rite, iv. 277 sqq.;
on hooks [pg 483] run through the body, Indian custom, iv. 278 sq.;
as a cure for sickness, iv. 279, 280 sq.;
as a mode of inspiration, iv. 280;
images as a funeral rite, iv. 282;
as a ceremony of purification, iv. 282 sq.;
as a festal rite in modern Greece, Spain, and Italy, iv. 283 sq.;
for good crops, vii. 101, 103, 107
Swiss superstition as to knots in shrouds, iii. 310
Switzerland, the lake-dwellings of, ii. 353;
the Corn-goat, Oats-goat, and Rye-goat at harvest in, vii. 283;
the Wheat-cow, Corn-cow, Oats-cow, Corn-bull, etc., at harvest in, vii. 289, 291;
omens from the cry of the quail in, vii. 295;
weather forecasts in, ix. 323;
Lenten fires in, x. 118 sq.;
new fire kindled by friction of wood in, x. 169 sq.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 172;
the Yule log in, x. 249;
need-fire in, x. 279 sq., 336;
people warned against bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 27;
the belief in witchcraft in, xi. 42 n. 2;
divination by orpine at Midsummer in, xi. 61
Sword, biting a, as a charm, i. 160;
girls married to a, v. 61
——, a magical, possessed by Fire King, ii. 5;
sacrifices offered to it, ii. 5
Sword-fish thanked for being killed by the Ainos, viii. 251
Swords to frighten evil spirits, i. 186;
used to ward off or expel demons, ix. 113, 118, 119, 120, 123, 203;
carried by mummers, ix. 245, 251
——, golden, iv. 75
Sycamore at doors on May Day, ii. 60;
effigy of Osiris placed on boughs of, vi. 88, 110;
sacred to Osiris, vi. 110
Sycamores worshipped in ancient Egypt, ii. 15;
sacred among the Gallas, ii. 34
Syene, held by a Roman garrison, iv. 144 n. 2;
inscriptions at, vi. 35 n. 1
Syleus, a Lydian, compelled passers-by to dig in his vineyard, vii. 257 sq.;
killed by Hercules, vii. 258
Sylvan deities in classical art, ii. 45
Symbolism, coarse, of Osiris and Dionysus, vi. 112, 113
Symmachus on the festival of the Great Mother, v. 298
Sympathetic magic, i. 51 sqq., iii. 164, 201, 204, 258, 268, 287, iv. 77, vii. 102, 139, viii. 33, 271, 311 sq., ix. 399;
its two branches, i. 54;
examples of, i. 55 sqq.
See also Magic
—— relation between cleft tree and person who has been passed through it, xi. 170, 171 n. 1, 172;
between man and animal, xi. 272 sq.
Sympathy, magical, between a man and severed portions of his person, i. 175, iii. 267 sq., 283
Synonyms adopted in order to avoid naming the dead, iii. 359 sqq.;
in the Zulu language, iii. 377;
in the Maori language, iii. 381
Syntengs of Assam, iv. 55. See Jaintias
Syracuse, funeral games in honour of Timoleon at, iv. 94;
the Blue Spring at, v. 213 n. 1
Syrakoi chose as king the man with the longest head, ii. 297
Syria, charm to make fruit-trees bear in, i. 140;
oak-tree worshipped in, ii. 16;
St. George in, ii. 346, v. 78, 79, 90;
belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424;
Adonis in, v. 13 sqq.;
“holy men” in, v. 77 sq.;
hot springs resorted to by childless women in, v. 213 sqq.;
subject to earthquakes, v. 222 n. 1;
the Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice in, v. 303;
turning money at the new moon in, vi. 149;
bones of sacrificial victim not broken in, viii. 258 n. 2;
precaution against caterpillars in, viii. 279;
stones piled on graves of robbers in, ix. 17;
practice of raising cairns near sacred places in, ix. 21;
Aphrodite and Adonis in, ix. 386;
restrictions on menstruous women in, x. 84
Syrian bridegroom must have no knots on his garments, iii. 300
—— custom of saluting the rising sun, ix. 416
—— god Hadad, v. 15
—— goddess at Hierapolis, hair offered to the, i. 29
—— mother, her vow, iii. 263
—— peasants believe that women can conceive without sexual intercourse, v. 91
—— witch, her procedure described by Lucian, iii. 270
—— women bathe in the Orontes to procure offspring, ii. 160;
resort to hot springs to obtain offspring, ii. 161, v. 213 sqq.;
apply to saints for offspring, ii. 346, v. 78, 79, 90, 109
—— writer on the reasons for assigning Christmas to the twenty-fifth of December, v. 304 sq.
Syrians, their religious attitude to pigs, viii. 23;
esteemed fish sacred, viii. 26
Syrmia, the Yule log in, x. 262 sq.
Syro-Macedonian calendar, iv. 116 n. 1, ix. 358 n. 1
Szagmanten, in Tilsit district, the last sheaf at harvest called the Old Rye-woman at, vii. 232
Szis, the, of Upper Burma, the Father [pg 484] and Mother of the Paddy (unhusked rice) among, vii. 203 sq.
Ta-cul-lies, native name of the Carrier Indians, iii. 215 n. 2
Ta-ta-thi tribe of New South Wales, their mode of making rain by crystals, i. 304
Tâ-uz (Tammuz), mourned by Syrian women in Harran, v. 230
Taanach, in Palestine, burial of children in jars at, v. 109 n. 1
Taara, the thunder-god of the Esthonians, ii. 367
Tabali, in South Nigeria, precaution as to the spittle of chiefs at, iii. 289
Tabari, Arab chronicler, his story how King Sapor took the city of Atrae, x. 82 sq.
Tabaristan, rain-producing cave in, i. 301
Table, leaping from, a charm to make crops grow high, i. 138, 139 n.
Tablets of destiny wrested by Marduk from Ningu, iv. 110
Taboo, or negative magic, i. 111 sqq., 143;
of chiefs and kings in Tonga, iii. 133 sq.;
of chiefs in New Zealand, iii. 134 sqq.;
Esquimau theory of, iii. 210 sqq.;
the meaning of, iii. 224;
conceived as a dangerous physical substance which needs to be insulated, x. 6 sq.
——, sanctity, and uncleanness, their equivalence in primitive thought, iii. 285;
sanctity and uncleanness not differentiated in the notion of, viii. 23
Taboo rajah and chief, iii. 24 sq.
Tabooed acts, iii. 101 sqq.
—— hands, iii. 133, 134, 138, 140 sqq., 146 sqq., 158, 159 n., 174, 265
—— men at festival of wild mango in New Guinea, x. 7 sq.
—— persons, iii. 131 sqq.;
fed by others, iii. 133, 134 n. 1, 138, 138 n. 1, 139, 140, 141, 142, 147, 148 n. 1, 166, 167, 265;
secluded, iii. 165;
kept from contact with the ground, x. 2 sqq.
—— things, iii. 224 sqq.;
kept from contact with the ground, x. 7 sqq.
—— village, viii. 122
—— women at festival of wild mango in New Guinea, x. 8
—— words, iii. 318 sqq.
Taboos, homoeopathic, i. 116;
contagious, i. 117;
on food, i. 117 sqq., iii. 291 sqq.;
laid on the parents of twins, i. 262, 263 sq., 266;
royal and priestly, iii. 1 sqq.;
on intercourse with strangers, iii. 101 sqq.;
on eating and drinking, iii. 116 sqq.;
on showing the face, iii. 120 sqq.;
on quitting the house, iii. 122 sqq.;
on leaving food over, iii. 126 sqq.;
on persons who have handled the dead, iii. 138 sqq.;
on mourners, iii. 138 sqq.;
on lads at initiation, iii. 141 sq., 156 sq.;
on warriors, iii. 157 sqq.;
on man-slayers, iii. 165 sqq.;
on murderers, iii. 187 sq.;
on hunters and fishers, iii. 190 sqq.;
transformed into ethical precepts, iii. 214;
survivals of, in morality, iii. 218 sq.;
as spiritual insulators, iii. 224;
on sharp weapons, iii. 237 sqq.;
on blood, iii. 239 sqq.;
relating to the head, iii. 252 sqq.;
on hair, iii. 258 sqq.;
on spittle, iii. 287 sqq.;
on knots and rings, iii. 293 sqq.;
on words, iii. 318 sqq., 392 sqq.;
on personal names, iii. 318 sqq.;
on names of relations, iii. 335 sqq.;
on the names of the dead, iii. 349 sqq.;
on names of kings and chiefs, iii. 374 sqq.;
on names of supernatural beings, iii. 384 sqq.;
on names of gods, iii. 387 sqq.;
on common words, iii. 392 sqq.;
on common words based on a fear of spirits or of animals supposed to be endowed with human intelligence, iii. 416 sqq.;
communal, vii. 109 n. 2;
agricultural, vii. 187;
relating to milk, viii. 83 sq.;
regulating the lives of divine kings, x. 2
Taboos observed in fishing and hunting on the principle of sympathetic magic, i. 113 sqq.;
by children in the absence of their fathers, i. 116, 119, 122, 123, 127, 131;
by wives in the absence of their husbands, i. 116, 119, 120, 121, 122 sqq., 127 sqq.;
by sisters in the absence of their brothers, i. 122, 123, 125, 127;
by parents of twins, i. 262, 263 sq., 266;
after house-building, ii. 40;
for the sake of the crops, ii. 98, 105 sqq.;
by fathers of twins, ii. 102, iii. 239 sq.;
by Brahman fire-priests, ii. 248;
by the Flamen Dialis, ii. 248, iii. 13 sq.;
by herd-boys while watching the herds, ii. 331;
by the Mikado, iii. 3 sq.;
by headmen in Assam, iii. 11;
by ancient kings of Ireland, iii. 11 sq.;
by the Bodia or Bodio, iii. 15;
by sacred milkmen among the Todas, iii. 16 sqq.;
by a priest in Celebes, iii. 129;
by mourners, iii. 235 sq.;
by searchers for lignum aloes, iii. 404;
at the sowing festival among the Kayans, vii. 94, 187;
by enchanters of crops among the Kai, vii. 100;
at the sanctuary of Alectrona in Rhodes, viii. 45;
at the sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura, viii. 46;
after the capture of a ground seal, walrus, or whale among the Esquimaux, viii. 246;
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by priest of Earth in Southern Nigeria, x. 4
Tabor, in Bohemia, custom of “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 237 sq.
Tacitus, Germans in the time of, ii. 285;
on the sacred groves of the Germans, ii. 363 n. 6;
as to German observation of the moon, vi. 141;
on human sacrifices offered by the ancient Germans, xi. 28 n. 1;
on the goddess Nerthus, xi. 28 n. 1
Taenarum in Laconia, Poseidon worshipped at, v. 203 n. 2
Tagales of the Philippines, their excuse to tree-spirit for felling the tree, ii. 36 sq.
Tagalogs of the Philippines, their reverence for flowers and trees, ii. 18 sq.
Tagbanuas of the Philippines, their custom of sending spirits of disease away in little ships, ix. 189
Tahiti, seclusion of women after childbirth in, iii. 147;
kings and queens of, not to be touched, iii. 226;
sanctity of the head in, iii. 255 sq.;
remarkable rule of succession in, iv. 190;
funeral custom to prevent return of ghost in, viii. 97;
offerings of first-fruits in, viii. 132;
transference of sins in, ix. 45 sq.;
king and queen of, not allowed to set foot on the ground, x. 3;
the fire-walk in, xi. 11.
See also Tahitians
——, kings of, deified, i. 388;
abdicate on birth of a son, iii. 20;
their names not to be pronounced, iii. 381 sq.
Tahitians buried their cut hair at temples, iii. 274;
burned or buried their shorn hair for fear of witchcraft, iii. 281;
their notions as to eclipses of the sun and moon, iv. 73 n. 2;
their belief in the action of spirits, ix. 80 sq.;
the New Year of the, xi. 244
Tahuata, human god in the island of, i. 387 n. 1
Tai-chow, district of China, voluntary martyrdom of Buddhist monks in, iv. 42
Tâif, custom of polling the hair after a journey at, iii. 261
Taigonos Peninsula, the Koryaks of the, ix. 126
Tail of corn-spirit, vii. 268, 272, 300, viii. 10, 43;
of sacrificial horse cut off, viii. 42, 43.
See also Tails
“Tail-money” given to herdsmen on St. George's Day, ii. 331
Tailltenn, pagan cemetery at, iv. 101
Tailltiu or Tailltin, in County Meath, now Teltown, the fair of, iv. 99, 101;
pagan cemetery at, iv. 101
Tailltiu, foster-mother of Lug, iv. 99
Tails of cats docked as a magical precaution, iii. 128 sq.
Tails of cattle, fire tied to, in rain-charm, i. 302
Tain tribe of Dinkas, influence of rain-maker over the, iv. 32
Taiping rebellion, i. 414
Tajan, the Dyaks of, forbidden to mention the names of parents and grandparents, iii. 340
—— and Landak, districts of Dutch Borneo, bride and bridegroom not allowed to touch the earth among the Dyaks of, x. 5;
birth-trees among the Dyaks of, xi. 164
Tak, mountain in Tabaristan, rain-making cave on, i. 301
Takhas, the, worship the cobra, i. 383 n. 4;
on border of Cashmeer, inspired prophets among, i. 383
Takilis or Carrier Indians, succession to the soul among the, iv. 199.
See Carrier Indians
Takitount, in Algeria, rain-making at, i. 250
Talaga Bodas, volcano in Java, sulphureous exhalations at, v. 204
Talaings, the, of Lower Burma, their customs as to the last sheaf at rice-harvest, vii. 190 sq.
Talbot, P. Amaury, on self-mutilation among the Ekoi, v. 271 n.;
on external human souls in animals in West Africa, xi. 208 n. 1, 209 n. 1
Talegi, Motlav word for external soul, xi. 198
Taleins, the, of Burma, their worship of demons, ix. 96
Tales, wandering souls in popular, iii. 49 sq.;
told as charms, vii. 102 sqq.;
the resurrection of the body in popular, viii. 263 sqq.;
of maidens forbidden to see the sun, x. 70 sqq.;
the external soul in popular, xi. 95 sqq.
Tāli tied to bride, Hindoo marriage symbol, ii. 57 n. 4
Talismans possessed by the Fire King of Cambodia, ii. 5;
crowns and wreaths as, vi. 242 sq.;
of cities, x. 83 n. 1
See also Amulets
——, public, iii. 317 n. 1;
in antiquity, i. 365 n. 7
Talmud, the, on Purim, ix. 363;
on menstruous women, x. 83
Talos, a bronze man, perhaps identical with the Minotaur, iv. 74 sq.
Tamanachiers, Indian tribe of the Orinoco, their story of the origin of death, ix. 303
Tamanaks of the Orinoco, their treatment of girls at puberty, x. 61 n. 3
Tamanawas or tamanous, guardian spirits, ix. 376 n. 3;
dramatic performances of myths, ix. 376, 377
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Tamaniu, external soul in the Mota language, xi. 198 sq., 220
Tamara, island off New Guinea, belief in the transmigration of human souls into pigs in, viii. 296
Tamarind married to a mango in India, ii. 25
Tamarind-trees sacred, ii. 42, 44, 46
Tamarisk, sacred to Osiris, vi. 110 sq.;
Isfendiyar slain with a branch of a, x. 105
Tamarisk branches used to beat people ceremonially, ix. 263
Tambaran, demons, among the Melanesians of New Britain, ix. 82, 83
Tami, the, of German New Guinea, their theory of earthquakes, v. 198;
their rites of initiation, xi. 239 sqq.
Tamil temples, dancing-girls in, v. 61
Tamirads, a family of diviners in Cyprus, v. 42
Tammuz or Adonis, v. 6 sqq.;
in the East perhaps replaced by St. George, ii. 346;
the summer lamentations for, iv. 7;
his relation to Adonis, v. 6 n. 1;
his worship of Sumerian origin, v. 7 sq.;
“true son of the deep water,” v. 8, 246;
laments for, v. 9 sq.;
mourned for at Jerusalem, v. 11, 17, 20, ix. 400;
as a corn-spirit, v. 230;
his bones ground in a mill, v. 230, vii. 258;
perhaps represented by the mock king of the Sacaea, vii. 258 sq.;
the lover of Ishtar, ix. 371, 373;
annual death and resurrection of, ix. 398.
See also Adonis
—— and Ishtar, v. 8 sq., ix. 399, 406
Tammuz, a Babylonian month, v. 10 n. 1, 230, vii. 259
Tana (Tanna), one of the New Hebrides, contagious magic of clothes in, i. 206;
power of the disease-makers in, i. 341;
magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 127 sq.;
dead ancestors worshipped as gods in, viii. 125;
first-fruits offered to ancestors in, viii. 125 sq.
Tanala, the, of Madagascar, their custom at circumcision, iii. 227;
their mode of averting ill-luck from children, vii. 9;
believe that the souls of the dead transmigrate into animals, viii. 290
Tanaquil, the Queen, wife of Tarquin, story of the birth of Servius Tullius in connexion with, ii. 195
Tanatoa, deified king of Raiatea, i. 387 sq.
Tang dynasty of China, custom of marrying girls to the Yellow River under the, ii. 152
Tanga Coast of East Africa, belief as to mischievous spirits of trees on the, ii. 34
Tanganyika, Lake, Urua to the west of, i. 395;
human victims thrown into, ii. 158;
Winamwanga tribe to the south of, ii. 293, viii. 112;
the Awemba to the west of, vii. 115;
custom of carriers on the plateau between Lake Nyassa and, ix. 10;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the tribes of the plateau to the west of, x. 24
—— plateau, custom as to the planting of bananas among the natives of the, vii. 115
Tangier, the Barley Bride among the Berbers near, vii. 178
Tangkhuls of Manipur, licence before sowing among the, ii. 100
Tangkul Nagas of Assam, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 57 sqq.;
their tug-of-war, ix. 177
Tani, a god in the Society Islands, first-fruits presented to, viii. 132 sq.
Tanjore, dancing-girls at, v. 61;
the Rajah of, his sins transferred to Brahmans, ix. 44
Tanner, John, and the Shawnee sage, xi. 157
Tanneteya, in Celebes (?), vii. 196 n.
Tano, a fetish, on the Ivory Coast, viii. 287
Tanoe, River, on the Ivory Coast, viii. 287
Tantad, Midsummer bonfire, in Lower Brittany, x. 183
Tantalus, king of Sipylus, ancestor of the Pelopidae, ii. 279;
murders his son Pelops, v. 181
Taoism, religious head of, i. 413 sqq.;
defined as “exorcising polytheism,” ix. 99
Taoist treatise on the soul, xi. 221
Tapajos, tributary of the Amazon, the Mauhes on the, x. 62
Taphos besieged by Amphitryo, xi. 103
Tapia, a malignant ghost in San Cristoval, iii. 56
Tapio, woodland god in Finland, ii. 124
Tapir, custom of Indians after killing a, viii. 236
Tapirs, souls of dead in, viii. 285
Tapping a palm-tree for wine in Java, ceremony at, ii. 100 sq.
Tapuiyas, the, of Brazil, worshipped the Pleiades, vii. 309
Tar as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 53;
to keep out ghosts and witches, ix. 153 n. 1
See also Pitch
Tar-barrels burnt at Up-helly-a', in Lerwick, ix. 169;
burning, swung round pole at Midsummer, x. 169;
burnt at Midsummer among the [pg 487] Esthonians, x. 180;
burnt on Hogmanay at Burghead, x. 266 sq.;
procession with lighted, on Christmas Eve in Lerwick, x. 268
Tara, the capital of ancient Ireland, the sun not to rise on the king of Ireland in his bed at, iii. 11;
no king with a personal blemish allowed to reign over Ireland at, iv. 39;
pagan cemetery at, iv. 101;
new fire kindled in spring in the King's house at, x. 158
Tarahumares of Mexico, their charm to secure victory in race, i. 150;
their homoeopathic charm to make them fleet of foot, i. 155;
their rain-making by making smoke, i. 249;
their rain-charm by dipping a plough in water, i. 284;
their worship of water-serpents, ii. 156 sq.;
their belief as to shooting stars, iv. 62;
ceremonies performed by them at hoeing, ploughing, and harvest, vii. 227 sq.;
sacrifice to the Master of Fish, viii. 252;
their custom of adding sticks or stones to heaps, ix. 10;
their dances for the crops, ix. 236 sqq.
Tarascon, the dragon of, ii. 170 n. 1
Tarashchansk district of Russia, rain-making in the, i. 285
Tarbolton, in Ayrshire, annual bonfire at, x. 207
Tari Pennu, Earth Goddess of the Khonds, human sacrifices offered to her for the crops, vii. 245
Tarianas, the, of the Amazon, their custom of drinking the ashes of the dead, viii. 157
Tarija, in Bolivia, Earth-mothers at, vii. 173 n.
Tark, Tarku, Trok, Troku, syllables in names of Cilician priests, v. 144;
perhaps the name of a Hittite deity, v. 147;
perhaps the name of the god of Olba, v. 148, 165
Tarkimos, priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 145
Tarkondimotos, name of two Cilician kings, v. 145 n. 2
Tarkuaris, priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 145;
priestly king of Olba, v. 145
Tarkudimme or Tarkuwassimi, name on Hittite seal, v. 145 n. 2
Tarkumbios, priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 145
Tarnow, district of Galicia, wreath made out of last sheaf called the Wheat-mother, Rye-mother, or Pea-mother in, vii. 135
Taro, magical stones to promote the growth of, i. 162;
charms for growth of, vii. 100, 102
Taro plants beaten to make them grow, ix. 264
Tarquin the Elder, husband of Tanaquil, ii. 195;
succeeded by his son-in-law, ii. 270;
his sons, ii. 270 n. 3;
his descent, ii. 270 n. 6;
murdered, ii. 320
Tarquin the Proud, sacred precinct on the Alban Mount dedicated by, ii. 187;
uncle of L. Junius Brutus, ii. 290;
his attempt to shift the line of descent of the Roman kingship, ii. 291 sq.
Tarquitius Priscus, on unlucky trees, iii. 275 n. 3
Tarsus in Cilicia, climate and fertility of, v. 118;
school of philosophy at, v. 118;
Sandan and Baal at, v. 142 sq., 161;
priesthood of Hercules at, v. 143;
Fortune of the City on coins of, v. 164;
divine triad at, v. 171
——, the Baal of, v. 117 sqq., 162 sq.
——, coins of, representing Sandan on the pyre, ix. 388 n. 2
——, Sandan of, v. 124 sqq., ix. 388, 389, 391, 392
Tartar Khan, ceremony at visiting a, iii. 114
—— stories of the external soul, xi. 142 sq., 144 sq.
Tartars, their belief in living Buddhas incarnate in Grand Lamas, i. 410 sq.;
divine by the shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 n. 4;
do not break bones of the animals they eat, viii. 258 n. 2;
after a funeral leap over fire, xi. 18
—— of the Middle Ages, names of the dead not uttered till the third generation among the, iii. 370
Tasmania, the aborigines of, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353
Tasmanians carried fire about with them, ii. 257 sq.;
seem to have changed common words after a death, iii. 364 n. 1
Tat or tatu pillar. See Ded pillar
Tate, H. R., on serpent-worship among the Akikuyu, v. 85
Tatia, wife of Numa, ii. 270 n. 5
Tatius, king of Rome, succeeded by his son-in-law Numa, ii. 270 and nn. 1, 5;
the Sabine colleague of Romulus, killed with sacrificial knives, ii. 320
Tattoo-marks, tribal, in Dahomey, v. 74 n. 4;
of priests in Dahomey, v. 74 n. 4;
of priests of Attis, v. 278;
on slave or prisoner of war, ix. 47
Tattooing in the Punjaub, belief as to, iii. 30;
of bride in Fiji, x. 34 n. 1;
medicinal use of, x. 98 n. 1;
at initiation, xi. 258, 259, 261 n.
Tauaré Indians, of the Rio Enivra, eat the ashes of their dead, viii. 157
Taui Islanders, their custom as to a falling star, iv. 61
Taungthu, the, of Upper Burma, their [pg 488] way of securing the soul of the rice, vii. 190
Taunton, expedients for facilitating death at, iii. 309
Taupes et Mulots, fire ceremony on Eve of Twelfth Night in the Bocage of Normandy, ix. 317
Taura, priest, in Southern Pacific, i. 377, 378
Taurians of the Crimea, their use of the heads of prisoners, v. 294
Tauric Diana, her image brought by Orestes to Italy in a faggot of sticks, i. 10 sq.;
her image only to be appeased with human blood, i. 24
Taurobolium, sacrifice of a bull in the rites of Cybele, v. 274 sqq.;
or Tauropolium, v. 275 n. 1
Taurus, Mount, the Yourouks of, ii. 43
Taurus mountains, pass of the Cilician Gates in the, v. 120
Tavernier, J. B., on the annual expulsion of demons in Tonquin, ix. 148 n. 1
Taxation perhaps derived from offerings of first-fruits, viii. 116
Tay, Loch, Hallowe'en fires on, x. 232
Taygetus, Mount, sacrifices to the sun on, i. 315 sq.
Taylor, Isaac, on the relation of the Italian and Celtic languages, ii. 189 n. 3
Taylor, Rev. J. C., on the annual expulsion of evils at Onitsha, ix. 133;
on human scapegoat at Onitsha, ix. 211
Taylor, Rev. Richard, on human scapegoats in New Zealand, ix. 39;
on the Maori gods, ix. 81
Tcheou dynasty of China, change of calendar under the, x. 137
Tchiglit Esquimaux, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65
Teak, Loranthus on, xi. 317
Teanlas, Hallowe'en fires in Lancashire, x. 245
Tears of Isis thought to swell the Nile, vi. 33;
rain thought to be the tears of gods, vi. 33;
of human victim signs of rain, vii. 248, 250;
of oxen as rain-charm, viii. 10
Teasing animals before killing them, viii. 190
Tebach, bear-festival of the Gilyaks at, viii. 191 sqq.
Teberans, spirits, among the Melanesians of New Britain, i. 340
Teeth, ceremony of knocking out teeth at initiation among the tribes of Australia, i. 97 sqq.;
extraction of teeth in connexion with rain, i. 98 sq.;
tribute of, i. 101;
homoeopathic magic of, i. 137;
homoeopathic charms to strengthen, i. 153, 157;
contagious magic of, i. 176-182;
of rats and mice in magic, i. 178 sqq.;
of foxes and kangaroos in sympathetic magic, i. 180;
of ancestor in magical ceremony, i. 312;
loss of, supposed effect of breaking a taboo, iii. 140;
loosened by angry ghosts, iii. 186 n. 1;
as a rain-charm, iii. 271;
extracted, kept against the resurrection, iii. 280;
children whose upper teeth appear before the lower exposed, iii. 287 n.;
filed as preliminary to marriage, x. 68 n. 2
See also Tooth
Teeth and nails of sacred kings preserved as amulets, ii. 6
Teething, charms to help, i. 180
Tegea, tombstones at, v. 87;
Demeter and Persephone worshipped at, vii. 63 n. 14
Tegner, Swedish poet, on the burning of Balder, xi. 87
Tein Econuch, “forlorn fire,” need-fire, x. 292
Tein-eigin (teine-eigin, tin-egin), need-fire, in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 147, 148, 289, 291, 293
Teine Bheuil, fire of Beul, need-fire, in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 293
Telamon, son of Aeacus, king of Salamis, ii. 278, v. 145
Telchines, the, of Rhodes, legendary magicians, i. 310
Telepathy, magical, i. 119 sqq.;
in hunting and fishing, i. 120 sqq.;
in voyages, i. 126;
in war, i. 126 sqq.
Telephus at Pergamus, rule as to persons who had sacrificed to, viii. 85
Telingana, euphemistic name for snake in, iii. 402
Tell Ta'annek (Taanach), in Palestine, burial of children in jars at, v. 109 n. 1
Tell-el-Amarna, the new capital of King Amenophis IV., vi. 123 n. 1, 124, 125;
tablets, iv. 170 n. 5;
letters, v. 16 n. 5, 21 n. 2, 135 n.
Tellemarken in Norway, cairns to which passers-by add stones in, ix. 14
Teltown, in County Meath, the fair at, iv. 99
Telugu remedy for a fever, ix. 38
Telugus, their way of stopping rain, i. 253;
their precaution as to spittle, iii. 289
Tembadere, rain-maker at, ii. 3
Tempe, the Vale of, Apollo purged of the dragon's blood in, iv. 81, vi. 240
Temple, Sir R. C., on the fear of spirits and ghosts among the Nicobarese, ix. 88
Temple at Jerusalem built without iron, iii. 230
Temple, the Inner and the Middle, Lords of Misrule in the, ix. 333
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Temple church, Lord of Misrule in the, ix. 333
Temple-tombs of kings, vi. 161 sq., 167 sq., 170 sqq., 174, 194 sq.
Temples built in honour of living kings of Babylon, i. 417;
built in honour of living kings of Egypt, i. 418;
of dead kings in Africa, vi. 161 sq., 167 sq., 170 sqq., 194 sq.;
dedicated to sharks, viii. 292
Temporary king, ix. 403 sq.;
in Cambodia, iv. 148;
in Siam, iv. 149 sqq., ix. 151
—— kings, taking the place of the real kings for a time, iv. 148 sqq.;
their divine or magical functions, iv. 155 sqq.
—— reincarnation of the dead in their living namesakes, iii. 371
Ten Thousand, the march of the, iii. 124
Tench, jaundice transferred to a, ix. 52
Tendi, Batta word for soul, iii. 45, 263.
See also Tondi
Tendo, lagoon of, on the Ivory Coast, souls of dead in bats on the, viii. 287
Tenedos, sacrifice of infants to Melicertes in, iv. 162;
human beings torn in pieces at the rites of Dionysus in, vii. 24;
calf shod in buskins sacrificed to Dionysus in, vii. 33
Teneriffe, the Guanches of, i. 303
Tengaroeng in Borneo, swinging of priests and priestesses as a mode of inspiration at, iv. 280, 281
Tenggerese of Java, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1;
sacrifice to volcano, v. 220;
their sham fight at New Year, ix. 184
Tenimber Islands, treatment of the afterbirth in the, i. 186;
first-fruits offered to spirits of ancestors in the, viii. 123
—— and Timor-laut Islands, new-born children passed through the smoke of fire in the, ii. 232 n. 3
Tenos, the calendar of, viii. 6 n.
Tent of widow burnt at Midsummer in Morocco, x. 215
Tentyra (Denderah), temple of Osiris at, vi. 86
Teos, public curses in, i. 45 n. 7
Tepehuanes of Mexico afraid of being photographed, iii. 97;
personal names kept secret among the, iii. 325;
their belief as to stepping over persons, iii. 424;
their custom of adding sticks or stones to heaps, ix. 10
Tephrosia, devil's shoestring, in homoeopathic magic, i. 144
Termonde in Belgium, Midsummer fires at, x. 194
Terms of relationship used as terms of address, iii. 324 sq.
Ternate, in the Indian Archipelago, ii. 111;
the natives of, names of objects tabooed to them at sea, iii. 414;
the sultan of, his sacrifice of human victims to a volcano, v. 220
Tertullian on Christians worshipping each other, i. 407;
on the Etruscan crown, ii. 175 n. 1;
human sacrifices in the lifetime of, iv. 168;
on the fasts of Isis and Cybele, v. 302 n. 4;
on the date of the Crucifixion, v. 306 n. 5
Teshu Lama, the, ix. 203
—— Lumbo in Tibet, celebration of Tibetan New Year's Day at, ix. 203
Teshub or Teshup, name of Hittite god, v. 135 n., 148 n.
Teso, the, of Central Africa, medicine-men dressed as women among the, vi. 257;
their use of bells to exorcize fiends, ix. 246 sq.
Tessier, on the burning wheel at Konz, x. 164 n. 1
Test of the reincarnation of the Heavenly Master, i. 413;
of virginity by a flame, ii. 239 sq., x. 139 n.
See also Tests
Testicles of rams in the rites of Attis, v. 269 n.;
of bull used in rites of Cybele and Attis, v. 276;
of goats eaten by lecherous persons, viii. 142;
of brave enemy eaten, viii. 148
Tests of the reincarnation of Grand Lamas, i. 411;
of the reincarnation of the dead in the Niger Delta, i. 411 n. 1;
undergone by girls at puberty, x. 25.
See also Test
Têt, New Year festival in Annam, vi. 62
Tet pillar. See Ded pillar
Teti, king of Egypt, mentioned in the Pyramid Texts, vi. 5
Teton Indians, their attempt to deceive the ghosts of the spiders which they kill, viii. 236 sq.
Tettnang, in Würtemburg, the He-goat at threshing at, vii. 286
Tetzcatlipoca or Tezcatlipoca, great Mexican god, viii. 165, ix. 276;
man killed and eaten as the representative of, viii. 92 sq.;
young man annually sacrificed in the character of, ix. 276 sqq.
Teucer, son of Aeacus, king in Cyprus, ii. 278
—— and Ajax, names of priestly kings of Olba, v. 144 sq., 148, 161
——, son of Tarkuaris, priestly king of Olba, v. 151, 157
——, son of Telamon, ii. 278;
founds Salamis in Cyprus, v. 145;
said to have instituted human sacrifice, v. 146
——, son of Zenophanes, high priest of Olbian Zeus, v. 151
Teucrids, dynasty at Salamis in Cyprus, v. 145
Teutates, Celtic god, xi. 80 n. 3
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Teutonic kings as priests, i. 47
—— peoples, bride race among the, ii. 303 sqq.
—— stories of the external soul, xi. 116 sqq.
—— thunder-god, ii. 364
—— year reckoned from October 1st, vi. 81
Texas, the Tonkawe Indians of, iii. 325;
the Toukaway Indians of, xi. 276
Tezcatlipoca. See Tetzcatlipoca
Tezcuco, statue of the god Xipe from, ix. 291 n. 1
Thahu, curse or pollution, among the Akikuyu, x. 81
Thakombau, Fijian chief, the War King, iii. 21;
family who enjoyed the privilege of scratching him, iii. 131
Thalavettiparothiam, custom observed in Malabar, a competition for the privilege of being decapitated after a five years' reign, iv. 52 sq.
Thales on spirits, ix. 104
Thamus, an Egyptian pilot, and the death of the Great Pan, iv. 6 sq.
Thanda Pulayans, in India, their notion as to the phosphorescence of the sea, ii. 155 n. 1
Thann, in Alsace, the Little May Rose at, ii. 74
Tharafah, on a custom of the heathen Arabs as to a boy's fallen tooth, i. 181
Thargelia, human scapegoats at the Greek festival of the, ix. 254, 255, 256, 257, 259, 272, 273
Thargelion, Greek harvest month, i. 32, vi. 239 n. 1, viii. 8
Thatch of roof, children's cast teeth deposited in, i. 179;
burnt as a charm against witchcraft, ii. 53;
shorn hair hidden in, iii. 277
Thays of Indo-China, their offerings of first-fruits to their ancestors, viii. 121;
their worship of spirits, ix. 97 sq.;
their customs after a burial, xi. 177 sq.
Theal, G. McCall, on the worship of ancestors among the Bantus, vi. 176 sq.;
on fear of demons among the Bantu tribes of South Africa, ix. 77 sq.
Theban priests, in Egypt, their determination of the solar year, vi. 26
Thebes, the Boeotian, grave of Eteocles and Polynices at, ii. 33;
the women of, muffled their faces, iii. 122;
festival of the Laurel-bearing at, iv. 78 sq., 88 sq., vi. 241;
founded by Cadmus, iv. 88;
stone lion at, v. 184 n. 3;
grave of Dionysus at, vii. 14;
Dionysus torn to pieces at, vii. 14, 25;
the Thesmophoria at, viii. 17 n. 2;
effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 130 sq.
Thebes in Egypt, temple of the sun-god at, i. 67 sq.;
the human consort of Ammon at, ii. 130 sq.;
priestly dynasty at, ii. 134;
high priests of Ammon at, ii. 134;
priestly kings of, iii. 13;
temple of Ammon at, v. 72;
the Memnonium at, vi. 35 n.;
the Valley of the Kings at, vi. 90;
annual sacrifice of ram to Ammon at, viii. 41, 172
Theckydaw, annual expulsion of demons in Tonquin, ix. 147 sq.
Theddora tribe of South-East Australia ate the hands and feet of their foes, viii. 151
Theebaw, king of Burma, his relations beaten to death, iii. 242
Theias, a Syrian king, father of Adonis, v. 43 n. 4, 55 n. 4
Theism late in human history, vi. 41
Then, spirits, among the Thay of Indo-China, ix. 97
Thensae, sacred cars at the Circensian games in Rome, ii. 175 n. 1
Theocracies in America, iii. 6
Theocracy, government by human gods, i. 386;
in the Pelew Islands, tendency to, vi. 208
Theocritus, witch in, i. 206;
on an image of Demeter, vii. 43;
on the harvest-home in Cos, vii. 46 sq.
Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, his denunciation of a heathen practice, xi. 190 sq.
Theodosius and Honorius, decree of, against the burning of effigies of Haman by the Jews, ix. 392
Theogamy, divine marriage, ii. 121
Theology distinguished from religion, i. 223;
the gods at first mortal in Brahman, i. 373 n. 1;
vague thought of a crude, iii. 3 n.;
cruel ritual diluted into a nebulous, ix. 411
Theophrastus, on the woods of Latium, ii. 188;
on the woods used by the Greeks in kindling fire, ii. 251;
on the artificial fertilization of fig-trees, ii. 314 n. 2;
on the flowering of squills, vii. 53 n. 1;
on the custom of ploughing the land thrice, vii. 73 n. 1;
on the different kinds of mistletoe, xi. 317
Theopompus, on sexual communism among the Etruscans, ii. 207;
wins prize of eloquence at Halicarnassus, iv. 95;
on the names of the seasons, vi. 41
Theory of sacrifice, the Brahmanical, ix. 410 sq.;
solar theory of the European fire-festivals, x. 329, 331 sqq.;
purificatory theory of the European fire-festivals, x. 329 sq., 341 sqq.
Thera, worship of the Mother of the Gods in, v. 280 n. 1
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Therapia, near Constantinople, effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 131
Thermopylae, the Spartans at, v. 197 n. 1;
the hot springs of, v. 210 sqq.
Theseus offers his hair to Apollo at Delphi, i. 28
—— and Ariadne, iv. 75
—— and Hippolytus, i. 19
Thesmophoria, ancient Greek festival celebrated by women in October, viii. 17 sqq.;
release of prisoners at the, iii. 316;
chastity of women at the, v. 43 n. 4, vii. 116;
sacrifice of cakes and pigs to serpents at the, v. 88, viii. 17 sq.;
pine-cones at the, v. 278;
fast of the women at the, vi. 40 sq.;
seeds of pomegranates not eaten at the, vii. 14;
indecencies at the, vii. 63;
descent and ascent of Persephone at the, viii. 17;
its analogy with folk-customs of Northern Europe, viii. 20 sq.
Thessalian witch, her love-charm, iii. 270;
consulted by Sextus Pompeius, iii. 390
Thessalians, their festival of the Peloria, resembling the Saturnalia, ix. 350
Thessaly, kings of, i. 47 n.;
rain-making among the Greeks of, i. 272 sq.;
Crannon in, i. 309
Thetis and her infant son, how she tried to make him immortal by fire, v. 180
Thevet, F. A., on the importance of medicine-men among the Indians of Brazil, i. 358 sq.
Thief wears a toad's heart to escape detection, x. 302 n. 2.
See also Thieves
Thief's charm among the South Slavs, i. 153;
garments beaten instead of thief, i. 206 sq.;
name boiled, iii. 331
Thiers, J. B., on the Yule log, x. 250;
on gathering herbs at Midsummer, xi. 45 n. 1;
on belief concerning wormwood, xi. 61 n. 1
Thieves, transmigration of souls of, into animals, viii. 299;
detected by divining-rod, xi. 68
Thieves' candles, i. 148, 149, 236
Thigh, sinew of the, customs and myths as to, viii. 264 sqq.
Thighs of diseased cattle cut off and hung up as a remedy, x. 296 n. 1
Things, homoeopathic magic of inanimate, i. 157 sqq.;
tabooed, iii. 224 sqq.
Thinis, in Egypt, the mummy of Anhouri at, iv. 4 sq.
Thiodolf, the poet, on King Aun's sacrifice of his sons at Upsala, iv. 161
Third marriage regarded as unlucky, ii. 57 n. 4
Thirst, transference of, in ancient Hindoo ritual, ix. 38
Thirty years, the Sed festival held nominally at intervals of, vi. 151
—— years' cycle of the Druids, xi. 77
—— Years' War, plague during the, ix. 64
Thistles, as a charm to keep off witches, ii. 339, 340
Thlinkeet or Tlingit Indians, the, viii. 253;
think that stormy weather may be caused by combing hair, iii. 271.
See Tlingit
—— shamans, their use of the tongues of otters and eagles, viii. 270
Thomas, N. W., as to the doctrine of souls among the Angass, xi. 210 n. 2
Thomas, W. E., on human god of the Makalakas, i. 394 n. 3
Thomas the Rhymer, verses ascribed to, on the mistletoe at Errol, xi. 283 sq.
Thompson Indians of British Columbia, ceremonies performed by girls at puberty among the, i. 70;
dances of women during absence of warriors among the, i. 132 sq.;
their custom as to children's cast teeth, i. 181;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 197;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212;
their way of stopping rain, i. 253;
their beliefs and customs concerning twins, i. 264 sq.;
their belief as to the loon and rain, i. 288;
their superstition as to killing a frog, i. 293;
their reverence for sunflower roots, ii. 13;
the fire-drill of the, ii. 208;
their custom of not sleeping the night after a death, iii. 37 sq.;
recovery of lost souls by shamans among the, iii. 57 sq.;
think that the setting sun draws away men's souls, iii. 65;
their fear of witchcraft at meals, iii. 117;
customs of mourners among the, iii. 142 sq.;
their custom after killing an enemy, iii. 181;
their continence and other observances before hunting, iii. 198;
their disposal of their loose hair, iii. 278 sq.;
burned their nail-parings for fear of witchcraft, iii. 282;
their children may not name the coyote in winter, iii. 399;
their ceremonies before eating the first berries or roots of the season, viii. 81 sq.;
offered first berries of season to the earth or the mountains, viii. 133 sq.;
will not eat the fool-hen lest they grow foolish, viii. 140;
their belief in the assimilation of men to their guardian animals, viii. 207;
their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 226;
their superstitions in regard to killing deer, viii. 242;
custom observed by man whose daughter has just reached puberty among the, viii. 268;
their charms [pg 492] against ghosts, ix. 154 n.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 49 sqq.;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 89 sq.;
prayer of adolescent girl among the, x. 98 n. 1;
supposed invulnerability of initiated men among the, xi. 275 sq.;
their ideas as to wood of trees struck by lightning, xi. 297
Thomsdorf, in Germany, story of an immortal girl told at, x. 99
Thomson, Basil, on circumcision in Fiji, xi. 244 n. 1;
on the Nanga in Fiji, xi. 244 n. 2
Thomson, Joseph, on the fear of photography among the Wa-teita, iii. 98
Thonga, Bantu tribe of South Africa, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82;
their presentation of infants to the moon, vi. 144 sq.;
worship of the dead among the, vi. 180 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 29 sq.;
will not use the wood of trees struck by lightning, xi. 297;
think lightning caused by a bird, xi. 297 n. 5.
See also Ba-Thonga
Thonga chiefs buried secretly, vi. 104 sq.
Thongs, legends as to new settlements enclosed by, vi. 249 sq.
Thor, the Norse thunder god, equivalent to the Teutonic Donar or Thunar, ii. 364;
his hammers, i. 248 n. 1;
fought for Balder, x. 103
Thorn, external soul in a, xi. 129;
mistletoe on a, xi. 291 n. 3
Thorn-bushes as charms against witches, ii. 338;
to keep off ghosts, iii. 142, xi. 174 sq.
Thorns, wreaths of, hung up as a sign to warn off strangers, ix. 140
Thorny branches used to keep out witches, ix. 161
—— shrubs, a protection against witches, ii. 338
Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom, at the marriage of the Queen of Egypt to Ammon, ii. 131;
how he added five days to the Egyptian year, vi. 6;
teaches Isis a spell to restore the dead to life, vi. 8;
restores the eye of Horus, vi. 17;
how he outwitted the Sun-god Ra, ix. 341
Thoth, the first month of the Egyptian year, vi. 36, 93 sqq.
Thothmes I., king of Egypt, the god Ammon in the likeness of, ii. 131, 132
—— IV., king of Egypt, the god Ammon in the likeness of, ii. 131, 132
Thought, the web of, xi. 307 sq.
Thrace, the Edonians of, i. 366;
the grave of Ares in, iv. 4;
worship of Dionysus in, vii. 3;
the Bacchanals of, vii. 17;
modern Carnival customs in, vii. 25 sqq., viii. 331 sqq.;
Abdera in, ix. 254
Thracian gods ruddy and blue-eyed, iii. 387
—— villages, custom at Carnival in, vi. 99 sq.
Thracians threatened the thunder-god, ii. 183 n. 2;
funeral games held by the, iv. 96;
their contempt of death, iv. 142
Thrashing people to do them good, ix. 262 sqq.
See also Beating and Whipping
Thread, red, in popular cure, ix. 55
—— or string used to tie soul to body, iii. 32 sq., 43, 51
Threads hung on trees, ii. 34;
knotted, in magic, iii. 303, 304 sq., 307;
used to transfer illnesses to trees, ix. 55
——, red, tied to cattle as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 336
Threatening the thunder god, ii. 183 n. 2
—— the spirits of fruit-trees, ii. 20 sqq., x. 114
Three days, taboos observed for, at bringing home the Soul of the Rice, vii. 198 sq.
—— Holy Kings, the divining-rod baptized in the name of the, xi. 68
—— Kings on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 sqq.
—— knots in magic, iii. 304, 305
—— leaps over bonfire, x. 214, 215
—— years, chief killed at end of reign of, iv. 113.
See also Thrice
Thresher tied up in last sheaf, vii. 134, 147, 148;
of last sheaf treated as an animal, vii. 271
—— of the last corn called the Corn-pug, vii. 273;
called Goat or Oats-goat, vii. 286;
called the Cow, vii. 291;
called the Bull, vii. 291;
called the Sow, vii. 298, 299;
disguised as a wolf, viii. 327
Threshers, contests between, vii. 147 sqq., 218, 219 sq., 221 sq., 223 sq., 253;
pretend to throttle or thresh people on threshing-floor, vii. 149 sq., 230;
tied in straw and thrown into water, vii. 224 sq.
Thresher-cow, name given to man who threshes the last corn, in the Canton of Zurich, vii. 291
Threshing, customs at, vii. 134, 147 sqq., 203, 221 sq., 223, 223 sq., 225 sq., 230, 271, 273, 274 sq., 277, 281, 286 sq., 290 sqq., 297, 298 sq.;
contests in, vii. 218 sqq.;
corn-spirit killed at, vii. 291 sq.
—— in Attica, date of, viii. 4
—— in Greece, date of, vii. 62
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Threshing-dog, name given to man who gives the last stroke with the flail, vii. 271
—— -floor, stalks of corn knotted as a charm on a, iii. 308 sq.;
Demeter associated with the, vii. 41 sq., 43, 47, 61 sq., 63, 64 sq.;
the festival of the, at Eleusis, vii. 60 sqq.;
of Triptolemus at Eleusis, vii. 61, 72, 75;
strangers treated as embodiments of the corn-spirit on the, vii. 230;
sanctity of the, viii. 110 n. 4
Threshing corn by oxen, vi. 45
Threshold, shells on, i. 158;
the caul (chorion) buried under the, i. 200;
personal relics buried by witch under the, i. 206 n. 4;
guarded against witches on Walpurgis Night by flowers, sods, and thorny branches, ii. 52, 54, 55, ix. 163;
protected against witches on Walpurgis Night by knives, ii. 55, ix. 162;
cut hair buried under the, iii. 276 sq.;
burial of infants under the, v. 93 sq.;
nail knocked into, to prevent death entering, ix. 63 n. 4;
shavings from the, burnt, xi. 53
Thrice, custom of spitting thrice to avert evil, iv. 63;
Greek custom of ploughing land thrice, vii. 72 sq.;
to crawl thrice under a bramble as a cure, xi. 180;
to pass thrice through a wreath of woodbine, xi. 184
—— born, said of Brahmans, i. 381
Thrice-ploughed field, Plutus begotten on a, vii. 208
Throne, sanctity of the king's, i. 365;
reverence for the, iv. 51
Throttling, a punishment for incest, ii. 110;
farmer's wife at threshing, pretence of, vii. 150;
strangers at threshing, pretence of, vii. 230
Throwing of sticks or stones interpreted as an offering or token of respect, ix. 20 sqq., 25 sqq.;
as a mode of riddance of evil, ix. 23 sqq.;
or striking blindfold, xi. 279 n. 4
Thrumalun, a mythical being in Australia who kills and resuscitates novices at initiation, xi. 233.
See also Daramulun and Thuremlin
Thrushes deposit seeds of mistletoe, xi. 316 n. 1
Thucydides on military music, v. 196 n. 3;
on the sailing of the fleet for Syracuse, v. 226 n. 4
Θύειν distinguished from ἐναγίζειν, v. 316 n. 1
Thule, ceremony in Thule at the annual reappearance of the sun, ix. 125 n. 1
Thumbs snapped to prevent the departure of the soul, iii. 31;
of dead enemies cut off, viii. 272
Thunar or Donar, the German thunder god, ii. 364
Thunder, imitation of, in a Russian rain-charm, i. 248;
kings expected to make, ii. 180 sq.;
thought to be the roll of the drums of the dead, ii. 183;
rain, sky, and oak, god of the, ii. 349 sq.;
Esthonian prayer to, ii. 367 sq.;
expiation for hearing, iii. 14;
the first heard in spring, offering of grain to guardian ancestral spirit at, viii. 121;
the first peal heard in spring, peas cooked and eaten at, ix. 144;
demon of, exorcized by bells, ix. 246 sq.;
associated with the oak, x. 145;
Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 176;
charred sticks of Midsummer bonfire a protection against, x. 184, 192;
ashes of Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 190;
brands from the Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 191;
certain flowers at Midsummer a protection against, xi. 54, 58, 59;
the sound of bull-roarers thought to imitate, xi. 228 sqq.
See also Lightning
—— and lightning, imitation of, in rain-making ceremonies, i. 248, 309 sq.;
sacrifices to, v. 157; the Syrian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hittite god of, v. 163 sq.;
the Yule log, a protection against, x. 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258, 264;
bonfires a protection against, x. 344;
smoke of Midsummer herbs a protection against, xi. 48;
vervain a protection against, xi. 62;
name given to bull-roarers, xi. 231 sq.
—— and oak, the Aryan god of the, ii. 356 sqq., x. 265
Thunder-beings, among the Teton Indians, viii. 237
“—— -besom,” name applied to mistletoe and other bushy excrescences on trees, xi. 85, 301;
a protection against thunderbolts, xi. 85
—— -bird in rain-making, i. 309;
the mythical, painted on screens behind which girls at puberty hide, x. 44
—— god, threatening the, ii. 183 n. 2;
black victims sacrificed for rain to the, ii. 367;
conceived as a deity of fertility, ii. 368 sqq.;
of the Hittites, with a bull and an axe as his emblems, v. 134 sqq.
“—— -poles,” oak-sticks charred in Easter bonfires, x. 145
—— totem, in the Mungarai tribe of Northern Australia, v. 101
Thunderbolt as emblem of the Hittite [pg 494] thunder-god, v. 134, 136;
as emblem of the Syrian, Babylonian, and Assyrian thunder-god, v. 163
Thunderbolt and ears of corn, emblem of the Syrian god Hadad, v. 163
—— of Indra, i. 269
—— Zeus, surnamed the, worshipped at Olympia and elsewhere, ii. 361
Thunderbolts, kings killed by, ii. 181;
flint implements regarded as, ii. 374;
prehistoric celts called thunderbolts, x. 14 sq.
Thunderstorms, death or disappearance of Roman kings in, ii. 181 sqq.;
thought to be caused by the spirits of the dead, ii. 183, 183 n. 2;
caused by cut hair, ii. 271, 282;
caused by hair-cutting, iii. 265;
and hail caused by witches, x. 344;
Midsummer flowers a protection against, xi. 48
Thuremlin, a mythical being who kills lads at initiation and restores them to life, xi. 227.
See also Daramulun
Thurgau, the Canton of, man who cuts the last corn called the Corn-goat at harvest in, vii. 283;
last sheaf called Cow in, vii. 289;
man who threshes the last corn called the Corn-bull in, vii. 291
Thüringen (Thuringia), homoeopathic magic at sowing flax in, i. 136;
the Little Leaf Man in, ii. 80 sq.;
May King at Whitsuntide in, ii. 84 sq.;
wolves not to be named between Christmas and Twelfth Night in, iii. 396;
Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 208;
Carrying out Death in, iv. 235 sq.;
the Old Corn-woman at threshing in, vii. 147, 276, 290, 291;
custom at threshing in, vii. 222;
the mythical Rush-cutter (Binsenschneider) in, vii. 230 n. 5;
the Little Wood-woman at harvest in, vii. 232;
last sheaf called the Harvest-cock at Wünchensuhl in, vii. 276;
man who gives the last stroke at threshing called the Cow at Wurmlingen in, vii. 290;
treatment of farmer who is last at threshing at Herbrechtingen in, vii. 291;
saying as to the wind in the corn in, vii. 298;
expulsion of witches in, ix. 160;
Halberstadt in, ix. 214;
custom of beating people on Holy Innocents' Day in, ix. 271.
See also Thuringia
Thuringia (Thüringen), custom at eclipses in, x. 162 n.;
Midsummer fires in, x. 169, xi. 40;
Schweina in, x. 265;
belief as to magical properties of the fern in, xi. 66 sq.
See Thüringen
Thurn, Sir E. F. im, on the objection of the Indians of Guiana to tell their names, iii. 324 sq.;
on Indian want of discrimination between animals and men, viii. 204;
on the fear of demons among the Indians of Guiana, ix. 78
Thursday, Thunar's Day, ii. 364;
Maundy, church bells silenced on, x. 125 n. 1
Thurso, witches as cats at, x. 317
Thurston, Edgar, on votive images of the Kusavans, i. 56 n. 3;
on dancing-girls in India, v. 62;
on the transference of sins to a buffalo calf among the Badagas, ix. 36 sq.;
on the fire-walk of the Badagas, xi. 9
Thyatira, hero Tyrimnus at, v. 183 n.
Thyestes and Atreus claimed the throne of Mycenae in virtue of a golden lamb, i. 365
Thyiads, college of women at Delphi, devoted to worship of Bacchus, i. 46
Thymbria, sanctuary of Charon at, v. 205
Thyme burnt in Midsummer fire, x. 213;
wild, gathered on Midsummer Day, xi. 64
Tiaha, Arab tribe of Moab, shave the prisoners whom they release, iii. 273
Tiamat, dragon, embodiment of the watery chaos, mythical Babylonian monster, iv. 105, 108, ix. 410
—— and Marduk, iv. 105 sq., 107 sq.
Tiber, grove of Dia on the, ii. 122;
puppets annually thrown from the Sublician bridge into the, viii. 107;
in flood, ix. 65
Tiberius, the Emperor, refused the oak crown, ii. 177 n. 2;
dedicated a chapel to the Julii at Bovillae, ii. 180 n.;
his inquiries as to the death of Pan, iv. 7;
his attempt to put down Carthaginian sacrifices of children, iv. 168;
persecuted the Egyptian religion, vi. 95 n. 1
Tibet, the Grand Lamas of, i. 411 sq.;
incarnate human gods in, i. 413;
vicarious use of images to save sick people in, viii. 103;
heaps of stones or sticks in, ix. 12;
prayers at cairns in, ix. 29;
demonolatry in, ix. 94;
human scapegoats in, ix. 218 sqq.;
sixty years' cycle in, xi. 78 n.
Tibetan New Year, ceremonies at the, ix. 197 sq., 203, 218 sqq.
Tibetans put effigies at doors of houses to deceive demons, viii. 96 sq.
Tibullus on the rising of Sirius, vi. 34 n. 1
Tibur, Vestals at, i. 13 sq.
Ticunas of the Amazon, ordeal of young men among the, x. 62 sq.
—— of Brazil tear out the hair of girls at puberty, iii. 282
Tide, Cimbrians take arms against the, i. 331 n. 3
Tides, homoeopathic magic of the, i. 166 sqq.
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Tidore, i. 125
Tiegenhof, in Prussia, custom of reapers at binding the corn near, vii. 137
Tiele, C. P., on the deification of Egyptian kings, i. 419 sq.;
on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 140 n. 1;
on the death of Saracus, vi. 174 n. 2;
on Isis, vi. 115;
on the nature of Osiris, vi. 126 n. 2
Tien-tai Mountains, in China, voluntary deaths of Buddhist monks on the, iv. 42
Tiengum-Mana, a tribe of New Guinea, their mode of making fire, ii. 254
Tifata, Mount, the oak woods of, ii. 280;
temple of Diana on, ii. 280
Tiger, gall-bladder of tiger eaten to make eater brave, viii. 145 sq.
——, a Batta totem, xi. 223
Tiger clan, in Mandeling, viii. 216;
members of, pay honour to dead tigers, viii. 293
—— -spirits expelled in a raft, ix. 199
Tiger's flesh eaten to make eater brave, viii. 145
—— ghost, deceiving a, vi. 263, viii. 155 n. 4;
appeasing a, viii. 293
—— skin at inauguration of a king, x. 4
Tigers not called by their proper names, iii. 401, 402, 403 sq., 408, 411, 415;
called dogs for euphemism, iii. 402;
called jackals for euphemism, iii. 402, 403;
souls of the dead transmigrate into, iv. 85, viii. 293;
ceremonies at killing, viii. 155 n. 5, 215, 216 sq.;
respected in Sumatra, viii. 215 sq.;
kinship of men with, viii. 216
Tiglath-Pileser III., king of Assyria, v. 14, 16, 163 n. 3
Tigre-speaking tribes to the north of Abyssinia, their fear to fell fruit-trees, ii. 19
Tii, Egyptian queen, mother of Amenophis IV., vi. 123 n. 1
Tikopia, island of, epidemic sickness sent away in a small canoe from, ix. 189
Tille, A., on beginning of the Teutonic winter, vi. 81 n. 3
Tilling the earth treated as a crime, viii. 57
Tillot, canton of, in Lothringen, “killing the Old Woman” at threshing in the, vii. 223
Tilsit district, the last sheaf left for the Old Rye-woman in the, vii. 232
Tilton, E. L., on burning the Carnival at Pylos, iv. 232 sq.
Timber used in house-building, homoeopathic magic of, i. 146;
of houses, tree-spirits propitiated in, ii. 39 sq.;
not to be cut while the corn is green, ii. 49;
felled in the waning of the moon, vi. 133, 135 sq., 137
Timbo, in French Guinea, dances at sowing at, ix. 235
Time, Greek and Latin modes of reckoning intervals of, iv. 59;
personification of periods of time too abstract to be primitive, ix. 230
Timekeepers, natural, vii. 53
Timmes, the, of Sierra Leone beat their kings before their coronation, iii. 18;
their secret society, xi. 260 n. 1
Timoleon, funeral games at Syracuse in his honour, iv. 94
Timor, island of, telepathy of high-priest of, in war, i. 128 sq.;
treatment of the placenta in, i. 190;
the marriage of the Sun and Earth deemed the source of all fertility in, ii. 99 n. 1;
sacrifice to crocodiles in, ii. 152;
fetish or taboo rajah in, iii. 24;
speaker holds his hand before his mouth in, iii. 122;
customs as to war in, iii. 165 sq.;
theory of earthquakes in, v. 197;
burial of woman who has died in childbed in, viii. 98;
kinship of men with crocodiles in, viii. 212;
transference of fatigue to leaves in, ix. 8;
belief in the spirits of the dead in, ix. 85.
See also Timorese
Timor fecit deos, ix. 93
Timorese, their sacrifices for rain and sunshine, i. 291
Timorlaut Islands, treatment of the after-birth in the, i. 186;
married men may not poll their hair in the, iii. 260;
first-fruits offered to spirits of ancestors in the, viii. 123;
mourners rub themselves with the juices of the dead in the, viii. 163;
dead turtles propitiated by fishermen in the, viii. 244;
the tug-of-war in the, ix. 176;
demons of sicknesses expelled in a proa from the, ix. 185 sq.
Timotheus on the death of Attis, v. 264 n. 4
Tin-egin, forced fire (need-fire) among the Highlanders of Scotland, ii. 238
Tin ore, Malay superstitions as to, iii. 407
Tinchebray in Normandy, ix. 183
Tinguianes of the Philippines reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353
Tinneh or Déné Indians, the power of medicine-men among the, i. 357;
recall of lost souls among the, iii. 45;
taboos observed by those who have handled a corpse among the, iii. 143;
their fear and avoidance of menstruous women, iii. 145 sq., x. 91 sqq.;
their refusal to taste blood, iii. 240 sq.;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65;
their [pg 496] magical ceremony to procure game, iv. 278;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 47 sqq.
Tinneh Indians of Alaska, their ceremonies at killing a wolf, viii. 220
—— Indians of North-West America, ceremonies observed by them before eating the first wild berries or roots of the season, viii. 80 sq.
Tinnevelly, the Kappiliyans of, x. 69
Tipperary, county of, were-wolves in, x. 310 n. 1;
woman burnt as a witch in, x. 323 sq.
Tiraspol, in Russia, collective suicide in, iv. 45 n. 1
Tiree, Hebridean island, vii. 140;
the need-fire in, x. 148;
the Beltane cake in, x. 149;
witch as sheep in, x. 316
Tiru-kalli-kundram, dancing-girls at, v. 61
Tirunavayi temple, near Calicut, attack on the King of Calicut every twelfth year at the, iv. 49 sq.
Titane, shrine of Aesculapius at, v. 81
Titans attack and kill Dionysus, vii. 12 sq., 17, 32
Tithe-offering dedicated to Apollo, iv. 187 n. 5
Tithorea, festivals of Isis at, viii. 18 n. 1
Titicaca, Lake, thunder-god of the Indians about, ii. 370
Tivor, god or victim, in Norse, x. 103 n.
Tiyans of Malabar, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 68 sq.
Tjingilli tribe of Central Australia, their cure for headache, ix. 2
——, the, of Northern Australia, their way of making rain by means of a bandicoot, i. 288
Tjumba, island of, harvest festival in the, viii. 122
Tlacaxipeualiztli, “The Flaying of Men,” a Mexican festival, ix. 296
Tlacopan, city of Mexico, idol of paste eaten as a sacred food in, viii. 91
Tlactga or Tlachtga in Ireland, pagan cemetery at, iv. 101;
new fire annually kindled on Hallowe'en at, x. 139
Tlaloc, the Mexican water-god, girls drowned in his honour, ii. 158 sq.;
Mexican god of thunder and rain, vii. 237;
temple of, in Mexico, ix. 284, 292
Tlaxcallan in Mexico, the goddess Xochiquetzal worshipped at, vii. 237
Tlemcen, in Algeria, rain-making at, i. 250 sq.;
orgies of the Aïsawa order at, vii. 22 n. 1;
fowl used to divert jinn from pregnant women at, ix. 31
Tlingit (Thlinkeet) Indians of Alaska, their respectful treatment of the first halibut of the season, viii. 253;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 45 sq.
See also Thlinkeet
Tlokoala, a secret society of the Nootka Indians, xi. 271
Tmolus, Mount, the Birthplace of Rainy Zeus on, ii. 360
Toad in charm to avert a storm, i. 325;
soul in form of, iii. 42 n.;
figure of, at bear-feasts of the Gilyaks, viii. 193, 194;
soul of dead man in a, viii. 291;
as scapegoat, ix. 135, 193, 206 sq.;
witch in form of a, x. 323.
See also Toads
Toad clan among the Carrier Indians, xi. 273
—— -stools thrown into Midsummer bonfires as a charm, x. 172
Toad's heart worn by a thief to prevent detection, x. 302 n. 2
Toads in relation to rain, i. 292, 292 n. 3;
burnt alive in Devonshire, x. 302
Toaripi or Motumotu, of New Guinea, magical telepathy among the, i. 125;
sorcerers regarded as chiefs among the, i. 337 sq.;
their rule as to menstruous women, x. 84.
See Motumotu
Toba, Lake, in Sumatra, prince worshipped as a deity on the shore of, i. 398
Tobacco thrown on troubled water, i. 321;
smoke, priest inspired by, i. 384;
used as an emetic, viii. 73;
first of season, ceremony at smoking, viii. 82
Tobarrath-Bhuathaig, a magical well in the island of Gigha, i. 323
Tobas, Indian tribe of the Gran Chaco, their custom of secluding girls at puberty, x. 59
Tobelorese of Halmahera, their rites of initiation, xi. 248
Tobolbel, custom of putting chiefs to death in the Pelew Islands, vi. 266
Toboongkoo (Toboengkoe), the, of Central Celebes, their treatment of the afterbirth, i. 189;
careful not to frighten away the spirit of the rice, ii. 28;
their offerings to tree-spirits before felling timber, ii. 35;
their recall of lost souls, iii. 48;
forbid children to play with their shadows, iii. 78;
mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 219;
riddles among the, ix. 122 n.;
custom observed by widower among the, xi. 178 sq.
Tocandeira, native name for the Cryptocerus atratus, F., ant, used by the Mauhes to sting boys as an ordeal, x. 62
Tocantins River, the Chavantes Indians on the, iv. 12 n. 5
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Toci, Mexican goddess, sacrifice of woman in the costume and ornaments of, ix. 289 sqq.
Tod, J., on rites of goddess Gouri, v. 241 sq.
Todas, a tribe of Southern India, offer silver images of buffaloes, i. 56;
confusion of magic with religion among the, i. 230 n.;
divine milkmen of the, i. 402 sq., iii. 15 sqq.;
magic and medicine among the, i. 421 n. 1;
hide their clipped hair and nails, iii. 271;
names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 337 sq.;
reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
custom as to the pollution of death observed by sacred dairyman among the, vi. 228;
their sacrament of buffalo's flesh, viii. 314;
let loose a calf at a funeral, ix. 37;
their ceremony of the new fire, x. 136
Todtenstein, hill at Königshain in Silesia, ceremony of driving out Death at, iv. 264
Toepffer, J., on Triptolemus, vii. 73
Toeratayas, or Toradjas, of Celebes, vii. 196 n.
See Toradjas
Tofoke, the, of the Congo State, woman's share in agriculture among, vii. 119
Togo, in West Africa, wind-fetish in, i. 327;
the Bassari of, ii. 102 n. 1;
Mount Agu in, iii. 5
Togoland, the Hos of, i. 265, 365, ii. 19, iii. 259, 301, 304, vi. 104, vii. 130, 234, viii. 59, 115 sq., ix. 134, 206;
the Matse of, ii. 293, viii. 115, ix. 3;
festival of Earth in, iii. 247;
magic modes of facilitating childbirth in, iii. 295;
the Ewe-speaking peoples of, iii. 369, v. 282 n. 2, viii. 105, 228;
the Yewe religious order in, iii. 383 sq.;
the Bassari of, viii. 116;
ceremony performed by Ewe hunters in, viii. 244;
the negroes of, their remedy for influenza, ix. 193
Toh Sri Lam, a crocodile goddess among the Malays, offerings and prayers to, viii. 212
Tokio, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 213;
the fire-walk in temple at, xi. 9 sq.
Tokoelawi of Central Celebes, custom observed by mourners among the, xi. 178
Tolalaki, the, of Central Celebes, their treatment of the afterbirth, i. 188 sq.;
their punishment of incest, ii. 111;
drink blood of foes to make themselves brave, viii. 152
Tolampoos, the, of Central Celebes, their belief as to written names, iii. 319
Toledo, Elipandus of, i. 407
Tolindoos of Central Celebes, offence to tread on a man's shadow among the, iii. 78
Tolucan, Mount, in Mexico, human sacrifices offered to the water-god on, ii. 158 sq.
Tomas or Habes, a tribe of Nigeria, revere a fetish doctor, iii. 124
Tomb of chief, sacrifices at, viii. 113
—— of Hyacinth, v. 314
—— of Midas, v. 286
—— of Moses, ix. 21
—— of Osiris, vi. 18 sq., 20 sqq.
Tombs of the ancient kings of Egypt, vi. 19;
of the kings of Uganda, vi. 168 sq.;
of kings sacred, vi. 194 sq.
Tomil, village in Yap, taboos observed by men for the sake of girls under puberty at, iii. 293
Tomori, the, of Central Celebes, their treatment of the afterbirth, i. 189;
feed the ripening rice, ii. 29;
their ceremonies at felling a tree, ii. 35;
their punishment and expiation of incest, ii. 110 sq.;
use a special vocabulary when at work in the fields, vii. 193;
their customs as to the Rice-mother, vii. 193;
their use of riddles at harvest, vii. 194;
their conception of rice-spirits as shaped like goats, vii. 288
——, the Gulf of, in Celebes, x. 312
Tonan, Mexican goddess, ix. 287;
woman sacrificed in the character of, ix. 287 sq.
Tonapoo, the, of Central Celebes, offer human sacrifices on roofs of new houses, ii. 39
Tondi, Batta word for soul, iii. 35, 116, vii. 182.
See also Tendi
Tonga, chiefs of, thought to heal scrofula and indurated liver by their touch, i. 371;
special vocabularies employed with reference to divine chiefs in, i. 402 n.;
veneration paid to divine chiefs in, iii. 21;
the taboo of chiefs and kings in, iii. 133 sq.;
chiefs not to touch food with tabooed hands in, iii. 138 n. 1;
tabooed persons not allowed to handle food in, iii. 140;
taboos connected with the dead in, iii. 140;
circumcision practised in, iv. 220;
ceremony performed after contact with a sacred chief in, viii. 28;
offerings of first-fruits in, viii. 128 sqq.
See also Tongans
——, the king of, not to be seen eating, iii. 119;
no one allowed to be over his head, iii. 255
Tongans, their theory of an earthquake, v. 200 sq.
Tongue of dead king eaten by his successor, iv. 203;
of sacrificial ox cut [pg 498] out, vi. 251 sq.;
of medicine-man, hole in, xi. 238, 239.
See also Tongues
Tongues of birds eaten, viii. 147;
of slain men eaten, viii. 153;
of dead animals cut out, viii. 269 sqq.;
of animals worn as amulets, viii. 270
Tonkawe Indians of Texas, their superstition as to personal names, iii. 325 sq.
Tonocotes. See Lules
Tonquin, image of Buddha whipped in time of drought in, i. 297 n. 7;
guardian spirits of villages in, i. 401 sq.;
division of monarchy in, iii. 19 sq.;
royal criminals strangled in, iii. 242;
the tiger spoken of respectfully in, iii. 403;
annual festival of the dead in, vi. 62;
livers of brave men eaten in, as a means of acquiring bravery, viii. 151 sq.;
demon of sickness expelled in, ix. 119;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 147 sq.;
the Thays of, their burial customs, xi. 177 sq.
See also Tonquinese
——, kings of, blamed for drought, dearth, floods, storms, cholera, etc., i. 355;
screened from public gaze, iii. 125
Tonquinese, their test of a sacrificial victim, i. 384 sq.;
their custom of catching the soul of the dying, iv. 200
Tonsure, the clerical, viii. 105 n. 1
Tonwan, magical influence of medicine-bag, xi. 268, 269
Tooitonga, divine chief of Tonga, iii. 21, viii. 128, 129, 130, 131, 140
Toorateyas of Southern Celebes hold their princes responsible for the rice-crop, i. 361
Tooth knocked out as initiatory rite, iii. 244, xi. 227, 235;
of dead king kept, iv. 203.
See also Teeth
Toothache, tooth of an ounce a homoeopathic remedy for, i. 153;
transferred to enemies, ix. 6;
transferred to a frog, ix. 50;
transferred to trees, ix. 57, 58, 59 sq.;
nailed into a door or a wall, ix. 62, 63;
cured by sticking needles into a willow, ix. 71
Töpffer, J., on the Eudanemi at Athens, i. 325 n. 1
Tophet, at Jerusalem, children burnt in sacrifice in, iv. 169, 170, 171, v. 177
Töppen, M., on the Lithuanian god Perkunas, ii. 365 n. 5
Tops spun at sowing festival, vii. 95, 97, 187
Toradjas, meaning of the name, i. 109 n. 1;
their mode of annulling an evil omen, i. 170;
employ a special language in passing through a forest, iii. 412 sq.
—— of Central Celebes, their magical use of jawbones, i. 109;
their rule not to loiter in the doorway of a pregnant woman, i. 114;
telepathy in war among the, i. 129;
their use of iron in homoeopathic magic, i. 159;
their rain-making, i. 253;
customs observed by the rain-doctor among the, i. 271 sq.;
their rain-making by means of the dead, i. 286;
their way of making rain by an appeal to the pity of the gods, i. 303;
their sacrifice at building a new house, ii. 39;
use the incest of animals as a rain-charm, ii. 113;
rules observed by them on entering an enemy's country, iii. 111;
their custom as to cutting a child's hair, iii. 263;
names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340;
disinter the bones of the dead at a festival, iii. 373 n.;
their field-speech, iii. 411 sqq.;
their theory of rain, vi. 33;
their conception of the rice-soul as a blue bird, vii. 182 n. 1, 295 sq.;
attribute souls to men, animals, and rice, vii. 183;
their customs as to the Mother of the Rice, vii. 194 sq.;
their offerings to the souls of the dead at planting a new field, vii. 228;
their custom at circumcision, viii. 153;
cure for kleptomania among the, ix. 34;
hide themselves from the demon of smallpox, ix. 112 n. 2;
their cure by beating, ix. 265;
were-wolves among the, x. 311 sq.;
their custom at the smelting of iron, xi. 154
Toradjas of Poso, in Central Celebes, recovery of souls abducted by demons among the, iii. 62;
use a secret language in the harvest-field, iii. 411 sq.;
ask each other riddles while they watch the crops in the field, vii. 194
Torch-bearer, the Eleusinian, vii. 54, 55, 59
—— -races at Athens presided over by the king, ii. 44 sq.;
at Easter, x. 142;
at Midsummer, x. 175
Torches by women to Diana, i. 12;
fight with, as a ceremony, i. 94;
used to mimic lightning, i. 310;
in relation to Demeter and Persephone, vii. 57;
lighted, used in purification, viii. 249;
used in the expulsion of demons, ix. 110, 117, 120, 130, 131, 132, 133 sq., 139, 140, 146, 157, 171;
used in the expulsion of witches, etc., ix. 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 163, 165, 166;
carried in procession by maskers in Salzburg, ix. 243;
carried by dancers in Mexico, ix. 285;
applied to fruit-trees on Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 316 sq.;
carried about the sowed fields on the Eve of [pg 499] Twelfth Night, ix. 316, 317;
interpreted as imitations of lightning, x. 340 n. 1
Torches, burning, carried round folds and lands at Midsummer, x. 206;
applied to fruit-trees to fertilize them, x. 340
—— of Demeter, x. 340
——, processions with lighted, x. 141, sq., 233 sq.;
through fields, gardens, orchards, and streets, x. 107 sq., 110 sqq., 113 sqq., 179, 339 sq.;
at Midsummer, x. 179;
on Christmas Eve, x. 266
Torchlight dance of the Natchez Indians at the festival of new corn, viii. 79;
procession at Eleusis, vii. 38
Torgot, province of China, rain-dragon banished in time of drought to, i. 298
Torquemada, J. de, Spanish historian of Mexico, ix. 286 n. 1;
on the eating of the flesh of the human representative of Tezcatlipoca, ix. 279 n. 1;
on the flaying of human victims in Mexico, ix. 300 n. 1
Torres Straits Islands, use of magical images in the, i. 59, 72;
magic to catch dugong and turtle in the, i. 108;
raising the wind in the, i. 322;
wind raised by bull-roarer in the, i. 324;
magicians in the, i. 420 n. 2;
the fire-drill in the, ii. 209;
ritual flight of man who has decapitated a corpse in the, ii. 309 n. 2;
names of relations by marriage tabooed in the, iii. 343 sq.;
funeral custom in the, iv. 92 sq.;
worship of animal-shaped heroes in the, v. 139 n. 1;
death-dances in the, vi. 53 n. 2;
cat's cradle in the, vii. 103 n. 1;
the natives of the, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
modes of acquiring courage in the, viii. 152 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty in the, x. 36 sq., 39 sqq.;
dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in the, x. 78 sq.;
use of bull-roarers in the, xi. 228 n. 2, 232
Tortoise, emblem of longevity, i. 169 n. 1;
deemed ill-omened in China, i. 170;
fever transferred to, ix. 31
Tortoises, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151;
land, in homoeopathic magic, i. 155;
reasons for not eating, viii. 140;
external human souls lodged in, xi. 204.
See also Turtles
Torture, judicial, of criminals, witches, and wizards, xi. 158 sq.
Tossing successful reaper in Berwickshire, vii. 154
Totec or Xipe, Mexican god, ix. 297, 298;
personated by a man wearing the skin of a human victim, ix. 300.
See also Xipe
Totem confounded with the man himself, i. 107;
custom observed at eating the, iii. 127;
skin-disease supposed to be caused by eating, viii. 25 sq.;
transference of man's soul to his, xi. 219 n., 225 sq.;
supposed effect of killing a, xi. 220;
the receptacle in which a man keeps his external soul, xi. 220 sqq.;
the individual or personal, xi. 222 n. 5, 224 n. 1, 226 n. 1
See also Totems and Sex totem
Totem animal, artificial, novice at initiation brought back by, xi. 271 sq.;
transformation of man into his, xi. 275
—— animals and plants, custom of eating, i. 107
—— clans and secret societies, related to each other, xi. 272 sq.
—— names kept secret, iii. 320, 330, xi. 225 n.
—— plants among the Fans, xi. 161
—— sacrament, viii. 165
Totemic animals, purification for killing, viii. 28;
dances in imitation of, viii. 76;
represented by masks, ix. 380
Totemism defined, viii. 35;
in Central Australia not a religion, i. 107 sq.;
characteristics of early Australian, i. 107;
of the Dinkas, iv. 30 sq.;
the source of a particular type of folk-tales, iv. 129 sqq.;
possible trace of Latin, iv. 186 n. 4;
in Kiziba, vi. 173, 174 n. 1;
not proved for the Aryans, viii. 4;
probably originated in the hunting stage of society, viii. 37;
in Australia and America, viii. 311;
suggested theory of, xi. 218 sqq.
Totems in Central Australia, magical ceremonies for the multiplication of the, i. 85 sqq., 335;
custom of eating the, i. 107;
descent of the, in Uganda, ii. 288;
sacrifices to, iv. 31;
stories told to account for the origin of, iv. 129;
honorific, of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273 sqq.;
personal, among the North American Indians, xi. 273, 276 n. 1;
multiplex, of the Australians, xi. 275 n. 1
Totonacs, their worship of the corn-spirit, ix. 286 n. 1
Tototectin, men clad in skins of human victims in Mexico, ix. 298
Touch of menstruous women thought to convey pollution, x. 87, 90
Touch-me-not (Impatiens sp.), bundle of, representative of goddess Gauri, ii. 77
Touching for the King's Evil (scrofula), i. 368 sqq.
—— sacred king or chief, supposed effects of, iii. 132 sqq.
Toukaway Indians of Texas, ceremony of mimic wolves among the, xi. 276
Toulon, custom of drenching people with water at Midsummer at, v. 248 sq.
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Toulouse, adoration paid to each other by the Albigenses noticed in the records of the Inquisition at, i. 407;
torture of sorcerers at, xi. 158
Toumbuluh tribe of Celebes, taboos observed during wife's pregnancy in the, iii. 295, 298
Toumon, Egyptian god, the mummy of, iv. 5
Touraine, Midsummer fires in, x. 182
Town, charm to protect a, vi. 249 sqq.
Toxcatl, fifth month of old Mexican year, ix. 149 n. 2;
old Mexican festival, ix. 149 n. 2, 276
Tozer, H. F., on Mount Argaeus, v. 191
Trachinian Women, The, play of Sophocles, ii. 161
Trading voyages, continence observed on, iii. 203
Tradition, the thraldom of, i. 219;
historical, hampered by the taboo on the names of the dead, iii. 363 sqq.
Traditions of kings torn in pieces, vi. 97 sq.
Train, Joseph, on St. Bridget in the Isle of Man, ii. 95;
on Beltane fires in the Isle of Man, x. 157
Trajan, Pliny's letter to, ix. 420
Tralles in Lydia, sacred prostitution at, v. 38
Transference of human souls to other bodies, iii. 49;
from the living to the dead, iii. 73
—— of Egyptian festivals from one month to the preceding month, vi. 92 sqq.
—— of evil, ix. 1 sqq.;
to other people, ix. 5 sqq.;
to sticks and stones, ix. 8 sqq.;
to animals, ix. 31 sqq.;
to men, ix. 38 sqq.;
in Europe, ix. 47 sqq.
—— of a man's soul to his totem, xi. 219 n., 225 sq.
—— of sins, iii. 214 sqq., ix. 39 sqq., 42 sqq.
Transformation of men into animals, iv. 82 sqq., xi. 207;
of men into women, attempted, in obedience to dreams, vi. 255 sqq.;
of women into men, attempted, vi. 255 n. 1;
of woman into crocodile, viii. 212;
of animals into men, ix. 380;
of men into wolves at the full moon, x. 314 n. 1;
of witches into animals, x. 315 sqq., xi. 311 sq.;
of man into his totem animal, xi. 275
Transgressions, need of confessing, iii. 211 sq.
See also Sins
Transition from mother-kin to father-kin, vi. 261 n. 3
Transmigration, belief in, a motive for infanticide, iv. 188 sq.
—— of soul of ruptured person into cleft oak-tree, xi. 172
—— of human souls, into animals, iii. 65, iv. 84 sq., viii. 141, 285 sqq.;
into turtles, viii. 178 sq.;
into bears, viii. 191;
doctrine of, in ancient India, viii. 298 sq.;
doctrine of, in ancient Greece, viii. 300 sqq., 307 sq.;
into totem animals, xi. 223
Transmigrations of human deities, i. 410 sqq.;
of Buddha, viii. 299;
or Buddha in the Jataka, ix. 41
Transmission of soul to successor, iv. 198 sqq.
Transubstantiation among the ancient Aryans, viii. 89 sq.;
among the ancient Mexicans, viii. 89;
ridiculed by Cicero, viii. 167
Transvaal, the Bawenda of the, i. 351, 401 n. 3;
the Malepa of the, iii. 241
Transylvania, rain-making in, i. 282;
festival of Green George among the gipsies of, ii. 75 sq.;
precautions against witches on St. George's Eve or Day in, ii. 337 sq.;
saying as to sleeping child in, iii. 37; story of a witch's soul in the shape of a fly in, iii. 38 sq.;
belief as to falling stars in, iv. 66;
“Sawing the Old Woman” among the gipsies of, iv. 243;
crown made of last ears cut at harvest in, v. 237 sq., vii. 221;
the Cock at reaping the last corn at Braller in, vii. 276;
cock beheaded on harvest-field near Klausenburg in, vii. 278;
live cock killed in last sheaf near Udvarhely in, vii. 278;
the Hare at reaping the last corn at Birk in, vii. 280;
catching the quail in the last corn reaped in the Bistritz district of, vii. 295;
customs at sowing to keep off birds and insects in, viii. 274 sq.;
belief as to children born on a Sunday in, xi. 288 n. 5.
See also Transylvanian
——, the Germans of, iii. 296, 310
——, the Roumanians of, iii. 88, 89, 238, ix. 16, 106 sq., x. 13;
harvest custom among, v. 237
——, the Saxons of, iii. 294, iv. 230, 248, 254, vii. 285, 295, viii. 274;
harvest customs among, v. 237 sq.;
story of the external soul among, xi. 116
Transylvanian gipsies, their way of stopping rain, i. 296
—— Saxons, their homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 138
—— sowers carry locks as a charm to keep off birds, iii. 308
Traps for devils, iii. 59, 69 n. 4;
set for souls, iii. 70 sq.
Trasimene Lake, battle of, iv. 186
Traunstein, district of Upper Bavaria, the Oats-goat at harvest thought to be in the last sheaf of oats in, vii. 287;
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the last standing corn called the Sow in, vii. 298
Travail, women in, knots on their garments untied, iii. 294.
See also Childbirth
Travancore, special terms used with reference to persons of the blood-royal in, i. 401 n. 3;
serpents spoken of respectfully in, iii. 402;
dancing-girls in, v. 63 sqq.;
infants placed in winnowing-fans in, vii. 8 sq.;
customs at executions in, viii. 272;
the Rajah of, his sins transferred to a Brahman, ix. 42 sq.;
demon-worship in, ix. 94;
women deemed liable to be attacked by demons in, x. 24 n. 2;
the Pulayars of, x. 69
Travellers make knots in their garments as a charm, iii. 306
Travexin, in the Vosges, witch as hare at, x. 318
Treason, old English punishment of, v. 290 n. 2
Treasures guarded by demons, xi. 65;
found by means of fern-seed, xi. 65, 287;
discovered by divining-rod, xi. 68;
revealed by springwort, xi. 70;
revealed by mistletoe, xi. 287, 291;
bloom in the earth on Midsummer Eve, xi. 288 n. 5
Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus, iv. 164
Treasury Islanders, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313
Treaty, blood of contracting parties sprinkled on their footprints in making a, i. 211
Trebius on the springwort, xi. 71
Tree thought to cause blindness, i. 147;
extracted teeth placed in a, i. 176;
child's life thought to be bound up with the tree which was planted with its navel-string, i. 182, 184;
embraced by barren women in hopes of obtaining offspring, i. 182;
the navel-string planted with or under a, i. 182, 184, 186, 196;
navel-string hung on a, i. 185, 186, 190, 198;
the afterbirth buried under a, i. 186, 187, 188, 194, 195;
the afterbirth hung on a, i. 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 198, 199;
that has been struck by lightning, i. 319;
on which an eagle has built its nest deemed holy, ii. 11;
culprits tied to sacred, ii. 112 sq.;
origin of men and cattle from a sacred, ii. 219;
fire kindled from ancestral, ii. 221;
decked with bracelets, anklets, etc., v. 240;
soul of a, in a bird, vi. 111 n. 1;
disease transferred to, ix. 6;
use of stick cut from a fruitful, ix. 264;
burnt in the Midsummer bonfire, x. 173 sq., 180, 183;
external soul in a, xi. 102, 156.
See also Trees
Tree of life in Eden, v. 186 n. 4
Tree-agates, homoeopathic magic of, i. 164 sq.
—— -bearers (Dendrophori) in the worship of Cybele and Attis, v. 266 n. 2, 267
—— -creeper (Climacteris scandens), women's “sister” among the Yuin, xi. 216
—— -gods banned at building a house, ix. 81
—— -spirit in the shape of a bull, ii. 14;
represented simultaneously in vegetable and human form, ii. 73 sqq.;
representative of, thrown into water to ensure rain, ii. 75, 76;
killing of the, iv. 205 sqq.;
resurrection of the, iv. 212;
in relation to vegetation-spirit, iv. 253;
Osiris as a, vi. 107 sqq.;
effigies of, burnt in bonfires, xi. 21 sqq.;
human representatives of, put to death, xi. 25;
human representative of the, perhaps originally burnt at the fire-festivals, xi. 90
—— -spirits, ii. 7 sqq.;
threatened, ii. 20 sqq.;
in house-timber propitiated, ii. 39 sq.;
beneficent powers of, ii. 45 sqq.;
give rain and sunshine, ii. 45 sq.;
make crops grow, ii. 47 sqq.;
make cattle and women fruitful, ii. 50 sqq., 55 sqq., xi. 22;
in human form or embodied in living people, ii. 71 sqq.;
fear of, iii. 412 sq.;
in the form of serpents, xi. 44 n. 1
—— -stone, marvellous virtue of a, i. 165 n. 1
—— -worship in ancient Rome, ii. 8;
among the ancient Germans, ii. 8 sq.;
among the European families of the Aryan stock, ii. 9 sqq.;
among the Lithuanians, ii. 9;
in ancient Greece and Italy, ii. 9 sq.;
among tribes of the Finnish-Ugrian stock in Europe, ii. 10 sq.;
notions at the root of, ii. 11 sqq.;
in modern Europe, relics of, ii. 59 sqq.
Trees married to men and women, i. 40 sq., ii. 57;
foreskins placed in, i. 95 sq.;
extracted teeth deposited in, i. 98;
the dead deposited in, i. 102 sq.;
navel-strings placed in, i. 182, 183, 185, 186;
afterbirth (placenta) placed in, i. 182, 187, 190, 191, 194, 199;
stones placed in, to prevent sun from setting, i. 318;
worship of, ii. 7 sqq.;
oracular, ii. 9;
regarded as animate, ii. 12 sqq.;
sacrifices offered to, ii. 15, 16 sq., 19, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48;
rags hung on, ii. 16, 32;
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sensitive, ii. 18;
apologies offered to trees for cutting them down, ii. 18 sq., 36 sq.;
bleeding, ii. 18, 20, 33;
threatened to make them bear fruit, ii. 20 sqq.;
married to each other, ii. 24 sqq.;
in blossom treated like pregnant women, ii. 28;
animated by the souls of the dead, ii. 29 sqq.;
planted on graves, ii. 31;
bones of dead shamans placed in, ii. 32;
as the abode of spirits, ii. 33 sqq.;
ceremonies at cutting down, ii. 34 sqq.;
demons of, ii. 42;
drenched with water as a rain-charm, ii. 47;
grant women an easy delivery, ii. 57 sq.;
cut hair deposited on or under, iii. 14, 275 sq., 286;
the shadow of trees sensitive, iii. 82;
lucky and unlucky, iii. 275 n. 3;
struck by lightning used in magic, iii. 287;
masks hung on, iv. 283;
spirit-children awaiting birth in, v. 100;
sacrificial victims hung on, v. 146;
represented on the monuments of Osiris, vi. 110 sq.;
felled in the waning of the moon, vi. 133, 135 sq., 137;
growing near the graves of dead kings revered, vi. 162, 164;
in relation to Dionysus, vii. 3 sq.;
spirits of the dead in, viii. 124;
evils transferred to, ix. 52, 54 sqq.;
evils nailed into, ix. 59 sqq.;
men changed into, by look of menstruous women, x. 79;
burnt in spring fires, x. 115 sq., 116, 142;
burnt in Midsummer fires, x. 173 sq., 185, 192, 193, 209;
burnt at Holi festival in India, xi. 2;
burnt in bonfires, xi. 22;
lives of people bound up with, xi. 159 sqq.;
hair of children tied to, xi. 165;
the fate of families or individuals bound up with, xi. 165 sqq.;
creeping through cleft trees as cure for various maladies, xi. 170 sqq.;
fire thought by savages to be stored like sap in, xi. 295;
struck by lightning, superstitions about, xi. 296 sqq.
See also Tree and Fruit-trees
Trees and plants, attempts to deceive the spirits of, ii. 22 sqq.;
as life-indices, xi. 160 sqq.
—— and rocks, Greek belief as to birth from, v. 107 n. 1
——, sacred, ii. 40 sqq.;
smeared with blood, ii. 367
Tréfoir, the Yule log, x. 249
Tréfouet, the Yule log, x. 252 n. 2, 253
Tregonan, in Cornwall, Midsummer fires on, x. 199
Trench cut in ground at Beltane, x. 150, 152
Trespass on sacred groves, apologies for, ii. 328
Trevelyan, G. M., on the custom of a temporary king in Cornwall, v. 154 n. 1
Trevelyan, Marie, on Midsummer fires in Wales, x. 201;
on Hallowe'en in Wales, x. 226 n. 1;
on St. John's wort in Wales, xi. 55 n. 2;
on burnt sacrifices in Wales, xi. 301
Treveri, a Celtic tribe on the Moselle, their name preserved in Treves, ii. 126 n. 2
Trèves, “cutting the goat's neck off” at harvest near, vii. 268;
the Corn-wolf killed at threshing in the district of, vii. 275;
the Archbishop of, gives wine for burning wheel rolled down hill, x. 118
Triad, divine, at Tarsus, v. 171
Trial of the axe at Athens, viii. 5
Trials, judicial, of animals and inanimate things by the king at Athens, i. 45, viii. 5 n. 1
Triangle of reeds, passage of mourners through a, xi. 177 sq.
Tribes reported to be ignorant of the art of making fire, ii. 253 sq.
Tribute (presents) brought to rain-makers, i. 338, 342, 346, 348, 349, 351, 353, ii. 3;
of youths and maidens sent to the Minotaur, iv. 74 sqq.
Trident, emblem of Hittite thunder-god, v. 134, 135;
emblem of Indian deity, v. 170
Trie-Chateau, dolmen near Gisors, xi. 188
Triennial tenure of the kingship, iv. 112 sq.
Trieste, St. Sylvester's Eve at, ix. 165
Τριετηρίς, vii. 15 n.
Trilles, Father H., on the theory of the external soul among the Fans, xi. 201
Trimouzette, the, a flower-crowned girl in the Ardennes on May Day, ii. 80 n. 4
Tring, a Tonquinese general, restores the king, iii. 19
Trinidad, the fire-walk in, xi. 11
Trinities, the ancient Egyptian gods arranged in, iv. 5 n. 3
Trinity, Christian doctrine of the, iv. 5 n. 3
——, the Batta, ix. 88 n. 1
——, the Hindoo, i. 225, 404;
the Norse, ii. 364
Trinity College, Cambridge, Lord of Misrule at, ix. 332
Trinouxtion, in the Coligny calendar, seems to mark summer solstice, ix. 343 n.
Tripoli, fighting the wind in, i. 331;
ghosts of murdered men nailed into the earth in, ix. 63
Triptolemus, prince of Eleusis, vii. 37;
shown the corn by Demeter, vii. 38;
the agent of Demeter in disseminating [pg 503] corn over the world, vii. 54, 72 sq.;
victims sacrificed to him at Eleusis, vii. 56, 72;
his Threshing-floor at Eleusis, vii. 61, 72, 75;
in Greek art, vii. 68 n. 1, 72;
sows seed in Rarian plain, vii. 70, 74;
the corn-hero, vii. 72 sq.;
etymology of his name, vii. 72 sq.;
receives corn from Demeter, viii. 19
Triptolemus, play of Sophocles, vii. 54
Tristram, H. B., on date of corn-reaping in Palestine, v. 232 n.;
on wild boars in Palestine, viii. 31 sq.
Triumph, costume worn by Roman generals in celebrating a, ii. 174 sqq.
Triumphal arch, suggested origin of the, xi. 195
Troad, temple of Mouse (Smintheus) Apollo in the, viii. 283
Trobriands, Kiriwina, an island of the, v. 84
Trocadero Museum, statues of kings of Dahomey in the, iv. 85
Troezen, sanctuary of Hippolytus at, i. 24 sq.
Troezenians sacrificed first-fruits to Poseidon, viii. 133;
their festival resembling the Saturnalia, ix. 350
Trojeburg, labyrinths for children's games called, iv. 77
Trokoarbasis, priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 145
Trokombigremis, priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 145
Trolls, efforts to keep off the, x. 146;
and evil spirits abroad on Midsummer Eve, x. 172;
Midsummer flowers a protection against, xi. 54;
rendered powerless by mistletoe, xi. 86, 283, 294
Trophonius at Lebadea, iv. 166 n. 1
Troppau, in Silesia, “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 250 sq.
Trows, certain mythical beings in Shetland, ix. 168
Troy, sanctuary of Athena at, ii. 284;
the game of, iv. 76 sq.
“True of speech,” epithet of Osiris, vi. 21
“True Man, the,” official title of the head of Taoism in China, i. 413
—— Steel, whose heart was in a bird, xi. 110 sq.
Trumpets, blowing of, in the rites of Attis, v. 268;
in rites of Dionysus, vii. 15;
blown to expel demons, ix. 116, 117, 156;
blown at the feast of Purim, ix. 394;
sounded at initiation of young men, xi. 249
——, penny, blown at Befana (Twelfth Night) in Rome, ix. 166;
at the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, x., 221, 222
Trumpets, sacred, blown to make palm-trees bear fruit, ii. 24
Truth the hypothesis which is found to work best, iii. 422
Tschudi, J. J. von, his communication of a Spanish tract to W. Mannhardt, vii. 172 n. 2
Tschwi, the, of West Africa, their custom after the death of a twin, viii. 98
Tsetsaut Indians of British Columbia, fasting and chastity of hunters among the, iii. 198;
men among the, do not cut their hair, iii. 260;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 46
Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast, rules observed by wives during absence of their husbands at war, i. 132;
descent of kingship among the, ii. 274 sq.;
their stories to explain their totemism, iv. 128 sq.;
dedicated men and women among the, v. 69 sq.;
ordeal of chastity among the, v. 115 n. 2;
their annual festival of the dead, vi. 66 n. 2
Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia, their beliefs as to twins, i. 262 sq.;
cannibal rites among the, vii. 19, 20;
their ceremonies after catching the first olachen fish of the season, viii. 254 sq.;
rules observed by their girls at puberty, x. 44 n. 2
Tsong-ming, Chinese island, mode of procuring rain in, i. 298
Tsuen-cheu-fu, in China, geomancy at, i. 170
Tsuina, expulsion of demons in Japan, ix. 212 sq.
Tsûl, the, a Berber tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 179
Tuaran district of British North Borneo, the Dusuns of, their annual expulsion of demons, ix. 200 sq.
Tuaregs of the Sahara, their seclusion at meals, iii. 117;
their men veil their faces, iii. 122;
reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353;
their fear of ghosts, iii. 353
Tubilustrium, purification of trumpets at Rome, v. 268 n. 1
Tübingen, “Burying the Carnival” near, iv. 230
Tubuan or Tubuvan, man disguised as cassowary in Duk-duk ceremonies, xi. 247
Tubuériki, a god in the Kingsmill Islands, first-fruits offered to, viii. 127 sq.
Tucanos, the, of the Amazon, their custom of drinking the ashes of the dead, viii. 157
Tud or Warrior Island, Torres Straits, sweat of warriors drunk in, viii. 152 sq.
Tug-of-war before sowing and at reaping [pg 504] of rice, ii. 100;
probably in origin a magical rite, vii. 103 n. 1, 110 n.;
as a religious or magical rite, ix. 173 sqq.;
as a charm to produce rain, ix. 175 sq., 178 sq.
Tugeri or Kaya-Kaya of Dutch New Guinea, their use of bull-roarers, xi. 242 sq.
Tuhoe tribe of Maoris, their belief as to the fertilization of barren women, ii. 56
Tui Nkualita, a Fijian chief, founder of the fire-walk, xi. 11
Tuic tribe of the Upper Nile, lion-tamer as chief of the, i. 347 sq.
Tuikilakila, a Fijian chief, claims to be a god, i. 389
Tukaitawa, a Mangaian warrior, whose strength waxed and waned with his shadow, iii. 87
Tul-ya's e'en, seven days before Christmas, the Trows let loose on, in Shetland, ix. 168
Tulasi, or Holy Basil, worshipped in India, ii. 26;
married to Krishna, ii. 26;
married to the Salagrama, ii. 26 sq.
Tulava, sacred prostitution in, v. 63
Tulle, in Berry, “Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent at, iv. 242
Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome, ii. 193;
killed by lightning, ii. 181, 320;
said to have instituted the Saturnalia, ix. 345 n. 1
Tully River, in Queensland, natives of, their ideas as to falling stars, iv. 60;
belief of the natives as to conception without sexual intercourse, v. 102
Tulsi plant, its miraculous virtue, xi. 5
Tum of Heliopolis, an Egyptian sun-god, i. 419, vi. 123
Tumbucas of South Africa, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331 n. 2
Tumleo, island of, treatment of spilt blood and rags in, i. 205;
contagious magic of bodily impressions in, i. 213;
seclusion of women after childbirth in, iii. 150;
annual fight in, ix. 142 sq.
Tummel, the valley of the, Hallowe'en fires in, x. 231
Tuña, a spirit, expulsion of, among the Esquimaux, ix. 124 sq.
Tundja River, the Orotchis of the, viii. 197
Tung ak, a powerful spirit, dreaded by the Esquimaux, ix. 79 sq.
Tunghät, wandering genii of the Esquimaux, ix. 379
Tunguzian people, the Gilyaks a, viii. 190;
the Orotchis a, viii. 197
Tunis, New Year fires at, x. 217;
gold sickle and fillet said to be found in, xi. 80 n. 3
Tunja, capital of the Chibchas, in Colombia, i. 416
Tunnel, creeping through a, as a remedy for an epidemic, x. 283 sq.
Tupi Indians of Brazil, their customs as to eating captives, iii. 179 sq.;
cut off the thumbs of dead enemies, viii. 272
Tupinambas of Brazil, their superstition as to planting earth-almonds, i. 142;
woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 122
Turban, soul caught in a, iii. 75
Turcoman cure of fever by means of knotted thread, iii. 304
Turf, sick children and cattle passed through holes in, xi. 191
Turiks of Borneo, soul hooked fast to body among the, iii. 30
Turkana, the, of British East Africa, the power of medicine-men among, i. 344 sq.
Turkestan, human scapegoat in, ix. 45;
Ferghana in, ix. 184
Turkey, feathers of a, in homoeopathic magic, i. 155;
soul in form of, iii. 42 n.
Turkish tribes of Central Asia, girls propound riddles to their wooers among the, ix. 122 n.
—— village, oak-tree worshipped in, ii. 16
Turks, exorcism practised by the, iii. 102;
preserve their nail-parings for use at the resurrection, iii. 280;
their belief as to the bones of Scanderbeg, viii. 154
—— of Armenia, their rain-charm by means of pebbles, i. 305
—— of Central Asia give birds' tongues to backward child to eat, viii. 147
—— of Siberia, marriage custom of the, x. 75
Turmeric cultivated, vii. 245, 250
Turner, Dr. George, on the power of the disease-makers in Tana, i. 341 sq.;
on sacred stones, v. 108 n. 1
Turner, L. M., on the fear of demons among the Esquimaux of Labrador, ix. 79 sq.
Turner's picture of “The Golden Bough,” i. 1
Turning or whirling round, custom of, observed by mummers, i. 273, 275, ii. 74, 80, 81, 87
“Turquoise, Mistress of,” at Sinai, v. 53
Turrbal tribe of Queensland, rule observed by boys at initiation in the, iii. 156 n. 1
—— River in Queensland, natives of the, their ideas as to falling stars, iv. 60
Turrinus, P. Clodius, coin of, i. 12 n. 3
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Turtle, magical models of, i. 108
Turtle-catching, taboos in connexion with, iii. 192
—— -dove, consumption transferred to a, ix. 52
—— family in Samoa, their rule as to eating and cutting up turtles, iii. 122
—— -shell badges of homicide, iii. 168
Turtles, ancestral spirits in, in the Tenimber and Timor-laut Islands, viii. 123;
killing the sacred, among the Zuni, viii. 175 sqq.;
transmigration of human souls into, among the Zuni, viii. 178 sq.
Turukhinsk region, Samoyeds of the, xi. 196
Tusayan, an ancient province of Arizona, vii. 312
——, the Pueblo Indians of, their custom at planting, v. 239;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 312
Tuscan Romagna, Befana (Epiphany) in the, ix. 167
Tuscany, oak forests on the coast of, ii. 354;
volcanic district of, v. 208 n. 1;
omens from the cry of the quail in, vii. 295
Tusculum, Egerius Baebius or Laevius, of Tusculum, a Latin dictator, i. 22, 23 n. 3;
King of the Sacred Rites at, i. 44 n. 1
Tusks of ivory, souls shut up in, iii. 70
Tusser, Thomas, on planting peas and beans, vi. 134
Tutu, island of Torres Strait, treatment of girls at puberty in, x. 41
Tver Government in Russia, charm to keep wolves from cows in, iii. 307
Twana Indians of Washington State, recovery of lost souls by medicine-men among the, iii. 58;
prohibition to mention the names of the dead among the, iii. 365
Twanyirika, an Australian spirit whose voice is heard in the sound of the bull-roarer, xi. 233 sq.;
kills and resuscitates lads at initiation, xi. 234
Twelfth Day, dances on, i. 138;
ceremony of the King at Carcassone on, viii. 321;
mummers representing a Goat and a Bear on, viii. 327;
dances on the roof on, to make the hemp grow tall, ix. 315;
serious significance of, ix. 315;
the Three Kings on, ix. 329 sqq.
See also Twelfth Night
—— Day, the Eve of, expulsion of witches, etc., on, ix. 166 sq.;
twelve fires in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire on, ix. 318;
the bonfires of, x. 107;
processions with torches on, x. 340
—— Night, fruit-trees girt with straw ropes between Christmas and, ii. 17;
certain animals not to be called by their proper names between Christmas and, iii. 396 sq.;
expulsion of the powers of evil on, ix. 165 sqq.;
dances for the crops on, ix. 238;
Perchta's Day, ix. 244;
(Epiphany), the King of the Bean on, ix. 313 sqq., x. 153 n. 2;
divination on, ix. 316;
cake, x. 184;
the Yule log on, x. 248, 250, 251;
the divining-rod cut on, xi. 68.
See also Twelfth Day
Twelfth Night, the Eve of, old Mrs. Perchta on, ix. 240, 241;
ceremonial fires on, ix. 316 sqq.
Twelve Days from Christmas to Twelfth Night (Epiphany), precautions against witches during the, ix. 158 sqq., 164 sqq.;
in Macedonia, superstitions as to the, ix. 320;
weather of the twelve months supposed to be determined by the weather of the, ix. 322 sqq.;
in ancient India, ix. 324 sq.;
accounted a miniature of the year, ix. 324;
in the Highlands of Scotland, ix. 324;
difference of opinion as to the date of the, ix. 324, 327;
probably an old intercalary period at midwinter, ix. 325 sq., 328, 338 sq., 342
—— Days or Twelve Nights not of Christian origin, ix. 326 sqq.
—— fires on Eve of Twelfth Day, ix. 318 sq., 321 sq.
—— Gods, images of the, carried in procession at Magnesia, viii. 8
—— Nights, remains of Yule log scattered on fields during the, x. 248;
between Christmas and Epiphany, were-wolves abroad during the, x. 310 n. 1
—— years, king's reign limited to, in South India, iv. 46 sqq.
“Twice-born” Brahman, xi. 276
Twin, name applied by the Baganda to the navel-string, i. 195, 196, vi. 170;
the navel-string of the king of Uganda called his, vi. 147.
See also Twins
——, ghost of a, lodged in a wooden figure, viii. 98
Twin brothers in ritual, x. 278
—— girl charged with special duty, viii. 280
—— -producing virtue ascribed to a kind of mistletoe, xi. 79
Twining thread forbidden to women and children during absence of warriors, i. 131
Twins in war, i. 49 n. 3;
produced by eating two mice, two bananas, or two grains of millet, i. 118, 145;
taboos laid on parents of, i. 262, 263 sq.;
supposed to possess magical powers, especially [pg 506] over the weather and rain, i. 262-269, ii. 183;
supposed to be salmon, i. 263;
thought to be related to grizzly bears, i. 264 sq.;
thought to be related to apes, i. 265;
thought to be the sons of lightning, i. 266;
called the children of the sky, i. 267, 268;
water poured on graves of, i. 268, iii. 154 sq.;
custom observed by mother of still-born, i. 269 n. 1;
parents of, thought to be able to fertilize plantain-trees, ii. 102;
mothers of, not allowed to go near farm at sowing and reaping, ii. 102 n. 1;
customs of the Baganda in regard to, ii. 102 sq.;
precautions taken by women at the graves of, v. 93 n. 1;
precautions against the ghosts of, viii. 98;
deemed a great misfortune in Kamtchatka, viii. 173 n. 4, ix. 178;
crocodiles thought to be born as the twins of human children, viii. 212;
Baganda women throw sticks or stones on the graves of, ix. 18
Twins and their afterbirths counted as four children, xi. 162 n. 2
——, father of, taboos observed by the, iii. 239 sq.;
his hair shaved and nails cut, iii. 284;
no male except the, allowed to enter hut of girl in her seclusion at puberty, x. 24
Two bananas eaten produce twins, i. 145
—— Brothers, ancient Egyptian story of the, xi. 134 sqq.
—— days, heathen festivals displaced in the Christian calendar by, i. 14
—— -faced statue set up by the mother of still-born twins, i. 269 n. 1;
mask worn by image of goddess, ix. 287
—— Goddesses, the, Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, vii. 56, 59, 73, 90
—— grains of millet eaten produce twins, i. 145
—— -headed bust at Nemi, portrait of the King of the Wood, i. 41 sq.
—— -headed deity on a Cilician coin, v. 165 sq.
—— mice eaten produce twins, i. 118
Tyana, Hittite monument at, v. 122 n. 1
Tybi, an Egyptian month, vi. 98 n. 2
Tycoons, the, long the temporal sovereigns of Japan, iii. 19
Tydeus marries the daughter of the king of Argos, ii. 278
Tyers, Lake, in Victoria, reluctance to mention personal names among the blacks about, iii. 321
Tying up the winds in knots, i. 326;
the soul to the body, iii. 32 sq., 43
Tylon or Tylus, a Lydian hero, v. 183;
his death and resurrection, v. 186 sq.
Tylor, Sir Edward B., on fertilization of date-palm, i. 25 n.;
on magic, i. 53 n. 1;
on the fire-drill, ii. 208;
on Garcilasso's account of the Peruvian priestesses of fire, ii. 244 n. 1;
on the association of flints with lightning, ii. 374 n. 2;
on reincarnation of ancestors, iii. 372 n. 1;
on fossil bones as a source of myths, v. 157 sq.;
on names for father and mother, v. 281;
on a theory of totemism, viii. 298 n. 2
Tyndarids (Castor and Pollux) thought to attend the Spartan kings, i. 49
Types of animal sacrament, viii. 310 sqq.
Typhon, or Set, the brother of Osiris, vi. 6;
the sea called the foam of, iii. 10;
invoked by his true names, iii. 390;
the soul of, in the Great Bear, iv. 5;
murders Osiris, vi. 7 sq.;
mangles the body of Osiris, vi. 10, viii. 30;
interpreted as the sun, vi. 129;
the enemy of Osiris, vii. 262, 263, viii. 100;
his injury of the eye of Horus, viii. 30;
as a pig or boar, viii, 30, 31, 33, 34;
the birth of, ix. 341.
See also Set
——, in Greek mythology, slays Hercules, v. 111;
Corycian cave of, v. 155 sq.;
his battle with the gods, v. 193, 194;
the gods flee before, vii. 18
—— and Zeus, battle of, v. 156 sq.
Tyre, Melcarth at, v. 16;
burning of Melcarth at, v. 110 sq.;
festival of “the awakening of Hercules” at, v. 111;
king of, his walk on stones of fire, v. 114 sq.
——, kings of, their divinity, v. 16;
as priests of Astarte, v. 26
—— and Sidon, ix. 17
Tyrie, parish of, in Aberdeenshire, the cutting of the clyack sheaf in, vii. 158
Tyrimnus, axe-bearing hero at Thyatira, v. 183 n.
Tyrol, sacred larch-tree in the, ii. 20;
“ringing out the grass” on St. George's Day in the, ii. 343 sq.;
witches in the, their magic use of cut hair, iii. 271;
disposal of loose hair in the, iii. 282;
wedding rings as amulets in the, iii. 314;
Feast of All Souls in the, vi. 73 sq.;
the Wheat-bride and Rye-bride at harvest in the, vii. 163;
treatment of man who gives last stroke at threshing at Volders in the, vii. 224;
last thresher said to “strike down the Dog” at Dux in the, vii. 273;
the last thresher called the Goat at Oberinntal in the, vii. 286;
annual “Burning out of the Witches” on May Day in the, ix. 158 sq., x. 160;
the Perchten in the, ix. 240, 242 sq.;
Senseless Thursday in the, ix. 248;
burning the [pg 507] witch on the first Sunday in Lent at Voralberg in the, x. 116;
Midsummer fires in the, x. 172 sq.;
magical plants culled on Midsummer Eve in the, xi. 47;
St. John's wort in the, xi. 54;
mountain arnica gathered at Midsummer in the, xi. 58;
four-leaved clover gathered on Midsummer Eve in the, xi. 62 sq.;
dwarf-elder gathered at Midsummer in the, xi. 64;
the divining-rod in the, xi. 68;
mistletoe used to open all locks in the, xi. 85;
belief as to mistletoe growing on a hazel in the, xi. 291 n. 3
Tyrolese peasants use fern-seed to discover buried gold and to prevent money from decreasing, xi. 288
—— story of a girl who was forbidden to see the sun, x. 72
Tyropoeon, ravine at Jerusalem, v. 178
Tyrrel, Colonel F., as to the story of Sultan Bayazid and his external soul, iii. 51 n.
Tzentales, the, of Mexico, propitiate dead deer, viii. 241
Tzultacca, a mythical being of the Central American Indians, viii. 241
Ualaroi, the, of the Darling River, their belief as to initiation, xi. 233
Uap (Yap), one of the Caroline Islands, taboos observed by fishermen in, iii. 193;
custom as to cutting hibiscus tree in, iii. 227;
the natives of, burn or throw into the sea their cut hair and nails for fear of witchcraft, iii. 281 sq.
See also Yap
Uaupes of Brazil, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 61
—— River, woman's share in agriculture among the tribes of the, vii. 121 sq.
Ubemba, a royal family in Central Africa, ii. 277
Ucayali river in Peru, the Conibos of the, ii. 183 n. 2, v. 198;
the Indians of the, their greetings to the new moon, vi. 142
Ucria, in Sicily, barren fruit-trees threatened at, ii. 21 sq.
Udvarhely in Transylvania, wreath made out of the last ears cut at harvest at, vii. 221;
cock killed in last sheaf at, vii. 278
Uea, one of the Loyalty Islands, recall of a lost soul in, iii. 54
Uelzen in Hanover, the Harvest-goat at, vii. 283
Uffizi, the temple of Vesta represented on a relief in the gallery of the, at Florence, ii. 186
Uganda, priest inspired by tobacco smoke in, i. 384;
ceremonies observed by the parents of twins in, ii. 102;
the king's perpetual fire in, ii. 261;
licence accorded to the Queen-Dowager and Queen-Sister in, ii. 275 sq.;
descent of the totems in, ii. 288;
avoidance of wife's mother in, iii. 84 sq.;
rule as to the Queen-mother of, iii. 86;
ceremony on return from a journey in, iii. 112;
uncleanness of women at menstruation and childbirth in, iii. 145;
seclusion of brides in, iii. 148 n. 1;
intercourse of chiefs with their wives before going to war in, iii. 164 n. 1;
taboos observed by fishermen in, iii. 194 sq.;
weapons removed from room at childbirth in, iii. 239;
taboos observed by fathers of twins in, iii. 239 sq.;
king's brothers burnt in, iii. 243;
custom as to roofing the king's palace in, iii. 254;
rule as to cutting child's hair in, iii. 263;
disposal of cut hair and nails in, iii. 277;
custom as to the hair and nails of fathers of twins in, iii. 284;
reluctance of people to name their totems in, iii. 330;
spirits of ancestors reincarnate in their namesakes in, iii. 369;
etiquette at the court of the king of, iv. 39 sq.;
human sacrifices in, iv. 139;
first-born sons strangled in, iv. 182;
dead kings of, give oracles through inspired mediums, iv. 200 sq., vi. 167, 171 sq.;
priest drinks beer out of skull of dead king in, iv. 200, viii. 150;
temples of the dead kings of, vi. 167, 168 sq., 170 sqq.;
human sacrifices offered to dead kings of, vi. 168, 172 sq.;
human sacrifices offered to prolong the lives of the kings of, vi. 223 sqq.;
men inspired by the spirits of lions, leopards, and serpents in, viii. 213;
funeral ceremony in, ix. 45 n. 2;
human scapegoats in, ix. 42, 194 sq.;
kings of, not allowed to set foot on ground, x. 3 sq.;
life of the king of, bound up with barkcloth trees, xi. 160;
passage of sick man through a cleft stick or a narrow opening in, xi. 181 sq.;
cure for lightning-stroke in, xi. 298 n. 2
See also Baganda
Uganda Protectorate, the Bahima of the, iii. 183 n., ix. 6
Ugi, one of the Solomon Islands, fear of passing under a fallen tree in, iii. 250;
cut hair buried in, iii. 277;
observation of the Pleiades in, vii. 313
Uisnech, in County Meath, great fair at, x. 158
Uist, in the Hebrides, rain-making in, i. 308;
Beltane cakes in, x. 154
——, North, the harvest Cailleach in, vii. 166;
need-fire in, x. 293 sq.
——, South, fairies at Hallowe'en in, x. [pg 508] 226;
salt cake at Hallowe'en in, x. 238 sq.
Uiyumkwi tribe, in Red Island, their treatment of girls at puberty, x. 39 sq.
Ujjain, the old capital of Malwa, in Western India, iv. 132, 133;
tradition as to killing kings after one day's reign in, iv. 122 sq.;
Vikramaditya's Gate at, iv. 124
Ukami, in German East Africa, xi. 313
Ukpong, external soul in Calabar, xi. 206
Ukraine, ceremony to fertilize the fields on St. George's Day in the, ii. 103
Ulad Bu Aziz, Arab tribe in Morocco, their Midsummer fires, x. 214
Ulawa, one of the Solomon Islands, soul of dead man in a shark at, viii. 297;
soul of dead man in bananas in, viii. 298
Uliase, East Indian island, fear to lose the shadow at noon in, iii. 87;
sick people sprinkled with pungent spices in, iii. 105
Ullensvang, Hardanger, Norway, Whitsuntide Bride and Bridegroom at, ii. 92
Ulster, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, iii. 12;
tombs of the kings of, iv. 101
Ulysses wins Penelope in a foot-race, ii. 300 sq.
—— and Aeolus, i. 326
Umbandine, king of the Swazies, expected to make rain for his people, i. 350
Umbrella, white, carried over Athenian priests and priestess, x. 20 n. 1;
carried over bride in procession, x. 31
Umbrellas in ritual, x. 20 n. 1
Umbrians, ordeal of battle among the, ii. 321
Unalashka, one of the Aleutian Islands, stones piled on a grave in, ix. 16
Uncle, dead, worshipped among the Awemba, vi. 175
——, maternal, preferred to father, mark of mother-kin, ii. 285;
in marriage ceremonies in India, v. 62 n. 1
Unclean and sacred, correspondence of the rules regarding the, iii. 145
Unclean animals originally sacred, viii. 24
Uncleanness regarded as a vapour, iii. 152, 206;
of man-slayers, of menstruous and lying-in women, and of persons who have handled the dead, iii. 169;
of whalers, iii. 191, 207;
of lion-killer, iii. 220;
of bear-killers, iii. 221;
caused by contact with the dead, vi. 227 sqq.;
ceremonial, among the Indians of Costa Rica, x. 65 n. 1;
of women at menstruation, x. 76 sqq.;
and sanctity not clearly differentiated in the primitive mind, x. 97 sq.
See also Menstruous
Uncles named after their nephews, iii. 332
Unconquered Son, Mithra identified with the, v. 304
Uncovered in the open air, prohibition to be, iii. 3, 14
Underground Zeus, Greek ploughman prayed to, vii. 45, 50
Undiara in Central Australia, magical stones at, i. 147
Ungarisch Brod, in Moravia, dramatic contest between Summer and Winter among the Slavs near, iv. 257 sq.
Unguent of lion's fat, magic virtue of an, viii. 164;
made from fat of crocodiles and snakes, x. 14
Uniformity of occupation in primitive society, i. 245;
of nature, ii. 376
Unis, king of Egypt, mentioned in the Pyramid Texts, vi. 5
Universal healer, name given to mistletoe, xi. 77
Unkareshwar, the goddess of cholera at, ix. 194
Unkulunkulu, “the Old-Old-one,” the first man in the traditions of the Zulus, vi. 182
Unleavened bread baked with new corn at the harvest festival of the Natchez Indians, viii. 136
Unlucky, intercalary days regarded as, ix. 339 sq.;
Midsummer Day regarded as, xi. 29
—— children passed through narrow openings, xi. 190
—— marriages in India, ii. 57 n. 4
Unmasking a were-wolf or witch by wounding him or her, x. 315, 321
Unmatjera tribe of Central Australia, their disposal of foreskins at circumcision, i. 95 sq.;
burial customs of the, i. 102;
their charm to ensure wakefulness, i. 154;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 208;
their rites of initiation, xi. 234;
initiation of a medicine-man in the, xi. 238
Unna, in Westphalia, treatment of the last sheaf at, vii. 138
Unnefer, “the Good Being,” a title of Osiris, vi. 12
Unreaped corn, patches of, left at harvest, viii. 233
Unreason, Abbot of, in Scotland, ix. 331
“Unspoken water” in marriage rites, vi. 245 sq.
Unyoro, king of, his custom of drinking milk, iii. 119;
not to be seen drinking, iii. 119;
cowboy of the king of, [pg 509] iii. 159 n.;
diet of the king of, iii. 291 sq.;
kings of, put to death, iv. 34
Up-helly-a', popular festival on January 29th in Shetland, ix. 168 sq., x. 269 n.
Up-uat, Egyptian jackal-god, vi. 154
Upias, King, father of Bormus, vii. 216
Upis, a Hyperborean maiden, i. 34 n.;
a name of Artemis, i. 34 n.
Upsala, popular assembly at, i. 366 sq.;
sacred grove at, ii. 9, 364, 365;
temple of Frey at, ii. 144;
images of Thor, Odin, and Frey at, ii. 364;
sacrificial spring at, ii. 364;
great temple and festival at, ii. 364 sq., iv. 58;
sepulchral mound at, iv. 57, 161;
sacrifice of king's sons at, iv. 160;
human sacrifices in the holy grove at, v. 289 sq., vi. 220;
the reign of Frey at, vi. 100
Upulero, the spirit of the sun, in the Babar Archipelago, prayers for offspring to, i. 72
Ur, the fourth dynasty of, i. 417
Urabunna tribe of Central Australia, their fire-drill, ii. 209;
their rites of initiation, xi. 234
Uranium, atomic disintegration of, viii. 305
Uranus mutilated by his son Cronus, iv. 192, v. 283
Uraons. See Oraons
Urewera, in New Zealand, magic use of spittle in, iii. 288
Uri-melech or Adom-melech, king of Byblus, v. 14
Urns, funereal, in shape of huts, ii. 201 sq.
Urquhart, Sir Thomas, on the Lord of Misrule, ix. 332
Urua, in Central Africa, divinity claimed by the chief of, i. 395
Urvasi and King Pururavas, Indian story, ii. 250, iv. 131
Usagara hills in German East Africa, the Wamegi of the, vii. 240
Usener, H., on Befana at Rome, ix. 167 n. 1;
on the etymology of Veturius, ix. 229 n. 2
Ushnagh, in Ireland, pagan cemetery at, iv. 101
Usirniri, temple of, at Busiris, vi. 151
Usondo, the lord of rain, in Zululand, i. 303
Ussingen, in Nassau, saying as to wind in corn at, vii. 296
Ussukuma (Usukuma), district on the southern bank of Lake Victoria Nyanza, sultans of, expected to make rain and drive away locusts, i. 353;
heads not to be shaved till corn is sown in, iii. 260
Ustrels, a species of vampyre in Bulgaria, supposed to attack cattle, x. 284
Utch Kurgan, in Turkestan, human scapegoat at, ix. 45
Uttoxeter, May garlands at, ii. 61
Ututwa, sultan of, expelled for drought, i. 353
Uuayayab, demon of evil in Yucatan, ix. 171
Uwet, tribe on the Calabar River, their excessive use of the poison ordeal, iv. 197
Vagney, in the Vosges, Christmas custom at, x. 254
Vagueness and inconsistency of primitive thought, xi. 301 sq.
Val di Ledro, effigy burnt in the, at Carnival, x. 120
Valais, the canton of, Midsummer fires in, x. 172;
cursing a mist in, x. 280
Vale of Tempe, Apollo purified from the dragon's blood in the, iv. 81, vi. 240
Valenciennes, Lenten fire-custom at, x. 114 n. 4
Valentines at bonfires, x. 109 sq.
Valerius Soranus, said to have divulged the name of Rome, iii. 391
Valesius, on the standard Egyptian cubit, vi. 217 n. 1
Valhalla, the dead in battle received by Odin in, iv. 13
Vallabhacharyas or Maharajas, a Hindoo sect, believe that barren women can be fertilized by bathing in a sacred well, ii. 160;
men assimilated to women in the, vi. 254.
See also Maharajas
Vailancey, General Charles, on Hallowe'en customs in Ireland, x. 241 sq.
Vallée des Bagnes, cursing a mist in the, x. 280
Vallericcia, near the Alban Lake, archaic Greek relief found in the, i. 11 n. 1
Valley of Hinnom, sacrifices of children to Moloch in the, iv. 169, v. 178
—— of the Kings of Thebes, vi. 90
—— of Poison, in Java, v. 203 sq.
Vampyres, charms against, ix. 153 n. 1;
need-fire kindled as a safeguard against, x. 284 sqq., 344
Vancouver Island, the Lkungen Indians of, i. 145;
wind-stones in, i. 322;
the Ahts of, vi. 139 n. 1, x. 43;
the Songish or Lkungen tribe of, viii. 254
Vanua Lava, in the Banks Islands, avoidance of wife's mother at, iii. 85
Vapour thought to be exhaled by lying-in women and hunters, iii. 152, 206, 213;
supposed, of blood and corpses, iii. 210 sq.;
supposed to be produced by the violation of a taboo, iii. 212
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Vapour bath taken by girls at puberty, x. 40
Vapours, worship of mephitic, v. 203 sqq.
Var, Midsummer fires in the French department of, x. 193
Varanda, in Armenia, rain-charm at, i. 306
Varé, African kingdom, power of rain-making ascribed to the kings of, i. 348
Varini, a tribe akin to the Saxons, marriage with a step-mother among the, ii. 283
Varro, on the oak groves of Rome, ii. 185;
on the so-called temple of Vesta, ii. 200;
on the foundation of Rome by shepherds and herdsmen, ii. 324 n. 1;
on Pales, ii. 326;
on Janus as a sky-god, ii. 381;
on a Roman funeral custom, iv. 92;
on suicides by hanging, iv. 282;
on the marriage of the Roman gods, vi. 230 sq., 236 n. 1;
his derivation of Dialis from Jove, vi. 230 n. 2;
on Salacia, vi. 233;
on Fauna or the Good Goddess, vi. 234 n. 4;
on the rites of Eleusis, vii. 88;
on killing oxen in Attica, viii. 6;
on annual sacrifice of goat on the Acropolis of Athens, viii. 41;
on the fire-walk of the Hirpi Sorani, xi. 14 n. 3
Varuna, festival of, wife of the sacrificer obliged to name her paramours at the, iii. 217
Vase, external soul of habitual criminal in a, xi. 145 sq.
Vase-paintings of Cadmus and the dragon, iv. 78, 79;
of Croesus on the pyre, v. 176
Vashti, derivation of the name, ix. 366
—— and Esther, temporary queens, ix. 365, 401
—— and Haman the duplicates of Esther and Mordecai, ix. 406
Vasse River in Western Australia, mourners cut themselves for the dead on the, i. 91
Vaté, in the New Hebrides, the aged buried alive in, iv. 12
Vatican, worship of Cybele and Attis on the site of the, v. 275 sq.
Vatican hill, evergreen oak on the, ii. 186
—— statue of Ephesian Artemis, i. 38 n. 1
Vaughan Stevens, H., on the wild tribes of the Malay region, ii. 236 n. 1
Veal eaten by Egyptian kings, iii. 13, 291
Veckenstedt, E., i. 326 n. 5
Vecoux, in the Vosges, cattle believed to talk on Christmas Eve at, x. 254
Vedas, the magical ritual of the, akin to shamanism, i. 229
Vedic age, the Aryans of the, their calendar, ix. 342
—— hymns, the fire-god Agni in the, xi. 295 sq.
—— India, consecration of the sacrificer of soma in, iii. 159 n.;
belief and custom as to meteors in, iv. 63;
swinging as a religious rite in, iv. 279 sq.
—— rites, magical nature of, i. 229
—— times, charm to restore a banished prince in, i. 145;
transference of sin in, ix. 3;
cure for consumption in, ix. 51;
the creed of the, ix. 90;
riddles asked at sacrifice of horse in, ix. 122 n.;
the Aryans of the, ix. 324
Vedijovis, she-goat sacrificed like human victim to, vii. 33.
See also Vejovis
Vegetable and animal life associated in primitive mind, v. 5
—— food prescribed for man-slayers, iii. 167
Vegetables at Midsummer, their fertilizing influence on women, xi. 51
Vegetation, homoeopathic influence of persons on, i. 142;
spirit of, newly awakened in spring, ii. 70;
spirit of, brought to houses, ii. 74;
spirit of, represented by mummers dressed in leaves, branches, and flowers, ii. 74 sqq., 78 sqq., 97;
spirit of, represented by a tree and a living man, ii. 76;
spirit of, represented in duplicate by a girl and an effigy, ii. 78;
spirit of, represented by a king or queen, ii. 84, 87, 88;
influence of the sexes on, ii. 97 sqq.;
men and women masquerading as spirits of, ii. 120;
marriage of the powers of, ii. 142, 171;
death and revival of the spirit of, iv. 212, 252, 263 sqq.;
perhaps generalized from a tree-spirit, iv. 253, v. 233;
mythical theory of the growth and decay of, v. 3 sqq.;
annual decay and revival of, represented dramatically in the rites of Adonis, v. 227 sqq.;
gardens of Adonis charms to promote the growth of, v. 236 sq., 239;
Midsummer fires and couples in relation to, v. 250 sq.;
Attis as a god of, v. 277 sqq.;
Osiris as a god of, vi. 112, 126, 131, 158;
decay and growth of, conceived as the death and resurrection of gods, vii. 1 sq.;
Mars a deity of, ix. 229 sq.;
outworn deity of, ix. 231;
processions representing spirits of, ix. 250;
spirit of, burnt in effigy, xi. 21 sq.;
reasons for burning a deity of, xi. 23;
leaf-clad representative of the spirit of, burnt, xi. 25;
W. Mannhardt's view that the victims burnt by the Druids represented spirits of, xi. 43
Vegetation-god, Easter an old vernal [pg 511] festival of the death and resurrection of the, ix. 328
Vehicle, expulsion of evils in a material, ix. 185 sqq., 198 sqq., 224
Vehicles, material, of immaterial things (fear, misfortune, disease, etc.), ix. 1 sqq., 22 n. 2, 23 sqq.
Veil over mouth worn by Parsee priests, ii. 241, 241 n. 4
Veiling faces to avert evil influences, iii. 120 sqq.
Veils worn by candidates for initiation at Eleusis, vii. 38
“Veins of the Nile,” near Philae, offerings of money and gold thrown into the, vi. 40
Vejovis, the Little Jupiter, ii. 179, 180 n.
See also Vedijovis
Velamas, in India, their belief as to third marriages being unlucky, ii. 57 n. 4
Veleda, deified woman among the Bructeri, i. 391
Vellalas, of Southern India, their custom at marrying a second, third, or fourth wife, ii. 57 n. 4
Velten, C., on an African Balder, xi. 312 sq.
Vendée, custom at threshing in, vii. 149 sq.
Veneti sacrifice white horses to Diomede, i. 27;
on the Atlantic coast of Brittany, their boats of oak, ii. 353
Venezuela, province of Coro in, viii. 157;
sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15
Venison, taboos concerning, iii. 208 sq.;
Esquimaux rules as to eating, viii. 84;
eaten as a protection against fever, viii. 143;
not eaten by young men lest it make them timid like deer, viii. 144;
not brought into hut by door, viii. 242 sq.;
not eaten because the souls of the dead are believed to be in deer, viii. 286, 293
Ventriloquism a basis of political power, i. 347
Ventriloquist as chief of his tribe, i. 347
Venus (Aphrodite) and Adonis, i. 21, 25, 40, 41, ix. 406.
See also Adonis, Aphrodite
——, the bearded, in Cyprus, vi. 259 n. 3
—— and Vulcan, vi. 231
Venus, the planet, identified with Astarte, v. 258, vi. 35
Venus' fly-trap (Dionaea), homoeopathic magic of, i. 144
Vera Cruz, in Mexico, the Indian tribes of, dated the beginning of their years by the setting of the Pleiades, vii. 310
Verbascum, mullein, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 63 sq.;
its relation to the sun, xi. 64
Verbena officinalis, vervain, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 62
Verdun, “killing the dog” at harvest near, vii. 272
Verges, in the Jura, Lenten fire-custom at, x. 114 sq.
Vermilion applied to bride in Hindoo marriage ceremony, ii. 25;
faces of Roman generals at a triumph reddened with, ii. 175
Vermin from hair returned to their owner, iii. 278;
propitiated by farmers, viii. 274 sqq.;
images of, made as a protection against them, viii. 280 sq.;
exorcized with torches, x. 340
Vernal festival of Adonis, v. 226
Verrall, A. W., as to Mohammed's prohibition of the artificial fertilization of the palm, ii. 25 n. 1;
on the Anthesteria, v. 235 n. 1;
on the pyre of Hercules, ix. 391 n. 4
Verres, C., carried off image of Demeter from Henna, vii. 65
Versipellis, a were-wolf, x. 314 n. 1
Vertumnus and Pomona, vi. 235 n. 6
Vervain, root of, in homoeopathic cure, i. 84;
garlands or chaplets of, at Midsummer, x. 162, 163, 165;
burnt in the Midsummer fires, x. 195;
used in exorcism, xi. 62 n. 4;
gathered at Midsummer, a protection against thunder and lightning, sorcerers, demons, and thieves, xi. 62
Vesoul, the Cat at cutting the last corn at, vii. 280
Vespasian, monument of, at Nemi, i. 5 sq.;
German woman worshipped as a deity in the reign of, i. 391
Vespasian family, the oak of the, xi. 168
Vesper-bell on Midsummer Eve, xi. 62
Vessels used by tabooed persons destroyed, iii. 4, 131, 139, 145, 156, 185, 284;
new or specially reserved, to hold new fruits, viii. 50, 53, 65, 66, 72, 81, 83
——, special, employed by tabooed persons, iii. 138, 139, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 160, 167, 185, 189, 197, 198;
reserved for eating bear's flesh, viii. 196, 198;
used by menstruous women, x. 86, 90;
used by girls at puberty, x. 93
Vesta, her round temple, i. 13, ii. 200 sq.;
her sacred fires in Latium, i. 13 sq.;
worshipped at Lavinium, i. 14;
her festival in June, ii. 127 n. 3;
at Rome, the grove of, ii. 185;
her fire at Rome fed with oak wood, ii. 186, xi. 91, 286;
called Mother, not Virgin, ii. 198, 229;
as Mother, ii. 227 sqq.;
a goddess of fecundity, ii. [pg 512] 229 sq.;
sacred fire in the temple of, annually kindled, x. 138
Vestal fire at Alba, i. 13;
at Rome a successor of the fire on the king's hearth, ii. 200 sqq.;
rekindled by the friction of wood, ii. 207;
at Nemi, ii. 378 sq., 380
—— Virgin, mother of Servius Tullius, ii. 196;
mother of Romulus and Remus, ii. 196, vi. 235
—— Virgins, in Latium, i. 13 sq.;
become mothers by the fire, ii. 196 sq.;
regarded as wives of the fire-god, ii. 198, 199, 229;
relit the sacred fire of Vesta, ii. 207, x. 138;
their function at the Parilia, ii. 229, 326;
an order of, among the Baganda, ii. 246;
their address to the King of the Sacred Rites, ii. 265;
daughters of the Latin kings, ii. 271;
their shorn tresses hung on a lotus-tree, iii. 275;
rule as to their election, vi. 244;
ceremonies performed by them on April 21st, viii. 42;
their rule of celibacy, x. 138 n. 5
Vestals fetch water from the spring of Egeria, i. 18;
African, ii. 150;
house of the, at Rome, ii. 201;
their coarse earthenware, ii. 202;
of the Herero, ii. 213, 214;
custom of burying alive unfaithful Vestals, ii. 228;
at Rome the wives or daughters of the kings, ii. 228;
adore the male organ, ii. 229;
rites performed by them for the fertility of the earth and the fecundity of cattle, ii. 229, 326;
Celtic, ii. 241 n. 1;
Peruvian, ii. 243 sqq.;
in Yucatan, ii. 245 sq.
—— and pontiffs threw puppets annually into the Tiber at Rome, viii. 107
Vestini, the ancient, Midsummer fires in the territory of, x. 209
Veth, P. J., on the Golden Bough, xi. 319
Vi River, the Orotchis of the, viii. 197
Vicarious and nutritive types of sacrifice, vi. 226
—— sacrifices in ancient Babylon and on the Slave Coast, iv. 117;
in ancient Greece, iv. 165, 166 n. 1;
for kings, iv. 220 sq.
—— suffering, principle of, ix. 1 sq.
—— use of images, viii. 96 sqq.
Victim, passing between the pieces of a sacrificial, i. 289, 289 n. 4
——, human, taken in procession from door to door, vii. 247
Victims give signs of inspiration by shaking themselves, i. 384 sq.
——, human, sacrificed to man-gods, i. 386, 387;
treated as divine, vii. 250;
assimilated to gods, vii. 261 sq.;
personating gods and goddesses in ancient Mexico, ix. 275 sqq.;
claimed by St. John on St. John's Day (Midsummer Day), x. 27, 29;
claimed by water at Midsummer, xi. 26 sqq.
See also Human sacrifices
Victims, sacrificial, hung on trees, v. 146;
carried round city, iii. 188
——, white, sacrificed for sunshine, i. 291, 292, 314
Victoria, the late Queen, worshipped as a deity in Orissa, i. 404
Victoria, the Wotjobaluk of, i. 206, 251 sq.;
rain-making in, i. 251, 252;
the Wurunjeri tribe of, iii. 42;
the Kurnai of, iii. 83, 84;
the Bad Country in, iii. 109;
human hair used to cause rain by the tribes of, iii. 272;
avoidance of wife's mother among the tribes of, iii. 345 sq.;
difference of language between husbands and wives in some tribes of, iii. 347 sq.;
the Gowmditch-mara tribe of, iii. 348;
personal names rarely perpetuated among the tribes of, iii. 353 sq.;
kinsfolk of the dead change their names in some tribes of, iii. 357;
the natives of, their observation of Canopus and the Pleiades, vii. 308;
sex totems in, xi. 217
——, aborigines of, use of magical images among the, i. 62;
their custom as to teething, i. 180;
contagious magic of footprints among the, i. 212;
mourning custom among the, iii. 182 n. 2;
concealment of personal names among the, iii. 321;
fear of naming the dead among the, iii. 350, 365;
changes in their vocabulary caused by their fear of naming the dead, iii. 359 sq.;
women's share in the search for food among the, vii. 127 sq.;
their custom as to emu fat, x. 13;
their dread of women at menstruation, x. 77 sq.
——, in Vancouver's Island, wind-stones at, i. 322
Victoria Nyanza, Lake, Kadouma near, i. 328;
Ussukuma, on the southern bank of, i. 353, iii. 260;
Mukasa, the god of the, ii. 150, vi. 257;
customs of Baganda fishermen on, iii. 194 sq.;
the Wanyamwesi, to the south of, vii. 118;
Kiziba, to the west of, viii. 219
Victory, temple of, on the Palatine Hill at Rome, v. 265
Vicuña, reason for not eating the, viii. 140
Vidovec in Croatia, Midsummer fires at, x. 178
Viehe, Rev. G., on the huts of the Herero, ii. 213 n. 2;
on the fire-sticks of the Herero, ii. 218 n. 1;
on sacred sticks representing ancestors among the Herero, ii. 222, 223 sq.;
on the [pg 513] worship of the dead among the Herero, vi. 187 n. 1
Vienne, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337 n. 1;
Midsummer fires in the department of, x. 191;
the Yule log in, x. 251
Vieux-Pont, in Orne, game of ball at, ix. 183 n. 3
Vigil, the all-night, in the mysteries of Eleusis, vii. 38
Vikramaditya, legendary king of Ujjain in Western India, iv. 122 sqq., 132
Vilavou, New Year's Men, the name given to newly initiated lads in Fiji, xi. 244
Village, double-headed idol set up as guardian at entrance of, ii. 385;
continence at building a new, iii. 202;
tabooed at feast of first-fruits in Borneo, viii. 122;
surrounded with a ring of fire as a protection against an evil spirit, x. 282
Village May-poles in England, ii. 66 sqq.
Villages, expulsion of demons from, ix. 111 sqq.
See also Pile-villages
Villagomez, Pedro de, on the Peruvian Maize-mother, etc., vii. 172 n. 2
Vimeux, Lenten fires at, x. 113
Vine, Flamen Dialis not allowed to walk under a, iii. 14, 248;
the cultivation of, introduced by Osiris, vi. 7, 112;
in relation to Dionysus, vii. 2.
See also Vines
——, wild, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 251
Vine-branches used to beat people with at Easter, ix. 269
Vines blessed on the Assumption of the Virgin (15th August), i. 14 sq.;
Festival of the Threshing-floor held at the pruning of the, vii. 61
Vineyards dedicated to Artemis, i. 15
Vintage, first-fruits of, offered to Icarius and Erigone, iv. 283, viii. 133;
inaugurated by priests, viii. 133;
omens of, x. 164
—— in Greece, time of, vii. 47
Vintage festival, Oschophoria, at Athens, vi. 258 n. 6
—— rites at Athens, vi. 238
—— song, Phoenician, vii. 216, 257
Vintagers and vine-diggers, treatment of strangers by, vii. 257 sq.
Violence done to the rain-powers in drought, i. 296 sqq.
Violent deaths of the Roman kings, ii. 313 sqq.
Violets sprung from the blood of Attis, v. 267
Vipers sacred to balsam trees in Arabia, xi. 44 n. 1
Viracocha, name applied by the Peruvian Indians to the Spaniards, i. 56, 57 n.
Virbius, the mate of Diana at Nemi, i. 19-21, 40 sqq., ii. 129, 378, v. 45;
the mythical predecessor or archetype of the Kings of the Wood at Nemi, i. 40 sq., ii. 129;
perhaps annually married to Diana at Nemi, ii. 129;
perhaps a local form of Jupiter, ii. 379;
etymology of the name, ii. 379 n. 5;
restored to life by Aesculapius, iv. 214;
interpreted as an oak-spirit, xi. 295
—— or Hippolytus killed by horses, iv. 214
—— and the horse, viii. 40 sqq.
——, the slope of, i. 4 n. 5, ii. 321
Virgil, the witch in, i. 206 n. 4;
the story of Polydorus in, ii. 33;
on the oak-crowned kings of Alba, ii. 178;
an antiquary as well as a poet, ii. 178;
on the Capitoline hill, ii. 184;
on the primitive inhabitants of Rome, ii. 186;
on the Golden Bough, ii. 379, xi. 284 sq., 286, 293 sq., 315 sqq.;
the enchantress in, iii. 305;
on the rustic militia of Latium, iii. 311;
on Dido's magical rites, iii. 312;
on the game of Troy, iv. 76;
on the creation of the world, iv. 108 sq.;
as an enchanter, viii. 281;
on the fire-walk of the Hirpi Sorani, xi. 14
Virgin, the Assumption of the, in relation to Diana, i. 14-16;
festival of the, in the Armenian Church, i. 16;
in relation to Ephesian Artemis, i. 38 n. 1;
blesses the fruits of the earth, x. 118;
the hair of the Holy, found in ashes of Midsummer fire, x. 182 sq., 191;
feast of the Nativity of the, x. 220 sq.
—— and child supposed to sit on the Yule log, x. 253 sq.
——, the Heavenly, mother of the Sun, v. 303
Virgin birth of Perseus, v. 302 n. 4
—— Mary and Isis, vi. 118 sq.
—— Mary of Kevlaar, the pilgrimage to, i. 77
—— Mother, the Phrygian Mother Goddess as a, v. 281
——mothers, tales of, v. 264;
of gods and heroes, v. 107
—— priestesses of Ephesian Artemis, i. 38;
in Peru, Mexico, and Yucatan, ii. 243 sqq.
Virginia, rites of initiation among the Indians of, xi. 266 sq.
Virginity offered to rivers, ii. 162;
test of, by blowing up a flame, ii. 239 sq., x. 139 n.;
sacrifice of, v. 60;
recovered by bathing in a spring, v. 280
Virgins plant and gather olives, ii. 107;
sacrificed to serpents, dragons, or other monsters, folk-tales of, ii. 155;
supposed to conceive through eating [pg 514] certain food, v. 96;
sacrificed to goddess in Mexico, vii. 237
Virgins of the Sun at Cuzco, x. 132
——, the Vestal, and the sacred fire, x. 136.
See also Vestal Virgins and Vestals
Virility, hierophant at Eleusis temporarily deprived of his, ii. 130;
sacrifice of, to Cybele, ii. 144 sq.;
sacrifice of, in the rites of Attis and Astarte, v. 268 sq., 270 sq.;
other sacrifices of, v. 270 n. 2;
supposed to be lost by contact with menstruous women, x. 81
Viscum album, common mistletoe, xi. 315 sqq.
—— quernum, xi. 317
Vishnu invoked at rain-making, i. 283;
a Brahman sacrificer supposed to become, i. 380;
embodied in the Salagrama, a fossil ammonite, ii. 26, 27 n.;
supposed to pervade the Holy Basil (tulasi), ii. 26;
mock human sacrifice in the worship of, iv. 216
Vision, charm by means of eagle's gall to ensure good, i. 154;
sharpness of, conferred by dragon-stone, i. 165 n. 6
Visiter, the Christmas, among the Servians, x. 261 sq., 263, 264
Visve Devah, the common mob of deities, a pap of boiled grain offered to, in ancient Hindoo ritual, viii. 120
Vitellius at Nemi, i. 5
—— and Otho, iv. 141
Viti Levu, the largest of the Fijian Islands, the drama of death and resurrection at initiation in, xi. 243
Vitrolles, bathing at Midsummer at, v. 248, x. 194
Vitruvius, on the origin of fire among men, ii. 257 n.
Vituperation thought to cause rain, i. 278
Vitzilipuztli or Vitzilopochtli, Mexican god, dough image of him made and eaten sacramentally, viii. 86 sqq.;
young man annually sacrificed in the character of, ix. 280 sq.
Viza in Thrace, Carnival customs at, vi. 91, vii. 26, 28
Vizagapatam, in the Madras Presidency, human god at, i. 405;
the Kudulu tribe near, vii. 244
Vizyenos, G. M., on a Carnival custom in Thrace, vii. 25 n. 4, 26
Vogel Mountains, burning wheels on the first Sunday in Lent near the, x. 118
Vohumano or Vohu Manah, a Persian archangel, ix. 373 n. 1
Voigtland, leaping as a charm to make flax grow tall in, i. 139 n.;
locks unlocked at childbirth in, iii. 296;
toothache nailed into trees in, ix. 59;
belief in witchcraft in, ix. 160;
witches driven away in, ix. 160;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268;
young people beat each other at Christmas in, ix. 271;
bonfires on Walpurgis Night in, x. 160;
tree and person thrown into water on St. John's Day in, xi. 27 sq.;
divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 53;
mountain arnica gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 57 sq.;
wild thyme gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 64;
precautions against witches in, xi. 73 sq.
Volcanic eruptions supposed to be caused by incest, ii. 111
—— region of Cappadocia, v. 189 sqq.
—— religion, v. 188 sqq.
Volcano, criminals thrown into, ii. 111;
sacrifice of child to, iv. 218.
See also Volcanoes
Volcano Bay, in Yezo, viii. 185
Volcanoes, fire perhaps first procured from, ii. 256;
the worship of, v. 216 sqq.;
human victims thrown into, v. 219 sq.
Volders, in the Tyrol, custom at threshing at, vii. 224
Volga, sacred groves among the tribes of the, ii. 10;
the Cheremiss of the, viii. 51, x. 181
Volksmarsen in Hesse, Easter fires at, x. 140
Volos, the beard of, name given to unreaped patches of corn in Russia, vii. 233
Voluntary human victims at religious rites, iv. 140 sq., 143 sq., 145;
substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 145 sq., 273 sqq.
Voluspa, the Sibyl's prophecy in the, x. 102 sq.
Vomiting, homoeopathic cure for, i. 84;
as a religious rite, viii. 73, 75
Voralberg, in the Tyrol, “burning the witch” on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 116
Vorges, near Laon, Midsummer fires at, x. 187
Vorharz, the Oats-man and Oats-woman at the harvest feast in the, vii. 163
Voroneje, in Russia, patch of rye left for Elijah at harvest at, vii. 233
Vosges, peasants of the, preserve their extracted teeth against the resurrection, iii. 280;
disposal of cut hair and nails in the, iii. 281;
“the Dog of the harvest” in the, vii. 272;
toothache nailed into trees in the, ix. 59;
Midsummer fires in the, x. 188, 336;
the Yule log in the, x. 254;
cats burnt alive on Shrove Tuesday in the, xi. 40
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——, the Upper, rule as to the shearing of sheep in, vi. 134 n. 3
Vosges Mountains, homoeopathic magic at sowing in the, i. 137;
May custom in the, ii. 63;
French peasants of the, their belief in St. George as protector of flocks, ii. 334 n. 2;
belief as to shooting stars in the, iv. 67;
Feast of All Souls in the, vi. 69;
“to catch the Hare” at harvest in the, vii. 279;
“catching the cat” at haymaking and harvest in the, vii. 281;
dances on Twelfth Day in the, ix. 315;
the Three Kings of Twelfth Day in the, ix. 330;
Lenten fires in the, x. 109;
witches as hares in the, x. 318;
magic herbs culled on Eve of St. John in the, xi. 47
Votaries, female, of Marduk, ix. 372 n. 2
Votiaks (Wotyaks) of Russia, annual festivals of the dead among the, vi. 76 sq.
See also Wotyaks
Votive images among the Kusavans, i. 56 n. 3
—— offerings at Nemi, i. 4, 6, 12, 19, 23;
to St. Leonhard, i. 7 sq.;
to the Virgin Mary, i. 77 sq.
Vow, hair kept unshorn during a, iii. 261 sq., 285
Voyage, charm to make or mar a, i. 163;
in boats of papyrus in the rites of Osiris, vi. 88
Voyagers, fire kept burning at home in absence of, i. 121;
sympathetic taboos observed by girls in absence of, i. 126
Voyages, telepathy in, i. 126
Vrid-eld, need-fire in Sweden, x. 280
Vrigne-aux-Bois, in the Ardennes, mock execution of Carnival at, iv. 226
Vrtra, the dragon, conquered by Indra, in the Rigveda, iv. 106 sq.
Vulcan, the fire-god, father of Caeculus, ii. 197, vi. 235;
the husband of Maia or Majestas, vi. 232 sq.;
his Flamen, vi. 232
—— and Venus, vi. 231
Vulci, Etruscan tomb at, ii. 196 n.
Vulsinii, in Etruria, nails annually knocked into the temple of Nortia at, ix. 67
Vulture, wing-bone of, in homoeopathic magic, i. 151;
in divination, i. 158;
transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299.
See also Vultures
——, the black, mimicked by actor or dancer among the Kobeua and Kaua Indians of Brazil, ix. 381
Vulture's feather in a charm, viii. 167
Vultures not to be called by their proper names, iii. 408;
lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 202
Vunivalu, the War King of Fiji, iii. 21
Wa, the Wild, a tribe of Upper Burma, their custom of head-hunting for the sake of the crops, vii. 241 sqq.
Wa-teita, the, of East Africa, their fear of being photographed, iii. 98
Wabisa, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, their great god, vi. 174
Wabondei of East Africa, their sacrifices to baobab-trees, ii. 47;
preserve the hair and nails of dead chiefs as charms, iii. 272;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82;
their rule as to the cutting of posts for building, vi. 137;
eat hearts of lions and leopards to become brave, viii. 142
Wachsmuth, C., on Easter ceremonies in the Greek Church, v. 254
Wachtl in Moravia, drama of Summer and Winter at, iv. 257
Wadai, the Sultan of, conceals his face, iii. 120;
the Sultan of, must have no bodily defect, iv. 39;
ceremony of the new fire in, x. 134, 140
Waddell, L. A., on the kings of Sikhim, iii. 20;
on demonolatry in Sikhim and Tibet, ix. 94
Wade, Sir Thomas, formerly Professor of Chinese at Cambridge, iv. 273 sq.
Wadowe, the, of German East Africa, woman's share in agriculture among, vii. 118;
their story of an African Balder, xi. 312
Wafiomi, of East Africa, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28
Waga-waga, in British New Guinea, changes of vocabulary caused by fear of naming the dead at, iii. 362
Wageia, the, of German East Africa, purification of man-slayers among the, iii. 177
Waggum, in Brunswick, the May Bride at Whitsuntide at, ii. 96
Wagogo, of German East Africa, chastity of women during absence of warriors among the, i. 131;
their rain-making by means of black animals, i. 290 sq.;
chiefs as rain-makers among the, i. 343;
custom observed by man-slayers among the, iii. 186 n. 1;
their ceremony at the new moon, vi. 143;
their belief in the effect of eating a totemic animal, viii. 26;
eat the hearts of lions to become brave, viii. 142;
eat the hearts of enemies to make them brave, viii. 149;
their way of getting rid of birds that infest gardens, viii. 276;
their transference of sickness, ix. 6 sq.
Wagogo hunters, taboos observed by wives in absence of, i. 123
Wagstadt in Silesia, Judas ceremony on Wednesday before Good Friday at, x. 146 n. 3
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Wagtail, the yellow, in magic, i. 79
Wahehe, a Bantu tribe of German East Africa, custom before marriage among the, iii. 86 n.;
the worship of the dead among the, vi. 188 sqq.;
their belief in a supreme god Nguruhe, vi. 188 sq.;
their belief that skin disease is caused by eating a totemic animal, viii. 26
Waheia, the, of German East Africa, their belief that skin disease is caused by eating a totemic animal, viii. 26
Wahoko, the, of Central Africa, their disposal of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278
Wahrstedt, in Brunswick, Whitsuntide King at, ii. 85
Wahuma, the, of the Albert Nyanza Lake, their rain-making, i. 250
Wailing of women for Adonis, v. 224
Waizganthos, an old Prussian god, prayers and offerings for the growth of the flax to, iv. 156
Wajagga, the, of German East Africa, their treatment of the corpses of childless women, i. 142;
their charm for runners, i. 151;
their rain-making, i. 250;
mourners cut their hair among the, iii. 286;
their covenant by means of spittle, iii. 290;
their custom of leaping over a grandfather's corpse, iii. 424;
their way of appeasing ghosts of suicides, v. 292 n. 3;
their human sacrifices at irrigation, vi. 38;
their way of diverting locusts from the fields, viii. 276;
plants planted at birth of infants among the, xi. 160
Wajagga warriors swallow shavings of rhinoceros hide and horn to make them strong, viii. 143
Wak, a sky-spirit of the Borans, children and cattle sacrificed to, iv. 181
Wakamba, the, of East Africa, sacrifice to baobab-trees, ii. 46.
See Akamba
Wakan, in the Dacotan language, mysterious, sacred, taboo, iii. 225 n., viii. 180 n. 2
Wakanda, a spirit recognized by the Omahas, iii. 187
Wakefulness, homoeopathic charms to ensure, i. 154, 156
Wakelbura, the, of Australia, their way of disabling ghosts, iii. 31 sq.;
dread and seclusion of women at menstruation among the, x. 78
Wakondyo (Wakondjo), the, of Central Africa, their way of obtaining rain by means of a stone, i. 305;
their custom as to the afterbirth, xi. 162 sq.
Walachia (or Wallachia), precautions against witches on St George's Day in, ii. 338;
crown of last ears of corn worn by girl at harvest in, v. 237
Walachians, herdsman's festival on St. George's Day among the, ii. 338 sq.
Walber, a tree and a man disguised in corn-stalks, on May 2nd in Bavaria, ii. 75, 78
Walburgis Day, the 2nd of May in the Franken Wald mountains of Bavaria, ii. 75 n. 2
Waldemar I., king of Denmark, magical powers attributed to, i. 367
Wales, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167 sq.;
All Souls' Day in, vi. 79;
harvest customs in, vii. 142 sqq.;
the last sheaf called the Hag in, vii. 142 sqq.;
Snake Stones in, x. 15 sq.;
Beltane fires and cakes in, x. 155 sq.;
Beltane fire kindled by the friction of oak-wood in, x. 155, xi. 91;
Midsummer fires in, x. 200 sq.;
divination at Hallowe'en in, x. 229, 240 sq.;
Hallowe'en fires in, x. 239 sq.;
the Yule log in, x. 258;
burnt sacrifices to stop cattle-disease in, x. 301;
witches as hares in, x. 315 n. 1;
belief as to witches in, x. 321 n. 2;
bewitched things burnt in, x. 322;
divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 53;
St. John's wort used to drive away fiends in, xi. 55;
mistletoe to be shot or knocked down with stones in, xi. 82;
mistletoe gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 86, 293;
mistletoe used to make the dairy thrive in, xi. 86;
mistletoe used to dream on at Midsummer in, xi. 293.
See also Welsh
Walhalla, mistletoe growing east of, x. 101.
See also Valhalla
Walking over fire as a rite, xi. 3 sqq.
Wall, Roman ceremony of knocking nails into a, ix. 65 sqq.
See also Walls
Wallace, A. R., on women's work among the tribes of the Uaupes River, vii. 121 sq.
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie, on the Russian sect of the Christs, i. 407 sq.
Wallachia. See Walachia
Wallis Island, tabooed persons not allowed to handle food in, iii. 140
Walls of houses beaten to expel ghosts, iii. 170;
maladies and devils nailed into, ix. 62 sqq.;
fortified, of the ancient Gauls, x. 267 sq.
Walnut, branches of, passed across Midsummer fires and fastened on cattle-sheds, x. 191
Walo, on the Senegal, the king of, not to be seen eating, iii. 118
Walos of Senegambia, their royal family thought to possess the power of healing by touch, i. 370 sq.;
their belief as to sort of mistletoe, xi. 79 sq.
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Walpi, Pueblo Indian village, use of bull-roarers at, xi. 231
Walpurgis Day, the 1st of May, charred sticks of Judas fire planted in the fields on, x. 143
—— Night (the Eve of May Day), dances on, to make flax grow tall, i. 138, 139 n.;
precautions against witches on, ii. 52, 54, 55, xi. 20 n.;
milk and butter stolen by witches on, ii. 127;
witches abroad on, ix. 158 sqq., x. 159 sq.;
annual expulsion of witches on, ix. 159 sqq.;
dances for the crops on, ix. 238;
a witching time, x. 295;
witches active on, xi. 73, 74
Walrus, taboos concerning, among the Esquimaux, iii. 208 sq.
Walton, Izaak, on Lapland witches, i. 326 n. 2
Wamara, a worshipful dead king in Kiziba, vi. 174
Wambuba, the, of Central Africa, carry fire on the march, ii. 255
Wambugwe of East Africa, their rain-charm by means of black animals, i. 290;
sorcerers as chiefs among the, i. 342;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65
Wamegi, the, of German East Africa, their human sacrifices at harvest and sowing, vii. 240
Wand, magic, made from a tree growing on a grave, ii. 33
Wandorobbo, of East Africa, their continence at brewing poison, iii. 200 sq.
Wangala, harvest-festival of the Garos, viii. 337 sq.
Wangen in Baden, bonfire and burning discs on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 117
Wanigela River, in New Guinea, purification of manslayers among tribes on the, iii. 167 sq.;
preparations for fishing turtle and dugong among the tribes of the, iii. 192
Waniki, the, of East Africa, their belief in the spirits of trees, ii. 12;
their reverence for coco-nut palms, ii. 16;
their mode of killing their cattle, iii. 247
Waning of the moon, theories to account for the, vi. 130;
time for felling timber, vi. 135 sqq.
Wannefeld, in the Altmark, the last stalks at reaping left for the He-goat at, vii. 287
Wanyamwesi, the, of Central Africa, iii. 109;
their belief in the association of twins with water, i. 268 sq.;
ceremony observed by them on return from a journey, iii. 112;
their custom as to personal names, iii. 330;
woman's share in agriculture among the, vii. 118;
their propitiation of slain elephants, viii. 227;
their practice of adding to heaps of sticks or stones, ix. 11 n. 1;
their belief as to wounded crocodiles, xi. 210 n. 1
Wanyoro (Banyoro), the, of Central Africa, their disposal of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278.
See Banyoro
Wanzleben, near Magdeburg, man called the Wolf at threshing at, vii. 274 sq.
War, use of twins in, i. 49 n. 3;
telepathy in, i. 126 sqq.;
continence in, iii. 157, 158 n. 1, 161, 163, 164, 165;
rules of ceremonial purity observed in, iii. 157 sqq.;
hair kept unshorn in, iii. 261;
sacrifice of a blind bull before going to, vi. 250 sq.
“——, the sleep of,” among the Black foot Indians, ii. 147
War chief, or war king, iii. 20, 21, 24
—— -dance of villagers round victor, iii. 169;
of manslayers on their return, iii. 170, 178;
of old men round manslayer, iii. 182;
of king before the ghosts of his ancestors, vi. 192;
at festival of new corn among the Natchez Indians, viii. 79
—— -god, dog sacrificed to, i. 173
Ward, Professor H. Marshall, on the respective hardness of ivy and laurel, ii. 252;
on the artificial fertilization of the fig, ii. 315 n. 1
Ward, Professor James, as to Hegel's views on magic and religion, i. 423
Warlock, the invulnerable, stories of, xi. 97 sqq.
Warm food tabooed, iii. 189
Warner, Mr., on Caffre ideas about lightning, vi. 177 n. 1
Warramunga, the, of Central Australia, their magical ceremonies for the multiplication of their totems, i. 89;
their custom at subincision, i. 93;
custom observed by Warramunga women while the men are fighting each other with torches, i. 94;
knocking out of teeth among the, i. 99;
their homoeopathic charm to catch euros, i. 162;
their custom as to extracted teeth, i. 181;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 183;
believe certain trees to be inhabited by disembodied human spirits, ii. 34;
their propitiation of a mythical water-snake, ii. 156;
will not call the mythical snake Wollunqua by its proper name, iii. 384;
their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 100;
their tradition of purification by fire, v. 180 n. 2;
their cure for headache, ix. 2
Warrior Island, Torres Straits. See Tud
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Warriors tabooed, iii. 157 sqq., x. 5;
worship their weapons, ix. 90
Warts supposed to be affected by the moon, vi. 149;
transferred to other people, ix. 48 sq.;
transferred to the moon, ix. 54;
transferred to an ash-tree, ix. 57
Warua, their seclusion at meals, iii. 117;
unwilling to tell their names, iii. 329
Warundi, the, of East Africa, custom as to girls at puberty among the, iii. 225 n.
Warwickshire, Arden in, ii. 7 sq.;
the Queen of May in, ii. 88;
the Yule log in, x. 257
Washamba, the, of German East Africa, dance and deposit stones at dangerous places, ix. 29;
their custom at circumcision, xi. 183
Washing forbidden for magical reasons during a rhinoceros-hunt, i. 115,
during husband's absence, i. 122,
during heavy rain, i. 253;
practised as a rain-charm, i. 253;
practised as a ceremonial purification by the Jews after reading the scripture, viii. 27,
by the Jewish high priest after the sin-offering, viii. 27,
by the Greeks after expiatory sacrifices, viii. 27, 85,
by the Parjas after killing a totemic animal, viii. 27 sq.,
by the Matabele at eating the new fruits, viii. 71,
by the Esquimaux before a change of diet, viii. 84, 85,
by the Basutos after the slaughter of foes, viii. 149.
See also Bathing
—— and bathing forbidden to rain-doctor when he wishes to prevent rain from falling, i. 271, 272
—— the feet of strangers, iii. 108
—— the head, customs as to, in Siam, Burma, ancient Persia, ancient Rome, and Peru, iii. 253
Washington group of the Marquesas Islands, seclusion of man-slayers in the, iii. 178.
See also Marquesas
—— State, rain-charm in, i. 309;
the Twana Indians of, iii. 58;
the Klallam Indians of, iii. 354;
the Twana, Chemakum, and Klallam tribes of, iii. 365;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, x. 43
Wasmes, processions with torches on the first and second Sundays in Lent at, x. 108
Wasp, external soul of enchanter in a, xi. 143
Wasps in homoeopathic magic, i. 152;
young men stung with, as an ordeal before marriage among the Roocooyen Indians, ix. 263, x. 63
Wassailing on Eve of Twelfth Day in Herefordshire for the sake of the crops, ix. 319
Wassgow mountains, the need-fire as a remedy for cattle-plague in the, x. 271
Wata, a caste of hunters in East Africa, children of the Borans sent away to be reared by the, iv. 181
Wataturu, the, of East Africa, their chiefs sorcerers, i. 342 sq.;
their rule as to partaking of flesh and milk, viii. 84
Watchandie woman, in Australia, her fear of naming the dead, iii. 350
Watchdogs, charm to silence, i. 149
Water not to be touched by people at home in absence of hunters, i. 120;
splashed by wife in absence of her husband, i. 120 sq.;
sprinkled as rain-charm, i. 248 sqq.;
poured on graves as a rain-charm, i. 268, 286;
puppet representing the tree-spirit thrown into, ii. 75, 76;
serpent or dragon of, ii. 155 sqq.;
conspicuous part played by, in the Midsummer festival, ii. 273, v. 246 sqq., x. 172, 205 sq., 216, xi. 26 sqq.;
poured as a rain-charm, iii. 154 sq.;
not allowed to touch the lips, iii. 160;
to be called by another name in brewing, iii. 395;
effigies of Death thrown into the, iv. 234 sqq., 246 sq.;
thrown on the last corn cut as a rain-charm, v. 237 sq.;
marvellous properties attributed to, at Midsummer (the festival of St. John), v. 246 sqq., x. 172, 205 sq., 216, xi. 29 sqq.;
used to wash away sins, ix. 39;
not to cross, in ritual, ix. 58;
from sacred wells, x. 12;
menstruous women not to go near, x. 77;
consecrated at Easter, x. 122 sqq., 125;
turned to wine at Easter, x. 124;
improved by charred sticks of Midsummer fires, x. 184;
at Midsummer, people drenched with, x. 193 sq.;
heated in need-fire and sprinkled on cattle, x. 289;
claims human victims at Midsummer, xi. 26 sqq.;
haunted and dangerous at Midsummer, xi. 31
—— and Fire, kings of, in the backwoods of Cambodia, ii. 3 sqq.
——, holy, sprinkling with, iii. 285 sq.;
a protection against witches, ix. 158, 164 sq.
—— of Life, Ishtar sprinkled with the, in the lower world, v. 9;
prince restored to life by the, in a folk-tale, xi. 114 sq.
——, prophetic, drunk on St. John's Eve, v. 247
——, rites of, at Midsummer festival in Morocco, x. 216;
at New Year in Morocco, x. 218
—— of springs and wells thought to [pg 519] acquire medicinal qualities on Midsummer Eve, x. 172, 205 sq.
Water-bird, a Whitsuntide mummer, iv. 207 n. 1
“—— -carriers,” maidens called, at Athens, viii. 5
—— -cross, a stone cross in Uist, used in rain-ceremonies, i. 308
—— -dragon, drama of the slaying of the, at Delphi and Thebes, iv. 78
—— -fowl, migratory, as representatives of the Old Woman of maize, vii. 204 sq.
—— -lilies, charms to make water-lilies grow, i. 95, 97, 98
—— nymphs, fertilizing virtue of, ii. 162
—— -ousel, heart of, eaten to make the eater wise and eloquent, viii. 144
—— -spirits, propitiation of, ii. 76;
women married to, ii. 150 sqq.;
sacrifices to, ii. 155 sqq.;
as beneficent beings, ii. 159;
bestow offspring on women, ii. 159 sqq.;
danger of, iii. 94;
offerings to, at Midsummer, xi. 28
—— totem among the Arunta, rain made by men of the, i. 259 sq.
Waterbrash, a Huzul cure for, vi. 149 sq.
Waterfalls, spirits of, ii. 156, 157
Watford, in Hertfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 61
Watubela Islands, treatment of the afterbirth in the, i. 187
Watuta, the, an African tribe of freebooters, iii. 109
Wave accompanying earthquake, v. 202 sq.
Waves, water from nine, in cure, xi. 186 sq.
Wawamba, the, of Central Africa, their way of making rain by means of a stone, i. 305
Wawanga, tribe of Mount Elgon, in British East Africa, their kings not allowed to die a natural death, iv. 287 (in Second Impression)
Wax melted to cause love, i. 77
Wax figures in magic, i. 66, 67, iii. 74, ix. 47
Waxen models of the human body or of parts of it as votive offerings, i. 77 sq.
Wayanas of French Guiana, ordeals among the, x. 63 sq.
Waziguas of East Africa do not call the lion by his proper name, iii. 400
Wealds of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, ii. 7
Wealth acquired by magicians, i. 347, 348, 351, 352
Weaning of children, belief as to the, in Angus, vi. 148
Weapon and wound, contagious magic of, i. 201 sqq.
Weapons, prayers to, i. 132;
sharp, tabooed, iii. 237 sqq.;
of man-slayers, purification of, iii. 172, 182, 219;
turned against spiritual foes, ix. 233
Weariness transferred to stones or sticks, ix. 8 sqq.;
attributed to an evil spirit in the body, ix. 12;
magical plants placed in shoes a charm against, xi. 54, 60.
See also Fatigue
Weasels, superstition of farmers as to, viii. 275
Weather, the magical control of the, i. 244 sqq.;
of the twelve months determined by the weather of the Twelve Days, ix. 322 sqq.
Weather doctors in Melanesia, i. 321
Weaver, the wicked, of Rotenburg, xi. 289 sq.
Weavers, the Kaikolans, a caste of, v. 62
Weaving forbidden during absence of warriors, i. 131;
homoeopathic charm to ensure skill in, i. 154 sq.
Weber, A., on origin of the Twelve Days, ix. 325 n. 3
Wedau, in New Guinea, the chief of, a sorcerer, i. 338
Wedding rings amulets against witchcraft, iii. 314, 314 sq.
Weeks, Rev. J. H., on inconsistency of savage thought, v. 5 n.;
on the names for the supreme god among many tribes of Africa, vi. 186 n. 5;
on the fear of the spirits of the dead among the Boloki, ix. 76 sq.;
on the fear of witchcraft among the natives of the Congo, ix. 77 n. 2;
on rites of initiation on the Lower Congo, xi. 255 n. 1
Weeping of the women of Jerusalem for Tammuz, vi. 11;
for the gods, Xenophanes on the custom of, vi. 42;
of savages for the animals and plants they kill, vi. 43;
of sowers, vi. 45;
of Karok Indians at hewing sacred wood, vi. 47 sq.;
of oxen an omen of good crops, viii. 9;
at slaughter of worshipful bear, viii. 189;
at thanksgiving for the crops, ix. 293;
of girls at puberty, x. 24, 29.
See also Tears
Weevils, spared by Esthonian peasants, viii. 274
Weiden, in Bavaria, cutter of last sheaf tied up in it at, vii. 139
Weidenhausen, in Westphalia, the Yule log at, x. 248
Weidulut, heathen priest among the old Prussians, vii. 288
Weights and measures, false, corrected after an earthquake, v. 201 sq.;
corrected in time of epidemic, ix. 115
Weihaiwei, in Northern China, ceremony of “the Beginning of Spring” in the cities nearest to, viii. 11
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Weinhold, K., as to the sacrifice of a king's son every ninth year, v. 57 n. 2;
on the superstitions connected with the Twelve Nights, ix. 327 n. 4
Weitensfeld, in Carinthia, bride-race at, ii. 304
Wellalaick, festival of the dead among the Letts, vi. 74
Wellhausen, J., on Arab rain-charm, i. 303
Wells cleansed as rain-charm, i. 267, 323;
married to the holy basil, ii. 26 sq.;
bestow offspring on women, ii. 160 sq.;
divination by means of, ii. 345;
sacred, in Scotland, x. 12;
menstruous women kept from x. 81, 96 sq.;
charred sticks of Midsummer fires thrown into, x. 184;
crowned with flowers at Midsummer, xi. 28
——, goddess of, married to a wooden image of a god, ii. 146
——, holy, resorted to on Midsummer Eve in Ireland, x. 205 sq.
——, the Lord of the, at Fulda on Midsummer Day, xi. 28
Welsh, Miss, on the custom of the churn in the north of Ireland, vii. 155 n. 1
Welsh cure for cough by transferring it to a dog, ix. 51;
by crawling under a bramble, xi. 180;
by passing under an ass, xi. 192 n. 1
—— custom of sin-eating, ix. 43 sq.
—— name, alleged, for mistletoe, xi. 286 n. 3.
See also Wales
Wemba, the, of Rhodesia, punishment of adultery among, viii. 158.
See Awemba
Wen-Ammon, Egyptian traveller, at Byblus, v. 14, 75 sq.
—— -chow, city in China, iv. 43
Wend cure for jaundice, i. 81.
See also Wends
Wendland, P., on the crucifixion of Christ, ix. 412 sq., 415, 418 n. 1
Wends, their superstition as to oaks, ii. 55;
their ancient custom of killing and eating the old, iv. 14;
call the last sheaf the Old Man, vii. 138;
the Harvest-cock among the, vii. 276;
their faith in Midsummer herbs, xi. 54
—— of Saxony, their custom of the May-tree, ii. 69;
say that the man who gives the last stroke at threshing “has struck the Old Man,” vii. 149;
their precautions against witches on Walpurgis Day, ix. 163;
their idea as to wood of trees struck by lightning, xi. 297
—— of the Spreewald gather herbs and flowers at Midsummer, xi. 48;
their belief as to the divining-rod, xi. 68 n. 4
Wensleydale, in Yorkshire, the Yule log in, x. 256
Werboutz, in Russia, rain-making at, i. 277
Were-tigers in China and the East Indies, x. 310 sq., 313 n. 1
—— -wolf, how a man becomes a, x. 310 n. 1;
story in Petronius, x. 313 sq.
—— -wolves in Livonia, belief as to, iii. 42;
active during the Twelve Days, ix. 164;
compelled to resume their human shape by wounds inflicted on them, x. 308 sqq.;
put to death, x. 311;
and the full moon, x. 314 n. 1;
and witches, parallelism between, x. 315, 321
Wermland, in Sweden, treatment of strangers on the threshing-floor in, vii. 230;
grain of last sheaf baked in a girl-shaped loaf in, viii. 48
Werner, Miss Alice, on the sanctity of the wild fig-tree in Africa, ii. 317 n. 1;
on a soul-box in Africa, xi. 156 n. 1;
on African Balders, xi. 314
Wernicke, on the character of Artemis, i. 35 sq.
West, Oriental religions in the, v. 298 sqq.
West Indian Islands, precaution as to spittle in the, iii. 289
Westenberg, J. C., on the Batta theory of souls, xi. 223 n. 2
Westerhüsen in Saxony, last corn cut at harvest made up like a woman at, vii. 134
Westermann, D., on the worship of Nyakang among the Shilluks, vi. 165
Westermarck, Dr. E., as to king-killing on the Blue Nile, iv. 16 n. 1;
on annual mock sultans in Morocco, iv. 153 n. 1;
on the reason for killing the first-born, iv. 189 n. 2;
on the hereditary holiness of kings, iv. 204 n. 2;
on the tug-of-war in Morocco, ix. 180;
on New Year rites in Morocco, x. 218;
on Midsummer festival in North Africa, x. 219;
his theory that the fires of the fire-festivals are purificatory, x. 329 sq.;
on water at Midsummer, xi. 31
Westphalia, the Whitsuntide Bride in, ii. 96;
the Femgericht in, ii. 321;
sacred oaks in, ii. 371;
the last sheaf called the Great Mother in, vii. 135 sq., 138;
the hörkelmei at harvest in, vii. 147 n. 1;
the Harvest-cock in, vii. 276 sq., 277 sq.;
children warned against the Fox in the corn at Ravensberg in, vii. 296;
fox carried from house to house in spring in, vii. 297;
custom of “quickening” [pg 521] cattle on May Morning in, ix. 266;
Easter fires in, x. 140;
the Yule log in, x. 248;
divination by orpine at Midsummer in, xi. 61;
camomile gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 63;
the Midsummer log of oak in, xi. 92 n. 1
Westphalian form of the expulsion of evil, ix. 159 n. 1
Wetar (Wetter), East Indian island, stabbing people's shadows in, iii. 78;
fear of women's blood in, iii. 251;
leprosy supposed to be caused by eating of a sacred animal in, viii. 25
Wetter, East Indian island, no fire after a death in, ii. 268 n.
See also Wetar
Wetteren, wicker giants carried in procession at, xi. 35
Wetterpfähle, oak sticks charred in Easter bonfires, x. 145
Wetting people with water as a rain-charm, i. 250, 251, 269 sq., 272, 273, 274, 275, 277 sq., ii. 77, v. 237 sqq.;
the last corn cut, as a rain-charm, v. 237 sq.;
ploughmen and sowers as a rain-charm, v. 238 sq.
Weverham, in Cheshire, May-poles at, ii. 70 sq.
Wexford, in Leinster, great fair formerly held at, iv. 100;
Midsummer fires in, x. 203
Whakatane valley in New Zealand, hinau tree thought to make barren women fertile in the, i. 182
Whale, solemn burial of dead, iii. 223;
represented dramatically as a mystery, ix. 377.
See also Whales
Whale-fishing, telepathy in, i. 121
Whale's ghost, fear of injuring, iii. 205
Whalers, taboos observed by, iii. 191 sq., 205 sqq.;
their bodies cut up and used as charms, vi. 106
Whales not mentioned by their proper names, iii. 398;
ceremonies observed after the slaughter of, viii. 232 sqq.;
worshipped by the Indians of Peru, viii. 249
Whalton, in Northumberland, Midsummer fires at, x. 198
Wheat, charm at sowing, i. 137;
offerings of, at Lammas, iv. 101;
forced for festival, v. 243, 244, 251 sq., 253;
thrown on the man who brings in the Christmas log, x. 260, 262, 264;
protected against mice by mugwort, xi. 58 sq.
—— and barley, the cultivation of, introduced by Osiris, vi. 7;
discovered by Isis, vi. 116
Wheat-bride, name given to the last sheaf of wheat and to the woman who binds it, vii. 162, 163
Wheat-cock, the last sheaf at harvest called the, vii. 276
—— -cow, the man who cuts the last ears of wheat at harvest called the, vii. 289
—— -dog, the man who cuts or binds the last sheaf called the, vii. 272
—— -goat, at cutting the last corn, vii. 282
—— -harvest, time of, in ancient Greece, vii. 48
—— -mallet, the man who gives the last stroke at threshing called the, vii. 148
—— -man, said to be killed by the last stroke at threshing, vii. 223
—— -mother, name given to wreath made out of last stalks at harvest, vii. 135
—— -pug, name given to man who gives the last stroke at threshing, vii. 273
—— -sow, name given to the last sheaf, vii. 298
—— -sowing, ceremony at, among the tribes of Gilgit, ii. 49, 50 sq.
—— -wolf, thought to be in the last bunch of standing corn, vii. 273;
effigy of wolf made out of the last sheaf of wheat, vii. 274
Wheaten flour, the Flamen Dialis not allowed to touch, iii. 13
Wheel, magic, spun by witch in an enchantment, iii. 270;
effigy of Death attached to a, iv. 247;
fire kindled by the rotation of a, x. 177, 179, 270, 273, 289 sq., 292, 335 sq., xi. 91;
as a symbol of the sun, x. 334 n. 1, 335;
as a charm against witchcraft, x. 345 n. 3
Wheels, burning, rolled down hill, x. 116, 117 sq., 119, 141, 143, 161, 162 sq., 163 sq., 166, 173, 174, 201, 328, 334, 337 sq., 338;
thrown into the air at Midsummer, x. 179;
rolled over fields at Midsummer to fertilize them, x. 191, 340 sq.;
perhaps intended to burn witches, x. 345
Wherry, Mrs., as to Lenten fires in Belgium, x. 108 n. 2;
as to processions with effigies of giants, xi. 36 n. 1
Whetham, W. C. D., on atomic disintegration, viii. 305 n. 2
Whip made of human skin used in ceremonies for the prolongation of the king's life, vi. 224, 225.
See also Whips
Whipping people on Senseless Thursday in the Tyrol, ix. 248 sq.;
to rid them of ghosts, ix. 260 sqq.
See also Beating
Whips used in the expulsion of demons and witches, ix. 156, 159, 160, 161, 165, 214;
used by maskers, ix. 243, [pg 522] 244;
cracked to make the flax grow, ix. 248;
cracked to drive away witches, xi. 74
Whirling or turning round, custom of, observed by mummers, i. 273, 275, ii. 74, 80, 81, 87
Whirlwind, attacking the, i. 329 sqq.
Whirlwinds thought to be demons or spirits, i. 331 n. 2
Whit-Monday, custom observed by Russian girls on, ii. 80;
the Leaf King at Hildesheim on, ii. 85;
the King in Bohemia on, ii. 85;
the king's game on, ii. 89, 103;
custom of rolling down a slope on, ii. 103;
pretence of beheading leaf-clad man on, iv. 207 sq.;
pretence of beheading the king on, iv. 209 sqq.
See also Whitsuntide
Whitby, All Souls' Day at, vi. 79;
the Yule log at, x. 256
White, Rev. G. E., on dervishes of Asia Minor, v. 170;
on passing through a ring of red-hot iron, xi. 186;
on passing sheep through a rifted rock, xi. 189 sq.
White, Miss Rachel Evelyn (Mrs. Wedd), on the position of women in ancient Egypt, vi. 214 n. 1, 216 n. 1
White, faces and bodies of man-slayers painted, iii. 175, 186 n. 1;
widows painted, iii. 178 n. 1;
lion-killer painted, iii. 220;
the colour of Upper Egypt, vi. 21 n. 1;
as a colour to repel demons, ix. 115
—— and black in relation to human scapegoats, ix. 220;
figs worn by human scapegoats, ix. 253, 257, 272
White birds, souls of dead kings incarnate in, vi. 162;
ten, external soul in, xi. 142
—— bull, soul of a dead king incarnate in a, vi. 164
—— bulls sacrificed to Jupiter, ii. 188 sq.;
sacrificed by Druids at cutting the mistletoe, ii. 189, xi. 77
—— chalk, bodies of newly initiated lads coated with, xi. 241
—— clay, Caffre boys at circumcision smeared with, iii. 156;
people smeared with, at festival, viii. 75;
bodies of novices at initiation smeared with, xi. 255 n. 1, 257
—— cloth, fern-seed caught in a, x. 65, xi. 291;
springwort caught in a, x. 70;
mistletoe caught in a, xi. 77, 293;
used to catch the Midsummer bloom of the oak, xi. 292, 293
—— cloths in homoeopathic magic, i. 137
—— cock buried at boundary, iii. 109;
disease transferred to, ix. 187;
as scapegoat, ix. 210 n. 4;
burnt in Midsummer bonfire, xi. 40
White crosses made by the King of the Bean, ix. 314
—— Crown of Upper Egypt, vi. 20, 21 n. 1;
worn by Osiris, vi. 87
—— dog, Iroquois sacrifice of a, viii. 258 n. 2, ix. 127, 209
—— god and black god among the Slavs, ix. 92
—— herb, external souls of two brothers in a, xi. 143
—— horse, effigy of, carried through Midsummer fire, x. 203
—— horses sacrificed to Diomede, i. 27;
used to draw triumphal car of Camillus, ii. 174 n. 2;
sacred among the Aryans, ii. 174 n. 2
—— Maize, Goddess of the, in Mexico, lepers sacrificed to her, vii. 261
—— mice spared by Bohemian peasants, viii. 279, 283;
under the altar of Apollo, viii. 283
—— Nile, the Dinkas of the, ix. 193
—— ox, sacrament of, among the Abchases, viii. 313 n. 1
—— poplar, the, at Olympia, ii. 220, xi. 90 n. 1, 91 n. 7
—— ram, consecration of a, among the Kalmucks, viii. 313 sq.
—— and red wool in ceremony of the expulsion of evils, ix. 208
—— roses dyed red by the blood of Aphrodite, v. 226
—— sails that turned black, ix. 202
—— snake eaten to acquire supernatural knowledge, viii. 146
—— Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent and the first Sunday after Easter, x. 11 n. 1
—— thorn, a charm against witches, ii. 53, 191
—— victims sacrificed for sunshine, i. 291, 292, 314
Whiteborough, tumulus near Launceston, Midsummer fires on, ii. 141, x. 199
Whitekirk, St. Mary's well at, ii. 161
Whitethorn a protection against witches, ii. 53, 191
Whiteway, R. S., on custom of regicide in Bengal and Sumatra, iv. 51 n. 2
Whitsun-bride in Denmark, ii. 91 sq.
Whitsunday, dragon carried in procession at Tarascon on, ii. 170 n. 1
Whitsuntide, rain-charms at, ii. 47;
races, ii. 69, 84;
contests for the kingship at, ii. 84, 89;
rolling down a slope at, ii. 103;
cattle first driven out to pasture at, ii. 127 n. 2, iv. 207 n. 1;
drama of Summer and Winter at, [pg 523] iv. 257;
ceremonies concerned with vegetation at, ix. 359
Whitsuntide Basket in Frickthal, ii. 83
—— Bride, the, ii. 89, 91 sq., 96
—— Bridegroom, the, ii. 91
—— customs in Brunswick, ii. 56 n. 3, 85, 96;
in Holland, ii. 80, 104;
in Russia, ii. 64, 79 sq., 93
—— crown, the, ii. 64, 89 sq., 91
—— Flower, ii. 80
—— King, ii. 84 sqq., 89, 90, iv. 209 sqq.
See also Whit-Monday
—— -lout, the, ii. 81
—— Man, the Little, ii. 81
—— Mummers, iv. 206 sqq.
—— Queen, ii. 87, 89 sq., iv. 210
Whittled sticks in religious rites, viii. 185, 186 n., 192, 196, 278, ix. 261
Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, the Straw-bear at, viii. 328 sq.
Whooping-cough cured by crawling under a bramble, xi. 180;
Bulgarian cure for, by crawling under the root of a willow, xi. 181;
child passed under an ass as a cure for, xi. 192
Whydah, on the Slave Coast, human sacrifices by drowning at, ii. 158;
expiation for the slaughter of a sacred python at, iii. 222;
the doctrine of reincarnation at, iv. 188;
serpents fed with milk at, v. 86 n. 1;
snakes sacred at, viii. 287
—— (Fida), in Guinea, king of, rule as to his drinking, iii. 129;
his worship of serpents, v. 67;
the hoeing and sowing of his fields, ix. 234
Wicked after death, fate of the, in Egyptian religion, vi. 14
Wicked Sower, driving away the, on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 107, 118
Wicken (rowan) tree, a protection against witchcraft, x. 326, 327 n. 1
See also Rowan
Wicker giants at popular festivals in Europe, xi. 33 sqq.;
burnt in summer bonfires, xi. 38
Widow, claim to kingdom through marriage with the late king's, ii. 281 sqq.; iv. 193;
re-marriage of, in Salic law, ii. 285 sq.
——, bald-headed, in cure, ix. 38
Widow-burning in Greece, v. 177 n. 3
Widowed Flamen, the, vi. 227 sqq.
Widows painted white, iii. 178 n. 1;
wear skull-caps of clay, iii. 182 n. 2;
cleansing of, ix. 35 sq.;
drag plough round village in time of epidemic, ix. 172
—— and widowers, mourning customs observed by, iii. 142 sq., 144 sq.;
not allowed to eat fresh salmon, viii. 253 sq.
Wied, Prince of, on the objection of Indians to have their portraits taken, iii. 96 sq.
Wiedemann, Professor Alfred, on the confusion of religion and magic in ancient Egypt, i. 230 sq.;
on Wen-Ammon, v. 76 n. 1;
on the Egyptian name of Isis, vi. 50 n. 4, viii. 35 n. 4
Wiedingharde, in Schleswig, custom at threshing at, vii. 230
Wieland's House, name given to certain labyrinths used for children's games in Northern Europe, iv. 77
Wiesensteig, in Swabia, witch as horse at, x. 319
Wiesent, the valley of the, in Bavaria, the last sheaf called Goat in, vii. 282 sq.
Wife, the Old, name given to the last corn cut, vii. 140 sqq.
Wife's infidelity thought to injure her absent husband, i. 123, 124 sq., 128.
See also Wives
—— mother, the savage's dread of his, iii. 83 sqq.;
her name not to be pronounced by her son-in-law, iii. 337, 338, 343
—— name not to be pronounced by her husband, iii. 337, 338, 339
Wiglet, king of Denmark, killed his predecessor and married the widow, ii. 281, 283
Wigtownshire, water thrown on last wagon-load of corn at harvest in, v. 237 n. 4
Wiimbaio tribe of South-Eastern Australia, bleeding in the, i. 91;
their medicine-men, v. 75 n. 4
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, U. von, on the Sacred Marriage of Dionysus, ii. 137 n. 1
Wild animals propitiated by hunters, viii. 204 sqq.
—— beasts not called by their proper names, iii. 396 sqq.
—— Dog clan of the Arunta, i. 107
—— fig-trees held sacred as the abodes of the spirits of the dead, viii. 113.
See also Fig-Tree
“—— fire,” the need-fire, x. 272, 273, 277
—— fruits and roots, ceremonies at gathering the first of the season, viii. 80 sqq.
—— Huntsman, ix. 164, 241
—— Man, a Whitsuntide mummer, iv. 208 sq., 212
—— parsnip stalks burnt for ceremonial fumigation, viii. 248, 249
—— seeds and roots collected by women, vii. 124 sqq.
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Wild Wa, the, of Burma, vii. 241 sqq.
See Wa
Wilde, Lady, her description of Midsummer fires in Ireland, x. 204 sq.
Wilhelmina, a Bohemian woman, worshipped, i. 409
Wilken, G. A., on the transmigration of human souls into animals as a base of totemism, viii. 298 n. 2;
on the external soul, xi. 96 n. 1
Wilkes, Charles, on seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of Washington State, x. 43
Wilkinson, Sir J. G., on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, vi. 91 n. 3
Wilkinson, R. J., on different dialectic names for the same animal in the Malay language, ii. 383 n. 1;
on the Malay's attitude to nature, iii. 416 n. 4;
on the Indonesian conception of the rice-soul, vii. 181 sq.
Will-fire, or need-fire, x. 288, 297
Willcock, Rev. Dr. J., on Up-helly-a' at Lerwick, ix. 169 n. 2
William III. refuses to touch for scrofula, i. 369 sq.
William of Wykeham, his provisions for a Boy Bishop, ix. 338
Williams, Sir Monier, on the divinity of Brahmans, i. 403 sq.;
on the fear of demons in modern India, ix. 91 sq.
Willkischken, in the district of Tilsit, man who cuts the last corn called “the killer of the Rye-woman” at, vii. 223
Willoughby, Rev. W. C., on the purification of Bechuana warriors, iii. 173
Willow used to beat people with at Easter and Christmas, ix. 269, 270;
mistletoe growing on, xi. 79, 315, 316;
children passed through a cleft willow-tree as a cure, xi. 170;
crawling under the root of a willow as a cure, xi. 181;
crawling through a hoop of willow branches as a cure, xi. 184;
Orpheus and the, xi. 294
Willow-tree at festival of Green George among the gipsies, ii. 76
—— -trees, maladies transferred to, ix. 56, 58, 59;
needles stuck into, as a cure for toothache, ix. 71
—— wands as disinfectants, iii. 143
—— -wood used against witches, ix. 160
Willstad, the Yule-goat at, viii. 328
Wilson, Colonel Henry, on a custom at hop-picking, vii. 226 n. 6
Wilson, C. T., and R. W. Felkin, on the worship of the dead kings of Uganda, vi. 173 n. 2
Wilson, Rev. J. Leighton, on the annual expulsion of demons in Guinea, ix. 131
Wilton, near Salisbury, May garlands at, ii. 62
Wimmer, F., on the various sorts of mistletoe known to the ancients, xi. 318
Winamwanga of East Africa, their custom as to fire kindled by lightning, ii. 256 n. 1, xi. 297 sq.;
alternate dynasties among the, ii. 293;
their offerings of first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 112;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 24 sq.
Winchester College, Boy Bishop at, ix. 338
Winckler, H., his excavations at Boghaz-Keui, v. 125 n., 135 n.
Wind, magical control of the, i. 319 sqq.;
charms to make the wind drop, i. 320;
fighting and killing the spirit of the, i. 327 sqq.;
charm to produce a rainy or dry, ix. 176, 178 sq.;
bull-roarers sounded to raise a, xi. 232.
See also Winds
—— in the corn, sayings as to the, vii. 132, 271, 281 sq., 288, 292, 296, 298, 303
—— of the Cross, Finnish wizards supposed to ride on the, i. 325
Wind clan of the Omahas, their way of starting a breeze, i. 320
—— -doctor among the Caffres of South Africa, his mode of procedure, i. 321 sq.
Windessi, in Dutch New Guinea, customs observed by head-hunters on their return, iii. 169 sq.
Winding thread on spindle at planting sugar-cane, viii. 119
Window, skins of slain bears brought in through the, viii. 193;
dead game brought in through the, viii. 256;
magic flowers to be passed through the, xi. 52
Winds, charms to calm the, i. 320 sqq.;
thought to be caused by a fish, i. 320 sq.;
sold to sailors, i. 325, 326;
tied up in knots, i. 326;
kept in jars, iii. 5.
See also Wind
Wine not offered to the sun-god, i. 311;
poured on head of sacrificial victim, i. 384;
considered as a spirit, iii. 248;
the blood of the vine, iii. 248;
called milk, iii. 249 n. 2;
tabooed in certain Egyptian, Roman, and Greek rites, iii. 249 n. 2;
new, offered to Liber, viii. 133;
the sacramental use of, viii. 167;
thought to be spoiled by menstruous women, x. 96
Wine-jars, Dionysiac festival of the opening of the, ix. 352
Winenthal in Switzerland, new fire made by friction at Midsummer in the, x. 169 sq.
Wing-bone of vulture in homoeopathic [pg 525] magic, i. 151;
of eagle used to drink through, iii. 189
Winged deities in Cilicia and Phoenicia, v. 165 sq.
—— disc as divine emblem, v. 132
Winnebagoes, ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 268
Winnowing done by women, vii. 117, 128
Winnowing-basket, image of snake in, viii. 316;
beaten at ceremony of expulsion of poverty, ix. 145;
divination by, x. 236
—— -fan in rain-making, i. 294;
in magic rites, iii. 55;
used to scatter ashes of human victims, vi. 97, 106, vii. 260, 262;
an emblem of Dionysus, vii. 5 sqq., 27, 29;
as cradle, vii. 6 sqq.;
used at reception of “the bridal pair” at rice-harvest in Java, vii. 200
—— -fork in rain-making, i. 276
Winter, myths of gods and spirits to be told only in, iii. 385 sq.;
effigy of, burned at Zurich, iv. 260 sq.;
called Cronus, vi. 41;
name given to man who cuts the last sheaf, vii. 142;
name of harvest-supper, vii. 160;
mummer personating, viii. 326 n. 1;
ceremony at the end of, ix. 124;
general clearance of evils at the beginning or end of, ix. 224;
dances performed only in, ix. 376;
ceremony of the expulsion of, ix. 404 sq.;
effigies of, destroyed, ix. 408 sq.
——, Queen of, in the Isle of Man, iv. 258
—— and Summer, dramatic battle of, iv. 254 sqq.
Winter festival of Dionysus, vii. 16 sq.
—— sleep of the god, vi. 41
—— solstice, reckoned the Nativity of the Sun, v. 303, x. 246;
Egyptian ceremony at the, vi. 50;
Aztec festival of the, viii. 90;
corn-spirit represented dramatically in processions about the, viii. 325;
ceremony after the, ix. 126;
Persian festival of fire at the, x. 269
“Winter's Grandmother,” burning the, x. 116
Winterbottom, Thomas, on a secret society of Sierra Leone, xi. 260
Wintun, Indian tribe of California, fear of naming the dead among the, iii. 352;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 42 sq.
Wiradjuri or Wirajuri tribe of South-East Australia, the headman always a magician, i. 335 sq.;
their belief as to sorcery, iii. 269
Wissowa, Professor G., on Manius Egerius, i. 22 n. 5;
on altar at Nemi, i. 23 n. 2;
on sacrifices to Janus, ii. 382 n. 1;
on Janus as the god of doors, ii. 383 n. 3;
on introduction of Phrygian rites at Rome, v. 267 n.;
on Orcus, vi. 231 n. 5;
on Ops and Consus, vi. 233 n. 6;
on the marriage of the Roman gods, vi. 236 n. 1
Wit, Miss Augusta de, on the importance of rice for Java, vii. 200 n. 1
Witch, Mac Crauford, the great arch, x. 293
Witch burnt in Ireland, i. 236, x. 323 sq.;
soul departs from her in sleep, iii. 39, 41, 42;
burned at St. Andrews, iii. 309;
name given to the last corn cut after sunset, vii. 140;
effigy of, burnt on first Sunday in Lent, x. 116, 118 sq.;
effigy of, burnt on Walpurgis Night, x. 159;
compelled to appear by burning an animal or part of an animal which she has bewitched, x. 303, 305, 307 sq., 321 sq.;
in form of a toad, x. 323.
See also Witches
——, Old, burning the, on the last day of harvest in Yorkshire, vii. 224;
on Twelfth Day in Herefordshire, ix. 319
“Witch-shot,” a sudden stiffness in the back, x. 343 n., 345
Witch's herb, St. John's wort, xi. 56 n. 1
“—— nest,” a tangle of birch-branches, xi. 185
Witchcraft, precautions against, on May Day, ii. 52 sqq.;
the rowan a protection against, ii. 53, 54, ix. 267, x. 154, 327 n. 1, xi. 184 n. 4, 185, 281;
strangers suspected of practising, iii. 102;
almost universal dread of, iii. 281;
the harvest Maiden a protection against, vii. 156;
singed sheepskin a protection against, viii. 324;
practised in cures in Scotland, ix. 38 sq.;
on the Congo, dread of, ix. 77 n. 2;
the belief in, persists under the higher religions, ix. 89 sq.;
in Moravia, precautions against, ix. 162;
bonfires a protection against, x. 108, 109;
holy water a protection against, x. 123;
cattle driven through Midsummer fire as a protection against, x. 175;
burs and mugwort a preservative against, x. 177, xi. 59 sq.;
Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 185, 188;
a broom a protection against, x. 210;
need-fire kindled to counteract, x. 280, 292 sq., 293, 295;
in Devonshire, x. 302;
great dread of, in Europe, x. 340;
the fire-festivals regarded as a protection against, x. 342;
stiffness in the back attributed to, x. 343 n., 345;
colic and sore eyes attributed to, x. 344;
a wheel a charm against, x. 345 n.;
thought to be the source of almost all calamities, xi. 19 sq.;
leaping over [pg 526] bonfires as a protection against, xi. 40;
its treatment by the Christian Church, xi. 42;
and sorcery, Midsummer herbs and flowers a protection against, xi. 45, 46, 49, 54, 55, 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 72;
St. John's wort a protection against, xi. 54;
dwarf-elder used to detect, xi. 64;
fern root a protection against, xi. 67;
mistletoe a protection against, xi. 85 sq., 282, 283, 294;
fatal to milk and butter, xi. 86;
oak log a protection against, xi. 92;
children passed through a ring of yarn as a protection against, xi. 185;
a “witch's nest” (tangle of birch-branches) a protection against, xi. 185.
See also Witch, Witches, and Sorcery
Witches sink ships, i. 135;
raise the wind, i. 322, 326;
in the wind, knives thrown at, i. 329;
souls of dead, said to pass into trees, ii. 32;
buried under trees, ii. 32;
steal milk of cows on May Day or Walpurgis Night, ii. 52 sqq., ix. 267;
precautions against, ii. 52 sqq.;
in the shape of hares suck the milk of cows, ii. 53;
steal butter, ii. 53;
burned out on May Day, ii. 54;
driven away by the sound of church bells, ii. 127;
steal milk from cows on Midsummer Eve, ii. 127, x. 176, xi. 74;
steal milk on Eve of St. George, ii. 334 sqq.;
as cats and dogs, ii.334, 335;
make use of cut hair, iii. 270, 271, 279, 282;
wedding rings a protection against, iii. 314, 314 sq.;
steal cows' milk, iii. 314 sq., x. 343;
burnt alive in Africa, ix. 18, 19;
special precautions against, at certain seasons of the year, ix. 157 sqq.;
annually expelled in Calabria, Silesia, and other parts of Europe, ix. 157 sqq.;
active during the Twelve Days from Christmas to Twelfth Night, ix. 158 sqq.;
the burning out of the, in the Tyrol, ix. 158 sq.,
in Bohemia, ix. 161,
in Silesia and Saxony, ix. 163;
shooting the, ix. 164;
driving out the, ix. 164;
burnt in Scotland, ix. 165;
beaten with rods of buckthorn on Good Friday, ix. 266;
not allowed to touch the bare ground, x. 5 sq.;
burnt and beheaded, x. 6;
effigies of, burnt in bonfires, x. 107, 116 sq., 118 sq., 342, xi. 43;
charm to protect fields against, x. 121;
Beltane fires a protection against, x. 154;
cast spells on cattle, x. 154;
steal milk from cows at Beltane, x. 154;
in the form of hares and cats, x. 157, 315 n. 1, 316 sqq., 317, 318, 319 sq., xi. 41, 311 sq.;
burnt on May Day, x. 157, 159, 160;
fires to burn the witches on the Eve of May Day (Walpurgis Night), x. 159 sq., xi. 20 n.;
abroad on Walpurgis Night, x. 159 sq.;
kept out by crosses, x. 160 n. 2;
driving away the, x. 160, 170, 171;
resort to the Blocksberg, x. 171;
Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 176, 180;
steal milk and butter at Midsummer, x. 185;
active on Midsummer Eve, x. 210, xi. 19;
abroad at Hallowe'en, x. 226, 245;
burnt in Hallowe'en fires, x. 232 sq.;
the Yule log a protection against, x. 258;
thought to cause cattle disease, x. 302 sq.;
at Ipswich, x. 304 sq.;
transformed into animals, x. 315 sqq.;
as cockchafers, x. 322;
come to borrow, x. 322, 323, xi. 73;
cause hail and thunder-storms, x. 344;
brought down from the clouds by shots and smoke, x. 345 sq.;
burning missiles hurled at, x. 345;
active on Hallowe'en and May Day, xi. 19, 73 sqq., 184 n. 4, 185;
burnt or banned by fire, xi. 19 sq.;
gather noxious plants on Midsummer Eve, xi. 47;
gather St. John's wort on St. John's Eve, xi. 56;
purple loosestrife a protection against, xi. 65;
tortured in India, xi. 159;
animal familiars of, xi. 202.
See also “Burning the Witches”
“Witches, Burning the,” a popular name for the fires of the festivals, xi. 43
—— and hares in Yorkshire, xi. 197
—— and were-wolves, parallelism between, x. 315, 321
—— and wizards thought to keep their strength in their hair, xi. 158 sq.;
put to death by the Aztecs, xi. 159
—— and wolves the two great foes dreaded by herdsmen in Europe, ii. 330 sqq., x. 343
Witches' Sabbath on the Eve of St. George, ii. 335, 338;
on the Eve of May Day and Midsummer Eve, x. 171 n. 3, 181, xi. 73, 74
Witchetty grubs, ceremony for the multiplication of, among the Arunta, i. 85
“Withershins,” against the sun, in curses and excommunication at Hallowe'en, x. 234
Wittichenau, in Silesia, custom at end of threshing at, vii. 149
Witurna, a spirit whose voice is heard in the sound of the bull-roarer, xi. 234
Wives, taboos observed by, in the absence of their husbands, i. 116, 119, 120, 121, 122 sqq., 127 sqq.;
exchanged at the appearance of the Aurora Australis, iv. 267 n. 1;
of dead kings sacrificed at their tombs, vi. 168;
of a king [pg 527] taken by his successor, ix. 368 n. 1
See also Wife
Wives, human, of gods, v. 61 sqq., vi. 207;
in Western Asia and Egypt, v. 70 sqq.
“—— of Marduk,” at Babylon, ii. 130
Wiwa, the, of East Africa, their custom as to fire kindled by lightning, ii. 256 n. 1
Wiwa chiefs reincarnated in pythons, vi. 193
Wizards in Melanesia, the variety of their functions, i. 227 sq.;
who raise winds, i. 323 sqq.;
Finnish, i. 325;
capture human souls, iii. 70, 73;
gather baleful herbs on the Eve of St. John, xi. 47;
gather purple loosestrife at Midsummer, xi. 65;
animal familiars of, xi. 196 sq., 201 sq.
See also Medicine-men and Sorcerers
Woden, Odin, or Othin, the master of spells, iii. 305;
the father of Balder, x. 101, 102, 103 n. 1
See also Odin
Wogait, Australian tribe, their belief in conception without cohabitation, v. 103
Woguls, sacred groves of the, ii. 11
Wohlau, district of Silesia, custom of “Carrying out Death” in, iv. 237
Wolf, charm to make a wolf disgorge his prey, i. 135;
imitation of, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 155;
track of, in contagious magic, i. 211;
transformation into, iv. 83;
said to have guided the Samnites, iv. 186 n. 4;
corn-spirit as, vii. 271 sqq., viii. 327;
the last sheaf at harvest called the, vii. 273;
the woman who binds the last sheaf called the, vii. 273 sq.;
the last sheaf shaped like a, vii. 274;
man after threshing wrapt in threshed-out straw and called the, vii. 274 sq.;
stuffed, carried about, vii. 275;
the beast-god of Lycopolis in Egypt, viii. 172;
figure of, kept throughout the year, viii. 173 n. 4;
ceremonies at killing a, viii. 220 sq., 223;
name given to thresher of last corn, viii. 327.
See also Wolves
——, Brotherhood of the Green, at Jumièges in Normandy, x. 185 sq., xi. 15 n., 25
Wolf clan among the Moquis, viii. 178;
in North-Western America, xi. 270, 271, 272 n. 1
—— -god, Zeus as the, iv. 83
—— masks worn by members of a Wolf secret society, xi. 270 sq.
—— -mountain (Lycaeus) in Arcadia, iv. 83
—— society among the Nootka Indians, rite of initiation into the, xi. 270 sq.
Wolf-worshippers, cannibal, iv. 83
Wolf's heart eaten to make eater brave, viii. 146
—— hide, strap of, used by were-wolves, x. 310 n. 1
—— skin, man clad in, led about at Christmas, vii. 275
Wolfeck, in Austria, leaf-clad mummer on Midsummer Day at, xi. 25 sq.
Wolfenbüttel, need-fire near, x. 277
Wolfish Apollo, viii. 283 sq.;
his sanctuary at Sicyon, viii. 283
Wollaroi, the, of New South Wales, rubbed themselves with the juices of the dead, viii. 163
Wolletz in Westphalia, the last sheaf called the Old Man at, vii. 238
Wollunqua, a mythical serpent, iii. 384
Wolofs of Senegambia, their superstition as to their names, iii. 323
Wolves in relation to horses, i. 27;
feared by shepherds, ii. 327, 329, 330 sq., 333, 334, 340, 341;
charms to protect cattle from, iii. 308;
not to be called by their proper names, iii. 396, 397, 398, 402;
sacrifices offered to, viii. 284;
transmigration of sinners into, viii. 308
——, the place of (Lyceum), at Athens, viii. 283 sq.
——, Soranian, iv. 186 n. 4
—— and witches, the two great foes dreaded by herdsmen in Europe, ii. 330 sqq., x. 343
Woman representing the Moon and married to the Sun, ii. 146 sq.;
feeding serpent in Greek art, v. 87 sq.;
as inspired prophetess of a god, vi. 257;
burnt alive as a witch in Ireland, i. 236, x. 323 sq.
——, Sawing the Old, a Lenten ceremony, iv. 240 sqq.
Woman's bracelets and earrings worn by man who has been stung by a scorpion, iii. 95 n. 8
—— dress assumed by men to deceive dangerous spirits, vi. 262 sq.
—— ornaments, scapegoat decked with, ix. 192
—— part in primitive agriculture, vii. 113 sqq.
Women forbidden to spin under certain circumstances, i. 113 sq.;
observe certain rules while the men are away hunting, i. 120 sqq.;
forbidden to sew in the absence of whalers and warriors, i. 121, 128;
observe certain rules while the men are away fighting, i. 127 sqq.;
forbidden to sleep by day in the absence of warriors, i. 127 sq.;
forbidden to cover their faces in the absence of warriors, i. 128;
dance while the men [pg 528] are at war, i. 131 sqq.;
dance to make crops grow tall, i. 139 n.;
employed to sow the fields on the principle of homoeopathic magic, i. 141 sq.;
who have borne many children employed to fertilize fruit-trees, i. 141;
plough as a rain-charm, i. 282 sq.;
chief makes women fruitful, i. 347;
worshipped by the ancient Germans, i. 391;
married to gods, ii. 129 sqq., 143 sq., 146 sq., 149 sqq.;
fertilized by water-spirits, ii. 159 sqq.;
impregnated by fire, ii. 195 sqq., 230 sq., vi. 235;
alone allowed to make pottery, ii. 204 sq.;
tabooed at menstruation, iii. 145 sqq., x. 76 sqq.;
tabooed at childbirth, iii. 147 sqq., x. 20;
abstinence of men from, during war, iii. 157, 158 n. 1, 161, 163, 164;
in childbed holy, iii. 225 n.;
dying in childbed, precautions against the return of their ghosts, iii. 236, viii. 97 sq.;
blood of, dreaded, iii. 250 sq.;
not allowed to see the drawing of men's blood, iii. 252 n.;
not allowed to mention their husband's names, iii. 333, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339;
impregnated by dead saints, v. 78 sq.;
impregnated by serpents, v. 80 sqq.;
fear to be impregnated by ghosts, v. 93;
impregnated by the flower of the banana, v. 93;
excluded from sacrifices to Hercules, v. 113 n. 1, vi. 258 n. 5;
their high importance in the social system of the Pelew Islanders, vi. 205 sqq.;
the cultivation of the staple food in the hands of women (Pelew Islands), vi. 206 sq.;
their social importance increased by the combined influence of mother-kin and landed property, vi. 209;
their legal superiority to men in ancient Egypt, vi. 214;
priests dressed as, vi. 253 sq.;
dressed as men, vi. 255 n. 1, 257, 262 sqq., 263;
milk cows, vii. 118;
influence of corn-spirit on, vii. 168;
swear by the Pleiades, vii. 311;
thought to have no soul, viii. 148;
ceremonies performed by, to rid the fields of vermin, viii. 279 sq.;
impregnated by ghosts, ix. 18;
as exorcizers, ix. 200;
personating goddesses, ix. 238;
fertilized by effigy of a baby, ix. 245, 249;
fertilized by mummers, ix. 249;
put to death in the character of goddesses in Mexico, ix. 283 sqq.;
in hard labour, charm to help, x. 14;
who do not menstruate supposed to make gardens barren, x. 24;
impregnated by the sun, x. 74 sq.;
impregnated by the moon, x. 75 sq.;
dread of menstruous, x. 76 sqq.;
at menstruation painted red, x. 78;
leap over Midsummer bonfires to ensure an easy delivery, x. 194, 339;
fertilized by tree-spirits, xi. 22;
creep through a rifted rock to obtain an easy delivery, xi. 189;
not allowed to see bull-roarers, xi. 234, 235, 242.
See also Barren, Childless, Menstruous, Pregnant, and Sacred women
Women, barren, thought to sterilize gardens, i. 142;
tied to wild fig-trees to be fertilized by them, ii. 316;
passed through holed stones as cure for barrenness, v. 36, with n. 4, xi. 187;
fertilized by being struck with stick which has been used to separate pairing dogs, ix. 264;
hope to conceive through fertilizing influence of vegetables, xi. 51
——, living, regarded as the wives of dead kings, vi. 191, 192;
reputed the wives of gods, vi. 207
——, pregnant, employed to fertilize crops and fruit-trees, i. 140 sq.;
taboos on, i. 141 n. 1;
wear garments made of bark of sacred tree, ii. 58;
mode of protecting them against dangerous spirits, viii. 102 sq.
—— as prophetesses inspired by dead chiefs, vi. 192 sq.;
inspired by gods, vi. 207
Women's clothes, supposed effects of touching, iii. 164 sq.
—— hair, sacrifice of, v. 38
—— race at harvest, vii. 76 sq.
“—— speech” among the Caffres, iii. 335 sq.
Wonghi or Wonghibon tribe of New South Wales, ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in the, xi. 227
Wonkgongaru tribe of Central Australia, their magical ceremony for the multiplication of fish, i. 90
Wood, fire kindled by the friction of, ii. 207 sqq., 235 sqq., 243, 248 sqq., 258 sq., 262, 263, 336, 366, 372.
See also Fire
——, King of the, at Nemi, i. 1 sqq., ii. 1 sq., 378 sqq., iv. 28, x. 2, xi. 285, 286, 295, 302, 309;
at Aricia, ix. 409
——, Lord of the, prayed to by the Gayos before they clear the forest, ii. 36;
prayed to by the Gayos before they hunt in the woods, ii. 125
Wood-spirits in goat form, viii. 2 sq.
—— woman, stalks of corn left on the harvest field for the, vii. 232
Woodbine as a charm to keep witches from cows on May Day, ii. 53, ix. 267;
sick children passed through a wreath of, xi. 184
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Woodford, C. M., on offering of canarium nuts to ghosts, viii. 126 sq.
Woodmen, sacrifices offered by, at felling trees, ii. 14, 15;
ask pardon of trees at felling them, ii. 18, 19;
form blood-brotherhood with the trees which they fell, ii. 19 sq.;
ceremonies observed by, at felling trees, ii. 37 sqq.
Woodpecker (picus) said to have guided the Piceni, iv. 186 n. 4;
sacred among the Latins, iv. 186 n. 4;
brings the mythical springwort, xi. 70 sq.
Woods (forests), of ancient Europe, ii. 7 sq., 350 sqq.;
of England, the old, ii. 7 sq.;
of ancient Italy and Greece, ii. 8;
of ancient Latium, ii. 188
Woods used in house-building, homoeopathic magic of, i. 146;
species of, used in making fire by friction, ii. 248-252
Wootton-Wawen, in Warwickshire, the Yule log at, x. 257
Words tabooed, iii. 318 sqq.;
savages take a materialistic view of words, iii. 331.
See also Language and Speech
——, common, changed because they are the names of the dead, iii. 358 sqq., 375,
or the names of chiefs and kings, iii. 375, 376 sqq.;
tabooed, iii. 392 sqq.
——, special, applied to the person and acts of a sacred chief or king, i. 398, 401, 401 n. 3;
used by Scotch fowlers, iii. 393 sq.;
used by Scotch fishermen, iii. 393 sqq.;
used by German huntsmen, iii. 396;
used by Nandi warriors, iii. 401;
used by elephant-hunters in Laos, iii. 404;
used by searchers for eagle-wood and lignum aloes in Indo-China, iii. 404;
used by searchers for camphor in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, iii. 405 sqq.;
used by Malay tin-miners, iii. 407;
used by Malay fowlers, iii. 407 sq.;
used by Malay fishermen, iii. 408 sq.;
used by Achinese fishermen, iii. 409;
used by gold-miners in Sumatra, iii. 409;
used by reapers in Nias, iii. 410 sq.;
used by the Javanese at night and in gathering simples, iii. 411;
used by workers in the harvest-fields in Celebes, iii. 411 sq.;
used by the Toradjas of Celebes in the forest, iii. 412 sq.;
used by the Bugineese and Macassars of Celebes at sea, iii. 413;
used by the Sangi Islanders at sea, iii. 414;
used by the Kenyahs of Borneo in poisoning fish, iii. 415;
used by reapers among the Tomori of Celebes, vii. 193
Wordsworth, W., on the pre-existence of the human soul, i. 104
Work in huts of absent whalers tabooed, i. 121;
on holy days, the Flamen Dialis not allowed to see, iii. 14
“Working for need-fire,” a proverb, x. 287 sq.
World regarded by early man as the product of conscious will and personal agency, i. 374;
conceived as animated, ix. 90 sq.;
daily created afresh by the self-sacrifice of the deity, ix. 411
Worm, transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299
Wormeln, holy oak of, ii. 371
Worms, charm against, i. 152;
souls of dead in, viii. 289;
popular cure for, x. 17
Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), xi. 58 n. 3;
burnt to stupefy witches, x. 345;
superstitions concerning, xi. 61 n. 1
Wororu, man supposed to cause conception in women without sexual intercourse, in West Australia, v. 105
Worship of trees, ii. 7 sqq.;
of the oak, ii. 349 sqq., xi. 298 sqq.;
of mephitic vapours, v. 203 sqq.;
of hot springs, v. 206 sqq.;
of volcanoes, v. 216 sqq.;
of cattle, viii. 35 sqq.;
of animals, two forms of the, viii. 311;
of snake, viii. 316 sq.;
paid to human representatives of gods in Mexico, ix. 278, 282, 289, 293;
of ancestors in Fiji, xi. 243 sq.
—— of ancestral spirits among the Bantu tribes of Africa, vi. 174 sqq.;
among the Khasis of Assam, vi. 203
—— of the dead, magic blent with the, i. 164;
perhaps fused with the propitiation of the corn-spirit, v. 233 sqq.;
founded on the theory of the soul, vii. 181;
among the Thay of Indo-China, ix. 97
—— of dead kings and chiefs, iv. 24 sq.;
in Africa, vi. 160 sqq.;
among the Shilluks, vi. 161 sqq.;
among the Baganda, vi. 167 sqq.;
among the Barotse, vi. 194 sq.;
an important element in African religion, vi. 195 sq.
—— of frogs by the Newars, i. 294 sq.
Worshipful animal killed once a year, viii. 322
Worshippers of Osiris forbidden to injure fruit-trees and to stop up wells, vi. 111
Worth, R. N., on burnt sacrifices in Devonshire, x. 302
Worthen, in Shropshire, the Yule log at, x. 257
Wotjobaluk tribe in Victoria, contagious magic of clothes among the, i. 206;
their rain-making, i. 251 sq.;
their notion as to falling stars, iv. 64;
their sorcery by means of spittle, iii. 288;
sex totems among the, xi. 215 sq.
Wotyaks (Votiaks), the, of Russia, sacred [pg 530] groves of the, ii. 43 sq.;
their marriage of Keremet to the Earth-wife, ii. 145 sq.;
their custom of leading a bride to the hearth, ii. 231;
their annual festivals of the dead, vi. 76 sq.;
annual expulsion of Satan among the, ix. 155 sq.
Wound and weapon, contagious magic of, i. 201 sqq.
Wounded men not allowed to drink milk, iii. 174 sq.
Wounding the dead or dying, custom of, iv. 13 sq.
—— were-wolves in order to compel them to resume their human shape, x. 308 sqq.
Wounds at reaping, customs and sayings as to, vii. 281, 285, 288, 296;
self-inflicted, of inspired men, ix. 117 sq.;
St. John's wort a balm for, xi. 55
“—— between the arms” of Hebrew prophets, v. 74 n. 4
“—— of the Naaman,” Arab name for the scarlet anemone, v. 226
Wrach (Hag), name given to last corn cut in Wales, vii. 142 sqq.
Wreath of woodbine, sick children passed through a, xi. 184
Wreaths of flowers thrown into water, divination from, ii. 339;
as amulets, vi. 242 sq.;
of corn made out of last sheaf at harvest, vii. 134, 135;
of flowers thrown across the Midsummer fires, x. 174;
superstitious uses made of the singed wreaths, x. 174;
hung over doors and windows at Midsummer, x. 201
Wren, hunting the, viii. 317 sqq.,
in the Isle of Man, viii. 318 sq.,
in Ireland, viii. 319 sq.,
in England, viii. 320,
in France, viii. 320 sq.;
called the king of birds, viii. 317;
superstitions as to the, viii. 317 sq., 319
Wrestling-matches in honour of the dead among the Kirghiz, iv. 97;
at New Year festival among the Kayans, vii. 98;
at festival of first-fruits in Tonga, viii. 131
Wright, Dr. Joseph, on hockey, vii. 147 n. 1;
on the mell-sheaf, vii. 152 n.
Wrist-bands as amulets, iii. 315
Wrists tied to prevent escape of soul, iii. 32, 43, 51
Wukari, in Nigeria, custom of king-killing at, iv. 35
Wunenberger, Ch., on kings as rain-makers in Africa, i. 348
Wünsch, R., on the Anthesteria, v. 235 n. 1;
on modern survivals of festivals of Adonis, v. 246;
on Easter ceremonies in the Greek Church, v. 254 n.
Wünschensuhl, in Thüringen, the Harvest-cock at, vii. 276
Wurmlingen in Swabia, pretence of beheading a leaf-clad mummer at Whitsuntide at, iv. 207 sq.;
the Carnival Fool at, iv. 231 sq.
——, in Thüringen, man who gives the last stroke at threshing called the Barley-cow, Oats-cow, Peas-cow, etc., at, vii. 290
Würtemberg, bushes set up on houses on Palm Sunday in, ii. 71;
the Lazy Man on Midsummer Day at Ertingen in, ii. 83;
thresher of last corn called the He-goat at Tettnang in, vii. 286;
effigy of goat made out of last corn threshed at Ellwangen in, vii. 287;
Midsummer fires in, x. 66;
leaf-clad mummer at Midsummer in, xi. 26
Wurunjeri tribe of Victoria, recovery of lost soul in the, iii. 42 sq.
Würzburg, Midsummer fires at, x. 165
Wuttke, A., on the superstitions connected with the Twelve Nights, ix. 327 n. 4
Wyingurri, tribe of Western Australia, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 208
Wyld, E., on shrieks of tree-spirits, ii. 18
Wyse, Miss A., on May Day custom at Halford in Warwickshire, ii. 89 n. 1
Wyse, William, as to circumcision in the Old Testament, i. 101 n. 2;
as to the Greek custom of sacrificing to the dead on their birthdays, i. 105 n. 5;
as to edible acorns in Don Quixote, ii. 356 n. 3;
as to Cretan sacrifices without the use of iron, iii. 227 n. 2;
on a reported Roman custom, iv. 144;
on the causes of the downfall of ancient civilization, v. 301 n. 2;
as to the fixed and movable Egyptian festivals, vi. 35 n. 2;
as to an Egyptian festival of lights, vi. 51 n. 1
Wyttenbach, D., his emendation of Plutarch, ix. 341 n. 1
Xanthicus, a Macedonian month, vii. 259 n. 1
Xenophanes of Colophon, on the creation of the gods in the likeness of men, iii. 387;
on the Egyptian rites of mourning for gods, vi. 42, 43
Xenophon, his rural home, i. 7;
on Triptolemus, vii. 54
Xeres, Fr., Spanish historian, on the sacrifice of children among the Indians of Peru, iv. 185
Xerxes in Thessaly, iv. 161, 163;
identified with Ahasuerus, ix. 360
Xilonen, Mexican goddess of the Young Maize, ix. 285;
woman annually [pg 531] sacrificed in the character of, ix. 285 sq.
Ximanas, an Indian tribe of the Amazon, kill all their first-born children, iv. 185 sq.
Xipe, “the Flayed One,” Mexican god, ix. 297, 298, 299;
statuette of, ix. 291 n. 1;
his festival of the flaying of men, ix. 296 sqq.;
his image clad in the skin of a flayed man, ix. 297
Xixipeme, men clad in skins of human victims, in ancient Mexico, ix. 298, 299
Xnumayo tribe of Zulus, change of word to avoid the use of chief's name in the, iii. 377
Xochiquetzal, wife of Tlaloc, the Mexican thunder-god, human sacrifices offered to, vii. 237
Xomanas, an Indian tribe of the Rio Negro in Brazil, drink the ashes of their dead as a mode of communion, viii. 157
Yabim (Jabim), tribe of German New Guinea, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 182;
their custom at childbirth, iii. 151;
drive away the ghosts of the murdered, iii. 170;
precaution against the ghost of a murdered man among the, iii. 186 n. 1;
their use of magic knots in fishing-boats, iii. 306;
avoidance of parents-in-law among the, iii. 342;
unwilling to name the dead, iii. 354;
tell stories to promote the growth of the crops, iii. 386;
propitiate the souls of the dead for the sake of the crops, vii. 104;
tell tales to get good harvests, vii. 104 sq.;
their offerings to the souls of the dead for the sake of the crops, vii. 228;
their way of getting rid of caterpillars and worms, viii. 275 sq.;
their belief in the transmigration of some human souls into swine, viii. 295 sq.;
their custom of sending disease away in a small canoe, ix. 188 sq.;
girls at puberty secluded among the, x. 35;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 232;
rites of initiation among the, xi. 239 sqq.
Yaguas, Indians of the Amazon, girls at puberty secluded among the, x. 59
Yakut shamans, their descent into the lower world to recover lost souls, iii. 63;
keep their external souls in animals, xi. 196
Yakuts, their charm to make the wind blow, i. 319;
inspired sacrificial victims among the, i. 384;
leap over fire after a burial, xi. 18
Yakutsk, rain-making by means of bezoa stones at, i. 305
Yam, island of Torres Straits, heroes worshipped in animal forms in, v. 139 n. 1;
treatment of girls at puberty in, x. 41
Yam vines, continence observed at the training of, ii. 105 sq.
Yams, magical stones to promote the growth of, in New Caledonia, i. 163;
feast of, at Onitsha on the Niger, iii. 123;
charm for the growth of, among the Kai of New Guinea, vii. 100, 101;
cultivated in Africa, vii. 119;
cultivated in South America, vii. 120, 121;
cultivated in New Britain, vii. 123;
dug by Australian aborigines, vii. 126 sq.
——, ceremonies at eating the new, in New Caledonia, viii. 53;
in West Africa, viii. 58 sqq., ix. 134
——, festivals of the new, in West Africa, viii. 115 sq.;
in Tonga, viii. 128 sqq.
Yang-Seri, prayers for the crops offered by the Banars of Cambodia to, viii. 33
Yaos, the, of British Central Africa, their fear of being photographed, iii. 97 sq.;
their offerings of first-fruits to the dead, viii. 111 sq.
Yap (Uap), one of the Caroline Islands, precaution as to the spittle of important people in, iii. 290;
taboos observed by men for the sake of immature girls in, iii. 293;
prostitution of unmarried girls in, vi. 265 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 36.
See also Uap
Yaraikanna, the, of Northern Queens land, seclusion of girls at puberty among, x. 37 sq.
Yarilo, the funeral of, celebrated in Russia on June 29th, iv. 261, 262 sq.;
a personification of vegetation, v. 253
Yarn, divination by, at Hallowe'en, x. 235, 240, 241, 243;
sick children passed through a ring of, xi. 185
Yarra river in Victoria borders the Bad Country, iii. 109;
treatment of girls at puberty among the aborigines of the Upper, x. 92 n. 1
Yasawu Islands of Fiji, reverence for coco-nuts in the, ii. 12 sq.
Yassin, king of Fazoql, put to death, iv. 16
Yawning, soul supposed to depart in, iii. 31
Year, beginning of, marked by appearance of Pleiades, vii. 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 315;
divided into thirteen moons, viii. 77;
burning out the Old, ix. 165, 230 n. 7;
supposed representatives of the old, ix. 230;
called a fire, x. 137.
See also New Year
——, the fixed Alexandrian, vi, 28, 49, 92
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——, the Caffre, beginning of, marked by festival of new fruits, viii. 64 sq.
——, the Celtic, reckoned from November 1st, vi. 81
——, the Egyptian, a vague year, not corrected by intercalation, vi. 24 sq.
——of God, a Sothic period, in ancient Egypt, vi. 36 n. 2;
began with the rising of Sirius, vi. 35
——, the Great, in ancient Greece, iv. 70
——, the old Iranian, vi. 67
——, the Julian, vi. 28
——, lunar, of old Roman calendar, ix. 232;
equated to solar year by intercalation, ix. 325, 342 sq.
——, the old Roman, began in March, ix. 229
——, the Slavonic, beginning of, ix. 228
——, solar, length of, determined by the Theban priests, vi. 26;
intercalation of the, ix. 407 n. 1
——, the solar and lunar, early attempts to harmonize, ix. 325 sq., 339, 341 sqq.
——, the Teutonic, reckoned from October 1st, vi. 81
Year-man, the, in Japan, ix. 144
Years, cycle of eight, in ancient Greece, iv. 68 sqq., vii. 80 sqq.;
mode of counting the, in Manipur, iv. 117 n. 1;
named after eponymous magistrates, ix. 39 sq.
——, the King of the, in Tibet, ix. 220, 221
Yegory or Yury, Russian name for St. George, ii. 332, 333.
See St. George
Yehar-baal, king of Byblus, v. 14
Yehaw-melech, king of Byblus, v. 14
Yellow the royal colour among the Malays, i. 362, ix. 187
—— and black, face of human representative of goddess painted, ix. 287
Yellow birds in magic, i. 79 sq.
—— colour in magic, i. 79 sqq.
—— Day of Beltane, x. 293
—— Demeter, vii. 41 sq.
—— River, girls married to the, ii. 152
—— snow, the year of the, x. 294
—— things supposed to cure jaundice, i. 79 sqq.
Yerkla-mining tribe of South-Eastern Australia, their belief in the contagious magic of wounds, i. 202;
the headmen medicine-men in the, i. 336
Yerrunthally tribe of Queensland, their ideas as to falling stars, iv. 64
Yewe order, secret society in Togo, iii. 383
Yezidis, their belief as to New Year's Day, iv. 117
Yezo or Yesso, Japanese Island, the Ainos of, viii. 180, 185
Yibai, tribal subdivision of the Coast Murring tribe, xi. 236
Yluta, in Mexico, bones of the dead preserved for the resurrection in, viii. 259
Ynglingar family, members of the, obtain kingdoms in Norway through marriage, ii. 279 sq.
Ynglings, a Norse family, descended from Frey, vi. 100
Yoke, purification by passing under a, xi. 193 sqq.;
ancient Italian practice of passing conquered enemies under a, xi. 193 sq.
Yokuts, a tribe of Californian Indians, influence of rain-makers among the, i. 358
Yombe, the, of Rhodesia, their sacrifice of first-fruits to the dead, vi. 191, viii. 112 sq.
Yopaa, in southern Mexico, governed by a sacred pontiff, iii. 6
Yopico, temple in Mexico, ix. 299
York, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337, 338;
custom formerly observed at Christmas, in the cathedral at, xi. 291 n. 2
Yorkshire, custom as to the placentas of mares at Cleveland in, i. 199;
May garlands (hoops) in, ii. 62 sq.;
the mell-sheaf in, vii. 151 sq.;
“burning the Old Witch” on the last day of harvest in, vii. 224;
first corn cut at harvest by clergyman in, viii. 51;
Plough Monday in, viii. 330 n. 1;
belief as to menstruous women in, x. 96 n. 2;
Beal-fires on Midsummer Eve in, x. 198;
the Yule log in, x. 256 sq.;
need-fire in, x. 286 sqq.;
witch as hare in, x. 317, xi. 197
Yoruba, West Africa, fear of strangers in, i. 103
—— -land, the paramount king of, iv. 203
—— race in the province of Lagos, iv. 112
—— -speaking negroes of the Slave Coast eat the hearts of men to make themselves brave, viii. 149 sq.
Yorubas of West Africa, sanctity of the king's crown among the, i. 364 sq.;
rule of succession to the chieftainship among the, ii. 293 sq.;
their theory of a guardian spirit in the head, iii. 252;
rebirth of ancestors among the, iii. 369;
their custom of putting their kings to death, iv. 41;
their custom after the death of a twin, viii. 98;
their use of human scapegoats, ix. 211 sq.;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 229 n.
Young, Arthur, on “hurling” for a bride in Ireland, ii. 305 sq.
Young, E., on the ceremony of the first ploughing in Siam, iv. 150 n.
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Young, Hugh W., on the rampart of Burghead, x. 268 n. 1
Young, Issobell, buries ox and cat alive, x. 325
Youngest person cuts the last corn, viii. 158, 161
—— son, his name changed after his mother's death in order to deceive her ghost, iii. 358
Younghusband, Sir Francis, in the desert of Gobi, ix. 13
Yourouks of Asia Minor, their sacred trees, ii. 43
Youth restored by the witch Medea, v. 180 sq.;
supposed to be renewed by sloughing of skin, ix. 302 sqq.
Youths and maidens, tribute of, sent to Minos, iv. 74 sqq.
Ypres, wicker giants at, xi. 35
Yu-ă, spirits of the elements believed in by the Esquimaux, ix. 379, 380
Yucatan, Indians of, their way of detaining the sun, i. 318;
Vestals in, ii. 245 sq.;
fire-worship among the Indians of, ii. 246 n. 1;
calendar of the Indians of, vi. 29 n.;
the Mayas of, ix. 171, 340;
human blood smeared on face of idol at sacrifices in, ix. 256 n. 3;
fire-walk among the Indians of, xi. 13 sq., 16
Yuchi Indians of Oklahoma, their festival of new fruits, viii. 75;
their respect for their totems, viii. 311 n. 1
Yuin tribe of South-East Australia, political power of medicine-men in the, i. 336;
avoidance of wife's mother among the, iii. 84;
totem names among the, iii. 320;
their sex totems, xi. 216;
totem names kept secret among the, xi. 225 n.
Yuki Indians of California, dances of their women while the men were away fighting, i. 133
Yukon River, the Lower, in Alaska, the Esquimaux of, their fear of being photographed, iii. 96;
their festivals of the dead, vi. 51 sq.;
their double-faced masks, ix. 380;
seclusion of girls at puberty among them, x. 55
—— territory, Indians of the, place their cut hair and nails in crotches of trees, iii. 276
Yule, Colonel Henry, on modes of executing royal criminals in the East, iii. 242
Yule Boar, a loaf baked in the form of a boar-pig in Sweden and Denmark, vii. 300 sqq., viii. 328;
often made out of the corn of the last sheaf, vii. 300 sq., viii. 328;
part of it mixed with the seed-corn, part given to the ploughmen and plough-horses or plough-oxen to eat, vii. 301, viii. 43, 328
Yule cake, x. 257, 259, 261
—— candle, x. 255, 256, 260
—— Goat, the, personated by a man wearing goat's horns at Christmas in Sweden, viii. 327 sq.
—— Island, Torres Straits, magical telepathy in, i. 121
—— log, x. 247 sqq.;
in Germany, x. 247 sqq.;
made of oak-wood, x. 248, 250, 251, 257, 258, 259, 260, 263, 264 sq., xi. 92;
a protection against conflagration, x. 248 sq., 250, 255, 256, 258;
a protection against thunder and lightning, x. 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258, 264;
in Switzerland, x. 249;
in Belgium, x. 249;
in France, x. 249 sqq.;
helps cows to calve, x. 250, 338;
in England, x. 255 sq.;
in Wales, x. 258;
among the Servians, x. 258 sqq.;
a protection against witches, x. 258;
in Albania, x. 264;
privacy of the ceremonial of the, x. 328;
explained as a sun-charm, x. 332;
made of fir, beech, holly, yew, crab-tree, or olive, xi. 92 n. 2
—— Night in Sweden, customs observed on, x. 20 sq.
—— ram, the, straw-effigy at Christmas in Dalarne, viii. 328
—— straw in Sweden, magical virtues ascribed to, vii. 301 sq.
Yules, the, in Shetland, ix. 168
Yumari, a dance of the Tarahumare Indians, ix. 237 sq.
Yung-chun, city in China, i. 170
Yungman tribe of Australia, their belief as to the birth of children, v. 101
Yuracares, the, of Bolivia, their superstitions as to the making of pottery, ii. 204;
their propitiation of the apes which they have killed, viii. 235 sq.;
take great care of the bones of the animals and fish which they eat, viii. 257;
their practice of bleeding themselves to relieve fatigue, ix. 13;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 57 sq.
—— of Peru threaten the thunder-god, ii. 183 n. 2
Yuruks, pastoral people of Cilicia, v. 150 n. 1
Zabern, in Alsace, May-trees at, ii. 64;
the goat or fox at threshing at, vii. 287, 297
Zadrooga, Servian house-community, x. 259
Zafimanelo, the, of Madagascar, their seclusion at eating, iii. 116
Zagreus, a form of Dionysus, murdered by the Titans, vii. 12 sq.
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Zakmuk or Zagmuk, the Babylonian festival of the New Year, iv. 110 sq., 113, 115 sq., ix. 356 sqq.
—— and the Sacaea, iv. 113, 115 sqq., ix. 355 sqq., 399, 402
Zambesi, the River, the Angoni to the north of, i. 291, iii. 174;
short-handled hoes used by Caffres above the, vii. 116;
the Makanga of the, viii. 287;
belief in transmigration among the Caffres of the, viii. 289;
Sena-speaking people to the north of the, ix. 7;
heaps of sticks and stones to which passers-by add on the, ix. 11
——, the Lower, rain-maker at Boroma on, iii. 259
——, the Upper, the Barotse of, i. 310 n. 7, 392, vi. 193, x. 28;
the Maraves or Zimbas of, i. 393 n. 2, viii. 111;
tribes of, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet, viii. 141
Zanzibar, custom at sowing in, vii. 233
Zaparo Indians of Ecuador, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of animal flesh, viii. 139
Zapotecs of Mexico, their harvest customs, vii. 174 sq.;
their belief that their lives were bound up with those of animals, xi. 212
——, the pontiff of the, rule of continence observed by, iii. 6 sq.;
not allowed to set foot on ground, iii. 6, x. 2;
the sun not allowed to shine on him, iii. 6, x. 19
Zaramamas, Maize-mothers, name given to certain maize-stalks or stones carved in the likeness of maize-cobs among the Indians of Peru, vii. 173 n.
Zas, name of priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 155
Zealand, the Rye-beggar at harvest in, vii. 231;
treatment of strangers at the madder-harvest in, vii. 231
Zechariah on the mourning of or for Hadadrimmon, v. 15 n. 4;
on wounds of prophet, v. 74 n. 4
Zekar-baal, king of Byblus, v. 14
Zela in Pontus, priestly kings at, i. 47;
Anaitis and the Sacaea at, ix. 370, 372, 373, 421 n. 1;
Omanos and Anadates at, ix. 373 n. 1
Zemis of Assam, parents named after their children among the, iii. 333
Zemmur, the, of Morocco, their Midsummer custom, x. 215
Zend-Avesta, the, on cut hair and nails, iii. 277;
on the Fravashis, vi. 67 sq.
Zengwih, in Burma, priestly king near, iii. 237
Zenjirli in Syria, Hittite sculptures at, v. 134;
statue of horned god at, v. 163
Zer, old Egyptian king, his true Horus name Khent, vi. 20 n. 1, 154.
See Khent
Zerdusht and Isfendiyar, story of, in Firdusi's Epic of Kings, x. 104
Zerka, river in Moab, the ancient Callirrhoe, v. 215 n. 1
Zeus, at Panamara in Caria, sacrifice of men's hair to, i. 29;
mated with Artemis, i. 36;
Spartan kings descended from, i. 48;
Castor and Pollux the sons of, i. 49;
rids himself of his love for Hera, i. 161;
rain made by, i. 285;
the priest of, makes rain by an oak branch, i. 309;
mimicked by King Salmoneus, i. 310;
crowned with chaplet of oak leaves at Dodona, ii. 177;
Greek kings called, ii. 177, 361;
at Olympia, the sacred white poplar of, ii. 220;
priests of, at Dodona, ii. 248;
Spartan kings sacrifice to, ii. 264;
as god of the oak, the rain, the thunder, and the sky, ii. 358 sqq.;
his oracular oak at Dodona, ii. 358;
prayed to for rain by the Greeks, ii. 359;
father of Aeacus, ii. 359;
the sign-giving, on Mount Parnes, ii. 360;
his resemblance to Donar and Thor, ii. 364;
his resemblance to Perun and Perkunas, ii. 365, 367;
as sky-god, ii. 374;
his sanctuary on Mount Lycaeus, iii. 88;
the fleece of, Διὸς κώδιον, iii. 312 n. 3;
the grave of, in Crete, iv. 3;
oracular cave of, on Mount Ida in Crete, iv. 70;
father of Minos, iv. 70;
festival of, on Mount Lycaeus, iv. 70 n. 1;
his transformations into animals, iv. 82 sq.;
the Olympic victors regarded as embodiments of, iv. 90 sq.;
swallows his wife Metis, iv. 192;
saved by a trick from being swallowed by his father Cronus, iv. 192;
his marriage with his sister Hera, iv. 194;
god of Tarsus assimilated to, v. 119, 143;
Cilician deity assimilated to, v. 144 sqq., 148, 152;
the flower of, v. 186, 187;
identified with Attis, v. 282;
castrates his father Cronus, v. 283;
the father of dew, vi. 137;
the Saviour of the City, at Magnesia on the Maeander, vi. 238;
his intrigue with Persephone, vii. 12;
father of Dionysus by Demeter, vii. 12, 14, 66;
said to have transferred the sceptre to the young Dionysus, vii. 13;
said to have swallowed the heart of Dionysus, vii. 14;
his intrigue with Demeter, vii. 66;
his temple at Olympia, viii. 85;
his appearance to Hercules in the shape of a ram, viii. 172;
cake with twelve knobs offered to, ix. 351;
an upstart at Olympia, ix. 352;
identified with the Babylonian Bel, ix. 389;
and his [pg 535] sacred oak at Dodona, xi. 49 sq.;
wood of white poplar used at Olympia in sacrificing to. xi. 90 n. 1, 91 n. 7
Zeus, Corycian, priests of, v. 145, 155;
temple of, v. 155
—— and Cronus, ii. 323
—— and Danae, how he visited her in a shower of gold, x. 74
—— and Demeter, viii. 9;
their marriage perhaps dramatically celebrated in the Eleusinian mysteries, ii. 138 sq., vii. 65 sqq.
—— the Descender, places struck by lightning consecrated to, ii. 361
——, Dictaean, his sacred precinct in Crete, ii. 122
—— and Dione at Dodona, ii. 189, 381
—— and Europa, iv. 73
—— the Fly-catcher, viii. 282
——, the Fruitful One, ii. 360
——, Heavenly, at Sparta, i. 47
—— and Hecate at Stratonicea in Caria, v. 270 n. 2, 227
—— and Hephaestus, x. 136
—— and Hera, sacred marriage of, ii. 140 sq., 142 sq., 359, iv. 91;
sacrifices for rain to, ii. 360
—— and Hercules, viii. 172
—— the Husbandman, ii. 360
—— Labrandeus, the Carian, v. 182
—— Lacedaemon, at Sparta, i. 47
——, Laphystian, his sanctuary at Alus, iv. 161;
associated with human sacrifices, iv. 162, 163, 164, 165, vii. 25;
his sanctuary on Mount Laphystius, iv. 164
—— the Leader, Spartan king sacrifices to, ii. 264
——, Lightning, the hearth of, at Athens, i. 33, ii. 361
——, Lycaean, on Mount Lycaeus, human sacrifices to, ix. 353, 354
——, Olbian, ruins of his temple at Olba, in Cilicia, v. 151;
his cave or chasm, v. 158 sq.;
his priest Teucer, v. 159;
a god of fertility, v. 159 sqq.
——, Olybrian, of Anazarba in Cilicia, v. 167 n. 1
——, Olympian, his temple at Athens, ix. 351
——, Panhellenian, at Aegina, ii. 359
—— Papas, in Phrygia, v. 281 n. 2
——, Pelorian, in Thessaly, ix. 350
—— Polieus in Cos, ox sacrificed to, viii. 5 n. 2;
on the Acropolis of Athens, viii. 5, 7
——, Rainy, the birthplace of, ii. 360;
sacrifices for rain to, ii. 360
——, Showery, on Hymettus, ii. 360
—— Sosipolis at Magnesia on the Maeander, ox sacrificed to, viii. 7
—— Subterranean, vii. 66, viii. 9;
sacrifices for the crops offered to, at Myconus, vii. 66
Zeus, surnamed Thunderbolt at Olympia and elsewhere, ii. 361
—— and Typhon, battle of, v. 156 sq., 160
——, surnamed Underground, Greek ploughman's prayer to, vii. 45, 50
——, the Wolf-god, on the Wolf-mountain (Mount Lycaeus) in Arcadia, transformation of men into were-wolves at his festival, iv. 83
Zileh, the modern successor of Zela, ix. 370 n. 2
Zimbales, a province of the Philippines, superstition as to a parasitic plant in, xi. 282 n. 1
Zimbas or Muzimbas, of South-East Africa, regard their king as a god, i. 392
—— or Maraves offer the first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 111
Zimmer, H., on the Picts, ii. 286 n. 2
Zimmern, Professor H., as to the myth celebrated at the Babylonian Zakmuk, iv. 111 n. 1;
on Mylitta, v. 37 n. 1;
as to Nabu and Marduk, ix. 358 n.;
on the distinction of Sacaea from Zakmuk, ix. 359 n. 1;
on the derivation of the name Purim, ix. 361 n. 4;
on the principal personages in the Book of Esther, ix. 406 n. 2
Zimri, king of Israel, burns himself, v. 174 n. 2, 176
Zion, Mount, traditionally identified with Mount Moriah, vi. 219 n. 1
Zoganes, temporary king at Babylon, put to death after a reign of five days, iv. 114, ix. 355, 357, 365, 368, 369, 387, 388, 406
Zoilus, priest of Dionysus at Orchomenus, iv. 163
Zombo-land, traps to catch the devil in, iii. 69 n. 4
Zonares, on the triumphal crowns, ii. 175 n. 1
Zoroaster, gods worshipped by the Persians before, ix. 389;
on the uncleanness of women at menstruation, x. 95
Zoroastrian fire-worship in Cappadocia, v. 191
Zoznegg, in Baden, Easter fires at, x. 145
Zulu custom of putting the king to death when his strength failed, viii. 68
—— fancy as to eating forehead and eyebrow of enemy, viii. 152
—— hunters, their use of magic knots, iii. 306
—— king, dance of the, viii. 66
—— kings put to death, iv. 36 sq.
—— language, its diversity, iii. 377
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—— medicine-men or diviners, their shoulders sensitive to the Amatongo (ancestral spirits), v. 74 n. 4, 75;
their charm to fertilize fields, vi. 102 sq.
—— women may not utter their husbands' names, iii. 333
Zululand, rain-making by means of the dead in, i. 286;
children buried to the neck as a rain-charm in, i. 302 sq.;
hoes used by women in, vii. 116
Zulus, use made by them of twins in war, i. 49 n. 3;
foods tabooed among the, i. 118 sq.;
employ pregnant women to grind corn, i. 140;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212;
their belief as to twins, i. 268;
their rain-making by means of a “heaven-bird,” i. 302;
their superstition as to reflections in water, iii. 91;
names of chiefs and kings tabooed among the, iii. 376 sq.;
their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 84;
their observation of the moon, vi. 134 sq.;
the worship of the dead among the, vi. 182 sqq.;
their sacrifice of a bull to prolong the life of a king, vi. 222;
women's part in agriculture among the, vii. 113 sq.;
their fences to keep wild boars from gardens, viii. 32;
their festival of first-fruits, viii. 64 sqq.;
eat leopards, lions, etc., in order to become brave like the beasts, viii. 142;
their charm for attaining old age, viii. 143;
their inoculation, viii. 160 sq.;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 22, 30;
fumigate their gardens with medicated smoke, x. 337;
their custom of fumigating sick cattle, xi. 13;
their belief as to ancestral spirits incarnate in serpents, xi. 211
Zülz, in Silesia, Midsummer fires at, x. 170
Zündel, G., on demonolatry in West Africa, ix. 74 sqq.
Zungu tribe of Zulus, special words used by them in order to avoid mentioning the name of their chief, iii. 376
Zuni Indians of New Mexico, their custom of killing sacred turtles, viii. 175 sqq., ix. 217;
their totem clans, viii. 178;
their ritual at the summer solstice to ensure rain, viii. 179;
their new fires at the solstices, xi. 132 sq.;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 n., 231
Zürcher Oberland, Switzerland, charm to make a cherry-tree bear in, i. 141
Zurich, effigies of Winter burnt after the spring equinox at, iv. 260 sq., x. 120;
the Canton of, the Corn-mother in, vii. 232;
the Thresher-cow at threshing in, vii. 291;
the last sheaf called the Fox in, vii. 297
Zygadenus elegans, Pursch., roots of, inserted in eyes of dead grouse by father of pubescent girl among the Thompson Indians, viii. 268
Zytniamatka, the Corn-mother, represented by a woman who pretends to give birth to the Corn-baby on the harvest field (Prussian custom), vii. 209
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