Index. (continued 4)

use of bull-roarers among the, ii. 232;

rites of initiation among the, 239 sqq.

Yaguas, Indians of the Amazon, girls at puberty secluded among the, i. 59

Yakut shamans keep their external souls in animals, ii. 196

Yakuts leap over fire after a burial, ii. 18

Yam, island of Torres Strait, treatment of girls at puberty in, i. 41

Yap, seclusion of girls at puberty in the island of, i. 36

Yaraikanna, the, of Northern Queensland, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 37 sq.

Yarn, divination by, i. 235, 240, 241, 243;

sick children passed through a ring of, ii. 185

Yarra river in Victoria, i. 92 n. 1

Year called a fire, i. 137

Yellow Day of Beltane, i. 293

—— snow, the year of the, i. 294

Yibai, tribal subdivision of the Coast Murring tribe, ii. 236

Yoke, purification by passing under a, ii. 193 sqq.;

ancient Italian practice of passing conquered enemies under a, 93 sq.

York, custom formerly observed at Christmas in the cathedral at, ii. 291 n. 2

Yorkshire, belief as to menstruous women in, i. 96 n. 2;

Beal-fires on Midsummer Eve in, 198;

the Yule log in, 256 sq.;

need-fire in, 286 sqq.;

witch as hare in, 317, ii. 197

Yoruba-speaking negroes of the Slave Coast, use of bull-roarers among the, ii. 229 n.

Young, Hugh W., on the rampart of Burghead, i. 268 n. 1

Young, Issobell, buries ox and cat alive, i. 325

Ypres, wicker giants at, ii. 35

Yucatan, fire-walk among the Indians of, ii. 13 sq., 16

Yuin, the, of South-Eastern Australia, their sex totems, ii. 216;

totem names kept secret among, 225 n.

Yukon, the Lower, i. 55

Yule cake, i. 257, 259, 261

—— candle, i. 255, 256, 260

—— log, i. 247 sqq.;

in Germany, 247 sqq.;

made of oak-wood, 248, 250, 251, 257, 258, 259, 260, 263, 264 sq., ii. 92;

a protection against conflagration, i. 248 sq., 250, 255, 256, 258;

a protection against thunder and lightning, 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258, 264;

in Switzerland, 249;

in Belgium, 249;

in France, 249 sqq.;

helps cows to calve, 250, 338;

in England, 255 sq.;

in Wales, 258;

among the Servians, 258 sqq.;

a protection against witches, 258;

in Albania, 264;

privacy of the ceremonial of the, 328;

explained as a sun-charm, 332;

made of fir, beech, holly, yew, crab-tree, or olive, ii. 92 n. 2

Yule Night in Sweden, customs observed on, i. 20 sq.

Yuracares of Bolivia, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 57 sq.

Zadrooga, Servian house-community, i. 259

Zambesi, the Barotse of the, i. 28

Zapotecs, supreme pontiff of the, not allowed to set foot on ground, i. 2;

the sun not allowed to shine on him, i. 19;

their belief that their lives were bound up with those of animals, ii. 212

Zemmur, the, of Morocco, their Midsummer custom, i. 215

Zerdusht and Isfendiyar, i. 104

Zeus and his sacred oak at Dodona, ii. 49 sq.;

wood of white poplar used at Olympia in sacrificing to, 90 n. 1, 91 n. 7

—— and Danae, i. 74

—— and Hephaestus, i. 136

Zimbales, a province of the Philippines, superstition as to a parasitic plant in, ii. 282 n. 1

Zoroaster, on the uncleanness of women

at menstruation, i. 95

Zoznegg, in Baden, Easter fires at, i. 145

Zulus, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 22, 30;

fumigate their gardens with medicated smoke, 337;

their custom of fumigating sick cattle, ii. 13;

their belief as to ancestral spirits incarnate in serpents, 211

Zülz, in Silesia, Midsummer fires at, i. 170

Zuñi Indians of New Mexico, their new fires at the solstices, i. 132 sq.;

use of bull-roarers among the, ii. 230 n., 231

Zurich, effigies burnt at, i. 120