General Index (continued 9)

—— 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.