Acosta, on Peruvian Mother of the
Maize, ii. 193; on Mexican sacra-
ments, 338 sqq.

Adar, feast of Purim held in month of,
iii. 154, 173, 176, 177, 189
Adonis, ii. 115 sqq.; rites of, 116;
gardens of, 119 sqq.; identified with
Linus, 253 as a pig, 304 sq.

and Aphrodite, probably repre-
sented by a living couple, iii. 166
Adoption, form of, i. 21 sq.
Adultery, influence of wife's, on hus-
band, i. 29; supposed effect of, upon
the crops, ii. 211 sq.
Aeson and Medea, ii. 355
Afterbirth in sympathetic magic, i. 53 $94.
Ailinus, ii. 224

Ainos, their worship and sacrifice of the
bear, ii. 374
Albigenses, i. 149

"All-healer," name of the mistletoe in
the Celtic languages, iii. 343
Amadhlozi, ancestral spirits of Zulus in
form of snakes, iii. 410 note
Amenophis IV., his revolution in religion
of Egypt, ii. 149 sq.

Animon, ram sacrificed at festival of, ii.
368 sq.

Anaitis, a Persian goddess, identified with
Ishtar or Astarte, iii. 151, 160 sqq.
Ancestors, first-fruits offered to spirits of,
ii. 460, 462, 463, 464 599.; souls of,
annually revisit their old homes, iii.
83, 85-89

Anemone, the red, the blood of Adonis,

ii. 116 sq.

Angel-man, beheading the, iii. 299 sq.
Animal, killing the divine, ii. 366 sqq.;
two types of the custom, 437
Animals, in magic, i. 41-43; in rain-
charms, 101 $99. not called by
their proper names, 454 sqq.; sub-
stituted for human victims, ii. 38 note
2, 168; images sacrificed instead of, 344

note; eaten as a means of acquiring
their qualities, 353 sqq.; regarded
by savages as like men, 387 sqq.; act
on principles of blood feud, 389 sqq.;
propitiation of slaughtered, 396 sqq.;
souls of dead lodged in certain, 430
sqq.; two types of worship of, 436
sq.; processions with, 446 sqq.; trans-
ference of evil (disease, misfortune,
etc.) to, iii. 13 sqq., 23 sqq.; as scape-
goats, 101 sqq., 111 sq.; burnt in the
midsummer fires, 323 sqq.

Animism of Buddhists, i. 170 sq.
Anointing weapon that inflicted wound,
i. 57 sq.

Anointing as means of imparting vari-
ous qualities, ii. 364 sq.

Anthesteria, Athenian festival, iii. 88
Ants, stinging with, as purificatory cere-
mony, i. 301; iii. 215 sqq.
Apepi, Egyptian fiend, i. 16 sq.
Aperture, passing through narrow, as
cure for sickness, etc., iii. 394 $99.
Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, ii. 154, 312
sq.; iii. 112

Apollo Diradiotes, priestess of, 133 sq.
Apollo, image of, imparts strength, i.
136 59.

buried at Delphi, ii. 2
Locust, ii. 427 §}.

Mildew, ib.

Mouse, ib.

Wolfish, ii. 428 sy.

Aricia, situation of, i. 2; priest of, 2
sq., 4. 230 sq., iii. 201; many Manii
at, i. 6, ii. 343 sq.; priest of, personi-
fied the oak-spirit, iii. 450

Arician grove, i. 230 sq.; horses excluded
from, ii. 315

Arnica, the mountain, at midsummer, iii.

336

Artemis Perasia, iii. 311
Arval Brothers, i. 187, iii. 122

Aryans, not known to have had totem-

ism, ii. 293; worshipped the oak, iii.
346 sq.

Ashes of certain plants and animals, in-
oculation with, ii. 361 sqq.
Ash-tree, children passed through cleft
ash-tree for rupture and rickets, iii.
394 sqq.

Ashurbanapal, iii. 167 sợ.

Ash Wednesday, ii. 71, 75, 77, 79, 80,

81

Ass, children passed under, as a cure
for whooping-cough, iii. 405, note 5
Athamas, King, and his children, ii. 34
sq.

Athenian sacrifice to seasons and sun, i.
114

Athens, custom of human scapegoats at,
iii. 125 sq.

Attis, ii. 310 sqq.; festival of, 131 sq.;
relation to Lityerses. 250 sq.; as pig,
304

and Cybele, probably represented
by a living couple, iii. 166

Atys, son of Croesus, ii. 135
Australia, beginnings of religion in, i. 72
note

Australian aborigines, backward state of,
i. 71

Aztec sacraments, ii. 337 sqq.

Baal, children sacrificed to, ii. 39 sqq. ;
human sacrifices to Baal at Rhodes, 55
Baba, the, name of last sheaf in Slavonic

countries, ii. 179 sq. ; at threshing, 182
Babylonian festival of Sacaea, ii. 24 sq. ;
dread of demons, iii. 36
Bacchanals chew ivy, i. 135
Bacon quoted, 57

Badi, name of human scapegoat in Ku-
maon, iii. 104 sq.

Balder, the Norse god, his myth, iii. 236
sq.; camomile sacred to, 340; his
death formerly acted annually, 345; an
oak-spirit, 346 sqq.; his life in the
mistletoe, 349 sq., 446 54.
Balder's balefires, name of midsummer
fires in Sweden, iii. 344

Banished prince, charm to restore. i. 40
Barabbas, iii. 191 sqq.
Barley-mother, ii. 172

Bastian, Adolf, on pastoral sacraments,
ii. 438; on initiatory rites in the region
of the Congo, iii. 427
Bathing as rain-charm, i. 96 sq.
Beans thrown about house at annual
exorcism of evil spirit in Japan, iii. 82;
at annual expulsion of ghosts in Rome,
89

Bear worshipped and kille! by Ainos, ii.
374 $99.; by Gilyaks, 380 sqq.; apolo-
gies offered by hunters to slain, 397
sqq.

Bear dance, ii. 381, 385

festival of the Ainos, ii. 376 sqq.;
of the Gilyaks, 380 sqq.; of the Goldi,
386; of the Orotchis, 386

society, initiation into the, among
the Carrier Indians, iii. 438
Bears not called by their proper names,
i. 454, 455

Beating human scapegoat, reason for, iii.
126 sq.; purification by means of
beating, 129 sqq., 215 sq., 217 sq.
Beavers, respect of hunters for slaughtered,
ii. 404 $99.

-

Belli Paaro, initiatory rites in West
Africa, iii. 428 sq.

Beltane fires in Scotland, iii. 259-265;
in Ireland, 265

cakes, iii. 261, 262 sq., 264
Berosus, on the Sacaea, ii. 24
Bidasari, story of, iii. 386 sqq.
Binder of last sheaf roughly handled, ii.
225 sq.

Birch-tree dressed in woman's clothes, 1.

201

Bird, soul conceived as, i. 253 sqq.
Birth, simulation of, i. 19-22; pretence
of new, 307; mock birth on harvest-
field, ii. 183

Black animals in rain-charms, i. 101
sqq.; sheep, horse, 101; goat, ox,
pig, dog, 102 sq.

Bleeding to cause rain, i. 86 sqq.
Blindfold, reapers throw their sickles

blindfold at last standing corn, ii. 179;
men blindfold kill cock, iii. 446, note
4; women blindfold shoot at skin of
slain bear, 447 note

Blindness, charms to produce, i. 40, 41,

43

Blood, inspiration by drinking, i. 133

sqq.; not eaten, 353: regarded as the
life, ib.; royal blood not shed on
ground, 354 sq.; blood in general not
allowed to fall on ground, 355 sqq.;
of chiefs sacred, 358; of women
feared, 360 sqq.; men may not see
blood of women, 361 sq.

feud, animals supposed to act on
principles of, ii. 389 sqq.
Boar, corn-spirit conceived as, ii. 284 $99.;
the Yule or Christmas, 286 sqq.

and Typhon, ii. 310; ravages of
wild boars in the fields, 311
Boas, Fr., on the personal totem, iii.
419 note 5, 437 note; on initiation
into the Tlokoala society, 434 sq.; on
the relation of secret societies to totem
clans, 437 note

Boba, last sheaf in Lithuania, ii. 180
Bodio or fetish king on Grain Coast, i.

Bone, drinking out of, i. 342; drinking
through a tube of, iii. 213, 221 note,
228

Bones of game treated respectfully, ii.
399, 404 sq., 406, 408, 409, 415 sqq.;
of fish treated respectfully, 410 sq.,
413; of animals not to be broken,
416; burnt in midsummer fires to
drive away dragons, iii. 267
Bonfires, see Fire-festivals
Bormus or Borimus, ii. 224, 252, 258
Bouphonia at Athens, ii. 294 sqq.
Brahman elevated to rank of god, i. 133:
powers of, 145 sq.; twice born, iii.
445

Brain as seat of wisdom, ii. 364
Bread eaten sacramentally by Aztecs, ii.
337 sqq.

Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit, i.

150

Bride, Midsummer, ii. 128
Bridegroom of May, i. 222
Brooke, Rajah, i. 156

Brothers, The Two, an Egyptian story, iii.
375 $99.

Brown, G., on seclusion of girls at
puberty in New Ireland, iii. 205 sqq.
Brud's bed, i. 223

Brugsch, H., on Isis, ii. 146
Buddhist animism, i. 170 sq.
Bull, Dionysus as, ii. 164 sq., 293 sq.;

corn-spirit conceived as, 277 sq.
Bull-roarer, iii. 423 sq.

Burial of the Carnival, ii. 71 sqq., 78 sqq.
Bush-souls of Calabar negroes, iii. 410 sq.
Busiris, ii. 254 sq.

Busk, the Creek festival of first-fruits, ii.
329 sqq.

Butterfly-soul, i. 250 note 1, 259, 264
Buzzard, Californian sacrifice of, ii. 366 sq.

Caesar on the human sacrifices of the
Druids, iii. 319 sq.

Caffre, festival of the new fruits, ii. 325
$99.
Caffres,
414
Cailleach, name of last corn cut in some
parts of Highlands, ii. 176 sqq., 187
$99.

"women's speech" among, i.

Cairns to which each passer-by adds a
stone, iii. 4 sqq.; offerings and prayers
at, 12 sq.
Cakes, Beltane, iii. 261, 262 sq., 264:

King of Bean on Twelfth Night
chosen by means of a cake, 265 note
Californian sacrifice of buzzard, ii. 367
Camomile, at midsummer, iii. 340
Camphor, search for, i. 26 sq., 29
Camphor language, i. 459 sq.
Candlemas, i. 36, 223; new fire kindled
at, in Armenian church, iii. 248

Caramantran, mock execution of, ii. 75
sq.

Carib women, language of, i. 420
Carley, the name of last corn cut in
Antrim, ii. 179

Carline, name given in Scotland to last
corn cut, ii. 176
Carnival, death and burial of, ii. 71

sqq.; the, a continuation of the Satur-
nalia, iii. 143 sq.

Carrier Indians, seclusion of women

among the, iii. 227 sqq.; totemism
among the, 437 sqq.
Carthaginians sacrifice children, ii. 39 sq.
Carver, Captain J., on initiatory rites
among N. American Indians, iii. 431

sq.
Cat, in rain-making, i. 102, 112 sq.;
corn-spirit conceived as, ii. 270 sq.
Caterpillars, mode of ridding gardens of,
ii. 423, 426

Cats burnt in the midsummer fires, iii.
324 sq.

Cattle, influenced by tree-spirits, i. 192
sqq. killed without bloodshed, 357
sq.; sacred in Egypt, ii. 312 sq.; iii.
III sq.; driven through fire as puri-
fication, 239. 254, 269, 274, 275,

281, 286, 290, 291, 305, 313
Caul-fat, anointing with, ii. 364
Cedar, sacred, i. 135, 191 sqq.
Celts of Gaul, human sacrifices among
the, iii. 319 sq.

Charms for fishing and hunting, i. 23 sqq.
Chastity, rule of, i. 29

Chateaubriand's description of the Nat-
chez harvest festival, ii. 468 sqq.
Chiefs, supernatural powers of, i. 138;
sanctity of, 319 sqq.; names of, not
mentioned, 437, 438 sqq.; succession
to souls of, ii. 56 sq.

Childbed, deceiving ghost of woman
who died in, ii. 345 sq.; soul of
wonian in, transferred to iron object,
iii. 389

Childbirth, seclusion of women at, i.
325, 326 sq. everything opened at,
392 sq. simulation of, as a charm,
iii. 213; sun not to shine on women
after, 463

Children, in magic, i. 37; tabooed,

366, 387; their nails not cut, 371;
sacrificed among the Semites, ii. 38
sqq. by the Carthaginians, 39 sq.;
among other peoples, 51 sqq.

Chinese ceremony of the new fire, iii.
251 sq. ceremony of walking over
fire, 307 sq.

Chitomé or Chitombé, i. 236; put to
death, ii. 8

Christ, the mockery and crucifixion of,
iii. 186 sqq.

327

Christ and Haman, iii. 188 sqq.
Cinteotl, Mexican maize-god, iii. 136
Circumcision, seclusion of lads at,
Cleft tree or stick, passing through, as
mode of cure, iii. 394 sqq., 404; as
mode of shaking off spirits or ghosts,
398 sqq.

Clodd, E., on external soul, iii. 352
Clothes in sympathetic magic, i. 59
Clover, four-leaved, at midsummer, iii.
339 sq.

Cobra-capella, worship of in Fernando
Po, ii. 370

Cock, corn-spirit conceived as, ii. 266
sqq.; killed on harvest-field, 268
Codrington, R. H., on mana, i. 65;
quoted, 138

Compitalia, a Roman festival, ii. 344,
352

Continence, practised by warriors, i.

328; practised for sake of crops, ii.
209 sqq.; while turtles are coupling,

211

Conybearc, F. C., on Philo Judaeus, ii.
3. note 3

Corn, last corn cut contains corn-spirit
made into puppet, called the Corn-
mother, the Old Woman, etc., ii. 171
sqq.; double personification of the,
218 sqq.; human victim identified
with the, 246 sqq.; the new, eaten
sacramentally, 318 sqq.; Natchez
festival of the new corn, 332 sqq.

-mother, ii. 170 sqq.; at harvest,
171 sqq., 180 sq.; represented by
human victim in Mexico, 255

-queen, ii. 180

-spirit, personated by human being,
ii. 202 sqq.; killed at reaping or thresh-
ing, 230 sq.; representatives of, thrown
into water, 231; represented by reaper,
binder, or thresher of last corn, 231
sq., 237, 249 sq.; by a stranger, 231
sqq.; pretence of killing personal re-
presentatives of, 233 sq., 249 sq.;
lurks in last corn, 249; as animal,
261 sqq.; as wolf or dog. 263 sqq.;
as cock, 267 sqq.; as hare, 269 sq.;
as cat, 270 sq.; as goat, 271 sqq.; as
bull, cow, or ox, 277 sqq.; as horse
or mare, 281 sqq.; as quail, 283; as
fox, 283; as pig (boar or sow), 284
sqq. eaten sacramentally, 288, 302;
why conceived in animal shape, 289 sq.
-wolf, ii. 263 sqq.

-woman at threshing, ii. 182,

234 sq.

Cornel-tree, sacred, i. 169
Corp chre, i. 17 sq.

Courage acquired by eating lion or
leopard, ii. 352 sq., 356; by eating
brave man, 357 $99.

Olympia, 148 sq.; in Rhodes, 149 sq.
Cronus, buried in Sicily, ii. 2; sacrifices
his son, 39; the Greek equivalent of
Saturn, iii. 147, 148, 150

Crooke, W., on marriage of persons to
trees, i. 196, note 2

Crops, injured by illicit intercourse of
sexes, ii. 211 sqq.; human sacrifices
for the, 238 sqq.

Crossing legs as a charm, i. 394
Crow eaten for sake of longevity, ii. 355
Cumont, Fr., on the Saturnalia, iii. 140
Curses to bring good luck, i. 97
Cushing, F. H., on Zuni sacrifice of the
turtle, ii. 371 sqq.

Cybele and Attis, ii. 131

Daedala, a Boeotian festival, i. 225 sq.,
iii. 328, note 1

Dairi, his way of life, i. 234 sq.
Dalhousie family, life of, bound up with
Edgewell Tree, iii. 394

Danae, story of, iii. 220 sq.
Dance of Oraon priest with women, i.
211; of Zulu king, ii. 326, 328; of
Natchez at harvest festival, 331 sq.,
334; of the green corn, 332; war,
335 round man clad in bear-skin or
wolf-skin, 397; annual, of the Incas,

iii. 75

Dances, of women in absence of warriors,
i. 31 sq., 33 sq., 465; to make crops
grow, 35, 36 sq.; for wind, 120;
at bear - festivals, ii. 381, 385; at
capture of crocodile, 392; round
slain tiger, 395; of the Salii, iii.
124 note; of armed men at tilling and
sowing, 124 note; at fire-festivals,
250, 255, 256, 266, 271, 273, 281,
283, 284, 285, 287, 288, 289, 290,
291, 293, 297

Dancing for salmon, ii. 414
Dangers of sanctity, i. 319 sy.
Dead, use of the, in magic, i. 41; in
rain-charms, 99 sq.; spirits of, become
gods, 140 sq.; persons who have been
in contact with, tabooed, 323 sy., 467;
names of, not mentioned, 421 sqq. :
first-fruits offered to spirits of, ii. 460.
462, 463, 464 599.

souls of, in trees, i. 178 sqq.; draw
away souls of living, 263 sq.; feasted
and swept out of house, 351; identified

with falling stars, ii. 21 sqq.; lodged

in animals, 430 sqq.; annually revisit
their old homes, iii. 83, 85-89
Dead Sunday, ii. 71, 86

Death at ebb-tide, i. 46 sq.; mirror
covered at, 294; reasons for prefer-
ring a violent, ii. 6 sqq.; of the
Carnival, 71 sqq. effigy of, embodi-
ment of tree-spirit or spirit of vegeta-
tion, 94 sqq.

carrying out, i. 208; ii. 71, 82
sqq. iii. 121 sq., 123, 245

and resurrection, pretence of, at
initiatory rites, iii. 422 sqq.
Deer and sea beasts not brought into
contact by Esquimaux, ii. 336

respectfully treated by hunters,
ii. 406, sqq.

Demeter and Proserpine, ii. 168 sqq..
216 sqq.; meaning of name Demeter,
169 sq. as pigs, 299 say.
Demeter, the Black or horse-headed, at
Phigalia, ii. 303

Demon killed in effigy, ii. 349
Demons abduct souls, i. 270 sqq.; offer-

ings to, 271 sqq., 277; universally
dreaded in India, iii. 51 sqq.; in
Ceylon, 52 sq.; in Corea, 55 sq.; in
Ancient Babylon, 56; general ex-
pulsions of, 60 sqq.; of disease sent
away in boats, 98 sqy., 106

De Roepstorff, in changes in Nicobarese
language, i. 429 sq.

Devil bunged up in wood, iii. 33
Devil-dancers, i. 134; iii. 16
Devils, general expulsions of, iii. 60 sqq.;
periodic expulsions of, 76 syy., 94
sq., 106, 107

Dew, supposed to be caused by moon, ii.
158; rolling in, at midsummer, iii.
297

Dialis, Flamen, i. 241 sq.
Diana at Aricia, i. 230

Nemorensis, i. 2. 4 sq.

Dio Chrysostom on fame as a shadow, i.
289

Dionysus, marriage of, to Queen at
Athens, i. 229; tomb of, at Delphi, ii.
2; human sacrifice in rites of, 36; a
tree- god, 160 sq.; violent death of,
161 sq.; resurrection of, 163: rites
of, 163 sq.; as bull, 164 sq., 293 sq.;
as goat, 165 sq., 291 sqq.

Foxy, ii. 427

Discs, burning, thrown into air at
European fire-festivals, iii. 243, 256,
270, 271, 273
Disease transferred to things, animals,
and persons, iii. 2, 13 s., 15, 16, 20
sqq. especially to trees and bushes,
26 sqq.; sent away in boats, 97 sqq..
105 sq.; cured by passing patient

218 sq.

Dragons at midsummer, iii. 267
Dramas, sacred, as magical rites, iii.
164 sq.

Dreams, savage belief in, i. 255 sq.;
subject of, propounded as riddle in
time of sickness, iii. 68 note; Iroquois
festival of, at beginning of new years,
72 sq.

Drenching people with water as rain-
charm, ii. 121 sqq.

Drinking through tube, i. 331, 342;
through a tube of bone, iii. 213, 221
note, 228

Driver, S. R., on the Canaanites, ii. 43.
note I

Drought and dearth attributed to kings,
i. 157 $49.

Druids worship oak, i. 168; their human
sacrifices, iii. 320; their reverence for
the mistletoe, 327, 343; their cycle of
thirty years, 327, 328, note 1
Duk-duk society in New Britain, iii.
440 sq.

Dummies put up to divert attention of
ghosts or demons, ii. 344 sqq.

Du Pratz, his description of the new
corn festival of the Natchez, ii. 332
sqy.