Animal worship, two types of, ii. 133,
134; sacred carried in procession, ii.
139-147 employed as a scapegoat,
ii. 189-191, 194, 195; caten to obtain
its quality, i. 86, 87; spared by
savages from fear of the vengeance of
other animals of the same kind, ii.
107-110; respect shown by the
savage for the animal he kills, ii.
110-132; Savage belief in the resur-
rection of the, ii. 122-125; burnt as
representative of the spirit of vegeta-
tion, ii. 282-284

Annamites, soul superstition amongst
the, i. 132

Antaymour kings responsible for the
general welfare, i. 46

Antrim, harvest custom in, i. 339
Apache Indians, rain-making by the,
i. 15

Apalai Indians, ceremony on the arrival
of a stranger by the, l. 153, 154
Aphrodite, i. 279

Apis the sacred Egyptian bull drowned,
ii. 61 sq.

Apollo Diradiotes, blood of sacrificial
lamb drunk in the temple of, i. 34
Apple-tree, superstition with regard to
the, by barren women, i. 73
Arabia, belief concerning a man's
shadow in, i. 143

Arabian stories, the external soul in, ii.
318, 319

Arabic belief in the properties of lion's
fat, ii. 86

Arabs, rain-making by the heathen, i. 20
Arcadia, rain-charm in, i. 21; beating
the scapegoat, ii. 214

Archon of Plataeae, the, may not touch
iron, i. 173

Arden, forest of, i. 57

Argive tradition concerning Dionysus,
i. 324, 325

Ariadne, marriage of, i. 104
Aricia, "there are many Manii at,"
explanation of the proverb, ii. 82, 83
Arician Grove, the, l. 1-6; ritual, ii.
63, 64; harvest celebration, ii. 67;
Manius the traditional founder of
the, ii. 84; sacrament, ii. 83, 84
Aru Islands, soul superstition in the, i.
125, 126; custom after a death in
the, i. 147; hair cutting, i. 201;
dog's flesh eaten, ii. 87
Arval Brothers, priestly college of the,
and the sacred grove, i. 65; sacred
grove of the, and iron, i. 172
Aryans, the, tree worshippers, i. 56-59,
99; totemism and the, ii. 38; oak
the sacred tree of the, ii. 291; primi.
tive worship, ii. 370

Ascension Day custom, i. 265
Aschbach, harvest custom in, i. 368
Ash Wednesday customs, i. 254-257;
ii. 29, 48, 25!

Ashantee, royal blood not shed in, i.
181; harvest festival in, ii. 374
Asia Minor, Pontiffs of, i. 7, 8
Athene, relation of the goat to, ii.
63

Athens, annual marriage of the queen
to Dionysus at, i. 103, 104; rites of
Adonis observed in, i. 284, 285;
scapegoats in, ii. 212; ritual at the
sacrifice of the ox in, ii. 38, 39, 41
Attis, myth and festival of, i. 296-298;
ii. 50; a tree-spirit or corn-spirit, i.
298-300; probability that the high
priest of, was slain in the character
of the god, i. 300; probable origin
of the cult of, i. 363; relation to
Lityerses, i. 396, 397; as a pig, ii.
49.50

Australia, rain-making in, i. 20, 21;
ceremony on entering strange terri
tory by the Australians, i. 156; seclu.
sion of women in, i. 170; blood may
not be spilt on the ground in some
parts of, i. 181, 182; hair burning
after child-birth in, i. 206; totemism,
ii. 133, 334-336

Australian blacks' charm for staying the
sun, i. 25; attack the dust columns
of red sand, i. 29, 30; fear of
women's blood, i. 185, 186; ii. 238;
remedy for toothache, ii. 149; annual
expulsion of ghosts, ii. 163

Kamilaroi, cannibalism by the,
ii. 88

medicine man and recall of the
soul, i. 131, 132

Wotjobaluk, rain-making by the,

i. 14

Austria, charm for lulling the wind in,
i. 28; old peasant belief in the souls
of trees in, i. 61

Auxerre, reaping custom at, i. 335
Axim, annual expulsion of devils at, ii.
170

Aymara Indians, scapegoat used by
the, in times of plague, ii. 191
Aztecs, the, and the reflection-soul, i.
145; aversion to wine, i. 185

BABA, a name given to the last sheaf,
i. 339, 340

Babar Islands, restoration of the soul
in the, i +37; the soul believed to
be in the shadow, i. 142
Babylon, Sacaea festival at, i. 226
Babylonian legend concerning the god.
dess Istar, i. 287

Baffin Land, expulsion of evil by the
Eskimo of, ii. 165
Bagota, restrictions on the heir to the
throne in, ii. 225

Balder killed by the mistletoe, ii. 244
sq.; the oak, ii. 295; life of, in the
mistletoe, ii. 359-362

Balder's bale-fires, ii. 289 sq.

Bali, mice and the rice fields of the
island of, ii. 131; periodic expulsion
of devils, ii. 174, 175; custom at a
birth, ii. 329

Balquhidder, harvest custom in, i. 344
Banjar kings held responsible for the
weather, i. 46, 47

Banks Islanders, the tamaniu of the,
ii. 331, 332

Baranton, fountain of, i. 15

Barcelona, Mid-Lent custom in, i. 262
Bari tribe, rain kings of the, i. 52, 53
Barotse, the chief a demigod in, i. 46
Barren women's superstition regarding
the apple-tree, i. 73
Bassam, Great, sacrifice of oxen at, ii.
41, 42; ceremony of driving out the
evil spirit, ii. 161, 162
Basutos, the, and the reflection-soul, i.
145; cannibalism by the, ii. 89;
offerings of first-fruits, ii. 373
Bat, the, ii. 334-337
Battambang, rain-charm in, i. 19
Battas, the, fighting the wind, i. 28, 29;
refuse to fell trees, i. 64, 65; soul
superstition, i. 124, 125, 135, 136;
soul straying, i. 160; ceremony of
making the curse to fly away by the,
ii. 150, 151; totemism amongst the,
ii. 340, 341; belief in plurality of
souls, ii. 341

Bavaria, May custom in, i. 84; Whit-
suntide representative of the tree-
spirit in, i. 242; harvest custom in,
i. 342; ii. 27, 28; cure for fever, ii.
153; Easter bonfires in, ii. 254; mid-
summer bonfires in, ii. 278
Bear, Shrovetide, i. 254, 255; sacrifice
of the, ii. 99-108; ceremony at
killing a, ii. 111-113, 115; ceremony
before a bear-hunt, ii. 112, 113
Bears, dead, treated with respect, ii.
111-113

Beasts, divine, held responsible for the
course of nature, i. 48
Beating as a ceremonial purification, ii.
213-217, 232-234

Beauce, straw man in, ii. 40
Beavers, superstition about killing, ii.
116

Bechuanaland, rain-charm in, i. 18; sun
superstition in, i. 23; hack-thorn
held sacred in, i. 69; purification

after travel, i. 157; crocodile super-
stition in, ii. 55, 56; transference of
ills in, ii. 149

Bedouins, pursuing the wind, i. 29
Belfast, harvest custom at, i. 336, 337
Belgium, procession with wicker giant
in, ii. 281

Belli-Paaro, ceremony of, in Quoja, ii.
347, 348

Beltane fires, ii. 254-258
Bengal, Gardens of Adonis in, i. 288,
289

Bernkastel, reaping custom in, ii. 15
Berry, belief regarding the birth of the
corn-spirit in, ii. 23; harvest custom,
ii. 26

Bhagats, mock human sacrifices by the,

252, 253

Bhotan, man worshippers in, i. 42
Biajas of Borneo, expulsion of diseases.
to sen by the, ii. 192
Bidasari, il. 325 sq.
Bilaspur, custom at, on the death of a
Kajah, i. 232
Birch tree dressed in women's clothes
in Russia at Whitsuntide, i. 77
Births, trees planted at, ii. 229, 230
Bison, resurrection of the, ii. 122, 123
Bithynia, lament by the reapers in, i.
365

Black Lake, i. 15

Blankenfelde, harvest custom in, i. 370
Bleeding trees, i. 61

Blekinge, midsummer ceremonies in, i.

292

Blood, the soul thought to be in the,
i. 178, 179; not eaten, ib.; royal
blood not spilt upon the ground, i.
179-183; ill effect of seeing, i.
185, 186; dread of contact with, i.
185-187; primitive dread of men-
struous, ii. 238-241
Blood-drinking, inspiration by, i. 34, 35
Boba, a name given to the last sheaf, i.
340, 341

Boeotians of Plataca, festival of the, i.
100-103

Boeroe, ceremony at the rice harvest in,
ii. 71

Bohemian midsummer custom, i. 79;
ii. 259; Mid-Lent custom, i. 82;
Whit Monday custom, i. 91, 244-247;
ceremony of carrying out Death, i.
258-260; superstition regarding death,
i. 260; ceremony of bringing back
summer, i. 263; harvest custom, i.
340; white mice spared in Bohemia,
ii. 131, 132; superstition held by
poachers in Bohemia, ii. 288
Böhmer Wald Mountains, custom of
the reapers in the, ii. 15

Bolang Mongondo, recapture of the
soul in, i. 131; preservation of cut
hair, i. 203; ceremony at rice harvest
in, ii. 71, 72

Bombay, soul superstition in, i. 127
Bones of animals not broken by savages,
ii. 124

Boni, king of, and his courtiers, i. 222,
223

Booandik tribe superstition concerning
the blood of women, i. 186
Book of the Dead, i. 312

Bormus, the name given to the lament
of the Bithynian reapers, i. 365, 398
Borneo, custom in, regarding infested
persons, i. 154

Bouphonia, the, li. 38-41

Brabant, North, Whitsuntide custom
in, i. 88

Brahman soul story, i. 128, 129; sin
eaters, ii. 156

Brahmans, temple of the, i. 230;
transference of sins by the, ii. 200
Brandy, North American Indian theory
about, ii. 87

Brazilian Indians, self-beating by the,
ii. 215, 216; treatment of girls at the
age of puberty by the, ii. 231, 232
Bresse, May customs in, i. 98; cere.

mony regarding the last sheaf, i. 408
Brest, fire festival nt, ii. 261

Breton peasant and the wind, I. 30
Briançon, May-day in the neighbour.
hood of, i. 95; harvest ceremony at,
ii. II

Bride, a name given to the binder of
the last sheaf, i. 345.

Bric, May-day custom in, i. 84; harvest
custom in, i. 370, 375; burning of
mock giant in, ii. 282
Britanny, reaping custom in, I. 335,
336; midsummer fires in, ii. 261
British Columbia, fish ceremony by the
Indians of, ii. 121

Bruck, harvest custom in, i. 333, 334
Brüd's bed in the Highlands, i. 97
Brunnen, Twelfth Night custom at, ii.
182

Brunswick, Whitsuntide customs in, i.
90

Buddhist animism, l. 59

- Tartar worship, i. 42, 43
Buffalo, belief in the resurrection of the,
ii. 123; held sacred by the Todas, ii.
136, 137

bull, ii. 19

Bulgarian rain-charm, i. 16; custom
at the laying of a foundation stone, i.
144; harvest custom, i. 341
Bull, Dionysus as a, i. 325, 326; ii.
37-44; the corn-spirit as a, ii.
19-24;

Osiris and the, ii. 59-61; sacred, ii.
60; as a scapegoat, ii. 200, 201
Burghers, first seed sowing and reaping
amongst the, ii. 72; transference of
sins by the, ii. 151, 152
Burgundian kings deposed in times of
scarcity, i. 47

Burma, mode of executing princes of
the blood in, i. 180; head-washing
in, i. 188, 189; mock burial in time
of sickness in, ii. 84; ceremony of
driving away cholera in, ii. 161;
offering of first-fruits in, ii. 374
Burmese and the soul, i. 130
Burnt sacrifices among the Celts, ii.
278-280

Buro Islands, dog's flesh eaten in the,
ii. 87; disease boats, ii. 187
Burying alive, i. 217

Busiris, legend of, i. 400, 401
Butterfly, the Samoans and the, ii. 56
Buzzard, sacrifice of the sacred, ii. 90-
92

Byblus, lamentation for the death of
Adonis at, i. 280

CALABRIA, expulsion of witches in, ii.

181

Caligula, i. 4

Callander, Beltane fires in, ii. 254,
255

Cambodia, search for inspired man in
time of epidemic in, i. 36; kings of
fire and water in, i. 53-56; its sacred
tree, i. 67 kings of, f. 118; touch-
ing the king's body in, i. 172; man's
head not touched in, i. 189; ceremony
at the cutting of the king's hair in, í.
197; temporary kings of, i. 228; the
Stiens of Cambodia and the killing
of animals, ii. 115; expulsion of evil
spirits, etc. in, ii. 178, 184; seclusion
of girls in, ii. 235
Cambridgeshire, harvest custom in, i.

Canclos Indians, their belief of the
soul in the portrait, i. 148
Cannibalism, ii. 88, 89
Capital offences, i. 162, 190
Carcassonne, hunting the wren in, ii.

143, 144

Caribs, the, belief in the plurality of
souls, ii. 339

Carinthia, ceremonies on St. George's
Day in, i. 84, 85; ceremony at the
installation of a prince of, i. 232,
233

Carmona, custom in, ii. 184, 185
Carnival, ceremony of burying the,
i. 244, 252-257, 270, 272
Carnival Fool, i. 256
Carpathus islanders, reluctance to have
their likenesses drawn, i. 148, 149;
transference of sickness by the, ii. 154
Cashmere stories, the external soul in,
ii. 302-304

Cat, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 11, 12;
burnt, ii. 283

Caterpillars, method of freeing a garden
from, ii. 130

Cattle, trees and, i. 72 sq.; driven
through the fire, ii. 273
Cedar, the sacred, of Gilgit, i. 69
Celebes, the, and the soul, i. 123-125;
custom regarding infested persons, i.
1541 superstition regarding the
knife, i 177; blood not spilt on the
ground by the, i. 182; custom at n
birth, ii. 329; harvest festival, ii. 376
Celtic human sacrifices, ii. 278-284;
the external soul in Celtic stories, ii.
313, 314
Ceram, rain-making in, i. 13; super.
stition regarding the blood of women
in, i. 187 hair cutting superstition in,
i. 194; ii. 328; discase boats in, ii.
185, 186; ceremony in epidemic, ii.
1871 seclusion of girls in, ii. 229;
initiation ceremony, ii. 354-356
Chacronca, human scapegoat in, ii, 210,

211

Chambéry, threshing ceremony at, ii.

23

Chedooba, ceremony on felling a tree
in the island of, i. 64
Cheremiss, expulsion of Satan by the,
ii. 180, 181

Cherokee Indians, purification festival
of the, ii. 166, 167

Chester, procession of mock giant at,
ii. 281

Chibchas, weather kings of the, i. 44
Children sacrificed by their parents, i.

235-237

Chile, preservation of cut hair in, i. 204
China, emperors of, offer public sacri

389

fices, i. 8; rain-charm in, i. 18; cm.
peror held responsible for drought,
etc., i. 49; abstention from knives
after a death in, i. 177; ceremony to
welcome the return of spring in, ii. 42,
43; special seat of courage amongst
the Chinese, ii. 87; cannibalism in, ii.
89; human scapegoat in, ii. 191;
festival of the aboriginal tribes of, ii.
193

women

Chios, rites of Dionysus at, i. 329
Chippeways, seclusion of
amongst the, ii. 239, 240
Chiriguanos, seclusion of girls by the,
ii. 23!

Chitome, the, i. 113-115; not allowed
to die a natural death, i. 217,
218

Cholera, driving away, ii. 161, 189, 191
Chontal Indians, the nagual amongst
the, ii. 333

Christian, Captain, shooting of, i. 181
Christmas customs, i. 60, 334; ii. 6, 7,
29-31, 141, 142, 144
Chrudim, ceremony of carrying out
Death at, i. 259, 260
Chuwash, the, test of a suitable sacri-
ficial victim, i. 36

Circassians, the pear-tree believed to
be the protector of cattle by the, i.
73

Circumcision, i. 171
Clucking-hen, ii. 8

Cobern, fire festival at, ii. 250
Cobra Capella, sacrifice of the, ii. 94,
95

Cock, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 7-10
Columbia River, Indians of the, and
the salmon, ii. 121, 122

Comanches, rain-charm used by the, i.
18

Compitalia, festival of the, ii. 83
Congo belief in the souls of trees, i. 60;
the Chitomé in the kingdom of, i.
113; negroes and soul selling, i.
139; initiatory rites in the valley of
the, ii. 345, 346

Coorg rice harvest ceremonies, ii. 72,
73

Corea, kings of, confined to their
palaces, 164; may not be touched,
i. 172; tigers' bones valuable in, ii.
87

Corn drenched as a rain-charm, i. 286;
double personification of the, i. 358,
359; reaper, binder, or thresher wrapt
up in corn, i. 370, 371
baby, ii. 23

-goat, ii. 13, 14

mother, i. 232, 233; a prototype

of Demeter, i. 356