Antaeus, ii. 300
Antigone, death of, ii. 228 _n._ 5
Antigonus, i. 391 _n._ 1
Antimores of Madagascar, i. 354
Apaches, land of the, i. 306
Apepi, Egyptian fiend, i. 67
Apes thought to be related to twins, i. 265
Ap-hi, god of thunder and lightning, ii. 370
Aphrodite and Adonis, i. 25
—— Askraia, i. 26
Apollo, i. 384, 386;
at Delos, 32, 34 _sq._;
at Delphi, 28;
grave of, at Delphi, 35;
Erithasean, ii. 121;
at Patara, 135
—— and Artemis, birthdays of, i. 32
—— Diradiotes, i. 381
Apologies offered to trees for cutting them down, ii. 18 _sq._, 36
_sq._
Apples at festival of Diana, i. 14, 16
April 15th, sacrifice on, ii. 229, 326
—— 21st, date of the Parilia, ii. 325, 326
—— 23rd, St. George’s Day, ii. 330 _sqq._
—— 24th, in some places St. George’s Day, ii. 337, 343
Arab charms, i. 152, 153, 157, 165 _sq._, 181, 303
Arabs of Moab, i. 276
Aratus, sacrifices to, i. 105
Araucanians of Chili, the, ii. 183
Arden, forest of, ii. 7
Ardennes, goddess of the, ii. 126
_Aren_ palm-tree, ii. 22
Ariadne and Dionysus, ii. 138
Aricia, i. 3, 4, 10, ii. 2;
“many Manii at,” i. 22
Arician grove, the sacred, i. 20, 22, ii. 115;
horses excluded from, i. 20
Arikara Indians, i. 115
Aristotle, ii. 137
Arkon, in Rügen, ii. 241 _n._ 4
Armenia, rain-making in, i. 275 _sq._
Arrephoroi at Athens, the, ii. 199
Arrian, on sacrifices to Artemis, ii. 125 _sq._
Arrows shot at sacred trees, ii. 11;
fire-tipped, shot at sun during an eclipse, i. 311
Artemis, temple dedicated to her by Xenophon, i. 7;
birthday of, i. 32, ii. 125;
the Asiatic, i. 7;
at Delos, 28;
of Ephesus, 7, 37 _sq._, ii. 128, 136;
a goddess of the wild life of nature, i. 35 _sq._;
sacrifices to, ii. 125;
worshipped by the Celts, 125 _sq._;
Saronian, i. 26;
Wolfish, 26 _sq._
—— and Apollo, birthdays of, i. 32;
and Hippolytus, 19 _sq._, 24 _sqq._
—— _Parthenos_, i. 36
Arunta, the, of Central Australia, i. 98;
magical ceremonies among, 85 _sqq._;
burial customs of the, 102
Arval Brothers, the, ii. 203
Aryan god of the oak and thunder, ii. 356 _sqq._;
god of the sky, 374 _sq._
Aryans, magical powers ascribed to kings among the, i. 366 _sqq._;
perpetual fires among the, ii. 260;
female kinship among the, 283 _sqq._
Ascanius or Julus, ii. 197
Ascension Day, ii. 69, 166
Ashantee, licence accorded to king’s sisters in, ii. 274 _sq._
Ashes scattered as rain-charm, i. 304;
in magic, 314;
of unborn calves used in a fertility charm, ii. 229, 326
Asia Minor, pontiffs in, i. 47
Assimilation of rain-maker to water, i. 269 _sqq._
Association of ideas, magic based on a misapplication of the, i. 221
_sq._
Assumption of the Virgin in relation to the festival of Diana, i. 14-16
Astarte at Byblus, i. 30
Atalante, ii. 301
Athenian sacrifices to the Seasons, i. 310
Athens, barrow of Hippolytus at, i. 25;
new fire brought to, 32 _sq._;
King and Queen at, 44 _sq._;
marriage of Dionysus at, ii. 136 _sq._;
female kinship at, 277
Atkinson, J. C., i. 199
Atreus, ii. 279
Attacking the wind, i. 327 _sqq._
Attica, traces of female kinship in, ii. 284
Attis and Cybele (Mother of the Gods), i. 18, 21, 40, 41
_Atua_, Polynesian term for god, i. 387 _n._ 1
August, the Ides (13th) of, Diana’s day, i. 12, 14-17
—— 15th, the day of the Assumption of the Virgin, i. 14-16
Augustine on the one God, i. 121 _n._ 1
Australia, aboriginal paintings in, i. 87 _n._ 1;
magic universally practised but religion nearly unknown among the
aborigines of, 234;
government of old men in aboriginal, 334 _sq._;
influence of magicians in aboriginal, 334 _sqq._
—— Central, magical ceremonies for the supply of food in, i. 85 _sqq._
Australian aborigines, magical images among the, i. 62;
ceremonies of initiation among the, 92 _sqq._;
contagious magic of teeth among the, 176;
magic of navel-string and afterbirth among the, 183 _sq._
Autun, procession of goddess at, ii. 144
Auxesia and Damia, i. 39
Avebury, Lord, i. 225 _n._
Aventine, Diana on the, ii. 128
Baal, prophets of, cutting themselves, i. 258
Baalim, the, lords of underground waters, ii. 159
Babar Archipelago, i. 72, 131
Babaruda, i. 273
Babylon, magical images in ancient, i. 66 _sq._;
sanctuary of Bel at, ii. 129 _sq._
Babylonian kings, divinity of the early, i. 417
Bacchanals chew ivy, i. 384
Bachofen, J. J., ii. 313 _n._ 1, 314 _n._ 1
Bacon, Francis, on anointing weapon that caused wound, i. 202
Badonsachen, King of Burma, i. 400
Baganda, the, i. 395;
superstitions as to the navel-string and afterbirth (placenta), 195
_sq._;
their customs in regard to twins, ii. 102 _sq._;
their belief in the influence of the sexes on vegetation, 101 _sq._;
Vestal Virgins among the, 246;
their list of kings, 269
Bagba, a fetish, i. 327
Bagishu, i. 103
Bahaus or Kayans of Borneo, ii. 40, 109
Bakers, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 _sq._, 205
Balli Atap, ii. 385
_Baloi_, mythical beings, i. 177
Bambaras, the, ii. 42
Banana-tree, wild, supposed to fertilise barren women, ii. 318
Bandicoot in rain-charm, i. 288
Bangalas, the, ii. 293
Banks’ Islanders, i. 314
Bantu peoples, ancestor-worship among the, ii. 221
Banyai, chieftainship among the, ii. 292
Banyoro, the, ii. 322;
king of the, as rain-maker, i. 348
Baobab-trees, ii. 47
Baptist, St. John the, i. 277
_Bar_-tree (_Ficus Indica_), ii. 25, 43
Barea, the, ii. 3
Barenton, fountain of, i. 306, 307
Bari, rain-making among the, i. 346 _sq._
Barotse, the, i. 392 _sq._
Barren women, charms to procure offspring for, i. 70 _sqq._;
thought to sterilise gardens, 142;
fertilised by trees, ii. 51, 56 _sq._, 316 _sq._;
thought to blight the fruits of the earth, 102;
fertilised by water-spirits, 159 _sqq._
_Basilai_ at Olympia, i. 46 _n._ 4
Basoga, the, ii. 19, 112
Basutos, the, i. 71, 177
Bath before marriage, intention of, ii. 162
Bathing as a rain-charm, i. 277 _sq._
Battas or Bataks of Sumatra, i. 71, 398 _sq._, ii. 108
Battus, King, i. 47
Bayfield, M. A., ii. 228 _n._ 5
Bean, sprouting of, in superstitious ceremony, i. 266
Beasts, sacred, in Egypt held responsible for failure of crops, i. 354
Bechuana charms, i. 150 _sq._
Bechuanas, the, i. 313
Bedouins, fire-drill of the ancient, ii. 209
Beech-woods of Denmark, ii. 351
_Beena_ marriage, ii. 271
Bees, the King Bees (Essenes) at Ephesus, ii. 135 _sq._
Bel of Babylon, ii. 129
Belep, the, of New Caledonia, i. 150
Bell-ringing as a charm to dispel evil influences, ii. 343 _sq._
Benefits conferred by magic, i. 218 _sq._
Benin, king of, as a god, i. 396
Benvenuto Cellini, ii. 197 _n._ 6
Benzoni, G., i. 57 _n._
Bes, the god, ii. 133
Betsileo, the, i. 397
Bevan, Professor A. A., ii. 210 _n._
Bezoar stone in rain-charms, i. 305
Bhagavati, goddess of Cochin, i. 280
Birch, crowns of, ii. 64;
leaves, girl clad in, 80;
tree dressed in woman’s clothes, 64;
a protection against witches, 54
Birth, pretence of, at adoption, i. 74 _sq._;
at return of supposed dead man, 75;
at circumcision, 75 _sq._;
simulation of a new, 380 _sq._;
from the fire, ii. 195 _sqq._
Birthday, Greek custom of sacrificing to a dead man on his, i. 105
Birthdays of Apollo and Artemis, i. 32
“Birthplace of Rainy Zeus,” ii. 360
Black animals in rain-charms, i. 250, 290 _sqq._;
colour in magic, 83;
in rain-making ceremonies, 269 _sq._
Blackfoot Indians, i. 116, 150;
their worship of the sun, ii. 146 _sq._
Bleeding trees, ii. 18, 20, 33
Blighting effect of illicit love on the fruits of the earth, ii. 107
_sqq._
Blindness, charm to cause, i. 147
Blood drawn from virgin bride, i. 94;
shed at circumcision and subincision, uses of, 92, 94 _sq._;
sympathetic connexion between wounded person and his shed blood, 205;
used to imitate rain, 256, 257 _sq._;
as a means of inspiration, 381 _sqq._;
offered to trees, ii. 13, 16, 34, 44, 47;
of pigs in purificatory rites, 107, 108, 109;
of incestuous persons, blighting effects attributed to the, 110
_sq._;
reluctance to spill royal, 228;
smeared on sacred trees, 367
Blood, human, in _intichiuma_ ceremonies, i. 85, _sqq._ 90, _sqq._;
offered at grave, 90 _sq._;
given to sick people, 91;
used to knit men together, 92
Blood-stone, i. 165
Bloomfield, Professor M., i. 229
Boanerges, i. 266
Bodio, fetish king, i. 353
Bogomiles, the, i. 407
Boiled meat offered to the Seasons, i. 310
Bones of dead in magic, i. 148;
human, buried as rain-charm, 287;
burned as a charm against sorcery, ii. 330
Bonfires at midsummer, ii. 65
Bongo, the, i. 347
Boni, G., ii. 186 _n._ 1
Borewell, the, ii. 161
Borlase, W., ii. 67
Born thrice, said of Brahmans, i. 381
Borneo, i. 59, 73;
beliefs as to the blighting effect of sexual crime in, ii. 108 _sqq._
Bororos, the, ii. 298
Bough, the Golden, plucked by Aeneas, i. 11, ii. 379;
the plucking of it not a piece of bravado, 123 _sq._;
grew on an evergreen oak, 379
Boughs, green, a charm against witches, ii. 52-55, 127.
_See also_ Branches
Bovillae, ii. 179
Bradbury, Professor J. B., ii. 139 _n._ 1
Brahman, derivation of name, i. 229
—— fire-priests, ii. 247 _sqq._;
marriage ceremony, i. 160;
householder, temporary inspiration of, i. 380 _sq._
Brahmans deemed superior to the gods, i 226;
divinity of the, 403 _sq._;
thrice-born, 381
Branches dipped in water as a rain-charm, i. 248, 250, 309.
_See also_ Boughs
Brazil, Indians of, power of medicine-men among the, i. 358 _sq._
Breath, holy fire not to be blown upon with the, ii. 241
Brethren of the Free Spirit, i. 408;
of the Tilled Fields (_Fratres Arvales_), ii. 122
Brhaspati, as a magician, i. 241
Bride tied to tree at marriage, ii. 57;
the Whitsuntide, 89, 96;
the May, 95;
race for a, 301 _sqq._;
contests for a, 305 _sqq._
—— of God, the, i. 276
—— race among Teutonic peoples, ii. 303 _sqq._
Bridegroom of May, ii. 91, 93
Bridget in Scotland and the Isle of Man, ii. 94 _sq._
Brigit, a Celtic goddess, ii. 95, 240 _sqq._
Brimo and Brimos, ii. 139
Brincker, Dr. P. H., ii. 224 _n._ 4
Brooke, Rajah, i. 361
Brotherhood formed with trees by sucking their sap, ii. 19 _sq._
Brothers reviled by sisters for good luck, i. 279
Brown, A. R., ii. 254 _n._
Brown, Dr. George, i. 340
Brunhild, Queen of Iceland, ii. 306
Brutus, L. Junius, ii. 290, 291
Bryant, Jacob, i. 334
Buckthorn, a protection against witches, ii. 54, 191
Buddha, images of, drenched as a rain-charm, i. 308
Buddhas, living, i. 410 _sq._
Buddhist animism not a philosophical theory, ii. 13 _sq._
Bühler, G., ii. 367 _n._ 3, 369
Bulgaria, rain-making in, i. 274
Bull, the thunder-god compared to a, ii. 368
Bull-roarer used as a wind-charm, i. 324
Bull’s blood drunk as means of inspiration, i. 381 _sq._;
as ordeal, i. 382 _n._ 1
Bulls, white, sacrificed, ii. 188 _sq._
Bunjil Kraura, i. 324
Bunsen, on St. Hippolytus, i. 21 _n._ 2
Burglars, charms employed by, to cause sleep, i. 148 _sq._
Burgundians and their kings, i. 366
Burial alive, punishment of unfaithful virgins, ii. 244
—— customs intended to ensure re-incarnation, i. 101 _sqq._
Burma, magical images in, i. 62 _sq._
Burning of sacred trees or poles, ii. 141 _sq._
Burning-glass or mirror, fire kindled by, ii. 243, 244 _n._ 1
Buryats, the, ii. 32
Bush negroes of Surinam, ii. 385
Bushmen, i. 123
Butlers, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 _sq._, 205
Buttmann, P., i. 40 _n._ 2
Büttner, C. G., ii. 218
Byblus, Astarte at, i. 30
Cabbages, charm to make cabbages grow, i. 136 _sq._
Cactus, sacred, telepathy in search for, i. 123 _sq._
Cadys, ii. 281
Caeculus born from the fire, ii. 197
Caelian hill at Rome, ii. 185
Caesar, Julius, his villa at Nemi, i. 5
Caesars, their name derived from _caesaries_, ii. 180
Caingua Indians, the, ii. 258
Calah, ancient capital of Assyria, ii. 130
Caland, Dr. W., i. 229
Caldwell, Bishop R., i. 382
_Calica Puran_, i. 63
Caligula, his barges on the lake of Nemi, i. 5;
and the priest of Nemi, 11
Calmucks, race for a bride among the, ii. 301 _sq._
Cambodia, the regalia in, i. 365;
Kings of Fire and Water in, ii. 3 _sqq._
Cambridge, May Day custom at, ii. 62
Camden, W., ii. 53.
Camillus, his triumph, ii. 174 _n._ 2
Camphor, taboos observed in search for, i. 114 _sq._;
telepathy in search for, 124 _sq._
Candaules, ii. 281, 282
Candlemas, ii. 94
Cannibalism in Australia, i. 106 _sq._
Cantabrians, mother-kin among the, ii. 285
Canute, King of England, his marriage with Emma, ii. 282 _sq._
Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, i. 99, 100
Capena, the Porta, at Rome, i. 18
Capitol, temple of Jupiter on the, ii. 174, 176, 184
_Caprificatio_, ii. 314 _n._ 2
_Caprificus_, the wild fig-tree, ii. 314 _sq._
Car Nicobar, i. 314
Caribs, war custom of the, i. 134
Carna, nymph, ii. 190
Carpenter, son of, as a human god, i. 376
Carpet-snakes, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 90
Castor and Pollux, i. 49 _sq._
Cat in rain-charm, i. 289, 291, 308 _sq._
Cat’s cradle as a charm to catch the sun, i. 316 _sq._
Catlin, G., i. 356
Cato the Elder on dedication of Arician grove to Diana, i. 22, 23
Cato, on expiation, ii. 122
Cattle crowned, ii. 75, 126 _sq._, 339, 341;
charm to recover strayed, i. 212;
influence of tree-spirits on, ii. 55
—— stall, the, at Athens, ii. 137
Caul, superstitions as to, i. 187 _sq._, 190 _sq._, 199 _sq._
Caves, prehistoric paintings of animals in, i. 87 _n._ 1
Cecrops, ii. 277;
said to have instituted marriage, 284
Cedar, sacred, ii. 49, 50 _sq._;
smoke of, inhaled as mode of inspiration, i. 383 _sq._
—— tree, girl annually sacrificed to, ii. 17
—— wood burned as a religious rite, ii. 130
Celebes, i. 109;
magical virtue of regalia in, 362 _sqq._
Celtic divinity akin to Artemis, ii. 126
—— and Italian languages akin, ii. 189
—— Vestals, ii. 241 _n._ 1
Celts, their worship of the Huntress Artemis, ii. 125 _sq._;
their worship of the oak, 362 _sq._;
of Gaul, their harvest festival, i. 17;
of Ireland, their belief in the blighting effect of incest, ii. 116
Ceos, funeral customs in, i. 105
Ceremonies, initiatory, of Central Australian aborigines, i. 92 _sqq._
Chadwick, H. M., ii. 278 _n._ 1, 283 _n._ 1
Chaka, the Zulu despot, i. 350
Champion at English coronation ceremony, ii. 322
Chams, the, i. 120, 131, 144
Chariot in rain-charm, i. 309
—— and horses dedicated to the sun, i. 315
Charles II. touches for scrofula, i. 368 _sq._
Charms to ensure long life, i. 168 _sq._;
to prevent the sun from going down, 316 _sqq._
_See also_ Magic
Chastity observed for sake of absent persons, i. 123, 124, 125, 131;
practised to make the crops grow, ii. 104 _sqq._;
required of persons who handle dishes and food, 115 _sq._, 205;
Milton on, 118 _n._ 1;
as a virtue not understood by savages, 118;
observed by sacred men, perhaps the husbands of a goddess, 135, 136;
observed by sacred women, 137;
required in those who make fire by friction, 238 _sq._
_See also_ Continence
Chauci, the, ii. 353
Cheremiss, the, ii. 44, 49
Cherokees, homoeopathic magic of plants among the, i. 144, 146 _sq._;
homoeopathic magic of animals among the, i. 155 _sq._
Chibchas, the, i. 416
Chi-chi Mama, i. 276
Chiefs, supernatural power of, in Melanesia, i. 338 _sqq._;
as magicians, especially rain-makers, in Africa, 342 _sqq._;
not allowed to leave their premises, 349;
punished for drought and dearth, 352 _sqq._;
as priests, ii. 215 _sq._;
chosen from several families in rotation, 292 _sqq._
Chilcotin Indians, i. 312
Child’s Well at Oxford, ii. 161
Childbirth, Diana as goddess of, i. 12, ii. 128
Children, newborn, brought to the hearth, ii. 232
_Chili_, sacred cedar, ii. 49, 50 _sq._
China, emperors of, i. 47;
homoeopathic magic of city sites in, 169 _sq._;
the Emperor of, superior to the gods, 416 _sq._
_See also_ Chinese
Chinchvad, human gods at, i. 405 _sq._
Chinese, magical images among the, i. 60 _sq._
—— belief in spirits of plants, ii. 14
—— charms to ensure long life, i. 168 _sq._
—— emperor responsible for drought, i. 355
—— empire, incarnate human gods in the, i. 412 _sqq._
—— modes of compelling the rain-god to give rain, i. 297 _sqq._
—— superstition as to placenta (after-birth), i. 194
Chingilli, the, i. 99
Chios, kings of, i. 45
Chissumpe, the, i. 393
Chitomé, the, a pontiff of Congo, ii. 261
Christians, pretenders to divinity among, i. 407 _sqq._
Christs, Russian sect of the, i. 407 _sq._
Chuckchees, sacred fire-boards of the, ii. 225 _sq._
_Churinga_, in Australia, i. 88, 199, 335
Cimbrians, the, i. 331 _n._ 2
Ciminian forest, ii. 8
Circassians, their custom as to pear-trees, ii. 55 _sq._
Circumcision, pretence of new birth at, i. 76, 96 _sq._;
uses of blood shed at, 92, 94 _sq._;
suggested origin of, 96 _sq._
Cithaeron, Mount, ii. 140
Clans, paternal and maternal, of the Herero, ii. 217
Cleanliness promoted by contagious magic, i. 175, 342
Clisthenes and Hippoclides, ii. 307 _sq._
Clitus and Pallene, ii. 307
Clothes, sympathetic connexion between a person and his, i. 205-207
Clouds imitated by smoke, i. 249;
by stones, i. 256;
by rain-maker, 261, 262, 263
Clouds, magicians painted in imitation of, i. 323
Clove-trees in blossom treated like pregnant women, ii. 28
Cloves, ceremony to make cloves grow ii. 100
Clown in spring ceremonies, ii. 82, 89
Clytaemnestra, ii. 279
Cockatoos, ceremony for the magical multiplication of, i. 89
Coco-nut sacred, ii. 51
—— palms worshipped, ii. 16
Codrington, Dr. R. H., quoted, i. 227 _sq._, 338
Coligny calendar, i. 17 _n._ 2
Collatinus, L. Tarquinius, ii. 290
Columella, ii. 314;
quoted, 205
Combat, mortal, for the kingdom, ii. 322
Communism, tradition of sexual, ii. 284
Compelling rain-gods to give rain, i. 296 _sqq._
Complexity of social phenomena, i. 332
Comrie, ii. 161
Con or Cun, a thunder-god, ii. 370
Conception in women, supposed cause of, i. 100;
caused by trees, ii. 51, 56 _sq._, 316-318
Concord, temple of, at Rome, i. 11, 21 _n._ 2
Concordia, nurse of St. Hippolytus, i. 21 _n._ 2
Condor, the bird of the thunder-god, ii. 370
Confession of sins, i. 266
Conflicts, sanguinary, as rain-charm, i. 258
Conquerors sometimes leave a nominal kingship to the conquered, ii. 288
_sq._
“Consort, the divine,” ii. 131, 135
Consuls, the first, ii. 290
Consulship at Rome, institution of, ii. 290 _sq._
Contact or contagion in magic, law of, i. 52, 53
Contagious Magic, i. 174-214;
of teeth, 176-182;
of navel-string and afterbirth (placenta), 182-201;
of wound and weapon, 201 _sqq._;
of footprints, 207-212;
of other impressions, 213 _sq._
—— taboos, i. 117
Contest for the kingship at Whitsuntide, ii. 89
Contests for a bride, ii. 305 _sqq._
Continence required in magical ceremonies, i. 88;
required at rain-making ceremonies, 257, 259;
required of parents of twins, 266;
practised in order to make the crops grow, ii. 104 _sqq._
_See also_ Chastity
Conway, Professor R. S., ii. 379 _n._ 5
Conybeare, F. C., i. 407 _n._ 3
Cook, A. B., i. 23 _n._, 40 _n._ 3 and 4, 42 _n._ 1, ii. 172 _n._ 3,
173 _n._ 2, 177 _n._ 6, 178 _n._ 3, 187 _n._ 4, 220 _n._ 3, 290 _n._
3, 307 _n._ 2, 321 _n._ 1, 358 _n._ 4, 379 _n._ 4 and _n._ 5, 380
_n._ 4, 383 _n._ 2
Cooks, Roman, required to be chaste, ii. 115 _sq._, 205
Cora Indians, i. 55 _sq._
Corc, his purification, ii. 116
Corn, defiled persons kept from the, ii. 112;
reaped ear of, displayed at mysteries of Eleusis, 138 _sq._
—— -mother, the, at Eleusis, ii. 139
—— -reaping in Greece, date of, i. 32
Cornel-tree, sacred, ii. 10
Cornish customs on May Day, ii. 52, 67
_Corp chre_, i. 68, 69
Corpus Christi Day, ii. 163
Cos, King of, i. 45
Crab in rain-charm, i. 289
Crannogs, ii. 352
Crannon in Thessaly, i. 309
Crawley, E., i. 201 _n._ 1
Crocodiles, girls sacrificed to, ii. 152
Cronus and Zeus, ii. 323
Crooke, W., i. 406 _n._ 1, ii. 57 _n._ 4, 288 _n._ 1
Cross River, i. 349
Crossbills in magic, i. 81 _sq._
Crown of oak leaves, ii. 175, 176 _sq._, 184
Crowning cattle, ii. 75, 126 _sq._, 339, 341
—— dogs, custom of, i. 14, ii. 125 _sq._, 127 _sq._
Crowns, magical virtue of royal, i. 364 _sq._;
of birch at Whitsuntide, ii. 64;
or wreaths, custom of wearing, 127 _n._ 2
Crows in magic, i. 83
Crystals, magic of, i. 176;
used in rain-making, 254, 255, 304, 345, 346
Cumont, Professor Franz, ii. 310
Cup-and-ball as a charm to hasten the return of the sun, i. 317
Curses, public, i. 45;
supposed beneficial effects of, i. 279 _sqq._
Cursing at sowing, i. 281
—— fishermen and hunters for good luck, i. 280 _sq._
Curtiss, Professor S. I., i. 402
Cuzco, ii. 243
Cybele, ii. 144 _sq._;
and Attis, i. 18, 21, 40, 41
Cyrene, kingship at, i. 47
Daedala, festival of the, ii. 140 _sq._
Dainyal or Sibyl, i. 383
Dalai Lama of Lhasa, i. 411 _sq._
Damaras or Herero, their fire-customs, ii. 211 _sqq._
Damia and Auxesia, i. 39
Danaus, ii. 301
Dance at giving of oracles, i. 379;
of milkmaids on May-day, ii. 52
Dances of women while men are away fighting, i. 131-134;
as means of inspiration, 408 _n._ 1;
round sacred trees, ii. 47, 55;
found the May-pole, 65, 69, 74 _sq._;
on graves, 183 _n._ 2
Dancing as a fertility charm, i. 137 _sqq._, ii. 106
Danes, female descent of the kingship among the, ii. 282 _sq._
Daphnephoria, ii. 63 _n._ 2
Date-month, the, ii. 25
—— -palm, artificial fertilisation of the, ii. 24 _sq._
Dawn, the rosy, i. 334
Day of Stones, i. 279
De Groot, J. J. M., i. 416 _sq._, ii. 14
Dead, hair offered to the, i. 31;
pretence of new birth at return of supposed dead man, 75;
homoeopathic magic of the, 147 _sqq._;
sacrifices to, 163;
making rain by means of the, 284 _sqq._;
trees animated by the souls of the, ii. 29 _sqq._;
the illustrious, represented by masked men, 178;
thunder and lightning made by the, 183;
spirits of the, in wild fig-trees, 317
Death, pretence of, in magic, i. 84;
infection of, 143;
at ebb tide, 167 _sq._;
puppet called, carried out of village, ii. 73 _sq._
Deceiving the spirits of plants and trees, ii. 22 _sqq._
Deir el Bahari, paintings at, ii. 131, 133
Deities duplicated through dialectical differences in their names, ii.
380 _sq._
Dejanira and Achelous, ii. 161 _sq._
Delivery, easy, granted to women by trees, ii. 57 _sq._
Delos, graves of Hyperborean maidens in, i. 28, 33 _sqq._;
Apollo and Artemis at, 28, 32-35
Delphi, Apollo at, i. 28;
new fire sent from, 32 _sq._;
King of, 45 _sq._
Demeter and Zeus, their marriage at Eleusis, ii. 138 _sq._
Demetrius Poliorcetes deified at Athens, i. 390 _sq._
Denmark, Whitsun bride in, ii. 91 _sq._;
the beech-woods of, 351
Dennett, R. E., ii. 277 _n._ 1
_Deòce_, a divine spirit, i. 410
Departmental kings of nature, ii. 1 _sqq._
Derry, the oaks of, ii. 242 _sq._
Devil-dancers, i. 382
Dew on May morning, custom of washing in the, ii. 54, 67, 327, 339;
rolling in the, 333
“Dew-treading” in Holland, ii. 104 _n._ 2
Dhurma Rajah, i. 410
_DI_, Aryan root meaning “bright,” ii. 381
Dia, grove of the goddess, ii. 122
Dialectical differences a cause of the duplication of deities, ii. 382
_sq._
Diana, her sanctuary at Nemi, i. 2 _sqq._;
as huntress at Nemi, 6;
as patroness of cattle, 7, ii. 124;
her priest at Nemi, i. 8 _sqq._;
the Tauric, 10 _sq._, 24;
as goddess of childbirth, 12, ii. 128;
as Vesta at Nemi, i. 13, ii. 380;
in relation to vines, i. 15 _sq._;
the mate of the King of the Wood at Nemi, 40, 41, ii. 380;
as a goddess of fertility, 120 _sqq._;
in relation to animals of the woods, 124, 125 _sqq._;
as the moon, 128;
the goddess of fruits, 128;
as a goddess of the oak at Nemi, 380
—— and Dianus, ii. 376 _sqq._
—— (Jana), a double of Juno, ii. 190 _sq._, 381 _sq._
“Diana’s Mirror,” i. 1
Dianus (Janus), a double of Jupiter, ii. 190 _sq._, 381 _sq._
Diels, Professor H., i. 390 _n._ 2
Dieri, the, i. 90, 177, ii. 29;
rain-making ceremonies of the, i. 255 _sqq._
Dinka or Denka nation, i. 347
Diodorus Siculus, i. 74
Diomede, ii. 278;
at Troezen, i. 27;
sacred grove of, 27
Dione, wife of Zeus at Dodona, ii. 189;
the old consort of Zeus, 381, 382
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, quoted, ii. 202 _sq._
Dionysus, marriage of, to the Queen of Athens, ii. 136 _sq._;
and Ariadne, 138
Discovery of fire, ii. 255 _sqq._
Disease-makers in Tana, i. 341 _sq._
“Divine consort, the,” ii. 131
Divinity of kings, i. 48 _sqq._;
among the Hovas, 397;
among the Malays, 398;
in great historical empires, 415 _sqq._;
growth of the conception of the, ii. 376 _sqq._
—— of the Brahmans, i. 403 _sq._
Division of labour in relation to social progress, i. 420
Diwali, the feast of lamps, ii. 160
Dixon, Dr. W. E., ii. 139 _n._ 1
Djakuns, their mode of making fire, ii. 236
Djuldjul, i. 274
Dodola, the, i. 273
Dodona, oracular spring at, ii. 172;
Zeus at, 177;
Zeus and Dione at, 189;
oracular oak at, 358
Dog, black, sacrificed for rain, i. 291;
used to stop rain, 303
Dogs crowned, i. 14, ii. 125 _sq._, 127 _sq._
Dollar-bird associated with rain, i. 287 _sq._
Domalde, a Swedish king, i. 366 _sq._
Donar or Thunar, the German thunder god, ii. 364
Doors, Janus as a god of, ii. 383 _sq._
Doreh, in New Guinea, i. 125
Dos Santos, J., i. 392
Double-headed fetish among the Bush negroes of Surinam, ii. 385;
Janus, explanation of, ii. 384 _sq._
Dragon, rain-god represented as, i. 297;
or serpent of water, ii. 155 _sqq._;
of Rouen, destroyed by St. Romain, 164 _sqq._;
the Slaying of the, at Furth, 163 _sq._
Dramas, magical, to promote vegetation, ii. 120
Dramatic exhibitions sometimes originate in magical rites, ii. 142;
weddings of gods and goddesses, ii. 121
Draupadi or Krishna, ii. 306
Dreams, modes of counteracting evil, i. 172 _sq._
Drenching people with water as a rain-charm, i. 250, 251, 269 _sq._,
272, 273, 274, 275, 277 _sq._, ii. 77
Dropsy, ancient Greek mode of preventing, i. 78
Drought supposed to be caused by unburied dead, i. 287;
and dearth, chiefs and kings punished for, 352 _sqq._;
supposed to be caused by sexual crime, ii. 110, 111, 113
Drowning as a punishment, ii. 109, 110, 111;
sacrifice by, 364
Druids, oak-worship of the, ii. 9;
of Gaul, their sacrifices of white bulls, 189;
female, 241 _n._ 1;
venerate the oak and the mistletoe, 358, 362;
derivation of the name, 363
Drums, homoeopathic magic at the making of, i. 134 _sq._;
beaten as a charm against a storm, 328
Drynemetum, ii. 363
Du Pratz, ii. 263 _n._ 1
Dudulé, the, i. 274
Duplication of deities an effect of dialectical differences, ii. 382
_sq._
Durostorum, martyrdom of St. Dasius at, ii. 310 _n._ 1
Dwarf tribes of Central Africa, ii. 255
Dyaks of Borneo, the, i. 73, 127, ii. 13;
the Sea, 127
Ea, the inventor of magic, i. 240
Eagle hunters, taboos observed by, i. 116;
charms employed by, 149 _sq._
—— -wood, telepathy in search for, i. 120
Eagles, sacred, ii. 11
Earth and Sun, marriage of the, ii. 98 _sq._, 148
—— goddess, pregnant cows sacrificed to, ii. 229
Earthquakes supposed to be caused by incest, ii. 111
Ebb tide, death at, i. 167 _sq._
Eclipse, ceremonies at an, i. 311 _sq._
Economic progress a condition of intellectual progress, i. 218
Egeria, water nymph at Nemi, i. 17-19, 41, ii. 171 _sq._;
an oak-nymph, 172;
a double of Diana, 380;
and Numa, i. 18, ii. 172 _sqq._, 193, 380
Egerius Baebius or Laevius, i. 22
Eggs collected at spring ceremonies, ii. 65, 78, 81, 84, 85;
or egg-shells, painted, in spring ceremonies, 63, 65;
in purificatory rite, 109
Egypt, magical images in ancient, i. 66, 67 _sq._;
magicians in ancient, 225;
confusion of magic and religion in ancient, 230 _sq._;
kings of, deified in their lifetime, 418 _sqq._;
the Queen of, married to the god Ammon, ii. 131 _sq._;
king of, masquerading as Ammon, 133
Egyptian kings and queens, their begetting and birth depicted on the
monuments, ii. 131 _sqq._
—— worship of sacred beasts, i. 29 _sq._
Egyptians, the ancient, worshipped men and animals, i. 389 _sq._;
sycamores worshipped by the ancient, ii. 15
_Eiresione_, ii. 48
Elder-tree, ii. 43
Elective and hereditary monarchy, combination of the two, ii. 292
_sqq._
Electric lights on mast-heads, spears, etc., i. 49 _sq._
Elephant-hunters, telepathy of, i. 123
Eleusis, mysteries of, ii. 138 _sq._
Elipandus of Toledo, i. 407
Elizabeth, Queen, i. 368
_Emblica officinalis_, a sacred tree, ii. 51
Emin Pasha, ii. 297 _n._ 7
Empedocles, his claim to divinity, i. 390
Emus, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 85 _sq._
Endymion, ii. 299
Ephesian Artemis, ii. 128
Ephesus, Artemis of, i. 37 _sq._;
nominal kings at, 47;
the Essenes or King Bees at, ii. 135 _sq._
Epicurus, sacrifices offered to, i. 105
Erechtheum, the, ii. 199
Erechtheus and Erichthonius, ii. 199
Erhard, Professor A., ii. 310 _n._ 1
Erichthonius, i. 21;
and Erechtheus, ii. 199
Eruptions of volcanoes supposed to be caused by incest, ii. 111
Esquiline hill at Rome, ii. 185
Esquimaux, i. 70, 113, 121, 316, 327
Essenes or King Bees at Ephesus, i. 47 _n._ 2, ii. 135 _sq._
Esthonian folk-tale of a tree-elf, ii. 71 _sqq._;
marriage custom, 234
Esthonians, St. George’s Day among the, ii. 330 _sqq._;
their thunder-god Taara, 367
Etruscans, female kinship among the, ii. 286 _sq._
Eudanemi, the, at Athens, i. 325 _n._ 1
Europe, contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210 _sq._;
confusion of magic and religion in modern, 231-233;
forests of ancient, ii. 7 _sq._;
relics of tree-worship in modern, 59 _sqq._;
diffusion of the oak in, 349 _sqq._
—— South-Eastern, rain-making ceremonies in, i. 272 _sqq._
Euros, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 89
Evelyn, John, i. 369
Evergreen oak, the Golden Bough grew on, ii. 379
—— trees in Italy, i. 8
Evolution of kings out of magicians or medicine-men, i. 420 _sq._;
industrial, from uniformity to diversity of function, 421;
political, from democracy to despotism, 421
Exaggerations of anthropological theories, i. 333
Exogamy, ii. 271
Expiation for adultery or fornication, ii. 107 _sq._;
for incest, 115, 116
External soul in afterbirth or navel-string, i. 200 _sq._
Extinction of fires at king’s death, ii. 261 _sqq._, 267;
in houses after any death, 267 _sq._
Ezekiel, i. 87 _n._ 1
Falerii, Juno at, ii. 190 _n._ 2
Falstaff, death of, i. 168
Families, royal, kings chosen from several, ii. 292 _sqq._
Fan tribe, i. 349
Farnell, Dr. L. R., i. 36, ii. 379 _n._ 5
Fasting obligatory, i. 124, 131
Father Jove and Mother Vesta, ii. 227 _sqq._
Fattest men chosen kings, ii. 297
February, first of, St. Bride’s day, i. 94 _sq._
Fehrle, E., ii. 199 _n._ 5
Female descent of the kingship in Rome, ii. 270 _sqq._;
in Africa, 274 _sqq._;
in Greece, 277 _sq._;
in Scandinavia, 279 _sq._;
in Lydia, 281 _sq._;
among Danes and Saxons, 282 _sq._
—— kinship in descent of the Roman kingship, ii. 271;
indifference to paternity of kings under female kinship, 274 _sqq._;
at Athens, 277;
indifference to paternity in general under, 282;
among the Aryans, 283 _sqq._
_See also_ Mother-kin
Female slaves, licence accorded to them on the _Nonae Caprotinae_, ii.
313 _sq._
Feng and Wiglet, ii. 281, 283
Fennel, fire carried in giant, ii. 260
Fertilisation, artificial, of the date palm, ii. 24 _sq._;
of the fig-tree, 314 _sq._
—— of women by the wild fig-tree, ii. 316;
by the wild banana-tree, 318
Fertilising virtue attributed to trees, ii. 49 _sqq._, 316 _sqq._
Fertility, Diana as a goddess of, ii. 120 _sqq._;
the thunder-god conceived as a deity of fertility, 368 _sqq._
_Fictores Vestalium, fictores Pontificum_, ii. 204
_Ficus Ruminalis_, ii. 318
_Fierte_ or shrine of St. Romain, ii. 167, 168, 170 _n._ 1
Fig, as an article of diet, ii. 315 _sq._
Fig-tree of Romulus (_ficus Ruminalis_), ii. 10, 318
—— artificial fertilisation (_caprificatio_) of the, ii. 314 _sq._
—— sacred, ii. 44, 99, 249, 250
—— the wild, a male, ii. 314 _sq._;
supposed to fertilise women, 316 _sq._;
haunted by spirits of the dead, 317
Fiji, catching the sun in, i. 316
Fijians, gods of the, i. 389
Finnish-Ugrian peoples, sacred groves of the, ii. 10 _sq._
Finnish wizards and witches, i. 325
Fire in the worship of Diana, i. 12 _sq._;
supposed to be subject to Catholic priests, 231;
used to stop rain, 252 _sq._;
as a charm to rekindle the sun, 311, 313;
of Vesta at Rome fed with oak wood, ii. 186;
birth from the, 195 _sqq._;
the king’s, 195 _sqq._;
impregnation of women by, 195 _sqq._, 230 _sqq._, 234;
taken from sacred hearth to found a new village, 216;
on the hearth, souls of ancestors in the, 232;
reasons for attributing a procreative virtue to, 233 _sq._;
made jointly by man and woman or boy and girl, 235 _sqq._;
custom of extinguishing fire and rekindling it by the friction of
wood, 237 _sq._;
need-fire made by married men, 238;
holy, not to be blown upon with the breath, 240, 241;
tribes reported to be ignorant of the art of kindling, 253 _sqq._;
discovery of, by mankind, 255 _sqq._;
carried about by savages, 257 _sqq._;
kept burning in houses of chiefs and kings, 260 _sqq._;
carried before king or chief, 263 _sq._;
a symbol of life, 265;
leaping over a, 327, 329
Fire and Water, Kings of, ii. 3 _sqq._
—— -bearer, the, i. 33
—— -boards, sacred, of the Chuckchees and Koryaks, ii. 225 _sq._
—— customs of the Herero or Damaras, ii. 211 _sqq._;
compared to those of the Romans, ii. 227 _sqq._
—— -drill, the, ii. 207 _sqq._, 248 _sqq._, 258 _sq._, 263;
the kindling of fire by it regarded by savages as a form of sexual
intercourse, 208 _sqq._, 218, 233, 235 _sq._, 239, 249 _sq._;
of the Herero, 217 _sq._
—— -god married to a human virgin, ii. 195 _sqq._
—— kindled by the friction of wood, ii. 207 _sqq._, 235 _sqq._, 243,
248 _sqq._, 258 _sq._, 262, 263, 336, 366, 372;
from ancestral tree, 221, 233 _sq._;
by natural causes, 256;
by lightning, 263
—— “living,” ii. 237;
a charm against witchcraft, 336
—— “new,” ii. 237;
sent from Delos and Delphi, i. 32 _sq._;
made at beginning of king’s reign, ii. 262, 267;
made at Midsummer, 243
—— -priests (_Agnihotris_) of the Brahmans, ii. 247 _sqq._
—— -sticks of fire-drill regarded as male and female, ii. 208 _sqq._,
235, 238, 239, 248 _sqq._
—— -worship a form of ancestor-worship, ii. 221
Fires ceremonially extinguished, i. 33;
kept up for sake of absent persons, 120 _sq._, 128, 129;
extinguished at death of kings, ii. 261 _sqq._, 267;
at any death, 267 _sq._;
ceremonial, kindled by the friction of oak-wood, 372
—— perpetual, of Vesta, i. 13 _sq._;
in Ireland, ii. 240 _sqq._;
in Peru and Mexico, 243 _sqq._;
origin of, 253 _sqq._;
associated with royal dignity, 261 _sqq._;
of oak-wood, 365, 366
First-fruits, dedication of, i. 32
Fish, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 90;
in rain-charm, 288 _sq._
Fishermen, Shetland, i. 69
—— and hunters cursed for good luck, i. 280 _sq._
Fishing and hunting, homoeopathic magic in, i. 108 _sqq._;
telepathy in, 120 _sqq._
Fison, Rev. Lorimer, i. 316, 331 _n._ 2, 378, 389 _n._ 3, ii. 13 _n._ 1
Fladda’s chapel, i. 322
_Flamen_, derivation of the name, ii. 235, 247
—— Dialis, the, ii. 179, 235, 246, 247, 248;
an embodiment of Jupiter, 191 _sq._
Flaminica, the, ii. 191, 235
Flax, charms to make flax grow tall, i. 138 _sq._, ii. 86, 164
Flight of the king (_Regifugium_) at Rome, ii. 308 _sqq._, 311 _n._ 4;
of sacrificer after the sacrifice, 309;
of the People at Rome, 319 _n._ 1
Flint implements supposed to be thunderbolts, ii. 374
Floquet, A., ii. 168, 169
Flowers, divination from, ii. 345
Food, homoeopathic magic for the supply of, i. 85 _sqq._
Foods tabooed, i. 117 _sqq._
Footprints, contagious magic of, i. 207-212
“Forced fire” or need-fire, ii. 238
Foreigners marry princesses and receive the kingdom with them, ii. 270
_sqq._
Foreskins removed at circumcision, uses of, i. 92 _sq._, 95;
used in rain-making, 256 _sq._
Forests of ancient Europe, ii. 7 _sq._
Fortuna and Servius Tullius, ii. 193 _n._ 1, 272
Forum at Rome, prehistoric cemetery in the, ii. 186, 202
Foucart, P., ii. 139 _n._ 1
Fowler, W. Warde, ii. 311 _n._ 4, 319 _n._ 1, 327 _n._ 2, 329 _n._ 6,
383 _n._ 3
Fox in magic, i. 151
_Fratres Arvales_, ii. 122
Free Spirit, Brethren of the, i. 408
French peasants ascribe magical powers to priests, i. 231-233
Frey, the god of fertility and his human wife, ii. 143 _sq._;
his image and festival at Upsala, 364 _sq._
Friction of wood, fire kindled by, ii. 207 _sqq._, 235 _sqq._, 243, 248
_sqq._, 258 _sq._, 262, 263, 336, 366, 372
Frog, magic of, i. 151;
worshipped, 294 _sq._;
love-charm made from the bone of a, ii. 345
—— flayer, the, ii. 86
Frogs in relation to rain, i. 292 _sqq._
Froth from a mill-wheel as a charm against witches, ii. 340
Fruit-trees fertilised by women, i. 140 _sq._
Fruits blessed on day of Assumption of the Virgin, i. 14 _sqq._;
Artemis and Diana as patronesses of, 15 _sq._
Fuegians, the, ii. 258
Fumigating flocks and herds as a charm against witchcraft, ii. 327,
330, 335, 336, 339, 343
Furth in Bavaria, the Slaying of the Dragon at, ii. 163 _sqq._
Furtwängler, A., i. 309 _n._ 6
Futuna, i. 388
_Fylgia_ or guardian spirit in Iceland, i. 200
Galatians, their Celtic language, ii. 126 _n._ 2
Galelareesc, the, i. 110, 113, 131, 143, 145, ii. 22
Gallas, kings of the, i. 48;
sacred trees of the, ii. 34
Garcilasso de la Vega, ii. 244 _n._ 1
Gardiner, Professor J. Stanley, ii. 154
_Gargouille_ or dragon destroyed by St. Romain, ii. 167
Garlands on May Day, ii. 60 _sqq._, 90 _sq._
Gaul, the Druids of, ii. 189
Gauri, harvest-goddess, ii. 77 _sq._
Gayos, the, ii. 125
Gennep, A. van, ii. 385 _n._ 1
Geomancy in China, i. 170
George, Green, ii. 75, 76, 79
Germans, worship of women among the ancient, i. 391;
tree-worship among the ancient, ii. 8 _sq._;
evidence of mother-kin among the, 285;
worship of the oak among the ancient, 363 _sq._
_Gerontocracy_ in Australia, i. 335
Gervasius of Tilbury, i. 301
Getae, the, i. 392
Ghosts in Melanesia, supposed powers of, i. 338 _sq._
Gilyaks, the, i. 122, ii. 38
Girl annually sacrificed to cedar-tree, ii. 17
Girls married to nets, ii. 147;
sacrificed to crocodiles, 152
Glory, the Hand of, i. 149
Glover, T. R., ii. 231 _n._ 6
Goat, blood of, drunk as means of inspiration, i. 382, 383
God, Bride of, i. 276;
savage ideas of, different from those of civilised men, 375 _sq._
“God-boxes,” i. 378
Gods viewed as magicians, i. 240 _sqq._, 375;
sacrifice themselves by fire, 315 _n._ 1;
conception of, slowly evolved, 373 _sq._;
incarnate human, 373 _sqq._;
gods and men, no sharp line of distinction between, in Fiji, 389;
and goddesses, dramatic weddings of, ii. 121;
the marriage of the, 129 _sqq._;
married to women, 129 _sqq._, 143 _sq._, 146 _sq._, 149 _sqq._
Gold in magic, i. 80 _sq._
Golden Bough plucked by Aeneas, i. 11, ii. 379;
the breaking of it not a piece of bravado, i. 123 _sq._;
grew on an evergreen oak, ii. 379
Golden lamb of Mycenae, i. 365
“Golden summer,” the, i. 32
Gonds, their belief in reincarnation, i. 104 _sq._
Gongs beaten in a storm, i. 328 _sq._;
at Dodona, ii. 358
Government of old men in aboriginal Australia, i. 334 _sq._
Grafting, superstitious ceremony at, ii. 100
Granger, Professor F., i. 42 _n._ 1
_Grasausläuten_, ii. 344
Grass King, the, ii. 85 _sq._
—— seed, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 87 _sq._;
continence at magical ceremony for growth of, ii. 105
Graveclothes, homoeopathic magic of, in China, i. 168 _sq._
Graves, rain-charms at, i. 268, 286, 291;
trees planted on graves, ii. 31;
dances on, 183 _n._ 2;
of Hyperborean maidens at Delos, i. 28, 33 _sqq._
Great Sun, the, title of chief, ii. 262, 263
Greece, priestly kings in, i. 44 _sqq._;
kings and chiefs sacred or divine in ancient, 366;
human gods in ancient, 390 _sq._;
forests of, ii. 8;
female descent of kingship in ancient, 278 _sq._
Greek kings called Zeus, ii. 177, 361
Greeks, the modern, rain-making ceremonies among, i. 272 _sq._;
and Romans, rain-charms among the ancient, 309 _sq._
Green boughs a charm against witches, ii. 52-55, 127, 342 _sq._
—— George, ii. 75, 76, 79, 343
—— Thursday, ii. 333
Greenwich-hill, custom of rolling down, ii. 103
Gregory of Tours, ii. 144
Grimm, J., ii. 8, 362 _n._ 6, 364
Grizzly bears supposed to be related to human twins, i. 264 _sq._
Groves, sacred, ii. 10 _sq._, 44;
Arician, i. 20, 22, ii. 115;
in Chios, i. 45;
in ancient Greece and Rome, ii. 121 _sqq._
Grunau, Simon, ii. 366 _n._ 2
Guanches of Teneriffe, i. 303
Guardian spirit associated with caul, i. 199 _sq._
Guaycurus, the, i. 330
Gunkel, H., i. 101 _n._ 2
Gunnar Helming, ii. 144
Gunputty, elephant-headed god, human incarnation of, i. 405 _sq._
Gyges, ii. 281, 282
Gypsies, Green George among the, ii. 75 _sq._
Gypsy ceremonies for stopping rain, i. 295 _sq._
Hack-thorn sacred, ii. 48
Haddon, Dr. A. C., i. 262
Hahn, Dr. C. H., ii. 213 _n._ 2
Haida Indians, i. 70, 133
Hair offered to gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, i. 28 _sq._;
offered to the dead, 31, 102;
offered to rivers, 31;
clippings of, used in magic, 57, 64, 65, 66;
charms to make hair grow, 83, 145, 153 _sq._, 154;
loose as a charm, 136;
human, used in rain-making, 251 _sq._;
long, a symbol of royalty, ii. 180
Hakea flowers, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 86
Hakim Singh, i. 409
Halford in Warwickshire, May Day customs at, ii. 88 _sq._
Hamlet, ii. 281, 291
Hammer worshipped, i. 317 _sq._
Hammurabi, code of, ii. 130
Hand of Glory, i. 149
Hardy, Thomas, i. 136
Hares as witches, i. 212, ii. 53
Harran, the heathen of, i. 383, ii. 25, 100 _n._ 2
Harris, J. Rendel, i. 15 _n._ 1, 21 _n._ 2
Harrison, Miss J. E., ii. 137 _n._ 1, 139 _n._ 1
Hartland, E. S., i. 52 _n._ 1, ii. 156 _n._ 2
Harvest in Greece, date of, i. 32
—— May, the, ii. 47 _sq._
Hatshopsitou, birth of Queen, ii. 131 _sqq._
Hawaii, insignia of royal family of, i. 388 _n._ 3
Hawthorn on May Day, ii. 52, 60;
a protection against witches, 55, 127
Head-hunters, rules observed by people at home in absence of, i. 129
Headmen of totem clans in Central Australia, i. 335
Heads, custom of moulding heads artificially, ii. 297 _sq._
Hearn, Dr. W. E., ii. 283 _n._ 5
Hearth, the king’s, at Rome, ii. 195, 200, 206;
sacred, of the Herero, 213, 214;
the sacred, seat of the ancestral spirits, 221;
custom of leading a bride round the, 230, 231;
new-born children brought to the, 232
Hearts of men and animals offered to the sun, i. 315
Heaven, vault of, imitated in rain-charm, i. 261, 262
Heavenly Master, the, i. 413
Hebrew prohibition of images, i. 87 _n._ 1
—— prophets, their ethical religion, i. 223
Hebrews, their notion of the blighting effect of sexual crime, ii. 114
_sq._
Hegel on magic and religion, i. 235 _n._ 1, 423 _sqq._
Hehn, V., on evergreens in Italy, i. 8 _n._ 4
_Heimskringla_, ii. 280
Heine, H., _Pilgrimage to Kevlaar_, i. 77
Hekaerge and Hekaergos, i. 33, 34, 35
_Helaga_, taboo, ii. 106 _n._ 2
Helbig, W., i. 20 _n._ 5
Helernus, grove of, ii. 190 _sq._
Hellebore, curses at cutting black, i. 281
Hemlock as an anaphrodisiac, ii. 138, 139 _n._ 1
Hemp, charms to make hemp grow tall, i. 137 _sq._
Heno, the thunder-spirit of the Iroquois, ii. 369 _sq._
Hera and Hercules, i. 74
Hercules, sacrifice to, i. 281
—— and Achelous, ii. 162
—— and Hera, i. 74
—— and Omphale, ii. 281
Hercynian forest, the, ii. 7, 354;
etymology of the name, 354 _n._ 2
Hereditary and elective monarchy, combination of the two, ii. 292
_sqq._
Herero or Damaras, their fire-customs, ii. 211 _sqq._
Hermutrude, legendary queen of Scotland, ii. 281
Herodotus, i. 49, 331
Hersilia, a Sabine goddess, ii. 193 _n._ 1
Heyne, C. G., ii. 329 _n._ 1
Hidatsa Indians, ii. 12
Hierapolis, i. 29
Hierophant at Eleusis temporarily deprived of his virility, ii. 138
Highlands of Scotland, St. Bride’s day in, ii. 94
Hindoo Koosh, sacred cedar of the, i. 383;
the Kafirs of the, 385
—— Trinity, i. 225
Hindoos, magical images among the, i. 63 _sqq._
Hippoclides and Clisthenes, ii. 307 _sq._
Hippocrates, sacrifices offered to, i. 105
Hippodamia and Pelops, ii. 279, 299 _sq._
Hippolytus in relation to Virbius at Nemi, i. 19 _sq._;
offerings of hair to, 28
—— and Artemis, i. 19 _sq._, 24 _sqq._
—— Saint, martyrdom of, i. 21
Hirn, Y., i. 52 _n._ 1, 54 _n._ 1
Hirt, Professor H., ii. 367 _n._ 3
Hobby Horse at Padstow, ii. 68
Hobley, C. W., ii. 316
Hog’s blood, purifying virtue of, i. 107
Holed stone in magic, i. 313
Holland, Whitsuntide customs in, ii. 104
Holy Basil, ii. 26
Homoeopathic taboos, i. 116;
magic for the making of rain, 247 _sqq._
_See also_ Magic
Hopi Indians, the, ii. 208 _sq._
Horse, sacred, i. 364;
sacrificed at Rome in October, ii. 229, 326
Horses excluded from Arician grove, i. 20;
dedicated by Hippolytus to Aesculapius, 21 _n._ 2, 27;
branded with mark of wolf, 27;
in relation to Diomede, 27;
sacrifice of white, 27;
sacrificed to the sun, 315 _sq._;
sacrificed to trees, ii. 16;
sanctity of white, 174 _n._ 2;
sacrifices for, on St. George’s Day, 332, 336 _sq._
Horus, the golden, i. 418
Hos, the, of Togoland, i. 396 _sq._, ii. 19, 370
Hot water drunk as a charm, i. 129
House-timber, homoeopathic magic of, i. 146
Housebreakers, charms employed by, to cause sleep, i. 148 _sq._
Hovas, divinity of kings among the, i. 397
Howitt, A. W., i. 176, 207, 208
Hubert and Mauss, Messrs., i. 111 _n._ 2
Huichol Indians, i. 71, 123
Human gods, i. 373 _sqq._
—— victims sacrificed to water-spirits, ii. 157 _sqq._
Humboldt, A. von, i. 416
Hunters employ contagious magic of footprints, i. 211 _sq._
Huntin, a tree-god, ii. 15
Hunting and fishing, homoeopathic magic in, i. 108 _sqq._;
telepathy in, 120 _sqq._
“Hurling” for a bride, ii. 305 _sq._
Hurons, the, ii. 147;
reincarnation among the, i. 105;
their mode of counteracting an evil dream, 172 _sq._
Husbands, spiritual, ii. 316 _sq._
Hut-urns of ancient Latins, ii. 201 _sq._
Huts, round, of the ancient Latins, ii. 200 _sqq._;
in Africa, 227 _n._ 3
Huzuls, the, i. 113, 137;
their precautions against witches, ii. 336
Hymettus, ii. 360
Hyperborean maidens at Delos, i. 33
Ibn Batutah, ii. 153
Icarius, ii. 300
Iceland, superstitions as to the caul in, i. 199 _sqq._
Iddah, king of, i. 396
Igaras, succession to the kingship among the, ii. 294
Illicit love supposed to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 _sqq._
Images, Hebrew prohibition of, i. 87 _n._ 1
—— magical, to injure people, i. 55 _sqq._;
to procure offspring, 70-74;
to win love, 77
Impressions, bodily, contagious magic of, i. 213 _sq._
Incarnate human gods, i. 373 _sqq._
Incarnation of gods in human form temporary or permanent, i. 376;
examples of temporary incarnation, 376 _sqq._;
examples of permanent incarnation, 386 _sqq._;
mystery of, 396 _n._ 5
Incas, the children of the Sun, i. 415
Incense, fumes of, inhaled to produce inspiration, i. 379, 384
—— -gatherers, chastity of, ii. 106 _sq._
Incest, blighting effects attributed to, ii. 108, 110 _sq._, 113, 115
_sqq._;
of domestic animals abhorred by the Basoga, 112 _sq._;
of animals employed as a rain-charm, 113
India, ancient, confusion of magic and religion in, i. 228 _sq._;
magical power of kings in, 366;
incarnate human gods in, 376, 402 _sqq._
Indifference to paternity of kings under female kinship, ii. 274 _sqq._
Indra, thunderbolt of, i. 269
Industrial evolution from uniformity to diversity of function, i. 421
Infidelity of wife disastrous to absent husband, i. 123, 131
Influence of the sexes on vegetation, ii. 97 _sqq._
Initiatory ceremonies of Central Australian aborigines, i. 92 _sqq._
—— rites of Australian aborigines, suggested explanation of, i. 106.
Inquisition, the, i. 407, 408
Insects, homoeopathic magic of, i. 152
Inspiration, i. 376 _sqq._;
by incense, 379;
by blood, 381 _sqq._;
by sacred plant or tree, 383 _sqq._;
of victims, 384 _sqq._
Inspired or religious type of man-god, i. 244
—— priests and priestesses, i. 377 _sqq._
Intellectual progress dependent on economic progress, i. 218
Intercourse of the sexes practised to make the crops and fruits grow,
ii. 98 _sqq._
_Intichiuma_, magical totemic ceremonies in Central Australia, i. 85
Invulnerability, charm to produce, i. 146 _sq._
Ireland, perpetual fires in, ii. 240 _sqq._
—— sacred oak groves in ancient, 242 _sq._
Irish kings, magical virtues attributed to, i. 367
Irle, J., ii. 223 _n._ 2
Iron, homoeopathic magic of, i. 159 _sq._
Iroquois, the, ii. 12;
their thunder-god, 369 _sq._
Isle of Man, St. Bridget in the, ii. 94 _sq._
—— of May, ii. 161
Ivy chewed by Bachanals, i. 384;
in fire-making, ii. 251 _sq._
Jack-in-the-Green, ii. 82
Jana, another form of Diana, ii. 381, 382, 383
_Jangam_, priest of the Lingayats, i. 404
Janiculum hill, the, ii. 186
_Janua_, derived from Janus, ii. 384
Janus, as a god of doors, ii. 383 _sq._;
explanation of the two-headed, 384 _sq._
—— and Carna, ii. 190
—— (Dianus) and Diana, doubles of Jupiter and Juno, ii. 190 _sq._, 381
_sq._
Jaundice treated by homoeopathic magic, i. 79 _sqq._
Java, ceremonies to procure offspring in, i. 73;
ceremonies for preventing rain in, 270 _sq._
Jerome of Prague, i. 317
Jevons, F. B., i. 105, 225 _n._
Jewitt, J. R., i. 264
Jinnee of the sea, virgins married to, ii. 153 _sq._
Job’s protest, ii. 114
Johnson, Dr. S., i. 368, 370
Johnston, Sir H. H., ii. 227 _n._ 3
Jordan, H., ii. 321 _n._ 3
Joubert, quoted, i. 223 _n._ 2
Jove (Father) and Mother Vesta, ii. 227 _sqq._
Jubainville, H. d’Arbois de, ii. 362 _n._ 6
Judah, idolatrous kings of, i. 315
Jukagirs, the, i. 122
Julian, the Emperor, ii. 7
Julii, the, ii. 179, 192
Julus, the Little Jupiter, ii. 179, 197
July the 7th, the _Nonae Caprotinae_, a Roman festival, ii. 313 _sqq._
June, the first of, a Roman festival, ii. 190
Juno on the Capitol, ii. 184;
at Falerii, 190 _n._ 2;
a duplicate of Diana, 381 _sq._
—— Caprotina, ii. 313, 317
—— Moneta, ii. 189
Jupiter, costume of, ii. 174 _sq._;
the Roman kings in the character of, 174 _sqq._;
Capitoline, 176;
the Little, 179, 192;
Latian, 187, 379;
as god of the oak, the thunder, the rain, and the sky, 358, 361
_sq._;
as sky-god, 374;
a duplicate of Janus (Dianus), 381 _sq._
—— and Juno, doubles of Janus and Diana, ii. 190 _sq._;
sacred marriage of, 190
—— Dianus, ii. 382
—— Elicius, ii. 183
—— Indiges, ii. 181
Jupiters, many local, in Latium, ii. 184
Juturna, a nymph, ii. 382
Kachins of Burma, the, ii. 237
Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh, i. 133 _sq._, 385
Kaitish tribe of Central Australia, i. 87
Kali, the goddess, i. 383
Kamilaroi, the, i. 101
Kangaroos, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 87 _sq._
Kara-Kirghiz, ii. 57
Karens of Burma, i. 209;
their custom in regard to fornication and adultery, ii. 107 _sq._
Karo-Bataks, the, of Sumatra, i. 277
_Kausika Sutra_, i. 209, 229
Kayans or Bahaus of Borneo, i. 328, ii. 109
Kei Islands, i. 126, 131, 145
Kenyahs of Borneo, i. 59, ii. 385
Keremet, a god of the Wotyaks, ii. 145 _sq._
Kevlaar, Virgin Mary of, i. 77
“Key-race,” ii. 304
Keys, the golden, ii. 333
Khasis of Assam, succession to the kingdom among the, ii. 294 _sq._
Khnoumou, the god, ii. 132
Kidd, Dudley, i. 49 _n._ 3, 350, ii. 211, 224 _n._ 4
Kildare, fire and nuns of St. Brigit at, ii. 240 _sq._
Kimbugwe, high official in Uganda, i. 196
King, J. E., i. 105 _n._ 4
King gives oracles, i. 377;
the Grass, ii. 85 _sq._;
the Leaf, 85;
the Roman, as Jupiter, 174 _sqq._
—— and Queen at Athens, i. 44 _sq._
—— of Sacred Rites at Rome, i. 44, ii. 201;
his flight, 309
—— of the Saturnalia, ii. 311
—— of the Wood at Nemi, i. 1 _sqq._, ii. 1;
a mate of Diana, i. 40, 41, ii. 380;
a personification of the oak-god Jupiter, 378 _sqq._
_See also_ Priest of Nemi
—— Bees (Essenes) at Ephesus, ii. 135 _sq._
Kingdom, mortal combat for the, ii. 322;
in ancient Latium, succession to, 266 _sqq._
Kings, priestly, i. 44 _sqq._;
titular or sacred, in Greece, 44 _sqq._;
Teutonic, 47;
magicians as, 332 _sqq._;
as rain-makers in Africa, 348, 350 _sqq._;
punished for drought and dearth, 353 _sqq._;
among the Aryans, magical powers attributed to, 366 _sqq._;
divinity of, in great historical empires, 415 _sqq._;
of nature, ii. 1 _sqq._;
of rain, 2;
Roman, as deities in a Sacred Marriage, 172 _sq._, 192, 193 _sq._;
Greek, called Zeus, 177, 361;
expected to make thunder, 180 _sq._;
the Latin, thought to be the sons of the fire-god by mortal mothers,
195 _sqq._;
perpetual fire in houses of, 261 _sq._;
Roman, as personifications of Jupiter, 266 _sq._;
paternity of, a matter of indifference under female kinship, 274
_sqq._;
sometimes of a different race from their subjects, 288 _sq._;
chosen from several royal families in rotation, 292 _sqq._;
fat, 297;
handsomest men, 297;
long-headed, 297;
sacred or divine, development of, 376 _sqq._
_See also_ Latin _and_ Roman
Kings’ Evil (scrofula), touching for the, i. 368 _sqq._
—— fire, the, ii. 195 _sqq._
—— Race, the, ii. 84
—— sisters, licence accorded to, ii. 274 _sqq._
Kingship, annual, in ancient Greece, i. 46
—— contest for the, at Whitsuntide, ii. 89
—— descent of the, in the female line, at Rome, ii. 270 _sqq._;
in Africa, 274 _sqq._;
in Greece, 277 _sq._;
in Scandinavia, 279 _sq._;
in Lydia, 281 _sq._;
among the Danes and Saxons, 282 _sq._
—— evolution of the sacred, i. 420 _sq._
—— nominal, left by conquerors to indigenous race, ii. 288 _sq._
—— Roman, abolition of the, ii. 289 _sqq._
—— the old Roman, a religious office, ii. 289
Kingsley, Miss Mary H., i. 411 _n._ 1
Kintu, ii. 261
Kirghiz, “Love Chase” among the, ii. 301
Knocking out of teeth as initiatory ceremony in Australia, i. 97 _sqq._
Knots, tying up the wind in, i. 326
Kolkodoons, the, i. 93
Kondhs, their belief in reincarnation, i. 104
Koniags, the, i. 121
Koryaks, sacred fire-boards of the, ii. 225;
race for a bride among the, 302
Krishna, i. 406;
marriage of, to the Holy Basil, ii. 26
Kunama, the, ii. 3
Kvasir, i. 241
Kwakiutl Indians, their superstitions as to twins, i. 263
Lac, taboos observed in gathering, i. 115
Lacueva, Father, ii. 205 _n._
Ladder to facilitate the descent of the sun, ii. 99
_Laetare_ Sunday, ii. 63
_Laibon_, i. 343
Lake-dwellings of prehistoric Europe, ii. 352 _sq._
Lakes, gods of lakes married to women, ii. 150 _sq._
Lakshmi, wife of Vishnu, ii. 26
Lamas, transmigrations of the Grand, i. 410 _sqq._
Lamb of Mycenae, the golden, i. 365
Lamb, blood of, as means of inspiration, i. 381
Lambing, time of, ii. 328 _n._ 4
Lamps, dedication of burning, i. 12 _sq._
Lane, E. W., ii. 209 _n._ 4
Language, special, for kings and persons of blood royal, i. 401
_Lapis manalis_ at Rome, i. 310
Larch-tree, sacred, ii. 20
Lares, the, ii. 206
Latin confederacy, the, in relation to sacred Arician grove, i. 22
_sq._
—— kings thought to be the sons of the fire-god by mortal mothers, ii.
195 _sqq._;
lists of, 268 _sqq._;
stories of their miraculous birth, 272
Latinus, changed into Latian Jupiter, ii. 187;
his wife a Vestal, 235
Latium, many local Jupiters in, ii. 184;
in antiquity, the woods of, 188;
succession to the kingdom in ancient, 266 _sqq._
Latuka, rain-makers among the, i. 346, 354
Laurel chewed as means of inspiration, i. 384;
in fire-making, ii. 251 _sq._
Lavinium, worship of Vesta at, i. 14
Lazy Man, the, ii. 83
Leaf-clad mummers, ii. 74 _sqq._, 78 _sqq._;
mock marriage of, ii. 97
Leaf King, the, ii. 85
—— Man, the Little, ii. 80 _sq._
Leafy bust at Nemi, portrait of the King of the Wood, i. 41 _sq._
Leaping over a fire, ii. 327, 329
—— and dancing to make the crops grow high, i. 137 _sqq._
Lemnos, new fire brought to, i. 32
Lengua Indians, i. 313, 330, 359
Lent, fourth Sunday in, ii. 73, 87
Lerons of Borneo, i. 59
Leschiy, a woodland spirit, ii. 124 _sq._
Leto, ii. 58
Lévi, Professor Sylvain, i. 228
Lhasa, i. 411 _sq._
Licence accorded to slaves at the Saturnalia, ii. 312;
to female slaves at the _Nonae Caprotinae_, 313 _sq._
Lightning, charm against, i. 82;
imitation of, 248, 303;
thought to be the father of twins, 266;
wood of tree that has been struck by, 319;
fire kindled by, ii. 263;
African deities of, 370;
supposed to be produced by means of flints, 374;
Zeus, i. 33, ii. 361
Lime-trees sacred, ii. 366, 367
Lindus in Rhodes, i. 281
Lingayats, the, i. 404
Lithuanians, the heathen, i. 317, ii. 46;
tree-worship among the, 9;
sacrifice to Pergrubius, 347;
the thunder-god Perkunas of the, 365 _sqq._;
their reverence for oaks, 366, 371
Little Jupiter, the, ii. 179, 192
—— Leaf Man, ii. 80 _sq._
“Living fire,” ii. 237;
as a charm against witchcraft, 336
Lo Bengula, i. 351, 352, 394
Loango, king of, revered as a god, i. 396;
fights all rivals for his crown, ii. 322
—— licence of princesses in, ii. 276 _sq._
_Lobo_, spirit-house, ii. 39
Local totem centres, i. 96
Locrians, the Epizephyrian, ii. 284 _sq._
“Longevity garments,” i. 169
Long-headed men chosen kings, ii. 297
Loon, the bird, associated with rain, i. 288