ii. 628

Shaberons, or Khubilhans, reincarnations of Buddha, ii. 609

Shad-belly coat first worn by Babylonian priests, ii. 458

Shadow, repugnance to stepping across it, ii. 610; magnetic exhalation, ii. 611

Shakers, spiritual phenomena, ii. 18

Shaman, prophesying, ii. 624, 625; prediction of the Crimean war, ii. 625; extraordinary scene with the talismanic stone, ii. 626, 628; “dragged out of his skin,” ii. 628; priests bound to perform their “true rites” but once a year, at the solstice, ii. 624

Shamanism or spirit-worship, the oldest religion of Mongolia, an offshoot of primitive theurgy, ii. 615

Shamans occasionally enjoy divine powers, i. 3, 211; of Siberia, degenerate scions of ancient Shamanism, ii. 616; sometimes only mediums, sometimes magicians, ii. 625; power over psychical epidemics, ii. 626; each one has a talisman, _ib._

Shampooing or tschamping, a magical manipulation, i. 445

Shark-charmers or Kadal-katti, i. 606; paid by the British government, i. 607

Shebang, the Sabbath, ii., 418

Shedim, nature-spirits, or Afrites, i. 313

Shekinah, the veil of the most ancient, ii. 223

Shem, Ham and Japhet, the old gods Samas, Kham and Iapetos, ii. 487

Shemites, Assyrians, i. 576; probably a hybrid of Hamite and Aryan, _ib._

Shien-Sien, a blissful state, power of those obtaining it to transport themselves everywhere, ii. 618, 620

Shiloh, daughters, their dance, ii. 45

Shimeon and Patar, ii. 93

Shoëpffer, Prof., teaches that the earth does not revolve, i. 621

Shoel ob, or consulter with familiar spirits, i. 355

Shudâla-Mâdan, the ghoul or graveyard fiend, i. 495

Shu-King, i. 11

Shûla-Mâdan, the furnace-demon, i. 496; helps the juggler with raising trees, _ib._

Shu-tukt, a collegiate monastery, having in it over 30,000 monks, ii. 609

Siam, a king in 1670 who sought for the philosopher’s stone, i. 571

Siamese, the power of monks, i. 213, 214; study of the philosopher’s stone, i. 214; believe that some know how to render themselves immortal, _ib._

Sidereal force taught by Paracelsus, i. 168

Signature of the fœtus, i. 385

Silver, its aura, the quicksilver of the yogis or alchemists, ii. 620, 621

Silver and green associated in hermetic symbolism, i. 513

Silvery spark in the brain, i. 329

Simeon, the existence of such a tribe denied, i. 368; ben Iochai, compiler of the _Zohar_, ii. 548; rabbi, author of the _Zohar_, i. 301, 302; his sons arise and relate what they saw in hell, ii. 519; his prototype in India, _ib._

Simon ben Iochai, i. 263; Stylites, lived 36 years atop of a pillar, ii. 77; cured a dragon of a sore eye, _ib._

Simon Magus, a personification of the apostle Paul, ii. 89; powers attributed to him, i. 471; his journey through the air, ii. 357; and Peter, ii. 190, 191

Simoun, or the wind of the desert, called Diabolos, ii. 483

Simulacrum of a Roumanian lady conducted by a Shaman to the tent of the author, ii. 627, 628

Sin the necessary cause of the greatest good, ii. 479

Sinai, Mount, metals smelted there, i. 542; story of Moses and the brass seraph, _ib._

Singing sands, i. 605

Sins, the five which divide the offender from his associates, ii. 608

Siphra Dzeniouta, i. 1

Sister’s son inheriting a crown, ii. 437

Sistra at the Israelitish festival, ii. 45

Siva, the fire-god, same as Bel and Saturn or Kronos, i. 263; vigil-night, i. 446; represented as sacrificing a rhinoceros instead of his son, i. 577, 578; identical with Baal, Moloch, Saturn and Abraham, i. 578; created Adhima and Heva, ancestors of the present race of mankind,