ii. 31;

souls of animals, i. 467, ii. 41; their future life and transmission by funeral sacrifice, i. 469; souls of plants, trees, &c., i. 474, ii. 10; souls of objects, i. 476, ii. 9, 75, 153, &c.; transmission by funeral sacrifice, i. 481; conveyed or consumed in sacrifice to deities, ii. 216, 389; object-souls related to ideas, i. 497; existence of soul after death of body, i. 428, &c., ii. 1, &c.; transmigration or metempsychosis, ii. 2; new birth in human body, 3; in animal body, plant, inert object, 9, &c.; souls remain on earth among survivors, near dwelling, corpse, or tomb, i. 148, 447, ii. 25, &c., 150; souls called up by necromancer or medium, i. 143, 312, 446, ii. 136, &c.; food set out for, ii. 30, &c.; region of departed souls, ii. 59, &c., 73, 244; future life of, i. 458, &c., ii. 74, &c.; relation of soul to spirit in general, ii. 109; souls pass into demons, patron-spirits, deities, 111, 124, 192, 200, 364, 375; manes-worship, 112, &c.; souls embodied in men, animals, plants, objects, 147, 153, 192, 232; mystic meaning of word soul, 359.

Soul of world, ii. 335, &c., 354.

Soul-mass cake, ii. 43.

Sound-words, i. 231.

Speaking machine, i. 170.

Spear-thrower, i. 66.

Species-deities, ii. 242.

Spencer and Gillen, ii. 236.

Sphinx, i. 90.

Spirit:—course of meaning of word, i. 433, ii. 181, 206, 359; animism, doctrine of spirits, i. 424, ii. 108, 356; doctrine of spirit founded on that of soul, ii. 109; spirits connected and confounded with souls, ii. 109, 363; spirits seen in dreams and visions, i. 306, 440, ii. 154, 189, 194, 411; action of spirits, i. 125, ii. 111, &c.; embodiment of spirits, ii. 123; disease by attack of, 126; oracular inspiration by, 130; whistling, &c., voice of, i. 453, ii. 135; act through fetishes, ii. 143, &c.; through idols, 167; spirits causes of nature, 185, 204, &c., 250; good and evil spirits, 186, 319; spirits swarm in dark, fire drives off, 194; seen by animals, 196; footprints of, i. 455, ii. 197; ethereal-material substance of, ii. 198; exclusion, expulsion, exorcism of, 125, 199; patron, guardian, and familiar spirits, 199; nature-spirits of volcanoes, whirlpools, rocks, &c., 207; water-spirits and deities, 209, 407; tree-spirits and deities, 215; spirits subordinate to great polytheistic deities, 248, &c.; spirits receive prayer, 363; sacrifice, 75; see Animism, &c.

Spirit, Great, ii. 256, 324, 339, &c., 354, 365, 395.

Spirit-footprints, i. 455, ii. 197.

Spiritualism, modern:— its origin in savage culture, i. 141, 155, 426, ii. 25, 39; spirit-rapping, i. 144, ii. 193, 221, 407; spirit-writing, 147; rising in air, 149; supernatural unbinding, 153; moving objects, &c., i. 439, ii. 156, 319, 441; mediums, i. 146, 312, ii. 132, 410; oracular possession, i. 148, ii. 135, 141.

Spirit-world, journey or visit to, by soul, i. 439, 481, ii. 44, &c.

Spitting, i. 103; lustration with spittle, ii. 439, 441.

Standing-stones, objects of worship, ii. 164.

Stanley, A. P., ii. 387.

Stars, myths of, i. 288, 356; souls of, i. 291.

Staunton, William, his visit to Purgatory, ii. 58.

Stock-and-stone-worship, ii. 161, &c., 254, 388.

Stone, myths of men turned to, i. 353; stone-worship, ii. 160, &c., 254, 388.

Stone Age, i. 56, &c.; magic as belonging to, 140; myths of giants and dwarfs as belonging to, 385.

Storm, myths of, i. 322; storm-god, i. 323, ii. 266.

Strut, i. 62.

Substitutes in sacrifice, i. 106, 463, ii. 399, &c.

Succubi, see Incubi.

Sucking cure, ii. 146.

Suicide, body of, staked down, ii. 29, 193.

Sun, myths of, i. 288, 319, 335, &c., ii. 48, 66, 323; sunset, myths of, connected with death and future life, i. 335, 345, ii. 48, &c., 311; sun abode of departed souls, ii. 69.

Sun-god and sun-worship, i. 99, 288, 353, ii. 263, 285, 323, &c., 376, &c., 408, 422, &c.; sun and moon as good and evil deity, ii. 324, &c.

Superlative, triple, i. 265.

Superstition, case of survival, i. 16, 72, &c.

Supreme deity, ii. 332, 367; heaven-god, &c., as, 255, 337, &c.; sun-god as, 290, 337, &c.; conception of, in manes-worship, 334; as chief of divine hierarchy, 335, &c.; first cause, 335.

Survival in culture, i. 16, &c., 70, &c., ii. 403; children’s games, i. 72; games of chance, &c., 78; proverbs, 89; riddles, 91; sneezing-salutation, 98; foundation-sacrifice, 104; not save drowning, 108; magic, witchcraft, &c., 112; spiritualism, 141; numeration, 262, 271; deodand, 287; were-wolves, 313; eclipse-monster, 330; animism, i. 500, ii. 356; funeral sacrifice, i. 463, 474, 492; feasts of dead, ii. 35, 41; possession, 140; fetishism, 159; stone-worship, 168; water-worship, 213; fire-worship, 285; sun-worship, 297; moon-worship, 302; heaven-worship, 353; sacrifice, 406, &c.

Susurrus necromanticus, i. 453, ii. 135.

Suttee, i. 465.

Swedenborg, spiritualism of, i. 144, 450, ii. 18, 204.

Symbolic connexion in magic, &c., i. 116, &c., ii. 144; symbolism in religious ceremony, ii. 362, &c.

Symplegades, i. 350.

Tabor, i. 209.

Tacitus, i. 333, ii. 228, 273.

Tailed men, i. 383.

Tangaroa, Taaroa, ii. 345.

Tari Pennu, ii. 271, 349, 368, 404.

Taronhiawagon, ii. 256, 309.

Tarots, i. 82.

Tartarus, ii. 97.

Tatar race, culture of, i. 51; race-genealogy of, 404.

Tattooing, mythic origin of, i. 393.

Taylor, Jeremy, on lots, i. 79.

Teeth-defacing, mythic origin of, i. 393.

Temple, Jewish, ii. 426.

Tertullian, i. 456, ii. 188, 427.

Tezcatlipoca, ii. 197, 344, 391.

Theodorus, St., church of, ii. 121.

Theophrastus, ii. 165.

Theresa, St., her visions, ii. 415.

Thor, ii. 266.

Thought, conveyance of, by vocal tone, i. 166; Epicurean theory of, 497; savage conception of, ii. 311.

Thousand and One Nights: —water-spout and sand-pillar, i. 292; Magnetic Mountain, 374; Abdallah of Sea and Abdallah of Land, ii. 106.

Thunder-bird, myths of, i. 363, ii. 262; thunder-bolt, ii. 262.

Thunder-god, ii. 262, 305, 312, 337, &c.

Tien and Tu, ii. 257, 272, 352.

Tlaloc, Tlalocan, ii. 61, 274, 309.

Tobacco smoked as sacrifice or incense, ii. 287, 343, 383; to cause morbid vision, &c., 417.

Torngarsuk, ii. 340.

Tortoise, World, i. 364.

Totem-ancestors, i. 402, ii. 235; totemism, ii. 235.

Traditions, credibility of, i. 275, 280, 370; of early culture, i. 39, 52.

Transformation-myths, i. 308, 377, ii. 10, 220.

Transmigration of souls, i. 379, 409, 469, 476, ii. 2, &c.; theory of, ii. 16.

Trapezus, i. 396.

Trees, objects suspended to, ii. 150, 223.

Tree-souls, i. 475, ii. 10, 215; tree-spirits, i. 476, ii. 148, 215.

Tribe-names, mythic ancestors, i. 398; tribe-deities, ii. 234.

Tribes without religion, i. 417.

Tuckett, F. F., i. 373.

Tumuli, remains of funeral sacrifice in, i. 486.

Tupan, ii. 263, 305, 333.

Turks, race-genealogy of, i. 403.

Turnskins, i. 308, &c.

Twin brethren, N. A. dualistic myth, ii. 320, &c.

Two paths, allegory of, i. 409.

Uiracocha, ii. 338, 366.

Ukko, ii. 257, 261, 265.

Ulster, mythic etymology of, ii. 65.

Unbinding, supernatural, i. 153.

Under-world, sun and souls of dead descend to, ii. 66; see Hades.

Unkulunkulu, ii. 116, 313, 347.

Vampires, ii. 191.

Vapour-bath, narcotic, of Scyths and N. A. Indians, ii. 417.

Vasilissa the Beautiful, i. 342.

Vatnsdæla Saga, i. 439.

Veda, i. 54, 351, 362, 465, ii. 72, 265, 281, 354, 371, 386.

Vegetal, sensitive, and rational souls, i. 435.

Ventriloquism, i. 453, ii. 132, 182.

Vergil, Polydore, ii. 409.

Versipelles, i. 308, &c.

Vesta, ii. 285.

Vigesimal notation, i. 261; survival in French and English, 263.

Visions:— mythic fancy in, i. 305; are apparitions of spirits, 143, 445, 478, ii. 194, 410; as evidence of future life, 24, 49; fasting for, 410; use of drugs to cause, 416.

Visits to spirit-world, i. 436, 481, ii. 46, &c.

Vitruvius, on orientation, ii. 427.

Vocal tone, i. 166, &c.

Voice of ghosts and other spirits, whisper, twitter, murmur, i. 452, ii. 134.

Volcano, mouth of underworld, i. 344, 364, ii. 69; caused by spirits, 207.

Vowels, i. 168.

Vulcan, ii. 280, 284.

Wainamoinen, ii. 46, 93.

Waitz, Theodor, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, i. vi.; fetishism, ii. 157, 176.

Walhalla, i. 491, ii. 77, 88.

War-god, ii. 306.

Warriors, fate of souls of, ii. 87.

Wassail, i. 97, 101.

Water, spirits not cross, i. 442.

Waterfalls and waterspouts, myths, of, i. 292, 294.

Water-gods and water-worship, ii. 209, 274, 376, 407.

Water-spirits and water-monsters, i. 109, ii. 208, &c.

Watling Street, Milky Way, i. 360.

Weapons, i. 64, &c.; personal names given to, 303.

Wedgwood, Hensleigh, on imitative language, i. 161.

Weight of soul, i. 455; of spirit, ii. 198.

Well-worship, ii. 209, &c.

Werewolves, &c., doctrine of, i. 113, 308, &c., 435, ii. 193.

West, mythic conceptions of, as region of night and death, i. 337, 343, ii. 48, 61, 66, 311, &c., 422, &c.; see East and West.

Whately, Archbishop, on origin of culture, i. 38, 41.

Wheatstone, Sir C., i. 170.

Wheel-lock, i. 15.

Whirlpool, spirit of, ii. 207.

Widow-sacrifice, i. 458.

Wild Hunt, i. 362, ii. 269.

Wilson, Daniel, on dual and plural, i. 265.

Wind gods, ii. 266.

Winds, myths of, i. 360.

Witchcraft, i. 116, &c.; origin in savage culture, 138; mediæval revival, 138; iron charm against, 140; ordeal by water, 140; rising in air, 152; doctrine of werewolves, 312; incubi and succubi, ii. 190; witch ointment, 418.

Woden, see Odin.

Wolf of Night, i. 341.

Wong, ii. 176, 205, 348.

World pervaded by spirits, ii. 137, 180, 185, 205, 250.

Worship as related to belief, i. 427, ii. 362.

Wraith or fetch, i. 448, 451.

Wright, Thomas, ii. 56, 65.

Wuttke, Adolf, i. 456, &c.

Xerxes, i. 286, ii. 378.

Yama, ii. 54, 314.

Yawning, possession, i. 102.

Yezidism, ii. 329.

Zend-Avesta, i. 116, 351, ii. 98, 293, 328, 438.

Zeus, i. 328, 350, ii. 258, &c., 353.

Zingani, myth of name, i. 400.

Zoroastrism, ii. 20, 98, 282, 319, 328, 354, 374, 400, 438.

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