The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)

Harris, J. Rendel, in letter to the Author (i. 15 _n._). MS. notes of Folk-lore collected in the East. _The Annotators of the Codex Bezae._ London, 1901. _The Cult of the Heaven...

enacted in Shrovetide or Lenten ceremonies, iv. 233; of the gods, viii. 16; of animals, viii. 200 _sq._, 256 _sqq._; of fish, viii. 250, 254; bones of men preserved for the, vii...

tribes reported to be ignorant of the art of kindling, ii. 253 _sqq._; people reported to be ignorant of the use of, ii. 254 _n._ 1; discovery of, by mankind, ii. 255 _sqq._; ki...

Koryaks, of North-Eastern Asia, sacred fire-boards of the, ii. 225; race for a bride among the, ii. 302; their mode of detaining the souls of the dying, iii. 32 _sq._; voluntary...

identified with Artemis, i. 37 _n._ 2; served by prostitutes at Acilisena, in Armenia, ii. 282 _n._ 3, v. 38, ix. 369 _n._ 1; her sanctuary at Zela, ix. 370, 421 _n._ 1; associa...

Conflagrations, bonfires supposed to protect against, x. 107, 108, 140, 142, 344; brands of Midsummer bonfires thought to be a protection against, x. 165, 174, 183, 188, 196; th...

ancestral spirits in, viii. 123; souls of dead in, viii. 286, 295, 296; sacrificed at festival of wild mango tree in New Guinea, x. 9; driven through Midsummer fire, x. 179; dri...

Celebes, the Buginese of, i. 158, iv. 277; rain-making in, i. 277; magical virtue of regalia in, i. 362 _sqq._; Loowoo in, i. 364; fear of offending forest-spirits in, ii. 40; h...

their ceremonies before eating the new fruits, viii. 69 _sq._; the Baperis, a tribe of, viii. 164; their custom of mutilating an ox after a battle, viii. 271; their belief as to...

Nias, island of, magical ceremony to catch wild pigs in, i. 109; homoeopathic magic at planting rice in, i. 143; conception of the soul in, iii. 29; recovery of lost souls in, i...

at king’s death, ii. 261 _sqq._, 267; in houses after any death, ii. 267 _sq._; annual, of the sacred fire at Rome, ii. 267; of common fires before the kindling of the need-fire...

Barley forced for festival, v. 240, 241, 242, 244, 251 _sq._; awarded as a prize in the Eleusinian games, vii. 73, 74, 75; oldest cereal cultivated by the Aryans, vii. 132

Substitution of souls as a remedy for sickness, iii. 57; of puppet for soul of a sick man, iii. 62 _sq._; of animals for human victims, iv. 124, 165, 166 _n._ 1, 177, vii. 24, 3...

as a corn-spirit, v. 230 _sqq._; hunger the root of the worship of, v. 231; perhaps originally a personification of wild vegetation, especially grass and trees, v. 233; the gard...

Hippodamia, her marriage with Pelops, iv. 91; institutes the girls’ race at Olympia, iv. 91; grave of the suitors of, iv. 104; her incest with her father, v. 44 _n._ 1

Moon, Esquimau custom at the new, i. 121 _sq._; wives sing to the, in the absence of their husbands, i. 125; ceremony at an eclipse of the, i. 311; charm to hasten the, i. 319;...

Mid-Lent, the fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. 222 _n._ 1; also called Dead Sunday, iv. 221; custom of “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 234, 236 _sq._; ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman”...

King, torn to pieces by horses, i. 366; gives oracles, i. 377; not to be over-shadowed, iii. 83; his life sympathetically bound up with the prosperity of the country, iv. 21, 27...

Cyzicus, council chamber at, built without iron, iii. 230; worship of the Placianian Mother at, v. 274 _n._; bull-shaped image of Dionysus at, vii. 16; vicarious sacrifice at, v...

Effigies, substituted for human victims, iv. 215, 217 _sq._, ix. 408; disease transferred to, ix. 7; demons conjured into, ix. 204, 205; burnt in bonfires, x. 106, 107, 116, 118...

Sheep torn by wolf in homoeopathic magic, i. 157; driven through fire, ii. 327, xi. 11 _sqq._; bred by people of the Italian pile villages, ii. 353 _n._ 3; used in purificatory...

as a tree-spirit, vi. 107 _sqq._; his image made out of a pine-tree, vi. 108; his backbone re-presented by the _ded_ pillar, vi. 108 _sq._; interpreted as a cedar-tree god, vi....

bull-roarers thought to promote the growth of garden produce in, vii. 106; the Sam or Cassowary totem in, viii. 207; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, x. 78 _sq._...

Traunstein, district of Upper Bavaria, the Oats-goat at harvest thought to be in the last sheaf of oats in, vii. 287; the last standing corn called the Sow in, vii. 298

Duke of York Island, xi. 199 _n._ 2; the natives of, pay the fish for those which they catch, viii. 252; Duk-duk society in, xi. 247; exogamous classes in, xi. 248 _n._

on the divine spirit supposed to animate Shilluk kings, iv. 26 _sq._; on the Dinkas, iv. 30 _sqq._; on the custom of putting Dinka rain-makers to death, iv. 33; on the five supp...

—— of the Amoor, a Tunguzian people, viii. 190; eat nutlets of stone-pine, v. 278 _n._ 2; their exorcism by means of effigies, viii. 103 _sq._; their bear-festivals, viii. 190 _...

Schoolcraft, H. R., on the secrecy of personal names among the North American Indians, iii. 325; on North American Indian indifference to death, iv. 137 _sq._; on human sacrific...

Masuren, a district of Eastern Prussia, “Easter Smacks” in, ix. 269; Midsummer fire kindled by the revolution of a wheel in, x. 177, 335 _sq._; divination by flowers on Midsumme...

the eight years’ cycle in, iv. 68 _sqq._; custom of banishing homicides in, iv. 69 _sq._; human sacrifices in, iv. 161 _sqq._; time of the vintage in, vii. 47 _n._ 2; mode of ri...

Deuteronomy (iv. 17 _sq._), prohibition of images of animals, i. 87 _n._ 1; (xxiii. 10, 11), as to custom in time of war, iii. 158 _n._ 1; (xii. 31, xviii. 9-12), on the sacrifi...

——, Eleusinian, ii. 138 _sq._, vii. 35, 37 _sqq._, 65 _sqq._, 69 _sq._, 78 _sq._, 111, 161 _sq._, 188; founded by Demeter, vii. 37; the myth of Demeter and Persephone acted at t...

Hares thought to bewitch people, i. 212; witches in the form of, ii. 53, x. 157; killed on May Day as embodiments of witches, ii. 53, 54; not eaten lest they make the eaters tim...

Lincolnshire, saying as to a woman’s apron burnt by a spark in, ii. 231; Plough Monday in, viii. 330 _n._ 1; the Yule log in, x. 257; witches as cats and hares in, x. 318; calf...

Pelew Islanders, pray tree-spirit to leave tree which is to be felled, ii. 35; their system of mother-kin, vi. 204 _sqq._; predominance of goddesses over gods among the, vi. 204...

Hermes at Athens, the mutilation of the, iii. 75; the grave of, iv. 4; tongues of victims assigned to, viii. 270; tried for the murder of Argus, ix. 24; wayside images of, ix. 2...

New birth, simulation of, among the Akikuyu, i. 75 _sq._, 96 _sq._; of Brahman sacrificer, i. 380 _sq._; through blood in the rites of Attis, v. 274 _sq._; savage theory of, v....

Juno on the Capitol, ii. 184, 189; her oak crown, ii. 184, 189; at Falerii, ii. 190 _n._ 2; a duplicate of Diana, ii. 381 _sq._; the Flaminica Dialis sacred to, vi. 230 _n._ 2;...

Galelareese of Halmahera, hunter’s magic among the, i. 110; fisherman’s magic among the, i. 113; telepathy in war among the, i. 130; taboos on pregnant women among the, i. 141 _...

Initiation, teeth knocked out at, in Australia, i. 176; custom of covering the mouth after, iii. 122; taboos observed by novices at, iii. 141 _sq._, 156 _sq._; new names given a...

belief as to a man’s star in the, iv. 68; belief in the reincarnation of infants in the, v. 94; children at birth placed in winnowing-fans in the, vii. 7; the Mother-cotton in t...

Warramunga, the, of Central Australia, their magical ceremonies for the multiplication of their totems, i. 89; their custom at subincision, i. 93; custom observed by Warramunga...

——, pregnant, employed to fertilize crops and fruit-trees, i. 140 _sq._; taboos on, i. 141 _n._ 1; wear garments made of bark of sacred tree, ii. 58; mode of protecting them aga...

Parilia, the, Roman festival of shepherds, ii. 123, 229, 273, 325 _sqq._; the shepherd’s prayer at, ii. 123, 327; flocks fumigated at, ii. 229, 327; Numa born on the, ii. 273, 3...

Egyptian ceremony at, vi. 50; Aztec festival of killing and eating a god at, viii. 90; dramatic processions representing the corn spirit at, viii. 325; festival of the Koryaks a...

—— -personification of the corn as male and female, vii. 163 _sq._; of the corn in female form as old and young, vii. 164 _sqq._, 209 _sq._; of the corn as mother and daughter,...

Brothers reviled by sisters for good luck, i. 279; of king put to death on his accession, iii. 243; childless persons named after their younger, iii. 332, 333; ancient Egyptian...

Gonds of India, their belief in reincarnation, i. 104 _sq._; their custom at clearing away a jungle, ii. 39; mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 217; ceremony of bringing back...

contagious magic of footprints in, i. 211; custom of reapers in, i. 329; belief as to whirlwinds in, iii. 41 _sq._; belief as to falling stars in, iv. 66; the last sheaf called...

——, South, custom as to the placenta in, i. 183; the Dieri of, ii. 29; the Narrinyeri of, iii. 126 _sq._, 372, viii. 259 _n._; the Encounter Bay tribe of, iii. 127, 251, 355, 35...

Bough, the Golden, xi. 279 _sqq._; plucked by Aeneas, i. 11, ii. 379; and the King of the Wood, i. 11, x. 1; the plucking of it not a piece of bravado, ii. 123 _sq._; grew on an...

Timor, island of, telepathy of high-priest of, in war, i. 128 _sq._; treatment of the placenta in, i. 190; the marriage of the Sun and Earth deemed the source of all fertility i...

Assyrians, their use of knotted cords in magic, iii. 303 _sq._; forbidden to mention the mystic names of their cities, iii. 391; in Cilicia, v. 173; the ancient, their belief in...

—— -floor, stalks of corn knotted as a charm on a, iii. 308 _sq._; Demeter associated with the, vii. 41 _sq._, 43, 47, 61 _sq._, 63, 64 _sq._; the festival of the, at Eleusis, v...

Crops, dancing and leaping as charms to promote the growth of the, i. 137 _sqq._, ix. 232, 238 _sqq._, x. 119, 165, 166, 167 _sq._, 168, 173, 174, 337; intercourse of the sexes...

Ilocans or Ilocanes of Luzon, their homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 142; their custom as to children’s cast teeth, i. 179; their fear of tree-spirits, ii. 18; their recall of t...

—— of Central Celebes, their magical use of jawbones, i. 109; their rule not to loiter in the doorway of a pregnant woman, i. 114; telepathy in war among the, i. 129; their use...

with half-sister legal in Attica, ii. 284; rice strewn on bridegroom’s head at, iii. 35; the consummation of, prevented by knots and locks, iii. 299 _sqq._; of brothers and sist...

Zambesi, the River, the Angoni to the north of, i. 291, iii. 174; short-handled hoes used by Caffres above the, vii. 116; the Makanga of the, viii. 287; belief in transmigration...

—— persons, iii. 131 _sqq._; fed by others, iii. 133, 134 _n._ 1, 138, 138 _n._ 1, 139, 140, 141, 142, 147, 148 _n._ 1, 166, 167, 265; secluded, iii. 165; kept from contact with...

——, the Isle of, tying up the wind in knots in, i. 326; precautions against witches on May Day in, ii. 53 _sq._; hunting the wren in, viii. 318 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, x. 201...

Ishtar, great Babylonian goddess, her love for Tammuz, v. 8 _sq._; her descent into the world of the dead, v. 8 _sq._, ix. 406; her title Dodah, v. 20 _n._ 2; associated with Si...

Tears of Isis thought to swell the Nile, vi. 33; rain thought to be the tears of gods, vi. 33; of human victim signs of rain, vii. 248, 250; of oxen as rain-charm, viii. 10

Capitol at Rome, temple of Jupiter on the, ii. 174, 176, 184; image of Jupiter on the, ii. 175; built by Romulus, ii. 176; Jupiter worshipped on the, ii. 361; ceremonies at the...

on Australian belief as to falling stars, iv. 64; on seclusion of menstruous women in Australia, x. 78; on killing a totem animal, xi. 220 _n._ 2; on secrecy of totem names in A...

Courage acquired by eating the flesh of fierce beasts, viii. 140, 141 _sqq._; seated in gall-bladder, viii. 145 _sq._; acquired by eating the flesh or drinking the blood of brav...

Whooping-cough cured by crawling under a bramble, xi. 180; Bulgarian cure for, by crawling under the root of a willow, xi. 181; child passed under an ass as a cure for, xi. 192

Bulls sacrificed to water-spirits, ii. 157; husband-god at Hierapolis seated on, v. 163; sacrificed at caves of Pluto, v. 206; sacrificed to Persephone, v. 213 _n._ 1; sacrifice...

Akamba of British East Africa, believe that every woman has a spiritual husband who fertilizes her, ii. 317; continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at...

Leinster, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, iii. 11; the fair of Carman in, iv. 100; legend of the voluntary death of monks to stay a pestilence in, iv. 159 _n._ 1; Midsu...

Altmark, custom with birch branches at Whitsuntide in the, ii. 64; the May Bride at Whitsuntide in the, ii. 95; the He-goat at reaping in the, vii. 287; Easter bonfires in the,...

Uncleanness regarded as a vapour, iii. 152, 206; of man-slayers, of menstruous and lying-in women, and of persons who have handled the dead, iii. 169; of whalers, iii. 191, 207;...

Thebes, the Boeotian, grave of Eteocles and Polynices at, ii. 33; the women of, muffled their faces, iii. 122; festival of the Laurel-bearing at, iv. 78 _sq._, 88 _sq._, vi. 241...

Sacrament in the rites of Attis, v. 274 _sq._; in the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 161 _sq._; of swine’s flesh, viii. 20, 24; of first-fruits, viii. 48 _sqq._; combined with a sac...

regalia employed as instruments of, i. 363; various modes of, on May morning to discover who should be married first, ii. 67 _sq._; by flowers, ii. 345; by wells, ii. 345; as to...

used to imitate rain, i. 256, 257 _sq._; smeared on regalia, i. 363; smeared on king’s throne, i. 365; of sacrificial victim, inspiration by sucking the, i. 381 _sq._; offered t...

Navajoes of New Mexico, their ceremony at the return of a man from captivity, iii. 112 _sq._; keep their names secret, iii. 325; tell their stories only in winter, iii. 385; the...

Bahima of Central Africa, ceremony of adoption among the, i. 75; custom of herdsmen at watering their cattle among the, iii. 183 _n._; names of their dead kings not mentioned, i...

Propitiation essential to religion, i. 222; of the souls of the slain, iii. 166; of spirits of slain animals, iii. 190, 204 _sq._; of ancestors, iii. 197, v. 46; of the spirits...

Verrall, A. W., as to Mohammed’s prohibition of the artificial fertilization of the palm, ii. 25 _n._ 1; on the _Anthesteria_, v. 235 _n._ 1; on the pyre of Hercules, ix. 391 _n...

Ordeal of battle among the Umbrians, ii. 321; by poison, fatal effects of, iv. 197; of chastity, v. 115 _n._ 2; the poison, administered by young children, vii. 115; of stinging...

Regalia propitiated with prayer and sacrifice, i. 363; carried to battle, i. 363; smeared with blood, i. 363; treated as fetishes, i. 363; employed as instruments of divination,...

Butter, time for making, i. 167; stolen by witches on May Day, ii. 53; stolen by witches on Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve, ii. 127; thought to be improved by the Midsummer f...

oracular, at Dodona, ii. 358; sacred to Jupiter, ii. 361; worshipped by the ancient Celts, ii. 362 _sq._; worshipped by the ancient Teutons, ii. 363 _sqq._; worshipped by the an...

presages as to shadows on St. Sylvester’s Day and Christmas Eve in, iii. 88; mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95; belief as to combing and cutting children’s hair in, iii....

—— Tepehuacan, Indians of, their homoeopathic magic at sowing, planting, and fishing, i. 143; propitiate a tree before felling it, ii. 37; recovery of child’s lost soul among th...

killed at harvest, vii. 290; mythical, in the corn, vii. 292; name applied to bunch of corn on harvest-field, vii. 292; sacrifice of buffalo, viii. 314; burnt alive to stop a mu...

Wissowa, Professor G., on Manius Egerius, i. 22 _n._ 5; on altar at Nemi, i. 23 _n._ 2; on sacrifices to Janus, ii. 382 _n._ 1; on Janus as the god of doors, ii. 383 _n._ 3; on...

Snake, used in rain-making, i. 287 _sq._; rajahs of Manipur descended from a, iv. 133; white, eaten to acquire supernatural knowledge, viii. 146; worshipped, viii. 316 _sq._; sa...

Haida Indians of Queen Charlotte Islands, ceremony performed by pregnant women among the, i. 70; warlike pantomime of women while the men are at war, i. 133; their belief as to...

Frogs in homoeopathic magic, i. 155; and ducks imitated in rain-making, i. 255; in relation to rain, i. 292 _sqq._; worshipped by the Newars of Nepaul, i. 294 _sq._; hanged or b...

—— women divorced, i. 142; their corpses thrown away, i. 142; homoeopathic charm employed by, to ensure the birth of children, i. 157; expect offspring from St. George, v. 78; r...

Virbius, the mate of Diana at Nemi, i. 19-21, 40 _sqq._, ii. 129, 378, v. 45; the mythical predecessor or archetype of the Kings of the Wood at Nemi, i. 40 _sq._, ii. 129; perha...

Wagogo, of German East Africa, chastity of women during absence of warriors among the, i. 131; their rain-making by means of black animals, i. 290 _sq._; chiefs as rain-makers a...

Sweet potatoes cultivated in Africa, vii. 117; cultivated in South America, vii. 121; cultivated in Assam, vii. 123; cultivated in New Britain, vii. 123; offering of, to the god...

Libations offered by maidens to the dead maiden Iphinoe, i. 28; in honour of tree-spirits, ii. 46, 51; Roman rule as to wine offered in, iii. 249 _n._ 2; of beer to dead bears,...

mother-kin among the, vi. 211; of New Britain, their use of flowers and leaves as talismans, vi. 242 _sq._; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313; their belief in demons,...

Poseidon, sanctuary of, at Troezen, i. 27; mated with Artemis, i. 36; bull sacrificed to, i. 46; represented as father of Demetrius Poliorcetes, i. 391; identified with Erechthe...

Khasis of Assam, their treatment of the placenta, i. 194; their belief as to the disastrous effects of marrying a woman of the same clan, ii. 114 _n._ 1; their system of mother-...

Merolla, G., da Sorrento, on food taboos in Congo, iii. 137; on the custom of putting the Chitomé to death, iv. 14 _sq._; on seclusion of girls at puberty on the Congo, x. 31 _n...

——, the book of, its date and purpose, ix. 360; its Persian colouring, ix. 362, 401; based on a Babylonian myth, ix. 398; duplication of the personages in, ix. 400 _sq._; the pe...

Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, i. 418, 419, vi. 6, 8, 12, viii. 30, ix. 341; how Isis discovered his name, iii. 387 _sqq._; identified with many originally independent local deities,...

Makrizi, Arab historian, on mode of stopping rain, i. 252; on the custom of throwing a virgin into the Nile, ii. 151 _n._ 2; on the burning of effigies of Haman at Purim, ix. 39...

—— Islands, the Tagalogs of the, ii. 18 _sq._; the Tagales of the, ii. 36; the Bagobos of the, iii. 31, 315, vii. 240, viii. 124; the Agutainos of the, iii. 144; verbal taboos o...

Wolf, charm to make a wolf disgorge his prey, i. 135; imitation of, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 155; track of, in contagious magic, i. 211; transformation into, iv. 83; said to...

Armenia, rain-making in, i. 275 _sq._, 277, 282, 285; rain-charm by means of pebbles in, i. 305; rain-charms by means of rocks in, i. 306; the Paulicians of, i. 407; barren frui...

Catholic Church, ritual of the, v. 54; ceremonies on Good Friday in the, v. 254, 255 _sq._; institutes feasts of All Saints and All Souls, vi. 83; enjoins continence during Lent...

Rajamahall, in India, persons who have died of dropsy thrown into river among hill tribes near, i. 79; sacrifices of first-fruits among hill tribes near, viii. 117 _sq._; ceremo...

Tar-barrels burnt at Up-helly-a’, in Lerwick, ix. 169; burning, swung round pole at Midsummer, x. 169; burnt at Midsummer among the Esthonians, x. 180; burnt on Hogmanay at Burg...

Spirits of dead fathers thought to attend warriors, i. 129; of plants in shape of animals, ii. 14; of trees threatened, ii. 20 _sqq._; of wild beasts killed in the chase, huntin...

Arch to shut out plague, ix. 5; creeping through, as a cure, ix. 55; child after an illness passed under an, xi. 192; young men at initiation passed under a leafy, xi. 193; triu...

December, the Saturnalia held in, ii. 311 _n._ 4, ix. 306, 307, 345; the twenty-fifth of, reckoned the winter solstice and the birthday of the Sun, v. 303 _sqq._; annual expulsi...

Lucian, on hair offerings, i. 28; on the procedure of a Syrian witch, iii. 270; on the names of the Eleusinian priests, iii. 382; on the death of Peregrinus, iv. 42, v. 181; on...

Endymion and the Moon, i. 18; set his sons to race at Olympia, ii. 299; the sunken sun overtaken by the moon, iv. 90; his tomb at Olympia, iv. 287

bringing in Summer in, iv. 246; athletic sports at harvest in, vii. 76; the Grandmother sheaf at harvest in, vii. 136; the last sheaf called the Old Woman or Old Man in, vii. 13...

—— -tree, the wild, its milky juice sacrificed to Juno Caprotina, ii. 313; a male, ii. 314 _sq._; supposed to fertilize women, ii. 316 _sq._; haunted by spirits of the dead, ii....

Guiana, the Indians of, their precaution against heavy rain, i. 253; power of medicine-men among, i. 359 _sq._; their fire customs, ii. 259; their belief in dreams, iii. 36 _sq....

Varro, on the oak groves of Rome, ii. 185; on the so-called temple of Vesta, ii. 200; on the foundation of Rome by shepherds and herdsmen, ii. 324 _n._ 1; on Pales, ii. 326; on...

Backache at reaping, leaps over the Midsummer bonfire thought to be a preventive of, x. 165, 168, 189, 344 _sq._; set down to witchcraft, x. 343 _n._, 345; at harvest, mugwort a...

Janus, two-faced images like those of, set up by mothers of still-born twins, i. 269 _n._ 1; a god of the sky, ii. 381 _sq._; called Junonian, ii. 382; as a god of doors, ii. 38...

—— (South), peasants of, threaten fruit-trees to make them bear fruit, ii. 21; crown their cattle on St. George’s Day as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 126 _sq._; the meas...

name of, tabooed, iii. 401; the Mexican goddess of, ix. 278, 283; used in a ceremony after marriage, x. 25 _sq._; abstinence from, associated with a rule of chastity, x. 26 _sqq...

Evil, the transference of, ix. 1 _sqq._; transferred to other people, ix. 5 _sqq._, 47 _sqq._; transferred to sticks and stones, ix. 8 _sqq._; transferred to animals, ix. 31 _sq...

——, Southern, the Kapu of, i. 284 _n._; the Malas of, i. 294, viii. 93; inspired devil-dancers in, i. 382; the Kuruvikkarans of, i. 382; the Vellalas of, ii. 57 _n._ 4; the Toda...

Erechtheus or Erichthonius, and Minerva (Athena), i. 21; king of Athens, the Erechtheum his house, ii. 199; in relation to the sacred serpent on the Acropolis, iv. 86 _sq._, v....

—— women, forbidden to spin or twist ropes, i. 114; not to loiter in the doorways of houses where there are, i. 114; employed to fertilize crops and fruit-trees, i. 140 _sq._, i...

in Corea, their control of demons, ix. 99, 100; among the Koryaks, enjoy the favour of demons and pull out their invisible arrows, ix. 101, 126; expel demons at the winter solst...

—— Day (Midsummer Day), barren fruit-trees threatened on, ii. 22; swinging on, iv. 157, 280; or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), custom of bathing on, v. 246 _sqq._; the Rush-cutter...

Jensen, P., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 137 _n._ 4; on Hittite inscription, v. 145 _n._ 2; on Syrian god Hadad, v. 163 _n._ 3; on etymology of Purim, ix. 362; his...

St. Stephen’s Day (December 26th), the hunting and burial of the wren on, viii. 319 _sq._; custom of beating young women on, ix. 270; Lord of Misrule appointed in the Inner Temp...

Chota Nagpur in India, ceremonies observed by rearers of silkworms in, iii. 194 _n._ 1; the Oraons of, vii. 244; stones or leaves piled on places where persons have been killed...

Ellis, A. B., on Ewe superstition as to eating, iii. 116; on the supposed material connexion between a man and his name, iii. 323; on sacred prostitution in West Africa, v. 65 _...

Sirius (the Dog-star), the soul of Isis in, iv. 5; observed by Egyptian astronomers, vi. 27; called Sothis by the Egyptians, vi. 34; date of its rising in ancient Egypt, vi. 34;...

Bones of the dead, in magic, i. 148, 150; of dead shamans placed in trees, ii. 32; their treatment after the decay of the flesh, iii. 372 _n._ 5; disinterred and scraped, iii. 3...

Moluccas, clove-trees in blossom treated like pregnant women in the, ii. 28; fear of offending forest-spirits in the, ii. 40; abduction of human souls in the, iii. 61 _sq._; cer...

Cnossus in Crete, sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera at, ii. 143 _n._ 1; Minos at, iv. 70 _sqq._; the labyrinth at, iv. 75 _sqq._; the bull perhaps the king’s crest at, iv. 111 _s...

Yams, magical stones to promote the growth of, in New Caledonia, i. 163; feast of, at Onitsha on the Niger, iii. 123; charm for the growth of, among the Kai of New Guinea, vii....

_Times._—“The verdict of posterity will probably be that _The Golden Bough_ has influenced the attitude of the human mind towards supernatural beliefs and symbolical rituals mor...

Whit-Monday, custom observed by Russian girls on, ii. 80; the Leaf King at Hildesheim on, ii. 85; the King in Bohemia on, ii. 85; the king’s game on, ii. 89, 103; custom of roll...

Vosges, peasants of the, preserve their extracted teeth against the resurrection, iii. 280; disposal of cut hair and nails in the, iii. 281; “the Dog of the harvest” in the, vii...

the Tsimshian Indians of, i. 262, viii. 254; the Nootka Indians of, i. 263, iii. 27, 146 _n._ 1, viii. 225, 251; the Lillooet Indians of, i. 265; the Shuswap Indians of, i. 265,...

ceremonies at, in South-East Africa, viii. 148; custom at, in Celebes, viii. 153; riddles asked at, ix. 122 _n._; among the Washamba, xi. 183; in New Guinea, xi. 240 _sq._; in F...

Twins in war, i. 49 _n._ 3; produced by eating two mice, two bananas, or two grains of millet, i. 118, 145; taboos laid on parents of, i. 262, 263 _sq._; supposed to possess mag...

Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, marries daughter of Sanda-sarme, v. 144; confused with the legendary Sardanapalus, v. 173 _sq._, ix. 387 _sq._; carries off the bones of the kings...

her ancient worship in Crete, vii. 131; in relation to the pig, viii. 16 _sqq._; horse-headed, of Phigalia, viii. 21, 338; said to have eaten the shoulder of Pelops, viii. 263;...

Yorkshire, custom as to the placentas of mares at Cleveland in, i. 199; May garlands (hoops) in, ii. 62 _sq._; the _mell_-sheaf in, vii. 151 _sq._; “burning the Old Witch” on th...

Kavirondo, the Bantu tribes of, purification of manslayers among, iii. 176 _sq._; division of agricultural labour between the sexes among, vii. 117 _n._ 2; believe that skin dis...

—— Day, the May-tree in Saxony on, ii. 69; annual pardon of a criminal at Rouen on, ii. 165, 166, 168, 169, ix. 215 _sq._; the “Carrying out of Death” on, at Braller, iv. 222 _n...

Cicero invited to meet the assassin Brutus, i. 5; at Cybistra, v. 122 _n._ 3; corresponds with Cilician king, v. 145 _n._ 2; on the Attic origin of corn, vii. 58; on transubstan...

St. George and the Dragon, ii. 163 _sq._, iv. 107; and the Parilia, ii. 324 _sqq._, v. 308, 309; patron saint of cattle, horses, and wolves, ii. 330, 332, 336, 337, 338; chapel...

homoeopathic magic of the, i. 147 _sqq._; prayers and offerings to the, i. 163; magic blent with the worship of the, i. 164; making rain by means of the, i. 284 _sqq._; the illu...

Twelfth Day, dances on, i. 138; ceremony of the King at Carcassone on, viii. 321; mummers representing a Goat and a Bear on, viii. 327; dances on the roof on, to make the hemp g...

of men eaten to acquire their qualities, viii. 148 _sqq._; of human victims offered to the sun, ix. 279 _sq._, 298; of human victims offered to the moon, ix. 282; of diseased ca...

Heliopolis (the Egyptian), Tum the god of, i. 419; the gods of, ii. 131; wine not to be taken into the temple at, iii. 249 _n._ 2; the mummy of Toumou at, iv. 5; Mnevis the sacr...

Moa, island of, taboos observed by women and children during war in, i. 131; treatment of the navel-string in, i. 187; theory of earthquakes in, v. 198; annual expulsion of dise...

Onitsha, on the Niger, the king of, confined to his house, iii. 123; ceremony at eating the new yams at, viii. 58; sham funeral at, viii. 98 _sq._; annual expulsion of evils at,...

Exchange of wives at appearance of the Aurora Australis, iv. 267 _n._ 1; of dress between men and women in rites, vi. 259 _n._ 3; of dress at marriage, vi. 260 _sqq._; of dress...

Hercules adopted by Hera, i. 74; sacrifice with curses to, i. 281 _sq._; his birth delayed by Lucina, iii. 298 _sq._; in the garden of the Hesperides, iv. 80; identified with Me...

Stars, time when the stars are vanishing, i. 83 _n._ 2; the souls of Egyptian gods in, iv. 5; shooting, superstitions as to, iv. 58 _sqq._; shooting, associated with the souls o...

Candle sent by Fire King to the King of Cambodia, ii. 5 _sq._; virginity tested by flame of, ii. 240, x. 139 _n._; the Easter or Paschal, x. 121, 122, 125; divination by the fla...

Scapegoats, he-goats employed as, among the Akikuyu, iii. 214 _sq._; inanimate objects as, ix. 1 _sqq._; animals as, ix. 31 _sqq._, 190 _sqq._, 208 _sqq._; birds as, ix. 35 _sq....

Storms, Catholic priests thought to possess the power of averting, i. 232; thought to be caused by the spirits of the dead, ii. 183; caused by cutting or combing the hair, ii. 2...

Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom, at the marriage of the Queen of Egypt to Ammon, ii. 131; how he added five days to the Egyptian year, vi. 6; teaches Isis a spell to restore the d...

Westermarck, Dr. E., as to king-killing on the Blue Nile, iv. 16 _n._ 1; on annual mock sultans in Morocco, iv. 153 _n._ 1; on the reason for killing the first-born, iv. 189 _n....

custom as to cutting hibiscus tree in, iii. 227; the natives of, burn or throw into the sea their cut hair and nails for fear of witchcraft, iii. 281 _sq._ _See also_ Yap

Hands tabooed, iii. 133 _sq._, 138, 140 _sqq._, 146 _sqq._, 158, 159 _n._, 174, 265; food not to be touched with, iii. 138 _sqq._, 146 _sqq._, 166, 167, 168, 169, 174, 265; defi...

Spain, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167; acorns used as food in, ii. 355, 356; “Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 240, 242; seven-legged effigies of Lent in, iv...

special, occupied by tabooed persons, iii. 142, 144, 156, 165, 166, 169, 171, 175, 179, 190, 199, 202, 207, 220, 221, 225 _n._; special, for menstruous women, iii. 146, x. 79, 8...

Bontoc in, ii. 30, vii. 240; the Apoyaos of, vii. 241; rice-fields guarded against wild hogs in, viii. 33; the Catalangans of, viii. 124; the Irayas of, viii. 124; exorcism in,...

Stone used in ceremony to facilitate childbirth, i. 74; supposed to cure jaundice, i. 80; bitten by a dog in homoeopathic magic, i. 157; treading on a, as a homoeopathic charm,...

Blackfoot Indians, taboos observed by eagle-trappers among the, i. 116; taboos observed by the wives and children of eagle-hunters among the, i. 119; their use of skulls as char...

special, at New Year, ix. 149 _sq._; with twelve knobs offered to Cronus and other deities, ix. 351, 351 _n._ 3; Hallowe’en, x. 238, 241, 245; Beltane, x. 148 _sq._, 150, 152, 1...

Sowerby, James, on mouse-ear hawk-weed, xi. 57; on orpine, xi. 61 _n._ 4; on yellow hoary mullein, xi. 64; on the Golden Bough, xi. 284 _n._ 3; on mistletoe, xi. 316 _n._ 5

Savages believe themselves naturally immortal, iv. 1; not to be judged by European standards, iv. 197 _sq._; lament for the animals and plants which they eat, vi. 43 _sq._; apol...

Straw, the Yule, vii. 301 _sq._; of Shrovetide Bear used to make geese and hens lay eggs, viii. 326; wrapt round fruit-trees as a protection against evil spirits, ix. 164; tied...

Adonis at Byblus, i. 30; myth of, v. 3 _sqq._; Greek worship of, v. 6; in Greek mythology, v. 10 _sqq._; in Syria, v. 13 _sqq._; monuments of, v. 29; in Cyprus, v. 31 _sqq._, 49...

Mark of Brandenburg, fruit-trees girt with straw at Christmas in the, ii. 17; race of bride and bridegroom in the, ii. 303; name of mice tabooed between Christmas and Twelfth Ni...

recall of lost souls in, iii. 55 _sq._; the Ot Danoms of, iii. 103; precautions against strangers in, iii. 103 _sq._; the Blu-u Kayans of, iii. 104; exorcism of spirits by means...

Bohemian belief that serpents get their poison annually on St. George’s Day, ii. 344 _n._ 4; cures for fever, ix. 49, 51, 55 _sq._, 58, 59, 63; remedy for jaundice, ix. 52

Codrington, Dr. R. H., on the confusion of religion and magic in Melanesia, i. 227 _sq._; on the supernatural powers ascribed to chiefs in Melanesia, i. 338; on mother-kin in Me...

transference of, in Mirzapur, ix. 6; demon of, transferred to a sow, ix. 33; attempt to deceive the spirit of, ix. 112 _n._ 2; blood of monkey used to exorcize the devil of, ix....

contests between, vii. 136, 140, 141, 142, 144, 152, 153 _sqq._, 164 _sq._, 219, 253; throw their sickles at the last standing corn, vii. 136, 142, 144, 153, 154 _sq._, 155 _n._...

Kei Islanders, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of creepers, i. 145; their charm to ensure trading profits, i. 152; their treatment of the navel-string, i. 186; dance for...

Tumleo, island of, treatment of spilt blood and rags in, i. 205; contagious magic of bodily impressions in, i. 213; seclusion of women after childbirth in, iii. 150; annual figh...

Euripides, the _Hippolytus_ of, i. 25; on Artemis as a midwife, i. 37; on the dragon at Delphi, iv. 79; on the death of Pentheus, vi. 98 _n._ 5; his account of Aegisthus pelting...

Australia, use of magical images among the aborigines of, i. 62; cave-paintings in, i. 87 _n._ 1; rain-making in, i. 251 _sq._, 254-261, 287 _sq._, 304; dust-columns in, thought...

respect the animals and plants which they eat, vi. 44; their address to the first fish of the season, viii. 253; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 46 _sqq._; dread and...

Maiden, the (Persephone), the descent of, vi. 41; name given to last corn cut in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 140, 153, 155 _sqq._, 164 _sqq._; or Corn-maiden, name given to...

Ibos of the lower Niger, their maintenance of fire, ii. 259; think that a manslayer must taste his victim’s blood, viii. 155; their belief in external human souls lodged in anim...

Bohemia, customs as to children’s cast teeth in, i. 180; contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210 _sq._; Midsummer-tree burned in, ii. 66; throwing Death into the water on the...

Bride tied to tree at marriage, ii. 57; the Whitsuntide, ii. 89, 96; the May, ii. 95; led to or round the hearth at marriage, ii. 221, 230, 231; races for a, ii. 300 _sqq._; con...

Journey, conduct of women in absence of men on a, i. 125; purificatory ceremonies on return from a, iii. 111 _sqq._; continence observed on a, iii. 204; hair kept unshorn on a,...

Marcellus of Bordeaux, homoeopathic remedies prescribed by, i. 84; his cure for warts, ix. 48; on transference of toothache to a frog, ix. 50; on transference of asthma to a mul...

Papuans, the, of Tumleo, their treatment of spilt blood and rags, i. 205; of Geelvink Bay, their belief in the abduction of souls by a forest spirit, iii. 60 _sq._; of New Guine...

Julian, the Emperor, on the Hercynian forest, ii. 7; his entrance into Antioch, v. 227, 258; on the Mother of the Gods, v. 299 _n._ 3; restores the standard cubit to the Serapeu...

Munster, rain-producing fountain in, i. 301; dearth in, attributed to king’s incest, ii. 116; taboos observed by the ancient kings of, iii. 11; tax on fires paid to the king of,...

Processions with ships perhaps rain-charms, i. 251 _n._ 3; for rain in Sicily, i. 300; carved on rocks at Boghaz-Keui, v. 129 _sqq._; in honour of Adonis, v. 224 _sq._, 227 _n._...

Pessinus, priestly kings at, i. 47; image of Cybele at, v. 35 _n._ 3; priests called Attis at, v. 140; local legend of Attis at, v. 264; image of the Mother of the Gods at, v. 2...

Slave Coast of West Africa, custom observed by the mother of stillborn twins on the, i. 269 _n._ 1; the Ewe negroes of the, i. 317, iii. 263; the Ewe-speaking peoples of the, ii...

chastity and fasting of women during absence of warriors in the, i. 131; treatment of the afterbirth in the, i. 186; saturnalia at the marriage of the Sun and Earth in the, ii....

Wanyamwesi, the, of Central Africa, iii. 109; their belief in the association of twins with water, i. 268 _sq._; ceremony observed by them on return from a journey, iii. 112; th...

Skulls used as charms to cause invisibility, i. 150; of raccoons prayed to for rain, i. 288; of bears nailed to sacred firs, ii. 11; of dead used as drinking-cups among the Aust...

Wheel, magic, spun by witch in an enchantment, iii. 270; effigy of Death attached to a, iv. 247; fire kindled by the rotation of a, x. 177, 179, 270, 273, 289 _sq._, 292, 335 _s...

Mud, rain-makers smear themselves with, i. 350; smeared on feet of bed of Flamen Dialis, iii. 14; plastered on heads of man-slayers, iii. 182; on heads of women in mourning, iii...

—— the ancient, their worship of women, i. 391; their tree-worship, ii. 8 _sq._; their worship of the oak, ii. 363 _sq._; their customs as to their hair, iii. 262; their regard...

Bantu tribes, ancestor-worship among the, ii. 221, vi. 174 _sqq._; their small regard for the ghosts of women, ii. 224 _n._ 4; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the...

on the sacrifice of children to Moloch, vi. 220 _n._ 1; on the date of the month Lous at Babylon, vii. 259 _n._ 1; on the _bouphonia_, viii. 5 _n._ 2; on the sacrifice of wild b...

Spencer, B., and F. J. Gillen, on a ceremony for the multiplication of white cockatoos, i. 89; on the confusion of a man with his totem, i. 107 _n._ 4; on infanticide among the...

Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), the king personated the god in the, i. 377; precaution as to the spittle of chiefs in the, iii. 289; belief in transmigration among natives of the, vi...

Acorns as an attribute of Artemis, i. 38 _n._ 1; shamans responsible for crop of edible, i. 358; found in the lake-dwellings of Europe, ii. 353; as food, ii. 353, 355 _sq._; as...

—— kings of the Shilluk worshipped, iv. 24 _sq._, vi. 161 _sqq._; their spirits thought to possess sick people, iv. 25 _sq._; incarnate in animals, vi. 162, 163 _sq._; sacrifice...

—— peasants ascribe magical powers to priests, i. 231-233; their superstition as to a virgin and a flame, ii. 240, x. 139 _n._; regulate their sowing and planting by the moon, v...

their charm for attaining old age, viii. 143; their inoculation, viii. 160 _sq._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 22, 30; fumigate their gardens with medicated smoke...

Aryans, magical powers ascribed to kings among the, i. 366 _sqq._; perpetual fires among the, ii. 260; female kinship among the, ii. 283 _sqq._; importance of cattle and milk am...

last thresher said to “strike down the Dog” at Dux in the, vii. 273; the last thresher called the Goat at Oberinntal in the, vii. 286; annual “Burning out of the Witches” on May...

Bushmen, magical telepathy among the, i. 123; of the Kalahari desert, their fire sticks, ii. 218 _n._ 1; custom as to their shadows, iii. 83; think it unlucky to speak of the li...

Fields, miniature, dedicated to spirits, vii. 233 _sq._; cultivated, menstruous women not allowed to enter, x. 79; protected against insects by menstruous women, x. 98 _n._ 1; p...

Bone used to point with in sorcery, x. 14; of bird (eagle or swan), women at menstruation obliged to drink out of, x. 45, 48, 49, 50, 73 _n._ 3, 90, 92; incident of, in folk-tal...

a protection against conflagration, x. 248 _sq._, 250, 255, 256, 258; a protection against thunder and lightning, x. 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258, 264; in Switzerland, x. 2...

Sandan, legendary or mythical hero of Western Asia, v. 125 _sqq._, ix. 368, 388 _sqq._; the burning of, v. 117 _sqq._; identified by the Greeks with Hercules, v. 125, 143, 161,...

Blood shed at circumcision and subincision, uses of, i. 92, 94 _sq._; drawn from virgin bride, i. 94; the flow of, arrested by blood-stones, i. 165; sympathetic connexion betwee...

—— and resurrection, of Kostrubonko at Eastertide, iv. 261; annual, of gods, v. 6, vii. 1, 12 _sqq._, 15; of Adonis represented in his rites, v. 224 _sq._; of Attis, v. 272 _sq....

Wives, taboos observed by, in the absence of their husbands, i. 116, 119, 120, 121, 122 _sqq._, 127 _sqq._; exchanged at the appearance of the Aurora Australis, iv. 267 _n._ 1;...

recovery of lost souls among the, iii. 66; their sacrifice of their first-born children to the sun, iv. 184; ceremonies observed by them before eating the first wild berries or...

Müller, K. O., on a custom of the Spartan kingship, iv. 59; on the eight years’ cycle in ancient Greece, iv. 69 _n._ 1; on octennial celebration of Olympic festival, iv. 90; on...

Toothache, tooth of an ounce a homoeopathic remedy for, i. 153; transferred to enemies, ix. 6; transferred to a frog, ix. 50; transferred to trees, ix. 57, 58, 59 _sq._; nailed...

dancing or leaping as a charm to make flax grow tall in, i. 138 _sq._; custom as to cast teeth in, i. 178; treatment of weapons that have wounded in, i. 204; beating an absent m...

Mutilation of the images of Hermes at Athens, iii. 75; of dead bodies of kings, chiefs, and magicians, vi. 103 _sqq._; of dead magicians to prevent their souls from becoming dan...

Philae, Egyptian relief at, vi. 50 _n._ 5; sculptures illustrating the mystic history of Osiris in the temple of Isis at, vi. 89, 111; the grave of Osiris at, vi. 111; the dead...

Taboo, or negative magic, i. 111 _sqq._, 143; of chiefs and kings in Tonga, iii. 133 _sq._; of chiefs in New Zealand, iii. 134 _sqq._; Esquimau theory of, iii. 210 _sqq._; the m...

Odin, as a magician, i. 241 _sq._; King Olaf sacrificed to, for the crops, i. 367; the Norse god of war, ii. 364; thought to receive in Valhalla only the dead in war, iv. 13; le...

and revival of vegetation, iv. 263 _sq._; in the fire as an apotheosis, v. 179 _sq._; the pollution of, vi. 227 _sqq._, viii. 85 _n._ 3; banishment of the contagion of, ix. 37;...

their offering of first-fruits of sweet potatoes, viii. 133; warriors taste the blood of their slain foes among the, viii. 156; put the first fish caught back into the sea, viii...

Yule Boar, a loaf baked in the form of a boar-pig in Sweden and Denmark, vii. 300 _sqq._, viii. 328; often made out of the corn of the last sheaf, vii. 300 _sq._, viii. 328; par...

at cutting a branch of hazel to form a divining-rod by night on Midsummer Eve, xi. 67; in passing a ruptured or rickety child through a cleft tree, xi. 171; in creeping through...

Substitutes put to death instead of kings, iv. 56 _sqq._, 115, 160, 194 _sq._; slaves killed as substitutes for their masters at a king’s funeral, iv. 117; for human sacrifices,...

Tyrol, sacred larch-tree in the, ii. 20; “ringing out the grass” on St. George’s Day in the, ii. 343 _sq._; witches in the, their magic use of cut hair, iii. 271; disposal of lo...

their address to the sun, vi. 143 _n._ 4; why they will not eat the vicuña, viii. 140; their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 286; their practice...

kindled from ancestral tree, ii. 221, 233 _sq._; on the hearth, souls of ancestors in the, ii. 232; reasons for attributing a procreative virtue to, ii. 233 _sq._; made jointly...

Village, double-headed idol set up as guardian at entrance of, ii. 385; continence at building a new, iii. 202; tabooed at feast of first-fruits in Borneo, viii. 122; surrounded...

sacrificed by Kayans at New Year’s festival, vii. 97; not to be eaten by enchanters of crops, vii. 100 _sq._; the enemies of the crops, vii. 100; thrown into “chasms of Demeter...