v. 280

Heraclids, Lydian destiny of the, v. 182, 184; perhaps Hittite, v. 185

Heraclitus, on the souls of the dead, iv. 12

Heraean mountains in Sicily, the oaks of the, ii. 354

Heraeon, a Greek month, viii. 7

Heralds, tongues of sacrificial victims assigned to Greek, viii. 270 _sq._

Herb, a magic, gathered at Hallowe’en, x. 228

—— of St. John, mugwort, gathered on St. John’s Eve or Day, xi. 58 _sqq._; wonderful virtues ascribed to, xi. 46, 58 _sqq._ _See also_ Herbs

Herbert River in Queensland, personal names avoided for fear of magic on the, iii. 320

Herbrechtingen, in Thüringen, the cow at threshing at, vii. 291

Herbs thrown across the Midsummer fires, x. 182, 201; wonderful, gathered on St. John’s Eve or Day, xi. 45 _sqq._

—— and flowers cast into the Midsummer bonfires, x. 162, 163, 172, 173

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 Melcarth, v. 16, 111; slain by Typhon and revived by Iolaus, v. 111; burnt on Mount Oeta, v. 111, 116, 211; worshipped at Gades, v. 112 _sq._; women excluded from sacrifices to, v. 113 _n._ 1; identified with Sandan, v. 125, 143, 161, ix. 388; burns himself, v. 176; worshipped after death, v. 180; the itch of, v. 209; his dispute with Aesculapius, v. 209 _sq._; the patron of hot springs, v. 209 _sqq._; altar of, at Thermopylae, v. 210; the effeminate, vi. 257, 258, 259; priest of, dressed as a woman, vi. 258; vernal mysteries of, at Rome, vi. 258; sacrifices to, at Rome, vi. 258 _n._ 5; apple offered instead of ram to, viii. 95 _n._ 2; surnamed Worm-killing, viii. 282; cake with twelve knobs offered to, ix. 351 _n._ 3; his death on a pyre, ix. 389, 391

Hercules and Achelous, ii. 162

—— and Alcmena, iii. 298 _sq._

—— at Argyrus, temple of, x. 99 _n._ 3

—— and Busiris, vii. 259

—— and the lion, v. 184

—— with the lion’s scalp, Greek type of, v. 117 _sq._

—— and Lityerses, vii. 217

—— surnamed Locust, viii. 282

——, the Lydian, identical with the Cilician Hercules, v. 182, 184, 185

—— and Omphale, ii. 281 _sq._, v. 182, vi. 258, ix. 389

—— and Sardanapalus, v. 172 _sqq._

—— and Syleus, vii. 258

—— and Zeus, viii. 172

Hercynian forest, the, ii. 7, 354; etymology of the name, ii. 354 _n._ 2, 367 _n._ 3

Herd-boys, taboos observed by Esthonian, ii. 331

Herdsmen dread witches and wolves, x. 343

Hereditary and elective monarchy, combination of the two, ii. 292 _sqq._

—— deities, v. 51

—— queens and elective kings, ii. 295

Hereford, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337

Herefordshire, soul-cakes in, vi. 79; the sin-eater in, ix. 43; fires kindled on the Eve of Twelfth Day in, ix. 318 _sqq._; Midsummer fires in, x. 199; the Yule log in, x. 257 _sq._

Herero or Damaras, a Bantu tribe of German South-West Africa, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209; their prayers and sacrifices for rain, i. 287; their fire-customs, ii. 211 _sqq._; their huts and villages, ii. 212 _sq._; their worship of ancestors, ii. 221; seclusion of women at childbirth among the, iii. 151; purification of warriors after battle among the, iii. 176; holiness of women in childbed among the, iii. 225 _n._; the worship of the dead among the, vi. 185 _sqq._

Hermaphrodite son of Sky and Earth, v. 282 _n._

Hermaphrodites, dance of, v. 271 _n._

Hermegisclus, king of the Varini, enjoined his son to wed his stepmother,