ii. 297

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

—— and Pelops, ii. 279, 299 _sq._

Hippolytus killed by horses, i. 20, iv. 214, viii. 40; restored to life by Aesculapius, i. 20, iv. 214; dedicated horses to Aesculapius, i. 21 _n._ 2, viii. 41 _n._ 5; hair dedicated by youths and maidens to, i. 28, 39

—— and Artemis, i. 19 _sq._, 24 _sqq._

—— and Phaedra, i. 19

—— or Virbius, the first King of the Wood at Nemi, i. 19 _sq._, iv. 214, viii. 40

Hippolytus, Christian Father, on the exhibition of corn to the initiates at Eleusis, vii. 38

Hippolytus, Saint, martyrdom of, i. 21

Hippomenes wins Atalante in a race, ii. 301

Hippopotamus, ceremony after killing a, viii. 235; external soul of chief in a, xi. 200

Hippopotamuses, souls of dead in, viii. 289; lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 202, 205, 209

Hiqit, frog-headed Egyptian goddess, ii. 132, 133

Hirn, Y., as to homoeopathic magic, i. 52 _n._ 1; on magic by similarity and magic by contact, i. 54 _n._ 1

Hiro, Polynesian thief-god, iii. 69

Hirpi Sorani, their fire-walk, xi. 14 _sq._

Hirpini, the, traced their origin to a “sacred spring,” iv. 186; guided by a wolf (_hirpus_), iv. 186 _n._ 4; valley of Amsanctus in the land of, v. 204

Hirschfeld, G., on Hittite hieroglyphs, i. 87 _n._ 1

Hirt, Professor H., on the derivation of the name Perkunas, ii. 367 _n._ 3; on the Twelve Days, ix. 325 _n._ 3

Hissar District, Punjaub, burial of dead infants at the threshold in the, v. 94

Historical tradition hampered by the taboo on the names of the dead, iii. 363 _sqq._

History not to be explained without the influence of great men, v. 311 _n._ 2; of mankind not to be summed up in a few simple formulas, viii. 37; of religion a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, viii. 40

Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, May carols at, ii. 61 _n._ 1

Hittite, correct form of the national name Chatti or Hatti, v. 133 _n._

Hittite god of thunder, v. 134, 163

—— gods at Tarsus and Sardes, v. 185

—— hieroglyphics, i. 87 _n._ 1, v. 124, 125 _n._

—— inscription on Mount Argaeus, v. 190 _n._ 1

—— priest or king, his costume, v. 131 _sq._, 133 _n._

—— sculptures at Carchemish, v. 38 _n._, 123; at Ibreez, v. 121 _sqq._; at Bor (Tyana), v. 122 _n._ 1; at Euyuk, v. 123; at Boghaz-Keui, v. 128 _sqq._; at Babylon, v. 134; at Zenjirli, v. 134; at Giaour-Kalesi, v. 138 _n._; at Kara-Bel, v. 138 _n._; at Marash, v. 173; in Lydia, v. 185

—— Sun-goddess, v. 133 _n._

—— treaty with Egypt, v. 135 _sq._

Hittites worship the bull, v. 123, 132; their empire, language, etc., v. 124 _sq._; their costume, v. 129 _sq._, 131; their seals of treaty, v. 136, 142 _n._ 1, 145 _n._ 2; traces of mother-kin among the, v. 141 _sq._; their deity named Tark or Tarku, v. 147

Hkamies of North Aracan, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 61

Hkön, race of Upper Burma, virgins of the, married to the spirit of a lake, ii. 150 _sq._

Hlubi chief, his external soul in a pair of ox-horns, xi. 156

Hlubies, the, of South-Eastern Africa, their rain-making, i. 249

Ho tribe of Togoland, their kings buried secretly, vi. 104. _See_ Hos

Hoare, Sir Richard Colt, on Hallowe’en in Wales, x. 239

Hobby-horse at Padstow, ii. 68; to carry away spirit of smallpox, ix. 119

Hobley, C. W., on the belief of the Akikuyu in the fertilization of women by wild fig-trees, ii. 316; on spiritual husbands among the Akamba, ii. 316 _sq._

Hochofen, village of Bohemia, annual expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 161 _sq._

Hockey played as a ceremony, ix. 174

Hockey cart, the waggon on which the last corn is brought from the harvest vii. 147 _n._ 1

Hodgson, Adam, on Indian parallel to Jacob wrestling with the angel, viii. field, 264

Hodson, T. C., on mode of keeping count of years in Manipur, iv. 117 _n._ 1; on taboos among the hill tribes of Assam, vii. 109 _n._ 2; on annual eponyms in Manipur, ix. 39 _sq._

Hodum Deo, images of, i. 284 _n._

Hoeck, K., on the pursuit of Britomartis by Zeus, iv. 73 _n._ 1

Hoeing, rites at, vii. 96; done by women, vii. 113 _sq._

Hoensbroech, Count von, his mode of communion with the Deity, viii. 94

Hoes used by women in agriculture, vii. 114, 115, 116, 118, 119

Hofmayr, P. W., on the Supreme Being of the Shilluks, iv. 18 _n._ 1; on the worship of Nyakang among the Shilluks, iv. 19 _n._ 3, vi. 164, 166

Hog-sucker in homoeopathic magic, i. 155

Hog’s blood, purifying virtue of, i. 107. _See_ Pig

Hog’s wort (_Peucedanum leiocarpum_, Nutt.) burnt as an offering to salmon, viii. 254

Hogarth, D. G., on relics of paganism at Paphos, v. 36; on the Corycian cave, v. 155 _n._; on Roman remains at Tarsus, v. 172 _n._ 1

Hogg, Alexander, and Midsummer bonfires, x. 206 _sq._

Hoggan, Frances, on cutting “the neck” at harvest in Pembrokeshire, vii. 267

Hogmanay, the last day of the year, Highland custom of beating a cow’s hide on, viii. 323; song in the Isle of Man, x. 224; the “Burning of the Clavie” at Burghead on, x. 266

Hogs sacrificed to goddess of volcano, v. 218 _sq._ _See_ Pigs

Hohenstaufen Mountains in Wurtemberg, Midsummer fires in the, x. 166

Hole in tongue of medicine-man, xi. 238, 239

Holed flint a protection against witches, ix. 162

—— stone in magic, i. 313. _See also_ Holes

Holes in rocks or stones which sick people creep through as a cure, xi. 186 _sqq._

Holi, a festival of Northern India, bonfires at, xi. 2 _sq._

Holiness conceived as a dangerous virus, viii. 29; or taboo conceived as a dangerous physical substance which needs to be insulated, x. 6 _sq._

—— and pollution not differentiated by savages, iii. 224

Holland, belief as to cauls in, i. 199; Whitsuntide customs in, ii. 80, 104; story as to absence of soul from body in, iii. 39 _n._ 1; “Killing the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 280; Easter fires in, x. 145

Hollantide Eve (Hallowe’en) in the Isle of Man, x. 244

Hollertau, Bavaria, Easter fires in the, x. 122

Hollis, A. C., on a Masai custom as to the brewing of honey-wine, iii. 200 _n._ 3; on serpent-worship among the Akikuyu, v. 67 _sq._; on serpent-worship among the Masai, v. 84; on serpent-worship among the Nandi, v. 84 _sq._; on custom of manslayers among the Nandi, viii. 155; on pretence of being born again at circumcision among the Akikuyu, xi. 262

Hollow things, homoeopathic magic of, i. 157 _sq._

Holly-oaks in sacred grove of Dia, ii. 122

Holly-tree, children passed through a cleft, xi. 169 _n._ 2

Holm-oak or ilex, resemblance of its leaf to the laurel, iv. 81 _sq._; the Golden Bough growing on a, xi. 285

Holstein, the last sheaf called the Corn-mother in, vii. 133 _sq._; fox carried from house to house in spring in, vii. 297

Holy Apostles, church of the, at Florence, x. 126

—— Basil, worshipped in India, ii. 26

—— candles, i. 13

—— Ghost, alleged incarnation of the, i. 409; regarded as female, iv. 5 _n._ 3

—— of Holies, the Fijian, xi. 244, 245

—— Innocents’ Day, young people beat each other on, ix. 270, 271; mock pope or bishop on, ix. 334, 336, 337, 338

—— Land, fire flints brought from the, x. 126

“—— men” in Syria, v. 77 _sq._

—— Saturday, effigy of Queen of Lent beheaded on, iv. 244

—— Sepulchre, church of the, at Jerusalem, ceremony of the new fire in the, x. 128 _sq._

—— water a charm against witchcraft, ii. 340; sprinkling with, iii. 285 _sq._; a protection against witches, ix. 158, 164 _sq._

Holyrood, Charles the First at, i. 368

Homer on the loves of Zeus and Hera, ii. 143; kings called divine in, ii. 177; on Demeter as goddess of the corn, vii. 41 _sq._; on loves of Zeus and Demeter, vii. 66; on gods in likeness of foreigners, vii. 236

Homeric age, funeral games in the, iv. 93

—— Greeks cut out tongues of sacrificial victims, viii. 270

—— _Hymn to Demeter_, vii. 35 _sqq._, 70, 161 _n._ 4, 211 _n._ 3

Homesteads protected by bonfires against lightning and conflagration, x. 344

Homicide, banishment of, iv. 69 _sq._ _See_ Manslayers

Hommel, Professor F., on the Hittite deity Tarku, v. 147 _n._ 3

Homoeopathic or imitative magic, i. 52 _sqq._, iii. 151, 152, 207, 295, 298, iv. 283, 285, vii. 10, 62, 262, viii. 267, 272, 331, 333, 334, ix. 177, 232, 257, 404, x. 49, 133, xi. 177, 287; for the making of rain, i. 247 _sqq._; of a flesh diet, viii. 138 _sqq._ _See also_ Magic

—— taboos, i. 116

Homogeneity of civilization in prehistoric times in Southern Europe and Western Asia, ix. 409

Homolje mountains in Servia, “living fire” in time of epidemic at the, ii. 237, x. 282

Honduras, Indians of, their superstition as to the bones of deer, viii. 241; the _nagual_ or external soul among the, xi. 213 _sq._, 226 _n._ 1

Hone, W., on May-poles, ii. 70 _sq._; on “crying the neck,” vii. 264 _sq._

Honey offered to the sun-god, i. 311

—— and milk offered to snakes, v. 85, viii. 288

Honey-cakes, sacred serpent fed with, iv. 86, v. 87

—— -wine, continence observed at brewing, iii. 200

Honorific totems of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273 _sqq._

Honorius and Theodosius, decree of, ix. 392

Honour and good faith, the bonds of, strengthened by superstition, iii. 130

Hood Bay in New Guinea, custom observed after a death at, ix. 84

Hood, Thomas, on the water-fairy, iii. 94

Hoods worn by women after childbirth, x. 20; worn by girls at puberty, x. 44 _sq._, 48 _sq._, 55; worn by women at menstruation, x. 90. _See also_ Hats

Hook-thorn not to be cut while the corn is in the ground, ii. 49

Hooks used in magic, i. 132, 347; to catch souls, iii. 30 _sq._, 51; Indian custom of swinging on, iv. 278 _sq._

Hoop, crawling through a, as a cure or preventive of disease, xi. 184; of rowan-tree, sheep forced through a, xi. 184

Hoopoe brings the mythical springwort, xi. 70 _n._ 2

Hop-picking, treatment of strangers at, vii. 226

Hope of immortality, the Egyptian, centred in Osiris, vi. 15 _sq._, 90 _sq._, 114, 159

Hopi Indians, their fire-drill, ii. 208 _sq._

Hopladamus, a giant, v. 157 _n._ 2

Hora and Quirinus, vi. 233

Horatius purified for the murder of his sister, xi. 194

Horkos, the Greek god of oaths, vi. 231 _n._ 5

Hornbeam, mistletoe on, xi. 315

Horne Island, South Pacific, blood of wounded friends smeared on their relatives in, iii. 245

Horned cap worn by priest or god, v. 123; of Hittite god, v. 134

—— Dionysus, vii. 12, 16

—— god, Hittite and Greek, v. 123

—— lion on coins of Tarsus, v. 127

Hornkampe in Prussia, the last sheaf called the Old Woman at, vii. 137

Hornless ox in homoeopathic magic, i. 151

Horns, of goat hung on a sacred tree, ii. 42; of sacrificial oxen, iv. 32, 33; as a religious emblem, v. 34; worn by gods, v. 163 _sq._; of a cow worn by Isis, vi. 50; of straw worn to keep off demons, ix. 118; of goat a protection against witches, ix. 162

Horns blown to expel demons, ix. 111, 117, 204, 214; to ban witches, ix. 160, 161, 165, 166; at Penzance on eve of May Day, ix. 163 _sq._; by maskers, ix. 243, 244

Horse, prohibition to see a, iii. 9; prohibition to ride, iii. 13; “seeing the Horse,” vii. 294; “Cross of the Horse,” vii. 294; “fatigue of the Horse,” vii. 294; sacrificed to Mars in October for the sake of the crops, viii. 42 _sqq._, ix. 230; ceremony of the, at rice-harvest among the Garos, viii. 337 _sqq._; sacrifice of, in Vedic times, ix. 122 _n._; beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371, 407 _n._ 2; beloved by Semiramis, ix. 407 _n._ 2; witch in the shape of a, x. 319. _See also_ Horses

——, black, in rain-charm, i. 290

—— or mare, last sheaf given to, vii. 141, 156, 158, 160, 161, 162, 294; corn spirit as, vii. 202 _sqq._

——, red, sacrificed as a purification of the land, ix. 213

——, sacred, in Celebes, i. 364; sacrificed at Rome in October, ii. 229, 326

—— and Virbius, viii. 40 _sqq._

——, the White, effigy carried through Midsummer fire, x. 203 _sq._

Horse-chestnut, mistletoe on, xi. 315

Horse-headed Demeter of Phigalia, viii. 21, 338

—— -mackerel, descent of a totemic clan from a, iv. 129

—— -race of boys at Lhasa, ix. 221 _n._ 1

—— -races, at Whitsuntide in Germany, ii. 69; in honour of the dead, iv. 97, 98, 99, 101, 103; at fairs, iv. 99 _sqq._; at Eleusis, vii. 71; at harvest, vii. 76, viii. 114

—— sacrifice in ancient India, xi. 80 _n._ 3

—— -shoes a protection against witches, ix. 162

Horse’s flesh tabooed, among Zulus, i. 118

—— Fount at Troezen, i. 26, 27

—— head, in Roman sacrifice, viii. 42; used to protect garden from caterpillars, viii. 43 _n._ 1; in effigy at harvest festival, viii. 43 _n._ 1, 337 _sq._; thrown into Midsummer fire, xi. 40

—— tail cut off in sacrifice, viii. 42, 43

Horseman, charm to make a good, i. 152

Horses, Hippolytus killed by, i. 19 _sq._, iv. 214; excluded from Arician grove, i. 20, viii. 40 _sqq._; dedicated by Hippolytus to Aesculapius, i. 21 _n._ 2, 27; branded with mark of wolf, i. 27; in relation to Diomede, i. 27; sacrifice of white, i. 27; sacrificed to the sun, i. 315 _sq._; Lycurgus, king of the Edonians, torn to pieces by, i. 366, vi. 98, vii. 24; sacrificed to trees, ii. 16; sacrificed to rivers, ii. 16 _sq._; sacrificed to water-spirits, ii. 157; sanctity of white, ii. 174 _n._ 2; sacrifices for, on St. George’s Day, ii. 332, 336 _sq._; sacrificed and hung on trees of sacred grove, ii. 365; left unclipped for a year after a king’s consecration, iii. 260; not to be called by their proper names, iii. 408, 413; sacrificed for the use of the dead, v. 293 _sq._; excluded from sanctuaries, viii. 45 _sq._; used by sacred persons, x. 4 _n._ 1; not to be touched or ridden by menstruous women, x. 88 _sq._, 96; driven through the need-fire, x. 276, 297. _See also_ Horse

Horus, the eye of, i. 364, vi. 17, 121 with _n._ 3, viii. 30; the soul of, in Orion, iv. 5; the four sons of, in the likeness of hawks, vi. 22; decapitates his mother Isis, vi. 88; represented sacrificing a human victim to Osiris, vii. 260; his eye injured by Typhon, viii. 30; institutes the sacrifice of a pig, viii. 30; the birth of, ix. 341

—— of Edfu identified with the sun, vi. 123

—— the elder, vi. 6

——, the golden, i. 418

—— the younger, son of Isis and the dead Osiris, vi. 8, 15; accused by Set of being a bastard, vi. 17; his combat with Set, vi. 17; his eye destroyed by Set and restored by Thoth, vi. 17; reigns over the Delta, vi. 17

Hos of Bengal offer first-fruits of rice to the sun-god, viii. 117; their annual expulsion of demons at harvest, ix. 136 _sq._

—— of Togoland (West Africa), a tribe of Ewe negroes, their customs as to twins, i. 265; sanctity of the king’s throne among the, i. 365; their human gods, i. 396 _sq._; their ceremony at felling a palm for wine, ii. 19; their god and goddess of lightning, ii. 370; their priests with unshorn hair, iii. 259; their magical use of knots to facilitate childbirth, iii. 295 _sq._; their use of knots in cursing, iii. 301 _sq._; tie strings round the sick as a cure, iii. 304; their comparison of maize to a mother, vii. 130; their miniature gardens dedicated to “guardian gods,” vii. 234; their festival of the new yams, viii. 58 _sqq._; their offerings of new yams, viii. 115 _sq._; their annual expulsion of evils, ix. 134 _sqq._, 206 _sq._; their dread of menstruous women, x. 82

Hose, Dr. Charles, on ceremony of adoption in Sarawak, i. 75 _n._ 1; on creeping through a cleft stick after a funeral, xi. 175 _sq._

——, Dr. Charles and W. McDougall, on head-hunting in Borneo, v. 295 _n._ 1; on the _ngarong_ or secret helper of the Ibans, xi. 224 _n._ 1

Hosea on religious prostitution, v. 58; on the Baalim, v. 75 _n._; on the prophet as a madman, v. 77

Hoshangábád, in Central India, custom as to the last corn cut at, vii. 222

Hospitality, bonds of, strengthened through superstition, iii. 130

Hosskirch, in Swabia, mode of predicting the weather for the year at, ix. 323

Hostages, clipped hair used as, iii. 272 _sq._

Hostility of religion to magic in history, i. 226

Hot springs resorted to by women in order to obtain offspring, ii. 161; worship of, v. 206 _sqq._; Hercules the patron of, v. 209 _sqq._; resorted to by childless women in Syria, v. 213 _sqq._

—— water drunk as a charm, i. 129

Hother, Hodr, or Hod, the blind god, and Balder, x. 101 _sqq._, xi. 279 _n._ 4

Hottentot charm to make the wind drop, i. 320

—— hunters, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212

—— prayers for cattle at cairns, ix. 29 _sq._

—— priest never uses an iron knife, iii. 227

—— women, rules observed by, in the absence of their husbands, i. 120 _sq._

Hottentots, seclusion and purification of hunters among the, iii. 220 _sq._; the mortal god of the, iv. 3; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 316 _sq._; throw stones or sticks on the graves of Heitsi-eibib, ix. 16; drive their sheep through fire, xi. 11 _sq._

Hounds protected against spirits of wild beasts killed in the chase, ii. 128. _See also_ Dogs

House, taboos observed after building a new, ii. 40; ceremony at entering a new, iii. 63 _sq._; taboos on quitting the, iii. 122 _sqq._; destroyed after a death, iii. 286

House-building, homoeopathic magic of woods used in, i. 146; custom as to shadows at, iii. 81, 89 _sq._; continence observed at, iii. 202

—— -communities of the Servians, x. 259 _n._ 1

—— -timber, homoeopathic magic of, i. 146; tree-spirits propitiated in, ii. 39 _sq._

Housebreakers, charms employed by, to cause sleep, i. 148 _sq._

Houses built with one story, reason for, iii. 253, 254; fumigated as a protection against witches, ix. 158; protected by bonfires against lightning and conflagration, x. 344; made fast against witches on Midsummer Eve, xi. 73

“—— of the soul” in Isaiah, xi. 155 _n._ 3

Housman, Professor A. E., on the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, x. 220 _sq._

Houstry, in Caithness, need-fire at, x. 291 _sq._

Hovas, the, of Madagascar, divinity of kings among, i. 397; offer the first-fruits of the crop to the king, viii. 116

_How_, the civil king of Tonga, iii. 21

Howitt, A. W., as to extracted teeth of Australian aborigines, i. 176; on contagious magic of footprints in Australia, i. 207 _sq._; on Australian magic, iii. 269; on superstitions as to personal names among the Australian aborigines,