ii. 317;

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, 82, 85 _sqq._; special, occupied by women in childbed, iii. 147, 148, 149 _sq._, 150, 151 _sq._; miniature, for ghosts, viii. 113

_Huttler_ or _Huddler_ in the Tyrol, ix. 248. _See_ Huddler

Huzuls, the, of the Carpathians, hunter’s wife forbidden to spin among, i. 113; their homoeopathic magic at planting and sowing, i. 137; their precaution against the evil eye, i. 280; their precautions against witches on St. George’s Eve, ii. 335 _sq._; their belief as to shorn hair, iii. 270; their use of wedding-rings as amulets, iii. 314 _sq._; will not call bears, wolves, and serpents by their proper names, iii. 397 _sq._; their theory of the waning moon, vi. 130; their cure for water-brash, vi. 149 _sq._; ascribe a special virtue to a horse’s head, viii. 43 _n._ 1; their respect for weasels, viii. 275; transfer cattle disease to black dog, ix. 32 _sq._; kindle new fire at Christmas, x. 264; gather simples on St. John’s Night, xi. 49

Hyacinth, son of Amyclas, killed by Apollo, v. 313; his flower, v. 313 _sq._; his tomb and festival, v. 314 _sq._; an aboriginal deity, v. 315 _sq._; his sister Polyboea, v. 316; perhaps a deified king of Amyclae, v. 316 _sq._

Hyacinthia, the festival of Hyacinth, v. 314 _sq._

Hyacinthius, a Greek month, v. 315 _n._

Hyaenas, their supposed power over men’s shadows, iii. 82; souls of the dead in, viii. 289; men turned into, x. 313

Hyampolis in Phocis, worship of Artemis at, i. 7

Hybristica, an Argive festival, vi. 259 _n._ 3

Hyes Attes, cry of the worshippers of Attis, viii. 22

Hygieia, the goddess, v. 88 _n._ 1

Hyginus, on the death of Semiramis, ix. 407 _n._ 2

Hylae, near Magnesia, image of Apollo in sacred cave at, i. 386

Hymettus, Mount, altar of Showery Zeus on, ii. 360

Hymn of the Arval Brothers, ix. 230 _n._ 2, 238; of the Cora Indians at sowing, ix. 238

_Hymn to Demeter_, Homeric, vii. 35 _sqq._, 70

Hymns to the deified Demetrius Poliorcetes, i. 390 _sq._; to Parjanya, ii. 368 _sq._; to Tammuz, v. 9; to the sun-god, vi. 123 _sq._

Hyperboreans, offerings of the, at Delos, i. 33

_Hypericum perforatum_, St. John’s wort, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 54 _sqq._ _See also_ St. John’s Wort

Hyperoche, a Hyperborean maiden, i. 34 _n._

_Hyphear_, a kind of mistletoe, xi. 317, 318

Hyria in Cilicia, Megassares king of, v. 41

Hyrrockin, a giantess in the legend of Balder, x. 102

Hysteria cured by beating, ix. 260

Ialysus in Rhodes, taboos observed at the sanctuary of Alectrona at, viii. 45

Iasion and Demeter, vii. 208

Ibadan in West Africa, the hearts of dead kings of, eaten by their successors, iv. 203

Ibani of the Niger delta, their sacrifices to prolong the lives of kings and others, vi. 222

Ibans of Borneo, their _ngarong_ or secret helper, xi. 224 _n._ 1

—— or Sea Dyaks of Borneo, their worship of serpents, v. 83; of Sarawak, their ways of getting rid of birds or vermin, viii. 279. _See_ Sea Dyaks

Iberians of Spain, women tilled the ground among the, vii. 129

Ibn Batutah, Arab traveller, on a custom observed in the Maldive Islands,