x. 246;

the Holi festival in, xi. 1; the fire-walk in, xi. 8

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. 383 _sq._; explanation of the two-headed, ii. 384 _sq._; double-headed images of, with stick and key, ii. 385; in Roman mythology, vi. 235 _n._ 6

—— and Carna, ii. 190

—— (Dianus) and Diana, doubles of Jupiter and Juno, ii. 190 _sq._, 381 _sq._

—— and Jupiter, xi. 302 _n._ 2

Janus-like deity on coins, v. 165

Japan, contagious magic of footprints in, i. 208 _sq._; black dog sacrificed for rain in the mountains of, i. 291 _sq._; rain-making by means of a stone in, i. 305; the Mikado of, i. 417, iii. 2 _sqq._; fruit-trees threatened in, to make them bear fruit, ii. 21; Kaempfer’s history of, iii. 3 _n._ 2; Caron’s account of, iii. 4 _n._ 2; mock human sacrifices in, iv. 218; annual festival of the dead in, vi. 65; superstitious practice of robbers in, vii. 235 _n._ 3; the fox associated with the rice-god in, vii. 297; the Ainos of, viii. 52, x. 20, xi. 60; cure for toothache in, ix. 71; expulsion of demons in, ix. 118 _sq._, 143 _sq._; Feast of Lanterns in, ix. 151 _sq._; annual expulsion of evil in, ix. 212 _sq._; ceremony of new fire in, x. 137 _sq._; the fire-walk in, xi. 9 _sq._

Japanese, their use of magical images, i. 60, 71; treatment of the placenta among the, i. 195; use ropes to keep off demons, ix. 154 _n._

Japanese account of the Aino bear-festival, viii. 187 _sq._

—— alps, rain-making in the, i. 251

—— deities of the Sun, vii. 212

—— mode of procuring rain by an artificial dragon, i. 297; by doing violence to deity, i. 297

Japura River in Brazil, viii. 157

Jar, the evils of a whole year shut up in a, ix. 202. _See also_ Jars

Jaray. _See_ Chréais

Jargon, artificial, used by searchers for eagle-wood, iii. 404. _See also_ Language, special

Järischau, in Silesia, athletic sports at harvest at, vii. 76

Jarkino, trees respected in, ii. 18

Jars, winds kept by priest in, iii. 5; souls conjured into, iii. 70; burial in, iv. 12 _sq._, v. 109 _n._ 1. _See also_ Jar

Jasmine married to a tamarind in India, ii. 25

Jason and Medea, v. 181 _n._ 1

—— and Pelias, iii. 311 _sq._

Jassnitz, in Moravia, custom of “Carrying out Death” at, iv. 238 _sq._

Jastrow, Professor M., on the festival of Tammuz, v. 10 _n._ 1; on the character of Tammuz, v. 230 _n._; on the epic of Gilgamesh, ix. 399 _n._ 1

_Jatakas_, collection of Buddhist tales, viii. 299 _n._ 5, ix. 41, 45

Jaundice treated by homoeopathic magic, i. 79 _sqq._; called the royal disease, i. 371 _n._ 4; transferred to a tench, ix. 52

Java, magical images in, i. 58; ceremonies to procure offspring in, i. 73; belief as to the homoeopathic magic of house timber in, i. 146; charm to produce sleep in, i. 148; treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 192; rain-making in, i. 257 _sq._; ceremonies for preventing rain in, i. 270 _sq._; rain-charm by means of cats in, i. 289; special forms of speech used in addressing social superiors in, i. 402 _n._; modes of deceiving the spirits of plants in, ii. 23; sexual intercourse practised to promote the growth of rice in, ii. 98; ceremony at tapping a palm-tree for wine in, ii. 100 _sq._; custom observed in, when a child is first set on the ground, iii. 34; rice placed on heads of persons after a great danger in, iii. 35; remedy for gout or rheumatism in, iii. 106; the Baduwis of, iii. 115; superstitions as to the head in, iii. 254; everything opened in house to facilitate childbirth in, iii. 297; tabooed words in, iii. 409, 411; the Sultans of, hereditary custom of suicide practised for their benefit, iv. 53 _sq._; the Tenggeres (Tenggerese) of, iv. 130 _n._ 1, ix. 184; conduct of natives in an earthquake, v. 202 _n._ 1; Valley of Poison in, v. 203 _sq._; worship of volcanoes in, v. 220 _sq._; use of winnowing-basket as cradle in, vii. 6; Rice-bride and Rice-bridegroom in, vii. 199 _sqq._; earthworms eaten by dancing girls in, viii. 147; kinship of men with crocodiles in, viii. 212; belief in demons in, ix. 86 _sq._; birth-trees in, xi. 161 _n._ 1

Javanese, their mode of rain-making, i. 248; shadow-plays as a rain-charm among the, i. 301 _n._; treat rice in bloom like a pregnant woman, ii. 28; ascribe a soul to rice, vii. 183

Jawbone of ancestor in magical ceremony, i. 312; the ghost of the dead thought to adhere to the, vi. 167 _sq._

—— and navel-string of Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, vi. 197

Jawbones of deer and pigs, magical use of, i. 109; of executed persons a protective against their ghosts, iii. 171; of dead kings of Uganda preserved and worshipped, i. 196, iv. 200 _sq._, vi. 167 _sq._, 169 _sq._, 171 _sq._; the ghosts of the kings supposed to attach to their jaw-bones, vi. 169; of slain beasts propitiated by hunters, viii. 244 _sq._

Jaws of corpse tied up to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 31

Jay, blue, as scapegoat, ix. 51

Jâyi or Jawâra, festival in Upper India, v. 242

Jealousy, transferred to ants, ix. 33

Jebel Bela mountain, in the Sudan, wizard in form of hyaena on the, x. 313

—— _Hissar_, Olba, v. 151

—— -Nuba, district of the Eastern Sudan, a species of birds respected in,