x. 189

Jonendake, Mount, in Japan, rain-making ceremonies on, i. 251

Jordan, H., on the ordeal of battle in ancient Italy, ii. 321

Jordan, banks of the, infested by wild boars, viii. 32

Jordanus, Friar, on voluntary suicide in honour of idols in India, iv. 54

Josephus, on worship of kings of Damascus, v. 15; on the Tyropoeon, v. 178; on the Egyptian abstinence from swine’s flesh, viii. 24 _n._ 2

Josiah, King, his religious reform, v. 17 _n._ 5, 18 _n._ 3, 25, 107

Jotham, the fable of, ii. 315

Joubert, on religion, quoted, i. 223 _n._ 2

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, iii. 261; knots as a charm on a, iii. 306, 310

Journeys, conventional names for common objects on long and perilous journeys, iii. 404 _n._ 3

Joustra, M., on the fear of evil spirits among the Bataks, ix. 88

Jove (Father) and Mother Vesta, ii. 227 _sqq._ _See_ Jupiter

Joyce, P. W., on Irish fairs, iv. 100 _n._ 1, 101; on driving cattle through fires, x. 159 _n._ 2; on the bisection of the Celtic year, x. 223 _n._ 2

Jualamukhi in the Himalayas, perpetual fires, v. 192

Jubainville, H. d’Arbois de, on a passage of Maximus Tyrius, ii. 362 _n._ 6; on Irish fairs, iv. 101

Judah, idolatrous kings of, their sacrifice of chariots and horses to the sun, i. 315; kings of, their custom of burning their children, iv. 169; laments for dead kings of, v. 20; the purple hills of, v. 215

Judas, effigies of, burnt in Easter fires, x. 121, 127 _sq._, 130 _sq._, 143, 146, xi. 23; driven out of church on Good Friday, x. 146

Judas candle, x. 122 _n._

—— fire at Easter, x. 123, 144

Judean landscape, the austerity of the, v. 23; maid impregnated by serpent, v. 81

Judith, widow of Ethelwulf, ii. 283

Juggernaut, pilgrimage to, iv. 132

Jugra, in Selangor, durian-trees threatened at, ii. 21

Juhar, the Bhotiyas of, ix. 209

Juice of grapes conceived as blood, iii. 248

Jujube, arrows of the thorny, used to shoot at demons, ix. 146

Jujus, fetishes, i. 349

Jukagirs of Siberia, taboos observed by the sisters of hunters among the,