i. 348

—— River, xi. 264

Kasan Government of Russia, the Wotyaks of the, ix. 156

Kashgar, effigy of ox beaten in spring at, viii. 13

_Kashim_, assembly-room or dancing-house of the Esquimaux of Bering Strait, viii. 247

Katajalina, an Australian spirit who eats up boys at initiation and restores them to life, xi. 234 _sq._

_Katikiro_, the, of Uganda, iii. 145 _n._ 4

——, Baganda term for prime minister, vi. 168

Katodis, their ceremony at felling a tree, ii. 38

Katoemanggoengan, a lawgiver, born again in a crocodile, viii. 211

Katrine, Loch, x. 231

Katsina, a Hausa kingdom, custom of killing infirm kings in, iv. 35

Katzenthal in Baden, charm to make the hemp grow tall in, i. 138

Kaua Indians of North-Western Brazil, their masked dances, vii. 111, ix. 236, 381

Kauffmann, Professor F., on the Balder myth, x. 102 _n._ 1, 103 _n._; on the external soul, xi. 97 _n._

Kaumpuli, the Baganda god of plague, ix. 4

Kaupole, a Midsummer pole in Eastern Prussia, xi. 49

_Kausika Sutra_, ancient Hindoo book of sorcery, i. 209, 229, ix. 192

Kavirondo, the Bantu tribes of, purification of manslayers among, iii. 176 _sq._; division of agricultural labour between the sexes among, vii. 117 _n._ 2; believe that skin disease is caused by eating a totemic animal, viii. 26 _sq._

——, the Ja-Luo tribes of, iii. 79

Kawars of India, their cure for fever, xi. 190

Kaya-Kaya or Tugeri of Dutch New Guinea, their use of bull-roarers, xi. 242 _sq._

Kayan family not allowed to cut their hair, iii. 260

Kayans or Bahaus of Central Borneo, vii. 107, 109, 111, 234; beat gongs in a storm, i. 328; threaten the demons of the storm, i. 330; ascribe souls to poison-trees, ii. 17; observe a period of penance after building a house, ii. 40; sacrifice to the spirits of ironwood trees, ii. 40; believe that adultery blights the crops, ii. 109; their expiation for adultery, ii. 109; threaten the demon of thunder, ii. 183 _n._ 2; try to prevent the departure of their souls from their bodies, iii. 32; their recall of lost souls, iii. 47; afraid of being photographed, iii. 99 _sq._; their ceremonies at entering a strange land, iii. 110; their custom of seclusion after a journey, iii. 113; their belief as to ill-luck of man who touches a loom or women’s clothes, iii. 164 _sq._; their custom after killing a panther, iii. 219; regard smiths as inspired, iii. 237; remove sharp weapons from room at childbirth, iii. 239; cut their hair at end of mourning, iii. 286; use a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 406; mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 218; their reasons for taking human heads, v. 294 _sq._; their New Year festival, vii. 93, 96 _sq._; their sowing festival, vii. 93 _sqq._, 111, 186 _sq._; their ceremonies in connexion with rice, vii. 93 _sqq._, 186 _sqq._, viii. 54 _sq._, 184 _sqq._; their games played at sowing festival, vii. 94 _sqq._, 187; their observation of the sun, vii. 314; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 314 _n._ 4; their custom as to eating venison, viii. 144; their belief in transmigration, viii. 293; throw sticks or stones at evil spirits, ix. 19; stretch ropes round their houses to keep off demons, ix. 154 _n._; their masked dances, ix. 236, 382 _sq._; their priestesses not allowed to step on the ground at certain rites, x. 4 _sq._; custom observed by them after a funeral, xi. 175 _sq._; their way of giving the slip to a demon, xi. 179 _sq._

Kayans of the Mahakam river, vii. 186

—— of the Mendalam river, vii. 97, 98

Keadrol, a Toda clan, vi. 228

Keating, Geoffrey, Irish historian, on the Hallowe’en fire-festival of the Irish Druids, x. 139; on the Beltane fires, x. 158 _sq._

Keating, W. H., on the seclusion of menstruous women among the Potawatomis, x. 89

Keats, John, his sonnet to the Evening Star, i. 166

Keb (Geb or Seb), Egyptian earth-god, father of Osiris, v. 6, 283 _n._ 3,