ix. 341

_Kedeshim_, sacred men, at Jerusalem, v. 17 _sq._; among the Western Semites, v. 38 _n._, 59, 72, 107; in relation to prophets, v. 76

_Kedeshoth_, sacred women, among the Western Semites, v. 59, 72, 107

Kei Islanders, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of creepers, i. 145; their charm to ensure trading profits, i. 152; their treatment of the navel-string, i. 186; dance for wind, i. 321; their offerings at graves, iii. 53

—— Islands, magical telepathy in the, i. 126; telepathy in war in the, i. 130; custom as to children’s cast teeth in the, i. 179; fire maintained during absence of voyagers in the, ii. 265; offerings of first-fruits in the, vii. 123; expulsion of demons in the, ix. 112 _sq._; birth-custom in the, xi. 155

—— river, in South Africa, heaps of stones on the banks of the, ix. 11

Keisar, an East Indian island, avoidance of graves at night in, iii. 53

Keitele, Lake, in Finland, first-fruits of harvest offered to an old fir-tree on, xi. 165

Kekchi Indians of Guatemala, their period of abstinence before sowing, ii. 105; their respect for serpents, viii. 219; their propitiation of dead deer, viii. 241

_Kelah_, Karen word for soul, vii. 189 _sq._

Kells in Ireland, iv. 99; St. Columba at, ii. 243 _n._ 1

Kemble, J. M., on need-fire, x. 288

Kemosh, god of Moab, v. 15

_Kemping_, contest between reapers in Scotland, vii. 152

_Kěna daulat_, killed by the sanctity (_daulat_) of a Malay king, i. 398

Kengtung, a Shan state of Upper Burma, worship of a lake-spirit in, ii. 150 _sq._; expulsion of the demons of sickness in, ix. 116 _sq._

Kennedy, Prof. A. R. S., on Azazel and the scapegoat, ix. 210 _n._ 4

Kennett, Professor R. H., on David and Goliath, v. 19 _n._ 2; on Elisha in the wilderness, v. 53 _n._ 1; on _kedeshim_, v. 73 _n._ 1; on the sacrifice of first-born children at Jerusalem, vi. 219; on the eating of mice by the Jews, viii. 24 _n._ 1

Kent, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 168; the Weald of, ii. 7; May garlands in, ii. 62; the Ivy Girl in, vii. 153

Kent’s Hole, near Torquay, fossil bones in, v. 153

Kenyahs of Borneo, their use of magical images, i. 59 _sq._; set up images of a god at the doors of houses, ii. 385; their recall of the soul, iii. 43 _sq._; their ceremony at entering a strange land, iii. 110 _sq._; their tabooed words, iii. 415 _sq._

—— of Sarawak, their observation of the sun, vii. 314

Keonjhur, ceremony at installation of Rajah of, iv. 56

Kerak in Palestine, rain-making at, i. 276

Keramin tribe of New South Wales, their rain-making by means of a stone,