i. 304

Keremet, a god of the Wotyaks, ceremony to propitiate, ii. 145 _sq._

Kerr, Miss, of Port Charlotte, Islay, on the harvest Cailleach, vii. 166

Kerre, a tribe to the south of Abyssinia, accustomed to strangle their first-born children, iv. 181 _sq._

Kerry, Midsummer fires in, x. 203

Kers, Robert, healed by witchcraft, ix. 38 _sq._

Kersavondblok, the Yule log, in Flanders, x. 249

_Kersmismot_, the Yule log, at Grammont, x. 249

Ketane, river in Basutoland, mythical snake at waterfall on the, ii. 157

Ketosh warriors of British East Africa, their custom after battle, iii. 176

Kettles used to mimic thunder, i. 310

Kevlaar, Virgin Mary of, i. 77

Key as symbol of delivery in childbed, iii. 296

—— of the field, vii. 226

“Key-race” at a marriage in Bavaria, ii. 304

Keys as charms against devils and ghosts, iii. 234, 235, 236; as amulets, iii. 308. _See also_ Locks

——, the golden, used by St. George to open the earth in spring, ii. 333

Keysser, Ch., on belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 96 _sq._; on games and stories as means of promoting the crops among the Kai, vii. 101 _sq._

Khai-muh, kingdom to the west of Tonquin, first-born sons said to be devoured in, iv. 180

Khalij, old canal at Cairo, vi. 38

Khambu caste in Sikkhim, their custom after a funeral, xi. 18

Khan, ceremony at visiting a Tartar, iii. 114

——, the Great, his blood not to be spilt on ground, iii. 242

Khandh priest, his charm to bestow offspring on a barren woman, ii. 160

Khangars of the Central Provinces, India, bridegroom and his father dressed as women at a marriage among the, vi. 261

Kharwars of Northern India, will not name certain animals in the morning, iii. 402 _sq._; their use of scapegoats, ix. 192; their dread of menstruous women, x. 84

Khasis of Assam, their treatment of the placenta, i. 194; their belief as to the disastrous effects of marrying a woman of the same clan, ii. 114 _n._ 1; their system of mother-kin, ii. 294, v. 46, vi. 202 _sq._; succession to the kingdom among the, ii. 294 _sq._, vi. 210 _n._ 1; goddesses predominate over gods in their religion, vi. 203 _sq._; their tribes governed by kings, not queens, vi. 210; their annual expulsion of demon of plague, ix. 173 _sq._; story of the external soul told by the, x. 146 _sq._

Khasiyas, the, of India, their worship of village deities, ii. 288 _n._ 1

Khatris, a caste in the Punjaub, perform funeral rites for a father in the fifth month of his wife’s pregnancy, iv. 189

Khent, early king of the first dynasty in Egypt, vi. 154; his reign, vi. 19 _sq._; his tomb at Abydos, vi. 19 _sqq._; his tomb identified with that of Osiris, vi. 20, 197

Khenti-Amenti, title of Osiris, vi. 87, 198 _n._ 2, vii. 260

Khlysti, the, a Russian sect, abhor marriage, iv. 196 _n._ 3

Khnoumou or Khnumu, Egyptian god, with his potter’s wheel, ii. 132, 133; fashions a wife for Bata, xi. 135

Khoiak, festival of Osiris in the month of, vi. 86 _sqq._, 108 _sq._

Khön-ma, a Tibetan goddess, mistress of foul fiends, viii. 96

Khonds or Khands of India, their sacred groves, ii. 41; rebirth of ancestors among the, iii. 368 _sq._; their human sacrifices for the crops, iv. 139, vii. 245 _sqq._, xi. 286 _n._ 2; their annual expulsion of demons at seed-time, ix. 138, 234; their treatment of human victims, ix. 259

Khor-Adar Dinka, the, their custom of strangling their rain-makers, iv. 33

Khyrim State, in Assam, importance of the priestess in, v. 46; governed by a High Priestess, vi. 203

Kia blacks of Queensland, their treatment of girls at puberty, x. 39

Kia-King, Chinese emperor, his punishment of the rain-dragon, i. 297 _sq._

Kiang-si, Chinese province, Dragon and Tiger Mountains in, i. 413 _sq._

Kibanga, on the Upper Congo, kings of, put to death, iv. 34

Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, a dead man, vi. 197; his personal relics preserved at Cambridge, vi. 197

Kic tribe, of the Upper Nile, ventriloquist as chief of the, i. 347

Kickapoo Indians, iii. 171; their customs before going to war, iii. 163 _n._ 2

Kid, surname of Dionysus, vii. 17

Kidd, Dudley, on use made of twins by Zulus in war, i. 49 _n._ 3; on chiefs as rain-makers in South Africa, i. 350; on the fire-drill of the Caffres, ii. 210 _sq._; on female ghosts among the Bantu peoples, ii. 224 _n._ 4; as to Caffre belief about the shadows of trees, iii. 82; on Caffre belief as to shadows, iii. 88 _n._; on the worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantus of South Africa, vi. 177 _sqq._; on external souls of chiefs, xi. 156 _n._ 2

Kidneys tabooed to Malagasy soldiers, i. 117 _sq._

Kiel, the corn-spirit as a cat at, vii. 280

_Kigelia africana_, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210

Kikuyu, the, of British East Africa, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 317. _See_ Akikuyu

Kilchrennan, on Loch Awe, vii. 165, 166

Kildare, fire and nuns of St. Brigit in, ii. 240 _sq._; the church of, ii. 363; Midsummer fires in, x. 203

Kilema, in East Africa, strangers doctored before being admitted to see the king at, iii. 114 _sq._

Kilimanjaro, the Wajaggas of, i. 250

——, Mount, attempted ascent of, iii. 103

Kilkenny, Midsummer fires in, x. 203

Killer of the Elephant, official who throttles sick kings, iv. 35

“—— of the Rye-woman,” name given to the cutter of the last rye, vii. 223, 224

Killin, in Perthshire, the hill of the fires at, x. 149

Killing the spirit of the wind, i. 328; the divine king, iv. 8 _sqq._; the corn-spirit, vii. 216 _sqq._; the divine animal, viii. 169 _sqq._; a totem animal, xi. 220; the novice and bringing him to life again at initiation, pretence of, xi. 225 _sqq._

—— a god, ix. 1; in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, iv. 221; in the form of an animal, vii. 22 _sq._; two types of the custom of, viii. 312 _sq._; in Mexico, ix. 275 _sqq._

—— the tree-spirit, iv. 205 _sqq._; a means to promote the growth of vegetation, iv. 211 _sq._

Kilmainham, perpetual fire in the monastery of, ii. 241 _sq._

Kilmarnock, mode of cutting the last corn near, vii. 279

Kilmartin, in Argyleshire, the harvest Maiden at, vii. 156

Kiln, the fire of a, called by special name, iii. 395

Kimbugwe, minister in charge of the king of Uganda’s navel-string, i. 196

Kimbunda, the, of West Africa, their cannibalism at accession of new king,