viii. 152

Kincardineshire, Midsummer fires in, x. 206

King, J. E., on infant burial, i. 105 _n._ 4, v. 91 _n._ 3

King, torn to pieces by horses, i. 366; gives oracles, i. 377; not to be over-shadowed, iii. 83; his life sympathetically bound up with the prosperity of the country, iv. 21, 27, xi. 1 _sq._; slaying of the, in legend, iv. 120 _sqq._; responsible for the weather and crops, iv. 165; abdicates on the birth of a son, iv. 190; at Whitsuntide, pretence of beheading the, iv. 209 _sq._; a masker at Carnival called the, vi. 99, vii. 28 _sq._; eats of new fruits before his people, viii. 63, 70; first-fruits presented to the, viii. 109, 116, 122; so called, at Carcassone, viii. 320 _sq._; mock or temporary, ix. 151, 403 _sq._; beaten at his inauguration in ancient India, ix. 263; assembly for determining the fate of the, ix. 356; nominal, chosen at Midsummer, x. 194, xi. 25; presides at summer bonfire, xi. 38. _See also_ Kings

King and Queen at Athens, i. 44 _sq._; on Whit-Monday near Königgrätz, ii. 89; at Whitsuntide in Silesia, ii. 89 _sq._

—— and Queen of May, ix. 406; at Halford, in Warwickshire, ii. 88; at Grenoble, ii. 90; marriage of, iv. 266

—— and Queen of Roses at Grammont, x. 195

King, the Grass, at Whitsuntide, ii. 85 _sq._

——, the Leaf, on Whit-Monday, ii. 85

——, the Roman, as Jupiter, ii. 174 _sqq._

King of the Bean, ix. 313 _sqq._, x. 153 _n._ 3; at Merton College, Oxford, ix. 332

—— of the Calf, vii. 290

—— of Fire in Cambodia, ii. 3 _sqq._, iii. 17, iv. 14

—— of the harvesters, vii. 294

—— of the Jinn, death of the, iv. 8

—— of the Night at Porto Novo, iii. 23

—— of Rain at Poona in India, i. 275; on the Upper Nile, ii. 2

—— of Rain and Storm at mouth of the Congo, ii. 2

—— of the Rice in Sumatra, vii. 197

—— of Sacred Rites at Rome, i. 44, ii. 179, 201; exhorted to be watchful, ii. 265; the successor of the old Roman king, ii. 266; nominated by the chief pontiff, ii. 296; his flight, ii. 309; of the Sacred Rites in other Latin towns, i. 44, 44 _n._ 1, ii. 266

—— of the Saturnalia, ii. 311, ix. 308, 311, 312

—— of Summer chosen on St. Peter’s Day, x. 195

—— of Tyre, his walk on stones of fire, v. 114 _sq._

—— of Uganda, his navel-string preserved and inspected every new moon, vi. 147 _sq._ _See_ Baganda _and_ Uganda

—— of Water in Cambodia, ii. 3 _sqq._, iii. 17, iv. 14

—— of the Wood at Nemi, i. 1 _sqq._, ii. 1, 378 _sqq._, iv. 28, 205 _sq._, 212 _sqq._; put to death, i. 11, x. 2; a mate of Diana, i. 40, 41, ii. 380; representative of Virbius, i. 40 _sq._, ii. 129; a personification of the oak-god Jupiter, ii. 378 _sqq._, xi. 302 _sq._; perhaps a successor of the Alban dynasty of the Sylvii, ii. 379; compared to the Whitsuntide mummers, iv. 212 _sqq._; in the Arician grove a personification of an oak-spirit, xi. 285. _See also_ Priest of Nemi

King of the Years at Lhasa, ix. 220, 221

King Bees (Essenes) at Ephesus, i. 47 _n._ 2, ii. 135 _sq._

—— Hop in Siam, iv. 149, 151

King George’s Sound, influence of medicine-men among the tribes of, i. 336; namesakes of the dead change their names among the tribes of, iii. 355

King’s brothers put to death on his accession, iii. 243

—— College, Cambridge, Boy Bishop at, ix. 338

—— County, Ireland, hurling-matches for brides in, ii. 305 _sq._

—— daughter offered as prize in a race, iv. 104

—— disease, palsy called the, i. 371

—— Evil (scrofula), iii. 134; touching for the, i. 368 _sqq._

—— hearth, oath by the, ii. 265

—— jawbone preserved, i. 196, iv. 200 _sq._, vi. 167 _sq._, 169 _sq._, 171 _sq._

—— name changed in time of drought, i. 355

—— Race at Whitsuntide, ii. 84

—— skull, priest drinks beer out of, as means of inspiration, in Uganda, iv. 200, viii. 150

—— son, sacrifice of the, iv. 160 _sqq._, vii. 13, 24 _sq._

—— widow, succession to the throne through marriage with, iv. 193

Kingaru, clan of the Wadoe in German East Africa, xi. 313

Kingdom, in ancient Latium, succession to, ii. 266 _sqq._; the prize of a race, ii. 299 _sqq._, iv. 103; mortal combat for the, ii. 322. _See also_ Kingship _and_ Succession

Kinglake, A. W., on the great Servian forest, ii. 237 _n._ 1

Kings, magicians as, i. 332 _sqq._; expected to give rain, i. 348, 350, 351 _sq._, 353, 356, 392 _sq._, 396; punished for drought and dearth, i. 353 _sqq._; among the Aryans, magical powers attributed to, i. 366 _sqq._; often the lineal successors of magicians or medicine-men, i. 371; the divinity of, i. 372; worshipped and consulted as oracles, i. 388; as gods in India, i. 403; sacrifices offered to, i. 417; temples built in honour of, i. 417; of nature, ii. 1 _sqq._; of rain, ii. 2; expected to make thunder, ii. 180 _sq._; perpetual fire in houses of, ii. 261 _sq._; paternity of, a matter of indifference under female kinship, ii. 274 _sqq._; sometimes of a different race from their subjects, ii. 288 _sq._; chosen from several royal families in rotation, ii. 292 _sqq._; fat, ii. 297; handsomest men, ii. 297; long-headed, ii. 297; supernatural powers attributed to, iii. 1; their lives regulated by exact rules, iii. 1 _sqq._, 101 _sq._; taboos observed by, iii. 8 _sqq._; beaten before their coronation, iii. 18; forbidden to see their mothers, iii. 86; portraits of, not stamped on coins, iii. 98 _sq._; guarded against the magic of strangers, iii. 114 _sq._; forbidden to use foreign goods, iii. 115; not to be seen eating and drinking, iii. 117 _sqq._; concealed by curtains, iii. 120 _sq._; forbidden to leave their palaces, iii. 122 _sqq._; compelled to dance, iii. 123; punished or put to death, iii. 124; not to be touched, iii. 132, 225 _sq._; their hair unshorn, iii. 258 _sq._; foods tabooed to, iii. 291 _sq._; names of, tabooed, iii. 374 _sqq._; taboos observed by, identical with those observed by commoners, iii. 419 _sq._; killed when their strength fails, iv. 14 _sqq._; regarded as incarnations of a divine spirit, iv. 21, 26 _sq._; attacks on, permitted, iv. 22, 48 _sqq._; killed at the end of a fixed term, iv. 46 _sqq._; related to sacred animals, iv. 82, 84 _sqq._; personating dragons or serpents, iv. 82; addressed by names of animals, iv. 86; with a dragon or serpent crest, iv. 105; legends of the custom of slaying, iv. 120 _sqq._; the supply of, iv. 134 _sqq._; abdicate annually, iv. 148; as lovers of a goddess, v. 49 _sq._; held responsible for the weather and the crops, v. 183; marry their sisters, v. 316; slaughter human victims with their own hands, vi. 97 _n._ 7; torn in pieces, traditions of, vi. 97 _sq._; human sacrifices to prolong the life of, vi. 220 _sq._, 223 _sqq._; trace of custom of slaying them annually, vii. 254 _sq._; eat of new fruits before their subjects, viii. 63, 70; magistrates at Olympia called, ix. 352; marry the wives and concubines of their predecessors, ix. 368

Kings and chiefs tabooed, iii. 131 _sqq._; their spittle guarded against sorcerers, iii. 289 _sq._

—— - and magicians dismembered and their bodies buried in different parts of the country to fertilize it, vi. 101 _sq._

—— - and priests, their sanctity analogous to the uncleanness of women at menstruation, x. 97 _sq._

——, dead, worshipped in Africa, iv. 24 _sq._, vi. 160 _sqq._, 191 _sqq._; turn into lions, leopards, pythons, etc., iv. 84; reincarnate in lions, v. 83 _n._ 1, viii. 288; sacrifices offered to, vi. 162, 166 _sq._; incarnate in animals, vi. 162, 163 _sq._, 173; consulted as oracles, vi. 167, 171, 172, 195; human sacrifices to, vi. 173

——, divinity of Babylonian, i. 417 _sq._; of Egyptian, i. 418 _sq._ _See also_ Divinity

——, English, touch for scrofula, i. 368 _sqq._

—— fetish or religious, in West Africa, iii. 22 _sqq._

——, Hebrew, traces of divinity ascribed to, v. 20 _sqq._

——, the Latin, thought to be the sons of the fire-god by mortal mothers, ii. 195 _sqq._ _See also_ Latin

——, priestly, i. 44 _sqq._, v. 42; of Sheba, iii. 125 _n._; of the Nubas, iii. 132

——, Roman, as deities in a Sacred Marriage, ii. 172 _sq._, 192, 193 _sq._; costumed like Jupiter, ii. 174 _sqq._; as public rain-makers, ii. 183; as personifications of Jupiter, ii. 266 _sq._; as personifications of Saturn, ii. 311, 322. _See also_ Roman

——, sacred or divine, in great historical empires, i. 415 _sqq._; development of, ii. 376 _sqq._; of the Shilluk, iv. 17 _sqq._; Semitic, v. 15 _sqq._; Lydian, v. 182 _sqq._; put to death, x. 1 _sq._; subject to taboos, x. 2

——, Shilluk, divine, iv. 17 _sqq._; put to death before their strength fails, iv. 21 _sq._, vi. 163

——, temporary, iv. 148 _sqq._; their divine or magical functions, iv. 155 _sqq._

——, Teutonic, i. 47

——, the Three, on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 _sqq._

Kings of the Barotse worshipped after death, vi. 193 _sqq._

—— of Dahomey and Benin represented partly in animal shapes, iv. 85 _sq._

—— of Egypt worshipped as gods, v. 52; buried at Abydos, vi. 19; perhaps formerly slain in the character of Osiris, vi. 97 _sq._, 102; as Osiris, vi. 151 _sqq._; renew their life by identifying themselves with the dead and risen Osiris, vi. 153 _sq._; born again at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 156 _sq._; perhaps formerly put to death to prevent their bodily and mental decay, vi. 154 _sq._, 156

—— of Fire and Water in Cambodia, ii. 3 _sqq._, iii. 17, iv. 14

—— of France touch for scrofula, i. 370

—— in Greece, titular or sacred, i. 44 _sqq._; called Zeus, ii. 177, 361

—— of Sweden answerable for the fertility of the ground, i. 366 _sq._, vi. 220; sons of Swedish king sacrificed, iv. 160 _sq._, vi. 220

—— of Uganda, dead, consulted as oracles, i. 196, iv. 200 _sq._, vi. 171 _sq._; their life bound up with barkcloth trees, xi. 160. _See_ Baganda _and_ Uganda

_Kings, The Epic of_, Firdusi’s, x. 104

Kings’ fire, the, ii. 195 _sqq._

—— Race, the, ii. 84

—— sisters, licence accorded to, ii. 274 _sqq._

—— wives turned at death into leopards, viii. 288

Kingship, an annual office in some Greek states, i. 46; evolution of the sacred, i. 420 _sq._; contest for the, at Whitsuntide, ii. 89; burdens and restrictions attaching to the early, iii. 1 _sqq._, 17 _sqq._, iv. 135; octennial tenure of the, iv. 58 _sqq._; triennial tenure of the, iv. 112 _sq._; annual tenure of the, iv. 113 _sqq._; diurnal tenure of the, iv. 118 _sq._; modern type of, different from the ancient, iv. 135; under mother-kin, rules as to succession to the, vi. 210 _n._ 1; mock, at the Saturnalia, ix. 308

—— in Africa under mother-kin inherited by men, not women, vi. 211

——, descent of the, in the female line, at Rome, ii. 270 _sqq._; in Africa, ii. 274 _sqq._; in Greece, ii. 277 _sq._; in Scandinavia, ii. 279 _sq._; in Lydia, ii. 281 _sq._; among the Danes and Saxons, ii. 282 _sq._

——, double, at Sparta, ii. 290; traces of, at Rome, ii. 290

——, nominal, left by conquerors to indigenous race, ii. 288 _sq._

——, Roman, abolition of the, ii. 289 _sqq._; a religious office, ii. 289; a plebeian institution, v. 45

Kingsley, Miss Mary H., on reincarnation of the dead in Nigeria, i. 411 _n._ 1; on fetish kings in West Africa, iii. 22; on soul-traps in West Africa, iii. 71; on the confinement of the king of Benin to his palace, iii. 123 _n._ 2; on negro notions as to blood, iii. 251; on custom of killing chief, iv. 119 _n._ 1; on secret burial of chief’s head, vi. 104; on West African belief in demons, ix. 74; on the periodic expulsion of demons at Calabar, ix. 204 _n._ 1; on external or bush souls, xi. 204 _sq._; on rites of initiation in West Africa, xi. 259

Kingsmill Islanders, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 64

Kingsmill Islands, first-fruits offered to a god in the, viii. 127 _sq._

Kingussie, in Inverness-shire, Beltane cakes at, x. 153

_Kinnor_, a lyre, v. 52

Kinross, custom of “dumping” at harvest in, vii. 227

Kinship of men with crocodiles, viii. 212 _sq._, 214 _sq._; of men with tigers, viii. 216; created by the milk-tie, xi. 138 _n._ 1

Kintu, the first man in Uganda, ii. 261

Kintyre, the last corn cut called the Old Wife in, vii. 142

Kioga Lake in Central Africa, ix. 246

Kiowa Indians, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 198; relations of the dead change their names among the, iii. 357; changes in their language caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 360 _sq._

Kirauea, volcano in Hawaii, v. 216 _sq._; divinities of, v. 217; offerings to, v. 217 _sqq._

Kirchmeyer, Thomas, author of _Regnum Papisticum_, x. 124, 125 _n._ 1; his account of Easter customs, x. 124 _sq._; of Midsummer customs, x. 162 _sq._

Kirghiz, “Love Chase” among the, ii. 301; divine by the shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 _n._ 4; games in honour of the dead among the, iv. 97; their story of girl who might not see the sun, x. 74

—— women will not pronounce names of their husbands’ older relations, iii. 337

Kiriwina, one of the Trobriand Islands, annual festival of the dead in, v. 56; snakes as reincarnations of the dead in, v. 84; presentation of children to the full moon in, vi. 144; annual expulsion of spirits in, ix. 134

Kirk Andreas, in the Isle of Man, x. 306

Kirkland, Rev. Mr., on Iroquois sacrifice of white dogs, ix. 210

Kirkmichael, in Perthshire, Beltane fires and cakes at, x. 153

_Kirn_ or _kern_, last corn cut, vii. 151, 152 _sqq._; name of the harvest-supper, vii. 158, 162 _n._ 3

—— -baby, vii. 151, 153

—— -doll, vii. 151, 153, 154

—— -supper, vii. 154

Kirton Lindsey, in Lincolnshire, witch as cat at, x. 318; medical use of mistletoe at, xi. 84

_Kirwaido_, ruler of the old Prussians, iv. 41

Kisavaccha, an Indian ascetic, ix. 41

Kisser, East Indian island, worship of a measuring-tape in, iii. 91 _sq._

Kit-fox skin in rain-making, i. 288

Kitching, Rev. A. L., on the use of bells to exorcize the storm fiend, ix. 246 _sq._; on cure for lightning stroke, xi. 298 _n._ 2

Kites, artificial, used to drive away the devil, ix. 4; paper, flown as scapegoats, ix. 203

Kiwai or Kiwaii, an island off New Guinea, vii. 106; intercourse of men with their wives before going to war in, iii. 164 _n._ 1; magic for the growth of sago in, vi. 101; use of bull-roarers in, vii. 106, xi. 232

Kiziba, district of Central Africa, dead kings worshipped in, vi. 173 _sq._; totemism in, vi. 173; women’s agricultural work in, viii. 118 _sq._; purification for the slaughter of a serpent in, viii. 219 _sq._; theory of the afterbirth in, xi. 162 _n._ 2

Klallam Indians of Washington State not allowed to bear names of deceased paternal ancestors, iii. 354; prohibition to name the dead in the, iii. 365

Klamath Indians of Oregon, their theory of the waning moon, vi. 130

—— River, in California, viii. 255

Klausenburg, in Transylvania, cock killed on harvest-field at, vii. 278

Kleintitschen, A., on the fear of demons in New Britain, ix. 82 _sq._

Kleptomania, cure for, by means of spiders and crabs, ix. 34

Kling or Klieng, a mythical hero of the Dyaks, ix. 383, 384 _n._ 1

Kloo, in the Queen Charlotte Islands, restrictions imposed on girls at puberty at, x. 45

_Klöppel_ (mallet), at threshing, vii. 148

Kloxin, near Stettin, the last sheaf called the Old Man at, vii. 220

Knawel, St. John’s blood on root of, xi. 56

Knife as charm against spirits, iii. 232, 233, 234, 235; adapted for religious suicide, iv. 55 _n._ 1; divination by, x. 241; soul of child bound up with, xi. 157. _See also_ Knives

“——, Darding,” honorific totem of the Carrier Indians, xi. 273, 274 _sq._

Knives in homoeopathic magic, i. 158; thrown at the wind, i. 329; not to be left edge upwards, iii. 238; not used at funeral banquets, iii. 238; of special pattern used in reaping rice, vii. 184; under the threshold, a protection against witches, ix. 162. _See also_ Knife

Knocking out of teeth as initiatory ceremony in Australia, i. 97 _sqq._

Knot, the Gordian, iii. 316 _sq._

Knots, tying up the wind in, i. 326; prohibition to wear, iii. 13; untied at childbirth, iii. 294, 296 _sq._, 297 _sq._; thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, iii. 299 _sqq._; thought to cause sickness, disease, and all kinds of misfortune, iii. 301 _sqq._; used to cure disease, iii. 303 _sqq._; used to win a lover or capture a runaway slave, iii. 305 _sq._; used as protective amulets, iii. 306 _sqq._; used as charms by hunters and travellers, iii. 306; as a charm to protect corn from devils, iii. 308 _sq._; magical virtue of, iii. 309 _sq._, 312; on corpses untied, iii. 310; in a string as a cure for warts, ix. 48; tied in branches of trees as remedies, ix. 56 _sq._

Knots and locks, magical virtue of, iii. 310, 313

—— and rings tabooed, iii. 293 _sqq._

Knotted thread in magic, ix. 48

Knowledge, the disinterested pursuit of, i. 218

Kobeua Indians of North-Western Brazil, their masked dances, vii. 111, ix. 236; their way of sharpening their sight, viii. 164

Kobi, village in Ceram, first-fruits of rice offered to the dead at, viii. 123

_Kobong_, totem, in Western Australia, xi. 219 _sq._

Koch-Grünberg, Th., on observation of the Pleiades among the Brazilian Indians, vii. 122 _n._ 1; on the masked dances of the Indians of North-Western Brazil, ix. 382

Kochs or Kocchs of North-Eastern India, succession to husband’s property among the, vi. 215 _n._ 2; offer first-fruits to their ancestors, viii. 116

Koepang, in Timor, sacrifice to crocodiles in, ii. 152

_Kôhen_ and _Kâhin_, soothsayer rather than priest in ancient Arabia, i. 230 _n._

Köhler, Joh., lights need-fire and burnt as a witch, x. 270 _sq._

Köhler, Reinhold, on the external soul in folk-tales, xi. 97 _n._

Kohlerwinkel, near Augsburg, the last standing corn called the Sow at,