vii. 188

Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, i. 418, 419, vi. 6, 8, 12, viii. 30, ix. 341; how Isis discovered his name, iii. 387 _sqq._; identified with many originally independent local deities, vi. 122 _sqq._

Rabbah, in Ammon, captured by King David, iii. 273, v. 19

Rabbis, burnings for dead Jewish, v. 178 _sq._

Rabbit used in stopping rain, i. 295

Rabbit-kangaroo in homoeopathic magic, i. 154

Rabbits in homoeopathic magic, i. 155

Race, charm to secure victory in, i. 150; to May-tree to determine the Whitsuntide king, ii. 84; succession to kingdom determined by a, ii. 299 _sqq._; for a bride, ii. 300 _sqq._; for the kingdom at Olympia, iv. 90; to sheaf on harvest-field, vii. 137; of reapers to last sheaf, vii. 291. _See also_ Races

Races at Whitsuntide, ii. 69, 84; on horseback to the May-pole to determine the Whitsuntide King, ii. 89; to determine the successor to the kingship, iv. 103 _sqq._; at harvest, vii. 76 _sq._; in connexion with agriculture, vii. 98; to ensure good crops, ix. 249; at fire-festivals, x. 111; to Easter bonfire, x. 122; at Easter fires, x. 144; with torches at Midsummer, x. 175. _See also_ Chariot-races, Foot-races, Horse-races _and_ Torch-races

Racoons, prayers for rain to skulls of, i. 288

_Radica_, a festival at the end of the Carnival at Frosinone, iv. 222

Radigis, king of the Varini, marries his stepmother, ii. 283

Radium, atomic disintegration of, viii. 305; bearing of its discovery on the probable duration of the sun, xi. 307 _n._ 2

Radloff, W., on a Mongolian way of stopping rain, i. 305 _sq._

Radnorshire, the tug-of-war at Presteign in, ix. 182

Radolfzell, in Baden, the Rye-sow or Wheat-sow near, vii. 298

Rafts, evils expelled on, ix. 199, 200 _sq._

Rag well in the Aran Islands, ii. 161

Ragnit, in East Prussia, sacred oak near, ii. 371

——, in Lithuania, the Old Woman in the last standing corn at, vii. 223

Rags hung on trees, ii. 16, 32, 42

Ragusa, in Sicily, effigy of dragon carried on St. George’s Day at, ii. 164 _n._ 1

Rahab or Leviathan, a dragon of the sea, iv. 106 _n._ 2

Rahu, a tribal god in India, xi. 5

Raiatea, deified king of, i. 387 _sq._

Rain, extraction of teeth in connexion with, i. 98 _sq._; the magical control of, i. 247 _sqq._; made by homoeopathic or imitative magic, i. 247 _sqq._; charms to prevent or stop rain, i. 249, 252, 252 _sq._, 262, 263, 270 _sqq._, 290, 295 _sqq._, 305 _sq._; prayers for, i. 285, 286, 287, 288, 346, ii. 46, iv. 20, x. 133; kings expected to give, i. 348, 350, 351 _sq._, 353, 355, 356, 392 _sq._, 396; supposed to fall only as a result of magic, i. 353; sacrifices for, ii. 44; excessive, supposed to be an effect of sexual crime, ii. 108, 111, 113; Zeus as the god of, ii. 359 _sq._; prevented by the blood of a woman who has miscarried in child-bed, iii. 153; caused by cut or combed out hair, iii. 271, 272; word for, not to be mentioned, iii. 413; procured by bones of the dead, v. 22; excessive, ascribed to wrath of God, v. 22 _sq._; instrumental in rebirth of dead infants, v. 95; regarded as the tears of gods, vi. 33; thought to be controlled by the souls of dead chiefs, vi. 188, viii. 109; prayer for, at Eleusis, vii. 69; charms to produce, ix. 175 _sq._, 178 _sq._; or drought, games of ball played to produce, ix. 179 _sq._; dances to obtain, ix. 236 _sq._, 238; festival to produce, ix. 277; divinities of the, ix. 381; Midsummer bonfires supposed to stop, x. 188, 336; bull-roarers used as magical instruments to make, xi. 230 _sqq._ _See also_ Rain-charm

Rain, Mother of the, in rain-making ceremony among the Arabs of Moab, i. 276

Rain-bird, i. 287

—— -bride in Armenia, i. 276

“—— -bush,” ii. 46

—— -charm, by throwing water on leaf clad mummers, i. 272 _sqq._, iv. 211; by ploughing, i. 282 _sq._; by pouring water, iii. 154 _sq._; in rites of Adonis, v. 237; by throwing water on the last corn cut, v. 237 _sq._, vii. 134, 146, 170 _n._ 1, 268; by pouring water on flesh of human victims, vii. 250, 252. _See also_ Rain-making

—— clan of the Dinka, iv. 30, 31

—— -clouds, smoke made in imitation of, x. 133. _See also_ Clouds

—— Country, the, in Central Australia, i. 259

—— -doctor among the Toradjas of Celebes, his procedure and the taboos which he observes, i. 271 _sq._

—— -dragon banished in time of drought, i. 298

—— -drops from eaves in magic, i. 253

—— -god, as dragon, i. 297, 298; of the Ewe negroes, iv. 61, American Indian, represented with tears running from his eyes, vi. 33 _n._ 3

—— gods compelled to give rain by threats and violence, i. 296 _sqq._; appeal to the pity of the, i. 302 _sq._; of Mexico, ix. 283

—— King, leaf-clad mummer sprinkled with water at Poona, i. 275; on the Upper Nile, killed in time of drought, ii. 2

—— -maker among the Arunta, costume of the, i. 260; assimilates himself to water, i. 269 _sqq._

—— -makers, their importance in savage communities, i. 247; in Africa, their rise to political power, i. 342 _sqq._, 352; on the Upper Nile, i. 345 _sqq._, ii. 2; unsuccessful, punished or killed, i. 345, 352 _sqq._; killed in time of drought, ii. 2, 3; their hair unshorn, iii. 259 _sq._; among the Dinka not allowed to die a natural death, iv. 32, 33; (mythical), x. 133

Rain-making by imitative magic, i. 247 _sqq._; by means of human blood, i. 256 _sqq._, iii. 244; by wetting flower-clad or leaf-clad mummers, i. 272 _sqq._; by bathing and sprinkling of water, i. 277 _sq._; by ploughing, i. 282 _sq._; by means of the dead, i. 284 _sqq._; by means of animals, i. 287 _sqq._; by means of stones, i. 304 _sqq._; ceremonies of the Shilluks, iv. 20

—— song, sung by women, ii. 46

“—— -stick,” in Queensland, i. 254

—— -stones, for procuring rain, i. 254, 305, 345, 346

—— -temple, in Angoniland, i. 250

—— totem in the Kaitish tribe, ceremony performed by the headman of the totem to procure rain, i. 258 _sq._

—— -water in Morocco, magical virtues ascribed to, x. 17 _sq._

Rainbow, a net for souls, iii. 79

—— in rain-charm, picture of, i. 258; imitation of, i. 288

—— totem in the Nullakun tribe of Northern Australia, v. 101

Rainless summer on the Mediterranean, v. 159 _sq._; in Greece, vii. 69

Rains, autumnal, in Greece, vii. 52

Rainy season, general clearance of evils at the beginning or end of the,