ix. 224;

expulsion of demons at the beginning of the, ix. 225

Raipoor, the ancient Mandavie, iv. 132 _n._ 1

Raipur, in India, ix. 44

Rajah of Bilaspur, custom after the death of a, iv. 154, ix. 44 _sq._

—— of Manipur, his sins transferred to a criminal, ix. 39

—— of Tanjore, his sins after death transferred to twelve Brahmans, ix. 44

—— of Travancore, his sins at death transferred to a Brahman, ix. 42 _sq._

——, temporary, after death of rajah, iv. 154

Rajahs among the Malays, supernatural powers attributed to, i. 361; two, in Timor, the civil rajah and the fetish or taboo rajah, iii. 24

Rajamahall, in India, persons who have died of dropsy thrown into river among hill tribes near, i. 79; sacrifices of first-fruits among hill tribes near, viii. 117 _sq._; ceremony at killing tiger among hill tribes near, viii. 217

Rajaraja, king, dancing-girls in his temple at Tanjore, v. 61

Rajbansis of Bengal, their rain-making ceremony, i. 284 _n._

Rajputana, gardens of Adonis in, v. 241 _sq._

Rakelimalaza, a Malagasy god, taboos observed at his sanctuary, viii. 46

Raking a rick in the devil’s name, x. 243; the ashes, a mode of divination at Hallowe’en, x. 243

Raleigh, Sir Walter, his colonists on Roanoke Island, iii. 357

Ralì, the fair of, in the Kanagra district of India, iv. 265

Ralston, W. R. S., on the Russian house-spirit Domovoy, ii. 233 _n._ 1; on sacred fire of Perkunas, xi. 91 _n._ 3

Ram with golden fleece, iv. 162; as vicarious sacrifice for human victim, iv. 165, 177; sacrificed to Ammon, viii. 41; Tibetan goddess riding on a, viii. 96; killing the sacred, viii. 172 _sqq._; consecration of a white, viii. 313. _See also_ Rams

——, black, in rain-making, iii. 154; sacrificed to Pelops, iv. 92, 104, viii. 85

Ram-god of Mendes, iv. 7 _n._ 3

Ram’s skull in charm to avert demons, viii. 96

Rama, his wife Sita, ii. 26; his battle with the King of Ceylon, xi. 102

Ramadan, the fast of, vii. 316

_Ramanga_, men who eat up the nail-parings and lick up the spilt blood of nobles among the Betsileo, iii. 246

Rambree, sorcerers dressed as women in the island of, vi. 254

Rameses II., king of Egypt, his treaty with the Hittites, v. 135 _sq._; his order to the Nile, vi. 33

Ramin, in Stettin, harvest custom at, vii. 230

Ramirez manuscript on Mexican religion, ix. 283 _n._ 1

Ramman, Babylonian and Assyrian god of thunder, v. 163 _sq._

Rampart, old, of Burghead, x. 267 _sq._

Rams, testicles of, in the rites of Attis, v. 269

Rams’ horns attached to pillars, viii. 117

Ramsay, John, of Ochtertyre, on Bridget’s bed on the night before Candlemas, ii. 94 _n._ 3; on the Highland custom of beating a man in a cow’s hide on the last day of the year, viii. 322 _sq._; on Beltane fires, x. 146 _sqq._; on Midsummer fires, x. 206; on Hallowe’en fires, x. 230 _sq._; on burying cattle alive, x. 325 _sq._

Ramsay, Sir William M., on the worship of unmarried goddesses in Western Asia, i. 36 _n._ 2; on Hittite hieroglyphs, i. 87 _n._ 1; on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 134 _n._ 1, 137 _n._ 4; on priest-dynasts of Asia Minor, v. 140 _n._ 2; on the god Tark, v. 147 _n._ 3; on the name Olba, v. 148 _n._ 1; on _Hierapolis_ and _Hieropolis_, v. 168 _n._ 2; on Attis and Men, v. 284 _n._ 5; on cruel death of the human representative of a god in Phrygia, v. 285 _sq._; on the early spread of Christianity in Pontus, ix. 421 _n._ 1

Ranchi, district of Chota Nagpur, annual expulsion of disease in, ix. 139

Rangoon, scruples with regard to the human head at, iii. 253; Chins at, ix. 123

Rao of Kachh, the, his sacrifice of a buffalo, i. 385 _n._ 1

Raoul-Rochette, D., on Asiatic deities with lions, v. 138 _n._; on the burning of doves to Adonis, v. 147 _n._ 1; on apotheosis by death in the fire, v. 180 _n._ 1

Rape of Persephone, vii. 66

_Rapegyrne_, old Scottish name for the harvest Maiden, vii. 155 _n._ 2

Raratonga, in the Pacific, custom as to children’s cast teeth in, i. 179; custom of succession in, iv. 191

Rarhi Brahmans of Bengal, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 68

Rarian plain at Eleusis, vii. 36, 234, viii. 15; corn first sown by Triptolemus in the, vii. 70, 74; expiation for the defilement of the, vii. 74; the Sacred Ploughing on the, vii. 108

Raskolnik, Russian Dissenter, i. 285

Raskolniks, their hatred of mirrors, iii. 96

Raspberries, wild, ceremony at gathering the first, viii. 80 _sq._

Rat, the “god rat,” an idol to which sacrifices are offered when rats infest the fields, viii. 283; transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299; external soul of medicine-man in, xi. 199. _See also_ Rats

Rat’s hair as a charm, i. 151

Rathcroghan, in Roscommon, site of the palace of the kings of Connaught, iii. 12 _n._ 1

Rats asked to give new teeth, i. 179; superstitious precautions of farmers against, viii. 277, 278, 283; ravages committed by, viii. 282 _n._ 8 _See also_ Rat

—— and mice, in magic concerned with teeth, i. 178 _sqq._

Rattan, creeping through a split, to escape a malignant spirit, xi. 183

Rattle, wooden, swung by twins to make fair or foul weather, i. 263; of deer-hoofs used by shaman, iii. 58; shaken before human victim, ix. 286; used at a festival in East Africa, x. 28

Rattles in myth and ritual of Dionysus, vii. 13, 15; to accompany dance, vii. 205; to frighten or keep out ghosts, ix. 154 _n._, x. 52

Rattlesnake dance to secure immunity from snake-bites, i. 358

Rattlesnakes, attempt to deceive the spirits of, iii. 399; respected by the North American Indians, viii. 217 _sqq._

Ratumaimbulu, Fijian god of fruit-trees, v. 90

Ratzeburg, harvest custom near, vii. 229

_Rauchfiess_, a Whitsuntide mummer, in Silesia, carted out of village and thrown into water, iv. 207 _n._ 1

Raven, prophetic vision ascribed to the, i. 197; used in wind-charm, i. 320; soul as a, iii. 34; transformation into a, iii. 324; the great black (_Corvus umbrinus_), respected by Sudanese negroes,