vii. 193;

contests between, vii. 136, 140, 141, 142, 144, 152, 153 _sqq._, 164 _sq._, 219, 253; throw their sickles at the last standing corn, vii. 136, 142, 144, 153, 154 _sq._, 155 _n._ 1, 267, 268, 279, 296; blindfolded, vii. 144, 153 _sq._; pretend to mow down visitors to harvest-field, vii. 229 _sq._; of rice use a special form of speech in order to deceive the rice-spirit, vii. 184; cries of, vii. 263 _sqq._; their remedies for pains in the back, vii. 285; race of, to last corn, vii. 291; throw sickles blindfold at last sheaf, xi. 279 _n._ 4

——, Egyptian, their lamentations, v. 232, vi. 45, vii. 261, 263; invoke Isis, vi. 117

Reaping, tug-of-war at, ii. 100; Indonesian mode of, vii. 181 _sq._, 184; contests in, vii. 218 _sqq._; pains in back at, vii. 285; girdle of rye a preventive of weariness in, x. 190

Reaping-match of Lityerses, vii. 217

Reaping rice, homoeopathic magic at, i. 139 _sq._

Reasoning, definite, at the base of savage custom, iii. 420 _n._ 1

Reay, in Sutherland, the need-fire at, x. 294 _sq._

Rebirth from a golden cow, ceremony of, iii. 113; of ancestors in their descendants, iii. 368 _sq._; of a father in his son, iv. 188 _sqq._; of the parent in the child, iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression); of infants, means taken to ensure the, v. 91, 93 _sqq._; of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 155 _sq._ _See also_ Birth

—— of the dead, according to Pindar, iv. 70, vii. 84; precautions taken to prevent, v. 92 _sq._ _See also_ Reincarnation

Recall of the soul, iii. 30 _sqq._

Reckoning intervals of time, Greek and Latin modes of, iv. 59 _n._ 1

Red, bodies of manslayers painted, iii. 175, 179; faces of manslayers painted, iii. 185, 186 _n._ 1; the colour of Lower Egypt, vi. 21 _n._ 1; girl’s face painted red at puberty, x. 49 _sq._, 54; women at menstruation painted, x. 78

—— and black, faces of bear-hunters painted, viii. 226; effigy of snake painted, viii. 316

—— and white, manslayers painted, iii. 186 _n._ 1; leopard-hunters painted, viii. 230; girls at puberty painted, x. 35, 38, 39, 40; women at menstruation painted, x. 78

—— and yellow paint on human victim to represent colours of maize, vii. 261, ix. 285

Red Altar, the, on Snowdon, i. 307

—— colour in magic, i. 79, 81, 83

—— earth or paint smeared on girls at puberty, x. 30, 31

—— feathers of parrot worn as a protection against a ghost, iii. 186 _n._ 1

—— -haired men sacrificed by ancient Egyptians, vi. 97, 106, vii. 260, 261, 263, viii. 34

—— -haired puppies sacrificed by the Romans, vii. 261, viii. 34

—— horse sacrificed as a purification of the land by the Battas, ix. 213

—— -hot iron chain, passing persons possessed by evil spirits through a,