xi. 186

Red Island, Torres Straits, seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 39 _sq._

—— Karens of Burma, their festival in April, ii. 69 _sq._

—— ochre round a woman’s mouth, mark of menstruation, x. 77

—— oxen sacrificed by ancient Egyptians, viii. 34

—— sealing-wax a cure for St. Anthony’s fire, i. 81

—— thread in popular cure, ix. 55

—— wool in magic, iii. 307

—— woollen threads, a charm against witchcraft, ii. 336

Reddening the faces of gods, custom of, ii. 175 _sq._

Reddis or Kapus in the Madras Presidency, their women procure rain bymeans of frogs, i. 294

Redemption of firstling men and asses among the Hebrews, iv. 173; from the fire in Lent, x. 110

Reed, W. A., on the religion of the Negritos, ix. 82; on a superstition as to a parasitic plant in the Philippines, xi. 282 _n._ 1

Reed, split, used in Roman cure for dislocation, xi. 177

Reef, plain of, in Tiree, witch as black sheep on the, x. 316

Reef Islands, avoidance of relations by marriage in, iii. 344; ceremony at eating the new fruits in the, viii. 52 _sq._

Reflection, the soul identified with the, iii. 92 _sqq._

Reflections in water or mirrors, supposed dangers of, iii. 93 _sq._

Reform, the prophetic, in Israel, v. 24 _sq._

Reformations of Hezekiah and Josiah, v. 25

Refuse of food burnt by magician to cause disease, i. 341; magic wrought by means of, iii. 126 _sqq._

Regaby, in the Isle of Man, November 1st as New Year’s Day at, x. 224

Regalia propitiated with prayer and sacrifice, i. 363; carried to battle, i. 363; smeared with blood, i. 363; treated as fetishes, i. 363; employed as instruments of divination, i. 365; regarded as a palladium, i. 365; sanctity of, in Celebes, iv. 202

—— of Malay kings regarded as powerful talismans, i. 362 _sqq._; supernatural powers of, i. 398

Regeneration from a golden cow, ceremony of, iii. 113

Regia, the king’s palace at Rome, ii. 201, 228

Regicide among the Slavs, iv. 52; modified custom of, iv. 148

_Regifugium_ at Rome, ii. 290, iv. 213; perhaps a relic of a contest for the kingdom, ii. 308 _sqq._

Regillus, appearance of Castor and Pollux at the battle of Lake, i. 50

_Regina nemorum_, an epithet of Diana, i. 40 _n._ 3

Regnitz, the River, puppets representing Death thrown into, iv. 234

Rehoboam, King, his family, v. 51 _n._ 2

Reichenbach, in Silesia, the last sheaf called the Old Man at, vii. 138

Reinach, Salomon, on Hippolytus, i. 27 _n._ 6; on prehistoric cave-paintings, i. 87 _n._ 1; on Greek custom of carrying infants round the hearth, ii. 232 _n._ 2; on virgin priestesses among the Celts, ii. 241 _n._ 1; on the death of the Great Pan, iv. 7 _n._ 2; on the benefits of a thrashing, ix. 264 _n._ 2; on Jesus Barabbas, ix. 420 _n._ 1

Reincarnation, belief of the aboriginal Australians in, i. 96, 99 _sq._, v. 99 _sqq._; the initiatory rites of the Australians perhaps intended to ensure, i. 101, 106; certain funeral rites perhaps intended to ensure, i. 101 _sqq._; of ancestors in their descendants, iii. 368 _sqq._; of human souls, belief in, a motive for infanticide, iv. 188 _sq._; of animals, viii. 247, 249, 250

—— of the dead, iii. 365 _sqq._, v. 82 _sqq._; in newly born infants, i. 103 _sqq._; in America, iii. 365 _sqq._, v. 91; in Australia, v. 99 _sqq._ _See also_ Rebirth

Reindeer, blood of, smeared on fire-boards, ii. 225; protected by sacred fire-boards, ii. 225; taboos concerning, iii. 208; propitiation of the spirit who controls the, viii. 245 _sq._; dogs not allowed to gnaw the leg-bones of, viii. 246; sacrificed to the dead, xi. 178

Reinegg, J., on a sacrament of the Abchases, viii. 312 _n._ 1

Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, O. Frh. von, on the Yule log, x. 249

_Reipus_, payment made on the remarriage of a widow in Salic law, ii. 286 _n._ 1

Reiskius, Joh., on the need-fire, x. 271 _sq._

Rekub-el, Syrian god, v. 16

Relations, names of, tabooed, iii. 335 _sqq._; of the dead take new names for fear of the ghost, iii. 356 _sqq._; spirits of near dead, worshipped, v. 175, 176; at death become gods, vi. 180

Relationship, terms of, used as terms of address, iii. 324 _sq._; classificatory system of, xi. 234 _n._ 1, 314 _n._ 4

Release of prisoners at festivals, iii. 316

Relics of dead princes preserved as regalia, i. 363; of tree-worship in modern Europe, ii. 59 _sqq._; corporeal, of dead kings confer right to throne, iv. 202

Relief, archaic Greek, at Nemi, i. 11 _n._ 1

Religion defined, i. 222; two elements of, a theoretical and a practical, i. 222 _sq._; opposed in principle to science, i. 224; transition from magic to, i. 237 _sqq._, ii. 376 _sq._; combined with magic, i. 347; passage of animism into, iii. 213; volcanic, v. 188 _sqq._; how influenced by mother-kin, vi. 202 _sqq._; influenced by agriculture, vii. 93, 108; movement of thought from magic through religion to science, xi. 304 _sq._

——, the Age of, iv. 2

—— and magic, i. 220-243, 250, 285, 286, 347, ii. 376 _sq._; Hegel on, i. 423 _sqq._; combination of, v. 4

—— and music, v. 53 _sq._

Religions, the great historical, less permanent than the belief in magic and witch-craft, in ghosts and goblins, ix. 89 _sq._

Religious associations among the Indians of North America, xi. 266 _sqq._

—— dramas sometimes originate in magical rites, ii. 142 _sq._

—— ideals a product of the male imagination, vi. 211

—— systems, great permanent, founded by great men, vi. 159 _sq._

Reluctance to accept sovereignty on account of taboos attached to it, iii. 17 _sqq._

Remedies, magical, not allowed to touch the ground, x. 14

Remission of sins through the shedding of blood, v. 299

Remnants of food buried as a precaution against sorcery, iii. 118, 119, 127 _sq._, 129

Remon branch of the Ijebu tribe, chief of the, formerly killed after a rule of three years, iv. 112 _sq._

Remulus, ii. 180. _See_ Romulus

Remus and Romulus, the birth of, vi. 235. _See_ Romulus

Renan, Ernest, on the danger underlying civilization, i. 236 _n._ 1; on Tammuz and Adonis, v. 6 _n._ 1; his excavations at Byblus, v. 14 _n._ 1; on Adommelech, v. 17; on the vale of the Adonis, v. 29 _n._; on the burnings for the kings of Judah, v. 178 _n._ 1; on the discoloration of the river Adonis, v. 225 _n._ 4; on the worship of Adonis, v. 235; on custom of sticking pins into a saint’s statue, ix. 70

Renewal, annual, of king’s power at Babylon, iv. 113, 115, ix. 356, 358

—— of fire, annual, in China, x. 137. _See also_ Fire

Rengen, in the Eifel Mountains, Midsummer flowers at, xi. 48

Renouf, Sir P. le Page, on the divinity of Egyptian kings, i. 418; on Osiris as the sun, vi. 126

Representative of tree-spirit clad in leaves and blossoms, ii. 75, 76, 79 _sqq._

Reproductive powers, beating people to stimulate their, ix. 272

Reptile clan of the Omaha Indians, their belief as to the effect of touching a snake, viii. 29

Repulsion and attraction, forces of, viii. 303 _sqq._

Resemblance of children to their parents, how explained by savages, i. 104; of child to father, supposed danger of, iii. 88 _sq._, iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression); of the rites of Adonis to the festival of Easter, v. 254 _sqq._, 306

Resemblances of paganism to Christianity explained as diabolic counterfeits, v. 302, 309 _sq._

Reshef, Semitic god, v. 16 _n._ 1

Resoliss, parish of, in Ross-shire, burnt sacrifice of a pig in, x. 301 _sq._

Rest for three days, compulsory, among the Esquimaux after the capture of a ground seal, walrus, or whale, viii. 246

Resurrection, cut hair and nails kept for use at the, iii. 279 _sq._; of the god, iv. 212, vii. 1, 12, 14, 15, ix. 400; of the tree-spirit, iv. 212; of a god in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society,