xi. 73, 74

_Sabi_, taboo, in western tribes of British New Guinea, iii. 343

Sabine country, the oak woods of the, ii. 354

—— priests to be shaved with bronze, iii. 226

Sable-hunters, rules observed by, viii. 238

Sacaea, a Babylonian festival, iv. 113 _sqq._; the mock king of, perhaps represented Tammuz, vii. 258 _sq._; in relation to Purim, ix. 359 _sqq._; celebrated by the Persians, ix. 402

—— and Zakmuk, ix. 355 _sqq._, 399, 402

_Sacer_, taboo, iii. 225 _n._

Sacrament in the rites of Attis, v. 274 _sq._; in the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 161 _sq._; of swine’s flesh, viii. 20, 24; of first-fruits, viii. 48 _sqq._; combined with a sacrifice of them, viii. 86; totemic, viii. 165; of eating a god, viii. 167; types of animal, viii. 310 _sqq._

Sacramental bread, at Aricia (Nemi), viii. 95, xi. 286 _n._ 2

—— character of harvest supper, vii. 303

—— eating of corn-spirit in animal form, viii. 20

—— meal of new rice, viii. 54; at initiation in Fiji, xi. 245 _sq._

Sacraments among pastoral tribes, viii. 313

Sacred and unclean, correspondence of rules regarding the, iii. 145

Sacred beasts in Egypt, i. 29 _sq._; held responsible for the course of nature, i. 354

—— chiefs and kings regarded as dangerous, iii. 131 _sqq._, 138; their analogy to mourners, homicides, and women at menstruation and childbirth, iii. 138

—— dramas, as magical rites, ix. 373 _sqq._

—— feather girdle of king of Tahiti, i. 388

—— flutes played at initiation, xi. 241

—— groves, in ancient Greece and Rome, ii. 121 _sqq._; apologies for trespass on, ii. 328

—— harlots, in Asia Minor, v. 141; at Zela, ix. 370, 371; in the worship of Ishtar, ix. 372

—— herds of cattle at shrines, iv. 20, 25

—— kings put to death, x. 1 _sq._

—— Marriage, the, ii. 120 _sqq._; of Roman kings, ii. 172 _sq._, 192, 193 _sq._, 318 _sq._; of king and queen, iv. 71; of actors disguised as animals, iv. 71, 83; of gods and goddesses, iv. 73; of Zeus and Hera, iv. 91; of priest and priestess as representing god and goddess, v. 46 _sqq._; represented in the rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 140; in Cos, vi. 259 _n._ 4; at Eleusis, vii. 65 _sqq._ _See also_ Marriage

—— men, inspired by image of Apollo, i. 386; at Andania, ii. 122, v. 76 _n._ 3; (kedeshim), at Jerusalem, v. 17 _sq._; and women, v. 57 _sqq._; in West Africa, v. 65 _sqq._; in Western Asia, v. 72 _sqq._

—— persons not allowed to set foot on the ground, x. 2 _sqq._; not to see the sun, x. 18 _sqq._

—— ploughings in Attica, vii. 108

—— prostitution, v. 36 _sqq._; suggested origin of, v. 39 _sqq._; in Western Asia, alternative theory of, v. 55 _sqq._; in India, v. 61 _sqq._; in West Africa, v. 65 _sqq._

—— slaves, v. 73, 79, ix. 370

—— spears used to stab sacrificial victims, iv. 19, 20, v. 274, ix. 218

“—— spring, the,” among the ancient Italian peoples, iv. 186 _sq._

Sacred sticks and stones (churinga) among the Arunta, xi. 234. _See_ Churinga

—— sticks representing ancestors, among the Herero, ii. 222 _sqq._

—— stocks and stones among the Semites, v. 107 _sqq._

—— stool among the Shilluk, iv. 24

—— things deemed dangerous, viii. 27 _sqq._

—— Way, the, at Rome, ii. 176, viii. 42

—— women among the ancient Germans, i. 391; the fourteen, at Athens, ii. 137, vii. 32; in India, v. 61 _sqq._; in West Africa, v. 65 _sqq._; in Western Asia, v. 70 _sqq._; at Andania, v. 76 _n._ 3

Sacrifice, gods become immortal by, i. 373 _n._ 1; of the king’s son, iv. 160 _sqq._; of the first-born, iv. 171 _sqq._, 179 _sqq._; of finger-joints, iv. 219; of virginity, v. 60; of virility in the rites of Attis and Astarte, v. 268 _sq._, 270 _sq._; of virility in ancient Egypt, among the Ekoi of Nigeria, etc., v. 270 _n._ 2; nutritive and vicarious types of, vii. 226; not to be touched, viii. 27; annual, of a sacred animal, viii. 31; of first-fruits, viii. 109 _sqq._; human, successive mitigations of, ix. 396 _sq._, 408; the Brahmanical theory of, ix. 410 _sq._; of cattle at holy oak, x. 181; of heifer at kindling need-fire, x. 290; of an animal to stay a cattle-plague, x. 300 _sqq._; of reindeer to the dead, xi. 178. _See also_ Sacrifices

Sacrificer, the Brahman, consecration of, i. 380; becomes Vishnu, i. 380; simulated new birth of, i. 380 _sq._

Sacrifices offered to ancestors, i. 286 _sq._, 290 _sq._; offered to souls of ancestors, i. 339; offered to regalia, i. 363, 365; offered to king’s crown, i. 365; offered to king’s sceptre, i. 365; offered to king’s throne, i. 365; to trees, i. 366; offered to kings, i. 417; offered to a sacred sword, ii. 5; offered to trees, ii. 15, 16 _sq._, 19, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48; offered on roofs of new houses, ii. 39; at cutting down trees, ii. 44; for rain, ii. 44, iv. 20; to water-spirits, ii. 155 _sqq._; to ghosts, iii. 56, 166; to the dead, iii. 88, iv. 92, 93, 94, 95, 97; at foundation of buildings, iii. 89 _sqq._; to ancestral spirits, iii. 104, vi. 175, 178 _sq._, 180, 181 _sq._, 183 _sq._, 190; offered to souls of slain enemies, iii. 166; for the sick, iv. 20, 25; to totems, iv. 31; of children among the Semites, iv. 166 _sqq._; to earthquake god, v. 201, 202; to volcanoes, v. 218 _sqq._; to the dead distinguished from sacrifices to the gods, v. 316 _n._ 1; offered at the rising of Sirius, vi. 36 _n._; offered in connexion with irrigation, vi. 38 _sq._; to dead kings, vi. 101, 162, 166 _sq._; of animals to prolong the life of kings, vi. 221; without shedding of blood, vi. 222 _n._ 2; offered to nets, viii. 240 _n._ 1; offered to wolves, viii. 284; to a toad, viii. 291. _See also_ Sacrifice

Sacrifices, human, offered to man-gods, i. 386, 387; to trees, ii. 15, 17; at laying foundations, iii. 90 _sq._; in ancient Greece, iv. 161 _sqq._, ix. 253 _sqq._, 353 _sq._; mock human, iv. 214 _sqq._; offered at earthquakes, v. 201; offered to Dionysus, vi. 98 _sq._; at the graves of the kings of Uganda, vi. 168; to dead kings, vi. 173; to dead chiefs, vi. 191; to prolong the life of kings, vi. 220 _sq._, 223 _sqq._; for the crops, vii. 236 _sqq._; at festivals of new yams in Ashantee, viii. 62, 63; in Mexico, viii. 88, ix. 275 _sqq._; of men and women as scapegoats, ix. 210 _sqq._, 217 _sq._; their influence on cosmogonical theories, ix. 409 _sqq._; of deified men, ix. 409; at fire-festivals, x. 106; traces of, x. 146, 148, 150 _sqq._, 186, xi. 31; offered by the ancient Germans, xi. 28 _n._ 1; among the Celts of Gaul, xi. 32 _sq._; the victims perhaps witches and wizards, xi. 41 _sqq._; W. Mannhardt’s theory of human sacrifices among the Celts, xi. 43

——, vicarious, iv. 117; in ancient Greece, iv. 166 _n._ 1

“Sacrificial fonts” in Sweden, x. 172 _n._ 2

—— King at Rome, i. 44, 46, ii. 2

—— victims carried round city, iii. 188; the tongues of, cut out, viii. 270; beating people with the skins of, ix. 265

_Sada_, _Saza_, Persian festival of fire at the winter solstice, x. 269

Sadana, rice-bridegroom in Java, vii. 200 _sq._

Saddle Island, Melanesia, superstition as to reflections in water in, iii. 93 _sq._

Sadyattes, son of Cadys, viceroy of Lydia, v. 183

Saffron in charm to make the wind blow, i. 320; at the Corycian cave, v. 154, 187

Saffron Walden, in Essex, May garlands at, ii. 60

Sagaing district of Burma, tamarind-tree worshipped for rain in the, ii. 46

Sagami, in Japan, rain-making at, i. 305

Sagar in India, use of scapegoat at, ix. 190 _sq._

Sagard, Gabriel, on resurrections of the dead among the Indians of Canada, iii. 366 _sq._; on preachers to fish among the Hurons, viii. 250 _sq._

Sage, divination by sprigs of red, on Midsummer Eve, xi. 61 _n._ 4

Saghalien, the Ainos of, i. 114, viii. 180, 188; opening everything to facilitate childbirth in, iii. 297; the Gilyaks of, iii. 370, viii. 190 _n._ 1

Sagittarius, mistletoe cut when the sun is in the sign of, xi. 82

Sago, magic for the growth of, vi. 101

Sahagun, B. de, on old Mexican view of intoxication, iii. 249 _sq._; on the ancient Mexican calendar, vi. 29 _n._; Franciscan monk, his work on the Indians of Mexico, vii. 175; on the sacrifice of the human representative of Tezcatlipoca, ix. 276; on the Mexican dances, ix. 280; on the sacrifice of human victims to the fire-god in Mexico, ix. 301 _n._ 1; on the treatment of witches and wizards among the Aztecs, xi. 159

Sahara, the Tuaregs of the, iii. 117, 122, 353

Saibai, island of Torres Strait, magical images to procure offspring in,