x. 19, 20, 60, 68, 69;

name of, tabooed, iii. 401; the Mexican goddess of, ix. 278, 283; used in a ceremony after marriage, x. 25 _sq._; abstinence from, associated with a rule of chastity, x. 26 _sqq._; not to be handled by menstruous women, x. 81 _sq._, 84; divination by, x. 244

Salt cake, divination by, at Hallowe’en, x. 238 _sq._

—— -makers worship the goddess of Salt, ix. 283; their dance, ix. 284

—— -pans, the divinity of, incarnate in a woman, i. 410; continence observed by workers in, iii. 200

Saluting the rising sun, a Syrian custom, ix. 416

Salvation of the individual soul, importance attached to, in Oriental religions, v. 300

Salza district, ashes of pig’s bone mixed with seed-corn in the, vii. 300

Salzburg, processions round the fields on St. George’s Day in, ii. 344; harvest custom in, vii. 146; Queen of the Corn-ears in, vii. 146; the _Perchten_ maskers in, ix. 240, 242 _sqq._

Salzwedel, Whitsuntide king at, ii. 84; in the Altmark, the He-goat at harvest near, vii. 287

Samagitians, their sacred groves, ii. 43; deemed birds and beasts of the woods sacred, ii. 125; their annual festival of the dead, vi. 75

Samal, in North-Western Syria, Barrekub king of, v. 15 _sq._

Samarai Archipelago, off New Guinea, Logea in the, iii. 354. _See_ Logea

Samarcand, homoeopathic charms applied to babies in, i. 157; ceremonies to cause cold weather at, i. 329 _n._ 1; New Year ceremony at, iv. 151; temporary king at, iv. 151

Samaria captured by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, iv. 169; the fall of, v. 25

Samaveda, the, ancient Indian collection of hymns, i. 269

Samban tribe of Dyaks, their belief as to the influence of Rajah Brooke on the crops, i. 362

Sambawa, East Indian island, human foundation-sacrifices in, iii. 91

Sambee, title signifying god, applied to the king of Loango, i. 396

_Sambucus ebulus_, dwarf elder, in rain-making, i. 273

Samhain, All Saints’ Day (November 1st), New Year’s Day in Ireland, x. 225

—— Eve of (Hallowe’en), new fire kindled in Ireland on, x. 139, 225; Irish New Year dated from, x. 139, 225; fiends and goblins let loose on, x. 226

_Samhanach_, Hallowe’en bogies, x. 227

_Samhnagan_, Hallowe’en fires, x. 230

_Sami_ wood (_Prosopis spicigera_), used by the fire-priests of the Brahmans in kindling fire, ii. 248, 249, 250 _n._

Samland, the Old Woman at harvest in, vii. 139; “Easter Smacks” in, ix. 269; fishermen will not go to sea on Midsummer Day in, xi. 26

Samnites, marriage custom of the, ii. 305; guided by a bull, iv. 186 _n._ 4; traced their origin to a “sacred spring,” iv. 186

Samoa, mode of determining a child’s guardian god in, i. 100 _n._ 1; gods of, in animal and human form, i. 389; special terms used with reference to persons of the blood-royal in, i. 401 _n._ 3; bleeding trees in, ii. 20; the turtle clan in, their custom at cutting up a turtle, iii. 122; persons who have handled the dead not allowed to touch food with their hands in, iii. 140; names of chiefs not to be pronounced in, iii. 382; expiation for disrespect to a sacred animal in, iv. 216 _sq._; circumcision practised in, iv. 220; conduct of the inhabitants in an earthquake, v. 200; butterfly god in, viii. 29; the Wild Pigeon family in, viii. 29. _See also_ Samoan _and_ Samoans

Samoan nobility, their perpetual fires, ii. 261

—— story of the recovery of a sick man’s soul, iii. 65; of woman who was impregnated by the sun, x. 74 _sq._

Samoans, their sacrifices of first-fruits, viii. 132; reckon their time by the periodic appearance of a sea-slug, ix. 142 _n._ 1

Samon, a month of the Gallic calendar, ix. 343

Samorin, title of the kings of Calicut, iv. 47 _sq._

Samos, sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera in, ii. 143 _n._ 1; the month of Cronion in, ix. 351 _n._ 2

Samothrace, Cadmus in, iv. 89 _n._ 4

Samothracian mysteries, iv. 89

Samoyed shamans, their familiar spirits in boars, xi. 196 _sq._

—— story of the external soul, xi. 141 _sq._

—— women thought to pollute things by stepping over them, iii. 424

Samoyeds of Siberia reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353; cut out the eyes of the wild reindeer which they kill, viii. 268

Sampson, Agnes, a Scotch witch, ix. 38

Samsi-Adad, king of Assyria, husband of Shammuramat (Semiramis), ix. 370 _n._ 1

Samson, his burning the crops of the Philistines, vii. 298 _n._; effigy of, carried in procession of giants, xi. 36; an African, xi. 314

Samuel, the prophet, consulted about asses, v. 75; meaning of the name, v. 79

—— and Saul, v. 22

Samyas monastery near Lhasa, the King of the Years annually detained for seven days in the, ix. 220

San Cristoval, in the Solomon Islands, ghosts supposed to imprison souls in, iii. 56; mode of sacrificing a pig in, iii. 247

San Juan Capistrano, in California, Spanish mission at, viii. 169, 171 _n._ 1

——, Indians of, their ceremony at the new moon, vi. 142; women’s work among the, vii. 125; their calendar, vii. 125 _sq._; ordeal of nettles and ants among the, x. 64

San Pellegrino, church of, at Ancona, the sarcophagus of St. Dasius in the, ix. 310

San Salvador in West Africa, native belief as to the soul of the king of,