i. 266;

the horse of, i. 267

—— Tepehuacan, Indians of, their homoeopathic magic at sowing, planting, and fishing, i. 143; propitiate a tree before felling it, ii. 37; recovery of child’s lost soul among the, iii. 67 _sq._; their dread of noon, iii. 88; their custom at sowing, v. 239; their annual festival of the dead, vi. 55; transfer sickness to a well, ix. 4; their fast at sowing, ix. 347 _n._ 4

Santorin, island of, its volcanic activity, v. 195

Santos, J. dos, on custom of putting kings of Sofala to death, iv. 37 _sq._

Sâone-et-Loire, the last sheaf called the Fox in, vii. 296, 297

Saparoea, East Indian island, fishermen’s magic in, i. 109; hunter’s magic in, i. 114; treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 187

Sapoodi Archipelago, the name Sapoodi tabooed to sailors at sea, iii. 414

Sapor, king of Persia, how he took the city of Atrae, x. 82 _sq._

Sappho, on the mourning for Adonis, v. 6 _n._ 2; on Adonis and Linus, vii. 216

Saqqarah, ancient Egyptian relief from, ix. 260 _n._ 3

Saracus, last king of Assyria, v. 174

Saragacos Indians of Ecuador, their seclusion of women at childbirth, iii. 152

Sarah and Abraham, ii. 114

Sarajevo, need-fire near, x. 286

Sarawak, the Berawans of, i. 74; taboos observed by women during the search for camphor in, i. 124 _sq._; the Sea Dyaks of, i. 127, ix. 154; the Dyaks of, i. 361, iii. 67, 339, iv. 277, vii. 314, viii. 152; custom at making a clearing in the forest in, ii. 38 _sq._; head-hunting in, v. 295 _sq._

_Sarcolobus narcoticus_, deceiving the spirit of the plant, ii. 23 _sq._

Sardan or Sandan, the burning of, at Nineveh, ix. 389 _sq._ _See_ Sandan

Sardanapalus, legendary Assyrian monarch, his monument at Tarsus, v. 126 _n._ 2; his monument at Anchiale, v. 172; his death on the pyre, v. 172 _sqq._, ix. 387; confounded with Ashurbanipal, v. 173 _sq._, ix. 387 _sq._; his effeminacy, vi. 257, ix. 387 _sq._; perhaps personated by the king of the Sacaea, ix. 368, 387 _sq._; his epitaph, ix. 388

—— and Hercules, v. 172 _sqq._

Sardes in Lydia, ix. 389, 391; captured by Cyrus, v. 174; lion carried round acropolis of, v. 184, vi. 249

Sardines worshipped by the Indians of Peru, viii. 250

Sardinia, Sweethearts of St. John at Midsummer in, ii. 92, v. 244 _sq._; blood-revenge in, ii. 321; gardens of Adonis in, v. 244 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, v. 245, x. 209

Sargal, in India, gardens of Adonis at, v. 243

Sariputi, village in Ceram, first-fruits of the rice offered to dead ancestors at, viii. 123

Sarmata Islands, marriage of the Sun and Earth in the, ii. 98 _sq._

Sarmatian tribe moulded the heads of their children artificially, ii. 297

Sarn, valley of the, in Salzburg, the _Perchten_ maskers in the, ix. 245

Sarna, the sacred grove of the Oraons, ii. 76

Sarna Burhi, goddess of the sacred grove, among the Oraons, ii. 76 _sq._

Saron, ancient king of Troezen, perhaps a duplicate of Hippolytus, i. 26 _n._ 3

Saronic Gulf, Hippolytus on the shore of the, i. 19

Sarpedonian Artemis, in Cilicia, v. 167, 171

Sarum use, service-books of the, ix. 338

Sasabonsun, earthquake god of Ashantee, v. 201

Sassaks, the, of Lombok, their conception of the rice-spirit, vii. 201

Satan annually expelled by the Wotyaks, ix. 155 _sq._; annually expelled by the Cheremiss, ix. 156; preaches a sermon in the church of North Berwick, xi. 158; brings fern-seed on Christmas night, xi. 289

_Satapatha Brâhmana_, on the consecration of the sacrificer, i. 380; on the confession of sins, iii. 217; on transubstantiation, viii. 89; on the sun as Death, xi. 174 _n._ 1

Satirical poems, Arab curses conveyed in, iii. 312

Saturday, persons born on a, can see ghosts, iii. 89, x. 285

——, Easter, new fire on, x. 121, 122, 124, 127, 128, 130

——, Holy, effigy of Queen of Lent beheaded on, iv. 244

Saturn, Roman god, his temple at Rome, i. 10 _sq._; personified at the Saturnalia, ii. 310 _sq._; the god of the seed, ii. 311; his festival the Saturnalia, ii. 311, ix. 306 _sqq._; perhaps personified by Roman kings, ii. 311, 322; the husband of Ops, vi. 233; the old Roman and Italian god of sowing, ix. 232, 306, 307 _n._ 1, 346; (Cronus), sacrifice to, at Cyrene, ix. 253 _n._ 3; man put to death in the character of, ix. 309; dedication of the temple of, ix. 345 _n._ 1; perhaps represented by a dynasty of sacred kings, ix. 386

—— and the Golden Age, ix. 306, 344, 386

—— and Jupiter, ii. 323

—— and Lua, vi. 233

——, the planet, malignant influence of, iii. 315; its period of revolution round the sun, vi. 151 _sq._

Saturnalia, the Roman, ii. 310 _sqq._, ix. 306 _sqq._; how celebrated by Roman soldiers on the Danube, ii. 310, ix. 308 _sq._; Saturn personified at the, ii. 310 _sq._, ix. 309; the festival of sowing, ii. 311 _sq._; the King of the, ii. 311, ix. 308, 311, 312; licence granted to slaves at, ii. 312, ix. 307 _sq._; its relation to the Carnival, ix. 312, 345 _sqq._; its relation to Lent, ix. 345 _sqq._

Saturnalia, licentious festival in general, at the marriage of Sun and Earth in Leti, Sarmata, and other East Indian islands, ii. 99; traces of, at May Day and Whitsuntide, ii. 272; preceding the trial and execution of kings at Fazolglou on the Blue Nile, iv. 16; at ceremonies of the new yams in Ashantee, viii. 62 _sq._; at ceremonies of new fruits among the Pondos, viii. 66 _sq._; at New Year among the Iroquois, ix. 127; at harvest among the Hos and Mundaris of North-Eastern India, ix. 136 _sq._; such licentious festivals generally precede or follow an annual expulsion of evils, ix. 225 _sq._; modern European analogies in Twelfth Night, the Festival of Fools, the Lord of Misrule, etc., ix. 312 _sqq._; in ancient Greece, ix. 350 _sqq._; in Western Asia, ix. 354 _sqq._; wide prevalence of such festivals, ix. 407 _sqq._; at celebration of puberty of a princess royal among the Zulus, x. 30 _sq._; at New Year among the Swahili, x. 135; traces of, at Christmas, xi. 291 _n._ 2

Saturnine temperament of the farmer, vi. 218

Satyrs in relation to goats, viii. 1 _sqq._

Saucers, divination by seven, on Midsummer Eve, x. 209

Sauks, an Indian tribe of North America, their fast before war, iii. 163 _n._ 2; effeminate sorcerers among the, vi. 255

Saul, burial of, v. 177 _n._ 4

—— and David, v. 21

Saul’s madness soothed by music, v. 53, 54

Savage, the, hidebound by custom, i. 217; a slave to the spirits of his dead forefathers, i. 217; his awe and dread of everything new, iii. 230; our debt to, iii. 419 _sqq._; not illogical, viii. 202; his belief that animals have souls, viii. 204 _sqq._; unable to discriminate clearly between animals and men, viii. 206 _sqq._, 310; his faith in the immortality of animals, viii. 260 _sqq._; observational powers of, ix. 326; secretiveness of, xi. 224 _sq._; his dread of sorcery, xi. 224 _sq._

Savage community, the, ruled by a council of elders, i. 216 _sq._

—— conception of deity different from ours, i. 375 _sq._

—— custom the product of definite reasoning, iii. 420 _n._ 1

Savage Island, contagions magic of footprints in, i. 208; kings killed on account of dearth in, i. 354 _sq._; cessation of monarchy in, iii. 17; castaways and returned natives killed in, iii. 113; mimic rite of circumcision in, iv. 219 _sq._

—— philosophy, iii. 420 _sq._

Savagery, the rise of monarchy essential to the emergence of mankind from,