viii. 154

Scandinavia, female descent of the kingship in, ii. 279 _sq._

Scandinavian custom of the Yule Boar, vii. 300 _sqq._; of the Yule Goat, viii. 327

Scania, province of Sweden, Midsummer fires in, x. 172

Scapegoat, plantain-tree as a, ix. 5; decked with women’s ornaments, ix. 192; Jewish use of, ix. 210; a material vehicle for the expulsion of evils, ix. 224

Scapegoats, he-goats employed as, among the Akikuyu, iii. 214 _sq._; inanimate objects as, ix. 1 _sqq._; animals as, ix. 31 _sqq._, 190 _sqq._, 208 _sqq._; birds as, ix. 35 _sq._; public, ix. 170 _sqq._; divine animals as, ix. 216 _sq._, 226 _sq._; divine men as, ix. 217 _sqq._, 226 _sq._; in general, ix. 224 _sqq._

——, human, ix. 38 _sqq._, 194 _sqq._, 210 _sqq._; in classical antiquity, ix. 229 _sqq._; in ancient Greece, ix. 252 _sqq._; beaten, ix. 252, 255; stoned, ix. 253, 254; cast into the sea, ix. 254 _sq._; reason for beating the, ix. 256 _sq._

Scarification as a mode of exorcizing demons and ghosts, iii. 105 _sqq._; of warriors, iii. 160 _sq._; of manslayer, iii. 180; of bodies of whalers, iii. 191; as a religious rite, viii. 75; as a mode of conferring swiftness of foot, viii. 159; of Zulu heaven-herds with heaven, viii. 160 _sq._

“Scaring away the devil” at Penzance on the Eve of May Day, ix. 163 _sq._

—— away the ghosts of the slain, iii. 168, 170, 171, 172, 174 _sq._

Scarlet thread in charm against witchcraft, ix. 267

_Scarli_, poplar-trees burnt on Shrove Tuesday in Piedmont, iv. 224 _n._ 1

Sceptre of Agamemnon worshipped as a god at Chaeronea, i. 365

Schäfer, H., on the tomb of Osiris at Abydos, vi. 198 _n._ 1

Schaffhausen, the canton of, the cow at threshing in, vii. 291; St. John’s three Midsummer victims at, xi. 27

Schar Mountains in Servia, “living fire” kindled in time of epidemics in the, ii. 237; the Slavs of the, ii. 238; need-fire in the, x. 281

_Scharholz_, Midsummer log in Germany, xi. 92 _n._ 1

Schaumburg, Easter bonfires in, x. 142

Schechter, Dr. S., on Purim, ix. 364 _n._ 1

Scheil, Father, on Elamite inscriptions, ix. 367 _n._ 3

Scheroutz, in Russia, rain-making at, i. 277

Scheube, B., on the bear-festivals of the Ainos, viii. 185 _sqq._

Schinz, Dr. H., on the huts of the Herero, ii. 213 _n._ 2; on the firesticks of the Herero, ii. 218, 218 _n._ 1

Schlanow, in Brandenburg, custom at sowing at, v. 238 _sq._

Schlegel, G., on Chinese festival of fire, xi. 5 _n._ 1

Schleswig, custom at threshing in, vii. 230; custom at rape-seed threshing in, vii. 287

Schlich, W., on mistletoe, xi. 315 _sq._; on _Loranthus europaeus_, xi. 317

Schlochau, district of, witches’ Sabbath in the, xi. 74

Schloss, Francis S., on the rule as to the felling of timber in Colombia, vi. 136 _n._ 4

Schlukenau, in Bohemia, “burying the Carnival” at, iv. 209

_Schmeckostern_, “Easter Smacks,” in Germany and Austria, ix. 268 _sq._

Schmidt, A., on Greek mode of reckoning intervals of time, iv. 59 _n._ 1; on the octennial cycle, vii. 82 _n._ 2

Schmidt, W., on the superstitions of the Roumanians of Transylvania, ix. 107 _n._ 1

Schmiedel, Professor P., on the burning of Winter at Zurich, iv. 261 _n._ 1

Schöllbronn in Baden, “thunder poles” at, x. 145

Schonen, Southern, the last sheaf called the Beggar in, vii. 231 _sq._

Schönthal, the abbot of, his fear of demons, ix. 105 _sq._

Schönwert, village of Bohemia, expulsion of witches on Walpurgis Night at,