iv. 26;

on the divine spirit supposed to animate Shilluk kings, iv. 26 _sq._; on the Dinkas, iv. 30 _sqq._; on the custom of putting Dinka rain-makers to death, iv. 33; on the five supplementary Egyptian days, vi. 6 _n._ 3; on the worship of dead Shilluk kings, vi. 161 _n._ 2; on the name of the Supreme Being of the Dinkas, viii. 40 _n._, 114 _n._ 2

Selkit, Egyptian goddess, patroness of matrimony, ii. 131

Selwanga, python-god of the Baganda, v. 86

Semang tribes of the Malay Peninsula, power of medicine-men among the, i. 360; think that the souls of their dead chiefs transmigrate into wild beasts, iv. 85

_Semangat_, Malay word for the soul, iii. 28, 35, vii. 181, 183

Semele, mother of Dionysus, iv. 3; how Zeus got Dionysus by, vii. 14; descent of Dionysus into Hades to bring up, vii. 15

Semic in Bohemia, beheading the king on Whit-Monday at, iv. 209

Seminole Indians, souls of the dying caught among the, iv. 199; their Green Corn Dance, viii. 76 _sq._; their fear of rattle-snakes, viii. 217

Semiramis, lustful Assyrian queen, ii. 275; at Hierapolis, v. 162 _n._ 2; as a form of Ishtar (Astarte), v. 176 _sq._; said to have burnt herself, v. 176 _sq._, ix. 407 _n._ 2; the mythical, a form of the great Asiatic goddess, vi. 258; mythical and historical, ix. 369 _sqq._; the mounds of, ix. 370, 371, 373, 388 _n._ 1; her love for a horse, ix. 371, 407 _n._ 2; the sad fate of her lovers, ix. 371; perhaps supposed to be incarnate in a series of women, ix. 386

Semites, moral evolution of the, iii. 219; sacrifices of children among the, iv. 166 _sqq._; agricultural, worship Baal as the giver of fertility, v. 26 _sq._; sacred stocks and stones among the, v. 107 _sqq._; traces of mother-kin among the, vi. 213

Semitic Baal in relation to the Minotaur, iv. 75

—— gods, uniformity of their type, v. 119

—— kings, the divinity of, v. 15 _sqq._; as hereditary deities, v. 51

—— language, Egyptian language akin to the, vi. 161 _n._ 1

—— personal names indicating relationship to a deity, v. 51

—— worship of Tammuz and Adonis, v. 6 _sqq._

_Semlicka_, festival of the dead among the Letts, vi. 74

_Semo_, a secret society of Senegambia, xi. 261

Sena, island of, virgin priestesses in, ii. 241 _n._ 1

Sena-speaking people to the north of the Zambesi transfer sickness to effigy of pig, ix. 7

Senal Indians of California, their notion as to fire stored in trees, xi. 295

Sencis, the, of Peru, their ceremony at an eclipse of the sun, i. 311

Seneca, on sacred groves, ii. 123; as to the soul on the lips, iii. 33 _n._ 3; on the offerings of Egyptian priests to the Nile, vi. 40; on the marriage of the Roman gods, vi. 231; on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, vi. 233

Senegal, Cayor in, iii. 9; Walo on the river, iii. 118; precaution as to spittle in, iii. 289; belief as to conception without sexual intercourse in, v. 93 _n._ 2; myth of marriage of Sky and Earth in, v. 282 _n._ 2; custom of throwing stones on cairns in, ix. 30 _n._ 2

Senegal and Niger region of West Africa, the wild fig-tree regarded as a fetish-tree in, ii. 317 _n._ 1

Senegambia, the Feloupes of, i. 297; the Walos of, i. 370, xi. 79; the Sereres of, iii. 70; the Wolofs of, iii. 323; the Mandingoes of, vi. 141; Python clan in, viii. 174; the Foulahs of, viii. 214; stones thrown on graves of murderers in, ix. 16; the Banmanas of, ix. 261; secret society among the Soosoos of, xi. 261 _sq._

Senjero, sacrifice of first-born sons in, iv. 182 _sq._

Sennacherib, his siege of Jerusalem, v. 25; said to have built Tarsus, v. 173 _n._ 4

Sennar, a province of the Sudan, human hyaenas in, x. 313

Senseless Thursday, the last Thursday in Carnival, ceremony with whips and brooms in the Tyrol on, ix. 248

Seoul, capital of Corea, custom on New Year’s Day at, iii. 283; tiger eaten at, to make eater brave, viii. 145

Separation of children from their parents among the Baganda, x. 23 _n._ 2

—— of earth and sky, myth of the, v. 283

Sepharvites, their sacrifices of children, iv. 171

September, month of the maize harvest in modern Greece, vii. 48; the 1st of, mock burial of flies by Russian girls on, viii. 279 _sq._; the 13th of, Roman custom of knocking a nail into a wall on, ix. 66; expulsion of evils by the Incas of Peru in, ix. 128; eve of the 1st of, new fire in villages near Moscow on the, x. 139; the 8th of, feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, x. 220; the fire-walk in, xi. 9

Seranglao archipelago, custom as to children’s cast teeth in the, i. 179; rule as to gathering coco-nuts in the, iii. 201

Serapeum at Alexandria, vi. 119 _n._; its destruction, vi. 217

Serapis, the later form of Osiris, vi. 119 _n._; the rise of the Nile attributed to, vi. 216 _sq._; the standard cubit kept in his temple, vi. 217

Sereres of Senegambia, detention of souls by sorcerers among the, iii. 70

Seriphos, custom of swinging on Tuesday after Easter in, iv. 283 _sq._

Serpent in homoeopathic magic, i. 154 _sq._; dried, in ceremony for stopping rain, i. 295 _sq._; hung up as a wind-charm, i. 323; or dragon of water, ii. 155 _sqq._; or dragon personated by kings, iv. 82; the Brazen, worshipped to the time of Hezekiah, iv. 86; sacred, on the Acropolis at Athens, iv. 86; as the giver of children, v. 86; at rites of initiation, v. 90 _n._ 4; fed by a woman out of a saucer, type in Greek art, viii. 18 _n._ 2; killing the sacred, viii. 174 _sq._; ceremonies performed after killing a, viii. 192 _sq._; the Brazen, set up by the Israelites in the wilderness, viii. 281; girls at puberty thought to be visited by a, x. 31; supposed to swallow girl at puberty, x. 57; ten-headed, external soul in a, xi. 104 _sq._; twelve-headed, external soul of demon in a, xi. 143; external soul of chief in a, xi. 201. _See also_ Serpents, Snake, _and_ Snakes

Serpent-god, married to human wives, v. 66 _sqq._; thought to control the crops, v. 67

Serpent’s fat a charm against witches on St. George’s Day, ii. 335

—— flesh eaten to learn the language of animals, viii. 146

Serpents impart a knowledge of the language of birds, i. 158; in relation to St. George, ii. 344 _n._ 4; purificatory ceremonies observed after killing, iii. 221 _sqq._; not to be called by their proper names, iii. 398, 399, 401 _sq._, 407, 408, 411; transmigration of the souls of the dead into, iv. 84; reputed the fathers of human beings, v. 80 _sqq._; as embodiments of Aesculapius, v. 80 _sq._; worshipped in Mysore, v. 81 _sq._; as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82 _sqq._, xi. 211 _sq._; fed with milk, v. 84 _sqq._, 87; thought to have knowledge of life-giving plants, v. 186; souls of dead kings incarnate in, vi. 163, 173; offerings to, viii. 17 _sq._; in the “chasms of Demeter and Persephone,” viii. 17 _sq._; lick the ears of seers, viii. 147 _n._ 1; inspired human mediums of, viii. 213; charms against, viii. 281; souls of the dead in, viii. 291; and lizards supposed to renew their youth by casting their skins, ix. 302 _sqq._; burnt alive at the Midsummer festival in Luchon, xi. 38 _sq._, 43; witches turn into, xi. 41; worshipped by the old Prussians, xi. 43 _n._ 3; in the worship of Demeter, xi. 44 _n._; the familiars of witches, xi. 202. _See also_ Serpent, Snake, _and_ Snakes

Serpents’ eggs (glass beads) in ancient Gaul, x. 15

Servia, rain-making ceremony in, i. 273; mode of kindling fire by friction of wood in, ii. 237; divination on St. George’s Day in, ii. 345; Midsummer fire custom in, x. 178; the Yule log in, x. 258 _sqq._; need-fire in, x. 281, 282 _sqq._ _See also_ Servian _and_ Servians

Servian forest, the great, ii. 237, 237 _n._ 1

—— stories of the external soul, xi. 110 _sqq._

—— women, their charm to hoodwink their husbands, i. 149

Servians, their belief as to souls in the form of butterflies, iii. 41; their precaution against vampyres, ix. 153 _n._ 1; house-communities of the, x. 259 _n._ 1

Servitude of Apollo and Cadmus for eight years for the slaughter of dragons, iv. 70 _n._ 1, 78

Servius, Virgilian commentator, on the grove of Egeria, i. 18 _n._ 4; on Virbius, i. 20 _sq._, 40, ii. 129; on the worship of Virbius, i. 20 _n._ 3; on Virbius as the lover of Diana, i. 21, 40; on Dido’s costume, iii. 313; on the magical virtue of knots, iii. 313 _n._ 1; on the legend of Erigone, iv. 282; on the death of Attis, v. 264 _n._ 4; on the marriage of Orcus, vi. 231; on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, vi. 233; on Lityerses, vii. 217 _n._ 1

Servius Tullius, Roman king, his innovation in Roman currency, i. 23 _n._ 5; laws of, ii. 115, 129; and Fortuna, ii. 193 _n._ 1, 272; legend of his birth from the fire, ii. 195 _sq._, vi. 235; said to have been an Etruscan, ii. 196 _n._; succeeded by his son-in-law, ii. 270; his descent, ii. 270 _n._ 6; his death, ii. 320 _sq._

Sesostris, so-called monument of, in Lydia, v. 185

Set, or Typhon, brother of Osiris, vi. 6, viii. 30; murders Osiris, vi. 7 _sq._; accuses Osiris before the gods, vi. 17; brings a suit of bastardy against Horus, vi. 17; his combat with Horus, vi. 17; reigns over Upper Egypt, vi. 17; torn in pieces, vi. 98; the Egyptian devil, viii. 30; the birth of, ix. 341. _See also_ Typhon

Setonje, village in Servia, need-fire at, ii. 237, x. 282 _sqq._

Sety I., king of Egypt, represented in the hall of the Osirian mysteries at Abydos, vi. 108

Seven or multiples of seven in offerings to the dead, ii. 32

Seven bonfires, lucky to see, x. 107, 108

—— ears of last year’s crop to attract the corn, vii. 190; of rice to form the Soul of the Rice at harvest, vii. 198

—— knots in magic, iii. 303, 304, 305, 308

—— leaps over Midsummer fire, x. 213

—— -legged effigy of Lent, iv. 244 _sq._

—— months’ child, vii. 26, 29

—— rice-stalks cut and brought home with the King of the Rice in Mandeling, vii. 197

—— sorts of plants gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51 _sq._

—— years, a were-wolf for, x. 310 _n._ 1, 316 _n._ 2

—— youths and maidens, tribute of, to the Minotaur, iv. 74 _sqq._

Sevenoaks, in Kent, May garlands at, ii. 62

Seventh month of pregnancy, ceremony performed in the, i. 72 _sq._

Sewing forbidden to women in absence of whalers, i. 121; forbidden to women in absence of warriors, i. 128; as a charm to blind wolves, ii. 330; as a charm to render wolves powerless, iii. 307

Sex totems among the natives of South-Eastern Australia, xi. 214 _sqq._; called “brother” and “sister” by men and women respectively, xi. 215

Sexes, of plants, recognized by some savages and by the ancients, ii. 24; influence of the, on vegetation, ii. 97 _sqq._; division of labour between the, vii. 129; danger apprehended from the relation of the, xi. 277 _sq._

Sextus Pompeius, his consultation of the Thessalian witch, iii. 390

Sexual communism, tradition of, ii. 284, 287

—— crime, blighting effects attributed to, ii. 107 _sqq._

—— intercourse practised to make the crops and fruits grow, ii. 97, 98 _sqq._

—— orgies as a fertility charm, ii. 98 _sqq._

Seyf el-Mulook and the jinnee, the story of, xi. 137

Sgaus, Karen tribe of Burma, will not mention their parents’ names, iii. 337

Sgealoir, the burying-ground of, in North Uist, x. 294

_Sgreball_, three pence, tax paid to the king of Munster for each fire in Ireland, x. 139

Shades of dead animals, fear of offending, iii. 205, 206, 207

Shadow, the soul identified with the, iii. 77 _sqq._; injury done to a man through his, iii. 78 _sqq._; diminution of shadow regarded with apprehension, iii. 86 _sq._; loss of the, regarded as ominous, iii. 88; not to fall on a chief, iii. 255

Shadow Day, a gipsy name for Palm Sunday, iv. 243

—— -plays as a rain-charm in Java, i. 301 _n._

—— Queen, the, thought to pass under ground in spring and reappear in autumn, iv. 243

Shadows of sacred trees not to be trodden on by women, ii. 34; of people drawn out by ghosts, iii. 80; animals injured through their, iii. 81 _sq._; of trees sensitive, iii. 82; of certain birds and people viewed as dangerous, iii. 82 _sq._; of people built into the foundations of edifices, iii. 89 _sq._; of mourners dangerous, iii. 142; of certain persons dangerous, iii. 173

Shahpur district of the Punjaub, rain-making in the, i. 278

Shakespear, Lt.-Colonel J., on the belief in demons among the Lushais, ix. 94

Shakespeare on death at the turn of the tide, i. 168

Shaking of victim as sign of its acceptance, i. 384 _sq._.

Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, captures Samaria, iv. 169; carries the Israelites into captivity, iv. 171

Sham-fights at installation of Shilluk kings, iv. 24; in honour of the dead, iv. 96 _sq._; at annual festival in Hawaii, iv. 117 _sq._; at the first bringing in of the rice among the Kayans, vii. 98; at the festival of new fruits among the Creek Indians, viii. 75; (mimic battles) before going to war, viii. 207; at festival of New Year among the Tenggerese of Java, ix. 184; at the sacrifice of a woman among the Mexicans, ix. 289; at festival of New Year among the Swahili, x. 135

—— graves and corpses to deceive demons, viii. 98 _sqq._

Shaman, function of the, ix. 79 _sq._

Shamanism, magical ritual of the Vedas akin to, i. 229; among the Koryaks, ix. 101

Shamanistic faith and magic, period of, among the forefathers of the Indo-Germanic race, ix. 91

Shamans, the importance of, among the Maidu, i. 357 _sq._; expected to drive away demons and disease from the village, i. 358; expected to inflict death and disease on hostile villages, i. 358; bones of dead, placed in trees, ii. 32; Buryat, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 56 _sq._; among the Thompson Indians, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 57 _sq._; Yakut, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 63; among the Haídas kill the souls of foes, iii. 72 _n._ 1; thought to swallow people’s souls, iii. 76 _sq._; among the Navajos, ceremony performed by them over a returned captive,