iii. 113;

in Corea, their control of demons, ix. 99, 100; among the Koryaks, enjoy the favour of demons and pull out their invisible arrows, ix. 101, 126; expel demons at the winter solstice, ix. 126; among the Esquimaux, their grotesque masks of supernatural beings, ix. 379; their second sight, ix. 380; of the Yakuts and Samoyeds, keep their external souls in animals, xi. 196

Shamash, Babylonian sun-god, xi. 80 _n._ 3; his human wives, v. 71

——, Semitic god, v. 16 _n._ 1

Shamashshumukin, king of Babylon, burns himself, v. 173 _sq._, 176

Shammuramat, Assyrian queen, and Semiramis, v. 177 _n._ 1, ix. 370 _n._ 1

Shampoo, the fatal, ix. 42

Shan custom on return from a funeral, iii. 51; modes of disposing of cut hair and nails, iii. 277. _See also_ Shans

Shanga, city in East Africa, story of an African Samson at, xi. 314

Shanghai, geomancy at, i. 170

Shans of Burma, rules observed by wife of absent warrior among the, i. 128; obtain rain by drenching images of Buddha, i. 308; their theory of earthquakes, v. 198; cut bamboos for building in the wane of the moon, vi. 136; custom of executioners among the, viii. 155

—— of Indo-China, their human sacrifices for the crops, vii. 243

—— of Kengtung, their expulsion of demons, ix. 116 _sq._

—— of Southern China, their annual expulsion of the fire-spirit, ix. 141

Shape, magical changes of, vii. 305

Shark, king of Dahomey represented with body of a, iv. 85

Shark Point, priestly king at, iii. 5, 123

—— -shaped hero named Sigai in the island of Yam, v. 139 _n._ 1

Sharks, ancestral spirits in, viii. 123, 127; offerings of flying-fish set before images of, viii. 127; temples dedicated to, viii. 292; souls of dead in, viii. 292 _sq._, 297

Sharp instruments, use of, tabooed, iii. 205, 237 _sqq._

Shaving forbidden, iii. 194; prisoners, reason of, iii. 273

Shawms blown to ban witches, ix. 160

Shawnee prophet, xi. 157

Sheaf buried as a magical rite, i. 69

—— of corn dressed up to represent Death, iv. 248

——, the first cut, thought to contain the soul of the rice, vi. 239, vii. 197 _sq._; lamentations over, vii. 215; called the “Cross of the Horse” and trodden by the youngest horse on the farm, vii. 294

——, the largest and finest, buried in corn-field from seed-time to harvest, vii. 174 _sq._

——, the last cut at harvest used to make Brüd’s bed in the Highlands of Scotland, ii. 94 _n._ 2; the Corn-mother in, vii. 133 _sqq._; thresher tied up in, vii. 134, 147, 148; dressed or made up as a woman, vii. 134, 135, 136, 137, 139 _sq._, 140, 141, 145, 146, 148, 150, 153, 154, 155, 157, 159, 160, 162, 163, 166, 190 _sq._; drenched with water, vii. 134, 137, 145, 297; given to cattle, vii. 134, 155, 158, 161, 170; stones fastened to, vii. 135 _sq._, 138, 139; harvester tied up in, vii. 134, 139, 145, 221, 222; called the Harvest-mother, vii. 135; called the Great Mother, vii. 135, 136; called the Old Woman or Old Man, vii. 136 _sqq._; called the Grandmother, vii. 136; person identified with, vii. 138 _sq._; corn-spirit caught in, vii. 139; called the _Cailleach_ (Old Wife), vii. 140 _sqq._; burnt and its ashes strewed on fields, vii. 146; called the Bastard, vii. 150; called the Child, vii. 151; given to the cattle at Christmas, vii. 155, 158, 160 _sq._; cut by the youngest girl on the field, vii. 157, 158; kept till Christmas, then given to a mare in foal, vii. 160, 161 _n._ 1; given to the first mare that foals, vii. 160, 162; called the Bride, vii. 162 _sq._; supposed to ward off fairies, vii. 165; representative of the corn-spirit, vii. 168, viii. 48; in Lower Burma, vii. 190 _sq._; called the Old Man, vii. 218 _sqq._; an object of desire and emulation, vii. 218 _n._ 2; in India, vii. 222 _sq._, 234 _n._ 2; called the Neck, vii. 266, 267, 268; called the Head, vii. 268; the corn-spirit caught in, vii. 270; thresher of the last sheaf treated as an animal, vii. 271; called the Bitch, vii. 272; called the Wolf, vii. 273; shaped like a wolf, vii. 274; called the Cock, vii. 276; live cock bound up with, vii. 278; called the Hare, vii. 279; called the Cat, vii. 280; called the Goat, vii. 282, 283; shaped like a goat, vii. 283; made up in form of horned ox, vii. 289; called the Buffalo-bull, vii. 289; called the Cow, vii. 289; race of reapers to, vii. 291; called the Mare, vii. 292 _sq._; called the Fox, vii. 297; made in form of fox, vii. 297; called the Rye-boar, vii. 298; called the Rye-sow, Wheat-sow, Corn-sow, or Oats-sow, vii. 298; corn of, used to bake the Yule Boar, vii. 300 _sq._; the corn-spirit immanent in, vii. 301, viii. 48, 328; loaves baked from, viii. 48; used to bake cakes in form of goats, rams, and boars at Christmas, viii. 328; the Yule log wrapt up in, x. 248; reapers blindfold throw sickles at the, xi. 279 _n._ 4 _See also_ _Clyack_, _Kirn_, _Mell_, Maiden

Sheaf, the last threshed called the Corn-goat, Spelt-goat, or Oats-goat,