vi. 171;

drinking out of a human, in order to acquire the qualities of the deceased, viii. 150; of enemy, lad at circumcision seated on, viii. 153. _See also_ Skulls

Skull-cap worn by girls at their first menstruation, iii. 146; worn by Australian widows, iii. 182 _n._ 2

Skulls used as charms to cause invisibility, i. 150; of raccoons prayed to for rain, i. 288; of bears nailed to sacred firs, ii. 11; of dead used as drinking-cups among the Australian aborigines, iii. 372; of dead kings of Uganda removed and kept, iv. 202 _sq._, vi. 169; human, as protection against powers of evil, vii. 241; the Place of, vii. 243; spirits of ancestors in their, viii. 123; of bears worshipped by the Ainos, viii. 181, 184; of foxes consulted as oracles, viii. 181; of bears as talismans, viii. 197; of turtles propitiated by turtle-fishermen, viii. 244; of enemies destroyed, viii. 260

——, ancestral, used in magical ceremonies, i. 163; in rain-charm, i. 285; rubbed as a propitiation, iii. 197; offerings set beside, viii. 127

Sky, twins called the children of the, i. 267, 268; appeal to the pity of the, as a rain-charm, i. 302 _sq._; Aryan god of the, ii. 374 _sq._; observation of the, for omens, iv. 58; conceived by the Egyptians as a cow, v. 283 _n._ 3; girls at puberty not allowed to look at the, x. 43, 45, 46, 69

—— and earth, myth of their violent separation, v. 283

Sky-god, Attis as a, v. 282 _sqq._; married to Earth-goddess, v. 282, with _n._ 2; mutilation of the, v. 283; invoked at Eleusis, vii. 69

—— -god Zeus, vii. 65

—— -goddess, the Egyptian, ix. 341

—— -spirit, sacrifice of children to, iv. 181

Skye, x. 289; sacred wood in the island of, ii. 44; the need-fire in, ii. 238, x. 148; the last sheaf called the Cripple or Lame Goat at harvest in, vii. 164, 284

Sladen, Colonel, expulsion of fire-spirit among the Shans witnessed by,