vii. 286

Spencer, Baldwin, on reincarnation of the dead, v. 100 _n._ 3

Spencer, B., and F. J. Gillen, on a ceremony for the multiplication of white cockatoos, i. 89; on the confusion of a man with his totem, i. 107 _n._ 4; on infanticide among the Australian aborigines, iv. 180 _n._ 1, 187 _n._ 6; on Australian belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 99; on an Australian cure for headache, ix. 2; on initiation of Australian medicine-men, xi. 238

Spencer, Herbert, his theory of the material universe compared to that of Empedocles, viii. 303 _sqq._

Spenser, Edmund, on an Irish custom as to blood of friends, iii. 244 _sq._

Sperchius, River, hair of Achilles devoted to the, iii. 261

Spermus, king of Lydia, marries the widow of his predecessor, ii. 281; his wickedness, v. 183

Spices used in exorcism of demons, iii. 105 _sq._

Spider imitated by actor or dancer, ix. 381

Spiders in homoeopathic magic, i. 152; ceremony at killing, viii. 236 _sq._; used to extract vicious propensity, ix. 34

Spieth, J., on human gods among the Hos of Togoland, i. 397; on the Ewe peoples, v. 70 _n._ 2; on the ceremonies at eating the new yams among the Hos, viii. 59 _sqq._; on the religion of the Ewe negroes, ix. 76 _n._ 1

Spindle, woman winds thread on, while sugar-cane is planted, viii. 119

Spindles not to be carried openly on the highroads, i. 113; not to be twirled while men are in council, i. 114

Spinning forbidden to women under certain circumstances, i. 113 _sq._

—— on highroads forbidden in ancient Italy, i. 113, viii. 119 _n._ 5

—— of mummer at Carnival, viii. 333

Spinning-wheel, external soul of ogress in a, xi. 100

Spinning acorns or figs as a charm to promote the growth of the crops,