The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)

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Stadium, the Olympic, iv. 287

Staffordshire, All Souls’ Day in, vi. 79; the Yule log in, x. 256

Stag, emblem of longevity, i. 169 _n._ 1

Stamfordham, in Northumberland, need-fire at, x. 288 _sq._

Stammering, homoeopathic charm to cure, i. 156

Standard of conduct shifted from natural to supernatural basis, iii. 213

——, Egyptian, resembling a placenta, vi. 156 _n._ 1; Egyptian cubit, deposited in the temple of Serapis, xi. 217

Standing on one foot, custom of, iv. 149, 150, 155, 156; on sacrificed human victim as a purificatory rite, ix. 218

Stanikas, male children of sacred prostitutes in Southern India, v. 63

Star, falling, in magic, i. 84; falling, as totem, iv. 61

—— of Bethlehem, v. 259, ix. 330

——, the Evening, in Keats’s last sonnet, i. 166

——, the Morning, said to have enjoined human sacrifices on the Pawnees,