viii. 237

Stiffness of back set down to witchcraft, x. 343 _n._, 345

Stigand, Captain C. H., on the sacrifice of the first-born among tribes to the south of Abyssinia, iv. 182

Stinging young people with ants and wasps, custom of, ix. 263, x. 61, 62 _sq._; as a form of purification, x. 61 _sqq._

_Stipiturus malachurus_, emu-wren, men’s “brother” among the Kurnai, xi. 216

Stlatlum Indians of British Columbia respect the animals and plants which they eat, vi. 44

Stockholm, leaf-market on the Eve of St. John at, ii. 65

Stocks, sacred, among the Semites, v. 107 _sqq._

Stolen kail, divination by, at Hallowe’en, x. 234 _sq._

Stomach of eater, certain foods forbidden to meet in, viii. 83 _sqq._

Stone used in ceremony to facilitate childbirth, i. 74; supposed to cure jaundice, i. 80; bitten by a dog in homoeopathic magic, i. 157; treading on a, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 160; magic of heavy, vii. 100; toothache nailed into a, ix. 62; look of a girl at puberty thought to turn things to, x. 46; external soul in a, xi. 125 _n._ 1, 156; precious, external soul of khan in a, xi. 142; magical, put into body of novice at initiation, xi. 271

Stone, the Hairy, at Midsummer, x. 212

——, holed, in magic, to make sunshine, i. 313

——, sacred, used in purification of murderer, i. 26; (_lapis manalis_), used in rain-making at Rome, i. 310, ii. 183

Stone Age in Denmark, ii. 352; agriculture in the, vii. 79, 132

—— -curlew as a cure for jaundice, i. 80

—— knives and arrow-heads used in religious ritual, iii. 228

—— -throwing as a fertility charm, i. 39; at Mecca, rite of, ix. 24; in ancient Greece, ix. 24 _sq._

Stonehaven, the last sheaf called the Bride at, vii. 163

Stones anointed in order to avert bullets from warriors, i. 130; tied to trees to make them bear fruit, i. 140; magical, which cause boils, i. 147; homoeopathic magic of, i. 160 _sqq._; oaths upon, i. 160 _sq._; employed to make fruits and crops grow, i. 162 _sqq._; thrown on grave as a rain-charm, i. 286; rain-making by means of, i. 304 _sqq._, 345, 346; in charms to make the sun shine, i. 312, 313, 314; put in trees to prevent sun from setting, i. 318; placed in trees to indicate height of sun, i. 318; in wind charms, i. 319, 322 _sq._; oiled as a rain-charm, i. 346; human souls conveyed into, iii. 66, 73; ghosts in, iii. 80; on which a man’s shadow should not fall, iii. 80; fastened to last sheaf, vii. 135 _sq._, 138, 139; criminal crushed between, at Mexican harvest-festival, vii. 237; worshipped, viii. 127 _sq._; heaped up near shrines of saints, ix. 21 _sq._; communion by means of, ix. 21 _sq._; thrown at demons, ix. 131, 146, 152; thrown into Midsummer fire, x. 183, 191, 212; placed round Midsummer fires, x. 190; carried by persons on their heads at Midsummer, x. 205, 212; at Hallowe’en fires, divination by, x. 230 _sq._, 239, 240; used for curing cattle, x. 324, 325; magical, inserted by spirits in the body of a new medicine-man, xi. 235

——, the Day of, the day of the new moon in the month of Bhadon (August),