i. 279

Stones, holed, custom of childless women passing through, v. 36, xi. 187; to commemorate the dead, vi. 203; sick people passed through, xi. 186 _sqq._

——, precious, homoeopathic magic of, i. 164 _sq._

——, sacred, anointed, v. 36; among the Semites, v. 107 _sqq._; among the Khasis, v. 108 _n._ 1 _See also_ Churinga

—— and sticks, evil transferred to, ix. 8 _sqq._; piled on the scene of crimes, ix. 13 _sqq._ _See also_ Throwing

Stoning, execution by, ix. 24 _n._ 2

Stoning human scapegoats, ix. 253, 254

Stool at installation of Shilluk kings, iv. 24

Stoole, near Downpatrick, Midsummer ceremony at, x. 205

_Stopfer_, maskers in Switzerland, ix. 239

Storeroom (_penus_), sacred, ii. 205 _sq._

Stories told as charms, vii. 102 _sqq._

Storm fiend exorcized by bells, ix. 246 _sq._

Storms, Catholic priests thought to possess the power of averting, i. 232; thought to be caused by the spirits of the dead, ii. 183; caused by cutting or combing the hair, ii. 271, 282

Stourton, in Warwickshire, the Queen of May at, ii. 88

Stout, Professor G. F., on an argument for immortality, viii. 261 _n._ 1

Stow, in Suffolk, witch at, i. 210

Stow, John, on Lords of Misrule, quoted, ix. 331 _sq._; on Midsummer fires in London, x. 196 _sq._

Strabo, on a marriage custom of the Samnites, ii. 305; on the use of acorn-bread in Spain, ii. 355; on the concubines of Ammon, v. 72; on Albanian moon-god, v. 73 _n._ 4; on Castabala, v. 168 _n._ 6; his description of the Burnt Land of Lydia, v. 193; on the frequency of earthquakes at Philadelphia, v. 195; his description of Rhodes, v. 195 _n._ 3; on Nysa, v. 206 _n._ 1; on the priests of Pessinus, v. 286; on the Sacaea, ix. 355, 369, 402 _n._ 1; on the sacred slaves at Comana, ix. 370 _n._ 4; on the worship of the goddess Ma at Comana, ix. 421 _n._ 1; on the sanctuary at Zela, ix. 421 _n._ 1; on the Hirpi Sorani, xi. 14; on the human sacrifices of the Celts, xi. 32

Strack, H. L., on the accusations of ritual murder brought against the Jews, ix. 395 _n._ 3

Strackerjan, L., on fear of witchcraft in Oldenburg, x. 343 _n._

Strange land, ceremonies at entering a, iii. 109 _sqq._

Strangers, taboos on intercourse with, iii. 101 _sqq._; suspected of practising magical arts, iii. 102; ceremonies at the reception of, iii. 102 _sqq._; dread of, iii. 102 _sqq._; spells cast by, iii. 112; killed, iii. 113; excluded from religious rites, vii. 94, 111, 187, 249; slain as representatives of the corn-spirit, vii. 217; regarded as representatives of the corn-spirit, vii. 225 _sqq._, 230 _sq._, 253; preferred as human victims, vii. 242

Strangulation as a mode of executing royal criminals, iii. 242, 243

Strap of wolf’s hide used by were-wolves, x. 310 _n._ 1

Strata of religion and society, viii. 36 _sq._

Strath Fillan, the harvest _Cailleach_ (Old Wife) in, vii. 166

Strathpeffer, in Ross-shire, Beltane bannocks near, x. 153

Strathspey, sheep passed through a hoop of rowan on All Saints’ Day and Beltane in, xi. 184

Stratification of religion according to types of society, viii. 35 _sqq._; of religious beliefs among the Malays, ix. 90 _n._ 1

Stratonicea in Caria, eunuch priest at, v. 270 _n._ 2; rule as to the pollution of death at, vi. 227 _sq._

Straubing, in Lower Bavaria, the Corn-goat at cutting the last corn at,