xi. 170;

crawling through a hoop as a cure in, xi. 184; superstitions about a parasitic rowan in, xi. 281

Swedes, the heathen, their mimicry of thunder, i. 248 _n._ 1; sacrifice their kings in times of dearth, i. 366 _sq._

Swedish kings, traces of nine years’ reign of, iv. 57 _sq._

—— peasants stick leafy branches in corn-fields, ii. 47

—— popular belief that certain animals should not be called by their proper names, iii. 397

Sweeping misfortune out of house with brooms, ix. 5

—— out the town, annual ceremony of, ix. 135

Sweet potatoes cultivated in Africa, vii. 117; cultivated in South America, vii. 121; cultivated in Assam, vii. 123; cultivated in New Britain, vii. 123; offering of, to the god of sweet potatoes among the Maoris, viii. 133

Sweethearts of St. John at Midsummer in Sardinia, ii. 92, v. 244 _sq._

Swelling and inflammation thought to be caused by eating out of sacred vessels or by wearing sacred garments, iii. 4

Swiftness in running, charm to ensure, i. 155

Swim or sink, in divination, i. 196; test used to determine a new incarnation, i. 413

Swine, herds of, in ancient Italy, ii. 354; a tabooed word to fishermen, iii. 394, 395; not eaten by people of Pessinus, v. 265; not eaten by worshippers of Adonis, v. 265; not allowed to enter Comana in Pontus, v. 265; souls of the dead in, viii. 296

——, wild, their ravages in the corn, viii. 31 _sqq._ _See also_ Pigs

Swine’s flesh sacramentally eaten, viii. 20, 24; not eaten by worshippers of Attis, viii. 22; not eaten by Egyptian priests, viii. 24 _n._ 2 _See also_ Pig’s flesh _and_ Pork

Swineherds, their horns, ii. 354; forbidden to enter Egyptian temples, viii. 24

Swing in the Sky, the Golden, description of the sun, iv. 279

Swinging, festival of, at Athens, i. 46 _n._ 1; at ploughing rite in Siam, iv. 150, 151, 156 _sq._; as a ceremony or magical rite, iv. 277 _sqq._; on hooks run through the body, Indian custom, iv. 278 _sq._; as a cure for sickness, iv. 279, 280 _sq._; as a mode of inspiration, iv. 280; images as a funeral rite, iv. 282; as a ceremony of purification, iv. 282 _sq._; as a festal rite in modern Greece, Spain, and Italy, iv. 283 _sq._; for good crops, vii. 101, 103, 107

Swiss superstition as to knots in shrouds, iii. 310

Switzerland, the lake-dwellings of, ii. 353; the Corn-goat, Oats-goat, and Rye-goat at harvest in, vii. 283; the Wheat-cow, Corn-cow, Oats-cow, Corn-bull, etc., at harvest in, vii. 289, 291; omens from the cry of the quail in, vii. 295; weather forecasts in, ix. 323; Lenten fires in, x. 118 _sq._; new fire kindled by friction of wood in, x. 169 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, x. 172; the Yule log in, x. 249; need-fire in, x. 279 _sq._, 336; people warned against bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 27; the belief in witchcraft in, xi. 42 _n._ 2; divination by orpine at Midsummer in, xi. 61

Sword, biting a, as a charm, i. 160; girls married to a, v. 61

——, a magical, possessed by Fire King, ii. 5; sacrifices offered to it, ii. 5

Sword-fish thanked for being killed by the Ainos, viii. 251

Swords to frighten evil spirits, i. 186; used to ward off or expel demons, ix. 113, 118, 119, 120, 123, 203; carried by mummers, ix. 245, 251

——, golden, iv. 75

Sycamore at doors on May Day, ii. 60; effigy of Osiris placed on boughs of, vi. 88, 110; sacred to Osiris, vi. 110

Sycamores worshipped in ancient Egypt, ii. 15; sacred among the Gallas, ii. 34

Syene, held by a Roman garrison, iv. 144 _n._ 2; inscriptions at, vi. 35 _n._ 1

Syleus, a Lydian, compelled passers-by to dig in his vineyard, vii. 257 _sq._; killed by Hercules, vii. 258

Sylvan deities in classical art, ii. 45

Symbolism, coarse, of Osiris and Dionysus, vi. 112, 113

Symmachus on the festival of the Great Mother, v. 298

Sympathetic magic, i. 51 _sqq._, iii. 164, 201, 204, 258, 268, 287, iv. 77, vii. 102, 139, viii. 33, 271, 311 _sq._, ix. 399; its two branches, i. 54; examples of, i. 55 _sqq._ _See also_ Magic

—— relation between cleft tree and person who has been passed through it, xi. 170, 171 _n._ 1, 172; between man and animal, xi. 272 _sq._

Sympathy, magical, between a man and severed portions of his person, i. 175, iii. 267 _sq._, 283

Synonyms adopted in order to avoid naming the dead, iii. 359 _sqq._; in the Zulu language, iii. 377; in the Maori language, iii. 381

Syntengs of Assam, iv. 55. _See_ Jaintias

Syracuse, funeral games in honour of Timoleon at, iv. 94; the Blue Spring at, v. 213 _n._ 1

Syrakoi chose as king the man with the longest head, ii. 297

Syria, charm to make fruit-trees bear in, i. 140; oak-tree worshipped in, ii. 16; St. George in, ii. 346, v. 78, 79, 90; belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424; Adonis in, v. 13 _sqq._; “holy men” in, v. 77 _sq._; hot springs resorted to by childless women in, v. 213 _sqq._; subject to earthquakes, v. 222 _n._ 1; the Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice in, v. 303; turning money at the new moon in, vi. 149; bones of sacrificial victim not broken in, viii. 258 _n._ 2; precaution against caterpillars in, viii. 279; stones piled on graves of robbers in, ix. 17; practice of raising cairns near sacred places in, ix. 21; Aphrodite and Adonis in, ix. 386; restrictions on menstruous women in, x. 84

Syrian bridegroom must have no knots on his garments, iii. 300

—— custom of saluting the rising sun, ix. 416

—— god Hadad, v. 15

—— goddess at Hierapolis, hair offered to the, i. 29

—— mother, her vow, iii. 263

—— peasants believe that women can conceive without sexual intercourse, v. 91

—— witch, her procedure described by Lucian, iii. 270

—— women bathe in the Orontes to procure offspring, ii. 160; resort to hot springs to obtain offspring, ii. 161, v. 213 _sqq._; apply to saints for offspring, ii. 346, v. 78, 79, 90, 109

—— writer on the reasons for assigning Christmas to the twenty-fifth of December, v. 304 _sq._

Syrians, their religious attitude to pigs, viii. 23; esteemed fish sacred, viii. 26

Syrmia, the Yule log in, x. 262 _sq._

Syro-Macedonian calendar, iv. 116 _n._ 1, ix. 358 _n._ 1

Szagmanten, in Tilsit district, the last sheaf at harvest called the Old Rye-woman at, vii. 232

Szis, the, of Upper Burma, the Father and Mother of the Paddy (unhusked rice) among, vii. 203 _sq._

_Ta-cul-lies_, native name of the Carrier Indians, iii. 215 _n._ 2

Ta-ta-thi tribe of New South Wales, their mode of making rain by crystals,