vii. 115

Tangier, the Barley Bride among the Berbers near, vii. 178

Tangkhuls of Manipur, licence before sowing among the, ii. 100

Tangkul Nagas of Assam, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 57 _sqq._; their tug-of-war, ix. 177

Tani, a god in the Society Islands, first-fruits presented to, viii. 132 _sq._

Tanjore, dancing-girls at, v. 61; the Rajah of, his sins transferred to Brahmans, ix. 44

Tanner, John, and the Shawnee sage, xi. 157

Tanneteya, in Celebes (?), vii. 196 _n._

Tano, a fetish, on the Ivory Coast, viii. 287

Tanoe, River, on the Ivory Coast, viii. 287

_Tantad_, Midsummer bonfire, in Lower Brittany, x. 183

Tantalus, king of Sipylus, ancestor of the Pelopidae, ii. 279; murders his son Pelops, v. 181

Taoism, religious head of, i. 413 _sqq._; defined as “exorcising polytheism,” ix. 99

Taoist treatise on the soul, xi. 221

Tapajos, tributary of the Amazon, the Mauhes on the, x. 62

Taphos besieged by Amphitryo, xi. 103

Tapia, a malignant ghost in San Cristoval, iii. 56

Tapio, woodland god in Finland, ii. 124

Tapir, custom of Indians after killing a, viii. 236

Tapirs, souls of dead in, viii. 285

Tapping a palm-tree for wine in Java, ceremony at, ii. 100 _sq._

Tapuiyas, the, of Brazil, worshipped the Pleiades, vii. 309

Tar as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 53; to keep out ghosts and witches, ix. 153 _n._ 1 _See also_ Pitch

Tar-barrels burnt at Up-helly-a’, in Lerwick, ix. 169; burning, swung round pole at Midsummer, x. 169; burnt at Midsummer among the Esthonians, x. 180; burnt on Hogmanay at Burghead, x. 266 _sq._; procession with lighted, on Christmas Eve in Lerwick, x. 268

Tara, the capital of ancient Ireland, the sun not to rise on the king of Ireland in his bed at, iii. 11; no king with a personal blemish allowed to reign over Ireland at, iv. 39; pagan cemetery at, iv. 101; new fire kindled in spring in the King’s house at, x. 158

Tarahumares of Mexico, their charm to secure victory in race, i. 150; their homoeopathic charm to make them fleet of foot, i. 155; their rain-making by making smoke, i. 249; their rain-charm by dipping a plough in water, i. 284; their worship of water-serpents, ii. 156 _sq._; their belief as to shooting stars, iv. 62; ceremonies performed by them at hoeing, ploughing, and harvest, vii. 227 _sq._; sacrifice to the Master of Fish, viii. 252; their custom of adding sticks or stones to heaps, ix. 10; their dances for the crops, ix. 236 _sqq._

Tarascon, the dragon of, ii. 170 _n._ 1

Tarashchansk district of Russia, rain-making in the, i. 285

Tarbolton, in Ayrshire, annual bonfire at, x. 207

Tari Pennu, Earth Goddess of the Khonds, human sacrifices offered to her for the crops, vii. 245

Tarianas, the, of the Amazon, their custom of drinking the ashes of the dead, viii. 157

Tarija, in Bolivia, Earth-mothers at, vii. 173 _n._

Tark, Tarku, Trok, Troku, syllables in names of Cilician priests, v. 144; perhaps the name of a Hittite deity, v. 147; perhaps the name of the god of Olba, v. 148, 165

Tarkimos, priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 145

Tarkondimotos, name of two Cilician kings, v. 145 _n._ 2

Tarkuaris, priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 145; priestly king of Olba, v. 145

Tarkudimme or Tarkuwassimi, name on Hittite seal, v. 145 _n._ 2

Tarkumbios, priest of Corycian Zeus, v. 145

Tarnow, district of Galicia, wreath made out of last sheaf called the Wheat-mother, Rye-mother, or Pea-mother in, vii. 135

Taro, magical stones to promote the growth of, i. 162; charms for growth of, vii. 100, 102

Taro plants beaten to make them grow, ix. 264

Tarquin the Elder, husband of Tanaquil, ii. 195; succeeded by his son-in-law, ii. 270; his sons, ii. 270 _n._ 3; his descent, ii. 270 _n._ 6; murdered, ii. 320

Tarquin the Proud, sacred precinct on the Alban Mount dedicated by, ii. 187; uncle of L. Junius Brutus, ii. 290; his attempt to shift the line of descent of the Roman kingship, ii. 291 _sq._

Tarquitius Priscus, on unlucky trees, iii. 275 _n._ 3

Tarsus in Cilicia, climate and fertility of, v. 118; school of philosophy at, v. 118; Sandan and Baal at, v. 142 _sq._, 161; priesthood of Hercules at, v. 143; Fortune of the City on coins of, v. 164; divine triad at, v. 171

——, the Baal of, v. 117 _sqq._, 162 _sq._

——, coins of, representing Sandan on the pyre, ix. 388 _n._ 2

——, Sandan of, v. 124 _sqq._, ix. 388, 389, 391, 392

Tartar Khan, ceremony at visiting a, iii. 114

—— stories of the external soul, xi. 142 _sq._, 144 _sq._

Tartars, their belief in living Buddhas incarnate in Grand Lamas, i. 410 _sq._; divine by the shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 _n._ 4; do not break bones of the animals they eat, viii. 258 _n._ 2; after a funeral leap over fire, xi. 18

—— of the Middle Ages, names of the dead not uttered till the third generation among the, iii. 370

Tasmania, the aborigines of, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353

Tasmanians carried fire about with them, ii. 257 _sq._; seem to have changed common words after a death, iii. 364 _n._ 1

_Tat_ or _tatu_ pillar. _See_ Ded pillar

Tate, H. R., on serpent-worship among the Akikuyu, v. 85

Tatia, wife of Numa, ii. 270 _n._ 5

Tatius, king of Rome, succeeded by his son-in-law Numa, ii. 270 and _nn._ 1, 5; the Sabine colleague of Romulus, killed with sacrificial knives, ii. 320

Tattoo-marks, tribal, in Dahomey, v. 74 _n._ 4; of priests in Dahomey, v. 74 _n._ 4; of priests of Attis, v. 278; on slave or prisoner of war, ix. 47

Tattooing in the Punjaub, belief as to, iii. 30; of bride in Fiji, x. 34 _n._ 1; medicinal use of, x. 98 _n._ 1; at initiation, xi. 258, 259, 261 _n._

Tauaré Indians, of the Rio Enivra, eat the ashes of their dead, viii. 157

Taui Islanders, their custom as to a falling star, iv. 61

Taungthu, the, of Upper Burma, their way of securing the soul of the rice,