vii. 190

Taunton, expedients for facilitating death at, iii. 309

_Taupes et Mulots_, fire ceremony on Eve of Twelfth Night in the Bocage of Normandy, ix. 317

_Taura_, priest, in Southern Pacific, i. 377, 378

Taurians of the Crimea, their use of the heads of prisoners, v. 294

Tauric Diana, her image brought by Orestes to Italy in a faggot of sticks, i. 10 _sq._; her image only to be appeased with human blood, i. 24

_Taurobolium_, sacrifice of a bull in the rites of Cybele, v. 274 _sqq._; or _Tauropolium_, v. 275 _n._ 1

Taurus, Mount, the Yourouks of, ii. 43

Taurus mountains, pass of the Cilician Gates in the, v. 120

Tavernier, J. B., on the annual expulsion of demons in Tonquin, ix. 148 _n._ 1

Taxation perhaps derived from offerings of first-fruits, viii. 116

Tay, Loch, Hallowe’en fires on, x. 232

Taygetus, Mount, sacrifices to the sun on, i. 315 _sq._

Taylor, Isaac, on the relation of the Italian and Celtic languages, ii. 189 _n._ 3

Taylor, Rev. J. C., on the annual expulsion of evils at Onitsha, ix. 133; on human scapegoat at Onitsha, ix. 211

Taylor, Rev. Richard, on human scapegoats in New Zealand, ix. 39; on the Maori gods, ix. 81

Tcheou dynasty of China, change of calendar under the, x. 137

Tchiglit Esquimaux, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65

Teak, _Loranthus_ on, xi. 317

Teanlas, Hallowe’en fires in Lancashire, x. 245

Tears of Isis thought to swell the Nile, vi. 33; rain thought to be the tears of gods, vi. 33; of human victim signs of rain, vii. 248, 250; of oxen as rain-charm, viii. 10

Teasing animals before killing them, viii. 190

Tebach, bear-festival of the Gilyaks at, viii. 191 _sqq._

_Teberans_, spirits, among the Melanesians of New Britain, i. 340

Teeth, ceremony of knocking out teeth at initiation among the tribes of Australia, i. 97 _sqq._; extraction of teeth in connexion with rain, i. 98 _sq._; tribute of, i. 101; homoeopathic magic of, i. 137; homoeopathic charms to strengthen, i. 153, 157; contagious magic of, i. 176-182; of rats and mice in magic, i. 178 _sqq._; of foxes and kangaroos in sympathetic magic, i. 180; of ancestor in magical ceremony, i. 312; loss of, supposed effect of breaking a taboo, iii. 140; loosened by angry ghosts, iii. 186 _n._ 1; as a rain-charm, iii. 271; extracted, kept against the resurrection, iii. 280; children whose upper teeth appear before the lower exposed, iii. 287 _n._; filed as preliminary to marriage, x. 68 _n._ 2 _See also_ Tooth

Teeth and nails of sacred kings preserved as amulets, ii. 6

Teething, charms to help, i. 180

Tegea, tombstones at, v. 87; Demeter and Persephone worshipped at, vii. 63 _n._ 14

Tegner, Swedish poet, on the burning of Balder, xi. 87

_Tein Econuch_, “forlorn fire,” need-fire, x. 292

_Tein-eigin_ (_teine-eigin_, _tin-egin_), need-fire, in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 147, 148, 289, 291, 293

_Teine Bheuil_, fire of Beul, need-fire, in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 293

Telamon, son of Aeacus, king of Salamis, ii. 278, v. 145

Telchines, the, of Rhodes, legendary magicians, i. 310

Telepathy, magical, i. 119 _sqq._; in hunting and fishing, i. 120 _sqq._; in voyages, i. 126; in war, i. 126 _sqq._

Telephus at Pergamus, rule as to persons who had sacrificed to, viii. 85

Telingana, euphemistic name for snake in, iii. 402

Tell Ta’annek (Taanach), in Palestine, burial of children in jars at, v. 109 _n._ 1

Tell-el-Amarna, the new capital of King Amenophis IV., vi. 123 _n._ 1, 124, 125; tablets, iv. 170 _n._ 5; letters, v. 16 _n._ 5, 21 _n._ 2, 135 _n._

Tellemarken in Norway, cairns to which passers-by add stones in, ix. 14

Teltown, in County Meath, the fair at, iv. 99

Telugu remedy for a fever, ix. 38

Telugus, their way of stopping rain, i. 253; their precaution as to spittle, iii. 289

Tembadere, rain-maker at, ii. 3

Tempe, the Vale of, Apollo purged of the dragon’s blood in, iv. 81, vi. 240

Temple, Sir R. C., on the fear of spirits and ghosts among the Nicobarese, ix. 88

Temple at Jerusalem built without iron, iii. 230

Temple, the Inner and the Middle, Lords of Misrule in the, ix. 333

Temple church, Lord of Misrule in the, ix. 333

Temple-tombs of kings, vi. 161 _sq._, 167 _sq._, 170 _sqq._, 174, 194 _sq._

Temples built in honour of living kings of Babylon, i. 417; built in honour of living kings of Egypt, i. 418; of dead kings in Africa, vi. 161 _sq._, 167 _sq._, 170 _sqq._, 194 _sq._; dedicated to sharks, viii. 292

Temporary king, ix. 403 _sq._; in Cambodia, iv. 148; in Siam, iv. 149 _sqq._, ix. 151

—— kings, taking the place of the real kings for a time, iv. 148 _sqq._; their divine or magical functions, iv. 155 _sqq._

—— reincarnation of the dead in their living namesakes, iii. 371

Ten Thousand, the march of the, iii. 124

Tench, jaundice transferred to a, ix. 52

_Tendi_, Batta word for soul, iii. 45, 263. _See also_ Tondi

Tendo, lagoon of, on the Ivory Coast, souls of dead in bats on the, viii. 287

Tenedos, sacrifice of infants to Melicertes in, iv. 162; human beings torn in pieces at the rites of Dionysus in, vii. 24; calf shod in buskins sacrificed to Dionysus in, vii. 33

Teneriffe, the Guanches of, i. 303

Tengaroeng in Borneo, swinging of priests and priestesses as a mode of inspiration at, iv. 280, 281

Tenggerese of Java, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 _n._ 1; sacrifice to volcano, v. 220; their sham fight at New Year, ix. 184

Tenimber Islands, treatment of the afterbirth in the, i. 186; first-fruits offered to spirits of ancestors in the, viii. 123

—— and Timor-laut Islands, new-born children passed through the smoke of fire in the, ii. 232 _n._ 3

Tenos, the calendar of, viii. 6 _n._

Tent of widow burnt at Midsummer in Morocco, x. 215

Tentyra (Denderah), temple of Osiris at, vi. 86

Teos, public curses in, i. 45 _n._ 7

Tepehuanes of Mexico afraid of being photographed, iii. 97; personal names kept secret among the, iii. 325; their belief as to stepping over persons, iii. 424; their custom of adding sticks or stones to heaps, ix. 10

_Tephrosia_, devil’s shoestring, in homoeopathic magic, i. 144

Termonde in Belgium, Midsummer fires at, x. 194

Terms of relationship used as terms of address, iii. 324 _sq._

Ternate, in the Indian Archipelago, ii. 111; the natives of, names of objects tabooed to them at sea, iii. 414; the sultan of, his sacrifice of human victims to a volcano, v. 220

Tertullian on Christians worshipping each other, i. 407; on the Etruscan crown, ii. 175 _n._ 1; human sacrifices in the lifetime of, iv. 168; on the fasts of Isis and Cybele, v. 302 _n._ 4; on the date of the Crucifixion, v. 306 _n._ 5

Teshu Lama, the, ix. 203

—— Lumbo in Tibet, celebration of Tibetan New Year’s Day at, ix. 203

Teshub or Teshup, name of Hittite god, v. 135 _n._, 148 _n._

Teso, the, of Central Africa, medicine-men dressed as women among the, vi. 257; their use of bells to exorcize fiends, ix. 246 _sq._

Tessier, on the burning wheel at Konz, x. 164 _n._ 1

Test of the reincarnation of the Heavenly Master, i. 413; of virginity by a flame, ii. 239 _sq._, x. 139 _n._ _See also_ Tests

Testicles of rams in the rites of Attis, v. 269 _n._; of bull used in rites of Cybele and Attis, v. 276; of goats eaten by lecherous persons, viii. 142; of brave enemy eaten, viii. 148

Tests of the reincarnation of Grand Lamas, i. 411; of the reincarnation of the dead in the Niger Delta, i. 411 _n._ 1; undergone by girls at puberty, x. 25. _See also_ Test

Têt, New Year festival in Annam, vi. 62

_Tet_ pillar. _See_ _Ded_ pillar

Teti, king of Egypt, mentioned in the Pyramid Texts, vi. 5

Teton Indians, their attempt to deceive the ghosts of the spiders which they kill, viii. 236 _sq._

Tettnang, in Würtemburg, the He-goat at threshing at, vii. 286

Tetzcatlipoca or Tezcatlipoca, great Mexican god, viii. 165, ix. 276; man killed and eaten as the representative of, viii. 92 _sq._; young man annually sacrificed in the character of, ix. 276 _sqq._

Teucer, son of Aeacus, king in Cyprus, ii. 278

—— and Ajax, names of priestly kings of Olba, v. 144 _sq._, 148, 161

——, son of Tarkuaris, priestly king of Olba, v. 151, 157

——, son of Telamon, ii. 278; founds Salamis in Cyprus, v. 145; said to have instituted human sacrifice, v. 146

——, son of Zenophanes, high priest of Olbian Zeus, v. 151

Teucrids, dynasty at Salamis in Cyprus, v. 145

Teutates, Celtic god, xi. 80 _n._ 3

Teutonic kings as priests, i. 47

—— peoples, bride race among the, ii. 303 _sqq._

—— stories of the external soul, xi. 116 _sqq._

—— thunder-god, ii. 364

—— year reckoned from October 1st, vi. 81

Texas, the Tonkawe Indians of, iii. 325; the Toukaway Indians of, xi. 276

Tezcatlipoca. _See_ Tetzcatlipoca

Tezcuco, statue of the god Xipe from, ix. 291 _n._ 1

_Thahu_, curse or pollution, among the Akikuyu, x. 81

Thakombau, Fijian chief, the War King, iii. 21; family who enjoyed the privilege of scratching him, iii. 131

_Thalavettiparothiam_, custom observed in Malabar, a competition for the privilege of being decapitated after a five years’ reign, iv. 52 _sq._

Thales on spirits, ix. 104

Thamus, an Egyptian pilot, and the death of the Great Pan, iv. 6 _sq._

Thanda Pulayans, in India, their notion as to the phosphorescence of the sea, ii. 155 _n._ 1

Thann, in Alsace, the Little May Rose at, ii. 74

Tharafah, on a custom of the heathen Arabs as to a boy’s fallen tooth, i. 181

Thargelia, human scapegoats at the Greek festival of the, ix. 254, 255, 256, 257, 259, 272, 273

Thargelion, Greek harvest month, i. 32, vi. 239 _n._ 1, viii. 8

Thatch of roof, children’s cast teeth deposited in, i. 179; burnt as a charm against witchcraft, ii. 53; shorn hair hidden in, iii. 277

Thays of Indo-China, their offerings of first-fruits to their ancestors,