viii. 121;

their worship of spirits, ix. 97 _sq._; their customs after a burial, xi. 177 _sq._

Theal, G. McCall, on the worship of ancestors among the Bantus, vi. 176 _sq._; on fear of demons among the Bantu tribes of South Africa, ix. 77 _sq._

Theban priests, in Egypt, their determination of the solar year, vi. 26

Thebes, the Boeotian, grave of Eteocles and Polynices at, ii. 33; the women of, muffled their faces, iii. 122; festival of the Laurel-bearing at, iv. 78 _sq._, 88 _sq._, vi. 241; founded by Cadmus, iv. 88; stone lion at, v. 184 _n._ 3; grave of Dionysus at, vii. 14; Dionysus torn to pieces at, vii. 14, 25; the Thesmophoria at, viii. 17 _n._ 2; effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 130 _sq._

Thebes in Egypt, temple of the sun-god at, i. 67 _sq._; the human consort of Ammon at, ii. 130 _sq._; priestly dynasty at, ii. 134; high priests of Ammon at, ii. 134; priestly kings of, iii. 13; temple of Ammon at, v. 72; the Memnonium at, vi. 35 _n._; the Valley of the Kings at, vi. 90; annual sacrifice of ram to Ammon at, viii. 41, 172

_Theckydaw_, annual expulsion of demons in Tonquin, ix. 147 _sq._

Theddora tribe of South-East Australia ate the hands and feet of their foes, viii. 151

Theebaw, king of Burma, his relations beaten to death, iii. 242

Theias, a Syrian king, father of Adonis, v. 43 _n._ 4, 55 _n._ 4

Theism late in human history, vi. 41

_Then_, spirits, among the Thay of Indo-China, ix. 97

_Thensae_, sacred cars at the Circensian games in Rome, ii. 175 _n._ 1

Theocracies in America, iii. 6

Theocracy, government by human gods, i. 386; in the Pelew Islands, tendency to, vi. 208

Theocritus, witch in, i. 206; on an image of Demeter, vii. 43; on the harvest-home in Cos, vii. 46 _sq._

Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, his denunciation of a heathen practice, xi. 190 _sq._

Theodosius and Honorius, decree of, against the burning of effigies of Haman by the Jews, ix. 392

_Theogamy_, divine marriage, ii. 121

Theology distinguished from religion, i. 223; the gods at first mortal in Brahman, i. 373 _n._ 1; vague thought of a crude, iii. 3 _n._; cruel ritual diluted into a nebulous, ix. 411

Theophrastus, on the woods of Latium, ii. 188; on the woods used by the Greeks in kindling fire, ii. 251; on the artificial fertilization of fig-trees, ii. 314 _n._ 2; on the flowering of squills, vii. 53 _n._ 1; on the custom of ploughing the land thrice, vii. 73 _n._ 1; on the different kinds of mistletoe, xi. 317

Theopompus, on sexual communism among the Etruscans, ii. 207; wins prize of eloquence at Halicarnassus, iv. 95; on the names of the seasons, vi. 41

Theory of sacrifice, the Brahmanical, ix. 410 _sq._; solar theory of the European fire-festivals, x. 329, 331 _sqq._; purificatory theory of the European fire-festivals, x. 329 _sq._, 341 _sqq._

Thera, worship of the Mother of the Gods in, v. 280 _n._ 1

Therapia, near Constantinople, effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x. 131

Thermopylae, the Spartans at, v. 197 _n._ 1; the hot springs of, v. 210 _sqq._

Theseus offers his hair to Apollo at Delphi, i. 28

—— and Ariadne, iv. 75

—— and Hippolytus, i. 19

Thesmophoria, ancient Greek festival celebrated by women in October, viii. 17 _sqq._; release of prisoners at the, iii. 316; chastity of women at the, v. 43 _n._ 4, vii. 116; sacrifice of cakes and pigs to serpents at the, v. 88, viii. 17 _sq._; pine-cones at the, v. 278; fast of the women at the, vi. 40 _sq._; seeds of pomegranates not eaten at the, vii. 14; indecencies at the, vii. 63; descent and ascent of Persephone at the, viii. 17; its analogy with folk-customs of Northern Europe, viii. 20 _sq._

Thessalian witch, her love-charm, iii. 270; consulted by Sextus Pompeius, iii. 390

Thessalians, their festival of the Peloria, resembling the Saturnalia, ix. 350

Thessaly, kings of, i. 47 _n._; rain-making among the Greeks of, i. 272 _sq._; Crannon in, i. 309

Thetis and her infant son, how she tried to make him immortal by fire, v. 180

Thevet, F. A., on the importance of medicine-men among the Indians of Brazil, i. 358 _sq._

Thief wears a toad’s heart to escape detection, x. 302 _n._ 2. _See also_ Thieves

Thief’s charm among the South Slavs, i. 153; garments beaten instead of thief, i. 206 _sq._; name boiled, iii. 331

Thiers, J. B., on the Yule log, x. 250; on gathering herbs at Midsummer, xi. 45 _n._ 1; on belief concerning wormwood, xi. 61 _n._ 1

Thieves, transmigration of souls of, into animals, viii. 299; detected by divining-rod, xi. 68

Thieves’ candles, i. 148, 149, 236

Thigh, sinew of the, customs and myths as to, viii. 264 _sqq._

Thighs of diseased cattle cut off and hung up as a remedy, x. 296 _n._ 1

Things, homoeopathic magic of inanimate, i. 157 _sqq._; tabooed, iii. 224 _sqq._

Thinis, in Egypt, the mummy of Anhouri at, iv. 4 _sq._

Thiodolf, the poet, on King Aun’s sacrifice of his sons at Upsala, iv. 161

Third marriage regarded as unlucky, ii. 57 _n._ 4

Thirst, transference of, in ancient Hindoo ritual, ix. 38

Thirty years, the Sed festival held nominally at intervals of, vi. 151

—— years’ cycle of the Druids, xi. 77

—— Years’ War, plague during the, ix. 64

Thistles, as a charm to keep off witches, ii. 339, 340

Thlinkeet or Tlingit Indians, the, viii. 253; think that stormy weather may be caused by combing hair, iii. 271. _See_ Tlingit

—— shamans, their use of the tongues of otters and eagles, viii. 270

Thomas, N. W., as to the doctrine of souls among the Angass, xi. 210 _n._ 2

Thomas, W. E., on human god of the Makalakas, i. 394 _n._ 3

Thomas the Rhymer, verses ascribed to, on the mistletoe at Errol, xi. 283 _sq._

Thompson Indians of British Columbia, ceremonies performed by girls at puberty among the, i. 70; dances of women during absence of warriors among the, i. 132 _sq._; their custom as to children’s cast teeth, i. 181; their treatment of the navel-string, i. 197; their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212; their way of stopping rain, i. 253; their beliefs and customs concerning twins, i. 264 _sq._; their belief as to the loon and rain, i. 288; their superstition as to killing a frog, i. 293; their reverence for sunflower roots, ii. 13; the fire-drill of the, ii. 208; their custom of not sleeping the night after a death, iii. 37 _sq._; recovery of lost souls by shamans among the, iii. 57 _sq._; think that the setting sun draws away men’s souls, iii. 65; their fear of witchcraft at meals, iii. 117; customs of mourners among the, iii. 142 _sq._; their custom after killing an enemy, iii. 181; their continence and other observances before hunting, iii. 198; their disposal of their loose hair, iii. 278 _sq._; burned their nail-parings for fear of witchcraft, iii. 282; their children may not name the coyote in winter, iii. 399; their ceremonies before eating the first berries or roots of the season, viii. 81 _sq._; offered first berries of season to the earth or the mountains, viii. 133 _sq._; will not eat the fool-hen lest they grow foolish, viii. 140; their belief in the assimilation of men to their guardian animals, viii. 207; their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 226; their superstitions in regard to killing deer, viii. 242; custom observed by man whose daughter has just reached puberty among the, viii. 268; their charms against ghosts, ix. 154 _n._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 49 _sqq._; their dread of menstruous women, x. 89 _sq._; prayer of adolescent girl among the, x. 98 _n._ 1; supposed invulnerability of initiated men among the, xi. 275 _sq._; their ideas as to wood of trees struck by lightning, xi. 297

Thomsdorf, in Germany, story of an immortal girl told at, x. 99

Thomson, Basil, on circumcision in Fiji, xi. 244 _n._ 1; on the _Nanga_ in Fiji, xi. 244 _n._ 2

Thomson, Joseph, on the fear of photography among the Wa-teita, iii. 98

Thonga, Bantu tribe of South Africa, their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82; their presentation of infants to the moon, vi. 144 _sq._; worship of the dead among the, vi. 180 _sq._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 29 _sq._; will not use the wood of trees struck by lightning, xi. 297; think lightning caused by a bird, xi. 297 _n._ 5. _See also_ Ba-Thonga

Thonga chiefs buried secretly, vi. 104 _sq._

Thongs, legends as to new settlements enclosed by, vi. 249 _sq._

Thor, the Norse thunder god, equivalent to the Teutonic Donar or Thunar,