ii. 364;

his hammers, i. 248 _n._ 1; fought for Balder, x. 103

Thorn, external soul in a, xi. 129; mistletoe on a, xi. 291 _n._ 3

Thorn-bushes as charms against witches, ii. 338; to keep off ghosts, iii. 142, xi. 174 _sq._

Thorns, wreaths of, hung up as a sign to warn off strangers, ix. 140

Thorny branches used to keep out witches, ix. 161

—— shrubs, a protection against witches, ii. 338

Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom, at the marriage of the Queen of Egypt to Ammon, ii. 131; how he added five days to the Egyptian year, vi. 6; teaches Isis a spell to restore the dead to life, vi. 8; restores the eye of Horus, vi. 17; how he outwitted the Sun-god Ra, ix. 341

Thoth, the first month of the Egyptian year, vi. 36, 93 _sqq._

Thothmes I., king of Egypt, the god Ammon in the likeness of, ii. 131, 132

—— IV., king of Egypt, the god Ammon in the likeness of, ii. 131, 132

Thought, the web of, xi. 307 _sq._

Thrace, the Edonians of, i. 366; the grave of Ares in, iv. 4; worship of Dionysus in, vii. 3; the Bacchanals of, vii. 17; modern Carnival customs in, vii. 25 _sqq._, viii. 331 _sqq._; Abdera in, ix. 254

Thracian gods ruddy and blue-eyed, iii. 387

—— villages, custom at Carnival in, vi. 99 _sq._

Thracians threatened the thunder-god, ii. 183 _n._ 2; funeral games held by the, iv. 96; their contempt of death, iv. 142

Thrashing people to do them good, ix. 262 _sqq._ _See also_ Beating _and_ Whipping

Thread, red, in popular cure, ix. 55

—— or string used to tie soul to body, iii. 32 _sq._, 43, 51

Threads hung on trees, ii. 34; knotted, in magic, iii. 303, 304 _sq._, 307; used to transfer illnesses to trees, ix. 55

——, red, tied to cattle as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 336

Threatening the thunder god, ii. 183 _n._ 2

—— the spirits of fruit-trees, ii. 20 _sqq._, x. 114

Three days, taboos observed for, at bringing home the Soul of the Rice, vii. 198 _sq._

—— Holy Kings, the divining-rod baptized in the name of the, xi. 68

—— Kings on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 _sqq._

—— knots in magic, iii. 304, 305

—— leaps over bonfire, x. 214, 215

—— years, chief killed at end of reign of, iv. 113. _See also_ Thrice

Thresher tied up in last sheaf, vii. 134, 147, 148; of last sheaf treated as an animal, vii. 271

—— of the last corn called the Corn-pug, vii. 273; called Goat or Oats-goat, vii. 286; called the Cow, vii. 291; called the Bull, vii. 291; called the Sow, vii. 298, 299; disguised as a wolf, viii. 327

Threshers, contests between, vii. 147 _sqq._, 218, 219 _sq._, 221 _sq._, 223 _sq._, 253; pretend to throttle or thresh people on threshing-floor, vii. 149 _sq._, 230; tied in straw and thrown into water, vii. 224 _sq._

Thresher-cow, name given to man who threshes the last corn, in the Canton of Zurich, vii. 291

Threshing, customs at, vii. 134, 147 _sqq._, 203, 221 _sq._, 223, 223 _sq._, 225 _sq._, 230, 271, 273, 274 _sq._, 277, 281, 286 _sq._, 290 _sqq._, 297, 298 _sq._; contests in, vii. 218 _sqq._; corn-spirit killed at, vii. 291 _sq._

—— in Attica, date of, viii. 4

—— in Greece, date of, vii. 62

Threshing-dog, name given to man who gives the last stroke with the flail,