iii. 63;

keep their external souls in animals, xi. 196

Yakuts, their charm to make the wind blow, i. 319; inspired sacrificial victims among the, i. 384; leap over fire after a burial, xi. 18

Yakutsk, rain-making by means of bezoa stones at, i. 305

Yam, island of Torres Straits, heroes worshipped in animal forms in, v. 139 _n._ 1; treatment of girls at puberty in, x. 41

Yam vines, continence observed at the training of, ii. 105 _sq._

Yams, magical stones to promote the growth of, in New Caledonia, i. 163; feast of, at Onitsha on the Niger, iii. 123; charm for the growth of, among the Kai of New Guinea, vii. 100, 101; cultivated in Africa, vii. 119; cultivated in South America, vii. 120, 121; cultivated in New Britain, vii. 123; dug by Australian aborigines, vii. 126 _sq._

——, ceremonies at eating the new, in New Caledonia, viii. 53; in West Africa, viii. 58 _sqq._, ix. 134

——, festivals of the new, in West Africa, viii. 115 _sq._; in Tonga, viii. 128 _sqq._

Yang-Seri, prayers for the crops offered by the Banars of Cambodia to, viii. 33

Yaos, the, of British Central Africa, their fear of being photographed, iii. 97 _sq._; their offerings of first-fruits to the dead, viii. 111 _sq._

Yap (Uap), one of the Caroline Islands, precaution as to the spittle of important people in, iii. 290; taboos observed by men for the sake of immature girls in, iii. 293; prostitution of unmarried girls in, vi. 265 _sq._; seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 36. _See also_ Uap

Yaraikanna, the, of Northern Queens land, seclusion of girls at puberty among, x. 37 _sq._

Yarilo, the funeral of, celebrated in Russia on June 29th, iv. 261, 262 _sq._; a personification of vegetation, v. 253

Yarn, divination by, at Hallowe’en, x. 235, 240, 241, 243; sick children passed through a ring of, xi. 185

Yarra river in Victoria borders the Bad Country, iii. 109; treatment of girls at puberty among the aborigines of the Upper, x. 92 _n._ 1

Yasawu Islands of Fiji, reverence for coco-nuts in the, ii. 12 _sq._

Yassin, king of Fazoql, put to death, iv. 16

Yawning, soul supposed to depart in, iii. 31

Year, beginning of, marked by appearance of Pleiades, vii. 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 315; divided into thirteen moons, viii. 77; burning out the Old, ix. 165, 230 _n._ 7; supposed representatives of the old, ix. 230; called a fire, x. 137. _See also_ New Year

——, the fixed Alexandrian, vi, 28, 49, 92

——, the Caffre, beginning of, marked by festival of new fruits, viii. 64 _sq._

——, the Celtic, reckoned from November 1st, vi. 81

——, the Egyptian, a vague year, not corrected by intercalation, vi. 24 _sq._

——of God, a Sothic period, in ancient Egypt, vi. 36 _n._ 2; began with the rising of Sirius, vi. 35

——, the Great, in ancient Greece, iv. 70

——, the old Iranian, vi. 67

——, the Julian, vi. 28

——, lunar, of old Roman calendar, ix. 232; equated to solar year by intercalation, ix. 325, 342 _sq._

——, the old Roman, began in March, ix. 229

——, the Slavonic, beginning of, ix. 228

——, solar, length of, determined by the Theban priests, vi. 26; intercalation of the, ix. 407 _n._ 1

——, the solar and lunar, early attempts to harmonize, ix. 325 _sq._, 339, 341 _sqq._

——, the Teutonic, reckoned from October 1st, vi. 81

Year-man, the, in Japan, ix. 144

Years, cycle of eight, in ancient Greece, iv. 68 _sqq._, vii. 80 _sqq._; mode of counting the, in Manipur, iv. 117 _n._ 1; named after eponymous magistrates, ix. 39 _sq._

——, the King of the, in Tibet, ix. 220, 221

Yegory or Yury, Russian name for St. George, ii. 332, 333. _See_ St. George

Yehar-baal, king of Byblus, v. 14

Yehaw-melech, king of Byblus, v. 14

Yellow the royal colour among the Malays, i. 362, ix. 187

—— and black, face of human representative of goddess painted, ix. 287

Yellow birds in magic, i. 79 _sq._

—— colour in magic, i. 79 _sqq._

—— Day of Beltane, x. 293

—— Demeter, vii. 41 _sq._

—— River, girls married to the, ii. 152

—— snow, the year of the, x. 294

—— things supposed to cure jaundice, i. 79 _sqq._

Yerkla-mining tribe of South-Eastern Australia, their belief in the contagious magic of wounds, i. 202; the headmen medicine-men in the, i. 336

Yerrunthally tribe of Queensland, their ideas as to falling stars, iv. 64

Yewe order, secret society in Togo, iii. 383

Yezidis, their belief as to New Year’s Day, iv. 117

Yezo or Yesso, Japanese Island, the Ainos of, viii. 180, 185

Yibai, tribal subdivision of the Coast Murring tribe, xi. 236

Yluta, in Mexico, bones of the dead preserved for the resurrection in,