viii. 142;

their charm for attaining old age, viii. 143; their inoculation, viii. 160 _sq._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 22, 30; fumigate their gardens with medicated smoke, x. 337; their custom of fumigating sick cattle, xi. 13; their belief as to ancestral spirits incarnate in serpents, xi. 211

Zülz, in Silesia, Midsummer fires at, x. 170

Zündel, G., on demonolatry in West Africa, ix. 74 _sqq._

Zungu tribe of Zulus, special words used by them in order to avoid mentioning the name of their chief, iii. 376

Zuni Indians of New Mexico, their custom of killing sacred turtles, viii. 175 _sqq._, ix. 217; their totem clans, viii. 178; their ritual at the summer solstice to ensure rain, viii. 179; their new fires at the solstices, xi. 132 _sq._; use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 230 _n._, 231

Zürcher Oberland, Switzerland, charm to make a cherry-tree bear in, i. 141

Zurich, effigies of Winter burnt after the spring equinox at, iv. 260 _sq._, x. 120; the Canton of, the Corn-mother in, vii. 232; the Thresher-cow at threshing in, vii. 291; the last sheaf called the Fox in, vii. 297

_Zygadenus elegans_, Pursch., roots of, inserted in eyes of dead grouse by father of pubescent girl among the Thompson Indians, viii. 268

_Zytniamatka_, the Corn-mother, represented by a woman who pretends to give birth to the Corn-baby on the harvest field (Prussian custom), vii. 209

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Works by Sir J. G. Frazer, D.C.L., LL.D.

The Golden Bough

A Study In Magic And Religion

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