vi. 195

—— kings of Egypt worshipped, i. 418, vi. 160

—— kings of the Shilluk worshipped, iv. 24 _sq._, vi. 161 _sqq._; their spirits thought to possess sick people, iv. 25 _sq._; incarnate in animals, vi. 162, 163 _sq._; sacrifices offered to, vi. 162, 164, 166 _sq._

Dead kings of Sofala, annual obsequies for, iv. 201; consulted as oracles, iv. 201

—— kings of Uganda consulted as oracles, i. 196, iv. 200 _sq._, vi. 167, 171, 172; human sacrifices to, vi. 173

—— man’s hand used in magical ceremony, iv. 267 _n._ 1

—— men believed to beget children, v. 91, 264; mutilated in order to disable their ghosts, viii. 271 _sqq._

—— One, the, name applied to the last sheaf, iv. 254

—— Sea, v. 23

—— Sunday, iv. 239; generally the fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. 221; also called Mid-Lent, iv. 222 _n._ 1

Deane, Mrs. J. H., viii. 319 _n._ 2

Dearth, chiefs and kings punished for, i. 352 _sqq._

Death, pretence of, in magic, i. 84; infection of, i. 143; at ebb tide, i. 167 _sq._; puppet called, carried out of village, ii. 73 _sq._; kept off by arrows, iii. 31; mourners forbidden to sleep in house after a, iii. 37; custom of covering up mirrors at a, iii. 94 _sq._; from imagination, iii. 135 _sqq._; sharp instruments tabooed after a, iii. 237, 238; of the king of the Jinn, iv. 8; preference for a violent, iv. 9 _sqq._; European fear of, iv. 135 _sq._, 146; indifference to, displayed by many races, iv. 136 _sqq._; the “carrying out” of, iv. 221, 233 _sqq._, 246 _sqq._, ix. 227 _sq._, 230, 252, x. 119; conception of, in relation to vegetation, iv. 252, 253 _sq._; in the corn, iv. 254; represented at the maize harvest by a child covered with maize leaves,