vii. 88;

Varro on the rites of, vii. 88

Eleutherian games at Plataea, vii. 80

Elfin race averse to iron, iii. 232 _sq._

Elgin, medical use of mistletoe in, xi. 84

Elgon, Mount, ix. 246; the Bagishu of, i. 103

Eli, the sons of, their loose conduct, v. 76

Elijah as a rain-maker, i. 258 _n._ 3; patch of rye left at harvest for, vii. 233

Elipandus of Toledo, on the divinity of Christians, i. 407

Elis, titular kings at, i. 46 _n._; Dionysus hailed as a bull by the women of, vii. 17; the ivory shoulder of Pelops at, viii. 263 _sq._

——, law of, ix. 352 _n._ 2

Elisha prophesies to music, v. 53, 54; finds water in the desert, v. 53, 75

Elizabeth, Queen, touches for scrofula, i. 368

Elk, a totem of the Omahas, viii. 25; treated with respect, viii. 240; embryos of, not eaten, viii. 243

Elk clan of the Omaha Indians, their belief as to effect of touching an elk, viii. 29; their sacred clam shell, x. 11

Ellgoth, in Silesia, the King’s Race at Whitsuntide at, ii. 84

Elliot, R. H., on Indian indifference to death, iv. 136

Ellis, A. B., on Ewe superstition as to eating, iii. 116; on the supposed material connexion between a man and his name, iii. 323; on sacred prostitution in West Africa, v. 65 _sq._, 69 _sq._; on tattoo marks of priests, v. 74 _n._ 4; on an ordeal of chastity, v. 115

Ellis, William, on the inspiration of priests in the Southern Pacific, i. 377 _sq._; on the observation of the Pleiades in the Society Islands, vii. 312; on _faditras_ in Madagascar, ix. 33 _sq._; on Polynesian mythology, ix. 80

Ellwangen, in Würtemberg, the Goat at threshing at, vii. 287

Elm wood in the pile-dwellings of the Po, ii. 353; used to kindle need-fire, x. 299

Elopango, in Mexico, human sacrifices at, vii. 237

Eloquence, homoeopathic charms to ensure, i. 156

Elpenor, the grave of, on the headland of Circe, ii. 188

Elves, fear of, iii. 283

Elymais, Nanaea the goddess of, i. 37 _n._ 2

Emain, in Ireland, annual fair at, iv. 100

—— Macha, in Ireland, pagan cemetery at, iv. 101

Embalming, flight and pursuit of man who opened body for purpose of, ii. 309 _n._ 2; as a means of prolonging the life of the soul, iv. 4; dead bodies of kings of Uganda embalmed, vi. 168

Embers of bonfires planted in fields, x. 117, 121; stuck in cabbage gardens, x. 174, 175; promote growth of crops, x. 337. _See also_ Ashes _and_ Sticks, charred

—— of Midsummer fires a protection against conflagration, x. 188; a protection against lightning, x. 190

_Emblica officinalis_, a sacred tree in Northern India, ii. 51

Embodied evils, expulsion of, ix. 170 _sqq._

Embodiment, human, of the corn-spirit, viii. 333

Emboq Sri, rice-bride in Java, vii. 200 _sq._

Embryos of elk not eaten, viii. 243

Emesa, sun-god Heliogabalus at, v. 35

Emetic as mode of purification, iii. 175, 245; pretended, in auricular confession, iii. 214

Emetics used before eating new corn, viii. 73, 75 _sq._, 76, 135; sacred, employed by the Creek Indians, viii. 74; as remedies for sins, ix. 263

Emily plain of Central Australia, xi. 238

Emin Pasha, on the Monbutto custom of lengthening the head, ii. 297 _n._ 7; his reception in a village, iii. 108

Emma, widow of Ethelred and wife of Canute, ii. 282 _sq._

Emmenthal, in Switzerland, superstition as to Midsummer Day in the, xi. 27; use of orpine at Midsummer in the, xi. 62 _n._

Empedocles, his claim to divinity, i. 390; leaps into the crater of Etna, v. 181; his doctrine of transmigration, viii. 300 _sqq._; his resemblance to Buddha, viii. 302; his theory of the material universe like that of Herbert Spencer, viii. 303 _sqq._; as a forerunner of Darwin, viii. 306; his posing as a god, viii. 307

Emperor of China, funeral of an, v. 294

Emperors of China as priests, i. 47

Emu-wren, called men’s “brother” among the Kurnai, xi. 215 _n._ 1, 216, 218

Emu’s flesh eaten to make eater swift-footed, viii. 145; fat not allowed to touch the ground, x. 13

Emus, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 85 _sq._

En, the, of Burma, worship the spirits of hills and trees, ii. 41

_En gidon_, a Masai clan, i. 343

En-jemusi, the, of British East Africa, women’s work among the, vii. 118

Ἐναγίζειν distinguished from Θύειν, v. 316 _n._ 1

Enchanters of crops, foods forbidden to, vii. 100

Encheleans or Eel-men in Illyria, iv. 84

Encounter Bay tribe of South Australia, magic practised on refuse of food by, iii. 127; their fear of women’s blood, iii. 251; namesakes of the dead change their names in the, iii. 355; changes in their vocabulary caused by their fear of naming the dead,