iii. 359;

names of the recent dead not mentioned in the, iii. 372; division of work between the sexes in the, vii. 126; their dread of women at menstruation, x. 76

Endle, Rev. S., on the fear of demons among the Kacharis, ix. 93

Endymion and the Moon, i. 18; set his sons to race at Olympia, ii. 299; the sunken sun overtaken by the moon, iv. 90; his tomb at Olympia, iv. 287

Enemies, mutilation of dead, viii. 271 _sq._

Enemy, animal, of god originally identical with god, vii. 23, viii. 16 _sq._, 31

——, charms to disable an, vi. 252

Energy, the conservation of, viii. 226; sanctity and uncleanness, different forms of the same mysterious, x. 97 _sq._

Eneti, in Washington State, rain-charm at, i. 309

Englam-Mana, a tribe of New Guinea, their mode of making fire, ii. 254

England, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 168; custom of anointing the weapon instead of the wound in the eastern counties of, i. 203; green branches and flowers on May Day in the north of, ii. 60; May garlands in, ii. 60 _sqq._; the May Queen in, ii. 87; rolling down a slope on May Day in, ii. 103; oak and fir in the sunken forests and peat-bogs of, ii. 351; acorns eaten in, ii. 356; mirrors covered after a death in, iii. 95; harvest custom in, v. 237; the Feast of All Souls in, vi. 78 _sq._; superstitions as to the wren in, viii. 317 _sq._; mummer called the Straw-bear in, viii. 328 _sq._; cure for warts in, ix. 48; the King of the Bean in, ix. 313; fires kindled on the Eve of Twelfth Day in, ix. 318; the Festival of Fools in, ix. 336 _n._ 1; the Boy Bishop in, ix. 337 _sq._; belief as to menstruous women in, x. 96 _n._ 1; Midsummer fires in, x. 196 _sqq._; the Yule log in, x. 255 _sqq._; the need-fire in, x. 286 _sqq._; Midsummer giants in, xi. 36 _sqq._; divination by orpine at Midsummer in, xi. 61; fern-seed at Midsummer in, xi. 65; the north of, mistletoe used to make the dairy thrive in, xi. 85 _sq._; birth-trees in, xi. 165; children passed through cleft ash-trees as a cure for rupture or rickets in, xi. 168 _sqq._; oak-mistletoe in, xi. 316

English cure for whooping-cough, rheumatism, and boils, xi. 180

—— custom of undoing locks and bolts at a death, iii. 307

—— kings touch for scrofula, i. 368 _sqq._

—— middle class, their clinging to life, iv. 146

—— superstition as to water-fairies, iii. 94

Enigmas, ceremonial use of, ix. 121 _n._ 3. _See_ Riddles

Ἐννέωρος βασίλευε, iv. 70 _n._ 3

Enniskerry, near Dublin, Whit-Monday custom observed near, ii. 103 _n._ 3

Ennius, on Hora and Quirinus, vi. 233

Ensanzi, a forest of Central Africa, dead Bahima kings carried to, viii. 288

Ensival, in Belgium, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 108

_Entellus_ monkey, sacrifice of an, ix. 208 _sq._

Entlebuch in Switzerland, expulsion of Posterli at, ix. 214

Entraigues, hunting the wren at, viii. 321

Entrails of cattle tabooed as food, i. 119; divination by the inspection of, i. 344; external soul in, xi. 146 _sq._, 152

“Entry of Osiris into the moon,” vi. 130

Enylus, king of Byblus, v. 15 _n._

Ephesus, Artemis of, i. 7, 37 _sq._, ii. 128, v. 269; titular kings at, i. 47; the Essenes or King Bees at, ii. 135 _sq._; Hecate at, v. 291; the priesthood of Apollo and Artemis at, vi. 243 _sq._; Demeter worshipped at, vii. 63 _n._ 14

Ephors, Spartan, bound to observe the sky for omens every eighth year, iv. 58 _sq._

_Epic of Kings_, Firdusi’s, x. 104

Epicurus, sacrifices offered to, i. 105

Epidaurus, Aesculapius at, v. 80, ix. 47; Demeter worshipped at, vii. 63 _n._ 14

Epidemic, creeping through a tunnel as a remedy for an, x. 283 _sq._

Epidemics thought to be caused by incest, ii. 108; attributed to evil spirits, iii. 30; sacrifices in times of, iv. 176 _n._ 1; attributed to demons, ix. 111 _sqq._; kept off by means of a plough, ix. 172 _sq._; sent away in toy chariots, ix. 193 _sq._

Epilepsy, supposed cause of, iii. 83; attributed to possession by a demon, iii. 235; transferred to leaves, ix. 2; Highland treatment of, ix. 68 _n._ 2; Roman cure for, ix. 68; nails used in cure for, ix. 68, 330; Hindoo cure for, ix. 69 _n._; cured by beating, ix. 260; amulet a protection against, ix. 331; yellow mullein a protection against, xi. 63; mistletoe a cure for, xi. 78, 83, 84. _See also_ Falling sickness

Epimenides, the Cretan seer, his rambling soul, iii. 50 _n._ 2

Épinal, “killing the dog” at harvest at, vii. 272 _sq._; Lenten fires at, x. 109

Epiphany, the 6th of January, v. 305; part of Christmas Boar given to cattle on, vii. 302; annual expulsion of the powers of evil at, ix. 165 _sqq._; the King of the Bean on, ix. 313 _sqq._ _See also_ Twelfth Night

Epirus, the kings of, their bones scattered by Lysimachus, vi. 104; the Athamanes of, vii. 129

Epitherses and the death of the Great Pan, iv. 6

Epithets applied to Demeter, vii. 63 _sq._

Eponymate, the Assyrian, iv. 116 _sq._

Eponymous magistrates, iv. 117 _n._ 1

Eponyms, annual, as scapegoats, ix. 39 _sqq._

Equinox, the autumnal, Egyptian festival of “the nativity of the sun’s walking-stick” after the, i. 312

——, the spring (vernal), festival at Upsala at, ii. 364; Babylonian festival of the, iv. 110; drama of Summer and Winter at, iv. 257; custom of swinging at, iv. 284; resurrection of Attis at, v. 273, 307 _sq._; date of the Crucifixion assigned to, v. 307; tradition that the world was created at, v. 307; human sacrifice offered soon after, vii. 239; festival of Cronus at, ix. 352; Persian marriages at, ix. 406 _n._ 3

Equos, a Gallic month, ix. 343 _n._

Erech, Babylonian city, Ishtar at, ix. 398, 399

Erechtheum, on the Acropolis of Athens, perpetual lamp of Athena in the,