ii. 199;

sacred serpent in, iv. 87, v. 87

Erechtheus or Erichthonius, and Minerva (Athena), i. 21; king of Athens, the Erechtheum his house, ii. 199; in relation to the sacred serpent on the Acropolis, iv. 86 _sq._, v. 87; identified with Poseidon, iv. 87; voluntary death of the daughters of, iv. 192 _n._ 3; his incest with his daughter, v. 44 _n._ 1; the Eleusinian mysteries instituted in the reign of, vii. 70

Eregh (the ancient Cybistra) in Cappadocia, v. 120, 122

Eresh-Kigal, Babylonian goddess, v. 9

Erfurt, harvest customs in the district of, vii. 136, 221

Ergamenes, king of Meroe, slays the priests, iv. 15

Erhard, Professor A., on the martyrdom of St. Dasius, ii. 310 _n._ 1

_Erica_-tree, Osiris in the, vi. 9, 108, 109

Erichthonius, son of the fire-god Hephaestus, ii. 199. _See_ Erechtheus

Erigone, her suicide by hanging, iv. 281 _sq._

—— and Icarius, first-fruits of vintage offered to, viii. 133

Erin, the king idol of, iv. 183

Eriphyle, the necklace of, v. 32 _n._ 2

Eriskay, fairies at Hallowe’en in, x. 226; salt cake at Hallowe’en in, x. 238 _sq._

Erithasean Apollo, sacred trees in the sanctuary of, ii. 121

Erlangen, the “carrying out of Death” in the villages near, iv. 234

Erman, Professor Adolf, on the confusion of magic and religion in ancient Egypt, i. 230; on Anubis at Abydos, vi. 18 _n._ 3; on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, vi. 91; on the development of Egyptian religion, vi. 122 _n._ 2

_Erme_ or _Nenneri_, gardens of Adonis in Sardinia, v. 244

Errephoroi or Arrephoroi at Athens, ii. 199

Errol, the Hays of, their fate bound up with oak-mistletoe, xi. 283 _sq._

Error of judging savages by European standards, iv. 197 _sq._

Ertingen, in Würtemberg, the Lazy Man on Midsummer Day at, ii. 83; festival of St. George at, ii. 337

Erukhan plant (_Calotropis gigatea_), man married to, in India, ii. 57 _n._ 4

Eruptions of volcanoes supposed to be caused by incest, ii. 111

Erysipelas, fox’s tongue a remedy for, viii. 270

Erzgebirge, Shrovetide custom in the, iv. 208 _sq._; young men and women beat each other with something green at Christmas in the, ix. 271

Esagil or Esagila, temple of Marduk at Babylon, iv. 113, ix. 356

Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, his great inscription, iv. 116

_Escouvion_ or _Scouvion_, the Great and the Little, in Belgium, x. 108

Eshmun, Phoenician deity, v. 111 _n._ 6

Esne, the festal calendar of, vi. 49 _sq._

Esquiline Hill at Rome, its name derived from oaks, ii. 185; the oak groves of the, ii. 320

Esquimaux, their belief as to the sculpin and rain, i. 288; play cat’s cradle to detain the sun, i. 316 _sq._, vii. 103 _n._ 1; play cup-and-ball to hasten the return of the sun, i. 317; their ways of calming the wind, i. 327 _sq._; their conception of the soul, iii. 27; their dread of being photographed, iii. 96; ceremony at the reception of strangers among the, iii. 108; avoid dishes used by women in childbed, iii. 145; their ideas as to the dangerous vapour exhaled by lying-in women, iii. 152; taboos observed by hunters among the Esquimaux after killing sea-beasts, iii. 205 _sq._; use of iron implements tabooed at certain times among the, iii. 228; taboos observed by them after a death, iii. 237; take new names when they are old, iii. 319; unwilling to tell their names, iii. 328; namesakes of the dead among the, iii. 371; their belief that animals understand human speech, iii. 399; suicide among the, iv. 43; their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65; their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 131 _n._; dramatic contest between Winter and Summer among the, iv. 259; their belief in the resurrection of seals, viii. 257; careful not to break bones of deer, viii. 258 _n._ 2; their reluctance to let dogs gnaw the bones of animals, viii. 259; their superstition as to various meats, x. 13 _sq._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 55; ceremony of the new fire among the, x. 134; their custom at eclipses, x. 162 _n._

Esquimaux of Aivilik and Iglulik, magical telepathy among the, i. 121 _sq._

—— of Alaska, taboos observed by women in absence of whalers among the, i. 121; their annual festival of the dead, v. 51 _sq._; their custom at killing a fox, viii. 267; child’s soul deposited in a bag among the, xi. 155

—— of Baffin Land, boys forbidden to play cat’s cradle among the, i. 113; their use of a fox in homoeopathic magic, i. 151; their women in mourning may not mention the names of animals, iii. 399; their custom when a boy has killed his first seal, viii. 257; their expulsion of Sedna, ix. 125 _sq._

—— or Inuit of Bering Strait, iii. 205; manslayers among the, i. 9; their use of magical images, i. 70; their annual festival of bladders, iii. 206 _sq._; drank blood of foes to acquire their bravery, viii. 150; their ceremony of restoring the bladders of dead sea-beasts to the sea, viii. 247 _sqq._; uncleanness of girl at puberty among the, viii. 268 _n._ 4; cut the sinews of bad dead men to prevent their ghosts from walking,