i. 210;

eat elephant’s flesh to become strong, viii. 143

Ewes and rams, the time for coupling, ii. 328, 328 _n._ 4

Exaggerations of anthropological theories, i. 333

Exchange of wives at appearance of the Aurora Australis, iv. 267 _n._ 1; of dress between men and women in rites, vi. 259 _n._ 3; of dress at marriage, vi. 260 _sqq._; of dress at circumcision, vi. 263

Exclusion of strangers, iii. 108 _sq._, vii. 94, 111

Excommunication of human scapegoat, ix. 254

Excuses offered by savages to the animals they kill, viii. 222 _sqq._

Execution, peculiar modes of, for members of royal families, iii. 241 _sqq._; Roman mode of, iv. 144; by stoning, ix. 24 _n._ 2

Executioners, their precautions against the ghosts of their victims, iii. 171 _sq._; seclusion and scarification of, iii. 180 _sq._; taste the blood of their victims, viii. 155

Exeter, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337

Exile of gods for perjury, iv. 70 _n._ 1

Exodus (xiii. 1 _sq._, 12, xxii. 29 _sq._, xxxiv. 19), on the sanctification of the first-born, iv. 172

Exogamous clans in the Pelew Islands, vi. 204

—— classes in Duke of York Island, xi. 248 _n._

Exogamy, ii. 271, iv. 130

Exorcising harmful influence of strangers, iii. 102 _sqq._

Exorcism of demons of sickness, iii. 105 _sq._; of ghosts after a funeral, iii. 106 _sq._; of demons by devil dancers, iv. 216; by means of music, v. 54 _sq._; of devils in Morocco, ix. 63; of demons in China, ix. 99; annual, of the evil spirit in Japan, ix. 143 _sq._; of spirits at sowing the seed, ix. 235; Nicobarese ceremony of, ix. 262; of evil spirits at a funeral ceremony, x. 5; and ordeals, x. 66; at Easter, x. 123; of vermin with torches, x. 340; use of St. John’s wort in, xi. 55; use of mugwort in, xi. 60; by vervain, xi. 62 _n._ 4. _See also_ Demons _and_ Expulsion

Exorcists, ix. 2 _sq._, 33

Expiation by means of blood for sexual crimes, ii. 107 _sqq._; for adultery or fornication, ii. 109 _sq._; for incest, ii. 110 _sq._, 115, 116, 129; for violating the sanctity of a grove, ii. 122; for hearing thunder, iii. 14; for contact with a sacred chief, iii. 133 _sq._; for miscarriage in childbed, iii. 153 _sqq._; for bringing an iron tool into the grove of the Arval Brothers, iii. 226; for killing sacred animals, iv. 216 _sq._; for suicide by hanging, iv. 282; for homicide, v. 299 _n._ 2; Roman, for prodigies, vi. 244; for the defilement of the Eleusinian plain, vii. 74; for agricultural operations, vii. 228; for sin, ix. 39. _See also_ Atonement _and_ Purification

Expiatory sacrifices, Greek ritual of, viii. 27

Expulsion of evils, ix. 109 _sqq._; the direct or immediate and the indirect or mediate, ix. 109, 224; occasional, ix. 109 _sqq._, 185 _sqq._; periodic, ix. 123 _sqq._, 198 _sqq._; annual, of demons and witches in Europe, ix. 155 _sqq._, x. 135; of Trows in Shetland, ix. 168 _sq._; of embodied evils, ix. 170 _sqq._; of evils in a material vehicle, ix. 185 _sqq._; of evils timed to coincide with some well-marked change of season, ix. 224 _sq._; of devils timed to coincide with seasons of agricultural year, ix. 225; of hunger at Chaeronea, ix. 252; of winter, ceremony of the, ix. 404 _sq._

External soul in afterbirth or navel-string, i. 200 _sq._; in folk-tales, xi. 95 _sqq._; in folk-custom, xi. 153 _sqq._; in inanimate things, xi. 153 _sqq._; in plants, xi. 159 _sqq._; in animals, xi. 196 _sqq._; kept in totem, xi. 220 _sqq._ _See also_ Souls, external

Extinction of fires on chief’s death, ii. 217; in village or parish before the making of “living fire” or need-fire,