iii. 331

Galatian senate met in Drynemetum, “the sacred oak grove” or “the temple of the oak,” ii. 363, xi. 89

Galatians, their worship of the oak, ii. 126; their Celtic language, ii. 126 _n._ 2, xi. 89 _n._ 2

Galela, dread of women at menstruation in, x. 79

Galelareese of Halmahera, hunter’s magic among the, i. 110; fisherman’s magic among the, i. 113; telepathy in war among the, i. 130; taboos on pregnant women among the, i. 141 _n._ 1; their belief in the homoeopathic magic of fruits and vegetables, i. 143, 145; homoeopathic magic of the dead among the, i. 147 _sq._; their charm made from the ashes of spiders, i. 152; their superstition as to the sharpening of a knife, i. 158; their superstition as to the tide, i. 167; their treatment of the navel-string, i. 186; their contagious magic of footprints, i. 208; their way of deceiving the fruit of the _aren_ palm, ii. 22; their superstition as to felling the last tree of a wood, ii. 38; their belief that incest causes heavy rain, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, ii. 111; abduction of souls among the, iii. 60; their superstition as to a child who resembles his father, iii. 88; their superstition as to mirrors, iii. 93; their taboos as to stepping over things, iii. 423; as to human sacrifices to volcanoes, v. 220; their belief as to a bird croaking among rice in ear, vii. 296; their custom of burying the stem of a banana-tree with the dead, viii. 97; their rites of initiation, xi. 248

Galelareese charm to make a fruit-tree bear, i. 142; to strengthen teeth, i. 157

—— sailors at sea, words tabooed to, iii. 414

Galicia, the Ruthenians of, their charm to increase a cow’s milk, i. 198; witches on St. George’s Day in, ii. 335; the Wheat-mother, Rye-mother, and Pea-mother in, vii. 135; the harvest Cock in, vii. 277

Galingale, flowers of, used to strike women or girls in Mexico, ix. 288

Gall of eagle in homoeopathic magic, i. 154; of sheep in rain-making, i. 290; of ox in rain-making, i. 291; of ox, man-slayers anointed with, iii. 172, 175; of sacrificial bull drunk by king and people, viii. 68 _n._ 3; of enemies drunk, viii. 152

Gall-bladders, the seat of courage, viii. 145 _sq._

Gall, village in Yap, bananas tabooed as food at, iii. 293 _n._ 2

Gallas, kings of the, i. 48; their magical use of tortoises, i. 151; their treatment of the navel-string, i. 195; inspired women among the, i. 395 _sq._; sacred trees of the, ii. 34; dance round sacred trees, ii. 47; their perpetual fires, ii. 261; their king not allowed to fight, iii. 13 _n._ 5; sacrifice to the guardian spirits of their slain foes, iii. 166 _n._ 2; their worship of serpents, v. 86 _n._ 1; their communion with the dead through food, viii. 154; will not eat the flesh of the biceps, viii. 266 _n._ 1; cut out the tongues of animals, viii. 270; their mode of expelling fever, ix. 121; annual period of licence among the, ix. 226 _n._ 1; their story of the origin of death, ix. 304

Gallas, the Borâna, custom observed by manslayers among the, iii. 186 _n._ 1

Galli, the emasculated priests of Attis, v. 266, 283

Gallic Councils, their prohibition of carrying torches, x. 199

—— recklessness of life, iv. 143

Galloway, “cutting the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 279

Gallows Hill, witches dance on the, on Walpurgis Night, ix. 162; magical plants gathered on the, xi. 57

—— -rope used to kindle need-fire, x. 277

Galton, Sir Francis, on European fear of death, iv. 146 _n._ 2; on the vale of the Adonis, v. 29

Galway, County, Candlemas custom in, ii. 95 _n._

Gambling allowed during three days of the year in Siam, ix. 150

Game, dead, in certain cases not brought into house through door, viii. 256, 256 _n._ 1. _See also_ Door

Game law of the Njamus, vi. 39

Game of ball played as a rite, viii. 76, 79; played to produce rain or dry weather, ix. 179 _sq._

—— with fruit-stones played by kings of Uganda, vi. 224

—— of Troy, iv. 76 _sq._

Gamelion, Attic month, corresponding to January, ii. 137 _n._ 1

Games, funeral, iv. 92 _sqq._; the great Greek, iv. 92 _sq._, 103 _sqq._; held by harvesters, vii. 75 _sqq._; magical significance of, in primitive agriculture, vii. 92 _sqq._; played at the sowing festival among the Kayans, vii. 94 _sqq._, 97 _sq._; played by the Kai of New Guinea as charms for the good of the crops, vii. 101 _sq._; many games probably originated in magical rites, vii. 103 _n._ 1; athletic, viii. 66

——, the Eleusinian, vii. 70 _sqq._, 87 _sq._, 110, 180

——, the Eleutherian, vii. 80

Games, Greek, quadriennial period of, vii. 77 _sqq._; octennial period of, vii. 80

——, the Isthmian, iv. 92, 93, 103, vii. 86

——, the Nemean, iv. 92, 93, vii. 86

——, the Olympic, iv. 90, 92, 98 _sq._, 103, 105, vii. 80, 84, 86

——, the Panathenaic, vii. 80

——, the Pythian, iv. 80, 90, 92, 93, vii. 80, 84

Gamp, Mrs., as to coins on the eyes of a corpse, i. 149 _n._ 5

Gander, the corn-spirit as a, vii. 268, 270

Gander’s neck, name given to last standing corn, vii. 268

Gandersheim, in Brunswick, need-fire at, x. 277

Gandharva pice, iv. 132 _n._ 1

—— -Sena, an ass by day and a man by night, iv. 124 _sq._

Ganesa, new rice offered to image of, viii. 56

_Gangas_, fetish priests of the Loango coast, iii. 291

Ganges, first-born children sacrificed to the, iv. 180 _sq._

Gaolis of the Deccan place new-born children on sieves, vii. 7 _sq._

Gap, in the High Alps, cats roasted alive in the Midsummer fire at, xi. 39 _sq._

Garcilasso de la Vega, on the reverence for the Incas, i. 415 _n._ 2; on the virgin Peruvian priestesses of fire, ii. 244 _n._ 1; on the fish-worship of the Peruvian Indians, viii. 249 _sq._; on the annual expulsion of evils in Peru, ix. 130 _n._ 1

Garda, the Lake of, custom at Mid-Lent on, iv. 241

Gardelegen, in the Altmark, the He-goat at harvest near, vii. 287

Garden of Osiris, vi. 87 _sq._

Gardens of Adonis, v. 236 _sqq._; charms to promote the growth of vegetation, v. 236 _sq._, 239; in India, v. 239 _sqq._; in Bavaria, v. 244; in Sardinia, v. 244 _sq._; in Sicily, v. 245; at Easter, v. 253 _sq._

—— of God, v. 123, 159

Gardiner, Professor J. Stanley, on the phosphorescence of the sea, ii. 154 _sq._

Gardner, Professor Ernest A., on date of the corn-reaping in Greece, v. 232 _n._

Gardner, Mrs. E. A., x. 131 _n._ 1

Gardner, Professor Percy, on the representation of Persephone on a coin of Lampsacus, vii. 44

Gareloch, in Dumbartonshire, harvest customs on the, vii. 157 _sq._, 218 _n._ 2, 268

_Gargouille_ or dragon destroyed by St. Romain, ii. 167

Garlands of flowers (wreaths) placed on horns of cattle on St. George’s Day to protect them against witchcraft, ii. 126, 339; cast into water as a form of divination on St. George’s Day, ii. 339, and on Midsummer Eve, xi. 28; worn by young people jumping over the Midsummer fires, x. 165; thrown on roofs of houses at Midsummer to guard them against fire and lightning, x. 169, xi. 48; looking at Midsummer bonfires through, x. 174; placed on wells at Midsummer, xi. 28; twined of nine kinds of flowers used to dream on at Midsummer, xi. 52; thrown on trees, a form of divination, at Midsummer, xi. 53. _See also_ Flowers _and_ Wreaths

—— on May Day, ii. 60 _sqq._, 90 _sq._

Garlic, soul-compelling virtue of, iii. 46; roasted at Midsummer fires, x. 193

Garman or Carman, the fair of, iv. 100

Garments, effect of wearing sacred, iii. 4

Garonne, Midsummer fires in the valley of the, x. 193

Garos of Assam, their rain-charm by means of a black goat, i. 291; ceremony of the Horse at rice-harvest among the, viii. 43 _n._ 1, 337 _sqq._; offer the first-fruits to the gods, viii. 116 _sq._; their annual use of a scapegoat, ix. 208 _sq._

Garstang, Professor J., on Hittite sculptures at Ibreez, v. 122 _n._ 1, 123 _n._ 2; on Hittite sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 133 _n._, 135 _n._; on Arenna, v. 136 _n._ 1; on the Syrian god Hadad, v. 163 _n._ 3

Gascon peasants, their belief in the magical power of priests, i. 232 _sq._

Gashes cut in back, Australian initiatory rite, vii. 106

Gates of city opened or shut as charm for ensuring rain or sunshine, i. 298 _sq._; sacrifice of human beings at foundations of, iii. 98 _sq._

Gateway, refusal of Marquesan chief to pass through, iii. 254

Gateways of villages, sacrificial blood smeared on, iv. 176 _n._ 1

_Gathas_, a part of the _Zend-Avesta_, vi. 84 _n._

Gatri, in Nigeria, kings of, formerly put to death, iv. 34 _sq._

Gatschet, A. S., on absence of historic traditions caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 363; on the absence of totemism in California and Oregon, viii. 175 _n._ 2; on the Toukawe Indians, xi. 276 _n._ 2

Gattanewa, a Marquesan chief, his regard for the sanctity of his head, iii. 254 _sq._

Gatto, in Benin, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 131 _sq._

Gaul, the Druids of, ii. 189; Posidonius in, iv. 142; worship of Cybele in, v. 279; the Celts of, their calendar, ix. 342 _sqq._; “serpents’ eggs” in ancient, x. 15; human sacrifices in ancient, xi. 32 _sq._ _See also_ Gallic

Gauls, their “sacred spring,” iv. 187 _n._ 5; their fortification walls, x. 267 _sq._

Gauntlet, running the, penalty for killing a sacred python, iii. 222

Gauri, harvest-goddess, wife of Siva, represented by a girl and a bundle of plants, ii. 77 _sq._, vii. 207

Gavres, Persian fire-worshippers, iv. 158

Gayo, a district of Sumatra, rice fed like a pregnant woman and given water to drink in, ii. 29; the crops ravaged by wild swine and mice in, viii. 33

Gayos of Northern Sumatra, their offering to the Lord of the Wood before clearing a piece of forest, ii. 36; propitiate the Lord of the Wood before hunting in the forest, ii. 125; superstitions of gold-washers among the, iii. 409 _n._ 3; their euphemism for small-pox, iii. 410

Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain, beneficial effect of contagious magic in the, i. 175; continence at the building of a canoe in the, iii. 202; the name of a brother-in-law not to be mentioned among the natives of the, iii. 344; the natives of the, their belief as to meteors, iv. 65; conduct of the natives in an earthquake, v. 201; the Melanesians of the, vi. 242 _sq._; woman’s share in agriculture among the natives of the, vii. 123; the Livuans of the, their belief in demons, ix. 82 _sq._; natives of the, their story of the origin of death, ix. 303 _sq._; the Ingniet society in the, xi. 156

Gazelles sacrificed at Egyptian funerals, vi. 15; souls of dead in, viii. 289

Ge-lug-pa, a Lamaist sect, ix. 94

Gebal, Semitic name of Byblus, v. 13 _n._

Gebars of New Guinea, temporary seclusion of cannibals among the, iii. 190

Geelvink Bay in New Guinea, magical telepathy among the tribes of, i. 125; belief in a forest-spirit at, iii. 60 _sq._

Geese sacrificed at Egyptian funerals, vi. 15; the straw of the Shrovetide Bear supposed to make geese lay eggs, viii. 326

Geismar, in Hesse, Jupiter’s oak at, ii. 364

Gellius, Aulus, on the triumphal crowns, ii. 175 _n._ 1; his list of old Roman deities, vi. 232. _See also_ Aulus Gellius

Gellius, Cnaeus, on Mars and Nerio, vi. 232

Gelo, tyrant of Syracuse, iv. 167

Gem, external soul of magician in a, xi. 105 _sq._; external soul of giant in a, xi. 130

Geminus, Greek astronomer, on the vague Egyptian year, vi. 26; on the octennial cycle, vii. 81; on the supposed influence of the stars, vii. 318 _sq._

Generalizations of science inadequate to cover all particular facts, viii. 37

Generation, male organ of, as emblem of Dionysus, vii. 12; effigy of, in Thracian ceremony, vii. 26, 29

Genesis, Sarah and Abraham in, ii. 114; account of the creation in, iv. 106; the Babylonian, ix. 410

Geneva, Midsummer fires in the canton of, x. 172

Genital organs of murdered people eaten, iii. 190 _n._ 2; of Osiris, tradition as to the, vi. 10, 102; of dead man used to fertilize the fields, vi. 102 _sq._

_Genius_, the Roman guardian-spirit, symbolized by a serpent, v. 86, xi. 212 _n._

Genius, Aristotle on men of, viii. 302 _n._ 5

—— of Industry in China represented by a boy with one foot shod and one foot bare, viii. 11

—— or patron of animals, viii. 243

—— of Spring in Annam, viii. 14

_Genna_, taboo, among the hill tribes of Assam, iii. 11, vii. 109 _n._ 2

Gennep, A. van, on the double-headed Janus, ii. 385 _n._ 1

Gennesaret, the Lake of, viii. 32

Genzano, the village of, i. 5 _n._ 2

Geographical and climatic conditions, their effect on national character,