vi. 217

Geomancy in China, i. 170, iii. 239

George, Green, a leaf-clad mummer on St. George’s Day, ii. 75, 76, 79

George the Third, i. 216

_Georges d’Amboise_, great bell at Rouen, ii. 168

Georgia, the Caucasian, rain-making in, i. 282

Geraestius, a Greek month, ix. 350

Geranium burnt in Midsummer fire, x. 213

Gerard, E., on the belief of the Roumanians in demons, ix. 106 _sq._

Gerhausen, the Frauenberg near, x. 166

German belief as to the escape of the soul, iii. 37

—— cures for toothache by transferring it to trees, ix. 57, 58, 59

—— custom of throwing a knife or a hat at a whirlwind, i. 329; of crowning cattle on Midsummer Day, ii. 127; of sowing seed over weakly children, vii. 11

German huntsmen call everything by special names, iii. 396

—— laws, old, their punishment for barking a tree, ii. 9

—— peasants, their treatment of the afterbirth of a cow, i. 198 _sq._; their homoeopathic treatment of a broken leg, i. 205

—— saying as to not leaving a knife edge upward, iii. 238

—— superstition as to largeness of last sheaf, vii. 139 _n._ 7; as to understanding the language of animals, viii. 146

—— way of freeing gardens from caterpillars, viii. 275

—— women, their use of milk-stones, i. 165

—— woodmen, their ceremony at felling a tree, ii. 38.

Germans, oldest sanctuaries of the, ii. 8 _sq._; evidence of mother-kin among the, ii. 285; the oak sacred among the, xi. 89

—— the ancient, their worship of women, i. 391; their tree-worship, ii. 8 _sq._; their worship of the oak, ii. 363 _sq._; their customs as to their hair, iii. 262; their regard for the phases of the moon, vi. 141; left the care of the fields to women and old men, vii. 129; their human sacrifices, xi. 28 _n._ 1

—— of Moravia, their precautions against witchcraft on Walpurgis Night,