iii. 149

Golos, on the Bahr-el-Ghazal, their way of detaining the sun, i. 318

_Goluan_, Midsummer, x. 199

Gomes, E. H., on sacrifices in time of epidemics, iv. 176 _n._ 1; on the head-feast of the Sea Dyaks, ix. 384 _n._ 1

Gommern, near Magdeburg, reaper of last corn wrapt in corn-stalks at, vii. 221

Gonds of India, their belief in reincarnation, i. 104 _sq._; their custom at clearing away a jungle, ii. 39; mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 217; ceremony of bringing back souls of the dead among the, v. 95 _sq._; their human sacrifices at sowing and reaping, vii. 244; human scapegoats among the, ix. 217 _sq._

Gongs beaten in a storm, i. 328 _sq._; at Dodona, ii. 358; beaten to expel demons, ix. 113, 117, 118, 147

Gontiyalamma, mud figure of, in a rain-making ceremony, i. 294

Good Friday, barren fruit-trees threatened on, ii. 22; Highland superstitions as to, iii. 229; effigies and sepulchres of Christ on, iv. 284, v. 254 _sqq._; of ancient Greece, vii. 33; expulsion of witches in Silesia on, ix. 157; absolution of man called Adam at Halberstadt on the day before, ix. 214; cattle beaten on, ix. 266; custom of beating each other with rods on, ix. 268; Judas driven out of church on, x. 146; the divining-rod cut on, xi. 68 _n._ 4; sick children passed through cleft trees on, xi. 172

—— Goddess (_Bona Dea_), at Rome, wine called milk in her ritual, iii. 249 _n._ 2; her relationship to Faunus, vi. 234

—— Spirit, the, vii. 206

Goodrich-Freer, A., on Beltane bannocks and fires in the Hebrides, x. 154 _n._ 3

Googe, Barnabe, his translation of a Latin poem by Thomas Kirchmeyer, x. 124

Goomsur, Earth Goddess represented in peacock form in, vii. 248 _n._ 1

Goorkhas, the, of Nepaul, their festival of Dassera, iii. 316

Goose, eaten by Egyptian kings, iii. 13, 291. _See also_ Geese

“——, to lose the,” expression for overthrowing a load at harvest, vii. 277 _n._ 3

Gooseberry-bushes, a protection against witches, ii. 55; wild, custom as to, xi. 48

Goowoong Awoo, volcano, children sacrificed to, v. 219

Gordian knot, iii. 316 _sq._

Gordias and Midas, names of Phrygian kings, v. 286

Gordioi chose the fattest man king, ii. 297

Gordium, capital of the kings of Phrygia, iii. 316

Gordon, E. M., on iron as an amulet in Bilaspore, iii. 234 _sq._; on infant burial in Bilaspore, v. 94 _sq._; on the festival of the dead in Bilaspore, vi. 60; on cairns to which passers-by add stones in Bilaspore, ix. 27 _n._ 4

Gore, Captain, on the behaviour of the Meriahs among the Khonds, iv. 139 _n._ 1

Gorgon, Perseus and the, iii. 312

Gorillas, souls of dead in, viii. 289; lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 202

Gorong archipelago, custom as to children’s cast teeth in the, i. 179; rule as to gathering coco-nuts in the, iii. 201

Gorse burned on May Day to burn or drive away witches, ii. 54

Görz, belief as to witches at Midsummer about, xi. 75

Gospel to the Hebrews, the apocryphal, iv. 5 _n._ 3

Goudie, Mr. Gilbert, on Up-helly-a’ at Lerwick, ix. 169 _n._ 2

_Gour-deziou_, “Supplementary Days,” in Brittany, ix. 324

Gouri, an Indian goddess of fertility, v. 241 _sq._

Gournia in Crete, prehistoric shrine at, v. 88 _n._ 1

Gout, popular remedy for, in Java, iii. 106; transferred to trees, ix. 56 _sq._

Government of old men in aboriginal Australia, i. 334 _sq._

Govindji, an incarnation of Krishna, i. 284

Gowland, W., on cairns in Corea, ix. 11 _n._ 5

Gowmditch-mara tribe of Victoria, difference of language between husbands and wives in the, iii. 348 _n._ 1

_Graal, History of the Holy_, iv. 120, 134

Graetz, H., on death of a Christian child in the character of Haman, ix. 395 _n._ 1

Grafting, superstitious ceremony at, ii. 100

Grain Coast of West Africa, the Bodio or fetish king of the, i. 353, iii. 23; initiation of girls on the, xi. 259

Grains of wheat, divination by, ix. 316 _n._ 1

Grammont, in Belgium, festival of the “Crown of Roses” at, x. 195; the Yule log at, x. 249

Gran Chaco, the Lengua Indians of the, i. 313, 330, 359, iii. 37, 38, 357, iv. 11, 63, viii. 245, ix. 122, 262; the Indians of the, their belief in dreams, iii. 37; the Guaycurus of the, iii. 357, vii. 309; the Matacos Indians of the, iii. 373 _n._

Granada (South America), youthful rulers secluded in, x. 19

Granary, ceremony at fetching rice from a, vii. 185

Grand Halleux, bonfires on first Sunday in Lent at, x. 107

Grandfather’s corpse, custom of leaping over, iii. 424

Grandfathers, grandsons named after their deceased, iii. 370

Grandidier, A., on changes in the Malagasy language caused by taboo on names of the dead, iii. 380 _sq._

Grandmother, title of an African priest, vi. 255; name given to last sheaf, vii. 136; or Mother of Ghosts at Rome, viii. 94, 96, 107

Grandmother Earth thought to cause earthquakes, v. 198

Grandmothers, grand-daughters named after their deceased, iii. 370

Grandparents, dead, worshipped, vi. 175

Granger, Professor F., on double-headed bust at Nemi, i. 42 _n._ 1

_Grannas-mias_, torches, on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111

Granno, invocation of, x. 111 _sq._

_Granno-mio_, a torch, x. 111

Grannus, a Celtic deity, identified with Apollo, x. 111 _sq._

Grant, the great laird of, not exempt from witchcraft, x. 342 _n._ 4

Grape-cluster, Mother of the, iv. 8

Grapes as divine emblem, v. 165; the last, not to be stript, vii. 234 _sq._

_Grasausläuten_, ringing bells to make grass grow, ii. 344

Grass, magical ceremonies to make grass grow, i. 87 _sq._, x. 136; bell-ringing as a charm to make grass grow, ii. 343 _sq._, ix. 247; knotted as a charm, iii. 305, 306, 310; thrown on heaps as ceremony, ix. 9, 10, 18, 20, 28; dances to cause the grass to grow, ix. 238

Grass King, the, at Whitsuntide, ii. 85 _sq._

—— -ringers in the Tyrol and Switzerland, ix. 247

—— seed, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 87 _sq._; continence at magical ceremony for growth of, ii. 105

Grasshoppers in homoeopathic magic, i. 173 _sq._; charm against, viii. 281; sacrifice of, ix. 35

Gratz, puppet burned on St. John’s Eve at, x. 173

Graubünden (the Grisons), Canton of Switzerland, capers of masked men to make corn grow in, ix. 239; “Sawing the Old Woman” in, iv. 242 _sq._

Graudenz district of West Prussia, the harvest Bull in the, vii. 288

Grave, soul fetched from, iii. 54; annual festival at, iv. 97; human sacrifices at the, iv. 143, 143 _n._ 4; dance at initiation in, xi. 237

—— of ancestor, milk poured on, ii. 223

—— of Apollo, i. 34 _sq._, iv. 4

Grave of Dionysus, iv. 3, vii. 14

—— of Osiris, vi. 10 _sq._; human victims sacrificed at the, vi. 97

—— of Zeus, iv. 3

Grave-diggers, taboos observed by, iii. 141, 142; obliged to stand on one foot, iv. 156 _n._ 2

—— -shrines of Shilluk kings, vi. 161 _sq._; of Barotse kings, vi. 194 _sq._

Graveclothes, homoeopathic magic of, in China, i. 168 _sq._; no knots in, iii. 310; no buttons in, iii. 313

Graves, human blood offered at, i. 90 _sq._, i. 101, iv. 92; rain-charms at, i. 268, 286, 291, iii. 154 _sq._; trees planted on, ii. 31; dances on, ii. 183 _n._ 2; food offered on, iii. 53; puppets substituted for human victims sacrificed at, iv. 218; milk offered at, v. 87; childless women resort to, in order to ensure offspring, v. 96; illuminated on All Souls’ Day, vi. 72 _sq._, 74; the only places of sacrifice in the country of the Wahehe, vi. 190; false, to deceive demons, viii. 99 _sq._; offerings of first-fruits presented at, viii. 111, 113, 115; heaps of sticks or stones on, ix. 15 _sqq._

—— of Heitsi-Eibib, iv. 3, x. 16

—— of Hermes, Aphrodite, and Ares, iv. 4

—— of Hyperborean maidens at Delos, i. 28, 33 _sqq._

—— of kings, chiefs, and magicians kept secret, vi. 103 _sqq._; human sacrifices at, vi. 168

—— of twins, water poured on, to procure rain, iii. 154 _sq._

Gray, Archdeacon J. H., on reported human sacrifices in an aboriginal tribe of China, iv. 145

Grbalj, in Dalmatia, belief as to the souls of trees at, ii. 14

Greasing the weapon instead of the wound, i. 202 _sqq._

Great Ardra in Guinea, the king of, not allowed to behold the sea, iii. 9

—— Bassam, in Guinea, annual sacrifice of oxen for the crops at, viii. 9 _sq._; exorcism of evil spirit at, ix. 120

—— Bear observed by the Kamtchatkans, vii. 315

“—— burnings” for kings of Judah, v. 177 _sq._

—— Eleusinian Games, vii. 71, 79

—— Feast, the, in Morocco, ix. 180, 182, 265

—— Goddesses, the grove of the, at Andania, ii. 122

—— Man, who created the world and comes down in the form of lightning, xi. 298

—— Marriage, annual festival of the dead among the Oraons of Bengal, vi. 59

Great men, history not to be explained without the influence of, v. 311 _n._ 2; great religious systems founded by, vi. 159 _sq._; their influence on the popular imagination, vi. 199

—— Mother, popularity of her worship in the Roman empire, v. 298 _sq._; name given to the last sheaf, vii. 135 _sq._

—— Mysteries of Eleusis, their date, vii. 51

—— Pan, death of the, iv. 6 _sq._

“—— Purification,” Japanese ceremony, ix. 213 _n._ 1

—— religious systems founded by individual great men, vi. 159 _sq._; religious ideals a product of the male imagination, vi. 211

—— Spirit, iv. 3; sacrifice of fingers to the, iii. 161; his gift of corn to men, vii. 177

—— Sun, title of Natchez chief, ii. 262, 263, viii. 77 _sqq._

—— Vigil, an Aztec festival, vii. 176

—— year, the, a Greek cycle of eight or nine ordinary years, iv. 70

Grebo people of Sierra Leone, their pontiff, his magical functions and taboos, iii. 14 _sq._

Greece, time of the corn-reaping in, i. 32, v. 232 _n._; priestly kings in, i. 44 _sqq._; homoeopathic cures for jaundice in, i. 80; rain-making in, i. 273; forests of, ii. 8; artificial fertilization of fig-trees in, ii. 314 _sq._; oaks in, ii. 355; acorns eaten in, ii. 355, 356; conception of the soul in, iii. 29 _n._ 1; customs as to foundations of new buildings in, iii. 89; customs as to man-slayers in, iii. 188; mode of reckoning intervals of time in, iv. 59 _n._ 1; sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera in, iv. 91; swinging as a festal rite in, iv. 283 _sq._; use of music in religion in, v. 54 _sq._; belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead in, v. 86 _sq._; notion as to birth from trees and rocks in, v. 107 _n._ 1; purification for homicide in, v. 299 _n._ 2; notion of the noxious influence of moonshine on children in, vi. 148; marriage customs in, vi. 245 _sq._; summer rainless in, vii. 69; time of barley harvest in, vii. 77; use of swallows as scapegoats in, ix. 35; use of laurel in purification in, ix. 262; stories of girls who were forbidden to see the sun in, x. 72 _sqq._; belief as to menstruous women in, x. 98 _n._ 1; Midsummer fires in, x. 211 _sq._; stories of the external soul in, xi. 103 _sqq._; mistletoe in, xi. 316, 317

Greece, ancient, ceremony performed by persons supposed to have been dead in, i. 75; ceremony to prevent dropsy in, i. 78; contagious magic of footprints in, i. 211; curses at cutting hellebore in, i. 281; human gods in, i. 390 _sq._; tree-worship in, ii. 10; rule as to blowing on a fire in, ii. 240; female descent of kingship in, ii. 278 _sq._; maxim not to look at one’s reflection in water in, iii. 94; names of the priests of the Eleusinian mysteries not to be mentioned in,