vii. 236

Guaycurus, try to frighten the demon of the storm, i. 330

—— of Brazil, precaution as to chief’s spittle among the, iii. 290; men dressed as women among the, vi. 254 _n._ 2

—— of the Gran Chaco used to change their names after a death, iii. 357; their festival at the reappearance of the Pleiades, vii. 309, ix. 262

Guayquiries of the Orinoco, their beliefs as to menstruous women, x. 85

Guazacualco, in Mexico, bones of the dead preserved for the resurrection in, viii. 259

Gudangs, the, of Queensland, avoidance of parents-in-law among, iii. 346; changes of vocabulary among the, caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 359

Gudea, king of Southern Babylonia, festival of the New Year known to, ix. 356

Guelelé, king of Dahomey, represented partly in lion, partly in human form, iv. 85

Guelphs, the oak of the, xi. 166

Guessing dreams at New Year festival of the Iroquois, ix. 127

Guevo Upas, the Valley of Poison, in Java, v. 203 _sq._

Guezo, king of Dahomey, represented with the feathers of a cock, iv. 85

Guhrau, district of Silesia, custom of “Carrying out Death” in, iv. 237

Guiana, the Indians of, their precaution against heavy rain, i. 253; power of medicine-men among, i. 359 _sq._; their fire customs, ii. 259; their belief in dreams, iii. 36 _sq._; keep their names secret, iii. 324 _sq._; their offerings of food to the dead, iii. 372 _n._ 5; do not sharply distinguish between animals and men, viii. 204; their custom after killing a tapir, viii. 236; their fear of demons, ix. 78

——, British, the Macusis of, iii. 159 _n._, x. 60; woman’s share in agriculture among the Indians of, vii. 120 _sq._; the Arawaks of, viii. 154, ix. 302

——, French, difference of language between husbands and wives in the tribes of, iii. 348; the Roocooyen Indians of, ix. 181, 263; the Wayanas of, x. 63; ordeals undergone by young men among the Indians of, x. 63 _sq._

Guinea, priestly kings in, iii. 5; negroes of, their belief in dreams, iii. 37; belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals in, viii. 287; transference of sickness to chickens in, ix. 31; annual expulsion of the devil in, ix. 131

——, French, the wild fig-tree regarded as a fetish-tree in, ii. 317 _n._ 1; dances at sowing in, ix. 235

——, North, disposal of cut hair and nails in, iii. 278

——, Southern, the negroes of, use drippings of dead men’s brains to increase their wisdom, viii. 163

Guinea negroes, their transference of sickness to chickens, ix. 31

Guinea-fowl gives signal for planting, vii. 117

_Guizing_ at Christmas in Lerwick, x. 268 _sq._

Gujarat, rings as amulets in, iii. 315

Gujrat District, Punjaub, belief as to bodies of infants dug up by jackals or dogs in the, v. 94

Guleesh and the fairies at Hallowe’en, x. 277 _sq._

Gull clan of the Otawa Indians, viii. 225 _n._ 1

Gunkel, H., on the circumcised and the uncircumcised, i. 101 _n._ 2

Gunn, David, kindles need-fire, x. 291

Gunnar Helming disguises himself as the god Frey, ii. 144

Gunputty, elephant-headed god, human incarnation of, i. 405 _sq._

Guns fired to expel demons, viii. 99, ix. 116 _sq._, 119, 120, 121, 125, 132, 133, 137, 147, 148, 149, 150, 203, 204, 221 _n._ 1; against witches, ix. 160, 161, 164, xi. 74

Gunther, king of the Burgundians, woos and wins Queen Brunhild, ii. 306

Gunthram, King, and his vagrant soul, iii. 39 _n._ 1

Gurdon, Major P. R. T., on the Khasis of Assam, vi. 202; on mother-kin among the Khasis, vi. 203 _n._ 1; on descent of the kingship among the Khasis, vi. 210 _n._ 1

_Guré_, a hobby-horse, at harvest festival of the Garos, viii. 337 _sq._

Gurgaon, district of North-West India, fair at Bas Doda in, ii. 149

Guyana Indians of Brazil, their voluntary deaths, iv. 12 _sq._

Guyenne, “the Wolf of the Field” at harvest in, vii. 275

Gwalior, Holi fires in, xi. 2

Gwanya, a worshipful dead chief, vi. 177

Gyges, king of Lydia, married the widow of his predecessor, ii. 281; his monument to his queen, ii. 282; dedicates double-headed axe to Zeus, v. 182

Gynaecocracy a dream, vi. 211

Gypsies, their way of stopping rain by means of a serpent, i. 295 _sq._; Green George among the, ii. 75 _sq._; their superstition about portraits, iii. 100; ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” among the, iv. 243; annual ceremony performed by the, ix. 207 _sq._

Habes de Tornas, a tribe of Nigeria, revere a fetish doctor, iii. 124

Hack-thorn sacred, ii. 48

Hadad, chief male deity of the Syrians, v. 15, 16 _n._ 1; Syrian god of thunder and fertility, v. 163

Hadadrimmon, v. 164 _n._ 1; the mourning of or for, v. 15 _n._ 4

Haddon, Dr. A. C., on rain-making in Mabuiag, i. 262; on magicians in the Torres Straits Islands, i. 420 _n._ 2; on worship of animal-shaped heroes, v. 139 _n._ 1; on bull-roarers, vii. 106 _n._ 3

Hadeln, in Hanover, the Corn-mother at reaping last corn in, vii. 133

Hades, descent of Dionysus into, vii. 15

Hadji Mohammad shoots a were-wolf, x. 312 _sq._

Hadramaut, mode of stopping rain in, i. 252

Hadrian builds at Nemi, i. 6; monument of, at Nemi, i. 6 _n._ 1; human sacrifice suppressed in reign of, v. 146; institutes games at Mantinea, vii. 80

Hag (_wrach_), name given to last corn cut in Wales, vii. 142 _sqq._

Hagen, B., on the belief in demons among the Battas, ix. 87 _sq._

Hagios Gheorgios, village in Thrace, ummery at Carnival at, vii. 26

Hahn, Dr. C. H., on the chief’s hut among the Herero, ii. 213 _n._ 2

Hahn, Theophilus, on the worship of the Pleiades among the Hottentots,