vii. 317

Haida Indians of Queen Charlotte Islands, ceremony performed by pregnant women among the, i. 70; warlike pantomime of women while the men are at war, i. 133; their belief as to death at ebb-tide, i. 168; their charm to obtain a fair wind, i. 320; medicine-men among the, iii. 31; their recovery of lost souls, iii. 67 _n._; attempt to kill the souls of their enemies in war, iii. 72 _n._ 1; their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 131 _n._ 1; their religions of cannibalism and of dog-eating, vii. 20 _sq._; girls at puberty secluded among the, x. 44 _sq._

—— medicine-men bottle up departing souls, iii. 31; their unshorn hair, iii. 259

—— shamans, their use of the tongues of otters and eagles, viii. 270

Hail, charm to protect corn from, vii. 300; ceremonies to avert, x. 144, 145; Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 176; bonfires thought to protect fields against, x. 344; mountain arnica a protection against, xi. 57 _sq._

—— and thunderstorms caused by witches, x. 344

Hainan, island, the inhabitants of, call a year “a fire,” x. 137

Hainaut, province of Belgium, fire customs in, x. 108; procession of giants in, xi. 36

Hair offered to gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, i. 28 _sq._; offered to the dead, i. 31, 102; offered to rivers, i. 31, iii. 261; clippings of, used in magic, i. 57, 64, 65, 66, iii. 268 _sqq._, 275, 277, 278 _sq._; charms to make hair grow, i. 83, 145, 153 _sq._, 154; supposed to be the seat of strength, i. 102; of elephant hunter’s wife not to be cut, i. 120; of warriors not to be cut, i. 127; of wife and children of absent warrior not to be cut, i. 127; loose as a charm, i. 136; homoeopathic charm to strengthen, i. 144; homoeopathic charm to turn white hair black, i. 154; human, used in rain-making, i. 251 _sq._; supernatural power of chief dependent on his, i. 344; of father of twins not to be cut for a time, ii. 102; long, a symbol of royalty, ii. 180; mode of cutting the Mikado’s, iii. 3; cut with bronze knife, iii. 14; not to be combed, iii. 14, 159 _n._, 181, 187, 203, 208, 264; pulled to give omens, iii. 55; of those who have handled the dead not cut, iii. 141; of man-slayers shaved, iii. 175, 177; of slain enemy, fetish made from, iii. 183; tabooed, iii. 258 _sqq._; of kings, priests, and wizards unshorn, iii. 258 _sqq._; regarded as the seat of a god or spirit, iii. 258, 259, 263; kept unshorn at certain times, iii. 260 _sqq._; unshorn during a vow, iii. 261 _sq._; of children unshorn, iii. 263; cut or combed out may cause rain and thunderstorms, iii. 271, 272, 282; clippings of, used as hostages, iii. 272 _sq._; infected by virus of taboo, iii. 283 _sq._; cut as a purificatory ceremony, iii. 283 _sqq._; of women after childbirth shaved and burnt, iii. 284; loosened at childbirth, iii. 297 _sq._; loosened in magical and religious ceremonies, iii. 310 _sq._; sacrifice of women’s, v. 38; offered to goddess of volcano, v. 218; of head shaved in mourning for dead gods, v. 225; to be cut when the moon is waxing, vi. 133 _sq._; pulling each other’s, a Lithuanian sacrificial custom, viii. 50 _sq._; of slain foes used to impart courage, viii. 153; of patient inserted in oak, ix. 57 _sq._; lock of, in cure for epilepsy, ix. 68 _n._ 2; unguent for, x. 14; girl at puberty not to cut her, x. 28; of girls at puberty shaved, x. 31, 56, 57, 59; Hindoo ritual of cutting a child’s, x. 99 _n._ 2; external soul in, xi. 103 _sq._, 148; strength of people bound up with their, xi. 158 _sq._; of criminals, witches, and wizards shorn to make them confess, xi. 158 _sq._; of children tied to trees, xi. 165; of novices cut at initiation, xi. 245, 251

Hair, grey, a signal of death, iv. 36 _sq._

—— and nails of sacred persons not cut, iii. 3, 4, 16

—— and nails, cut, of a chief guarded against evil magic, i. 350 _n._ 1; deposited on or under trees, iii. 14, 275 _sq._, 286; disposal of, iii. 267 _sqq._; as rain-charms, iii. 271, 272; deposited in sacred places, iii. 274 _sqq._; stowed away in any secret place, iii. 276 _sqq._; kept for use at the resurrection, iii. 279 _sqq._; burnt to prevent them from falling into the hands of sorcerers, iii. 281 _sqq._; of child buried under a tree, xi. 161

—— of the Virgin or St. John looked for in ashes of Midsummer fire, x. 182 _sq._, 190, 191

Hair-cutting, ceremonies at, iii. 264 _sqq._; thought to cause thunder and lightning, iii. 265

Hair-pins as instruments of longevity, i. 169

Hairy Stone, the, at Midsummer, x. 212

Hak-Ka, the, a native race in the province of Canton, their annual expulsion of the devil of poverty, ix. 144

Hakea flowers, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 86

Hakim Singh claims to be Jesus Christ incarnate, i. 409 _sq._

Halae in Attica, mock human sacrifice at, iv. 215 _sq._

Halasarna in Cos, rites of Apollo and Hercules at, vi. 259

Halberstadt in Thüringen, need-fire in, ii. 238 _sq._, x. 273; annual ceremony on day before Good Friday at, ix. 214

Hale, Horatio, on voluntary deaths in Fiji, iv. 11 _sq._

Half-sister by the same father, marriage with, legal in Attica, ii. 284

Halfdan the Black, king of Norway, dismembered after death, vi. 100, 102

Halford in Warwickshire, May Day customs at, ii. 88 _sq._

Hali-Bonar, village in Sumatra, iii. 104

Halibut, the first of the season, treatment of, viii. 253

Halicarnassus, the Mausoleum at, iv. 94 _sq._; worship of Pergaean Artemis at, v. 35 _n._ 2

_Haliphloios_, a species of oak, ii. 373 _n._ 1

Hall, C. F., on the treatment of venison among the Esquimaux, x. 13; on new fire at New Year among the Esquimaux, x. 134

Hall, Dr. C. H. H., on the expulsion of the demon of plague in Japan, ix. 119 _n._ 1

Hall, Rev. G. R., on Midsummer fires at Christenburg Crags, x. 198

Hall, in the Tyrol, ceremony of whipping people on Senseless Thursday at, ix. 248 _sq._

Hall of the Two Truths, the judgment hall in the other world, vi. 13

Hallowe’en, new fire at, in Ireland, x. 139, 225; an old Celtic festival of New Year, x. 224 _sqq._; divination at, x. 225, 228 _sq._, 231, 234 _sqq._; witches, hobgoblins, and fairies let loose at, x. 226 _sqq._, 245, xi. 184 _n._ 4, 185

—— and Beltane, the two chief fire festivals of the British Celts, xi. 40 _sq._

Hallowe’en cakes, x. 238, 241, 245

—— fires, x. 222 _sq._; in Wales, x. 156, 239; in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 230 _sqq._; in the Isle of Man, x. 243; in Lancashire, x. 244 _sq._; in France, x. 245 _sq._

Hallowmas in Scotland, last corn cut before or after, vii. 140

Halmahera, or Gilolo, rain-making in, i. 248; rain-charm by means of the dead in, i. 285 _sq._; ceremony at felling a tree in, ii. 38; the natives of, their words for soul, vii. 183; ceremonies at a funeral in, ix. 260 _sq._; rites of initiation in, xi. 248

——, the Alfoors of, a man may not address his father-in-law by name among,