iii. 341;

their expulsion of demons, ix. 112

——, the Galelareese of, i. 110, v. 220, vii. 296; their belief as to incest, ii. 111. _See_ Galelareese

_Haloa_, Attic festival, vii. 60 _sqq._

Haltwhistle, in Northumberland, burnt sacrifice at, x. 301

Haman, a god worshipped by the heathen of Harran, ix. 366 _n._ 1

Haman, the Biblical, derivation of the name, ix. 366; effigies of, burnt at Purim, ix. 392 _sqq._

—— and Mordecai, ix. 364 _sqq._; as temporary kings, ix. 400 _sq._

—— and Vashti the duplicates of Mordecai and Esther, ix. 406

Hâmân-Sûr, a name for Purim, ix. 393

Hamaspathmaedaya, old Iranian festival of the dead, vi. 67

_Hamatsas_, cannibals among the Kwakiutl, vii. 20

_Hametzes_, Cannibals or Biters, a Secret Society among the Indians of North-Western America, ix. 378

Hamilcar, his self-sacrifice by fire at the battle of Himera, v. 115 _sq._, 176; worshipped by the Carthaginians after death, v. 116, 180

Hamilton, Alexander, his account of the Samorins or kings of Calicut, iv. 47 _sq._; on hook-swinging in India, iv. 278; on dance of hermaphrodites in Pegu, v. 271 _n._

Hamilton, Gavin, on the seclusion of girls at puberty among the Tinneh Indians, x. 47 _sq._

Hamilton, Professor G. L., v. 57 _n._ 1

Hamlet, his story half-historical, ii. 281 _n._ 2; his feigned imbecility, ii. 291

Hammedatha, father of Haman, ix. 373 _n._ 1

Hammer, used to make mock thunder, i. 248; iron, revered by the Lithuanians, i. 317 _sq._; sick people struck with a, ix. 259 _n._ 4

Hammers, Thor’s, i. 248 _n._ 1

Hammocks, girls at puberty hung up in, x. 56, 59, 60, 61, 66

Hammurabi, king of Babylon, iv. 110; code of, ii. 130, v. 71 _n._ 3, 72 _n._ 1

Hampstead in reign of Henry II., ii. 7

Hamstring of deer, custom of removing, viii. 266

Hamstringing dead animals, viii. 267, 271, 273

—— deer, rule as to, i. 115

—— men to disable their ghosts, viii. 272, 273

Hand of Glory, the, a thief’s talisman, i. 149

“—— of Glory,” mandragora, xi. 316

——- of suicide cut off, iv. 220 _n._; of dead man in magical ceremony, iv. 267 _n._ 1 _See also_ Hands

Hand-marks, white, viii. 338

Handel, the harmonies of, v. 54

Hands tabooed, iii. 133 _sq._, 138, 140 _sqq._, 146 _sqq._, 158, 159 _n._, 174, 265; food not to be touched with, iii. 138 _sqq._, 146 _sqq._, 166, 167, 168, 169, 174, 265; defiled, iii. 174; not to be clasped, iii. 298; of enemies eaten, viii. 151, 152; of deity, ceremony of grasping the, ix. 356. _See also_ Hand

Hanged god, the, v. 288 _sqq._

Hanging as a mode of capital punishment, iv. 114 _n._ 1; of an effigy of the Carnival, iv. 230 _sq._; as a mode of sacrifice, v. 289 _sqq._

Hannah’s vow, iii. 263, v. 79

Hannibal, his prayers to Melcarth, v. 113; his retirement from Italy, v. 265; despoils the shrine on Soracte, xi. 15; within sight of Rome, xi. 15

Hanover, Hildesheim in, ii. 85; harvest customs in, vii. 133, 283; the Harvest-mother in, vii. 135; Easter bonfires in, x. 140; the need-fire in, x. 275; custom on St. John’s Day about, xi. 56

_Hantoes_, spirits, in Borneo, ix. 87

Hanun, king of Moab, his treatment of David’s messengers, iii. 273

Hanway, J., on worship of perpetual fires at Baku, v. 192

Happah tribe in Marquesas Islands, evil magic practised on hair by the,