viii. 143;

of men eaten to acquire their qualities, viii. 148 _sqq._; of human victims offered to the sun, ix. 279 _sq._, 298; of human victims offered to the moon, ix. 282; of diseased cattle cut out and hung up as a remedy, x. 269 _n._ 1, 325. _See also_ Heart

Heathen festivals displaced by Christian, v. 308

—— origin of Midsummer festival (festival of St. John), v. 249 _sq._; of Christmas, v. 302 _sqq._

Heaven, vault of, imitated in rain-charm, i. 261, 262; threatened with conflagration as a rain-charm, i. 303; festivals of, i. 399 _sq._; slave treated as the representative of, i. 399 _sq._; temple and image of, i. 414; the Chinese emperor a son of, i. 416 _sq._; eaten by heaven-herds among the Zulus, viii. 160 _sq._

Heaven and earth, between, x. 1 _sqq._, 98 _sq._

——, the Queen of, xi. 303

“Heaven bird” in rain-making, i. 302

—— -herds among the Zulus, viii. 160

Heavenly Master, the head of Taoism, i. 413 _sqq._

—— Virgin or Goddess, mother of the Sun, v. 303

Hebesio, god of thunder, on the Gold Coast, iii. 257

Hebrew kings, traces of their divinity, v. 20 _sqq._

—— names ending in _-el_ or _-iah_, v. 79 _n._ 3

—— prohibition of images of animals, i. 87 _n._ 1

—— prophecy, the distinctive character of, v. 75

—— prophets, their ethical religion, i. 223; their resemblance to those of Africa, v. 74 _sq._

Hebrews, their notion of the blighting effect of sexual crime, ii. 114 _sq._; apocryphal Gospel to the, iv. 5 _n._ 3; sacrifice their children to Baal, iv. 168 _sqq._; their sacrifice of the first-born, iv. 171 _sqq._; forbidden to reap corners of fields and glean last grapes, vii. 234 _sq._; sacrificed and burned incense to nets, viii. 240 _n._ 1; the importance they ascribed to blessings and cursings, ix. 23 _n._; their use of birds as scapegoats for leprosy, ix. 35

Hebrides, wind-charms in the, i. 322 _sq._; St. Bride’s bed on St. Bride’s Day in the, ii. 94; the Outer, the fire of a kiln called by a special name in the, iii. 395; peats cut in the wane of the moon in the, vi. 137 _sq._

Hebron, practice of Moslem pilgrims at, ix. 21

Hecaerge, an epithet of Artemis, v. 292

Hecate at Ephesus, v. 291; sometimes identified with Artemis, v. 292 _n._

—— and Zeus worshipped at Stratonicea, vi. 227

Hecatombaeon, an Athenian month, ix. 351

Hecatombeus, a Greek month, v. 314

Heckewelder, Rev. John, on attitude of North American Indians to the lower animals, viii. 205 _sq._

Hecquard, H., on exorcism of evil spirit in Guinea, ix. 120

Hector, first chief of Lochbuy, xi. 131 _n._ 1

Hedgehog not to be eaten by soldiers, i. 117; transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299

Hegel on magic and religion, i. 235 _n._ 1, 423 _sqq._

_Hegemone_, epithet of Artemis, i. 37 _n._ 1

Hehn, V., on evergreens in Italy, i. 8 _n._ 4; on derivation of name Corycian, v. 187 _n._ 6

Heiberg, Sigurd K., on Midsummer fires in Norway, x. 171 _n._ 3

Heifer sacrificed at kindling need-fire, x. 290

_Heimskringla_ or _Sagas of the Norwegian Kings_, ii. 280

Heine, H., _Pilgrimage to Kevlaar_, i. 77; on the oak woods of Germany, ii. 243

Heitsi-eibib, Hottentot god or hero, his graves, iv. 3, x. 16

Hekaerge and Hekaergos, i. 33, 34, 35

_Helaga_, holy or taboo, ii. 106 _n._2

Helbig, W., on bronze statuettes at Nemi, i. 20 _n._ 5

Helen and Menelaus, ii. 279

—— of the Tree, worshipped in Rhodes, v. 292

Helensburgh, in Dumbartonshire, Hallowe’en at, x. 237 _n._ 5

Helernus, grove of, ii. 190 _sq._

Heliacal rising of Sirius, vi. 152

Helice, in Achaia, destroyed by earthquake, v. 203; Poseidon worshipped at, v. 203 _n._ 2

Heligoland, disappearance of herring about, viii. 251

Heliodorus, on the priesthood of Apollo and Artemis at Ephesus, vi. 243 _sq._

Heliogabalus, the Emperor, his marriage of the Sun-god and Moon-goddess,