ii. 285

Sisters of king, licence accorded to, ii. 274 _sqq._

Siva, i. 404, ii. 77, 78

Skeat, W. W., i. 360 _sq._

Skeleton in rain-charm, i. 284

Skene, W. F., ii. 286 _n._ 2

Skoptsy, the, a Russian sect, ii. 145 _n._ 2

Skulls, ancestral, used in magical ceremonies, i. 163; in rain-charm, 285

Sky, twins called the children of the, i. 267, 268; Aryan god of the, ii. 374 _sq._

Slave, charm to bring back a runaway, i. 152, 317

—— priests at Nemi, i. 11

Slaves, licence granted to, at Saturnalia, ii. 312; female, licence accorded to, at the _Nonae Caprotinae_, 313 _sq._

Slavs, tree-worship among the heathen, ii. 9; the thunder-god Perun, of the, 365

Sleep, charms employed by burglars to cause, i. 148 _sq._

“Sleep of war,” ii. 147

Smith, W. Robertson, i. 301 _n._ 2

Smiths sacred, i. 349

Smoke made as a rain-charm, i. 249; of cedar inhaled as means of inspiration, 383 _sq._; as a charm against witchcraft, ii. 330

Snake-bites, charms against, i. 152 _sq._

—— skin a charm against witchcraft, ii. 335

Snakes, human wives of, ii. 149, 150

“Sober” sacrifices, i. 311 _n._ 1

Social progress, i. 420

Sodza, a lightning goddess, ii. 370

Sofala, King of, i. 392

Sogamozo, the pontiff of, i. 416

Sogble, a lightning god, ii. 370

Solar myth theory, i. 333

Somerville, Professor W., ii. 328 _n._ 4

Sophocles, ii. 115, 161

Sorcerers. _See_ Magicians, Medicine-men

Sorcery. _See_ Magic

Sorrows, Master of, i. 280

Soul, external, in afterbirth (placenta) or navel-string, i. 200 _sq._

Souls ascribed to trees, ii. 12 _sqq._; of ancestors supposed to be in fire on the hearth, 232

Sowing, curses at, i. 281; homoeopathic magic at, 136 _sqq._; sexual intercourse before, ii. 98; continence at, 105, 106; in Italy and Sicily, time of, 311 _n._ 5

Sparks of fire supposed to impregnate women, ii. 197, 231

Sparta, the two kings of, i. 46 _sq._; their relation to Castor and Pollux, 48-50

Spartan sacrifice of horses to the sun, i. 315 _sq._

Spencer and Gillen, i. 89, 107 _n._ 4

Spieth, J., i. 397

Spinning forbidden, i. 113 _sq._

Spirit, Brethren of the Free, i. 408

Spiritual husbands, ii. 316 _sq._

Spittle, divination by, i. 99; used in magic, 57

Spring, oracular at Dodona, ii. 172

Springs troubled to procure rain, i. 301; which confer prophetic powers, ii. 172

Squirting water as a rain-charm, i. 249 _sq._, 277 _sq._

Star, falling, in magic, i. 84

Stepmother, marriage with a, among the Saxons, ii. 283

Stewart, C. S., i. 387 _n._ 1

Sticks, sacred, representing ancestors, ii. 222 _sqq._

Stone, holed, in magic, i. 313

—— curlew in magic, i. 80

—— throwing as a fertility charm, i. 39

Stones tied to trees to make them bear fruit, i. 140; oaths upon, 160 _sq._; homoeopathic magic of, 160 _sqq._; employed to make fruits and crops grow, 162 _sqq._; precious, homoeopathic magic of, 164 _sq._; the Day of, 279; rain-making by means of, 304 _sqq._; in charms to make the sun shine, 312, 313, 314; put in trees to prevent sun from setting, 318; in wind charms, 319, 322 _sq._

Storeroom (_penus_), sacred, ii. 205 _sq._

Strabo, ii. 305

Stubbes, P., ii. 66

Subincision, use of blood shed at, i. 92, 94 _sq._

Succession to the chieftainship or kingship alternating between several families, ii. 292 _sqq._

—— to the kingdom, in ancient Latium, ii. 266 _sqq._; determined by a race, 299 _sqq._; determined by mortal combat, ii. 322

Sulka, the, of New Britain, ii. 148

Sumatra, i. 58, 71

Summer, bringing in the, ii. 74

Sun, homoeopathic magic of setting, i. 165 _sq._; supposed to send new teeth, 181; magical control of the, 311 _sqq._; charms to cause the sun to shine, 311 _sqq._; eclipse of, ceremonies at 311, 312; human sacrifices to the 314 _sq._; chief deity of the Rhodians, 315; supposed to drive in chariot, 315; caught by net or string, 316; charms to prevent the sun from going down, 316 _sqq._; the father of the Incas, 415; Parthian monarchs the brothers of the, 417 _sq._; sanctuary of the, ii. 107; high priest of the, 146 _sq._; marriage of a woman to the, 146 _sq._; worshipped by the Blackfoot Indians, 146; round temple of the, 147; temple of the Sun at Cuzco, 243; virgins of the Sun in Peru, 243 _sqq._; the Great, title of chief, 262, 263

—— and Earth, marriage of the, ii. 98 _sq._, 148

—— -god, no wine offered to the, i. 311

—— -god Ra in Egypt, i. 418, 419

—— goddess, i. 417

Superstitions as to the making of pottery, ii. 204 _sq._

_Svayamvara_, ii. 306

Swami Bhaskaranandaji Saraswati, i. 404

Swearing on stones, i. 160 _sq._

Sweden, midsummer customs in, ii. 65; Frey and his priestess in, 143 _sq._; customs observed in, at turning out the cattle to graze for the first time in spring, 341 _sq._

Swedes sacrifice their kings, i. 366 _sq._

Sweethearts of St. John, ii. 92

Swine, herds of, in ancient Italy, ii. 354

Sycamores worshipped, ii. 15; sacred among the Gallas, 34

Sylvii or Woods, the kings of Alba, ii. 379

Sympathetic Magic, i. 51 _sqq._; its two branches, 54; examples of, 55 _sqq._ _See also_ Magic

Syria, St. George in, ii. 346

Taara, the thunder-god of the Esthonians, ii. 367

Taboo, a negative magic, i. 111 _sqq._

Taboos, homoeopathic, i. 116; contagious, 117; on food, 117 _sqq._; laid on the parents of twins, 262, 263 _sq._, 266; observed after house-building, ii. 40

Tacitus, ii. 285

Tagales, the, ii. 36

Tahiti, kings of, deified, i. 388

“Tail-money,” ii. 331

_Tāli_, tying the, ii. 57 _n._ 4

Tamarinds, sacred, ii. 42, 44

Tammuz or Adonis, ii. 346

Tana, power of the disease-makers in, i. 341

Tanaquil, the Queen, ii. 195

Taoism, religious head of, i. 413 _sqq._

Tapio, woodland god, ii. 124

Tarahumares of Mexico, i. 249

Tarquin the Elder, ii. 195

—— the Proud, his attempt to shift the line of descent of the kingship, ii. 291 _sq._

Tasmanians, the, ii. 257

Tatius, death of, ii. 320

Tauric Diana, i. 10 _sq._, 24

Taylor, Isaac, ii. 189 _n._ 3

Teeth, ceremony of knocking out teeth at initiation, i. 97 _sqq._; extraction of teeth in connexion with rain, 98 _sq._; charms to strengthen, 153, 157; contagious magic of, 176-182; of rats and mice in magic, 178 _sqq._

Telamon, ii. 278

Telchines, the, of Rhodes, i. 310

Telepathy, magical, i. 119 _sqq._; in hunting and fishing, 120 _sqq._; in war, 126 _sqq._; in voyages, 126

Tertullian, i. 407; on the Etruscan crown, ii. 175 _n._ 1

Teucer, ii. 278

Teutonic kings, i. 47; thunder god, ii. 364

Thargelion, Greek harvest month, i. 32

Thebes, the Egyptian, ii. 130, 134; high priests of Ammon at, 134

Theocritus, witch in, i. 206

_Theogamy_, divine marriage, ii. 121

Theophrastus, on the woods of Latium, ii. 188

Theopompus, ii. 287

Thevet, F. A., i. 358

Thieves’ candles, i. 148, 149

Things, homoeopathic magic of inanimate, i. 157 _sqq._

Thistles, a charm against witchcraft, ii. 339, 340

Thompson Indians, i. 70, 132; the fire-drill of the, ii. 208

Thor, the Norse thunder god, ii. 364

Thorn-bushes as charms against witches, ii. 338

Thoth, Egyptian god, ii. 131

Threatening the thunder god, ii. 183 _n._ 2

Thrice born, said of Brahmans, i. 381

Thrones, sanctity of, i. 365

Thunder, imitation of, i. 248; kings expected to make, ii. 180 _sqq._; thought to be the roll of the drums of the dead, 183; rain, sky, and oak, god of the, 349 _sq._; Esthonian prayer to, 367 _sq._

—— and oak, the Aryan god of the, ii. 356 _sqq._

Thunder-bird, i. 309

—— god, threatening the, ii. 183 _n._ 2; conceived as a deity of fertility, 368 _sqq._

Thunderbolt of Indra, i. 269

—— Zeus, ii. 361

Thunderbolts, kings killed by, ii. 181; flint implements regarded as, 374

Thunderstorms, disappearance of Roman kings in, ii. 181 _sqq._

Thurston, E., i. 56 _n._ 3

Thyiads, the, i. 46

Tibet, the Grand Lamas of, i. 411 _sq._

Tides, homoeopathic magic of the, i. 166 _sqq._

Tiele, C. P., i. 419 _sq._

Tifata, Mount, ii. 380

Timber, homoeopathic magic of house timber, i. 146; of houses, tree-spirits propitiated in, ii. 39 _sq._

Timor, telepathy of high-priest of, in war, i. 128 _sq._

Tinneh Indians, the, i. 357

Toad in charm against storms, i. 325

Toaripi or Motumotu, the, in New Guinea, i. 125, 337

Toboongkoos, the, ii. 35

Todas, the, i. 56; divine milkmen of the, 402 _sq._; magic and medicine among the, 421 _n._ 1

Togoland, i. 265

Tomori, the, of Celebes, ii. 29, 35, 110

Tonga, chiefs of, believed to heal scrofula, i. 371

Tonquin, kings of, responsible for drought and dearth, i. 355

Töppen, M., ii. 365 _n._ 5

Toradjas, the, i. 109, 114, 129, 159

Torres Straits, i. 59

Tortoise, magic of, i. 151, 170

Totem, confusion between a man and his totem, i. 107 _sq._

Totemism in Central Australia not a religion, i. 107 _sq._

Totems in Central Australia, magical ceremonies for the multiplication of, i. 85 _sqq._; custom of eating the, 107

Touch-me-not (_Impatiens sp._), ii. 77

Touching for the King’s Evil (scrofula), i. 368 _sqq._

Transmigrations of human deities, i. 410 _sqq._

Tree, life of child connected with, i. 184; that has been struck by lightning, 319; culprits tied to sacred, ii. 112 _sq._; fire kindled from ancestral, 221; spirit represented simultaneously in vegetable and human form, ii. 73 _sqq._

—— -spirits, ii. 7 _sqq._; in house-timber propitiated, 39 _sq._; beneficent powers of, 45 _sqq._; give rain and sunshine, 45 _sq._; make crops grow, 47 _sqq._; make cattle and women fruitful, 50 _sqq._, 55 _sqq._; in human form or embodied in living people, 71 _sqq._

Tree-worship among the European families of the Aryan stock, ii. 9 _sqq._; in modern Europe, relics of, 59 _sqq._

Trees, marriage to, i. 40 _sq._, ii. 57; extracted teeth placed in, i. 98; burial in, 102; navel-strings placed in, 182, 183, 185, 186; afterbirth (placenta) placed in, 182, 187, 190, 191, 194, 199; worship of, ii. 7 _sqq._; regarded as animate, 12 _sqq._; sacrifices to, 15, 16 _sq._, 34, 44, 46, 47; sensitive, 18; apologies offered to trees for cutting them down, 18 _sq._, 36 _sq._; bleeding, 18, 20, 33; threatened to make them bear fruit, 20 _sqq._; married to each other, 24 _sqq._; animated by the souls of the dead, 29 _sqq._; planted on graves, 31; as the abode of spirits, 33 _sqq._; ceremonies at cutting down, 34 _sqq._; drenched with water as a rain-charm, 47; grant women an easy delivery, 57 _sq._

—— and plants, attempts to deceive the spirits of, ii. 22 _sqq._

—— sacred, ii. 40 _sqq._; smeared with blood, 367

Trinity, the Hindoo, i. 225, 404; the Norse, ii. 364

Triumph, the Roman, ii. 174

Troezen, sanctuary of Hippolytus at, i. 24 _sq._

Troy, sanctuary of Athena at, ii. 284

“True Man, the,” i. 413

Trumpets, sacred, ii. 24

Tshi-speaking peoples of Gold Coast, i. 132

Tullius Hostilius, killed by lightning, ii. 181, 320

Tumleo, i. 213

Turner, Dr. George, i. 341

Turner’s picture of “The Golden Bough,” i. 1

Turning or whirling round, custom of, observed by mummers, i. 273, 275,