INDEX
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after a death, i. 147; superstition regarding the knife, i. 177; superstition concerning hair cutting, i. 196, 199; harvest custom, i. 337, 345, 374, 375; ii. 9; harvest cries, i. 408, 409; way to free a garden from caterpillars, ii. 130; beating as a charm, ii. 216, 217; oak the sacred tree, ii. 291; oak log burnt on Midsummer Day, ii. 294; the external soul in German stories, ii. 310-312
Gervasius, rain spring mentioned by, i. 19
Ghosts, the soul carried off by, i. 129-132; annual expulsion of the ghosts of the dead, ii. 163
Giant, sham, procession and burning of the, ii. 280-282
Gilgit, ceremony on felling a tree in, i. 65; sacred cedar of, i. 69 sq.; harvest custom at, ii. 73, 74
Gilyak sacrifice of the bear, ii. 105-107
Girls secluded at puberty, ii. 225-247; reason for, ii. 238-242; not allowed to touch the ground or see the sun, ii. 225-253; traces in folk tales of the rule which forbids girls at puberty to see the sun, ii. 235-237
Goat, the, sacred, ii. 56, 63; Dionysus as a, i. 326-328; ii. 34-37; the corn-spirit as a, ii. 12-19
God, killing the, i. 213; ii. 218-222; killing a god in animal form, i. 327, 328; motives for killing the god, i. 214-216
God’s Mouth, the name of the supreme ruler of the old Prussians, i. 223
Gods die and are buried, i. 213, 214
—— incarnate, slain, ii. 218-222
Gold Coast, sacrifices of the negroes of the, i. 67; their superstition with regard to iron, i. 173
Golden Bough, Turner’s picture of the, i. 1; legend of the, i. 4; the representative of the tree-spirit, i. 107; between heaven and earth, ii. 223-243; what was it, ii. 224; the Golden Bough is the mistletoe, ii. 363, 368; why was the mistletoe called the Golden Bough, ii. 365; the Golden Bough an emanation of the sun’s fire, ii. 367
Goldi sacrifice of the bear, ii. 107, 108
Gommern, harvest festival at, i. 370
Gonds, human sacrifices by the, i. 252, 384; mock-human sacrifices, i. 252; scapegoats amongst the, ii. 200
Good Friday custom, ii. 216
Gout transferred from a man to a tree, ii. 153
Grand Lama, death and reappearance of the, i. 42, 43; and the shadow of Sankara, i. 142
Grandmother, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 336
Granny, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 336
Grass king, i. 91-93, 247
Grätz, midsummer custom in, ii. 267
Greece, rain-making in, i. 16; tree worship in, i. 58, 59, 99; festivals of the Greeks, i. 99, 100, 103; ceremony at the laying of a foundation stone in, i. 144; sacrificial ritual in, ii. 54, 55; human scapegoats in, ii. 210-217; midsummer fires in, ii. 266; the external soul in Greek stories, ii. 305-307
Green George, i. 84-86
Grenoble, May Day in, i. 94; harvest custom in, ii. 15, 47
Grihya-Sûtras, provision in the, for the burning of cut hair, i. 202
Grossvargula, Whitsuntide custom in, i. 91
Ground, sacred persons not allowed to touch the, ii. 224, 243 note; girls at puberty not allowed to touch the, ii. 225-253; sacred things may not touch the, ii. 243 note
Grüneberg, harvest ceremony in, ii. 11
Guanches, rain-charm in, i. 19
Guatemala, the nagual amongst the, ii. 333, 334
Guaycurus and storms, i. 28
Guinea, secreting of cut hair and nails
in, i. 203; annual expulsion of the devil by the negroes of, ii. 170; time of licence in, ii. 204
Guyenne, harvest ceremony in, ii. 6
Hack-thorn, sacred, i. 69
Hadeln, reaping custom in the district of, i. 333
Haida Indian wind-charm, i. 26
Hair, burning of loose, i. 205; burning after child-birth, i. 206; cut hair deposited in a safe place, i. 200-205; cutting, i. 193 sq.; most sacred day of the year appointed for hair cutting, i. 197; superstition concerning the cutting of the, i. 196, 198, 199; cut only during a storm, i. 199; hair-cutting as a disinfectant, i. 206, 207; magic use of cut hair, i. 198, 199; strength supposed to be in the, ii. 328; hair not cut, i. 193-195; superstition about cutting the hair and nails, i. 193-207
Halberstadt, human scapegoats in, ii. 199
Halibut, festival in honour of the, ii. 121
