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INDEX
Adonis in, i. 294, 295; harvest custom in, i. 336, 338, 343; ceremony at the sowing of the winter corn by the Prussian Slavs, ii. 18, 19; mid-summer fire festival in, ii. 265
Puberty, girls at, not allowed to touch the ground or see the sun, ii. 225-253; girls secluded at, ii. 225; reasons for the seclusion, ii. 238 sq.
Pulverbatch, oak tree superstition at, ii. 368
Punjaub, Gen. Nicholson worshipped by a sect in the, i. 41; ceremony at the bursting of the cotton boles in the, i. 353; custom at the festival of lamps, ii. 176
Purification after travel, i. 157, 158
Pyrenees, customs in the, i. 101
Quauhtitlans, human sacrifices by the, ii. 221
Queen of the sacred rites, i. 7
Queensland, initiatory rites in, ii. 343, 344
Quilacare, self-immolation of the king of, i. 224
Quoja, initiatory rites in, ii. 347
Ra, the sun-god, i. 313-316
Rain-charm, i. 93, 199, 287, 289, 299, 333, 374, 390, 400; ii. 42
—— kings of, i. 52, 53
—— making, i. 13-22
Rajah, custom at the death of a, i. 232
Rajah Vijyanagram, his aversion to iron, i. 174
Rajamahall, offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 374, 375
Rali fair, the, i. 276, 277
Ram, sacred, ii. 63; Egyptian sacrifice of the, ii. 92-94; consecration of the white ram by the Kalmucks, ii. 136
Ramin, harvest custom in, i. 377
Raskolniks, the, and mirrors, i. 147
Rattlesnake not killed, ii. 110
Ratzeburg, harvest custom in, i. 376, 377
Red cock, ii. 9
—— haired victims, i. 306, 307
Reflection, the soul in the, i. 145-148
Religion, marks of a primitive, i. 348, 349
—— and magic, relation of, i. 30-32
Religious aspect of Peruvian, Parthian and Egyptian sovereigns, i. 48-50
Resurrection, the, of animals, ii. 123-125; traces in folk-tales of the belief in, ii. 125; simulation of death and resurrection at initiatory rites, ii. 342-358
Rhetra, priest tastes the sacrificial blood at, i. 35
Rhön mountains, fire festivals in the, ii. 249
Rice-bride, the, i. 355
Rice harvest, ceremonies at the, ii. 71, 72
Rio de la Plata, seclusion of girls amongst the Indians of, ii. 230, 231
Roman cure for fever, ii. 152
—— haircutting custom, i. 199
Romans, tree worship by the, i. 99
Rome, ceremony of driving out the old Mars from, ii. 208-210
Romove, sacred oak at, i. 58, 64
Rook, expulsion of evil in the island of, ii. 158; initiation festival, ii. 352
Rosenheim, harvest custom in, ii. 20
Roti, haircutting ceremony in the island of, i. 201, 205, 206
Rottenburg, midsummer ceremony in, ii. 266, 267
Roumanians, rain-making by the, i. 16; custom after a death by the, i. 176; corn-drenching by the, i. 286
Rowan, the, effective against witchcraft, ii. 361
Royal and priestly taboos, i. 109-120, 149-209
—— blood not spilt upon the ground, i. 179-183
Ruhla, springtide custom in, i. 88
Rupture, cure for, ii. 330
Russia, Whitsuntide customs in, i. 76, 77; first-born sacrificed by the heathen in, i. 237; Eastertide customs in Little Russia, i. 272, 273; harvest custom in, i. 341; ceremony on the cutting of the first sheaf in, i. 364; Easter custom in White Russia, ii. 29; Russian wood-spirits, ii. 35, 36; Russian corn-spirits, ii. 36; beating as a charm in, ii. 216; mid-summer customs in, ii. 265, 267
Ruthenia, fire festival in, ii. 265
Rye-boar, ii. 26, 27
—— goat, ii. 12
—— wolf, ii. 1-3, 5
Sabaea, kings of, not allowed out of their palaces, i. 164
Sabarios, festival of, ii. 69
Sables, superstition about killing, ii. 115
Sacaea festival at Babylon, i. 226, 400
Sacramental bread, traces of the use of, at Aricia, ii. 82-84
—— character of the harvest supper, corn-spirit eaten in animal form, ii. 31
—— killing of an animal, two types of the, ii. 134 sq.
