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INDEX
banishment of demons in, ii. 178; human scapegoats in, ii. 196; the external soul in Siamese story, ii. 304, 305
Siberian sable hunters, ii. 115, 116
Sicily, Gardens of Adonis in, i. 294, 295
Silenus both a wood and corn spirit, ii. 35; representation of, ib.
Silesia, driving out Death in, i. 260; “carrying out Death” in, i. 267; bringing back summer in, i. 263; harvest custom in, i. 336, 346; ii. 8
Silvanus both a wood and corn spirit, ii. 35
Sin-bearers, ii. 151, 152
Sin-eating, ii. 154-157
“Sinew which shrank,” abstinence from the, ii. 126-128
Skye, harvest festival in, ii. 14; Beltane fires in, ii. 255, 256
Slaves sacrificed, i. 251, 252
Slavonia, “carrying out Death” in, i. 260; ii. 209; custom of “sawing the old woman” amongst the Slavs, i. 262; reaping custom amongst the Slavs, i. 334, 355; beating in, ii. 216; midsummer fires in, ii. 265; perpetual fire of the Slavs, ii. 293; the external soul in Slavonic stories, ii. 309, 310
Slovenes of Oberkrain, Shrove Tuesday custom amongst the, i. 96
Small-pox, driving away the, ii. 161; scapegoat used for, ii. 190, 191
Snake, communion with the, ii. 139
—— tribe, ii. 95; ceremony performed with a dough snake by the, ii. 139, 140
Soest, custom of flax pullers at, i. 375
Sofala, kings of, killed, i. 219, 220
Sogamoso, restrictions on the heir to the throne in, ii. 225
Solör, harvest custom in, i. 375
Somersetshire, midsummer fires in, ii. 262
Sorcerers, the soul extracted or detained by, i. 135-141
Soul, perils of the, i. 109 sq.; a miniature of the body, i. 121-123; precautions to prevent its escape, i. 123; conceived as a bird, i. 124; its flight, i. 124, 125; absent in sleep, i. 125-129; its departure not always voluntary, i. 129; carried off by ghosts, i. 129-132; recall of the, i. 129-141; stolen by demons, i. 132-135; brought back in visible shape, i. 136-138; extracted or detained by sorcerers, i. 138-141; transference of the, i. 140; the soul thought to be in the portrait, i. 148, 149; in the shadow, i. 141-149; in the reflection, i. 145-148; in the blood, i. 178, 179; transmigration of the human soul into that of a turtle, ii. 98; the external soul in folk tales, ii. 296-326; in folk custom, ii. 327-359
Souls, of trees, i. 59-61; of divine persons transmitted to successors, i. 237-239; plurality of, ii. 339
South American Indians, foods eaten and avoided by the, ii. 86; beating by the, ii. 216
South Sea Islands, man-gods in the, i. 38, 39
Sowing-time custom, ii. 28-30, 32, 48
Spachendorf, fire festivals in, ii. 249, 250
Spain, custom of “sawing the old woman” in, i. 261, 262; midsummer fires in, ii. 266
Sparrows, the, and the corn, ii. 130
Sparta, state sacrifices offered by the kings of, i. 7
Spices, sprinkling the sick with, i. 154
Spirit, of vegetation, in human shape, i. 87, 88
—— robbing the, i. 380
Spirits, sharp instruments supposed to wound, i. 176, 177
Spitting as a protective charm, i. 205
Spring and harvest customs compared, i. 346, 347
—— ceremony in, in China, ii. 42, 43; European fire festivals in, ii. 247-254
Storms, Motumotu theory of, i. 27
Strangers, precautions against the magic arts of, i. 150-160; tied up in the sheaves by the reapers as representatives of the corn-spirit, i. 374-380
Straw goats, ii. 16
Sucla-Tirtha, expulsion of sins to sea by the, ii. 192
Suicide of Fijians at old age, i. 216
Sumatra, rain-charm in, i. 17; tree-superstition in, i. 63; reluctance to wound a tiger in, ii. 110
Summer, bringing back, i. 263, 268
—— tree, i. 268, 269
Sun, staying the, i. 24; sacred person not allowed to see the, ii. 225, 243 note; girls at puberty not allowed to see the, ii. 225-253; traces in folk-tales of the rule which forbids girls at puberty to see the sun, ii. 235-237; belief that the sun can impregnate women, ii. 236; tabooed persons may not see the, ii. 243 note; fires as sun charms, ii. 267-274
