INDEX
405
Suni Mohammedans, covering up mirrors by the, i. 147
Sunshine, making, i. 22-24
Superb warbler, ii. 336, 337
Surenthal, midsummer fire ceremony in the, ii. 259, 260
Surinam, the bush negroes of, and their totems, ii. 53, 54
Sutherland, cure for cough in, ii. 154
Sutherlandshire, custom at the digging of new potatoes in, ii. 71
Swabia, burying of cut hair in, i. 202; burying the carnival in, i. 254-257; harvest custom, ii. 27; fire festival, ii. 248-249; Easter fires in, ii. 254; midsummer fires in, ii. 258
Sweden, harvest superstition in, i. 68; King Domalde sacrificed on account of famine, i. 47, 48; May Eve customs in, i. 78; midsummer ceremonies, i. 78, 79; Christmas customs in, ii. 29-31; superstitious use of Yule straw in, ii. 30, 31; May Day fires in, ii. 258; midsummer bonfires in, ii. 289; mistletoe superstition in, ib.; divining rods made from the mistletoe in, ii. 367
Swineherds, restrictions on, in Egypt, ii. 52
Syleus, legend of, i. 398
Sympathetic eating. Savage belief that a man acquires the character of the animal or man whose flesh he eats, ii. 85-89
—— magic, i. 9-12
Syria, caterpillars in, ii. 132
Taboo, i. 121, 178; fatal effects of, i. 167-170; seclusion of tabooed persons, i. 170, 171; the object of, is to preserve life, i. 149; royal and priestly taboos, i. 109-120, 149-150, 209
Tabor, in Bohemia, ceremony of carrying out Death in, i. 258
Tahiti, abdication of kings of, i. 120; the bodies of the king and queen not allowed to be touched, i. 172; superstition concerning the head in, i. 190, 191; burying of cut hair in, i. 200
Tâif, hair cut on returning from a journey in, i. 194
Tamaniu, the, of the Bank Islanders, ii. 331, 332
Tana, disposal of unconsumed food by the islanders, i. 166; offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 378
Tarnow, reaping custom in, i. 335
Tartar Khan, ceremony on a visit by a stranger to a, i. 158, 159
—— poems, the external soul in, ii. 321-324
Ta-ta-thi tribe of New South Wales, rain-making by the, i. 14
Tâ-uz, festival in honour of, i. 283, 284
Temporary kings, i. 228-234; sometimes hereditary, i. 22S, 232
Tenedos, rites of Dionysus at, i. 329
Tenimber Islands, offering of first-fruits in the, ii. 376, 377
Teutonic kings exercised the powers of high priests, i. 8
Texas, initiatory ceremony among the Toukaway Indians of, ii. 352
Thammuz as a corn-spirit, i. 283, 288
Thann, May-Day customs in, i. 83
Theban ritual, ii. 92, 93; rams sacred at Thebes, ii. 63
Thesmophoria, the, ii. 44-48
Thlinket of Alaska, festival to the halibut by the, ii. 121
Thüringen, Whitsuntide customs in, i. 90, 91, 243; Mid-Lent customs in, i. 257, 258; threshing custom in, i. 371
Tibetan New Year’s day custom, ii. 193-195; scapegoat, ii. 197-198
Tiger, flesh of, eaten, ii. 86; reluctance to wound a, ii. 110
Tikopia islanders, ceremony by the, in cases of epidemic, ii. 188
Tillot, threshing custom in the canton of, i. 372
Timor, West, custom of a speaker in, i. 163
Timorese rain-charm, i. 18
Timorlaut, married men not allowed to cut their hair in, i. 194; disease-boats in, ii. 186, 187
Tjumba, harvest festival in, ii. 375, 376
Todas, the dairy a sanctuary amongst the, i. 41; buffalo held sacred by the, ii. 136, 137
Tom-cat, ii. 11
Tona, the, of the Zapotecs, ii. 332, 333
Tonga, king of, not seen eating, i. 162; ceremony in, with regard to sacred contagion, ii. 55; festival of the first-fruits in, ii. 379-381
Tongues of birds given to backward children to eat, ii. 87
Tonquin, the test of a suitable sacrificial victim in, i. 36; selection of guardian spirits in, i. 40; the monarchy, i. 119, 120; kings not allowed to be viewed in public, i. 165; mode of royal executions in, i. 180, 181; expulsionof evil spirits in, ii. 176-178; time of licence in, ii. 204
Toothache cure, ii. 149
Torchlight processions, ii. 266, 273
Totem, a, is an object (animal, plant,
