41, 61, 74; nature-spirits, 200, 207; polytheism, 228; Jupiter, 234, 241; Neptune, 251; Vesta, 258; Lucina, 274, 277, etc.
Roman numeral letters, i. 238. Romulus, patron deity of children, ii. 110; and Remus, i. 254. Rosary, ii. 337.
Sacred springs, streams, etc., ii. 191 ; trees and groves, 203; animals, 213, 343.
Sacrifice :-origin and theory of, ii. 340, etc., 114, 189, 244; manner of consumption or reception by deity, 341, etc.; motive of sacrificer, 356, etc.; substitution, 362; survival, i. 68, ii. 368.
Saint-Foix, i. 428, ii. 31. Saints, worship of, ii. 110. Samson's riddle, i. 84. Sanchoniathon, ii. 202. Sand-pillar, myths of, i. 265. Sanskrit roots, i. 179, 203. Savage, man of woods, i. 345. Savage culture as representative of primitive culture:-i. 19, ii. 401; magic, witchcraft, and spiritualism, i. 101, etc.; language, i. 214, ii. 403; numerals, i. 220; myth, 257, 293; doctrine of souls, 451; future life, ii. 93; animistic theory of nature, 165, 322; polytheism, 225; dualism, 288; supremacy,
rites and ceremonies, 329, 340, 372, 382, 388. Savitar, ii. 265.
Scores, counting by, i. 239.
Sea, myths of, i. 260, ii. 249. Sea-god and sea-worship, Second-death, ii. 21. Second-sight, i. 130, 403.
Semitic race, no savage tribe among, i. 44; antiquity of culture, 49; race-genealogy, 365. Sennaar, i. 358.
Serpent emblem of immortality and eternity, ii. 219.
Serpent-worship, ii. 7, 217, 281, 314. Sex distinguished by phonetic modifi- cation, i. 201.
Shadow related to soul, i. 388, 393; shadowless men, 77, 388. Shell-mounds, i. 55.
Sheol, ii. 62, 74; gates of, i. 313. Shingles, disease, i. 278.
Shoulder-blade, divination by, i. 112.
Sieve and shears, oracle by, i. 116. Silver at new moon, ii. 275. Sing-bonga, ii. 264, 317. Skylla and Charybdis, ii. 190. Slaves sacrificed to serve dead, i. 413. Sling, i. 65.
Sneezing, salutation on, i. 88; con- nected with spiritual influence, 88. Social rank retained in future life, ii. 19, 77.
Sokrates, ii. 126, 267; demon of, 184; prayer of, 338.
Soma, Haoma, ii. 379.
Soul, doctrine of, definition and general course in history, i. 387, 451; cause of life, 387; qualities as conceived by lower races, 387; conception of, related to dreams and visions, i. 387, ii. 21, 371; related to shadow, heart, blood, pupil of eye, breath, i. 388; plurality or division of, 391; exit of, i. 395, 404, ii. 46; restoration of, i. 394, 429; trance, ectasy, 396; dreams, 397; visions, 402; soul not visible to all, 402; likeness to body, i. 406; mutilated with body, 406; voice, a whisper, chirp, etc., 408; material substance of soul, i. 409, ii. 181; ethereality not immateriality of, in lower culture, i. 412; human souls transmitted by funeral sacrifice to future life, i. 413, ii. 28; souls of animals, i. 422, ii. 37; their future life and transmission by funeral sacri- fice, i. 424; souls of plants, trees, etc., i. 428, ii. 8; souls of objects, i. 430, ii. 8, 69, 140, etc.; transmission by funeral sacrifice, i. 435; conveyed or consumed in sacrifice to deities, ii. 353; object-souls related to ideas, i. 449; existence of soul after death of body, i. 387, etc., ii. 1, etc.; trans- migration or metempsychosis, ii. 2; new birth in human body, 3; in animal body, plant, inert object, 8, etc.; souls remain on earth among survivors, near dwelling, corpse, or tomb, i. 134, 404, ii. 22, etc., 137; food set out for, ii. 26; region of de- parted souls, ii. 54, etc., 67; future life of, i. 413, etc., ii. 68, etc.; rela- tion of soul to spirit in general, ii. 100; souls pass into demons, patron- spirits, deities, 101, 113, 175, 182, 330, 340; manes-worship, 102, etc.; souls embodied in men, animals, plants, objects, 135, 140, 175, 210; mystic meaning of word soul, 325. Soul of world, ii. 304, etc., 321, 332. Soul-mass cake, ii. 38.
Sound-words, i. 209.
Speaking machine, i. 154. Spear-thrower, i. 60.
Species deities, ii. 220.
Spencer, Mr. Herbert, ii. 214. Sphinx, i. 81.
Spirit-course of meaning of word, i.
391, ii. 166, 188, 325; animism, doctrine of spirits, i. 383, ii. 99, 322; doctrine of spirit founded on that of soul, ii. 100; spirits con- nected and confounded with souls, ii. 100, 329; spirits seen in dreams and visions, i. 277, 397, ii. 141, 172, 177, 372; action of spirits, i. 113, ii. 101, etc.; fembodiment of spirits, ii. 112; disease by attack of, 115; oracular inspiration by, 119; whistling, etc., voice of, i. 409, ii. 123; act through fetishes, ii. 131, etc.; through idols, 153; spirits causes of nature, 169, 186, etc., 227; good and evil spirits, 170, 289; spirits swarm in dark, fire drives off, 177; seen by animals, 179; foot- prints of, i. 410, ii. 179; ethereal- material substance of, ii. 181; ex- clusion, expulsion, exorcism of, 114, 181; patron, guardian, and familiar spirits, 182; nature-spirits of vol- canos, whirlpools, rocks, etc., 189; water-spirits and deities, 191; tree- spirits and deities, 196; spirits sub- ordinate to great polytheistic deities, 225, etc.; spirits receive prayer, 329; sacrifice, 340; see Animism, etc. Spirit, Great, ii. 232, 295, 304, etc., 320, 331, 358. Spirit-footprints, i. 410, ii. 179. Spiritualism, modern-its origin in savage culture, i. 128, 141, 385, ii. 22; spirit-rapping, i. 131, ii. 176, 201; spirit-writing, i. 133; rising in air, 135; supernatural unbinding, 139; moving objects, etc., i. 396, ii. 142, 289, 399; oracular posses- sion, i. 134, ii. 124, 129. Spirit-world, journey or visit to, by soul, i. 396, 434, ii. 40, 376, etc. Spitting, i. 93; lustration with spittle, ii. 397, 400.
Standing-stones, objects of worship, ii.
Stone, myths of men turned to, i. 318; stone-worship, ii. 146, etc., 231, 352. Stone Age, i. 51, etc.; magic as be- longing to, 127; myths of giants and dwarfs as belonging to, 348. Storm, myths of, i. 291; storm-god, i. 291, ii. 241.
Substitutes in sacrifice, i. 96, 418, ii. 362, etc.
Succubi, see Incubi. Sucking-cure, ii. 134.
Suicide, body of, staked down, ii. 26, 176.
Sun, myths of, i. 260, 288, 302, etc., ii. 44, 60, 293; sunset, myths of, con- nected with death and future life, i. 302, 312, ii. 44, etc., 282; sun abode of departed souls, ii. 63. Sun-god and sun-worship, i. 90, 261, 318, ii. 238, 259, 293, 306, etc., 341, etc., 370, 382, etc.; sun and moon as good and evil deity, ii. 294, etc. Superlative, triple, i. 240. Superstition, case of survival, i. 15, 64,
Supreme deity, ii. 301, 333; heaven- god, etc., as, 231, 306, etc.; sun-god as, 263, 306, etc.; conception of, in manes-worship, 302; as chief of di- vine hierarchy, 304, etc.; first cause, 304.
Survival in culture, i. 15, etc., 63, etc., ii. 403; children's games, i. 65; games of chance, etc., 70; proverbs, 81; riddles, 83; sneezing-salutation, 88; foundation-sacrifice, 94; not save drowning, 97; magic, witchcraft, etc., 101; spiritualism, 128; nume- ration, 238, 246; deodand, 259; werewolves, 282; eclipse-monster, 298; animism, i. 452, ii. 323; fune- ral sacrifice, i. 418, 428, 445; feasts of dead, ii. 31, 37; possession, 128; fetishism, 146; stone-worship, 153; water-worship, 195; fire-worship, 259; sun-worship, 269; moon-wor- ship, 275; heaven-worship, 320; sacrifice, 369, etc.
Susurrus necromanticus, i. 409, ii. 123. Suttee, i. 420.
Swedenborg, spiritualism of, i. 130, 406, ii. 15, 186.
Symbolic connexion in magic, etc., i. 105, etc., ii. 132; symbolism in reli- gious ceremony, ii. 328, etc. Symplegades, i. 314.
Tacitus, i. 301, ii. 207, 247.
Tailed men, i. 346.
Tangaroa, Taaroa, ii. 312.
Tari Pennu, ii. 245, 317, 334, 366. Taronhiawagon, ii. 232, 280. Tarots, i. 74.
Tatar race, culture of, i. 46; race. genealogy of, 365.
Tattooing, mythic origin of, i. 355. Taylor, Jeremy, on lots, i. 72. Teeth-defacing, mythic origin of, i. 355. Temple, Jewish, ii. 385.
Tertullian, i. 411, ii. 171, 387. Tezcatlipoca, ii. 180, 312, 355. Theodorus, St., church of, ii. 111. Theophrastus, ii. 151.
Theresa, St., her visions, ii. 376. Thor, ii. 241.
Thought, conveyance of, by vocal tone, i. 151; Epicurean theory, 449; savage conception of, ii. 282. Thousand and One Nights-water- spout and sand-pillar, i. 264; Mag- netic Mountain, 337; Abdallah of Sea and Abdallah of Land, ii. 96. Thunder-bird, myths of, i. 327, ii. 237; thunderbolt, ii. 238.
Thunder-god, ii, 237, 277, 283, 306, etc. Tien and Tu, ii. 233, 247, 319. Tlaloc, Tlalocan, ii. 55, 249, 281. Tobacco smoked as sacrifice or incense, ii. 260, 311, 347; to cause morbid vision, etc., 378. Torngarsuk, ii. 308. Tortoise, world-, i. 329.
Totem-ancestors, i. 363, ii. 213; totem- worship, ii. 213.
Traditions, credibility of, i. 249, 254, 334; of early culture, i. 35, 47. Transformation-myths, i. 279, 340, ii. 2, 9, 200.
Transmigration of souls, i. 342, 370, 423, 430, ii. 2, etc.; theory of, ii, 14. Trapezus, i. 358.
Trees, objects suspended to, ii. 137, 203.
Tree-souls, i. 428, ii. 8, 196; tree- spirits, i. 429, ii. 136, 196. Tribe-names, mythic ancestors, i. 360; tribe-deities, ii. 213.
Tribes without religion, i. 377. Tuckett, Mr., i. 336.
Tumuli, remains of funeral sacrifice in, i. 439.
Tupan, ii. 238, 277, 302.
Turks, race-genealogy of, i. 365. Turnskins, i. 77, 279, etc.
Twin brethren, N. A. dualistic myth, ii. 291, etc.
Two paths, allegory of, i. 370.
Ventriloquism, ii. 121, 166. Vergil, Polydore, ii. 370. Versipelles, i. 77, 279, etc. Vesta, ii. 258.
Vigesimal notation, i. 237; survival in French and English, 238. Visions-mythic fancy in, i. 277; are apparitions of spirits, i. 129, 402, 431, ii. 177, 371; as evidence of future life, ii. 21, 44; fasting for, ii. 371; use of drugs to cause, 377. Visits to spirit-world, i. 394, 434, ii. 42, etc.
Vitruvius, on orientation, ii. 386. Vocal tone, i. 151, etc.
Voice of ghosts and other spirits, whis- per, twitter, murmur, i. 408, ii. 123. Volcano, mouth of underworld, ii. 63, i. 311, 328; caused by spirits, ii. 189.
Vowels, i. 152. Vulcan, ii. 255, 258.
Wainamoinen, ii. 42, 86.
Waitz, Prof., Anthropologie der Natur- völker, i. vi. ; fetishism, ii. 144, 161. Walhalla, i. 444, ii. 71, 81. War-god, ii. 278.
Warriors, fate of souls, ii. 79. Wassail, i. 88, 92.
Water, spirits not cross, i. 399. Waterfalls and waterspouts, myths of, i. 264, 267.
Water-gods and water-worship, ii. 191, 248, 341.
Water-spirits and water-monsters, i. 99, ii. 190, etc.
Watling Street, Milky Way, i. 325. Weapons, i. 58, etc.; personal names given to, 275.
Wedgwood, Mr. Hensleigh, on imita- tive language, i. 146.
Weight of soul, i. 410; of spirit, ii.
Well-worship, ii. 191, etc. Werewolves, etc., doctrine of, i. 77, 102, 279, etc., 392, ii. 176. West, mythic conceptions of, as region of night and death, i. 304, 310, ii. 44, 55, 60, 282, etc., 382, etc.; see East and West.
Whately, Archbishop, on origin of culture, i. 34, 37.
Wheatstone, Sir C., i. 154. Wheel-lock, i. 13.
Whirlpool, spirit of, ii. 189.
Widow-sacrifice, i. 413. Wild Hunt, i. 327, ii. 244.
Wilson, Dr. D., on dual and plural, i. 240.
Winds, myths of, i. 325. Witchcraft, i. 105, etc.; origin in savage culture, 125; medieval re- vival, 125; iron charm against, 127; ordeal by water, 127; rising in air, 138; doctrine of werewolves, 282; incubi and succubi, ii. 174; witch- ointment, 379.
Woden, see Odin.
Wolf of Night, i. 308. Wong, ii. 161, 187, 315.
World pervaded by spirits, ii. 125, 165, 169, 187, 227.
Worship as related to belief, i. 386, ii. 328.
Wraith or fetch, i. 404, 408. Wright, Mr. T., ii. 50, 59. Wuttke, Prof., i. 412, etc.
Yama, ii. 49, 285.
Yawning, possession, i. 93. Yezidism, ii. 299.
Zend-Avesta, i. 105, 317, ii. 89, 266, 298, 397.
Zeus, i. 296, 316, ii. 234, etc., 320. Zingani, myth of name, i. 362. Zoroastrism, ii. 17, 89, 256, 290, 298, 321, 339, 363, 396.
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