Buddhism :-culture tradition, i.
41; saints rise in air, i. 149;
transmigration, ii. 11, 20, 97;
nirvana, ii. 79; tree-worship, i.
476, ii. 217; serpent-worship,
240; religious formulas, 372.
Buildings, victim immured in
foundation, i. 104, &c.; mythic
founders of, i. 394.

Bull, Bishop, on guardian angels,
ii. 203.

Bura Pennu, ii. 327, 350, 368, 404.
Burial, ghost wanders till, ii. 27;
corpse laid east and west, 423.
Burning oats from straw, i. 44.
Burton, R. F., continuance-theory
of future life, ii. 75; disease-
spirits, 150.

Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, in-
cubi, &c., ii. 191.

Buschmann, on nature-sound, i.
223.

Butler, Bishop, on natural religion,
ii. 356.

Cacodæmon, ii. 138, 202.

Cæsar, on German deities, ii. 294.
Cagots, i. 115, 384.

Calls to animals, i. 177.

Calmet, on souls, i. 457; on spirits,
ii. 188, &c.
Calumet, i. 210.

Candles against demons, ii. 194.
Cant, myth on word, i. 397.
Cardinal numbers, i. 257.
Cards, Playing, i. 82, 126.
Cassava, i. 63.

Castrén, ii. 80, 155, 177, 245, 351,
&c.

Cave-men, condition of, i. 59.
Ceremonies, religious, ii. 362, &c.
Ceres, ii. 306.

Chances, games of, their relation to
arts of divination, i. 78.
Chanticleer, i. 413.
Charivari at eclipse, i. 329.
Charms-objects, i. 118, ii. 148;
formulas, their relation to prayers,
ii. 373.

Charon, i. 490, ii. 93.

Chesterfield, Lord, on customs, i.

95; on omens, i. 118.
Chic, myth on word, i. 397.
Childbirth-goddess, ii. 305.
Children, numerical series of names

for, i. 254; suckled by wild
beasts, i. 281; receive ancestors'
souls and names, ii. 4; sacrifice
of, ii. 398, 403.

Children's language, i. 223.
China, religion of:-funeral rites, i.
464, 493; manes-worship, ii. 118;
cultus of heaven and earth, 257,
272, 352; divine hierarchy, 352;
prayer, 370; sacrifices, 385, 405.
Chinese culture-tradition, i. 40; re-
mains in Borneo, i. 57.
Chiromancy or palmistry, i. 125.
Chirp or twitter of ghosts, &c., i.

453.

Christmas, origin of, ii. 297.
Chronology, limits of ancient, i.
54.

Cicero, on dreams, i. 444; sun-gods,
ii. 294.

Civilization, see Culture.
Civilization-myths, i. 39, 353.
Civilized men adopt savage life, i.

45.

Clairvoyance, by objects, i. 116.
Clashing rocks, myth of, i. 347.
Clicks, i. 171, 192.

Cocoa-nut, divination by, i. 80.
Coin placed with dead, i. 490, 494.
Columba, St., legend of, i. 104.
Columbus, his quest of Earthly
Paradise, ii. 61.
Common, right of, i. 20.
Comparative theology, ii. 251.
Comte, Auguste, i. 19; fetishism, i.
477, ii. 144, 354; species-deities,

242.

Confucius, i. 157; funeral sacrifice,
i. 464, ii. 42; spirits, 206; name
of supreme deity, 352.
Consonants, i. 169.

Constellations, myths of, i. 290, 356.
Continuance-theory of future life, ii.

75.

Convulsions:-by demoniacal pos-
session, ii. 130; artificially pro-
duced, 416.

Convulsionnaires, ii. 420.
Copal incense, ii. 384.

Cord, magical connexion by, i. 117.
Corpse taken out by special opening
in house, ii. 26; soul remains near,
ii. 29, 150.
Cortes, i. 319.
Costume, i. 18.

Counting, art of, i. 22, 240, &c. ; on
fingers and toes, 244; by letters
of alphabet, &c., 258; derivation
of numeral words, 247; evidence
of independent development of
low tribes, 271.
Counting games, i. 75, 87.
Couvade, in South India, i. 84.

Cow, name of, i. 208; purification

by nirang, &c., ii. 438.
Cox, G. W., i. 341, 346, 362.
Creator, doctrine of, ii. 249, 312,
321, &c.

Credibility of tradition, i. 275, 370.
Crete, earth of, fatal to serpents, i.
372.

Cromlechs and menhirs objects of
worship, ii. 164.

Culture-definition of, i. 1; scale
of, i. 26; primitive, represented
by modern savages, i. 21, 68, ii.
443, &c.; development of, i. 21,
&c., 62, &c., 237, 270, 417, &c., ii.
356, 445; evidence of independent
progress from low stages, i. 56,
&c.; survival in culture, 70, &c. ;
evidence of early culture from
language, 236; art of counting,
270; myth, 284; religion, i. 500,
ii. 102, 184, 356, &c.; practical
import of study of culture, 443.
Curtius, Marcus, leap of, ii. 378.
Curupa, cohoba, narcotic used in

W. Ind. and S. Amer., ii. 416.
Customs, permanence of, i. 70, 156;
rational origin of, 94.
Customs of Dahome, i. 462.
Cyclops, i. 391.

Cyrus, i. 281, 286.

Daphne, ii. 220.

Dark, evil spirits in, ii. 194.

Darwin, Charles, i. vii., ii. 152, 223.
Dasent, G. W., i. 19.

Davenport Brothers, i. 152, 311.
Dawn, i. 338, &c.

Day, sun as eye of, i. 350.

Day and Night, myths of, i. 322,
337, &c., ii. 48, 323.
Dead, use objects sacrificed

for

them, i. 485; feasts of, ii. 29;
region of future life of, ii. 59, 74,
244; god and judge of, ii. 75, &c.,
308.

Deaf and Dumb, counting, i. 244,
262; their mythic ideas, i. 298,
413.
Death--ascribed to sorcery, i. 138;
omens of, i. 145, 449; angel of, i.
295, ii. 196, 332; personification
and myths of, i. 295, 349, 355, ii.

46, &c., 309; death and sunset,
myths of, i. 335, ii. 48; exit of
soul at death, i. 448, ii. 1, &c. ;
death of soul, ii. 22.
Death-watch, i. 146.
Decimal notation, i. 261.
Degeneration in culture, i. 35, &c. ;
is a secondary action, i. 38, 69;
examples of, in Africa, North
America, &c., i. 47.

Delphi, oracle of, i. 94, ii. 138.
Demeter, i. 328, ii. 273, 306.
Democritus, theory of ideas, i. 497.
Demons:-souls become, ii. 27, 111,
&c.; iron, charm against, i. 140;
pervade world, ii. 111, 137, 185,
&c.; disease-demons, 126, &c.,
177, 192, 215; water-demons,
i. 109, ii. 209; tree and forest
demons, ii. 215, 222; possession
and obsession by demons, i. 98,
152, 309, ii. 111, 123, &c., 179,
404; expulsion of, i. 103, ii. 125,
199, 438; answer in own name
through patient or medium, ii.
124, &c., 182, 404.

Dendid, creation-poem of, ii. 21.
Deodand, origin of, i. 20, 287.
Destruction of objects sacrificed to

dead, i. 483; to deities, ii. 376, &c.
Development of culture, see Culture.
Development myths, men from
apes, &c., i. 376.

Devil :-
:-as satyr, i. 307; devils'

tree, ii. 148; devil-dancers, ii.
133; devil-worshippers, ii. 329.
Dice, for divination and gambling,
i. 82.

Dies Natalis, ii. 202, 297.

Differential words, phonetic expres-
sion of distance and sex, i. 220.
Dirge, Lyke-wake, i. 495; of Ho,
ii. 32.

Disease-personification and myths

of, i. 295; caused by exit of
soul, i. 436; by demoniacal pos-
session, &c., i. 127, ii. 114, 123,
404; disease-spirits, ii. 125, &c.,
178, 215, 408; embodied in
objects or animals, 146, 178, &c.,
see Demons, Vampires.
Distance expressed by phonetic
modification, i. 220.
Divination:-lots, i. 78; symbolic

processes, 81, 117; augury, &c.,
119; dreams, 121; haruspication,
124; swinging ring, &c., 126;
astrology, 128; possessed objects,
i 125, ii. 155.

Divining rod and pendulum, i. 127.
Doctrines borrowed by low from
high races-on future life, ii.
91; dualism, 316; supremacy,
333.

Dodona, oak of, ii. 219.
Dog-headed men, i. 389.
Dolmens, &c., myths suggested by,

i. 387.

Domina Abundia, ii. 389.
Dook, ghost, i. 433.

D'Orbigny, on religion of low tribes,
i. 419; on sun-worship, ii. 286.
Dravidian languages, high and low
gender, i. 302.

Dreams-omens by, i. 121; by con-
traries, 122; caused by exit of
soul, i. 440; by spiritual visit to
soul, i. 442, 478; evidence of
future life, ii. 24, 49, 75; oracular
fasting for, 410; narcotizing for,
416.

Drift, stone implements from, i. 58.
Drivers' and Drovers' words, i. 180.
Drowning, superstition against res-
cuing from, i. 107; caused by
spirits, 109, ii. 209.

Drugs used to produce morbid ex-
citement, dreams, visions, &c., ii.
416.

Dual and plural numbers in primi-
tive culture, i. 265.
Dualism-good and evil spirits, ii.
186; good and evil genius, 202;
good and evil deity, 316.

Dusii, ii. 190.

Dwarfs, myths of, i. 385.
Dyu, ii. 258.

Earth, myths of, 322, &c., 364, ii.
270, 320.

Earth-bearer, i. 364.
Earth-goddess and earth-worship, i.
322, &c., ii. 270, 306, 345.
Earth-mother, i. 326, &c., 365.
Earthquake, myths of, i. 364.
Earthly Paradise, ii. 57, &c.
Earthly resurrection, ii. 5.

East and West, burial of dead, turn-
ing to in worship, adjusting
temples toward, ii. 383, 422.
Easter fires and festivals, ii. 297.
Eclipse, myths of, i. 288, 329, 356;
driving off eclipse monster, i. 328.
Ecstasy, swoon, &c. :-by exit of
soul, i. 439 by demoniacal pos-
session, ii. 130; induced by fast-
ing, drugs, excitement, ii. 410, &c.
Edda, i. 84, ii. 77, &c.

96;

Egypt, antiquity of culture, i. 54;
religion of, future life, ii. 13,
animal worship, 238; sun-wor-
ship, 295, 311: dualism, 327;
polytheism and supremacy, 355.
El, ii. 355.

Elagabal, Elagabalus, Heliogabalus,
ii. 295, 398.

Elements, worship of the four, ii.
303.

Elf-furrows, myth of, i. 393.
Elijah as thunder-god, ii. 264.
Elysium, ii. 97.

Embodiment of souls and spirits, ii.
3, 123, &c.

Emotional tone, i. 166, &c.
Emphasis, i. 173.
Endor, witch of, i. 446.

Energumens or demoniacs, ii. 139.
Englishman, Peruvian myth of, i.
354.

Enigmas, Greek, i. 93.
Enoch, Book of, i. 408.
Enthusiasm, changed signification
of, ii. 183.

Epicurean theory of development of
culture, i. 37, 60; of soul, 456;
of ideas, 497.

Epileptic fits by demoniacal posses-
sion, ii. 130, 137; induced, 419.
Eponymic ancestors, &c., myths of,
i. 387, 398, &c., ii. 235.
Essence of food consumed by souls,
ii. 39; by deities, 381.

Ethereal substance of soul, i. 454;
of spirit, ii. 198.

Ethnological evidence from myths
of monstrous tribes, i. 379, &c. ;
from eponymic race-genealogies,
401.

of

Etiquette, significance of, i. 95.
Etymological myths-names
places, i. 395; of persons, 396;
nations, cities, &c., traced to
eponymic ancestors or founders,
398, &c.

Euhemerism, i. 279.

Evans, Sir John, on stone implements,
i. 65; Sebastian, i. 106, 453.
Evil deity, ii. 316, &c.; worshipped
only, 320.

Excitement of convulsions, &c., for
religious purposes, ii. 133, 419.
Exeter, myth on name of, i. 396.
Exorcism and expulsion of souls
and spirits, i. 102, 454, ii. 26, 40,
125, &c., 146, 179, 199, 438.
Expression of feature causes corres-
ponding tone, i., 165, 183.

Expressive sound modifies words, i.

215.

Ex-voto offerings, ii. 406, 409.

Eye of day, of Odin, of Graiæ, i.
350.

Fables of animals, i. 381, 409.
Familiar spirits, ii. 199.

Fancy, in mythology, i. 315, 405.
Fasting for dreams and visions, i.
306, 445, ii. 410.

Fauns and satyrs, ii. 227.

Feasts of the dead, ii. 30; sacrificial
banquets, 395.
Feralia, ii. 42.

Fergusson, Jas., on tree-worship, ii.
218; serpent-worship, 240.
Fetch or wraith, i. 448, 452.
Fetish, etymology of, ii. 143.
Fetishism:-defined, ii. 143; doc-
trine of, i. 477, ii. 157, &c., 175,
205, 215, 270, &c.; survival of, ii.
160; its relation to philosophical
theory of force, 160; to nature-
worship, 205; to animal-worship,
231; transition to polytheism,
243; to supremacy, 335; to pan-
theism, 354.

Fiji and S. Africa, moon-myth com-
mon to, i. 355.

Finger-joints cut off as sacrifice, ii.

400.

Fingers and toes, counting on, i.

242.

Finns, as sorcerers, i. 84, 115.
Fire, passing through or over, i. 85,
ii. 281, 429, &c. ; lighted on grave,
i. 484; drives off spirits, ii. 194;
new fire, ii. 278, 290, 297, 432;
perpetual fire, 278; sacrifice by
fire, 383, &c.

Fire-drill, i. 15, 50; ceremonial and
sportive survival of, 75, ii. 281.
Fire-god and fire-worship, ii. 277,
376, &c., 403.

Firmament, belief in existence of,
i. 299, ii. 70.

First Cause, doctrine of, ii. 335.
Food offered to dead, i. 485, ii. 30,

&c.; to deities, ii. 397; how con-
sumed, ii. 39, 376.

Footprints of souls and spirits, ii.

Funeral sacrifice :-attendants and
wives killed for service of dead.
i. 458; animals, 472; objects de-
posited or destroyed, 481; motives
of, 458, 472, 483; survival of,
463, 474, 492; see Feast of Dead.
Future Life, i. 419, 469, 480, ii. 1,

&c., 100; transmigration of soul,
ii. 2; remaining on earth or de-
parture to spirit-world, ii. 22;
whether races without belief in,
20; connexion with evidence of
senses in dreams and visions, 24,
49; locality of region of departed
souls, 44, 74; visionary visits to,
46; connexion of solar ideas with,
48, 74, 311, 422; character of future
life, 74; continuance-theory, 75;
retribution-theory, 83; introduc-
tion of moral element, 10, 83;
stages of doctrine of future life,
100; its practical effect on man-
kind, 104; god of the dead, 308.

Gambling numerals, i. 268.
Games:- children's games related
to serious occupations, i. 72;
counting-games, 74; games of
chance related to arts of divina-
tion, 78.

Gataker, on lots, i. 79.

Gates of Hades, Night, Death, i.
347.

Gayatri, daily sun-prayer of Brah-
mans, ii. 292.

Genders, distinguished as male and
female, animate and inanimate,
&c., i. 301.

Genghis Khan, worshipped, ii. 117.
Genius, patron or natal, ii. 199, 216;

good and evil, 203; changed
signification of word, 181.
German and Scandinavian mytho-
logy and religion :-funeral sac-
rifice, i. 464, 491; Walhalla, ii.
79, 88; Hel, i. 347, ii. 88; Odin,
Woden, i. 351, 362, ii. 269; Loki,
i. 83, 365; Thor, Thunder, ii.
266 Sun and Moon, i. 289, ii.
294.

Gesture-language, and gesture ac-

163;

companying language, i.
effect of gesture on vocal tone,
165; gesture counting original
method, i. 246.

Ghebers or Gours, fire-worshippers,
ii. 282.

Gheel, treatment of lunatics at, ii.
143.

Ghost-ghost-soul, i. 142, 428, 433,
445, 488; seen in dreams and
visions, 440, &c. ; voice of, 452;
substance and weight of, 453;
of men, animals, and objects, 429;
469, 479; popular theory incon-
sistent and broken down from
primitive, 479; ghosts as harmful
and vengeful demons, ii. 27;
ghosts of unburied wander, ii. 28;
ghosts remain near corpse or
dwelling, ii. 29, &c.; laying
ghosts, ii. 153, 194.
Giants, myths of, i. 386.

Gibbon, on development of culture,
i. 33.

Glanvil, Saducismus Triumphatus,

ii. 140.

Glass-mountain, Anafielas, i. 492.
Godless month, ii. 350.
Gods-seen in vision, i. 306; of

waters, ii. 209; of trees, groves,
and forests, 215; embodied in or
represented by animals, 231; gods
of species, 242; higher gods of
polytheism, 247, &c.; of dualism,
316; gods of different religions
compared, 250; classified by com-
mon attributes, 254.

Gog and Magog, i. 386, &c.
Goguet, on degeneration and deve-
lopment, i. 32.

Gold, worshipped, ii. 154.

Good and evil, rudimentary dis-
tinction of, ii. 89, 318; good and
evil spirits and dualistic deities,
317.

Goodman's croft, ii. 408.
Graiæ, eye of, i. 352.

Great Spirit, ii. 256, 324, 339, 343,
354, 365, 395.
Great-eared tribes, i. 388.
Greek mythology and religion:-
nature-myths, i. 320, 328, 349;
funeral rites, 464, 490; future life,
ii. 53, 63, &c.; nature-spirits and
polytheism, 206, &c.; Zeus, 258,
&c., 355; Demeter, 273, 306;
Nereus, Poseidon, 277; Hephai-
stos, Hestia, 284; Apollo, 294;
Hekate, Artemis, 302; stone-

worship, 165; sacrifice, 386, 396;
orientation, 426; lustration, 439.
Grey, Sir George, i. 322.

Grote, George, on mythology, i. 276,
400.

Grove-spirits, ii. 215.
Guarani, name of, i. 401.
Guardian spirits and angels, ii. 199.
Gulf of dead, ii. 62.
Gunthram, dream of, i. 442.
Gypsies, i. 49, 115.

Hades, under-world of departed
souls, i. 335, 340, ii. 65, &c., 81,
97, 309; descent into, i. 340, 345,
ii. 45, 54, 83; personification of,
i. 340, ii. 55, 309, 311.
Haetsh, Kamchadal, ii. 46, 313.
Hagiology, ii. 120, 261; rising in
air, i. 151; miracles, i. 157, 371;
second-sight, i. 449; hagiolatry,
ii. 120.

Hair, lock of, as offering, ii. 401.
Half-men, tribes of, i. 391.
Haliburton, on sneezing-rite, i. 103.
Hamadryad, ii. 215.

Hand-numerals, from counting on

fingers, &c., i. 246.

Hanuman, monkey-god, i. 378.
Hara kari, i. 463.

Harmodius and Aristogiton, ii. 63.
Harpies, ii. 269.

Harpocrates, ii. 295.

Haruspication, i. 123, ii. 179.
Harvest-deity, ii. 305, 364, 368.
Hashish, ii. 379.

Head-hunting, Dayak, i. 459.
Headless tribes, myths of, i. 390.
Healths, drinking, i. 96.

Heart, related to soul, i. 431, ii. 152.
Heaven, region of departed souls,
ii. 70.

Heaven and earth, universal father
and mother, i. 322, ii. 272, 345.
Heaven-god, and heaven-worship,
i. 306, 322, ii. 255, &c., 337, &c.,
367, 395.

Hebrides, low culture in, i. 45.
Hekate, 150, ii. 302, 418.
Hel, death-goddess, i. 301, 347, ii.
88, 311.

Hell, ii. 56, 68, 97; related to
Hades, ii. 74, &c.; as place of
torment, not conception of savage
religion, 103.

Hellenic race-genealogy, i. 402.
Hellshoon, i. 491.
Hephaistos, ii. 212, 280.
Hera, ii, 305.