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Bull Bishop, on guardian angels, ii. Christmas, origin of, ii. 297.

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, Capt. R. F., continuance-
theory of future life, ii. 75; disease-
spirits, 150.

Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, in-
cubi, etc., ii. 191.

Buschmann, Prof., on nature-sound, i.
223.

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

Cacodæmon, ii. 138.

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

Calderwood, Prof., i. vii., ii. 96.
Calls to animals, i. 177.
Calmet on spirits, ii. 188, etc.
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. 53.

Castrén, ii. 89, 155, 177, 245, 351.
Cave-men, condition of, i. 59.
Ceremonies, religious, ii. 362, etc.
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, etc., i. 453.

Chronology, limits of ancient, i. 54.
Cicero on dreams, i. 444; sun-gods,
ii. 294.

Civilization, see Culture.

Civilized men adopt savage life, i. 45.
Civilization-myths. i. 39, 353.
Clairvoyance, by objects, i. 116.
Clashing rocks, myth of, i. 348.
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 Para
dise, ii. 61.

Comparative theology, ii. 251.
Comte. Auguste, i. 19: fetishism, i.

478. 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 posses-
sion, ii. 130; artificially produced,

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. 21, 240, etc.; on
fingers and toes, 244; by letters of
alphabet, etc. 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, etc. ii. 438.

Cox, Mr. G. W., i. 341, 346, 362.
Creator, doctrine of, ii. 249, 312, 321,

etc.

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. 413,
etc; development of, i. 21 etc., 62,
etc., 237, 270, 417, etc, ii. 35 i, 445;
evidence of independent progress

from low stages, i. 56, etc.; survival
in culture. 70, etc; evidence of
eatly culture from language, 236;
art of counting, 270: myth, 284;
religion, 1500. i 102, 184, 356,
etc.; practical import of study of

culture, 443.

Curtius, Marcus, le up of, ii. 378.

tree and forest demons, ii. 215, 222;
possession and obsession by demons,
i. 98, 152, 309, ii. 111, 123, etc., 179,
401; expulsion of. i. 103, 11. 125,
438; answer in own name through
patient or medium, ii. 124. etc., 182,

356

Dendid creation-poem of, ii. 21.

Curupa, cohoba, narcotic used in W. | Deodand origin of, i. 257.

Ind. and S. Amer, ii. 416.

Customs permanence of, i. 70, 156;

rational origin of, 94.

Customs of Dahome, i. 462.

Cycle of Necessity, ii. 13.
Cyclops, i. 391.

Cyrus, i. 281, 286.

Dancing for religious excitement, ii.
133.420.

Danse Macabre, myth on name, i. 397.
Dante, Divina Commed a, i. 55, 220.
Daphne. ii. 220.

Dark, evil sprits in, ii. 191.
Darwin, Mr., i. vii. ii. 152, 223.
Dasent. Dr.. i. 19.

Davenport Brothers. i. 152, 311.
Dawn, i. 38, 344, etc.
Day, sun as eye of, i. 350.
Day and Night, myths of, i. 322, 337,
etc., ii. 4, 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, etc., 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, i. 196, 321; personification
and myths of, i. 295, 349, 355. ii
46, etc.. 309; death and sunset.
myths of, i. 335, ii. 48; exit of soul
at death. i. 448, ii. 1, etc.; death of
soul ii. 22.

Death-watch. i. 146.

Decimal notation, i. 261.
Degeneration in culture, i. 35, etc.; is

a secondary action, i. 38. 69; ex-
amples of, in Africa, North America,
etc i. 47.

Delphi, oracle of, i. 94, ii. 137.
Demeter, i. 328, ii. 273, 306.
Democritus, theory of ideas, i. 497.
Demons: souls become i 27, 111,

etc; iron, charm against, i. 140;
pervade world, ii. 111, 137, 185, etc;
disease demons, 126, etc, 177, 192,
215; water-demons, i. 109, ii. 209;

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Disease: --ersonification and myths
of, i. 295; by exit of soul, i. 436;
by demoniacal possession, etc.. i. 127,
ii. 114, 123, 404; disease-spirits, ii
125, etc, 178, 215, 468. embodied
in objects or an mals, 145, 178, etc;
see Demons, Vampires.
Distance expressed by phonetic modi-
fication, i. 220.

Divination: lots, i. 78; symbolic pro-
cesses, 81, 117; augury, etc., 119;
dreams, 121; haruspication, 124;
swinging ring, etc., 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; dual-
ism, 316; supremacy, 333.
Dodona, oak of. ii. 219.
Dog headed men, i. 389.
Dolmens, etc, 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. 285.
Dravidian languages, high and low
gender, i. 302.
Dreams-omens by, i 121; by con-

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

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Earth, myths of, i. 322, etc., 364, ii.
270, 3:0.

Earth-bearer, i. 364.

Earth-goddess and earth-worship, i.
322, etc., ii. 270, 306, 342.
Earth-mother, i. 326, etc., 365.
Earthquake myths of, i. 364.
Earthly Paradise, ii. 57, etc.
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. 2-8, 329, 356;
driving off eclipse monster, i. 328.
Ecstasy, swoon, etc. :--by exit of soul,
i. 439; by demoniacal possession,
ii. 130; induced by fasting, drugs,
excitement, ii. 410, etc.

Edda, i. 84, ii. 77, etc.
Egypt, antiquity of culture, i. 54;
religion of, transmigration, ii. 13;
future life. 96; animal-worship,
235; sun-worship, 295, 311; dual-
ism. 327; polytheism and supremacy,
355.

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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, etc., myths of,
i. 387, 398, etc., ii. 235.
Essence of food consumed by souls,
ii. 39; by deities, 381.

Ethereal substance of soul, i. 454; of
spirit, ii. 195.

Ethnological evidence from myths of
monstrous tribes, i. 379, etc.; from
eponymic race-genealogies, 401.
Etiquette, significance of, i. 95.
Etymological myths: - names
places, i. 395; of persons, 396;
nations, cities, etc., traced to epony-
mic ancestors or founders, 393, etc.
Euhemerism, i. 279.

of

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

Excitement of convulsions, etc., 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,
etc., 146, 179, 199, 433.
Expression of feature causes corres-
ponding tone, i. 165, 183.
Expressive sound modifies words, i.

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Fergusson, Mr., on tree-worship, ii.
218; serpent-worship, 240.
Fetch or wraith, i. 448, 452.
Fetish, etymology of, ii. 143.
Fetishism:-defined, ii. 143; doctrine
of, i. 477, ii. 157, etc., 175, 205,
215, 270, etc.; survival of, ii. 160;
its relation to philosophical theory
of force, 160; to nature-worship,
205; to animal-worship, 231; tran

sition to polytheism. 243; to supre-
macy, 335; to pantheism. 354.
Fiji and S. Africa, moon-myth com-
mon to, i. 255.

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, etc: lighted on grave,
i. 4:4; drives off spirits, ii. 194;
new fire. ii. 278, 290, 297, 432;
perpetual fire, 278; sacrifice by fire,
383. etc.

Fire-drill, i. 15, 50; antiquity of, ii.

280: ceremonial and sportive sur-
vival of, i. 75.

Fire-god and fire-worship, ii. 277, 376,
etc., 403.

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

First Cause, doctrine of, ii. 335.

Food offered to dead. i. 485, ii. 30,
etc.; to deities, ii. 397; how con-
sumed, ii. 39, 376.

Footprints of souls and spirits, ii. 197.
Forest-spirits, ii. 215, etc.
Formalism, ii. 363, 371.

Formulas :- prayers, ii. 371; charms,

373.

Fortunate Isles, ii. 63.

Four winds, cardinal points, i. 361.
Frances, St., her guardian angels, ii.

203.

French numeral series in English, i.
265.

Fumigation, see Lustration.

Funeral procession:-horse led in, i.

463, 474; kill persons meeting, 464.
Funeral sacrifice :-attendants and
wives killed for service of dead. i.
458; animals, 472; objects depo-
sited or destroyed, 481; motives of,
458, 472, 483; survival of, 463,
474, 492; see Feasts of Dead.
Future Life, i. 419, 469, 480, ii. 1,
etc., 100; transmigration of soul, ii.
2; remaining on earth or departure
to spirit-world, 22; whether races
without belief in, 20; connexion
with evidence of senses in dreams
and visions, 24, 49; locality of
region of departed souls, 71;
visionary visits to, 46; connexion
of solar ideas with, 48, 74, 311, 422;
character of future life, 74; con-
tinuance-theory, 75; retribution-
theory, 83; introduction of moral
element, 10, 83; stages of doctrine

of future life, 100; its practical
effect on mankind, 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 divination, 78.
Gataker, on lots, i. 79.

Gates of Hades, Night, Death, i. 347.
Gayatri, daily sun-prayer of Brahmans,
ii. 292.

Genders, distinguished as male and
female, animate and inanimate, etc.,
i. 3 1.

Genghis Khan, worshipped, ii. 117.
Genius, patron or natal in. 199, 216;
good and evil. 203; changed signi-
fication of word. 181.
German and Scandinavian mythology
and religion:-funeral sacrifice, 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. 259, ii. 294.

Gesture-language, and gesture accom-
panying language, i. 163; 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, etc.; voice of, 452; substance
and weight of, 453; of men, animals,
and objects, 429. 469, 479; popular
theory inconsistent 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, etc.; laying
ghosts, ii. 153, 191.

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. 250.
Gods-seen in vision, i. 305; of
waters, ii. 209; of trees. groves,
and forests, 215; embolied in or
represented by animals. 251; gods
of species, 212; higher gods of
polytheism, 247, etc.; of dualism,

316; gods of different religions
compared. 250; classified by com-
mon attributes, 254.
Gog and Magog, i. 386, etc.
Goguet, on degeneration and develop-
ment, i. 32.

Gold, worshipped, ii. 154.

Good and evil, rud mentary distinction
of, ii. 89. 318; good and evil spirits
and dualistic deities, 317.
Goodman's croft, ii. 408.
Graiæ, eye of, i. 352.
Great-eared tribes, i. 388.
Greek mythology and religion:-
nature-myths, i. 320, 328, 349;
funeral rites, 464, 499; future life,
ii. 53. 63, etc.; nature-spirits and
polytheism, 206, etc.; Zeus, 258,
etc., 355; Demeter. 278, 306;
Nereus, Poseidon, 277; Hephaistos,
Hestia, 254; Apollo. 294; Hekate,
Artemis, 302; stone-worship, 165;
sacrifice. 386, 396; orientation, 426;
lustration, 439.

Grey. Sir George, i. 322.

Grote, Mr., 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.
Gunthrain, dream of, i. 442.
Gypsies, i. 49, 115.

Hades, under-world of departed souls,
i. 335, 340, ii, 65, etc.. 81, 97, 309;
descent into, i. 340, 345, ii. 45, 54,
83; personification of, i. 340, it. 55,
309.311.

Haetsh, Kamehadal. ii. 46, 313.
Hagiology, ii. 120, 261; rising in air,
i. 11; miracles, i. 157, 371;
second-sight, i. 449; hagiolatry, ii.

120.

Hair, lock of, as offering, ii. 401.
Half-blood, succession of forbidden, i.
20.

Half men, tribes of. i. 391.

Haliburton, Mr., on sneezing-rite, i.
103.

Hamadryad, ii. 215.

Hand-numerals, from counting on fin-
gers, etc., i. 246.
Hanuman, monkey-god, i. 378.
Hara kari, i. 463.

Harmodins 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. 95.

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, 315.
Heaven god, and heaven-worship, i.
306, 322, ii. 255, etc., 337, etc.,
367, 395.

Hebrides low culture in, i. 45.
Hekate, i. 150. ii. 302, 418.

Hel. death-goddess, i. 301, 347, ii. 88,
311.

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

103.

Hellenic race-genealogy, i. 492.
Hellshoon, i. 491.

Hephai-tos, ii. 212, 280.
Hera, ii. 305.

Herakles, ii. 294; and Hesione, i..
339.

Hermes Trismegistus, ii. 178.
Hermotimus, i. 439, ii. 13.

Hero-children suckled by beasts, i

281.

Hesiod, Isles of Blest, ii. 63.
Hestia, ii. 284.

Hiawatha, poem of, i. 345, 361.
Hide-boiling, i. 44.

Hierarchy, polytheistic, ii. 248, 337,

349, etc.

Hissing, for silence, contempt, respect,
i. 197.

History, relation of myth to, i. 278,
416, ii. 447; criticism of, i. 250;
similarity of nature-myth to, 320.
Hole to let out soul, i, 453.
Holocaust, ii 385, 396.
Holyoake, Holywood, etc., ii. 229.
Holy Sepulchre, Easter fire at, ii. 297.
Holy water, ii. 188, 439.
Holy wells, ii. 214.

Horne Tooke on interjections, i. 175.
Horse, sacrified or led at funeral, i.
463, 473.
Horseshoes,

against witches and
demons, i. 140.

House abandoned to ghost, ii. 25.
Hucklebones, i. 82.

Huitzilopochtli, ii. 254, 307.
Human sacrifice:- funerals, i. 458: to

deities. ii. 271, 35, 389, 398, 463.
Humboldt, W. v., on continuity, i.

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