19: on language, 236; on numerals,
Hume, Natural History of Religion, i. 477.
Huns as giants. i. 386. Hunting calls, i. 181. Hurricane, i. 363. Hyades, i. 358.
Hysteria etc., by possession, ii. 131, etc; induced, 419.
Iamblichus, i. 150, ii. 187.
Ideas: -Epicurean related to object- souls. 97; Platonic related to spec es-de ties, ii. 244. Idiots, inspired, ii. 117. Idol, see Image.
Idolatry as related to fetishism, ii. 168.
Images-fallen from heaven, i. 157;
as substitutes in sacrifice, i. 463, ii. 405; fed and treated as alive, ii. 170; moving, weeping. sweating, etc., 171; animated by spirits or deities, 172.
Imagination, based on experience, i. 273, 298, 304. Imitat ve words, i. 200; verbs. etc., of blowing, swelling, mumbling, spitting, sneezing, eating, etc., 203, etc.; names of animals, 206; names of musical instruments, 208; verbs, etc., of striking, cracking, clapping, falling. etc.. 211; prevalence of imi- tative words in savage language, 212; imitat.ve adaptation of words, 214.
Immateriality of soul, not conception of lower culture, i. 45, i. 198. Immortality of soul not conception of lower culture, ii. 22.
Implements, inventions of, i. 64, etc. Incas, myth of ancestry and civiliza- tion, i. 258, 354, ii. 290, 301. Incense, ii. 383.
Incubi and succubi, ii. 189. Indigenes of low culture, i. 50, etc.;
considered as sorcerers, 113; myths of, as monsters. 376, etc. Indo-Chinese languages, musical pitch of vowels, i. 159.
Indra, i. 320, ii. 265.
Infant, lustration of, ii. 430, etc. Infernus, ii. 81.
Innocent VIII., bull against witch- craft, i. 139, ii. 190. Inspired idiot. ii. 12.
Interjectional words:-verbs, etc., of wailing, laughing, insult.ng, com-
plaining, fearing, driving, etc.. i. 187; hushing, hiss ng, loathing, Lating, etc., 197. Interjections, i. 175; sense-words used as, 176; directly expressive sounds, 183.
Intoxicating liquor, absence of, i. 63. Intoxication as a rite, ii. 417. Inventions development of, i. 14, 62; myths of, 39, 392.
Iosco, loskeha and Taw scara, myth of i 288, 348, ii. 323. Ireland, low culture in, i. 44.
Iron, charm against witches, elves, etc., i. 140.
Islands earth of, fatal to serpents, i.
372; of Blest, ii. 57.
Italian numeral series in English, i.
Langue loc, etc., i. 193.
Last breath, inhaling, i. 433. Laying ghosts. ii. 25, 153. Legge. Dr., on Confucius, ii. 352. Leibnitz, i. 2.
Lewes, Mr. G. H., i. 497.
Liebrecht, Prof. F., i. vii., 108, 177, 348-9, ii. 24, 164, 195, etc. Life caused by soul, i. 436. Light and darkness, analogy of good and evil, ii. 324.
Likeness of relatives accounted for by re-birth of soul, ii. 3.
Limbus Patrum, ii. 83. Linnæus, name of, ii. 229. Little Red Riding-hood, i. 341. Loki, i. 83, 355.
Lots, divination and gambling by, i. 78.
Lubbock, Sir J. :-evidence of metal- lurgy and pottery, against degenera tion-theory, i. 57; on low tribes de- scribed as without religious ideas, i. 421; on water-worship, ii. 210; on totem-worship, 256.
Lucian, i. 149, ii. 13, 52, 67, 302, 426. Lucina, i. 32, 305.
Lucretius, i. 40, 60.
Lunatics, demoniacal possession of, ii. 124, etc.
Lustration, by water and fire, ii. 429, etc.; of new-born children 439; of women, 432; of those polluted by blood or corpse, 433; general, 434,
Luther, on witches, i. 137, on guardian angels, ii 203.
Lyell, Sir C., on degeneration-theory, i. 57.
Lying in state, of King of France, ii.
M'Lennan, Mr., theory of totemism, ii. 236.
Macrocosm, i. 350, ii. 354. Madness and idiocy by possession, ii. 128, etc.. 179.
Magic origin and development, i. 112, 132; belongs to low level of culture, 112; attributed to low tribes, 113; based on association of ideas. 116; processes of divination, 78, 118; relation to Stone Age, 127; see Fetishism. Magnetic
Mountain, myth of, i. 374.
Maine, Sir H. S., i. 20.
Maistre, Count de, on degeneration in culture. i. 35; astrology, 128; ani- mation of stars, 291.
Makrokephali, i. 391.
Malleus Maleficarum, ii. 140, 191. Man, primitive condition of, i. 21, ii. 443; see Savage.
Man of the woods, bushman, orang- utan, i. 31.
Man swallowed by monster, nature- myth of, i. 335, etc. Manco Ceapac, i. 354. Manes and manes-worship, i. 98, 143, 434, ii. 8, 111, etc., 129, 162. 307, 364; theory of, ii. 113, etc; divine ancestor or first man as great deity, 311, 347.
Manichæism, ii. 14, 330.
Manitu, ii. 249, 324, 341. Manoa. golden city of, ii. 249.
Manu, laws of: - ordeal by water, 1. 141; pitris, ii 119.
Marcus Curtius, leap of, ii. 378. Margaret, St., i. 340.
Markham, Mr. C. R., i. vii., ii. 263, 337, 366, 392, etc.
Marriages in May, i. 70. Mars, ii 308.
Martius, Dr., on dualism, ii. 325. Maruts, Vedic, i. 362, ii. 268.
Master of life or breath, ii. 60, 339, etc, 365.
Materiality of soul, i. 453; of spirit, ii. 198.
Maui, i. 335, 343, 360, ii. 253, 267, 279.
Maundevile, Sir John, i. 375, ii.
Medicine, of N. A. Indians, ii. 154,
200, 233, 372, etc., 411. Meiners, History of Religions, ii. 27, 48, etc. Melissa, i. 491.
Metaphysics. relation of animism to, i. 497, ii. 242, 311.
Metempsychosis. i. 379, 409, 469, 476, ii. 2; origin of ii. 16. Micare digitis, i. 75.
Middleton, Dr., i. 157, ii. 121. Midgard-snake, ii. 241.
Midsummer festival, ii. 298.
Milk and blood, sacrifices of, ii. 48; see blood.
Milky Way, myths of, i. 359, ii. 72. Mill. Mr. J. S., on ideas of number, i. 240.
Milton, on eponymic kings of Britain, i. 400.
Minne, drinking, i. 96.
Minucius Felix, on spirits, etc., ii. 179. Miracles, i. 276, 371, i. 121. Mithra, i. 351, ii. 293, 297. Moa, legend of, ii. 50. Mohammed, legend of, i. 407. Moloch, ii. 21, 403.
Money borrowed to be repaid in next life, 1. 491.
Monkeys, preserved as dwarfs, i. 388; see Apes. Monotheism, ii. 331.
Monster, driven off at eclipse, i. 328;
hero or maiden devoured by, 335. Monstrous mythic human tribes, ape- like, tailed, gigantic and dwarfish, noseless, great-eared, dog headed, etc., i. 376, etc.; their ethnological sign ficance, 379, etc. Month's mind, i. 83. Moon-omens and influence by changes. i. 130; myths of, 285. 354; inconstant, 354; changes typical of death and new life, i. 354. ii. 300; noon-myths common to S. Africa and Fiji, i. 354, and to Bengal and Malay Peninsula, 356; moon abode of departed souls, ii. 70. Moon-god and moon-worship, i. 289, ii. 29, etc., 323.
Moral and social condition of low tribes, i. 29, etc.
Moral element in culture, i. 28; ab- sent or scanty in lower religions, i. 427, ii. 361; divides lower from higher religions, ii. 361; introduced in funeral sacrifice, i. 495; in trans-
Morning and evening stars, myths of, i. 344, 350.
Morra, game of, in Europe and China, i. 75.
Morzine, demoniacal possessions at, i. 152. ii. 141. Mound-builders. i. 56.
Mountain, abode of departed souls on, i. 60, ascending for rain, 260, Mouth of Night and Death, myths of, i. 347.
Müller, Prof. J. G., on future life, ii. 90, etc.
Müller, Prof. Max:-on language and myth, i. 299; funeral rites of Brah- mans, 466; heaven-god, ii. 258; 353; sun-myth of Yama, 314; Chinese religion, 352; katheno- theism, 354.
Mummies, it. 19, 34, 151.
Musical instruments named from sound, i. 208.
Musical tone used in language, i. 168, 174.
Mutilation of soul with body, i. 451. Mythology:-i. 23, 273, etc.; forma tion and laws of, 273, etc.; alle- gorical interpretation, 277; mixture with history, 278; rationalization, euhemerism, etc., 278: classifica- tion and interpretation, 281, 317, etc.; nature-myths, 284, 316. etc.; personification and animation of nature, 285; grammatical gender as related to, 301; personal names of objects as related to, 303; morbid delusion, 305; similarity of nature- myths to real history, 319; his- torical import of mythology, i. 416, ii. 446; its place in culture, ii. 446; philosophical myths, i. 366; expla- natory legends, 392; etymological myths, 395; eponymic myths, 399; legends from fancy and metaphor, 405; realized or pragmatic legends, 407; allegory and parables, 408. Myths: myth-riddles, i. 93; origin of sneezing-rite, 101; foundation-sacri- fice, 104; heroes suckled by beasts, 281; sun, moon, and stars, 288,
etc.; eclipse, 288; water spout, 292; sand-pillar. 293; rainbow, 293, 297; waterfalls, rocks, etc., 295; disease, death, pestilence, 295; phenomena of nature, 297, 320; heaven and earth, i. 322, ii. 345; sunrise and sunset, day and night, death and life, i. 335, i. 48, 62, 322; moon, inconstant, typical of death, i. 353; civilization-legends, 39, 353; winds, i. 361. ii. 266; thunder, i. 362, ii. 264; men and apes, development and degeneration, i. 378; ape-men, 379; men with tails, 382; giants and dwarfs, 385; monstrous men, 389; personal names introduced, 394; race genealogies of nations, 402; bea-t fables, 409; visits to spirit-world, ii. 46, etc.; giant with soul in egg, 153; transformation into trees. 219; dualistic myth of two brothers, 320.
Nagas, serpent-worshippers, ii. 218,
Names:-of children in numerical
series, i. 254; of objects as related to myth, 303; of personal heroes in- troduced into myths, 394; of places, tribes, countries, etc, myths formed from, 396; ancestral names given to children, i. 4; name-giving cere- monials, it. 4-9.
Natural religion, i. 427, ii. 103, 356. Nature conceived of as personal and animated, i. 285, 478. i. 184. Nature deities, polytheistic, ii. 255, 376. Nature-myths, i. 284, 316, etc., 326. Nature-spirits, elves, nymphs, etc., ii. 184, 204, etc.
Necromancy, i. 143, 312, 446; see
Negative and affirmative particles, i.
Negroes re born as whites, ii. 5.
Neo or Hawaneu, ii. 333.
Neptune, ii. 276.
Nereus, ii. 274.
Neuri, i. 313.
New birth of soul, ii. 3.
Newton, Sir Isaac, on sensible species, i. 498.
Nicene Council, spirit-writing at, i. 148.
Nicodemus, Gospel of, ii. 54.
Niebuhr, on origin of culture, i. 41. Night, myths of, i. 334, ii. 48, 61. Nightmare-demon, ii. 19, 193. Nilsson, Prof., on development of culture, i. 61, 64.
Nix, water-demon, i. 110, ii. 213. Norns or Fates, i. 352. Noseless tribes, i. 388. Notation, arithmetical, quinary, deci- mal, vigesimal, i. 261. Numerals:-low tribes only to 3 or 5, i. 242; derivation of numerals from counting fingers and toes, 246; from other significant objects, 251: series of number-names of children, 254; new formation of numerals, 255; etymology of, 259, 270; numerals borrowed from foreign languages, 266; initials of numerals, used as figures, 269; see Notation. Nympholepsy, ii. 137. Nymphs-water-nymphs, ii. 2:2; tree-nymphs, 219, 227.
Objectivity of dreams and visions, i 442, 479; abandoned, 500. Objects treated as personal, i. 286, 477, ii. 205; souls or phantoms of objects. i. 478, 497, ii 9; dispatched to dead by funeral sacrifice, i. 481. Occult sciences, see Magic.
Odin, or Woden, as heaven god, i.
351, 362, ii. 269: one-eyed, i. 351. Odysseus, unbinding of, i. 153; descent to Hades, i. 346, ii. 48, 65. Ohio, Ontario, i. 190. Ojibwa, myth of, i. 345, ii. 46. Oki. demon, ii. 208, 255, 342. Old man of sea ii. 277.
Omens, i. 97, 118, etc., 145, 449. Omophore, Manichæan, i. 365. One-eyed tribes, i. 391. Oneiromancy, i. 121.
Opening to let out soul, i. 453. Ophiolatry, see Serpent-worship. Ophites, ii. 242.
Oracles, i. 94, ii. 411; by inspiration or possession. ii. 124, etc., 179. Orang-utan, i. 381.
Ordeal by fire, i. 85; by sieve and shears, 128; by water, 140; by bear's head, ii. 231.
Ordinal numbers, i. 257.
Oregon Orejones, i. 389.
Origin of language, i. 231; numerals, 247.
Orion, i. 358, ii. 81.
Orientation, solar rite or symbolism, ii. 422.
Ormuzd, ii. 283, 328.
Orpheus and Eurydike, i. 346, ii. 48. Osiris, ii. 67, 295; and Isis, i 289. Otiose supreme deity, ii. 320, 336, etc.
Outcasts, distinct from savages, i. 43,
Owain, Sir, visit to Purgatory, ii. 56.
Pachacamac, ii. 337, 366. Pandora myth of, i. 408. l'anotii, i. 389.
Pantheism, ii. 332, 341, 354. Papa, mamma etc., i 223.
Paper figures substitutes in sacrifice, i. 464, 49, ii 405. Parables. i. 411.
Pars pro toto in sacrifice, ii. 399. Parthenogenesis, ii. 190, 307. Particles, affirmative and negative, i. 192; of distance, 220. Passage de l'Enfer, ii 5.
Patrick, St., i. 372; his Purgatory, ii. 45, 55.
Patroklos, i. 444, 464.
Patron saints, ii 120; pation spirits,
Pattern and matter, ii. 246. Penny comequick, i. 396. Periander, i. 491.
Perkun. Perun, ii 266. Persian race-genealogy, i. 403. Persephone, myth of, i. 321. Perseus and Andromeda, i 339. Personal names, in mythology, i. 303, 394, 396
Personification:-natural phenomena,
i. 285, etc., 320, 477, ii. 205, 254; disease, death, etc, i. 295; ideas, 300; tribes, cities, countries, etc, 329 Hades, i. 339, ii 55. l'estilence, personification and myths of, i. 295.
Peter and Paul, Acts of, i 372. Petit bonhomme, game of, i. 77. Petronius Arbiter. i. 75, ii. 261. Philology, Generative, i. 198, 230. Philosophical myths. i. 368. Thrase-melody. i. 174. Pillars of Hercules, i. 395. Pipe, i. 208.
lithecusæ, i. 377.
Places, myths from names of, i. 395. Planchette. i. 147.
lants, souls of, i. 474.
Plath, Dr. on Chinese religion, ii. 352, etc.
Plato, on transmigration, ii. 13; Pla- tonic ideas, 244.
Ple ades, i. 291, 358.
Pliny on magic, i. 133; on eclipses,
Plurality of souls, i. 433.
Plutarch, visits to spirit-world, ii. 53. Pneuma, psyche, i. 433, 437. Pointer-facts, i. 62.
Polytheism, ii. 247. etc.; based on analogy of human society. ii. 248, 337,349,352; classification of de ties by attributes, 255; heaven-god, 255, 334. etc.; rain god, 259; thunder- god. 262; wind-god, 266; earth- god, 270; water-god, 274; sea-god. 275; fire-god, 277; sun-ged, 256. 335. etc.; moon-god, 299; gods of childbirth, agriculture, war, etc, 304; god and judge of dead, 308; first man, divine ance-tor, 311; evil deity, 316; supreme deity, 33; relation of polythe sin to monotheism, 333.
Popular rhymes, etc., i. 86; sayings, i. 19, 83, 122, 313, ii. 268, 353. Poseidon, i. 365, ii. 277, 378. Possession and obsession, see Demons, Embodiment.
Pott, Prof., on reduplication, i. 219; on numerals, 261.
Pottery, evidence from remains, i. 56;
absence of potter's wheel, 45, 63. Pozzuoli, myth of subsidence of, i 372. Pragmatic or realized myths, i 407. Prayer:-doctrine of, ii. 364. etc.; re-
lat on to nationality, 371; intro- duction of noral element. 373; prayers, i. 98, ii. 136, 20, 261, 280, 292, 379, 338, 364, etc., 435; rosary, ii. 372: prayer-mill and prayer- wheel, 372.
Prehistorie archæology, i. 55, etc.; ii.
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