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19: on language, 236; on numerals,

253.

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.

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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.

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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,

etc.

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.

35.

Lyke wake dirge, i. 495.

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.

philosophical

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.

Mass, ii. 410.

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.

45.

Medicine, of N. A. Indians, ii. 154,

200, 233, 372, etc., 411.
Meiners, History of Religions, ii. 27,
48, etc.
Melissa, i. 491.

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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-

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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,

240.

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

Manes.

Negative and affirmative particles, i.

192.

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.

VOL. II.

Nirvana, ii. 12. 79.

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.

Orcus, ii. 67, 80.

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.

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Outcasts, distinct from savages, i. 43,

49.

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,

199.

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,

334.

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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