Argos Panoptes, i. 320. Argyll,Duke of, on primæval man,i.60. Arithmetic, see Counting. Arriero, i. 191.
Arrows, magic, i. 345.
Artemidorus, on dream-omens, i. 122. Artemis, ii. 302.
Aryan race :—no savage tribe among, i. 49; antiquity of culture, i. 54. Ascendant in horoscope, i. 129. Ashera, worship of, ii. 166.
Ashes strewn for spirit-footprints, i. 455, ii. 197.
Association of ideas, foundation of magic, i. 116.
Astrology, i. 128, 291.
Atahentsic, ii. 299, 309, 323. Atahocan, ii. 324, 339.
Atavism, explained by transmigra- tion, ii. 3.
Atheist, use of word, i. 420.
Augury, etc., i. 119. See ii. 179, 231. Augustine, St., i. 199, 441, ii. 54, 427; on dreams, i. 441; on incubi, ii. 190.
Augustus, genius of, ii. 202. Avatars, ii. 239.
Avernus, Lake, ii. 45.
Ayenbite of Inwyt, i. 456.
Baal Shemesh, ii. 295.
Bacon, Lord, on allegory, i. 277. Bætyls, animated stones, ii. 166. Baku, burning wells of, ii. 282. Baldr, i. 464.
Bale, Bishop, i. 384; on witchcraft, i. 142.
Bands, clerical, i. 18.
Baptism, ii. 440; orientation in, 427. Baring-Gould, Rev. S., on werewolves, i. 314.
Bastian, Prof. Adolf, Mensch in der Geschichte, i. vi.; ii. 209, 222, 242, 280, etc.
Baudet, etymology of, i. 413. Beal, ii. 252, 408.
Bear, Great, i. 359.
Beast-fables, i. 381, 409.
Bees, telling, i. 287.
Bel, ii. 293, 380, 384.
Berkeley, Bishop, on ideas, i. 499; on
force and matter, ii. 160.
Bewitching by objects, i. 116. Bible and key, ordeal by, i. 128. Bilocation, i. 447.
Bird, of thunder, i. 362; bird conveys
Blemmyæ, headless men, i. 390. Blood:-related to soul, i. 431; re- vives ghosts, ii. 48; offered to deities, 381; substitute for life, 402.
Blood-red stain, myths to account for, i. 406. Bloodsuckers, ii. 191. Blow-tube, i. 67. Bo tree, ii. 218. Boar's head, ii. 408.
Boats without iron, myth on, i. 374. Bochica, i. 353, ii. 290.
Boehme, Jacob, on man's primitive knowledge, ii. 185.
Bolotu, ii. 22, 62, 310.
Boni Homines, i. 77.
Book of Dead, Egyptian, ii. 13, 95. Boomerang, i. 67.
Boreas, i. 362, ii. 268.
Bosjesman, etymology of word, i
Bow and arrow, i. 7, 15, 64, 73. Brahma, ii. 354, 425.
Brahmanism:-funeral rites, i. 465, etc.; transmigration, ii. 9, 20, 97; manes-worship, 119; stone- worship, 161; idolatry, 178; animal-worship, 238; sun-worship, 292; orientation, 425; lustration, 437.
Breath, its relation to soul, i. 432. Bride-capture, game of, i. 73.
Bridge, first crossing, i. 106; of dead,
i. 495, ii. 50, 94, 160, etc. Brinton, Dr. D. G., i. 53, 361, ii. 90,
342; on dualistic myths, ii. 320. Britain, eponymic kings of, i. 400; voyage of souls to, ii. 64. Brosses, C. de, on degeneration and development, i. 36; origin of lan- guage, 161; fetishism, ii. 144; species-deities, 246.
Browne, Sir Thos., on magnetic mountain, i. 375.
Brutus, evil genius of, ii. 203. Brynhild, i. 465.
Buck, buck, game of, i. 74. Buddha, transmigrations of, i. 414, ii. 11.
Euddhism :-culture-tradition, i. 41; saints rise in air, i. 149; transmi, gration, ii. 11, 20, 97; nirvana, ii. 79; tree-worship, i. 476, ii. 217; serpent-worship, 240; religious formulas, 372.
Buildings, victim immured in founda- tion, i. 104, etc.; mythic founders of, i. 394.
Bull, Bishop, on guardian angels, ii. Christmas, origin of, ii. 297.
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. 63.
Castrén, ii. 80, 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, 491. 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.
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. 356, 445; evidence of independent progress
from low stages, i. 56, etc.; survival in culture, 70, etc.; evidence of early culture from language, 236; art of counting, 270; myth, 284; religion, i. 500, ii. 102, 184, 356, etc.; 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. Cycle of Necessity, ii. 13. Cyclops, i. 391.
Dancing for religious excitement, ii. 133, 420.
Danse Macabre, myth on name, i. 397. Dante, Divina Commedia, ii. 55, 220. Daphne, ii. 220.
Dark, evil spirits in, ii. 194. Darwin, Mr., i. vii.,ii. 152, 223. Dasent, Dr., i. 19.
Davenport Brothers, i. 152, 311. Dawn, i. 338, 344, etc.
Day, sun as eye of, i. 350.
Day and Night, myths of, i. 322, 337, etc., 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, 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, ii. 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, 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, ii. 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;
tree and forest demons, ii. 215, 222; possession and obsession by demons, i. 98, 152, 309, ii. 111, 123, etc., 179, 404; expulsion of, i. 103, ii. 125, 438; answer in own name through patient or medium, ii. 124, etc., 182, 366.
Dendid, creation-poem of, ii. 21. Deodand, origin of, i. 287. Destruction of objects sacrificed to dead, i. 483; to deities, ii. 376, etc. Development of culture, see Culture. Development myths, men from apes, etc. 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 expression of distance and sex, i. 220. Dirge, Lyke-wake, i. 495; of Hos, ii.
Disease-personification 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, 408; embodied in objects or animals, 146, 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.
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. 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 rescu- ing from, i. 107; caused by spirits, 109.
Drugs used to produce morbid excite-
ment, dreams, visions, etc., ii. 416. Dual and plural numbers in primitive 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, i. 322, etc., 364, ii. 270, 320.
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. 288, 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, 238; sun-worship, 295, 311; dual- ism, 327; polytheism and supremacy, 355.
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. 198.
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, 398, etc. Euhemerisın, i. 279.
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.
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. Farrar, Rev. F. W., i. 161, ii. 83. Fasting for dreams and visions, i. 306, 445, ii. 410.
Fauns and satyrs, ii. 227.
Feasts, of the dead, ii. 30; sacrificial banquets, 395.
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. 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, etc.; lighted on grave, i. 484; 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. 268.
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, 4C3, 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, 74; 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. 301.
Genghis Khan, worshipped, ii. 117. Genius, patron or natal, ii. 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. 289, 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, 194.
Giants, myths of, i. 386. Gibbon, on development of culture, i. 33. Glanvil, Saducismus Triumphatus, ii.
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, etc.; of dualism,
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