Abacus, i. 270.
Accent, i. 173.
Acephali, i. 390.

Achilles :-vulnerable spot, i. 358;
dream, i. 444; in Hades, ii. 81.
Acosta, on American archetypal
deities, ii. 244.
Adam, ii. 312, 315.

Elian, i. 372, ii. 423; on Kyno-
kephali, i. 389.
Eolus, i. 361, ii. 269.
Esculapius:-incubation in temple,
ii. 121; serpents of, ii. 241.
Affirmative and negative particles,
i. 192.

Afghans, race-genealogy of, i. 403.
Agni, ii. 281, 386.

Agreement in custom and opinion
no proof of soundness, i. 13.
Agriculture, god of, ii. 305.
Ahriman, ii. 328.

Ahura-Mazda, ii. 283, 328, 355.
Alexander the Great, i. 395, ii. 138.
Alfonso di Liguori, St., bilocation
of, i. 447.

Alger, W. R., i. 471, 484, ii. 83.
Algonquin languages, animate and
inanimate genders, i. 302.
Ali as Thunder-god, ii. 264.
All Souls', feast of dead, ii. 37.
Allegory, i. 277, 408.

Aloysius Gonzaga, St., letters to, ii.

122.

Alphabet, i. 171; by raps, i. 145;
as numeral series, i. 258.
Amatongo, i. 443, ii. 115, 131, 313,
367, 387.

Amenti, Egyptian dead-land, ii. 67,
81, 96, 295, 311.
Amphidromia, ii. 439.

Analogy, myth product of, i. 297.
Ancestors, eponymic myths of, i.
398, ii. 234; worship of divine,
ii. 113, 311; see Manes-worship,
Totem-worship.

Ancestral names indicate re-birth
of souls, ii. 5.

Ancestral tablet, Chinese, ii. 118,
152.

Andaman Islanders, mythic origin
of, i. 369, 389.

Angang, omen from meeting animal,
i, 120.

Angel, see Spirit; of death, i. 295,
ii. 196, 322.

Angelo, St., legend of, i. 295.
Anima, animus, i. 433, 470.
Animals-omens from, i. 120; calls
to and cries of, 177; imitative
names from cries, &c., 206; treated
as human, i. 467, ii. 230; souls of,
i. 469; future life and funeral sac-
rifice of, i. 469, ii. 75, &c.; entry
and transmigration of souls into
and possession by spirits, ii. 7, 152,
161, 175, 231, 241, 378, &c. ; dis-
eases transferred to, ii. 147; see
spirits invisible to men, ii. 196.
Animals, sacred, incarnations or re-
presentatives of deities, ii. 231;
receive and consume sacrifices,
378.

Animal-worship, i. 467, ii. 229, 378.
Animism-defined, i. 23, 425; is the

philosophy of religion, i. 426, ii.
356; is a primitive scientific sys-
tem of man and nature based on
the conception of the human soul,
i. 428, 499, ii. 108, 184, 356; its
stages of development, survival,
and decline, i. 499, ii. 181, 356.
See Soul, Spirit, &c., &c.
Anra-Mainyu, ii. 328.
Antar, tumulus of, ii. 29.
Anthropomorphic

of

conceptions
spirit and deity, ii. 110, 184, 247,

Association of ideas, foundation of
magic, i. 116.
Astrology, i. 128, 291.

Atahentsic, ii. 299, 309, 323.
Atahocan, ii. 323, 340.

Atavism, explained by transmigra-
tion, ii. 3.

Atheist, use of word, i. 420.

Augury, &c., i. 119. See ii. 179, 232.
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. 281.
.Baldr, i. 464.

Bale, Bishop, i. 384; on witchcraft,
i. 142.

Bands, clerical, i. 18.

Baptism, ii. 440; orientation in, 427.
Baring-Gould, S., on werewolves, i.

314.

Bastian, Adolf, Mensch in der Ge.

schichte, i. vi. ; ii. 209, 222, 242,
280, &c.

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 con-
veys spirit, ii. 161, 175.
Blackstone's Commentaries, i. 20.
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, 96.
Boomerang, i. 67.

Boreas, i. 362, ii. 268.

Bosjesman, etymology of word, i.
381.

Bow and Arrow, i. 7, 15, 64, 73.
Brahma, ii. 354, 425.

Brahmanism :-funeral rites, i. 465,

&c.; transmigration, ii. 9, 19,
97; manes-worship, 119; stone-
worship, 164; idolatry, 178;
animal-worship, 238; sun-wor-
ship, 292; orientation, 425; lustra-
tion, 437.

Breath, its relation to soul, i. 432.
Bride-capture, game of, i. 72.
Bridge, first crossing, i. 106; of

dead, i. 495, ii. 50, 94, 100, &c.
Brinton, D. G., i. 53, 361,\ii. 90,

340; 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.

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.

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, 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.

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; dugury, &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.

Egypt, antiquity of culture, i. 54;
religion of, future life, ii. 13, 96;
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.