Chapter XIX: Conclusion (2)

Mountain, abode of departed souls on, ii. 60;
ascending for rain, 260.

Mouth of Night and Death, myths of, i. 347.

Müller, J. G., on future life, ii. 90, &c.

Müller, Max:—on language and myth, i. 299;
funeral rites of Brahmans, 466;
heaven-god, ii. 258, 353;
sun-myth of Yama, 314;
Chinese Religion, 352;
kathenotheism, 354.

Mummies, ii. 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, &c.;
formation and laws of, 273, &c.;
allegorical interpretation, 277;
mixture with history, 278;
rationalization, euhemerism, &c., 278;
classification and interpretation, 281, 317, &c.;
nature-myths, 284, 316, &c.;
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;
historical import of mythology, i. 416, ii. 446;
its place in culture, ii. 446;
philosophical myths, i. 366;
explanatory 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-sacrifice, 104;
heroes suckled by beasts, 281;
sun, moon, and stars, 288, &c.;
eclipse, 288;
waterspout, 292;
sand-pillar, 293;
rainbow, 293, 297;
waterfalls, rocks, &c., 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, ii. 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;
beast-fables, 409;
visits to spirit-world, ii. 46, &c.;
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 introduced into myths, 394;
of places, tribes, countries, &c., myths formed from, 396;
ancestral names given to children, ii. 4;
name-giving ceremonials, ii. 429.

Natural religion, i. 427, ii. 103, 356.

Nature, conceived of as personal and animated, i. 285, 478, ii. 184.

Nature-deities, polytheistic, ii. 255, 376.

Nature-myths, i. 284, 316, &c., 326.

Nature-spirits, elves, nymphs, &c., ii. 184, 204, &c.

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, 277.

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. 189, 193.

Nilsson, Sven, on development of culture, i. 61, 64.

Nirvana, ii. 12, 79.

Nix, water-demon, i. 110, ii. 213.

Norns or Fates, i. 352.

Noseless tribes, i. 388.

Notation, arithmetical, quinary, decimal, 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. 212;
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, &c., 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, &c., 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.

Orientation, solar rite or symbolism, ii. 422.

Origin of language, i. 231;
numerals, 247.

Orion, i. 358, ii. 81.

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, &c.

Outcasts, distinct from savages, i. 43, 49.

Owain, Sir, visit to Purgatory, ii. 56.

Pachacamac, ii. 337, 366.

Pandora, myth of, i. 408.

Panotii, i. 389.

Pantheism, ii. 332, 341, 354.

Papa, mamma, &c., i. 223.

Paper figures substitutes in sacrifice, i. 464, 493, 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. 65.

Patrick, St., i. 372;
his Purgatory, i. 45, 55.

Patroklos, i. 444, 464.

Patron saints, ii. 120;
patron spirits, 199.

Pattern and matter, ii. 246.

Pennycomequick, i. 396.

Periander, i. 491.

Perkun, Perun, ii. 266.

Persephone, myth of, i. 321.

Perseus and Andromeda, i. 339.

Persian race-genealogy, i. 403.

Personal names, in mythology, i. 303, 394, 396.

Personification:—natural phenomena, i. 28, &c., 320, 477, ii. 205, 254;
disease, death, &c., i. 295;
ideas, 300;
tribes, cities, countries, &c., 339;
Hades, i. 339, ii. 55.

Pestilence, 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.

Phrase-melody, i. 174.

Pillars of Hercules, i. 395.

Pipe, i. 208.

Pithecusæ, i. 377.

Places, myths from names of, i. 395.

Planchette, i. 147.

Plants, souls of, i. 474.

Plath, on Chinese religion, ii. 352, &c.

Plato, on transmigration, ii. 13;
Platonic ideas, 244.

Pleiades, 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, &c.

Pointer-facts, i. 62.

Polytheism, ii. 247, &c.;
based on analogy of human society, ii. 248, 337, 349, 352;
classification of deities by attributes, 255;
heaven-god, 255, 334, &c.;
rain-god, 259;
thunder-god, 262;
wind-god, 266;
earth-god, 270;
water-god, 274;
sea-god, 275;
fire-god, 277;
sun-god, 286, 335, &c.;
moon-god, 299;
gods of childbirth, agriculture, war, &c., 304;
god and judge of dead, 308;
first man, divine ancestor, 311;
evil deity, 316;
supreme deity, 332;
relation of polytheism to monotheism, 331.

Popular rhymes, &c., i. 86;
sayings, i. 19, 83, 122, 313, ii. 268, 353.

Poseidon, i. 365, ii. 277, 378.

Possession and obsession, see Demons, Embodiment.

Pott, A. F., 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, &c.;
relation to nationality, 371;
introduction of moral element, 373;
prayers, i. 98, ii. 136, 208, 261, 280, 292, 329, 338, 364, &c., 435;
rosary, ii. 372;
prayer-mill and prayer-wheel, 372.

Prehistoric archæology, i. 55, &c.; ii. 443.

Priests consume sacrifices, ii. 379.

Prithivi, i. 327, ii. 258, 272.

Procopius, voyage of souls to Britain, ii. 64.

Progression in culture, i. 14, 32;
inventions, 62, &c.;
language, 236;
arithmetic, 270;
philosophy of religion, see Animism.

Prometheus, i. 365, ii. 400.

Proverbs, i. 84, &c.;
see Popular Sayings.

Psychology, i. 428.

Pupil of eye, related to soul, i. 431.

Purgatory, ii. 68, 92;
St. Patrick’s, 55.

Purification, see Lustration.

Puss, i. 178.

Pygmies, myths of, i. 385;
connected with dolmens, 387;
monkeys as, 388.

Pythagoras, metempsychosis, ii. 13.

Quaternary period, i. 58.

Quetelet, on social laws, i. 11.

Quinary numeration and notation, i. 261;
in Roman numeral letters, 263.

Races:—
distribution of culture among, i. 49;
culture of mixed races, Gauchos, &c., 46, 52;
ethnology in eponymic genealogies, 401;
moral condition of low races, 26;
considered as magicians, 113;
as monsters, 380.

Rahu and Ketu, eclipse-monsters, i. 379.

Rain-god, ii. 254, 259.

Rainbow, myths of, i. vii. 293, ii. 239.

Ralston, W. R., i. 342, ii. 245, &c.

Rangi and Papa, i. 322, ii. 345.

Rapping, omens and communications by, i. 144, ii. 221.

Rationalization of myths, i. 278.

Red Swan, myth of, i. 345.

Reduplication, i. 219.

Reid, Dr., on ideas, i. 499.

Relics, ii. 150.

Religion, i. 22, ii. 357, 449;
whether any tribes without, i. 417;
accounts misleading among low tribes, 419;
rudimentary definition of, 424;
adoption from foreign religions, future life, ii. 91;
ideas and names of deities, 254, 309, 331, 344;
dualism, 316, 322;
supreme deity, 333;
natural religion, i. 427, ii. 103, 356.

Resurrection, ii. 5, 18.

Retribution-theory of future life, ii. 83;
not conception of lower culture, 83.

Return and restoration of soul, i. 436.

Revival, in culture, i. 136, 141.

Revivals, morbid symptoms in religious, ii. 421.

Reynard the Fox, i. 412.

Riddles, i. 90.

Ring, divination by swinging, i. 126.

Rising in air, supernatural, i. 149, ii. 415.

Rites, religious, ii. 362, &c.

River of death, i. 473, 480, ii. 23, 29, 51, 94.

River-gods and river-worship, ii. 209.

River-spirits, i. 109, ii. 209, 407.

Rock, spirit of, ii. 207.

Roman mythology and religion:—funeral rites, ii. 42;
future life, 45, 67, 81;
nature-spirits, 220, 227;
polytheism, 251;
Jupiter, 258, 265;
Neptune, 277;
Vesta, 285;
Lucina, 302, &c.

Roman numeral letters, i. 263.

Romulus, patron deity of children, ii. 121;
and Remus, i. 281.

Rosary, ii. 372.

Sabæism, ii. 296.

Sacred springs, streams, &c., ii. 209;
trees and groves, 222;
animals, 234, 378.

Sacrifice:—origin and theory of, ii. 375, &c., 207, 269;
manner of consumption or reception by deity, 216, 376, &c., see 39;
motive of sacrificer, 393, &c.;
substitution, 399;
survival, i. 76, ii. 214, 228, 406.

Saint-Foix, i. 474, ii. 35.

Saints, worship of, ii. 120.

Samson’s riddle, i. 93.

Sanchoniathon, ii. 221.

Sand-pillar, myths of, i. 293.

Sanskrit roots, i. 197, 224.

Savage, man of woods, i. 382.

Savage culture as representative of primitive culture:—i. 21, ii. 443;
magic, witchcraft, and spiritualism, i. 112, &c.;
language, i. 236, ii. 445;
numerals, i. 242;
myth, 284, 324;
doctrine of souls, 499;
future life, ii. 102;
animistic theory of nature, i. 285, ii. 180, 356;
polytheism, 248;
dualism, 317;
supremacy, 334;
rites and ceremonies, 363, 375, 411, 421, 429.

Savitar, ii. 292.

Scalp, i. 460.

Scores, counting by, i. 263.

Sea, myths of, ii. 275.

Sea-god and sea-worship, ii. 275, 377.

Second death, ii. 22.

Second sight, i. 143, 447.

Semitic race, no savage tribe among, i. 49;
antiquity of culture, 54;
race-genealogy, 404.

Sennaar, i. 395.

Serpent emblem of immortality and eternity, ii. 241.

Serpent-worship, ii. 8, 239, 310, 347.

Sex distinguished by phonetic modification, i. 222.

Shadow related to soul, i. 430, 435;
shadowless men, 85, 430.

Shell-mounds, i. 61.

Sheol, ii. 68, 81;
gates of, i. 347.

Shingles, disease, i. 307.

Shoulder-blade, divination by, i. 124.

Sieve and shears, oracle by, i. 128.

Silver at new moon, ii. 302.

Sing-bonga, ii. 291, 350.

Skylla and Charybdis, ii. 208.

Slaves sacrificed to serve dead, i. 458.

Sling, i. 73.

Snakes, destroyed in Ireland, &c., i. 372.

Sneezing, salutation on, i. 97;
connected with spiritual influence, 97.

Social rank retained in future life, ii. 22, 84.

Sokrates, ii. 137, 294;
demon of 202;
prayer of, 373.

Soma, Haoma, ii. 418.

Soul, doctrine of, definition and general course in history, i. 428,
499;
cause of life, 428;
qualities as conceived by lower races, 428;
conception of, related to dreams and visions, i. 429, ii. 24, 410;
related to shadow, heart, blood, pupil of eye, breath, i. 430;
plurality or division of, 434;
exit of, i. 309, 438, &c., 448, ii. 50;
restoration of, i. 436, 475;
trance, ecstasy, 439;
dreams, 440;
visions, 445;
soul not visible to all, 446;
likeness to body, i. 450;
mutilated with body, 451;
voice, a whisper, chirp, &c., 452;
material substance of soul, i. 453, ii. 198;
ethereality not immateriality of, in lower culture, i. 456;
human souls transmitted by funeral sacrifice to future life, i. 458,
ii. 31;
souls of animals, i. 467, ii. 41;
their future life and transmission by funeral sacrifice, i. 469;
souls of plants, trees, &c., i. 474, ii. 10;
souls of objects, i. 476, ii. 9, 75, 153, &c.;
transmission by funeral sacrifice, i. 481;
conveyed or consumed in sacrifice to deities, ii. 216, 389;
object-souls related to ideas, i. 497;
existence of soul after death of body, i. 428, &c., ii. 1, &c.;
transmigration or metempsychosis, ii. 2;
new birth in human body, 3;
in animal body, plant, inert object, 9, &c.;
souls remain on earth among survivors, near dwelling, corpse, or
tomb, i. 148, 447, ii. 25, &c., 150;
souls called up by necromancer or medium, i. 143, 312, 446, ii. 136,
&c.;
food set out for, ii. 30, &c.;
region of departed souls, ii. 59, &c., 73, 244;
future life of, i. 458, &c., ii. 74, &c.;
relation of soul to spirit in general, ii. 109;
souls pass into demons, patron-spirits, deities, 111, 124, 192, 200,
364, 375;
manes-worship, 112, &c.;
souls embodied in men, animals, plants, objects, 147, 153, 192, 232;
mystic meaning of word soul, 359.

Soul of world, ii. 335, &c., 354.

Soul-mass cake, ii. 43.

Sound-words, i. 231.

Speaking machine, i. 170.

Spear-thrower, i. 66.

Species-deities, ii. 242.

Spencer and Gillen, ii. 236.

Sphinx, i. 90.

Spirit:—course of meaning of word, i. 433, ii. 181, 206, 359;
animism, doctrine of spirits, i. 424, ii. 108, 356;
doctrine of spirit founded on that of soul, ii. 109;
spirits connected and confounded with souls, ii. 109, 363;
spirits seen in dreams and visions, i. 306, 440, ii. 154, 189, 194,
411;
action of spirits, i. 125, ii. 111, &c.;
embodiment of spirits, ii. 123;
disease by attack of, 126;
oracular inspiration by, 130;
whistling, &c., voice of, i. 453, ii. 135;
act through fetishes, ii. 143, &c.;
through idols, 167;
spirits causes of nature, 185, 204, &c., 250;
good and evil spirits, 186, 319;
spirits swarm in dark, fire drives off, 194;
seen by animals, 196;
footprints of, i. 455, ii. 197;
ethereal-material substance of, ii. 198;
exclusion, expulsion, exorcism of, 125, 199;
patron, guardian, and familiar spirits, 199;
nature-spirits of volcanoes, whirlpools, rocks, &c., 207;
water-spirits and deities, 209, 407;
tree-spirits and deities, 215;
spirits subordinate to great polytheistic deities, 248, &c.;
spirits receive prayer, 363;
sacrifice, 75;
see Animism, &c.

Spirit, Great, ii. 256, 324, 339, &c., 354, 365, 395.

Spirit-footprints, i. 455, ii. 197.

Spiritualism, modern:—
its origin in savage culture, i. 141, 155, 426, ii. 25, 39;
spirit-rapping, i. 144, ii. 193, 221, 407;
spirit-writing, 147;
rising in air, 149;
supernatural unbinding, 153;
moving objects, &c., i. 439, ii. 156, 319, 441;
mediums, i. 146, 312, ii. 132, 410;
oracular possession, i. 148, ii. 135, 141.

Spirit-world, journey or visit to, by soul, i. 439, 481, ii. 44, &c.

Spitting, i. 103;
lustration with spittle, ii. 439, 441.

Standing-stones, objects of worship, ii. 164.

Stanley, A. P., ii. 387.

Stars, myths of, i. 288, 356;
souls of, i. 291.

Staunton, William, his visit to Purgatory, ii. 58.

Stock-and-stone-worship, ii. 161, &c., 254, 388.

Stone, myths of men turned to, i. 353;
stone-worship, ii. 160, &c., 254, 388.

Stone Age, i. 56, &c.;
magic as belonging to, 140;
myths of giants and dwarfs as belonging to, 385.

Storm, myths of, i. 322;
storm-god, i. 323, ii. 266.

Strut, i. 62.

Substitutes in sacrifice, i. 106, 463, ii. 399, &c.

Succubi, see Incubi.

Sucking cure, ii. 146.

Suicide, body of, staked down, ii. 29, 193.

Sun, myths of, i. 288, 319, 335, &c., ii. 48, 66, 323;
sunset, myths of, connected with death and future life, i. 335, 345,
ii. 48, &c., 311;
sun abode of departed souls, ii. 69.

Sun-god and sun-worship, i. 99, 288, 353, ii. 263, 285, 323, &c., 376,
&c., 408, 422, &c.;
sun and moon as good and evil deity, ii. 324, &c.

Superlative, triple, i. 265.

Superstition, case of survival, i. 16, 72, &c.

Supreme deity, ii. 332, 367;
heaven-god, &c., as, 255, 337, &c.;
sun-god as, 290, 337, &c.;
conception of, in manes-worship, 334;
as chief of divine hierarchy, 335, &c.;
first cause, 335.

Survival in culture, i. 16, &c., 70, &c., ii. 403;
children’s games, i. 72;
games of chance, &c., 78;
proverbs, 89;
riddles, 91;
sneezing-salutation, 98;
foundation-sacrifice, 104;
not save drowning, 108;
magic, witchcraft, &c., 112;
spiritualism, 141;
numeration, 262, 271;
deodand, 287;
were-wolves, 313;
eclipse-monster, 330;
animism, i. 500, ii. 356;
funeral sacrifice, i. 463, 474, 492;
feasts of dead, ii. 35, 41;
possession, 140;
fetishism, 159;
stone-worship, 168;
water-worship, 213;
fire-worship, 285;
sun-worship, 297;
moon-worship, 302;
heaven-worship, 353;
sacrifice, 406, &c.

Susurrus necromanticus, i. 453, ii. 135.

Suttee, i. 465.

Swedenborg, spiritualism of, i. 144, 450, ii. 18, 204.

Symbolic connexion in magic, &c., i. 116, &c., ii. 144;
symbolism in religious ceremony, ii. 362, &c.

Symplegades, i. 350.

Tabor, i. 209.

Tacitus, i. 333, ii. 228, 273.

Tailed men, i. 383.

Tangaroa, Taaroa, ii. 345.

Tari Pennu, ii. 271, 349, 368, 404.

Taronhiawagon, ii. 256, 309.

Tarots, i. 82.

Tartarus, ii. 97.

Tatar race, culture of, i. 51;
race-genealogy of, 404.

Tattooing, mythic origin of, i. 393.

Taylor, Jeremy, on lots, i. 79.

Teeth-defacing, mythic origin of, i. 393.

Temple, Jewish, ii. 426.

Tertullian, i. 456, ii. 188, 427.

Tezcatlipoca, ii. 197, 344, 391.

Theodorus, St., church of, ii. 121.

Theophrastus, ii. 165.

Theresa, St., her visions, ii. 415.

Thor, ii. 266.

Thought, conveyance of, by vocal tone, i. 166;
Epicurean theory of, 497;
savage conception of, ii. 311.

Thousand and One Nights:
—water-spout and sand-pillar, i. 292;
Magnetic Mountain, 374;
Abdallah of Sea and Abdallah of Land, ii. 106.

Thunder-bird, myths of, i. 363, ii. 262;
thunder-bolt, ii. 262.

Thunder-god, ii. 262, 305, 312, 337, &c.

Tien and Tu, ii. 257, 272, 352.

Tlaloc, Tlalocan, ii. 61, 274, 309.

Tobacco smoked as sacrifice or incense, ii. 287, 343, 383;
to cause morbid vision, &c., 417.

Torngarsuk, ii. 340.

Tortoise, World, i. 364.

Totem-ancestors, i. 402, ii. 235;
totemism, ii. 235.

Traditions, credibility of, i. 275, 280, 370;
of early culture, i. 39, 52.

Transformation-myths, i. 308, 377, ii. 10, 220.

Transmigration of souls, i. 379, 409, 469, 476, ii. 2, &c.;
theory of, ii. 16.

Trapezus, i. 396.

Trees, objects suspended to, ii. 150, 223.

Tree-souls, i. 475, ii. 10, 215;
tree-spirits, i. 476, ii. 148, 215.

Tribe-names, mythic ancestors, i. 398;
tribe-deities, ii. 234.

Tribes without religion, i. 417.

Tuckett, F. F., i. 373.

Tumuli, remains of funeral sacrifice in, i. 486.

Tupan, ii. 263, 305, 333.

Turks, race-genealogy of, i. 403.

Turnskins, i. 308, &c.

Twin brethren, N. A. dualistic myth, ii. 320, &c.

Two paths, allegory of, i. 409.

Uiracocha, ii. 338, 366.

Ukko, ii. 257, 261, 265.

Ulster, mythic etymology of, ii. 65.

Unbinding, supernatural, i. 153.

Under-world, sun and souls of dead descend to, ii. 66;
see Hades.

Unkulunkulu, ii. 116, 313, 347.

Vampires, ii. 191.

Vapour-bath, narcotic, of Scyths and N. A. Indians, ii. 417.

Vasilissa the Beautiful, i. 342.

Vatnsdæla Saga, i. 439.

Veda, i. 54, 351, 362, 465, ii. 72, 265, 281, 354, 371, 386.

Vegetal, sensitive, and rational souls, i. 435.

Ventriloquism, i. 453, ii. 132, 182.

Vergil, Polydore, ii. 409.

Versipelles, i. 308, &c.

Vesta, ii. 285.

Vigesimal notation, i. 261;
survival in French and English, 263.

Visions:—
mythic fancy in, i. 305;
are apparitions of spirits, 143, 445, 478, ii. 194, 410;
as evidence of future life, 24, 49;
fasting for, 410;
use of drugs to cause, 416.

Visits to spirit-world, i. 436, 481, ii. 46, &c.

Vitruvius, on orientation, ii. 427.

Vocal tone, i. 166, &c.

Voice of ghosts and other spirits, whisper, twitter, murmur, i. 452,
ii. 134.

Volcano, mouth of underworld, i. 344, 364, ii. 69;
caused by spirits, 207.

Vowels, i. 168.

Vulcan, ii. 280, 284.

Wainamoinen, ii. 46, 93.

Waitz, Theodor, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, i. vi.;
fetishism, ii. 157, 176.

Walhalla, i. 491, ii. 77, 88.

War-god, ii. 306.

Warriors, fate of souls of, ii. 87.

Wassail, i. 97, 101.

Water, spirits not cross, i. 442.

Waterfalls and waterspouts, myths, of, i. 292, 294.

Water-gods and water-worship, ii. 209, 274, 376, 407.

Water-spirits and water-monsters, i. 109, ii. 208, &c.

Watling Street, Milky Way, i. 360.

Weapons, i. 64, &c.;
personal names given to, 303.

Wedgwood, Hensleigh, on imitative language, i. 161.

Weight of soul, i. 455;
of spirit, ii. 198.

Well-worship, ii. 209, &c.

Werewolves, &c., doctrine of, i. 113, 308, &c., 435, ii. 193.

West, mythic conceptions of, as region of night and death, i. 337, 343,
ii. 48, 61, 66, 311, &c., 422, &c.;
see East and West.

Whately, Archbishop, on origin of culture, i. 38, 41.

Wheatstone, Sir C., i. 170.

Wheel-lock, i. 15.

Whirlpool, spirit of, ii. 207.

Widow-sacrifice, i. 458.

Wild Hunt, i. 362, ii. 269.

Wilson, Daniel, on dual and plural, i. 265.

Wind gods, ii. 266.

Winds, myths of, i. 360.

Witchcraft, i. 116, &c.;
origin in savage culture, 138;
mediæval revival, 138;
iron charm against, 140;
ordeal by water, 140;
rising in air, 152;
doctrine of werewolves, 312;
incubi and succubi, ii. 190;
witch ointment, 418.

Woden, see Odin.

Wolf of Night, i. 341.

Wong, ii. 176, 205, 348.

World pervaded by spirits, ii. 137, 180, 185, 205, 250.

Worship as related to belief, i. 427, ii. 362.

Wraith or fetch, i. 448, 451.

Wright, Thomas, ii. 56, 65.

Wuttke, Adolf, i. 456, &c.

Xerxes, i. 286, ii. 378.

Yama, ii. 54, 314.

Yawning, possession, i. 102.

Yezidism, ii. 329.

Zend-Avesta, i. 116, 351, ii. 98, 293, 328, 438.

Zeus, i. 328, 350, ii. 258, &c., 353.

Zingani, myth of name, i. 400.

Zoroastrism, ii. 20, 98, 282, 319, 328, 354, 374, 400, 438.

THE END.

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