Chapter XXXIV: Part 34

Seclusion of travellers after a journey, iii. 113;
of those who have handled the dead, iii. 138 _sqq._;
of women at menstruation, iii. 145 _sqq._, x. 76 _sqq._;
of women at childbirth, iii. 147 _sqq._;
of tabooed persons, iii. 165;
of man-slayers, iii. 166 _sqq._;
of cannibals, iii. 188 _sqq._;
of men who have killed large game, iii. 220 _sq._;
of girls at puberty, x. 22 _sqq._;
of girls at puberty in folk-tales, x. 70 _sqq._;
reasons for the seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 76 _sqq._;
of novices at initiation, xi. 233, 241, 250, 253, 257 _n._ 1, 258, 259,
261, 264, 266

Second sight enjoyed by persons born with a caul, i. 187 _sq._

Secret graves of kings, chiefs, and magicians, vi. 103 _sqq._

—— language learnt at initiation, xi. 253, 255 _n._ 1, 259, 261 _n._

—— names among the Central Australian aborigines, iii. 321 _sq._

—— societies in the Bismarck Archipelago, jurisdiction exercised by, i.
340;
among the Indians of British Columbia, vii. 20;
in North-Western America, ix. 377 _sq._;
on the Lower Congo, xi. 251 _sqq._;
in West Africa, xi. 257 _sqq._;
in the Indian tribes of North America, xi. 267 _sqq._;
and totem clans, related to each other, xi. 272 _sq._ _See also_
Belli-Paaro, Duk-duk, Kakian, _Ndembo_, _Nkimba_, _Purra_,
and _Semo_.

Secretiveness of the savage, xi. 224 _sq._

Sed festival in ancient Egypt, vi. 151 _sqq._;
its date perhaps connected with the heliacal rising of Sirius, vi. 152
_sq._;
apparently intended to renew the king’s life by identifying him with the
dead and risen Osiris, vi. 153 _sq._

Sedanda, an African king, his suicide, iv. 38

Sedbury Park oak, in Gloucestershire, mistletoe on the, xi. 316

Sedna, an Esquimau goddess of the lower world, iii. 152, 207, 208, 209,
211, 213, viii. 84, 246;
mother of the sea-mammals, iii. 210;
her annual expulsion by the Esquimaux, ix. 125 _sq._

_Sedum telephium_, orpine, used in divination at Midsummer, xi. 61

Seed sown over weakly children to strengthen them, vii. 11;
sown by women, vii. 113 _sqq._;
sown by children, vii. 115 _sq._
_See also_ Sowing

Seed-corn, fumigated with wood of sacred cedar, ii. 49;
fertilized at the Thesmophoria, vii. 63;
grain of last sheaf mixed with the, vii. 135;
holy grains mixed with the, to fertilize it, vii. 205;
taken from the last sheaf, vii. 278;
feathers of cock mixed with the, vii. 278, viii. 20;
ashes mixed with the, vii. 300;
bones of pigs mixed with the, vii. 300, viii. 20;
the Yule Boar mixed with the, vii. 301, viii. 20;
grain taken from the Corn-mother mixed with the, vii. 304;
pig’s flesh sown with the, viii. 18, 20;
cakes made out of the last sheaf mixed with the, viii. 328;
charred remains of Midsummer log mixed with the, xi. 92

—— -rice, seed sown ceremonially mixed with the, iv. 149;
precautions at reaping the, vii. 181;
soul of the rice caught and mixed with the, vii. 189

—— -time, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 138

Seeds and roots, wild, collected by women, vii. 124 _sqq._

Seeman, Berthold, on St. John’s blood, xi. 56

Seers, their ears licked by serpents, viii. 147 _n._ 1

Segera, a sago magician of Kiwai, dismembered after death, vi. 101, 102

Seirkieran, perpetual fire in the monastery of, ii. 241 _sq._

Seitendorf, in Moravia, custom of “carrying out Death” at, iv. 238 _sq._

Seker (Sokari), title of Osiris, vi. 87

Selangor, Malay State, rice-crop supposed to depend on the district
officer in, i. 361;
durian trees threatened near Jugra in, ii. 21;
bringing home the Soul of the Rice at Chodoi in, vii. 198;
demons of disease expelled in a ship from, ix. 187 _sq._

Selemnus, the River, its water a cure for love, ix. 3

Seler, Professor Eduard, on the ancient Mexican calendar, vi. 29 _n._;
Aztec text of Sahagun partially translated by, vii. 175;
on the Mexican festival of Toxcatl, ix. 149 _n._ 2, 277;
on _nagual_, xi. 213 _n._

Seleucia, plague blocked up in hole at, ix. 64

Seleucus, a grammarian, v. 146 _n._ 1

Seleucus Nicator, king, his buildings at the temple of Zeus in Olba, v.
151

Seleucus the Theologian, v. 146 _n._ 1

Self-mutilation of Attis and his priests, v. 265

Seligmann, Dr. C. G., on the meaning of _helaga_ in the Motu tribe of New
Guinea, ii. 106 _n._ 2;
on the custom of putting Shilluk kings to death, iv. 17 _sqq._, vi. 163;
on the danger of allowing Shilluk kings to grow old, iv. 21;
on the right of candidates for the kingship to attack the Shilluk kings,
iv. 22;
on the willingness of Shilluks to accept the fatal sovereignty, iv. 23;
on sickness as supposed to be caused by the soul of a dead Shilluk king,
iv. 26;
on the divine spirit supposed to animate Shilluk kings, iv. 26 _sq._;
on the Dinkas, iv. 30 _sqq._;
on the custom of putting Dinka rain-makers to death, iv. 33;
on the five supplementary Egyptian days, vi. 6 _n._ 3;
on the worship of dead Shilluk kings, vi. 161 _n._ 2;
on the name of the Supreme Being of the Dinkas, viii. 40 _n._, 114 _n._
2

Selkit, Egyptian goddess, patroness of matrimony, ii. 131

Selwanga, python-god of the Baganda, v. 86

Semang tribes of the Malay Peninsula, power of medicine-men among the, i.
360;
think that the souls of their dead chiefs transmigrate into wild beasts,
iv. 85

_Semangat_, Malay word for the soul, iii. 28, 35, vii. 181, 183

Semele, mother of Dionysus, iv. 3;
how Zeus got Dionysus by, vii. 14;
descent of Dionysus into Hades to bring up, vii. 15

Semic in Bohemia, beheading the king on Whit-Monday at, iv. 209

Seminole Indians, souls of the dying caught among the, iv. 199;
their Green Corn Dance, viii. 76 _sq._;
their fear of rattle-snakes, viii. 217

Semiramis, lustful Assyrian queen, ii. 275;
at Hierapolis, v. 162 _n._ 2;
as a form of Ishtar (Astarte), v. 176 _sq._;
said to have burnt herself, v. 176 _sq._, ix. 407 _n._ 2;
the mythical, a form of the great Asiatic goddess, vi. 258;
mythical and historical, ix. 369 _sqq._;
the mounds of, ix. 370, 371, 373, 388 _n._ 1;
her love for a horse, ix. 371, 407 _n._ 2;
the sad fate of her lovers, ix. 371;
perhaps supposed to be incarnate in a series of women, ix. 386

Semites, moral evolution of the, iii. 219;
sacrifices of children among the, iv. 166 _sqq._;
agricultural, worship Baal as the giver of fertility, v. 26 _sq._;
sacred stocks and stones among the, v. 107 _sqq._;
traces of mother-kin among the, vi. 213

Semitic Baal in relation to the Minotaur, iv. 75

—— gods, uniformity of their type, v. 119

—— kings, the divinity of, v. 15 _sqq._;
as hereditary deities, v. 51

—— language, Egyptian language akin to the, vi. 161 _n._ 1

—— personal names indicating relationship to a deity, v. 51

—— worship of Tammuz and Adonis, v. 6 _sqq._

_Semlicka_, festival of the dead among the Letts, vi. 74

_Semo_, a secret society of Senegambia, xi. 261

Sena, island of, virgin priestesses in, ii. 241 _n._ 1

Sena-speaking people to the north of the Zambesi transfer sickness to
effigy of pig, ix. 7

Senal Indians of California, their notion as to fire stored in trees, xi.
295

Sencis, the, of Peru, their ceremony at an eclipse of the sun, i. 311

Seneca, on sacred groves, ii. 123;
as to the soul on the lips, iii. 33 _n._ 3;
on the offerings of Egyptian priests to the Nile, vi. 40;
on the marriage of the Roman gods, vi. 231;
on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, vi. 233

Senegal, Cayor in, iii. 9;
Walo on the river, iii. 118;
precaution as to spittle in, iii. 289;
belief as to conception without sexual intercourse in, v. 93 _n._ 2;
myth of marriage of Sky and Earth in, v. 282 _n._ 2;
custom of throwing stones on cairns in, ix. 30 _n._ 2

Senegal and Niger region of West Africa, the wild fig-tree regarded as a
fetish-tree in, ii. 317 _n._ 1

Senegambia, the Feloupes of, i. 297;
the Walos of, i. 370, xi. 79;
the Sereres of, iii. 70;
the Wolofs of, iii. 323;
the Mandingoes of, vi. 141;
Python clan in, viii. 174;
the Foulahs of, viii. 214;
stones thrown on graves of murderers in, ix. 16;
the Banmanas of, ix. 261;
secret society among the Soosoos of, xi. 261 _sq._

Senjero, sacrifice of first-born sons in, iv. 182 _sq._

Sennacherib, his siege of Jerusalem, v. 25;
said to have built Tarsus, v. 173 _n._ 4

Sennar, a province of the Sudan, human hyaenas in, x. 313

Senseless Thursday, the last Thursday in Carnival, ceremony with whips and
brooms in the Tyrol on, ix. 248

Seoul, capital of Corea, custom on New Year’s Day at, iii. 283;
tiger eaten at, to make eater brave, viii. 145

Separation of children from their parents among the Baganda, x. 23 _n._ 2

—— of earth and sky, myth of the, v. 283

Sepharvites, their sacrifices of children, iv. 171

September, month of the maize harvest in modern Greece, vii. 48;
the 1st of, mock burial of flies by Russian girls on, viii. 279 _sq._;
the 13th of, Roman custom of knocking a nail into a wall on, ix. 66;
expulsion of evils by the Incas of Peru in, ix. 128;
eve of the 1st of, new fire in villages near Moscow on the, x. 139;
the 8th of, feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, x. 220;
the fire-walk in, xi. 9

Seranglao archipelago, custom as to children’s cast teeth in the, i. 179;
rule as to gathering coco-nuts in the, iii. 201

Serapeum at Alexandria, vi. 119 _n._;
its destruction, vi. 217

Serapis, the later form of Osiris, vi. 119 _n._;
the rise of the Nile attributed to, vi. 216 _sq._;
the standard cubit kept in his temple, vi. 217

Sereres of Senegambia, detention of souls by sorcerers among the, iii. 70

Seriphos, custom of swinging on Tuesday after Easter in, iv. 283 _sq._

Serpent in homoeopathic magic, i. 154 _sq._;
dried, in ceremony for stopping rain, i. 295 _sq._;
hung up as a wind-charm, i. 323;
or dragon of water, ii. 155 _sqq._;
or dragon personated by kings, iv. 82;
the Brazen, worshipped to the time of Hezekiah, iv. 86;
sacred, on the Acropolis at Athens, iv. 86;
as the giver of children, v. 86;
at rites of initiation, v. 90 _n._ 4;
fed by a woman out of a saucer, type in Greek art, viii. 18 _n._ 2;
killing the sacred, viii. 174 _sq._;
ceremonies performed after killing a, viii. 192 _sq._;
the Brazen, set up by the Israelites in the wilderness, viii. 281;
girls at puberty thought to be visited by a, x. 31;
supposed to swallow girl at puberty, x. 57;
ten-headed, external soul in a, xi. 104 _sq._;
twelve-headed, external soul of demon in a, xi. 143;
external soul of chief in a, xi. 201.
_See also_ Serpents, Snake, _and_ Snakes

Serpent-god, married to human wives, v. 66 _sqq._;
thought to control the crops, v. 67

Serpent’s fat a charm against witches on St. George’s Day, ii. 335

—— flesh eaten to learn the language of animals, viii. 146

Serpents impart a knowledge of the language of birds, i. 158;
in relation to St. George, ii. 344 _n._ 4;
purificatory ceremonies observed after killing, iii. 221 _sqq._;
not to be called by their proper names, iii. 398, 399, 401 _sq._, 407,
408, 411;
transmigration of the souls of the dead into, iv. 84;
reputed the fathers of human beings, v. 80 _sqq._;
as embodiments of Aesculapius, v. 80 _sq._;
worshipped in Mysore, v. 81 _sq._;
as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82 _sqq._, xi. 211 _sq._;
fed with milk, v. 84 _sqq._, 87;
thought to have knowledge of life-giving plants, v. 186;
souls of dead kings incarnate in, vi. 163, 173;
offerings to, viii. 17 _sq._;
in the “chasms of Demeter and Persephone,” viii. 17 _sq._;
lick the ears of seers, viii. 147 _n._ 1;
inspired human mediums of, viii. 213;
charms against, viii. 281;
souls of the dead in, viii. 291;
and lizards supposed to renew their youth by casting their skins, ix.
302 _sqq._;
burnt alive at the Midsummer festival in Luchon, xi. 38 _sq._, 43;
witches turn into, xi. 41;
worshipped by the old Prussians, xi. 43 _n._ 3;
in the worship of Demeter, xi. 44 _n._;
the familiars of witches, xi. 202.
_See also_ Serpent, Snake, _and_ Snakes

Serpents’ eggs (glass beads) in ancient Gaul, x. 15

Servia, rain-making ceremony in, i. 273;
mode of kindling fire by friction of wood in, ii. 237;
divination on St. George’s Day in, ii. 345;
Midsummer fire custom in, x. 178;
the Yule log in, x. 258 _sqq._;
need-fire in, x. 281, 282 _sqq._
_See also_ Servian _and_ Servians

Servian forest, the great, ii. 237, 237 _n._ 1

—— stories of the external soul, xi. 110 _sqq._

—— women, their charm to hoodwink their husbands, i. 149

Servians, their belief as to souls in the form of butterflies, iii. 41;
their precaution against vampyres, ix. 153 _n._ 1;
house-communities of the, x. 259 _n._ 1

Servitude of Apollo and Cadmus for eight years for the slaughter of
dragons, iv. 70 _n._ 1, 78

Servius, Virgilian commentator, on the grove of Egeria, i. 18 _n._ 4;
on Virbius, i. 20 _sq._, 40, ii. 129;
on the worship of Virbius, i. 20 _n._ 3;
on Virbius as the lover of Diana, i. 21, 40;
on Dido’s costume, iii. 313;
on the magical virtue of knots, iii. 313 _n._ 1;
on the legend of Erigone, iv. 282;
on the death of Attis, v. 264 _n._ 4;
on the marriage of Orcus, vi. 231;
on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, vi. 233;
on Lityerses, vii. 217 _n._ 1

Servius Tullius, Roman king, his innovation in Roman currency, i. 23 _n._
5;
laws of, ii. 115, 129;
and Fortuna, ii. 193 _n._ 1, 272;
legend of his birth from the fire, ii. 195 _sq._, vi. 235;
said to have been an Etruscan, ii. 196 _n._;
succeeded by his son-in-law, ii. 270;
his descent, ii. 270 _n._ 6;
his death, ii. 320 _sq._

Sesostris, so-called monument of, in Lydia, v. 185

Set, or Typhon, brother of Osiris, vi. 6, viii. 30;
murders Osiris, vi. 7 _sq._;
accuses Osiris before the gods, vi. 17;
brings a suit of bastardy against Horus, vi. 17;
his combat with Horus, vi. 17;
reigns over Upper Egypt, vi. 17;
torn in pieces, vi. 98;
the Egyptian devil, viii. 30;
the birth of, ix. 341.
_See also_ Typhon

Setonje, village in Servia, need-fire at, ii. 237, x. 282 _sqq._

Sety I., king of Egypt, represented in the hall of the Osirian mysteries
at Abydos, vi. 108

Seven or multiples of seven in offerings to the dead, ii. 32

Seven bonfires, lucky to see, x. 107, 108

—— ears of last year’s crop to attract the corn, vii. 190;
of rice to form the Soul of the Rice at harvest, vii. 198

—— knots in magic, iii. 303, 304, 305, 308

—— leaps over Midsummer fire, x. 213

—— -legged effigy of Lent, iv. 244 _sq._

—— months’ child, vii. 26, 29

—— rice-stalks cut and brought home with the King of the Rice in
Mandeling, vii. 197

—— sorts of plants gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51 _sq._

—— years, a were-wolf for, x. 310 _n._ 1, 316 _n._ 2

—— youths and maidens, tribute of, to the Minotaur, iv. 74 _sqq._

Sevenoaks, in Kent, May garlands at, ii. 62

Seventh month of pregnancy, ceremony performed in the, i. 72 _sq._

Sewing forbidden to women in absence of whalers, i. 121;
forbidden to women in absence of warriors, i. 128;
as a charm to blind wolves, ii. 330;
as a charm to render wolves powerless, iii. 307

Sex totems among the natives of South-Eastern Australia, xi. 214 _sqq._;
called “brother” and “sister” by men and women respectively, xi. 215

Sexes, of plants, recognized by some savages and by the ancients, ii. 24;
influence of the, on vegetation, ii. 97 _sqq._;
division of labour between the, vii. 129;
danger apprehended from the relation of the, xi. 277 _sq._

Sextus Pompeius, his consultation of the Thessalian witch, iii. 390

Sexual communism, tradition of, ii. 284, 287

—— crime, blighting effects attributed to, ii. 107 _sqq._

—— intercourse practised to make the crops and fruits grow, ii. 97, 98
_sqq._

—— orgies as a fertility charm, ii. 98 _sqq._

Seyf el-Mulook and the jinnee, the story of, xi. 137

Sgaus, Karen tribe of Burma, will not mention their parents’ names, iii.
337

Sgealoir, the burying-ground of, in North Uist, x. 294

_Sgreball_, three pence, tax paid to the king of Munster for each fire in
Ireland, x. 139

Shades of dead animals, fear of offending, iii. 205, 206, 207

Shadow, the soul identified with the, iii. 77 _sqq._;
injury done to a man through his, iii. 78 _sqq._;
diminution of shadow regarded with apprehension, iii. 86 _sq._;
loss of the, regarded as ominous, iii. 88;
not to fall on a chief, iii. 255

Shadow Day, a gipsy name for Palm Sunday, iv. 243

—— -plays as a rain-charm in Java, i. 301 _n._

—— Queen, the, thought to pass under ground in spring and reappear in
autumn, iv. 243

Shadows of sacred trees not to be trodden on by women, ii. 34;
of people drawn out by ghosts, iii. 80;
animals injured through their, iii. 81 _sq._;
of trees sensitive, iii. 82;
of certain birds and people viewed as dangerous, iii. 82 _sq._;
of people built into the foundations of edifices, iii. 89 _sq._;
of mourners dangerous, iii. 142;
of certain persons dangerous, iii. 173

Shahpur district of the Punjaub, rain-making in the, i. 278

Shakespear, Lt.-Colonel J., on the belief in demons among the Lushais, ix.
94

Shakespeare on death at the turn of the tide, i. 168

Shaking of victim as sign of its acceptance, i. 384 _sq._.

Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, captures Samaria, iv. 169;
carries the Israelites into captivity, iv. 171

Sham-fights at installation of Shilluk kings, iv. 24;
in honour of the dead, iv. 96 _sq._;
at annual festival in Hawaii, iv. 117 _sq._;
at the first bringing in of the rice among the Kayans, vii. 98;
at the festival of new fruits among the Creek Indians, viii. 75;
(mimic battles) before going to war, viii. 207;
at festival of New Year among the Tenggerese of Java, ix. 184;
at the sacrifice of a woman among the Mexicans, ix. 289;
at festival of New Year among the Swahili, x. 135

—— graves and corpses to deceive demons, viii. 98 _sqq._

Shaman, function of the, ix. 79 _sq._

Shamanism, magical ritual of the Vedas akin to, i. 229;
among the Koryaks, ix. 101

Shamanistic faith and magic, period of, among the forefathers of the
Indo-Germanic race, ix. 91

Shamans, the importance of, among the Maidu, i. 357 _sq._;
expected to drive away demons and disease from the village, i. 358;
expected to inflict death and disease on hostile villages, i. 358;
bones of dead, placed in trees, ii. 32;
Buryat, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 56 _sq._;
among the Thompson Indians, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 57
_sq._;
Yakut, their mode of recovering lost souls, iii. 63;
among the Haídas kill the souls of foes, iii. 72 _n._ 1;
thought to swallow people’s souls, iii. 76 _sq._;
among the Navajos, ceremony performed by them over a returned captive,
iii. 113;
in Corea, their control of demons, ix. 99, 100;
among the Koryaks, enjoy the favour of demons and pull out their
invisible arrows, ix. 101, 126;
expel demons at the winter solstice, ix. 126;
among the Esquimaux, their grotesque masks of supernatural beings, ix.
379;
their second sight, ix. 380;
of the Yakuts and Samoyeds, keep their external souls in animals, xi.
196

Shamash, Babylonian sun-god, xi. 80 _n._ 3;
his human wives, v. 71

——, Semitic god, v. 16 _n._ 1

Shamashshumukin, king of Babylon, burns himself, v. 173 _sq._, 176

Shammuramat, Assyrian queen, and Semiramis, v. 177 _n._ 1, ix. 370 _n._ 1

Shampoo, the fatal, ix. 42

Shan custom on return from a funeral, iii. 51;
modes of disposing of cut hair and nails, iii. 277.
_See also_ Shans

Shanga, city in East Africa, story of an African Samson at, xi. 314

Shanghai, geomancy at, i. 170

Shans of Burma, rules observed by wife of absent warrior among the, i.
128;
obtain rain by drenching images of Buddha, i. 308;
their theory of earthquakes, v. 198;
cut bamboos for building in the wane of the moon, vi. 136;
custom of executioners among the, viii. 155

—— of Indo-China, their human sacrifices for the crops, vii. 243

—— of Kengtung, their expulsion of demons, ix. 116 _sq._

—— of Southern China, their annual expulsion of the fire-spirit, ix. 141

Shape, magical changes of, vii. 305

Shark, king of Dahomey represented with body of a, iv. 85

Shark Point, priestly king at, iii. 5, 123

—— -shaped hero named Sigai in the island of Yam, v. 139 _n._ 1

Sharks, ancestral spirits in, viii. 123, 127;
offerings of flying-fish set before images of, viii. 127;
temples dedicated to, viii. 292;
souls of dead in, viii. 292 _sq._, 297

Sharp instruments, use of, tabooed, iii. 205, 237 _sqq._

Shaving forbidden, iii. 194; prisoners, reason of, iii. 273

Shawms blown to ban witches, ix. 160

Shawnee prophet, xi. 157

Sheaf buried as a magical rite, i. 69

—— of corn dressed up to represent Death, iv. 248

——, the first cut, thought to contain the soul of the rice, vi. 239, vii.
197 _sq._;
lamentations over, vii. 215;
called the “Cross of the Horse” and trodden by the youngest horse on the
farm, vii. 294

——, the largest and finest, buried in corn-field from seed-time to
harvest, vii. 174 _sq._

——, the last cut at harvest used to make Brüd’s bed in the Highlands of
Scotland, ii. 94 _n._ 2;
the Corn-mother in, vii. 133 _sqq._;
thresher tied up in, vii. 134, 147, 148;
dressed or made up as a woman, vii. 134, 135, 136, 137, 139 _sq._, 140,
141, 145, 146, 148, 150, 153, 154, 155, 157, 159, 160, 162,
163, 166, 190 _sq._;
drenched with water, vii. 134, 137, 145, 297;
given to cattle, vii. 134, 155, 158, 161, 170;
stones fastened to, vii. 135 _sq._, 138, 139;
harvester tied up in, vii. 134, 139, 145, 221, 222;
called the Harvest-mother, vii. 135;
called the Great Mother, vii. 135, 136;
called the Old Woman or Old Man, vii. 136 _sqq._;
called the Grandmother, vii. 136;
person identified with, vii. 138 _sq._;
corn-spirit caught in, vii. 139;
called the _Cailleach_ (Old Wife), vii. 140 _sqq._;
burnt and its ashes strewed on fields, vii. 146;
called the Bastard, vii. 150;
called the Child, vii. 151;
given to the cattle at Christmas, vii. 155, 158, 160 _sq._;
cut by the youngest girl on the field, vii. 157, 158;
kept till Christmas, then given to a mare in foal, vii. 160, 161 _n._ 1;
given to the first mare that foals, vii. 160, 162;
called the Bride, vii. 162 _sq._;
supposed to ward off fairies, vii. 165;
representative of the corn-spirit, vii. 168, viii. 48;
in Lower Burma, vii. 190 _sq._;
called the Old Man, vii. 218 _sqq._;
an object of desire and emulation, vii. 218 _n._ 2;
in India, vii. 222 _sq._, 234 _n._ 2;
called the Neck, vii. 266, 267, 268;
called the Head, vii. 268;
the corn-spirit caught in, vii. 270;
thresher of the last sheaf treated as an animal, vii. 271;
called the Bitch, vii. 272;
called the Wolf, vii. 273;
shaped like a wolf, vii. 274;
called the Cock, vii. 276;
live cock bound up with, vii. 278;
called the Hare, vii. 279;
called the Cat, vii. 280;
called the Goat, vii. 282, 283;
shaped like a goat, vii. 283;
made up in form of horned ox, vii. 289;
called the Buffalo-bull, vii. 289;
called the Cow, vii. 289;
race of reapers to, vii. 291;
called the Mare, vii. 292 _sq._;
called the Fox, vii. 297;
made in form of fox, vii. 297;
called the Rye-boar, vii. 298;
called the Rye-sow, Wheat-sow, Corn-sow, or Oats-sow, vii. 298;
corn of, used to bake the Yule Boar, vii. 300 _sq._;
the corn-spirit immanent in, vii. 301, viii. 48, 328;
loaves baked from, viii. 48;
used to bake cakes in form of goats, rams, and boars at Christmas, viii.
328;
the Yule log wrapt up in, x. 248;
reapers blindfold throw sickles at the, xi. 279 _n._ 4
_See also_ _Clyack_, _Kirn_, _Mell_, Maiden

Sheaf, the last threshed called the Corn-goat, Spelt-goat, or Oats-goat,
vii. 286;
shaped like a goat, vii. 287, called the Fox, vii. 297

Sheaf of oats made up to represent St. Bride or Bridget, ii. 94 _sq._

Sheaves of wheat or barley burnt in Midsummer fires, x. 215

Sheba or Sabaea, the kings of, not allowed to quit their palace, iii. 124;
their priestly character, iii. 125 _n._

Sheep torn by wolf in homoeopathic magic, i. 157;
driven through fire, ii. 327, xi. 11 _sqq._;
bred by people of the Italian pile villages, ii. 353 _n._ 3;
used in purificatory ceremonies, iii. 174, 175;
shoulder-blades of, used in divination, iii. 229;
to be shorn when the moon is waxing, vi. 134;
to be shorn in the waning of the moon, vi. 134 _n._ 3;
reason for not eating, viii. 140;
ghosts of, dreaded, viii. 231;
used as scapegoat among the ancient Arabs, ix. 35;
made to tread embers of extinct Midsummer fires, x. 182;
driven over ashes of Midsummer fires, x. 192;
burnt to stop disease in the flock, x. 301;
burnt alive as a sacrifice in the Isle of Man, x. 306;
omens drawn from the intestines of, xi. 13;
passed through a hole in a rock to rid them of disease, xi. 189 _sq._

——, black, sacrificed for rain, i. 290;
wetted as a rain-charm, i. 290;
witch in shape of a, x. 316

Sheep-headed women, statuettes of, found at Lycosura, viii. 21 _n._ 4

—— -skin, fumigation with, viii. 324

—— -skins, candidates at initiation seated on, vii. 38;
people beaten with, ix. 265

_Sheitan dere_, the Devil’s Glen, in Cilicia, v. 150

Shell called “old man,” homoeopathic magic of, i. 158

Shells used in ritual of death and resurrection, xi. 267 _n._ 2, 269

—— of eggs preserved, viii. 258 _n._ 2

Shenty, Egyptian cow-goddess, vi. 88

Shepherd beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371

Shepherd’s Isle, exorcism of strangers in, iii. 104

—— pouch thrashed as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 338

—— prayer, ii. 327 _sq._

Shepherds, Roman, fumigate their flocks, ii. 327, viii. 42

Shepherds’ festival, ancient Italian, ii. 326 _sqq._

Sherbro, Sierra Leone, sacred society in the, xi. 259 _sqq._

Shervaray Hills in Travancore, the Malayalies of the, iii. 402

Shetland, tying up the wind in knots in, i. 326;
witches in, i. 326;
Yule in, ix. 167 _sqq._

—— fishermen, their use of magical images, i. 69 _sq._;
their tabooed words, iii. 394

Shields of manslayers struck to make them resound, iii. 178;
of the Salii struck with staves, iii. 233

Shifting cultivation, vii. 99

—— dates of Egyptian festivals, vi. 24 _sq._

Shilluk kings animated by the divine spirit of Nyakang, iv. 18;
put to death before their strength fails, iv. 21 _sq._, vi. 163;
worshipped after death, iv. 24 _sqq._, vi. 161 _sqq._

Shilluks, a tribe of the White Nile, iv. 17 _sqq._;
custom of putting to death the divine kings, iv. 17 _sqq._, 204, 206;
their worship of Nyakang, the first of the Shilluk kings, iv. 18 _sqq._,
vi. 162 _sqq._;
ceremony on the accession of a new king of the, iv. 23 _sq._, 26 _sq._,
204;
their worship of dead kings, iv. 24 _sqq._, vi. 161 _sq._;
transmission of soul of divine founder of dynasty to all successors
among the, iv. 198, 204

Shin, Loch, Hugh Miller on, iii. 40

Shinto rain-making ceremony, i. 297;
priest exorcizes demons of plague, ix. 118

Shinty, the Scotch name for hockey, viii. 323, 324 _n._ 1

Ship, sicknesses expelled in a, ix. 185 _sqq._;
demons expelled in a, ix. 201 _sq._

Ships sunk by witches, i. 135;
ancient processions with, perhaps rain-charms, i. 251 _n._ 3

Shire River, the Makanga on the, viii. 287

Shirley Heath, cleft ash-tree at, xi. 168

Shirt worn by the effigy of Death, its use, iv. 247, 249

——, wet, divination by, at Hallowe’en, x. 236, 241

Shiverings and shakings as signs of inspiration, i. 377

Shoa, belief as to the shadow of an enemy in, iii. 83;
a province of Abyssinia, customs observed at eating in, iii. 116

Shoe untied at marriage, iii. 300;
custom of going with one shoe on and one shoe off, iii. 311 _sqq._;
divination by thrown, x. 236

Shoes of priestess not to be made from skin of animal that died a natural
death, iii. 14;
not to be brought into the sanctuary of Alectrona, viii. 45;
not to be worn in sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura, viii. 46;
of boar’s skins worn by king at inauguration, x. 4;
magical plants at Midsummer put in, xi. 54, 60, 65

Shogun’s palace in Japan, ix. 144

Shooter, Rev. J., on the agricultural labours of women among the Zulus,
vii. 113 _sq._;
on breaking a calabash and sacrifice of bulls at Zulu festival of
first-fruits, viii. 68 _n._ 3

Shooting at the sun on Midsummer Day, xi. 291

“—— the Witches” on St. Sylvester’s Day in Bohemia, ix. 164;
at witches in the clouds among the South Slavs, x. 345

Shooting stars, superstitions as to, iv. 58 _sqq._

_Shorea robusta_, the _sâl_ tree, sacred groves of, among the Khonds, ii.
41

Shortland, E., on taboo in New Zealand, iii. 134 _n._ 3

“Shot-a-dead” by fairies, x. 303

Shoulder-blades of sheep used in divination, iii. 229, 229 _n._ 4, viii.
234

Shoulders of medicine-men especially sensitive, v. 74 _n._ 4

Shouting as a means of stopping earthquakes, v. 197 _sqq._

Shravan, an Indian month, iv. 55

Shrew-ash, how prepared, i. 83

—— -mouse in magic, i. 83

Shrine (_fierte_) of St. Romain at Rouen, ii. 167, 168, 170 _n._ 1;
of Aesculapius at Sicyon, v. 81

——, golden models of, found in royal graves at Mycenae, v. 33

Shrines of dead Shilluk kings, iv. 24 _sq._;
of shark-shaped and crocodile-shaped heroes in Yam, v. 139 _n._ 1

Shropshire, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 78;
cutting “the neck” at harvest in, vii. 268;
“to loose the goose” at harvest in, vii. 277 _n._ 3;
“crying the Mare” at harvest in, vii. 293 _sq._;
the sin-eater in, ix. 44;
the tug-of-war at Ludlow in, ix. 182;
fires on Twelfth Night in, ix. 321;
the Yule log in, x. 257;
fear of witchcraft in, x. 342 _n._ 4;
the oak thought to bloom on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 292, 293

Shrove Tuesday, dances on, to make the hemp or flax grow tall, i. 138
_sq._;
straw puppet burnt by the Slovenes on, ii. 93;
Burial of the Carnival on, iv. 221 _sqq._;
mock death of, iv. 227 _sqq._;
drama of Summer and Winter on, iv. 257;
pig’s flesh boiled on, vii. 300;
dances to make the flax thrive on, viii. 326;
the tug-of-war on, ix. 182 _sq._;
game of ball on, ix. 183;
dances to promote the growth of the crops on, ix. 239, 347;
effigies burnt on, x. 120;
straw-man burnt on, xi. 22;
wicker giants on, xi. 35;
cats burnt alive on, xi. 40;
the divining-rod cut on, xi. 68;
custom of striking a hen dead on, xi. 279 _n._

Shrovetide Bear, the, iv. 230, viii. 325 _sq._

—— custom in the Erzgebirge, iv. 208 _sq._;
in Bohemia, iv. 209

Shu, Egyptian god of light, v. 283 _n._ 3

Shumpaoli, god of the Makalaka, first-fruits offered to him, viii. 110
_sq._

Shurii-Kia-Miau, aboriginal tribe in China, annual human sacrifice among
the, iv. 145

Shushan (Susa), fast of the Jews in, ix. 397

Shuswap Indians of British Columbia, their contagious magic of
foot-prints, i. 210;
their beliefs and customs concerning twins, i. 265;
their way of bringing on cold weather, i. 319;
their recovery of lost souls, iii. 67 _n._;
their belief as to the shadows of mourners, iii. 83;
customs observed by mourners among the, iii. 142;
girls at puberty forbidden to scratch themselves among the, iii. 146
_n._ 1;
continence of hunters among the, iii. 198;
eat nutlets of pines, v. 278 _n._ 2;
their propitiation of slain bears, viii. 226 _sq._;
their regard for the bones of beavers, viii. 238;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 53 _sq._;
girls at puberty forbidden to eat anything that bleeds among the, x. 94;
fence themselves with thorn bushes against ghosts, xi. 174 _n._ 2;
personal totems among the, xi. 276 _n._ 1;
their belief as to trees struck by lightning, xi. 297 _n._ 3

Shway Yoe (Sir George Scott), on the worship of _nats_ in Burma, ix. 96

Sia Indians, chastity of hunters among the, iii. 197 _sq._

Siam, use of fire kindled by lightning in, ii. 256 _n._ 1;
modes of executing royal criminals in, iii. 241 _sq._;
forbidden to walk over the head of a superior in, iii. 254;
tigers and crocodiles not named in their haunts in, iii. 403 _sq._;
annual temporary kings in, iv. 149 _sqq._;
catafalque burnt at funeral of king of, v. 179;
annual festival of the dead in, vi. 65;
sickness transferred from sick man to image in, viii. 103;
the Laosians of, ix. 97;
annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 149 _sqq._;
human scapegoats in, ix. 212;
tree-spirit in serpent form in, xi. 44 _n._ 1.
_See also_ Siamese

——, king of, divinity of, i. 401;
his perpetual fire, ii. 262;
not allowed to set foot on ground, x. 3

——, kings of, their bodies not to be touched under pain of death, iii.
226;
names of, concealed from fear of sorcery, iii. 375

Siamese, the, do violence to the gods in time of drought or excessive
rain, i. 299;
fear to fell fine trees, ii. 41;
kindle a sacred fire by means of a metal mirror or burning-glass, ii.
245 _n._;
their belief as to foundation sacrifices, iii. 90;
their superstition as to passing under a rope, iii. 250;
their belief as to a guardian spirit in the head, iii. 252 _sq._;
mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 218;
their explanation of a first menstruation, x. 24;
their story of the external soul, xi. 102

Siamese children, ceremony at cutting their hair, iii. 265 _sqq._;
disposal of their cut hair, iii. 275

—— monks, their respect for trees, ii. 13

—— objection to stamping coins with the image of the king, iii. 98 _sq._

—— year of twelve lunar months, ix. 149 _n._ 2

Siaoo, or Siauw, East Indian island, belief as to sylvan spirits in, ii.
33;
magic wrought by means of spittle in, iii. 288;
puppets substituted for human sacrificial victims in, iv. 218;
children sacrificed to volcano in, v. 219

Sibaia, a good spirit in Nias, viii. 276

Siberia, the Jukagirs of, i. 122; the Buryats of, ii. 32;
the Orotchis of, iii. 232;
the Samoyeds of, iii. 353;
the natives of, will not call bears by their proper name, iii. 398;
Eastern, the Gilyaks of, viii. 190;
North-East, the Chuckchees of, viii. 221;
North-East, the Koryaks of, viii. 232;
marriage custom in, x. 75;
external souls of shamans in, xi. 196 _sq._

Siberian sable-hunters, their respect for dead sables, viii. 238

Sibitti-baal, king of Byblus, paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser, v. 14

Sibree, Rev. J., on divinity of Betsileo chiefs, i. 397

Sibyl, the, and the Golden Bough, i. 11;
and Aeneas, i. 11;
the Grotto of, at Marsala, v. 247;
the Norse, her prophecy, x. 102 _sq._

Sibyl’s wish, the, x. 99

Sibylline Books, v. 265

Sicilians, Demeter’s gift of corn to the, vii. 56 _sq._;
their lamentations at being robbed of an image of Demeter, vii. 65

Sicily, stones tied to fruit-trees in, i. 140;
attempts to compel the saints to give rain in, i. 299 _sq._;
barren fruit-trees threatened in, ii. 21 _sq._;
date of the artificial fertilization of fig-trees in, ii. 314;
Syrian prophet in, v. 74; fossil bones in, v. 157;
hot springs in, v. 213;
gardens of Adonis in, v. 245, 253 _sq._;
divination at Midsummer in, v. 254;
Good Friday ceremonies in, v. 255 _sq._;
worship of Demeter and Persephone in, vii. 56, 65;
Ascension Day in, ix. 54;
Midsummer fires in, x. 210;
St. John’s Day (Midsummer Day) regarded as dangerous and unlucky in, xi.
29;
bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 29;
St. John’s wort as a balm in, xi. 55

Sick, sacrifices for the, iv. 20, 25;
thought to be possessed by the spirits of kings, iv. 25 _sq._

Sick man, attempts to prevent the escape of the soul of, iii. 30 _sqq._

—— and old people put to death, iv. 14

—— people passed through a hole in an oak, ii. 371;
not allowed to sleep, iii. 95;
sprinkled with pungent spices, iii. 105 _sq._;
resort to cave of Pluto, v. 205 _sq._
_See also_ Sickness

—— -room, mirrors covered up in, iii. 95

Sickles thrown at last standing corn, vii. 136, 142, 144, 153, 154, 165,
267, 268, 279, 296

Sickness, homoeopathic magic for the cure of, i. 78 _sqq._;
explained by the absence of the soul, iii. 42 _sqq._;
caused by ancestral spirits, iii. 53;
ascribed to possession by demons and cured by exorcism, iii. 105 _sq._;
thought to be caused by demons or ghosts, viii. 100 _sqq._, ix. 88, 94,
100, 102, 103, 109 _sqq._;
cured or prevented by effigies, viii. 100 _sqq._;
transferred to things, ix. 2 _sq._, 4 _sq._;
transferred to people, ix. 6 _sq._;
transferred to animals in Africa and other parts of the world, ix. 31
_sqq._, xi. 181;
transferred to animals in Europe, ix. 49 _sqq._;
bonfires a protection against, x. 108, 109.
_See also_ Disease

Sicknesses expelled in a ship, ix. 185 _sqq._

Sicyon, the wooing of Agariste at, ii. 307;
shrine of Aesculapius at, v. 81;
the sanctuary of Wolfish Apollo at, viii. 283;
wolves at, viii. 283, 284

Sidon, kings of, as priests of Astarte, v. 26

Siebold, H. von, on the bear-festivals of the Ainos, viii. 185 _n._

Sieg, the Yule log in the valley of the, x. 248

_Siem_, king, among the Khasis of Assam, vi. 210 _n._ 1

Siena, the, of the Ivory Coast, their totemism, xi. 220 _n._ 2

Sierck, town on the Moselle, the mayor of, officiates at the lighting of
the Midsummer fire, x. 164

Sierra Leone, the Grebo people of, iii. 14;
custom of beating a king before proclaiming him in, iii. 18;
the Pleiades observed by the natives of, vii. 317 _sq._;
birth-trees in, xi. 160;
secret society in, xi. 260 _sq._

Sierra Nevada in Colombia, the Aurohuaca Indians of the, iii. 215, 216

Sieves in homoeopathic magic, i. 157;
in rain-making, i. 251;
water poured through, as a rain-charm, i. 285;
children at birth placed in, vii. 6 _sqq._;
divination by, x. 236

Sigai, hero in form of shark, v. 139 _n._ 1

Sigurd and the dragon Fafnir, iii. 324, viii. 146

Sihanaka, the, of Madagascar, funeral custom of the, vi. 246;
transference of sickness to things among the, ix. 2 _sq._

Sikhim, kings of, puppets in the hands of priests, iii. 20;
villagers in, their fear of being photographed, iii. 98;
the people of, believe that ores and veins of metal are the treasure of
earth-spirits, iii. 407 _n._ 2;
offerings at cairns in, ix. 26;
demonolatry in, ix. 94;
custom after a funeral in, xi. 18

Silberberg, in Bohemia, custom at flax-dressing in, vii. 194

Silence observed by women in making pottery, ii. 204;
enforced during absence of fisher, viii. 256;
at transferring fever to willow, ix. 58;
compulsory, to deceive demons, ix. 132 _sq._, 140;
compulsory on girls at puberty, x. 29, 57;
at bathing on Easter Saturday night, x. 123;
at fetching water on Easter Saturday night, x. 124;
at digging the root of the yellow mullein at midnight on Midsummer Eve,
xi. 63;
at cutting a branch of hazel to form a divining-rod by night on
Midsummer Eve, xi. 67;
in passing a ruptured or rickety child through a cleft tree, xi. 171;
in creeping through a hoop of willow as a cure, xi. 184

Silenuses, minor deities associated with Dionysus, viii. 1 _sq._

Silesia, custom as to children’s cast teeth in, i. 181;
precautions against witches on May Day in, ii. 54 _sq._;
Whitsuntide King in, ii. 84;
contest for the kingship at Whitsuntide in, ii. 89 _sq._;
St. George’s Day in, ii. 336 _sq._;
Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 207 _n._ 1;
“Carrying out Death” in, iv. 236 _sq._, 239 _sq._, 250 _sq._, 264 _sq._,
x. 119;
bringing in Summer in, iv. 246;
athletic sports at harvest in, vii. 76;
the Grandmother sheaf at harvest in, vii. 136;
the last sheaf called the Old Woman or Old Man in, vii. 138, 148 _sq._;
Girlachsdorf in, vii. 138;
Hermsdorf in, vii. 139;
woman binder of last sheaf tied up in it in, vii. 139, 222;
loaf baked from corn of last sheaf in, vii. 148 _sq._;
Langenbielau in, vii. 148;
the Wheat-bride, Oats-bride, Oats-king, and Oats-queen at harvest in,
vii. 163 _sq._;
Neisse in, vii. 164;
man who binds the last sheaf called the Beggar-man in, vii. 231;
Alt Lest in, vii. 231;
corn-stalks left on harvest-field in, vii. 233;
man who cuts or binds last sheaf called Wheat-dog or Peas-pug in, vii.
272;
reaping the last corn called “catching the Wolf” in, vii. 273;
the Harvest-cock in, vii. 277;
reaping the last corn called “catching the Cat” in, vii. 280;
reaper of last corn called the Tom-cat in, vii. 281;
Grüneberg in, vii. 281;
last sheaf shaped like a horned ox in, vii. 289;
Bunzlau in, vii. 289;
“catching the quail” at harvest in, vii. 295;
expulsion of witches on Good Friday in, ix. 157;
precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night in, ix. 162 _sq._;
precautions against witches at Christmas and New Year in, ix. 164;
“Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268, 269;
mode of reckoning the Twelve Days in, ix. 327;
Spachendorf in, x. 119;
fires to burn the witches in, x. 160;
Midsummer fires in, x. 170 _sq._, 175;
need-fire in, x. 278;
witches as cats in, x. 319 _sq._;
divination by flowers on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 53 Silili, a Babylonian
goddess, ix. 371

Silius Italicus, on the fire-walk of the Hirpi Sorani, xi. 14 _n._ 3

Silk-cotton trees reverenced, ii. 14 _sq._

Silkworms, taboos observed by breeders of, iii. 194

Sill of door, unlucky children passed under the, xi. 190

Silvanus, the Roman wood-god, his representations in art, ii. 45 _n._ 2;
associated with Diana, ii. 121;
god of cattleas well as woods, ii. 124;
associated with the Fauns, viii. 2

Silver and gold as totems, iii. 227 _n._

Silver poplar a charm against witchcraft, ii. 336

—— sixpence or button used to shoot witches with, x. 316

Silvia and Mars, story of, xi. 192

Silvii, the family name of the kings of Alba, ii. 178 _sqq._, 192, 379

Silvius, first king of Alba, ii. 179

Simbang, in German New Guinea, belief in the transmigration of human souls
into crocodiles at, viii. 295

Simbirsk, Government of, in Russia, the “Funeral of Kostroma” in, iv. 262

Simeon, prince of Bulgaria, his life bound up with the capital of a
column, xi. 156 _sq._

Similarity in magic, law of, i. 52, 53

Similkameen Indians, of British Columbia, eat hearts of bears to make them
brave, viii. 146

Simla, annual fair and dance near, x. 12

Simplification, danger of excessive simplification in science, i. 332
_sq._

Simpson, W., as to Emperors of China, iii. 125 _n._ 3

Simurgh and Rustem, in Firdusi’s _Epic of Kings_, x. 104

Sin regarded as something material, iii. 214, 216, 217 _sq._;
transferred to things, ix. 3. _See also_ Sins

Sin-eater, the, ix. 43 _sq._

—— -eating in Wales, ix. 43 _sq._

—— -offering, x. 82

Sinai, “Mistress of Turquoise” at, v. 35

Sinaitic Peninsula, annual festival of Bedouins in the, iv. 97

Sinaugolo tribe of British New Guinea, women after childbirth not allowed
to handle food in the, iii. 147 _sq._

Sinew of the thigh, customs and myths as to, viii. 264 _sqq._

Sinews of sacrificial ox cut, vi. 252;
of dead men cut to disable their ghosts, viii. 272

Singa Bonga, spirit who dwells in the sun, the first-fruits of the harvest
dedicated to him by the Hos of Bengal, viii. 117

Singalang Burong, a Dyak war-god, invoked in a long liturgy at the
Head-feast, ix. 383, 384 _n._ 1;
the Ruler of the Spirit World, story of the marriage of his daughter to
a mortal man, iv. 127 _sq._

Singarmati Devi, Indian goddess, worshipped by breeders of silkworms in
Mirzapur, iii. 194

Singer, charm to become a good, i. 156;
navel-string used to make a boy a fine, i. 197 _sq._;
the best, chosen chief, ii. 298 _sq._

Singhalese, their fear of demons, iii. 233 _sq._;
their use of iron as a talisman against demons, iii. 233 _sq._;
unlock locks to facilitate childbirth, iii. 297;
their custom of tying a knot as a charm on a threshing-floor, iii. 308
_sq._;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 69. _See also_ Cingalese

Singhalese custom as to cast teeth, i. 180

—— sorcerers, their use of magical images, i. 65

Singing to the moon by wives and sisters in the absence of the men, i. 125

Singleton, Miss A. H., on hunting the wren in Ireland, viii. 320 _n._ 1;
on an Irish cure for whooping-cough, xi. 192 _n._ 1

Sink or swim, in divination, i. 196;
test used to determine a new incarnation, i. 413

Sins, the remission of, through the shedding of blood, v. 299;
transferred to a buffalo calf, ix. 36 _sq._;
transferred vicariously to human beings, ix. 39 _sqq._;
of people transferred to animals, ix. 210;
the Jewish confession of, over the scapegoat, ix. 210;
the absolution of, pronounced by the Mikado, ix. 213 _n._ 1;
Delaware Indian remedies for, ix. 263

——, confession of, i. 266, iii. 114, 191, 195, 211 _sq._, 214 _sqq._, ix.
31, 36, 127;
originally a magical ceremony, iii. 217

Sinsharishkun, last king of Assyria, burned himself in his palace, v. 174

Sintang, district of West Borneo, use of rice to attract souls in, iii. 35

Sinuessa, in Campania, its waters thought to fertilize women, ii. 161

Siouan tribes of North America, names of clans not used in ordinary
conversation among the, xi. 224 _n._ 2

Sioux Indians ate the hearts of brave enemies to make themselves brave,
viii. 150;
their respect for turtles, viii. 243;
ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 268 _sq._

—— girl sacrificed for the crops, vii. 238 _sq._

Siphnos, titular kings in, i. 46 _n._ 4;
ceremonies at felling a tree in the island of, ii. 37

Siphoum, in Laos, taboos observed by salt-workers at, iii. 200

Sipi in Northern India, annual fair and dance at, x. 12

Sipylus, Mother Plastene on Mount, v. 185

Siriac or Sothic period in ancient Egypt, vi. 36

Sirius (the Dog-star), the soul of Isis in, iv. 5;
observed by Egyptian astronomers, vi. 27;
called Sothis by the Egyptians, vi. 34;
date of its rising in ancient Egypt, vi. 34;
heliacal rising of, on July 20th, vi. 34 _n._ 1, 93;
the star of Isis, vi. 34, 119;
its rising marked the beginning of the sacred Egyptian year, vi. 35;
its rising observed in Ceos, vi. 35 _n._ 1;
sacrifices offered at its rising on the top of Mount Pelion, vi. 36
_n._;
in connexion with the Sed festival, vi. 152 _sq._;
associated with Ishtar, ix. 359 _n._ 1;
how the Bushmen warm up, x. 332 _sq._

Sis in Cilicia, v. 144

Sister, marriage with, in royal families, iv. 193 _sq._

—— and brother not allowed to mention each other’s names, iii. 344

—— of a god, v. 51

Sister’s Beam (_Sororium tigillum_) at Rome, xi. 194, 195 _n._ 4

—— children preferred to man’s own children, mark of mother-kin, ii. 285

Sisters, taboos observed by, in the absence of their brothers, i. 122,
123, 125, 127;
kings marry their, v. 316

—— of king, licence accorded to, ii. 274 _sqq._

—— of hunters, taboos observed by, i. 122

Sisters-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, iii. 338, 342, 343

Sisyphus, the stone of, x. 298

Sit (Set), malignant Egyptian god, iii. 68. _See_ Set

Sita, wife of Rama, the Holy Basil (_tulasi_) regarded as an embodiment
of, ii. 26

Sithon, king of the Odomanti, and his daughter Pallene, ii. 307

Sitting on the ground prohibited to warriors, iii. 159, 162, 163

Situa, annual festival of the Incas, ix. 128

Siu, a Sea Dyak, and his bird wife, iv. 127 _sq._

Siva, one of the persons of the Hindoo Trinity, i. 404;
his wife Gauri, ii. 77 _sq._

—— and Pârvati, marriage of the images of, iv. 265 _sq._

Six hundred and sixty-six, the number of the Beast, iv. 44

Sixpence, silver, witches shot with a, x. 316

Sixth day of the moon, mistletoe cut on the, xi. 77

Sixty years, cycles of, xi. 77 _n._ 1

Siyins of North-Eastern India, their belief in demons, ix. 93

Sizu in Cilicia, v. 144

Skates worshipped by the Indians of Peru, viii. 250

_Skatsantzari_, fiends or monsters in Macedonia, ix. 320

Skeat, W. W., on Malay rain-making, i. 262;
on the sanctity of the regalia among the Malays, i. 398;
on the Rice-mother and Rice-child among the Malays, vii. 197 _sqq._

—— and Blagdon, C. O., on the power of medicine-men among the wild tribes
of the Malay Peninsula, i. 360 _sq._

Skein, tangled, as a talisman to keep off ghosts, ix. 153 _n._ 1

Skeleton drenched with water as a rain-charm, i. 284

Skene, W. F., on the Picts as Celts, ii. 286 _n._ 2

Skin of slain animal placed on a dead man to recruit his strength, iii. 68
_sq._;
of sacrificial victim in Greek ritual, iii. 312;
of ox stuffed and set up, v. 296 _sq._, viii. 5;
body of Egyptian dead placed in a bull’s, vi. 15 _n._ 2;
of sacrificial victim used in the rite of the new birth, vi. 155 _sq._;
of sacrificed ram placed on statue of Ammon, viii. 41, 172;
of sacrificed bird or animal, uses of, viii. 170, 173 _sq._
_See also_ Skins

Skin-disease, bathing in dew at Midsummer as remedy for, v. 247, 248, x.
208;
caused by eating a sacred animal, viii. 25 _sqq._;
supposed remedy for, ix. 266;
Mexican remedy for, ix. 298;
leaping over ashes of fire as remedy for, xi. 2;
traditional cure of, in India, xi. 192

Skinner, Principal J., on the burnt sacrifice of children, vi. 219

Skins of sacrificed animals hung in sacred groves, ii. 11;
of horses stuffed and set up at graves, v. 293, 294;
of sacrificed animals stuffed or stretched on frameworks, viii. 5, 257
_sq._;
of sacrificial victims used to beat people, ix. 265;
creatures that slough their, supposed to renew their youth, ix. 302
_sqq._

—— of human victims, uses made of, v. 293;
worn by men in Mexico, ix. 265 _sq._, 288, 290, 294 _sq._, 296 _sqq._,
301 _sq._

Skipping-rope played by Gilyaks at bear-festival, viii. 192

Skoptsi or Skoptsy, the, a fanatical Russian sect, mutilate themselves,
ii. 145 _n._ 1, iv. 196 _n._ 3

Skull of dead king, drinking out of, as a means of inspiration, iv. 200,
vi. 171;
drinking out of a human, in order to acquire the qualities of the
deceased, viii. 150;
of enemy, lad at circumcision seated on, viii. 153.
_See also_ Skulls

Skull-cap worn by girls at their first menstruation, iii. 146;
worn by Australian widows, iii. 182 _n._ 2

Skulls used as charms to cause invisibility, i. 150;
of raccoons prayed to for rain, i. 288;
of bears nailed to sacred firs, ii. 11;
of dead used as drinking-cups among the Australian aborigines, iii. 372;
of dead kings of Uganda removed and kept, iv. 202 _sq._, vi. 169;
human, as protection against powers of evil, vii. 241;
the Place of, vii. 243;
spirits of ancestors in their, viii. 123;
of bears worshipped by the Ainos, viii. 181, 184;
of foxes consulted as oracles, viii. 181; of bears as talismans, viii.
197;
of turtles propitiated by turtle-fishermen, viii. 244;
of enemies destroyed, viii. 260

——, ancestral, used in magical ceremonies, i. 163; in rain-charm, i. 285;
rubbed as a propitiation, iii. 197;
offerings set beside, viii. 127

Sky, twins called the children of the, i. 267, 268;
appeal to the pity of the, as a rain-charm, i. 302 _sq._;
Aryan god of the, ii. 374 _sq._;
observation of the, for omens, iv. 58;
conceived by the Egyptians as a cow, v. 283 _n._ 3;
girls at puberty not allowed to look at the, x. 43, 45, 46, 69

—— and earth, myth of their violent separation, v. 283

Sky-god, Attis as a, v. 282 _sqq._;
married to Earth-goddess, v. 282, with _n._ 2;
mutilation of the, v. 283;
invoked at Eleusis, vii. 69

—— -god Zeus, vii. 65

—— -goddess, the Egyptian, ix. 341

—— -spirit, sacrifice of children to, iv. 181

Skye, x. 289;
sacred wood in the island of, ii. 44;
the need-fire in, ii. 238, x. 148;
the last sheaf called the Cripple or Lame Goat at harvest in, vii. 164,
284