INDEX.
- 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.
- Ælian, i. 372, ii. 423;
- on Kynokephali, i. 389.
- Æolus, i. 361, ii. 269.
- Æsculapius:—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;
- 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 sacrifice 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.;
- diseases transferred to, ii. 147;
- see spirits invisible to men, ii. 196.
- Animals, sacred, incarnations or representatives of deities, ii. 231;
- receive and consume sacrifices, 378.
- Animal-worship, i. 467, ii. 229, 378.
- Animism:—defined, i. 23, 425;
- Anra-Mainyu, ii. 328.
- Antar, tumulus of, ii. 29.
- Anthropomorphic conceptions of spirit and deity, ii. 110, 184, 247, 335.
- Antipodes, i. 392.
- Ape-men, i. 379;
- apes degenerate men, 376;
- can but will not talk, 379.
- Apollo, ii. 294.
- Apophis-serpent, ii. 241.
- Apotheosis, ii. 120.
- Apparitional soul, i. 428;
- its likeness to body, 450.
- Apparitions, i. 143, 440, 445, 478, ii. 24, 187, 410, &c.
- Archetypal deities and ideas, ii. 243.
- Ares, ii. 308.
- 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, 226.
- Ashes strewn for spirit-footprints, i. 455. ii. 197.
- Asmodeus, ii. 254.
- Association of ideas, foundation of magic, i. 116.
- Astrology, i. 128, 291.
- Atahentsic, ii. 299, 309, 323.
- Atahocan, ii. 323, 340.
- Atavism, explained by transmigration, 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 Geschichte, 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;
- Blackstone’s Commentaries, i. 20.
- Blemmyæ, headless men, i. 390.
- Blood:—related to soul, i. 431;
- 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.;
- Breath, its relation to soul, i. 432.
- Bride-capture, game of, i. 72.
- Bridge, first crossing, i. 106;
- 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;
- 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.
- Buddhism:—culture-tradition, i. 41;
- Buildings, victim immured in foundation, i. 104, &c.;
- mythic founders of, i. 394.
- Bull, Bishop, on guardian angels, ii. 203.
- 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, R. F., continuance-theory of future life, ii. 75;
- disease-spirits, 150.
- Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, incubi, &c., ii. 191.
- Buschmann, on nature-sound, i. 223.
- Butler, Bishop, on natural religion, ii. 356.
- Cacodæmon, ii. 138, 202.
- Cæsar, on German deities, ii. 294.
- Cagots, i. 115, 384.
- Calls to animals, i. 177.
- Calmet, on souls, i. 457;
- on spirits, ii. 188, &c.
- 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, &c.
- Cave-men, condition of, i. 59.
- Ceremonies, religious, ii. 362, &c.
- 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.
- Child-birth-goddess, ii. 305.
- Children, numerical series of names for, i. 254;
- Children’s language, i. 223.
- China, religion of:—funeral rites, i. 464, 493;
- Chinese culture-tradition, i. 40;
- remains in Borneo, i. 57.
- Chiromancy or palmistry, i. 125.
- Chirp or twitter of ghosts, &c., i. 453.
- Christmas, origin of, ii. 297.
- Chronology, limits of ancient, i. 54.
- Cicero, on dreams, i. 444;
- sun-gods, ii. 294.
- Civilization, see Culture.
- Civilization-myths, i. 39, 353.
- Civilized men adopt savage life, i. 45.
- Clairvoyance, by objects, i. 116.
- Clashing rocks, myth of, i. 347.
- Clicks, i. 171, 192.
- Cocoa-nut, divination by, i. 80.
- Coin placed with dead, i. 490, 494.
- Columba, St., legend of, i. 104.
- Columbus, his quest of Earthly Paradise, ii. 61.
- Common, right of, i. 20.
- Comparative theology, ii. 251.
- Comte, Auguste, i. 19;
- Confucius, i. 157;
- Consonants, i. 169.
- Constellations, myths of, i. 290, 356.
- Continuance-theory of future life, ii. 75.
- Convulsions:—by demoniacal possession, 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;
- Cortes, i. 319.
- Costume, i. 18.
- Counting, art of i. 22, 240, &c.;
- on fingers and toes, 244;
- by letters of alphabet, &c., 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, &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;
- Deaf and Dumb, counting, i. 244, 262;
- their mythic ideas, i. 298, 413.
- Death:—
- 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;
- 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 Ho, ii. 32.
- Disease:—personification and myths of, i. 295;
- Distance expressed by phonetic modification, i. 220.
- Divination:—lots, i. 78;
- symbolic processes, 81, 117;
- augury, &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;
- 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:—
- Drift, stone implements from, i. 58.
- Drivers’ and Drovers’ words, i. 180.
- Drowning, superstition against rescuing from, i. 107;
- caused by spirits, 109, ii. 209.
- Drugs used to produce morbid excitement, dreams, visions, &c., ii. 416.
- Dual and plural numbers in primitive culture, i. 265.
- Dualism:—good and evil spirits, ii. 186;
- Dusii, ii. 190.
- Dwarfs, myths of, i. 385.
- Dyu, ii. 258.
- Earth, myths of, i. 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, turning 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.:—
- Edda, i. 84, ii. 77, &c.
- Egypt, antiquity of culture, i. 54;
- 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 possession, 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.
- Etiquette, significance of, i. 95.
- Etymological myths:—
- names of 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 corresponding tone, i. 165, 183.
- Expressive sound modifies words, i. 215.
- Ex-voto offering, 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.
- Fasting for dreams and visions, i. 306, 445, ii. 410.
- Fauns and satyrs, ii. 227.
- Feasts of the dead, ii. 30;
- sacrificial banquets, 395.
- Feralia, ii. 42.
- Fergusson, Jas., on tree-worship, ii. 218;
- serpent-worship, 240.
- Fetch or wraith, i. 448, 452.
- Fetish, etymology of, ii. 143.
- Fetishism:—defined, ii. 143;
- Fiji and S. Africa, moon-myth common 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, &c.;
- Fire-drill, i. 15, 50;
- ceremonial and sportive survival of, 75, ii. 281.
- Fire-god and fire-worship, ii. 277, 376, &c., 403.
- Firmament, belief in existence of, i. 299, ii. 70.
- First Cause, doctrine of, ii. 335.
- Food offered to dead, i. 485, ii. 30, &c.;
- Footprints of souls and spirits, ii. 197.
- Forest-spirits, ii. 215, &c.
- 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 deposited or destroyed, 481;
- motives of, 458, 472, 483;
- survival of, 463, 474, 492;
- see Feast of Dead.
- Future Life, i. 419, 469, 480, ii. 1, &c., 100;
- transmigration of soul, ii. 2;
- remaining on earth or departure to spirit-world, ii. 22;
- whether races without belief in, 20;
- connexion with evidence of senses in dreams and visions, 24, 49;
- locality of region of departed souls, 44, 74;
- visionary visits to, 46;
- connexion of solar ideas with, 48, 74, 311, 422;
- character of future life, 74;
- continuance-theory, 75;
- retribution-theory, 83;
- introduction of moral element, 10, 83;
- stages or 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, &c., i. 301.
- Genghis-Khan, worshipped, ii. 117.
- Genius, patron or natal, ii. 199, 216;
- German and Scandinavian mythology and religion:—
- Gesture-language, and gesture accompanying 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, &c.;
- 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;
- ghost as harmful and vengeful demons, ii. 27;
- ghosts of unburied wander, ii. 28;
- ghosts remain near corpse or dwelling, ii. 29, &c.;
- laying ghosts, ii. 153, 194.
- Giants, myths of, i. 386.
- Gibbon, on development of culture, i. 33.
- Glanvil, Saducismus Triumphatus, ii. 140.
- Glass-mountain, Anafielas, i. 492.
- Godless month, ii. 350.
- Gods:—seen in vision, i. 306;
- Gog and Magog, i. 386, &c.
- Goguet, on degeneration and development, i. 32.
- Gold, worshipped, ii. 154.
- Good and evil, rudimentary distinction of, ii. 89, 318;
- good and evil spirits and dualistic deities, 317.
- Goodman’s croft, ii. 408.
- Graiæ, eye of, i. 352.
- Great Spirit, ii. 256, 324, 339, 343, 354, 365, 395.
- Great-eared tribes, i. 388.
- Greek mythology and religion:—nature-myths, i. 320, 328, 349;
- Grey, Sir George, i. 322.
- Grote, George, on mythology, i. 276, 400.
- Grove-spirits, ii. 215.
- Guarani, name of, i. 401.
- Guardian spirits and angels, ii. 199.
- Gulf of dead, ii. 62.
- Gunthram, dream of i. 442.
- Gypsies, i. 49, 115.
- Hades, under-world of departed souls, i. 335, 340, ii. 65, &c., 81, 97, 309;
- Haetsh, Kamchadal, ii. 46, 313.
- Hagiology, ii. 120, 261;
- rising in air, i. 151;
- miracles, i. 157, 371;
- second-sight, i. 449;
- hagiolatry, ii. 120.
- Hair, lock of, as offering, ii. 401.
- Half-men, tribes of, i. 391.
- Haliburton, on sneezing-rite, i. 103.
- Hamadryad, ii. 215.
- Hand-numerals, from counting on fingers, &c., i. 246.
- Hanuman, monkey-god, i. 378.
- Harakari, i. 463.
- Harmosios and Aristogeiton, ii. 63.
- Harpies, ii. 269.
- Harpocrates, ii. 295.
- Haruspication, i. 123, ii. 179.
- Harvest-deity, ii. 305, 364, 368.
- Hashish, ii. 379.
- Head-hunting, Dayak, i. 459.
- Headless tribes, myths of, i. 390.
- Healths, drinking, i. 96.
- Heart, related to soul, i. 431, ii. 152.
- Heaven, region of departed souls, ii. 70.
- Heaven and earth, universal father and mother, i. 322, ii. 272, 345.
- Heaven-god, and heaven-worship, i. 306, 322, ii. 255, &c., 337, &c., 367, 395.
- Hebrides, low culture in, i. 45.
- Hekate, i. 150, ii. 302, 418.
- Hel, death-goddess, i. 301, 347, ii. 88, 311.
- Hell, ii. 56, 68, 97;
- Hellenic race-genealogy, i. 402.
- Hellshoon, i. 491.
- Hephaistos, ii. 212, 280.
- Hera, ii. 305.
- Herakles, ii. 294;
- and Hesione, i. 339.
- Hermes Trismegistus, ii. 178.
- Hermotimos, i. 439, ii. 13.
- Hero-children suckled by beasts, i. 281.
- Hesiod, Isles of Blest, ii. 63.
- Hestia, ii. 284.
- Hiawatha, poem of, i. 345, 361.
- Hide-boiling, i. 44.
- Hierarchy, polytheistic, ii. 248, 337, 349, &c.
- Hissing, for silence, contempt, respect, i. 197.
- History, relation of myth to, i. 278, 416, ii. 447;
- criticism of, i. 280;
- similarity of nature-myth to, 320.
- Hole to let out soul, i. 453.
- Holocaust, ii. 385, 396.
- Holyoake, Holywood, &c., ii. 229.
- Holy Sepulchre, Easter fire at, ii. 297.
- Holy water, ii. 188, 439.
- Holy wells, ii. 214.
- Horne Tooke on interjections, i. 175.
- Horse, sacrificed or led at funeral, i. 463, 473.
- Horseshoes, against witches and demons, i. 140.
- House abandoned to ghost, ii. 25.
- Hucklesbones, i. 82.
- Huitzilopochtli, ii. 254, 307.
- Human sacrifice:—funerals, i. 458;
- Humbolt, W. v., on continuity, i. 19;
- on language, 236;
- on numerals, 253.
- Hume, Natural History of religion, i. 477.
- Huns, as giants, i. 386.
- Hunting-calls, i. 181.
- Hurricane, i. 363.
- Hyades, i. 358.
- Hysteria, &c., by possession, ii. 131, &c.;
- induced, 419.
- Iamblichus, i. 150, ii. 187.
- Ideas:—Epicurean related to object-souls, i. 497;
- Platonic related to species-deities, ii. 244.
- Idiots, inspired, ii. 128.
- Idol, see Image.
- Idolatry as related to fetishism, ii. 168.
- Images:—fallen from heaven, i. 157;
- Imagination, based on experience, i. 273, 298, 304.
- Imitative words, i. 200;
- verbs, &c., of blowing, swelling, mumbling, spitting, sneezing, eating, &c., 203, &c.;
- names of animals, 206;
- names of musical instruments, 208;
- verbs, &c., of striking, cracking, clapping, falling, &c., 211;
- prevalence of imitative words in savage language, 212;
- imitative adaptation of words, 214.
- Immateriality of soul, not conception of lower culture, i. 456, ii. 198.
- Immortality of soul, not conception of lower culture, ii. 22.
- Implements, inventions of, i. 64, &c.
- Incas, myth of ancestry and civilization, i. 288, 354, ii. 290, 301.
- Incense, ii. 383.
- Incubi and succubi, ii. 189.
- Indigenes of low culture, i. 50, &c.;
- considered as sorcerers, 113;
- myths of, as monsters, 376, &c.
- Indo-Chinese languages, musical pitch of vowels, i. 169.
- Indra, i. 320, ii. 265.
- Infant, lustration of, ii. 430, &c.
- Infernus, ii. 81.
- Innocent VIII., bull against witchcraft, i. 139, ii. 190.
- Inspiration, ii. 124, &c.
- Inspired idiot, ii. 128.
- Interjectional words:—verbs, &c. of wailing, laughing, insulting, complaining, fearing, driving, &c., i. 187;
- hushing, hissing, loathing, hating, &c., 197.
- Interjections, i. 175;
- sense-words used as, 176;
- directly expressive sounds, 183.
- Intoxicating liquor, absence of, i. 63.
- Intoxication as a rite, ii. 417.
- Inventions, development of, i. 14, 62;
- myths of, 39, 392.
- Iosco, Ioskeha and Tawiscara, myth of, i. 288, 348, ii. 323.
- Ireland, low culture in, i. 44.
- Iron, charm against witches, elves, &c., i. 140.
- Islands, earth of, fatal to serpents, i. 372;
- of Blest, ii. 57.
- Italian numeral series in English, i. 268.
- Jameson, Mrs., on parables, i. 414.
- Januarius, St., blood of, i. 157.
- Jerome, St., ii. 428.
- Jew’s harp, vowels sounded with, i. 168.
- John, St., Midsummer festival of, ii. 298.
- Johnson, Dr., i. 6, ii. 24.
- Jonah, i. 329.
- Jones, Sir W., on nature deities, ii. 253, 286.
- Joss-sticks, ii. 384.
- Journey to spirit-world, region of dead, i. 481, ii. 44, &c.
- Judge of dead, ii. 92, 314.
- Julius Cæsar, i. 320.
- Jupiter, i. 350, ii. 258, &c.
- Kaaba, black stone of, ii. 166.
- Kalewala, Finnish epic, ii. 46, 80, 93, 261.
- Kali, ii. 425.
- Kami-religion of Japan, ii. 117, 301, 350.
- Kang-hi on magnetic needle, i. 375.
- Kathenotheism, ii. 354.
- Keltic counting by scores continued in French and English, i. 263.
- Kepler on world-soul, ii. 354.
- Kimmerian darkness, ii. 48.
- Kissing, i. 63.
- Kitchi Manitu and Matchi Manitu, Great and Evil Spirit, ii. 324.
- Klemm, Gustav, on development of implements, i. 64.
- Kobong, ii. 235.
- Koran, i. 407, ii. 77, 296.
- Kottabos, game of, i. 82.
- Kronos swallowing children, i. 341.
- Kynokephali, i. 389.
- Lake-dwellers, i. 61.
- Language:—i. 17, 236, ii. 445;
- directly expressive element in, i. 160;
- correspondence of this in different languages, 163;
- interjectional forms, 175;
- imitative forms, 200;
- differential forms, 220;
- children’s language, 223;
- origin and development of language, 229;
- relation of language to mythology, 299;
- gender, 301;
- language attributed to birds, &c., 19, 469;
- place of language in development of culture, ii. 445.
- Langue d’oc, &c., i. 193.
- Last breath, inhaling, i. 433.
- Laying ghosts, ii. 25, 153.
- Legge, J., on Confucius, ii. 352.
- Leibnitz, i. 2.
- Lewes, G. H., i. 497.
- Liebrecht, Felix, i. vii., 108, 177, 348-9, ii. 24, 164, 195, &c.
- Life caused by soul, i. 436.
- Light and darkness, analogy of good and evil, ii. 324.
- Likeness of relatives accounted for by re-birth of soul, ii. 3.
- Limbus Patrum, ii. 83.
- Linnæus, name of, ii. 229.
- Little Red Riding-hood, i. 341.
- Loki, 83, 365.
- Lots, divination and gambling by, i. 78.
- Lubbock, Sir J.:—
- Lucian, i. 149, ii. 13, 52, 67, 302, 426.
- Lucina, ii. 302.
- Lucretius, i. 40, 60, 498.
- Lunatics, demoniacal possession of, ii. 124, &c.
- Lustration, by water and fire, ii. 429, &c.;
- Luther, on witches, i. 137;
- on guardian angels, ii. 203.
- Lyell, Sir C., on degeneration-theory, i. 57.
- Lying in state, of King of France, ii. 35.
- Lyke-wake dirge, i. 495.
- McLennan, J. F., theory of totemism, ii. 236.
- Macrocosm, i. 350, ii. 354.
- Madness and idiocy by possession, ii. 128, &c., 179.
- Magic:—
- origin and development, i. 112, 132;
- belongs to low level of culture, 112;
- attributed to low tribes, 113;
- based on association of ideas, 116;
- processes of divination, 78, 118;
- relation to Stone Age, 127;
- see Fetishism.
- Magnetic Mountain, philosophical myth of, i. 374.
- Maistre, Count de, on degeneration in culture, i. 35;
- astrology, 128;
- animation of stars, 291.
- Makrokephali, i. 391.
- Malleus Maleficarum, ii. 140, 191.
- Man, primitive condition of, i. 21, ii. 443;
- see Savage.
- Man of the woods, bushman, orang-utan, i. 381.
- Man swallowed by monster, nature-myth of, i. 335, &c.
- Manco Capac, i. 354.
- Manes and manes-worship, i. 98, 143, 434, ii. 8, 111, &c., 129, 162, 307, 364;
- Manichæism, ii. 14, 330.
- Manitu, ii. 249, 324, 339.
- Manoa, golden city of, ii. 249.
- Manu, laws of:—ordeal by water, i. 141;
- pitris, ii. 119.
- Marcus Curtius, leap of, ii. 378.
- Margaret, St., i. 340.
- Markham, C. R., i. vii., ii. 337, 366, 392, &c.
- Marriages in May, i. 70.
- Mars, ii. 308.
- Martius, Dr. V., on dualism, ii. 325.
- Maruts, Vedic, i. 362, ii. 268.
- Mass, ii. 410.
- Master of life or breath, ii. 339, 343, 365.
- Materiality of soul, i. 453;
- of spirit, ii. 198.
- Maui, i. 335, 343, 360, ii. 253, 267, 279.
- Maundevile, Sir John, i. 375, ii. 45.
- Medicine, of N. A. Indians, ii. 154, 200, 233, 372, &c., 411.
- Meiners, History of Religions, ii. 27, 48, &c.
- Melissa, i. 491.
- Men descended from apes, myths of, i. 376;
- men with tails, 383.
- Menander, guardian genius, ii. 201.
- Merit and demerit, Buddhist, ii. 12, 98.
- Messalians, i. 103.
- Metaphor, i. 234, 297;
- myths from, 405.
- Metaphysics, relation of animism to, i. 497, ii. 242, 311.
- Metempsychosis, i. 379, 409, 469, 476, ii. 2;
- origin of, ii. 16.
- Micare digitis, i. 75.
- Middleton, Conyers, i. 157, ii. 121.
- Midgard-snake, ii. 241.
- Midsummer festival, ii. 298.
- Milk and blood, sacrifices of, ii. 48;
- see Blood.
- Milky Way, myths of, i. 359, ii. 72.
- Mill, J. S., on ideas of number, i. 240.
- Milton, on eponymic kings of Britain, i. 400.
- Minne, drinking, i. 96.
- Minucius Felix, on spirits, &c., ii. 179.
- Miracles, i. 276, 371, ii. 121.
- Mithra, i. 351, ii. 293, 297.
- Moa, legend of, ii. 50.
- Mohammed, legend of, i. 407.
- Moloch, ii. 403.
- Money borrowed to be repaid in next life, i. 491.
- Monkeys, preserved as dwarfs, i. 388;
- see Apes.
- Monotheism, ii. 331.
- Monster, driven off at eclipse, i. 328;
- hero or maiden devoured by, 335.
- Monstrous mythic human tribes, ape-like, tailed, gigantic and dwarfish, noseless, great-eared, dog-headed, &c., i. 376, &c.;
- their ethnological significance, 379, &c.
- Month’s mind, i. 83.
- Moon:—
- Moon-god and moon-worship, i. 289, ii. 299, &c., 323.
- Moral and social condition of low tribes, i. 29, &c.
- Moral element in culture, i. 28;
- Morals and law, ii. 448.
- Morbid imagination related to myth, i. 305.
- Morbid excitement for religious purposes, ii. 416, &c.
- Morning and evening stars, myths of, i. 344, 350.
- Morra, game of, in Europe and China, i. 75.
- Morzine, demoniacal possessions at, i. 152, ii. 141.
- Mound-builders, i. 56.
- Mountain, abode of departed souls on, 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;
- 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:—
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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:—
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Sacrifice:—origin and theory of, ii. 375, &c., 207, 269;
- 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;
- 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:—
- Spirit-world, journey or visit to, by soul, i. 439, 481, ii. 44, &c.
- Spitting, i. 103;
- 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 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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:—
- 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.;
- 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.;
- 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.