V. on the Rosetta Stone, vi. 152

n.
Ptolemy Soter, v. 264 «.4 Puberty, girls' hair torn out at, iii. 282 ;
ceremonial pollution of girl at, viii.
268 ; girls secluded at, x. 22 sqq. ;
fast and dream at, xi. 222 n.° ; pre- tence of killing the novice and bringing
him to life again during initiatory rites
at, xi. 225 sqq.
Public expulsion of evils, ix. 109 sqq. magk , i. 215
Public scapegoats, ix. 170 sqq.
Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 54 ; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 312 ; use of bull -roarers among the, xi. 230 n.t 231
Pufyru> "assembly," ix. 361
Puithiam, sorcerer, among the Lushais, ix. 94
Pul, an astrologer, vii. 125 sq.
Pulayars of Travancore, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 69
Pulling each other's hair, a Lithuanian sacrificial custom, viii. 50 sq.
Pulque, Mexican wine made from aloes, iii. 249, 250 n.1] continence at brew- ing, iii. 201 sq.
Pulse cultivated in Bengal, vii. 123
Pulverbatch, in Shropshire, the Yule log at, x. 257 ; belief in the bloom of the oak on Midsummer Eve at, xi. 292
Pumi-yathon, king of Citium and Idalium, v. 50
Pumpkin, external soul in a, xi. 105
Puna Indians add stones to cairns in the Andes, ix. 9
Punchkin and the parrot, story of, xi. 97 sq., 215, 220
Punjaub, rain-making in the, i. 278 ; General Nicholson worshipped in his lifetime in the, i. 404 ; human sacri- fices to cedar-tree in the, ii. 17 ; no grass or green thing to be cut in the, till after the festival of the ripening grain, ii. 49 n.8 ; wells resorted ito by barren women for the sake of offspring in the, ii. 160 ; belief as to tattooing in the, iii. 30 ; belief as to the shadow of a pregnant woman in the, iii. 83 ; belief among the Hindoos of the, as to length of residence in heaven, iv. 67 ; belief as to a man's star in the, iv. 68 ; belief in the reincarnation of infants in the, v. 94 ; children at birth placed in winnowing-fans in the, vii. 7 ; the Mother-cotton in the, vii. 178 ; cus- toms as to the first-fruits of sugar and cotton in the, viii. 119 ; worship of snakes in the, viii. 316 sq. ; the Snake tribe in the, viii. 316, 317; human scape- goats in the, ix. 196 ; supernatural power ascribed to the first-born in the, x. 295 ; passing unlucky children through narrow openings in the, xi. 190
Puplem, general council, among the Indians of San Juan Capistrano, vii. 125
Puppet made of branches representing the tree-spirit, ducked in water, ii. 75, 76 ; substituted for human victim, T. 219 sq. ; made out of last sheaf, vii.
424
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
*37. I38. 231 '. at threshing, vii. 148, 149 ; at harvest, vii. 150 ; representing the corn-spirit, vii. 224
Puppet-shows as a rain-charm, i. 301 n.
Puppets or dolls employed for the re- storation of souls to their bodies, iii. S3 -W«» 62 sqq. ; of rushes thrown into the Tiber, viii. 107 ; used to attract demons of sickness from living patients, ix. 187. See also Dolls, Effigies, Images
Puppies, red-haired, sacrificed by the Romans to the Dog-star, vii. 261, viii. 34
Puppy, blind, stomachic complaint trans- ferred to a, ix. 50
Pur in the sense of "lot," ix. 361
Purest person cuts the last corn, vii.
158
Purgation, ceremonial, before partaking of new fruits, viii. 72 ».a, 73, 75 sq. , 76, 83, 90. See also Purification
Purgatory, popular beliefs as to souls in, iv. 66, 67
Purge as mode of ceremonial purifica- tion, iii. 175
Purification by passing between the pieces of a sacrificial victim, i. 289 «.4 ; by pig's blood, ii. 107, 108, 109, v. 299 «.2, ix. 262 ; of hunting dogs and hunters, ii. 125 ; by fire, ii. 327, 329, v. 115 n.1, 179 sgq.t x. 296, xi. 16 sqq. ; of city, iii. 188 ; of hunters and fishers, iii. 190 sq. ; of moral guilt by physical agencies, iii. 217 sq. ; by cutting the hair, iii. 283 sqq. ; by swinging, iv. 282 sq. ; things used in, how disposed of, vii. 9 ; after contact with a pig, viii. 24 ; by wash- ing, ceremonies of, viii. 27 sq. ; before partaking of new fruits, viii. 59, 60, 63, 69 sq., 71, 73, 75^., 82, 83, 135 ; by emetics, viii. 73, 75 sq., 83 sq. \ for slaughter of a serpent, viii. 219 sq. ; by leaping through fire, vm. 249 ; before eating the first salmon, viii. 253 I by bathing or washing, ix. 3 sq. \ by means of stone -throwing, ix. 23 sqq. ; religious, intended to keep off demons, ix. 104 sq. ; of mourners in- tended to protect them from the spirits of the dead, ix. 105 n.1 ; by standing on sacrificed human victim, ix. 218 ; by beating, ix. 262, x. 6r, 64 sqq. ; by stinging with ants, x. 61 sqq. ; after a death, xi. 178 ; by passing under a yoke, xi. 193 sqq. See also Purificatory and Expiation
— . , ancient Greek, ritual of, iii. 312 ; by laurel and pig's blood, ix. 262
— of Apollo at Tempe, iv. 81, vi. 240 sq.
Purification, Chinese ceremonies of, in
spring and autumn, ix. 213 n.1 , Feast of the (Candlemas), ix. 332
festival among the Cherokee
Indians, ix. 128
, the Great, a Japanese ceremony,
ix. 213 n,1
of manslayers, i. 26, iii. 165^^.,
viii. 148 sq. , ix. 262 ; intended to rid them of the ghosts of the slain, iii. 186 sq.
of the matricide, Orestes, i. 26, ix. 262
of Pi mas after slaying Apaches, iii.
182 sqq. Purificatory ceremonies at reception of
strangers, iii. 102 sqq. ; on return
from a journey, iii. in sqq. \ after a
battle, vi. 251 sq. rites, for sexual crimes, ii. 107 sqq.,
115, 116; designed to raise a barrier
against evil spirits, ii. 128 theory of the fires of the fire- festivals, x. 329 sq., 341, xi. 16 sqq. \
more probable than the solar theory,
x. 346 Purim, in relation to Zakmuk, ix. 359
sqq. ; the Jewish festival of, ix. 360
sqq. ; in relation to the Sacaea, ix.
362 sqq. \ custom of burning effigies of
Haman at, ix. 392 sqq. ; compared to
the Carnival, ix. 394 ; its relation to
Persia, ix. 401 sqq.
Purity, ceremonial, observed by incense- gatherers in ancient Arabia, ii. 106 sq. ;
observed in war, iii. 157. See also
Chastity and Continence Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
gathered at Midsummer, xi. 65 Purra or poro, secret society in Sierra
Leone, xi. 260 sq. Puruha, a province of Quito, sacrifice of
first-born children among the Indians
of, iv. 185 Pururavas and Urvasi, ancient Indian
story of, ii. 250, iv. 131 Purushu, great primordial giant, in the
Rig Veda, ix: 410 Pus, an Indian month, ix. 230 * Putanges, canton of, in Normandy,
pretence of tying up landowner in last
sheaf at, vii. 226 Puttenham, George, on the Midsummer
giants, xi. 36 sq. Puwe-wai, god of the rice-fields, in Poso,
ii. 104 Puy-de-D6me, saying as to binder and
reaper in, vii. 292 Puyallup Indians, taboo on the names of
the dead among the, iii. 365 Pyanepsia, an Attic festival, vii. 52 Pyanepsion, Attic month (October), vi.
41, vii. 52 ; the season of the autumn^
sowing, vii. 45 sq., 116
GENERAL INDEX
425
Pygmalion, king of Citium and Idalium in Cyprus, v. 50
, king of Cyprus, father-in-law of
Cinyras, v. 41, 49 ; his love for an image of Aphrodite, v. 49 sq.
, king of Tyre, v. 50
Pygmies of Central Africa said not to know how to kindle fire, ii. 255 ; their continence before hunting, ni. 197 ; burn their cut hair, iii. 282
Pylos, burning the Carnr il at, iv. 232 sq.
Pymaton of Citium, v. 50 «.a
Pyramid of King Pepi the First, ii. 4 n.1
Pyramid Texts, vk 4 sqq , 9 n. ; in- tended to ensure the life of dead Egyptian kings, vi. 4 sq. ; Osiris and the sycamore in the, vi. no; the mention of Khenti-Amenti in the, vi. 198 rc.2
Pyramids at Sakkara, inscriptions on the, vi. 4 ; Egyptian texts of the, ix. 340, 341 n.1
Pyratnus, river in Cilicia, v. 165, 167,
173
Pyre at festivals of Hercules, v. 116 ; at Tarsus, v. 126 ; of dead kings at Jerusalem, v. 177 $q. ; traditionary death of Asiatic kings and heroes on a, ix. 387, 388, 389 sqq.
or Torch, name of great festival at
the Syrian Hierapolis, v. 146, ix. 392
Pyrenees, prehistoric cave -paintings in the, i. 87 w.1 ; tree burned on Mid- summer Eve ^in the, ii. 141 ; Mid- summer fires in the French, x. 193
Pyrites, iron, fire made by means of, ii. 258
Pythagoras, his maxim about footprints, i. 211 ; his maxim as to bodily impres- sions on bed-clothes, i. 213 ; super- stitious nature of the maxims attributed to, i. 213 sq. , iii. 314 /z.2 ; his epitaph on the tomb of Apollo at Delphi, iv. 4 ; his reincarnations, viii. 263, 300 ; his doctrine of transmigration, viii. 300, 301 ; his saying as to swallows, ix.
35 »-3
Pythaists at Athens, their observation of lightning and their sacrifices at Delphi,
i- 33
Pythian games at Delphi, iv. 80 sq. ; originally identical with the Festival of Crowning, iv. 80, vi. 242 n.1 ; crown of oak leaves at first the prize in the, iv. 80 ; celebrated in honour of the dragon or Python, iv. 80, 93 ; originally celebrated every eight years, iv. 80, vii. 80, 84 ; their period, vi. 242 n.1
Python at Delphi, the Pythian games celebrated in his honour, iv. 93
* — , sacred, associated with the fer-
VOL. XII
tility of the earth, ii. 150; punishment for killing a, iii. 222 ; worshipped by the Baganda, v. 86. See also Pythons Python clan, a python expected to visit every newborn child of the, viii. 174
god, human wives of the, v. 66
Pythons, dead kings turn into, iv. 84 ; worshipped in West Africa, v. 83 n.1 ; dead chiefs reincarnated in, vi. 193
Qua, near Old Calabar, sacred palm-tree
at, ii. 51
Quack, the, a Whitsuntide Mummer, ii. 81 Quadrennial period of Greek games, vii.
77 sqq. Quail, omens as to price of corn from
cry of, vii. 295 ; corn-spirit as, vii.
295, 296 " Quail-hunt," legend on coins of Tarsus,
vv 126 «.2 Qut.ls sacrificed to Hercules (Melcarth),
v. in sq. ; migration of, v. 112 Quarrelling at home forbidden in absence
of husband, i. 120, 130 Quarter-ill, a disease of cattle, need-fire
used as a remedy for, x. 296 Quartz used at circumcision instead of
iron, iii. 227 Quartz crystals, magic of, i. 176^.; used
in rain-making, i. 254, 255, 304
stones, white, in rain-making, i. 346
Quatuordecimans of Phrygia celebrate
the ^Crucifixion on March 25th, v.
307 n. Quatzow, village of Mecklenburg, taboo
on names of animals at, iii. 397 Quauhtitlan, city in Mexico, women
sacrificed to the fire-god in, ix. 301 Quedlmburg, in the Harz Mountains,
need-fire at, x. 276 Queen, name given to the last sheaf, vii.
146 ; name given to the last corn cut
at harvest, vii. 153 , the Harvest, in England, vii. 14657.,
I52
of Athens married to Dionysus,
ii. 1 36 sq. , vii. 30 sq.
of the Bean on Twelfth Night, ix.
313. 3^5
of the Corn-ears, drawn in proces- sion at the end of harvest, vii. 146
of Egypt the wife of Ammon, ii
131 sqq., v. 72
of Heaven, great Oriental goddess,
v. 303 «.c; incense burnt in honour of the, v. 228 ; the wife of the Sky-god, xi. 303
of May, representative of the spirit
of vegetation, ii. 79, 84 ; in France, ii. 87 ; in England, ii. 87 sq. ; in the Isle of Man, iv. 259 ; married to the King of May, iv. 266
2 E
426
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
Queen of the Roses at Grammont, x.
*95
of Summer on St. Peter's Day in
Brabant, x. 195
of Winter in the Isle of Man, iv. 258
Queen Charlotte Islands, the Haida Indians of, i. 70, 133, 168, iii. 72 if.1, vii. 20, x. 44 ; their propitiation of slain animals, viii. 226. See Haida Indians
— Charlotte Sound, mourning customs among the Indians of, iii. 143 sq.
Queen sister in Uganda, licence accorded to the, ii. 275 sq.
Queen's County, Midsummer fires in, x. 203 ; divination at Hallowe'en in, x. 242
Queens, licence accorded to, in Central Africa, ii. 277
Queensland, beliefs as to the afterbirth in, i. 183 sq. ; rain -making in, i. 254 sq. ; the Turrbal tribe of, iii. 156 i*.1, iv. 60; namesakes of the dead change their names in some tribes of, iii. 355 sq. ; the Gudangs of, iii. 359 ; Maryborough m, iii. 424 ; the Yerrunthally tribe of, iv. 64 ; exposure of first-born children among some tribes of, iv. 180 ; can- nibalism in, viii. 151 ; sorcery in, x. 14 ; seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 37 sqq. ; dread of women at men- struation in, x. 78 ; use of bull-roarers in, xi. 233
•— — , aborigines of, custom of knocking out teeth among the, i. 99 ; their belief as to scratching and rain, iii. 159 n. : their superstition as to per- sonal names, iii. 320 ; their beliefs as to the birth of children, v. 102 sq. ; their belief as to the bones of dugong, viii. 258 n.2
, Central, expulsion of a demon among the tribes of, ix. 172
• natives of, their superstitions as to falling stars, iv. 60 ; their mode of ascertaining the fate of an absent friend, xi. 159 sq.
Quellendorff in Anhalt, custom at sowing at, i. 139
Quercus aegilops, its acorns eaten in Greece, ii. 356
— — ballota, its acorns eaten in Greece,
»• 356
— ilex, the evergreen oak, its acorns eaten in Spain, ii. 356
— robur, the British oak, its diffusion in Europe, ii. 355
Querquetulani, Men of the Oak, a tribe
of the Latin League, ii. 188 Quetzalcoatl, a Mexican god, ix. 281,
300 ; personated by a priest, viii. 90 ;
man sacrificed in the character of, ix 281 sq.
Quiches of Central America, their offer- ings of first-fruits, viii. 134
Quicken-tree, an English name for the rowan or mountain-ash, ix. 267 n.1
"Quickening" heifers with a branch of rowan, ix. 266 sq.
Quilacare, in South India, suicide of the kings of, iv. 46 sq.
Quimba, a secret society on the Lower Congo, xi 256 n.
Quimper, Midsummer fires at, x. 184
Qumoa-mother, among the Indians of Peru, vii. 172
Quirinal hill, temple of Quirinus on the, ii. 182, 185 ; villa of Atticus on the, ii. 182 n.1
Quirinus, Romulus worshipped after death under the name of, ii. 182, 193 n.1; sanctuary of, on the Quirinal at Rome, ii. 185 ; Patrician and Plebeian myrtle-trees in the sanctuary of, xi. 168
and Hora, vi. 233
Quiteve, title of the king of Sofala, revered as a god by his people, i. 392, iv. 37 sq.
Quito, the kings of, vii. 236
Quivering of the body in a rain-charm, i. 260, 261
Quixos Indians, their belief in the trans- migration of human souls into animals, viii. 285 ; cause themselves to be whipped with nettles before a hunting expedition, ix. 263
Quonde in Nigeria, custom of king- killing at, iv. 35
Quop district of Borneo, ceremony at securing the soul of the rice in the, vii. 188
Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, i. 418, 419, vi. 6, 8, IL, viii. 30, ix. 341 ; how Isis discovered his name, iii. 387 sqq. ; identified with many originally inde- pendent local deities, vi. 122 sqq.
Rabbah, in Ammon, captured by King David, iii. 273, v. 19
Rabbis, burnings for dead Jewish, v. 178 sq.
Rabbit used in stopping rain, i. 295
Rabbit-kangaroo in homoeopathic magic,
i- iS4
Rabbits in homoeopathic magic, i. 155 Race, charm to secure victory in, i. 150 ; to May-tree to determine the Whit- suntide king, ii. 84 ; succession to kingdom determined by a, ii. 299 sqq. ; for a bride, ii. 300 sqq. ; for the kingdom at Olympia, iv. 90 ; to sheaf on harvest- field, vii. 137 ; of reapers to last sheaf vii. 291. See also Races
GENERAL INDEX
427
Races at Whitsuntide, ii. 69, 84 ; on horseback to the May-pole to determine the Whitsuntide King, ii. 89 ; to determine the successor to the kingship, iv. 103 sqq. ; at harvest, vii. 76 sq. ; in connexion with agriculture, vii. 98 ; to ensure good crops, ix. 249 ; at fire- festivals, x. in ; to Easter bonfire, x. 122 ; at Easter fires, x. 144 ; with torches at Midsummer x. 175. See also Chariot-races, Fo^t-races, Horse- races and Torch-races
Racoons, prayers for rain to skulls of, i. 288
Radica, a festival at the end of the Carnival at Frosmone, iv. 222
Radigis, king of the Varini, marries his stepmother, ii. 283
Radium, atomic disintegration of, viii. 305 ; bearing of its discovery on the probable duration of the sun, xi. 307 n*
Radloff, W. , on a Mongolian way of stopping rain, i. 305 sq,
Radnorshire, the tug-of-war at Presteign in, ix. 182
Radolfzell, in Baden, the Rye-sow or Wheat-sow near, vii. 298
Rafts, evils expelled on, ix. 199, 200 sq.
Rag well in the Aran Islands, ii. 161
Ragnit, in East Prussia, sacred oak near, ii. 371
, in Lithuania, the Old Woman in
the last standing corn at, vii. 223
Rags hung on trees, ii. 16, 32, 42
Ragusa, in Sicily, effigy of dragon carried on St. George's Day at, ii. 164 n.1
Rahab or Leviathan, a dragon of the sea, iv. 106 «.2
Rahu, a tribal god in India, xi. 5
Raiatea, deified king of, i. 387 sq.
Ram, extraction of teeth in connexion with, i. 98 sq. ; the magical control of, i. 247 sqq. ; made by homoeopathic or imitative magic, i. 247 sqq. ; charms to prevent or stop rain, i. 249, 252, 252 sq. ,262,263,270 sqq. ,290,295-^.1 305 sq. ; prayers for, i. 285, 286, 287, 288, 346, ii. 46, iv. 20, x. 133 ; kings expected to give, i. 348, 350, 351 sq., 353. 355. 356. 392 W>. 396; sup- posed to fall only as a result of magic, i- 353 ; sacrifices for, ii. 44 ; excessive, supposed to be an effect of sexual crime, ii. 108, in, 113 ; Zeus as the god of, ii. 359 sq. ; prevented by the blood of a woman who has miscarried in child- bed, iii. 153 ; caused by cut or combed out hair, iii. 271, 272 ; word for, not to be mentioned, iii. 413 ; procured by bones of the dead, v. 22 ;
excessive, ascribed to wrath of God, v. 22 sq. ; instrumental in rebirth of dead infants, v. 95 ; regarded as the tears of gods, vi. 33 ; thought to be controlled by the souls of dead chiefs, vi. 1 88, viii. 109 ; prayer for, at Eleusis, vii. 69 ; charms to produce, ix. 175^., 178 sq. ; or drought, games of ball played to produce, ix. 179 sq. ; dances to obtain, ix. 236 sq., 238 ; festival to produce, ix. 277 ; divinities of the, ix. 381 ; Midsummer bonfires supposed to stop, x. 1 88, 336; bull -roarers used as magical instruments to make, xi. 230 sqq. See also Rain- charm
Rain, Mother of the, in rain-making ceremony among the Arabs of Moab, i. 276
Rain-bird, i. 287
bride in Armenia, i. 276
" -bush," ii. 46
charm, by throwing water on leaf- clad mummers, i. 272 sqq. , iv. 211 ; by ploughing, i. 282 sq. ; by pouring water, in. 154^.; in rites of Adonis, v. 237 ; by throwing water on the last corn cut, v. 237 sq., vii. 134, 146, 170 n.lt 268 ; by pouring water on flesh of human victims, vii. 250, 252. See also Rain-making
clan of the Dinka, iv. 30, 31
-clouds, smoke made in imitation
of, x. 133. See also Clouds
Country, the, in Central Australia,
i. 259
doctor among the Toradjas of
Celebes, his procedure and the taboos which he observes, i. 271 sq.
dragon banished in time of drought,
i. 298
drops from eaves in magic, i. 253
god, as dragon, i. 297, 298 ; of
the Ewe negroes, iv. 61 , American Indian, represented with tears running from his eyes, vi. 33 «.8
gods compelled to give rain by
threats and violence, i. 296 sqq. ; appeal to the pity of the, i. 302 sq. • of Mexico, ix. 283
King, leaf-clad mummer sprinkled
with water at Poona, i. 275 ; on the Upper Nile, killed in time of drought, ii. 2
maker among the Arunta, costume
of the, i. 260 ; assimilates himself to water, i. 269 sqq.
makers, their importance in savage
communities, i. 247 ; in Africa, their rise to political power, i. 342 sqq. , 352 ; on the Upper Nile, i. 345 sqq. , ii. 2 ; unsuccessful, punished or killed, i. 34*.
428
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
352 sqq. ; killed in time of drought, ii. 2, 3 ; their hair unshorn, iii. 259 sq. ; among the Dinka not allowed to die a natural death, iv. 32, 33 ; (mythical), x. 133
Rain-making by imitative magic, i. 247 sqq. \ by means of human blood, i. 256 sqq.t iii. 244; by wetting flower -clad or leaf- clad mummers, i. 272 sqq. ; by bathing and sprinkling of water, i. 277 sq. ; by ploughing, i. 282 sq. ; by means of the dead, i. 284 sqq. ; by means of animals, i. 287 sqq. \ by means of stones, i. 304 sqq. ; cere- monies of the Shilluks, iv. 20
song, sung by women, ii. 46
" stick," in Queensland, i. 254
stones, for procuring rain, i. 254,
305. 345- 346 temple, in Angoniland, i. 250
totem in the Kaitish tribe, cere- mony performed by the headman of the totem to procure rain, i. 258 sq.
water in Morocco, magical virtues
ascribed to, x. 17 sq. Rainbow, a net for souls, iii. 79 •
- in rain-charm, picture of, i. 258 ; imitation of, i. 288
totem in the Nullakun tribe of
Northern Australia, v. 101
Rainless summer on the Mediterranean,
v. 159 sq. ; in Greece, vii. 69 Rains, autumnal, in Greece, vii. 52 Rainy season, general clearance of evils
at the beginning or end of the, ix. 224 ;
expulsion of demons at the beginning of
the, ix. 225 Raipoor, the ancient Mandavie, iv.
132 n.1
Raipur, in India, ix. 44 Rajah of Bilaspur, custom after the death
of a, iv. 154, ix. 44 sq. — of Manipur, his sins transferred to
a criminal, ix. 39.
of Tanjore, his sins after death
transferred to twelve Brahmans, ix. 44
of Travancore, his sins at death
transferred to a Brahman, ix. 42 sq.
, temporary, after death of rajah,
iv. 154
Rajahs among the Malays, supernatural powers attributed to, i. 361 ; two, in Timor, the civil rajah and the fetish or taboo rajah, iii. 24
Rajamahall, in India, persons who have died of dropsy thrown into river among hill tribes near, i. 79 ; sacrifices of first-fruits among hill tribes near, viii. 117 sq. ; ceremony at killing tiger among hill tribes near, viii. 217
Rajaraja, king, dancing-girls in his temple at Tanjore, v. 61
Rajbansis of Bengal, their rain-making ceremony, i. 284 n.
Rajputana, gardens of Adonis in,v. 241 sq.
Rakelimalaza, a Malagasy god, taboos observed at his sanctuary, viii. 46
Raking a rick in the devil's name, x. 243 ; the ashes, a mode of divination at Hallowe'en, x. 243
Raleigh, Sir Walter, his colonists on Roanoke Island, iii. 357
Rail, the fair of, in the Kanagra district of India, iv. 265
Ralston, W. R. S., on the Russian house- spirit Domovoy, ii. 233 n.1 \ on sacred fire of Perkunas, xi. 91 n.9
Ram with golden fleece, iv. 162 ; as vicarious sacrifice for human victim, iv. 165, 177 ; sacrificed to Ammon, viii. 41 ; Tibetan goddess riding on a, vni. 96 ; killing the sacred, viii. 172 sqq. ; consecration of a white, viii. 313. See also Rams
, black, in rain-making, iii. 154 ;
sacrificed to Pelops, iv. 92, 104, viii. 85
Ram-god of Mendes, iv. 7 n.9
Ram's skull in charm to avert demons, viii. 96
Rama, his wife Sita, ii. 26 ; his battle with the King of Ceylon, xi. 102
Ramadan, the fast of, vii. 316
Ramanga, men who eat up the nail-par- ings and lick up the spilt blood of nobles among the Betsileo, iii. 246
Rambree, sorcerers dressed as women in the island of, vi. 254
Rameses II., king of Egypt, his treaty with the Hittites, v. 135 sq. ; his order to the Nile, vi. 33
Ramin, in Stettin, harvest custom at, vii. 230
Ramirez manuscript on Mexican religion, ix. 283 n.1
Ramman, Babylonian and Assyrian god of thunder, v. 163 sq.
Rampart, old, of Burghead, x. 267 sq.
Rams, testicles of, in the rites of Attis, v. 269
Rams' horns attached to pillars, viii. 117
Ramsay, John, of Ochtertyre, on Brid- get's bed on the night before Candle- mas, ii. 94 n.8 ; on the Highland custom of beating a man in a cow's hide on the last day of the year, viii. 322 sq. ', on Beltane fires, x. 146 sqq. ; on Midsummer fires, x. 206 ; on Hallowe'en fires, x. 230 sq. ; on bury- ing cattle alive, x. 325 sq.
Ramsay, Sir William M. , on the worship of unmarried goddesses in Western Asia, i. 36 ».a; on Hittite hieroglyphs. i. 87 n.1; on rock-hewn sculptures a^ Boghaz-Keui, v. 134 a.1, 137 «.4; OP
GENERAL INDEX
429
priest-dynasts of Asia Minor, v. 140 #.a ; on the god Tark, v. 147 ».8 ; on the name Olba, v. 148 n.1 ; on Hiera- polis and Hieropolis, v. 168 «.2 ; on Attis and Men, v. 284 n.5 ; on cruel death of the human representative of a god in Phrygia, v. 285 sq. ; on the early spread of Christianity in Pontus, ix. 421 n.1
Ranchi, district of Chota Nagpur, annual expulsion of disease in, ix. 139
Rangoon, scruples with regard to the human head at, iii.' 253 ; Chins at, ix. 123
Rao of Kachh, the, his sacrifice of a buffalo, i. 385 n.1
Raoul-Rochette, D., on Asiatic deities with lions, v. 138 n. ; on the burning of doves to Adonis, v. 147 n.1 ; on apotheosis by death in the fire, v. 180 n.1
Rape of Persephone, vii. 66
Rapegyme, old Scottish name for the harvest Maiden, vii. 155 w.2
Raratonga, in the Pacific, custom as to children's cast teeth in, i. 179 ; custom of succession in, iv. 191
Rarhi Brahmans of Bengal, their seclu- sion of girls at puberty, x. 68
Rarian plain at Eleusis, vii. 36, 234, viii. 15 ; corn first sown by Triptoiemus in the, vii. 70, 74 ; expiation for the defilement of the, vii. 74 ; the Sacred Ploughing on the, vii. 108
Raskolnik, Russian Dissenter, i. 285
Raskolniks, their hatred of mirrors, iii. 96
Raspberries, wild, ceremony at gathering the first, viii. 80 sq.
Rat, the "god rat," an idol to which sacrifices are offered when rats infest the fields, viii. 283 ; transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299 ; external soul of medicine-man in, xi. 199. See also Rats
Rat's hair as a charm, i. 151
Rathcroghan, in Roscommon, site of the palace of the kings of Connaught, iii. 12 n.1
Rats asked to give new teeth, i. 179 ; superstitious precautions of farmers against, viii. 277, 278, 283 ; ravages committed by, viii. 282 «.8 See also Rat
and mice, in magic concerned with
teeth, i. 178 sqq.
Rattan, creeping through a split, to escape a malignant spirit, xi. 183
Rattle, wooden, swung by twins to make fair or foul weather, i. 263 ; of deer- hoofs used by shaman, iii. 58 ; shaken before human victim, ix. 286 ; used at a festival in East Africa, x. 28
Rattles in myth and ritual of Dionysus, vii. 13, 15 ; to accompany dance, vii. 205 ; to frighten or keep out ghosts, ix. 154 «., x. 52
Rattlesnake dance to secure immunity from snake-bites, i. 358
Rattlesnakes, attempt to deceive the spirits of, iii. 399 ; respected by the North American Indians, viii. 217 sqq.
Ratumaimbulu, Fijian god of fruit-trees, v. 90
Ratzeburg, harvest custom near, vii. 229
Ranch/less^ a Whitsuntide mummer, in Silesia, carted out of village and thrown into water, iv. 207 n.1
Raven, prophetic vision ascribed to the, i. 197 ; used in wind-charm, i. 320 ; soul as a, iii. 34 ; transformation into a, iii. 324 ; the great black (Corvus umbrinus)> respected by Sudanese negroes, viii. 221
Raven clan among the Niska Indians, xi. 271
legends among the Esquimaux, ix,
380
Raven's eggs in homoeopathic magic, i. J54
Ravensberg, in Westphalia, the Fox in the corn at, vii. 296
Raw flesh, Flamen Dialis forbidden to touch or name, in. 13, 239 ; Brahman teacher not to look on, iii. 239 ; rela- tions of slain man not to touch, iii. 240
Ray, S. H. , on the names for fire-sticks in the Torres Straits Islands, ii. 209 «.8
Ray-fish, cure for wound inflicted by a, i. 98 n.1
Raymi, a festival of the summer solstice, among the Incas of Peru, x. 132
Readjustment of Egyptian festivals, vi. 91 sqq.
Reaper of the last sheaf, called the Wolf, vii. 273 ; called Goat, Corn -goat, Oats -goat, or Rye -goat, vii. 283 ; called the Cow, Barley-cow, or Oats- cow, vii. 289
Reapers, special language or words em- ployed by, iii. 410 sq.t 411 sq.t vii. 193 ; contests between, vii. 136, 140, 141, 142, 144, 152, 153 W» 164^., 219, 253 ; throw their sickles at the last standing corn, vii. 136, 142, 144, *S3> J54 sq., 155 n.1, 267, 268, 279, 296 ; blindfolded, vii. 144, 153 sq. ; pretend to mow down visitors to harvest-field, vii. 229 sq. ; of rice use a special form of speech in order to deceive the rice-spirit, vii. 184 ; cries of, vii. 263 sqq. ; their remedies for pains in the back, vii. 285 ; race of, to last corn, vii. 291 ; throw sickles blindfold at last sheaf, xi. 279 n.*
430
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
Reapers, Egyptian, their lamentations, v. 232, vi. 45, vii. 261, 263 ; invoke Isis, vi. 117
Reaping, tug-of-war at, ii. 100 ; Indo- nesian mode of, vii. 181 sq., 184 ; con- tests in, vii. 218 sqq. ; pains in back at, vii. 285 ; girdle of rye a preventive of weariness in, x. 190
Reaping-match of Lityerses, vii. 217
Reaping rice, homoeopathic magic at, i. 139 sq.
Reasoning, definite, at the base of savage custom, Hi. 420 n.i
Reay, in Sutherland, the need-fire at, x. 294 sq.
Rebirth from a golden cow, ceremony of, lii. 113 ; of ancestors in their descen- dants, iii. 368 sq. ; of a father in his son, iv. 1 88 sqq. ; of the parent in the child, iv. 287 (288, in Second Impres- sion) ; of infants, means taken to ensure the, v. 91, 93 sqq. ; of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 155 sq. See also Birth
of the dead, according to Pindar,
iv. 70, vii. 84 ; precautions taken to prevent, v. 92 sq. See also Reincar- nation
Recall of the soul, iii. 30 sqq.
Reckoning intervals of time, Greek and Latin modes of, iv. 59 w.1
Red, bodies of manslayers painted, iii. "LJS* I79'> faces of manslayers painted, iii. 185, 1 86 w.1 ; the colour of Lower Egypt, vi. 21 n.1 ; girl's face painted red at puberty, x. 49 sq. , 54 ; women at menstruation painted, x. 78
— and black, faces of bear-hunters painted, viii. 226 ; effigy of snake painted, viii. 316
•• and white, manslayers painted, iii.
1 86 n.1 ; leopard-hunters painted, viii.
230 ; girls at puberty painted, x. 35,
38, 39, 40 ; women at menstruation
painted, x. 78 and yellow paint on human victim
to represent colours of maize, vii. 261,
ix. 285 Red Altar, the, on Snowdon, i. 307
colour in magic, i. 79, 81, 83
earth or paint smeared on girls at
puberty, x. 30, 31 • •' feathers of parrot worn as a
protection against a ghost, iii. 186 n.1 haired men sacrificed by ancient
Egyptians, vi. 97, 106, vii. 260, 261,
263, viii. 34 haired puppies sacrificed by the
Romans, vii. 261, viii. 34 •• horse sacrificed as a purification of
the land by the Battas, ix. 213
— -hot iron chain, passing persons
possessed by evil spirits through a, xi.
186 Red Island, Torres Straits, seclusion of
girls at puberty in, x. 39 sq. Karens of Burma, their festival in
April, ii. 69 sq.
ochre round a woman's mouth,
mark of menstruation, x. 77
oxen sacrificed by ancient Egyptians,
viii. 34 sealing-wax a cure for St. Anthony's
fire, i. 8 1
thread in popular cure, ix. 55
wool in magic, ni. 307
woollen threads, a charm against
witchcraft, ii. 336
Reddening the faces of gods, custom of,
ii. 175 sq.
Reddis or Kapus in the Madras Presi- dency, their women procure rain by
means of frogs, i. 294 Redemption of firstling men and asses
among the Hebrews, iv. 173 ; from
the fire in Lent, x. no Reed, W. A., on the religion of the
Negritos, ix. 82 ; on a superstition as
to a parasitic plant in the Philippines,
xi. 282 n.1
Reed, split, used in Roman cure for dis- location, xi. 177 Reef, plain of, in Tiree, witch as black
sheep on the, x. 316 Reef Islands, avoidance of relations by
marriage in, iii. 344 ; ceremony at
eating the new fruits in the, viii. 52 sq. Reflection, the soul identified with the,
iii. 92 sqq. Reflections in water or mirrors, supposed
dangers of, iii. 93 sq. Reform, the prophetic, in Israel, v. 24
sq. Reformations of Hezekiah and Josiah, v.
25 Refuse of food burnt by magician to
cause disease, i. 341 ; magic wrought
by means of, iii. 126 sqq. Regaby, in the Isle of Man, November
ist as New Year's Day at, x. 224 Regalia propitiated with prayer and
sacrifice, i. 363 ; carried to battle, i.
363 ; smeared with blood, i. 363 ;
treated as fetishes, i. 363 ; employed
as instruments of divination, i. 365 ;
regarded as a palladium, i. 365 ;
sanctity of, in Celebes, iv. 202 of Malay kings regarded as power- ful talismans, i. 362 sqq. ; supernatural powers of, i. 398
Regeneration from a golden cow, cere- mony of, iii. 113
Regia, the king's palace at Rome, fl, 201. 228
GENERAL INDEX
43*
Regicide among the Slavs, iv. 52 ; modi- fied custom of, iv. 148
Regifugium at Rome, ii. 290, iv. 213 ; perhaps a relic of a contest for the kingdom, ii. 308 sqq.
Regillus, appearance of Castor and Pollux at the battle of Lake, i. 50
Regina nemorum, an epithet of Diana, i. 40 n.3
Regnitz, the River, puppets representing Death thrown into, iv. 234
Rehoboam, King, his family, v. 51 n.2
Reichenbach, in Silesia, the last sheaf called the Old Man at, vii. 138
'Reinach, Salomon, on Hippolytus, i. 27 n.6 ; on prehistoric cave-paintings, i. 87 n.l\ on Greek custom of carrying infants round the hearth, ii. 232 n.2 ; on virgin priestesses among the Celts, ii. 241 n.1 ; on the death of the Great Pan, iv. 7 n.2 ; on the benefits of a thrashing, ix. 264 n.2', on Jesus Barabbas, ix. 420 n.1
Reincarnation, belief of the aboriginal Australians in, i. 96, 99 sq. , v. 99 sqq. ; the initiatory rites of the Australians perhaps intended to ensure, i. 101, 106 ; certain funeral rites perhaps intended to ensure, i. 101 sqq. \ of ancestors in their descendants, lii. 368 sqq. ; of human souls, belief in, a motive for infanticide, iv. 188 sq. \ of animals, viii. 247, 249, 250
of the dead, iii. 365 sqq. , v. 82 sqq. ;
in newly born infants, i. 103 sqq. ; in America, iii. 365 sqq.t v. 91 ; in Aus- tralia, v. 99 sqq. See also Rebirth
Reindeer, blood of, smeared on fire- boards, ii. 225 ; protected by sacred fire-boards, ii. 225 ; taboos concerning, iii. 208 ; propitiation of the spirit who controls the, viii. 245 sq. ; dogs not allowed to gnaw the leg- bones of, viii. 246 ; sacrificed to the dead, xi. 178
Reinegg, J. , on a sacrament of the Abchases, viii. 312 n.1
Reinsberg-Dunngsfeld, O. Frh. von, OR the Yule log, x. 249
ReipuSt payment made on the remarriage of a widow in Salic law, ii. 286 n.1
Reiskius, Joh., on the need- fire, x. 271 sq.
Rekub-el, Syrian god, v. 16
Relations, names of, tabooed, iii. 335 sqq. ; of the dead take new names for fear of the ghost, iii. 356 sqq. ; spirits of near dead, worshipped, v. 175, 176; at death become gods, vi. 180
Relationship, terms of, used as terms of address, iii. 324 sq. ; classificatory system of, xi. 234 n.lt 314 «.4
Release of prisoners at festivals, iii. 316
Relics of dead princes preserved as regalia, i. 363 ; of tree -worship in modern Europe, ii. 59 sqq. \ corporeal, of dead kings confer right to throne, iv. 202
Relief, archaic Greek, at Nemi, i. ii n.1
Religion defined, i. 222 ; two elements of, a theoretical and a practical, i. 222 sq. ; opposed in principle to science, i. 224 ; transition from magic to, i. 237 s$Q't u- 376 sq. ; combined with magic, i. 347 ; passage of animism into, iii. 213 ; volcanic, v. 188 sqq. ; how influenced by mother-kin, vi. 202 sqq. ; influenced by agriculture, vii. 93, 108 ; movement of thought from magic through religion to science, xi. 304 sq.
, the Age of, iv. 2
and magic, i. 220-243, 250, 285,
286, 347, ii. 376 sq. ; Hegel on, i. 423 sqq. \ combination of, v. 4
and music, v. 53 sq.
Religions, the great historical, less perman- ent than the belief in magic and witch- craft, in ghosts and goblins, ix. 89 sq.
Religious associations among the Indians of North America, xi. 266 sqq.
dramas sometimes originate in
magical rites, ii. 142 sq.
ideals a product of the male imagina- tion, vi. 211
systems, great permanent, founded
by great men, vi. 159 sq.
Reluctance to accept sovereignty on account of taboos attached to it, iii. 17 sqq.
Remedies, magical, not allowed to touch the ground, x. 14
Remission of sins through the shedding of blood, v. 299
Remnants of food buried as a precaution against sorcery, iii. 118, 119, 127 sq.t 129
Remon branch of the Ijebu tribe, chief of the, formerly killed after a rule of three years, iv. 112 sq.
Remulus, ii. 180. See Romulus
Remus and Romulus, the birth of, vi. 235. See Romulus
Renan, Ernest, on the C 'i^'.'r \\\ C\ \\\\:\\!t civilization, i. 236 n.1 ; on 'laminuz and Adonis; v. 6 n.1 ; his excavations at Byblus, v. 14 w.1 ; on Adom- melech, v. 17 ; on the vale of the Adonis, v. 29 n. ; on the burnings for the kings of Judah, v. 178 n.1 ; on the discoloration of the river Adonis, v. 225 «.4 ; on the worship of Adonis, v. 235 ; on custom of sticking pins into a saint's statue, ix. 70
432
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
Renewal, annual, of king's power at Babylon, iv. 113, 115, ix. 356, 358
of fire, annual, in China, x. 137.
See also Fire
Rengen, in the Eifel Mountains, Mid- summer flowers at, xi. 48
Renouf, Sir P. le Page, on the divinity of Egyptian kings, i. 418 ; on Osiris as the sun, vi. 126
Representative of tree-spirit clad in leaves and blossoms, ii. 75, 76, 79 sqq.
Reproductive powers, beating people to stimulate their, ix. 272
Reptile clan of the Omaha Indians, their belief as to the effect of touching a snake, viii. 29
Repulsion and attraction, forces of, viii. 303 sqq.
Resemblance of children to their parents, how explained by savages, i. 104 ; of child to father, supposed danger of, iii. 88 sq., iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression) ; of the rites of Adonis to the festival of Easter, v. 254 sqq. , 306
Resemblances of paganism to Christianity explained as diabolic counterfeits, v. 302, 309 sq.
Reshef, Semitic god, v. 16 «.1
Resoliss, parish of, in Ross-shire, burnt sacrifice of a pig in, x. 301 sq.
Rest for three days, compulsory, among the Esquimaux after the capture of a ground seal, walrus, or whale, viii. 246
Resurrection, cut hair and nails kept for use at the, iii. 279 sq. ; of the god, iv. 212, vii. i, 12, 14, 15, ix. 400 ; of the tree-spirit, iv. 212 ; of a god in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, iv. 221 ; enacted in Shrovetide or Lenten ceremonies, iv. 233 ; of the gods, viii. 16 ; of animals, viii. 200 sq.t 256 sqq. ; of fish, viii. 250, 254 ; bones of men preserved for the, viii. 259 ; in popular tales, viii. 263 sq. ; the divine, in Mexican ritual, ix. 288, 296, 302 ; of Semitic gods, ix. 398 ; of Eabani, ix. 399 ; ritual of death and resurrection at initiation, xi. 225 sqq.
— of Attis at the vernal equinox, v. 272 sq., 307^.
— — of the Carnival, iv. 252
— — of the dead effected by giving their names to living persons, iii. 365 sqq. ; conceived on the pattern of the resur- rection of Osiris, vi. 15 sq.
of the effigy of Death, iv. 247 sqq.
— of Hercules (Melcarth), v. in sq.
of Kostrubonkoat Eastertide, iv. 261
of Osiris dramatically represented
in his rites, vi. 85 ; depicted on the monuments, vi. 89 sq. ; date of its
celebration at Rome, vi. 05 «.1 ; sym- bolized by the setting up of the ded
pillar, vi. 109 Resurrection of Tylon, v. 186 sq.
of the Wild Man, iv. 252
Retaliation in Southern India, law of, iv.
141 sq. Retoronos, the, of Bolivia, ate the
powdered bones of their dead, viii. 157 Reuzes, wicker giants in Brabant and
Flanders, xi. 35 Revelry at Purim, ix. 363 sq. Revels, Master of the, at the English
court, ix. 333 sq.
Revenge, suicide as a mode of, iv. 141 Revin, Midsummer fires at, x. 188 Revolution, social, from democracy to
despotism, i. 371 Revolve from left to right, small fir-trees
made to, on Midsummer Day, ii. 66 Revolving image, viii. 322 n. Rex Nemorensis, the King of the Wood
at Nemi, i. ii Rhamnus catharticus, buckthorn, used as
a protection against witches, ix. 153 n.1 Rhea and Cronus, iv. 194, ix. 351 Rhegium in Italy, founded in consequence
of a vow to Apollo, iv. 187 n.6 Rhenish Prussia, Lenten fires in, x. 115 Rhetra, religious capital of the Western
Slavs, inspired priest at, i. 383 Rheumatism in homoeopathic magic, i.
155; ascribed to magic, i. 207 sq. ,
213 ; popular remedy for, by means
of pepper, iii. 106 ; popular remedy
for, by means of bees, iii. 106 ».2;
crawling under a bramble as a cure
for, xi. 1 80 Rhine, dramatic contest between Winter
and Summer on the middle, iv. 254 ;
bathing in the, on St. John's Eve, v.
248 , the Lower, need-fire on, x. 278 ;
St. John's wort on Midsummer Day
on, xi. 54 Rhinoceros' horn and hide, shavings of,
swallowed by warriors to make them
strong, viii. 143 Rhinoceros hunters not allowed to wash,
i. 115
Rhinoceroses, souls of the dead trans- migrate into, iv. 85 Rhins, J. L. Dutreuil de, on ceremony
of beating an effigy of an ox in spring
at Kashgar, viii. 13 Rhodes, Lindus in, i. 281 ; the Telchines
of, i. 310 ; rolling on the grass on St.
George's morning in, ii. 333 ; human
sacrifices to Baal in, iv. 195 ; described
by Strabo, v. 195 ».8; worship oi
Helen in, v. 292 ,
Rhodesia, the Winamwanga of, viii. 112,
GENERAL INDEX
433
xi. 297 ; the Yombe of, viii. 112 ; the Wemba of, viii. 158 ; the Awemba of, viii. 272 sq.
Rhodesia, Northern, the Bantu tribes of, their worship of ancestral spirits, vi. 174 sqq. ; their worship of dead chiefs or kings, vi. 191 sqq.
Rhodians worship the sun, i. 315 ; dedicate chariot and horses to the sun, i- 3*S> 3*6, viii. 45 ; the Venetians of antiquity, v. 195 ; their annual sacrifice of a man to Cronus, ix. 353 sq. , 397
Rhodomyrtus tomentosus, used to kindle fire by friction, xi. 8
Rhon Mountains, Lenten custom in the, x. 117
Rhyndacos, the river, boundary of Bithynia, ix. 421 n.1
Rhys, Professor Sir John, on Coligny calendar, i. 17 n.2, ix. 343 n. ; on the relation of Irish Druidism to Chris- tianity, ii. 363 ; as to The Book of Rights, iii. 12 n* ; on personal names, iii. 319 ; on Lammas, iv. 101 ; on cus- tom of sticking pins in a saint's statue, ix. 70 sq. i on Beltane fires, x. 157 ; on driving cattle through fires, x. 159 ; on old New Year's Day in the Isle of Man, x. 224 ; on Hallowe'en bonfires in Wales, x. 239 sq. ; on burnt sacri- fices in the Isle of Man, x. 305 sqq. \ on alleged Welsh name for mistletoe, xi. 286 n.8
Riabba, in Fernando Po, residence of the native king, hi. 8
Ribald jests at the Eleusinian mysteries, rii. 38
songs in rain-charm, i. 267
Ribble, Hallowe'en cakes on the banks of the, x. 245
Ribhus, Vedic genii of the seasons, ix.
325
Ribwort gathered at Midsummer, xi. 49 Ricci, S. de, on the Coligny calendar, ix.
343 »•
Rice, homoeopathic magic at sowing, i. 136 ; homoeopathic magic at reaping, i. 139 sq. ; charm to make rice grow, i. 140 ; homoeopathic magic at plant- ing, i. 143 ; in bloom treated like preg- nant woman, ii. 28 sq., vii. 183 sq. ; chastity at sowing, ii. 106 ; used to attract the soul conceived as a bird, iii. 34 sqq. , $$sqq. ; strewn on bridegroom's head, iii. 35 ; used to attract wandering souls, iii. 62 ; used in exorcism, iii. 1 06 ; in water, divination by, iii. 368 ; special language employed at harvest in order no.t to frighten the spirit of the, iii. 412 ; Dyak story as to the first planting of, iv. 127 sq. ; culti- vated in Assam, vii. 123; cultivated
in New Guinea, vii. 123 ; the first •rice cut, ceremony at bringing home, vii. 185 sq. ; spirituous liquor distilled from, vii. 242 ; spirits that cause the growth of, thought to be in goat form, vii. 288 ; " eating the soul of the rice," viii. 54 ; the first, sowed and reaped by priest, viii. 54 ; the new, ceremonies at eating the, viii. 54 sqq.
Rice (paddy), Father and Mother of the, among the Szis of Burma, vii. 203 sq.
, Rajah or King of the, in Mandeling
(Sumatra), vii. 197
, soul of, vii. 1 80 sqq. ; not to be
frightened, iii. 412 ; in the first sheaf cut, vi. 239 ; as bird, vii. 182 n.1 ; caught or detained, vii. 184 sqq. ; re- called, vii. 189 sq. ; in abluebird, vii. 295
Rice barn, homoeopathic magic at build- ing a, i. 140
-bride and -bridegroom, marriage
of, at rice-harvest in Java, vii. 199
5q' cakes, sacrificial, as substitutes for
human beings, viii. 89 ; mystically
transformed into bodies of men by
manipulation of priest, viii. 89 -child at harvest in the Malay
Peninsula, vii. 197 sqq. ears, the young, fed like children,
n. 29 fields, sacred, among the Kayans,
vii. 93, 108
-goddess in Lombok, vii. 202
harvest, special language employed
by reapers at, iii. 410 sq. , 411 sq. \
marriage ceremony in Java at, vn. 199
sq. ; ceremony of the Horse at, viii.
337 sqq. ; carnival at the, ix. 226 n. l mother in the East Indies, vii. 180
sqq. ; A. C. Kruyt on the, vii. 183
n. l ; among the Minangkabauers of
Sumatra, vii. 191 sqq. ; in the Malay
Peninsula, vii. 197 sqq. -sieve, infant at birth placed in,
vii. 8 spirit conceived as husband and
wife, vii. 201 sqq. Richalm, Abbot, his fear of devils, ix.
105 sq. Richard Coeur-de-Lion at Rouen, ii.
164, 165 Richter, O. , on the valley of Egeria, i.
i8«.4 Rickard, R. H. , on the seclusion of girls
at puberty in New Ireland, x. 34 Rickets, children passed through cleft
ash -trees as a cure for, xi. 168 ;
children passed through cleft oaks as
a cure for, xi. 170 ; children passed
through a holed stone as a cure for,
xi. 187
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THE GOLDEN BOUGH
Rickety children passed through a natural wooden ring, xi. 184
Riddles in rain -making ceremony, iii. 154 ; asked while the people watch the crops in the fields, vii. 194 ; asked at certain seasons or on certain occa- sions, ix. 121 ».3
11 Ride of the Beardless One," a Persian New Year ceremony, ix. 402 sq.
Ridgeway, Professor William, as to Homeric kings, i. 366 n.* ; on a Whit- suntide custom, ii. 103 n.s ; on the magical virtue of iron, iii. 230 «.7; on the marriage of brothers and sisters, vi. 216 n.1 ; on theThracian Carnival cere- monies, vii. 29 n. 2 ; on the marriage of Zeus and Demeter at Eleusis, vii. 65 ; on Dionysus Bassareus, viii. 282 n.6 ; on Lycaean Zeus, ix. 353 «.4; on the origin of Greek tragedy, ix. 384 ».2
Ridley, Rev. W. , on the annual expul- sion of ghosts in Australia, ix. 123 sq.
Riedel, J. G. F., on the belief in the spirits of the dead in Timor, ix. 85 ; on the Kakian association in Ceram, xi. 249
Rif, province of Morocco, Midsummer fires in, x. 214 n. , 215; bathing at Midsummer in, x. 216
Rig Veda, hymn about frogs in the, i. 294 ; hymns of the, in honour of Parjanya, ii. 368 sq. ; on the slaying of Vrtra by Indra, iv. 106 sq. ; the sun called "the golden swing in the sky " in the, iv. 279 ; story of creation in the, ix. 410 ; how Indra cured Apala in the, xi. 1:93
Riga, Midsummer festival at, x. 177
Right foot foremost, iii. 189, vii. 203
hand, luckiness of the, x. 151 n.
hand turn (deiseal, dessil] in the
Highlands of Scotland, x. 150 ».*, 154
shoe of bridegroom to be untied,
iii. 300 ».2
Ring, golden, worn as a charm, i 137 ; broken, iii. 13 ; on ankle as badge of office, iii. 15 ; competition for, at harvest supper, vii. 160 ; suspended in Purim bonfire, ix. 393 ; divination by a, x. 237 ; crawling through a, as a cure or preventive of disease, xi. 184 sqq. ; worn by initiates as token of the new birth, xi. 257. See also Rings
Ringhorn, Balder's ship, x. 102
Ringing church bells on Midsummer Eve, custom as to, xi. 47 sq. See also Bells
«« out the grass," ii. 344
Rings used to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 31 ; as spiritual fetters, iii. 313 sq. ; as amulets, iii. 235, 314 sqq.t x. 92 ; not to be worn, iii. 314 ; not
to be worn in the sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura, viii. 46 ; head- ache transferred to, ix. 2 ; mourners creep through, xi. 178, 179. See also Ring
Rings and knots tabooed, iii. 293 sqq.
Rio de Janeiro, ordeal of girls at puberty among the Indians about, x. 59
Enivra, the Tauare" Indians of, viii.
157 Grande in Brazil, the Carayahis,
Indian tribe on the, iii. 348 Negro in Brazil, ashes of the dead
drunk by Indians of the, viii. 157 ;
ordeals of young men among the
Indians of the, x. 63 Risley, Sir Herbert H., on Indian fire- walk, xi. 5 n.s Rites of irrigation in Egypt, vi. 33 sqq. \
of sowing, vi. 40 sqq. ; of harvest, vi.
45 *gq-
of Plough Monday, viii. 325 sqq.
Ritual, children of living parents in, vi. 236 sqq. ; of the Bechuanas at found- ing a new town, vi. 249 ; primitive, marks of, vii. 169 ; magical or pro- pitiatory, vii. 169, 170 ; myths drama- tized in, x. 105 ; of death and resur- rection at initiation, xi. 225 sqq.
of Adonis, v. 223 sqq.
of Attis, v. 263 sqq.
of Dionysus, vii. 14 sq.
Ritual dance in honour of Demeter and Persephone, viii. 339
murder, accusations of, brought
against the Jews, ix. 394 sqq.
River of Good Fortune, in West Africa, ix. 28
Rivers, Dr. W. H. R. , on the confusion of magic and religion among the Todas, i. 230 n. ; on the sacred milk- men of the Todas, i. 403 n.1, vi. 228 ; on the differentiation of medicine-men from sorcerers among the Todas, i. 421 n.1 ; on restrictions imposed on holy dairymen among the Todas, iii. 17; as to Melanesian theory of con- ception in women, v. 97 sq. ; on tamaniu, xi. 199 n.1
Rivers, hair offered to, i. 31 ; girls sacri- ficed in marriage to, i. 151 sq. ; horses sacrificed to, ii. 16 sq. ; as lovers of women in Greek mythology, ii. 1 6 1 sq. ; prohibition to cross, iii. 9 sq. ; hair dedicated to, iii. 261, 261 n.6 ; as the seat of worship of deities, v. 1 60 ; bathing in, at Midsummer, v. 246, 248, 249, xi. 30; gods wor- shipped beside, v. 289 ; used to sweep away evils, ix. 3 sq. , 5 ; offerings and prayers to, ix. 27 sq. ; menstruous' women not allowed to cross or bathe
GENERAL INDEX
435
in, x. 77, 97 ; claim human victims at
Midsummer, xi. 26 sqq. Rivos, harvest-god of Celts in Gaul, i. 17 Rivros, a Celtic month, i. 17 n.2t ix. 343 Rizano, in Dalmatia, the Yule log at, x.
263
Rizpah and her sons, v. 22 11 Road of Jerusalem," iv. 76 Roasted food prescribed for man-slayers,
iii. 169 Robber caste in South India, the law of
retaliation among a, iv. 141 sq. Robbers, charm used by, vii. 235 Robertson, SirGeorge Scott, on the dances
of Kafir women in the Hindoo Koosh,
i, 133^.; on ceremonial purity among
the Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh, iii.
14 notes Robertson, Rev. James, on the Beltane
fires in the parish of Callander, x. 150
sqq. Robigo or Robigus, mildew, worshipped
by the Romans, viii. 282 «.7 Robinson, C. H., on human life bound
up with that of an animal, xi. 209 Robinson, Edward, on the vale of the
Adonis, v. 29 n. Robinson, Captain W. C. , on human
victims among the Khonds, iv. 139 w.1 Roccacaramanico, in the Abruzzi, Easter
ceremonies at, v. 256 w.2 Rochholz, C. L. , on need-fire, x. 270 n. Rock-crystal in charm to prevent rain, i.
290 ; used to stop rain, i. 305
crystals in rain-charms, i. 346
-hewn sculptures at Ibreez, v. 121
sq. ; at Boghaz-Keui, v. 129 sqq. Rockhill, W. W. , on the custom of
swinging in Corea, iv. 284 sq. ; on
dance of eunuchs in Corea, v. 270 «.2 ;
on the annual expulsion of the devil
at Lhasa, ix. 221 n.1 Rocks in rain-making, i. 306, 309 ; sick
people passed through holes in, xi.
1 86 sq. , 189 sq.
Rodents, souls of dead in, viii. 291 Rods, iron, in magic, i. 346 sq. Roepstorff, F. A. de, on the Nicobar
custom of not mentioning the names
of the dead, iii. 362 sq. Roeskilde, in Zealand, the last sheaf
called the Rye-beggar near, vii. 231 Rogations, ancient Mexican festival com- pared to, ix. 277 ; Monday of, ii. 166 Rohde, Erwin, on purification by blood,
v. 299 «.2; on Hyacinth, v. 315 ; on
an argument for immortality, vii. 91
n.2 ; on the Anthesteria, ix. 153 n.1 Rohrenbach, in Baden, the Corn-sow or
Oats-sow at making up the last sheaf
at, vii. 298 Roko Tui, the Sacred King of Fiji, iii. 21
Rolling on the fields as a fertility charm,
ii. 103 ; at harvest, ii. 104 cakes on the ground for omens on
St. George's Day, ii. 338, on May
Day, x. 153
down a slope on May Day, ii. 103
Easter eggs down hill, ix. 269
Rollo, how he learned the speech of
animals, viii. 146
Rollshausen, in Hesse, the Little Whit- suntide Man at, ii. 81 Romagna, belief as to falling stars in
the, iv. 66 ; Befana (Epiphany) in
the Tuscan, ix. 167 Roman calendar, vii. 83 sq. celebration of the 'Nonae Capro*
tinae, ii. 313 sq. , ix. 258 custom of keeping a perpetual fire
in every house, ii. 260 ; of presenting
women with key as symbol of easy
delivery, iii. 296 ; of sacrificing human
beings at the grave, iv. 143 deities called " Father " and
11 Mother," vi. 233 sqq. ; of the corn,
vii. 210 «.8 emperor, funeral pyre of, v. 126 sq.
emperors, fire carried before, ii.
264
financial oppression, v. 301 «.2
Forum, temple of Vesta in the, i.
13. See also Forum
funerals, personation of the illus- trious dead at, ii. 178
game of Troy, iv. 76 sq.
genius symbolized by a serpent, v,
86
gods, their names not to be men- tioned, iii. 391 ii.1; the marriage of the, vi. 230 sqq. ; compared to Greek gods, vi. 235
husbandman, his prayers to Mars,
ix. 229
king and queen as representatives
of Jupiter and Juno in a Sacred Mar- riage, ii. 192
kings as deities in a Sacred Marriage,
n. 172 sq. , 192, 193 sq. , 318 sq. ; as personifications of Jupiter, ii. 174 sqq., 266 sq. ; as public rain -makers, ii. 183 ; list of, ii. 269 sq. ; rule of suc- cession among, ii. 270 sq. ; plebeians, not patricians, ii. 289 ; how nominated, ii. 295 sq. ; as personifications of Saturn, ii. 311, 322 ; their mysterious or violent ends, ii. 312 sqq. ; their obscure birth, ii. 312 sq.
kingship, descent of, in the female
line, ii. 270 sq. ; abolition of the, ii. 289 sqq. ; a religious office, ii. 289
law, revival of, v. 301 ; as to
knocking a nail into a wall on i3th September, ix. 66
430
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
Roman maxim about cutting hair and
nails at sea, iii. 271 mode of execution, iv. 144
— mythology, fragments of, vi. 235 personal names derived from cattle,
ii. 324 n.1
priests shaved with bronze, iii. 226
religion, rule as to knots in, iii. 294
rule as to wine offered in libations,
iii. 249 «.a • Saturnalia, ix. 306 sqq.
— soldiers, celebration of the Satur- nalia by, ix. 308 sq.
• writers on curses at sowing, i. 281
•n women washed their heads on Diana's day, iii. 253