Chapter XXIII: Part 23

Java, magical images in, i. 58;
ceremonies to procure offspring in, i. 73;
belief as to the homoeopathic magic of house timber in, i. 146;
charm to produce sleep in, i. 148;
treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 192;
rain-making in, i. 257 _sq._;
ceremonies for preventing rain in, i. 270 _sq._;
rain-charm by means of cats in, i. 289;
special forms of speech used in addressing social superiors in, i. 402
_n._;
modes of deceiving the spirits of plants in, ii. 23;
sexual intercourse practised to promote the growth of rice in, ii. 98;
ceremony at tapping a palm-tree for wine in, ii. 100 _sq._;
custom observed in, when a child is first set on the ground, iii. 34;
rice placed on heads of persons after a great danger in, iii. 35;
remedy for gout or rheumatism in, iii. 106;
the Baduwis of, iii. 115;
superstitions as to the head in, iii. 254;
everything opened in house to facilitate childbirth in, iii. 297;
tabooed words in, iii. 409, 411;
the Sultans of, hereditary custom of suicide practised for their
benefit, iv. 53 _sq._;
the Tenggeres (Tenggerese) of, iv. 130 _n._ 1, ix. 184;
conduct of natives in an earthquake, v. 202 _n._ 1;
Valley of Poison in, v. 203 _sq._;
worship of volcanoes in, v. 220 _sq._;
use of winnowing-basket as cradle in, vii. 6;
Rice-bride and Rice-bridegroom in, vii. 199 _sqq._;
earthworms eaten by dancing girls in, viii. 147;
kinship of men with crocodiles in, viii. 212;
belief in demons in, ix. 86 _sq._;
birth-trees in, xi. 161 _n._ 1

Javanese, their mode of rain-making, i. 248;
shadow-plays as a rain-charm among the, i. 301 _n._;
treat rice in bloom like a pregnant woman, ii. 28;
ascribe a soul to rice, vii. 183

Jawbone of ancestor in magical ceremony, i. 312;
the ghost of the dead thought to adhere to the, vi. 167 _sq._

—— and navel-string of Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, vi. 197

Jawbones of deer and pigs, magical use of, i. 109;
of executed persons a protective against their ghosts, iii. 171;
of dead kings of Uganda preserved and worshipped, i. 196, iv. 200 _sq._,
vi. 167 _sq._, 169 _sq._, 171 _sq._;
the ghosts of the kings supposed to attach to their jaw-bones, vi. 169;
of slain beasts propitiated by hunters, viii. 244 _sq._

Jaws of corpse tied up to prevent the escape of the soul, iii. 31

Jay, blue, as scapegoat, ix. 51

Jâyi or Jawâra, festival in Upper India, v. 242

Jealousy, transferred to ants, ix. 33

Jebel Bela mountain, in the Sudan, wizard in form of hyaena on the, x. 313

—— _Hissar_, Olba, v. 151

—— -Nuba, district of the Eastern Sudan, a species of birds respected in,
viii. 221

Jebu, on the Slave Coast, the king of, not to be seen by anybody, iii. 121

Jehovah, savage taboos disguised as the will of, iii. 219;
in relation to thunder, v. 22 _n._ 3;
in relation to rain, v. 23 _n._ 1

Jensen, P., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, v. 137 _n._ 4;
on Hittite inscription, v. 145 _n._ 2;
on Syrian god Hadad, v. 163 _n._ 3;
on etymology of Purim, ix. 362;
his theory of Haman and Vashti as Elamite deities, ix. 366 _sq._;
on Anaitis, ix. 369 _n._ 1;
on the fast of Esther, ix. 398 _sq._

Jeoud, the only-begotten son of Cronus, sacrificed by his father, iv. 166

Jepur in India, use of scapegoat at, ix. 191

Jeremiah (vii. 31, xix. 5, xxxii. 35), on the burnt sacrifice of children,
iv. 169 _n._ 3;
(xxix. 26), on the prophet as a madman, v. 77;
(ii. 27), on birth from stocks and stones, v. 107

Jericho, death of Herod at, v. 214;
wild boars at, viii. 32

Jerome, on the Celtic language of the Galatians, ii. 126 _n._ 2, xi. 89
_n._ 2;
on Tophet, iv. 170;
on the date of the month Tammuz, v. 10 _n._ 1;
on the worship of Adonis at Bethlehem, v. 257

Jerome of Prague, missionary to the heathen Lithuanians, on their worship
of trees, ii. 46;
on Lithuanian worship of the sun, i. 317 _sq._

Jerusalem, the temple at, built without iron, iii. 230;
the sacrifice of children at, iv. 169, vi. 219;
mourning for Tammuz at, v. 11, 17, 20, ix. 400;
the Canaanite kings of, v. 17;
“sacred men” in the temple at, v. 17;
the returned captives at, v. 23;
the Destroying Angel over, v. 24;
besieged by Sennacherib, v. 25;
religious music at, v. 52;
“great burnings” for the kings at, v. 177 _sq._;
the king’s pyre at, v. 177 _sq._;
Church of the Holy Sepulchre at, Good Friday ceremonies in the, v. 255
_n._;
ceremony of the new fire at Easter in, x. 128 _sq._

“——, the Road of,” iv. 76

Jesus Christ, crossbills at the crucifixion of, i. 82;
the historical reality of, ix. 412 _n._ 2

Jetté, J., on the power of medicine-men among the Tinneh Indians, i. 357

Jeugny, the forest of, xi. 316

Jevons, F. B., on burial customs in Ceos, i. 105;
on the opposition between religion and magic, i. 225 _n._;
on the Roman _genius_, xi. 212 _n._

Jewish calendar, New Year’s Day of the, ix. 359

—— children, their custom as to cast teeth, i. 178

—— converts, form of abjuration used by, ix. 393

—— Day of Atonement, ix. 210

—— festival of Purim, ix. 360 _sqq._;
the great deliverance of Jews at the, ix. 398

—— high priest, viii. 27, ix. 210

—— hunters pour out blood of game, iii. 241

—— priests, their rule as to the pollution of death, vi. 230

—— remedy for jaundice, i. 81

Jewitt, J. R., on the father of twins among the Nootkas, i. 264;
on ritual of mimic death among the Nootka Indians, xi. 270

Jews, their attitude to the pig, viii. 23 _sq._;
their ablutions, viii. 27;
their use of scapegoats, ix. 210;
accused of ritual murders, ix. 394 _sqq._

—— of Egypt, costume of bride and bridegroom among the, vi. 260

——, Polish, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 66

—— of Roumania, mode of facilitating childbirth among the, iii. 298

Jeyt, Indian month, iv. 279

Jharkhandi, an Indian forest god, viii. 119

Jinn, haunt certain trees, ii. 34;
the servants of their magical names, iii. 390;
death of the King of the, iv. 8;
falling stars thought to be, iv. 63;
transferred from human beings to animals, ix. 31;
belief in the, in modern Egypt, ix. 104;
infesting camels, ix. 260

Jinnee of the sea, virgins married to a, ii. 153 _sq._

Joannes Lydus, on Phrygian rites at Rome, v. 266 _n._ 2;
on Mamurius Veturius, ix. 229 _n._ 1

Job (xxxviii. 13), “the sweet influences of the Pleiades,” vii. 319 _n._ 1

Job’s protest, ii. 114

Jochelson, W., on the whale-festivals of the Koryaks, viii. 232;
on the belief of the Koryaks in demons, ix. 101

_Johanniswurzel_, the male fern, xi. 66

John Barleycorn, Burns on, v. 230 _sq._

Johns, Rev. Dr. C. H. W., on Babylonian votaries, v. 71 _ns._ 3 and 5;
on the name Zagmuku, ix. 357 _n._ 2;
on the change of _m_ into _w_ or _v_ in Semitic, ix. 367 _n._ 2;
on the reading of an Elamite inscription, ix. 367 _n._ 3

Johnson, Bishop James, on human scapegoats among the Yorubas, ix. 211
_sq._

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, in the Highlands, i. 368;
touched for scrofula by Queen Anne, i. 370;
on Highland custom of beating a man in a cow’s hide, viii. 322

Johnston, Sir H. H., on the diffusion of round huts in Africa, ii. 227
_n._ 3;
on eunuch priests on the Congo, v. 271 _n._

Johnstone, Rev. A., on Hallowe’en fires in Buchan, x. 233

Jokumara, a rain-god in Southern India, his effigy used in a rain-making
ceremony, i. 284 _n._

_Jónee_, _joanne_, _jouanne_, the Midsummer fire (the fire of St. John),
x. 189

Jonendake, Mount, in Japan, rain-making ceremonies on, i. 251

Jordan, H., on the ordeal of battle in ancient Italy, ii. 321

Jordan, banks of the, infested by wild boars, viii. 32

Jordanus, Friar, on voluntary suicide in honour of idols in India, iv. 54

Josephus, on worship of kings of Damascus, v. 15;
on the Tyropoeon, v. 178;
on the Egyptian abstinence from swine’s flesh, viii. 24 _n._ 2

Josiah, King, his religious reform, v. 17 _n._ 5, 18 _n._ 3, 25, 107

Jotham, the fable of, ii. 315

Joubert, on religion, quoted, i. 223 _n._ 2

Journey, conduct of women in absence of men on a, i. 125;
purificatory ceremonies on return from a, iii. 111 _sqq._;
continence observed on a, iii. 204;
hair kept unshorn on a, iii. 261;
knots as a charm on a, iii. 306, 310

Journeys, conventional names for common objects on long and perilous
journeys, iii. 404 _n._ 3

Joustra, M., on the fear of evil spirits among the Bataks, ix. 88

Jove (Father) and Mother Vesta, ii. 227 _sqq._
_See_ Jupiter

Joyce, P. W., on Irish fairs, iv. 100 _n._ 1, 101;
on driving cattle through fires, x. 159 _n._ 2;
on the bisection of the Celtic year, x. 223 _n._ 2

Jualamukhi in the Himalayas, perpetual fires, v. 192

Jubainville, H. d’Arbois de, on a passage of Maximus Tyrius, ii. 362 _n._
6;
on Irish fairs, iv. 101

Judah, idolatrous kings of, their sacrifice of chariots and horses to the
sun, i. 315;
kings of, their custom of burning their children, iv. 169;
laments for dead kings of, v. 20;
the purple hills of, v. 215

Judas, effigies of, burnt in Easter fires, x. 121, 127 _sq._, 130 _sq._,
143, 146, xi. 23;
driven out of church on Good Friday, x. 146

Judas candle, x. 122 _n._

—— fire at Easter, x. 123, 144

Judean landscape, the austerity of the, v. 23;
maid impregnated by serpent, v. 81

Judith, widow of Ethelwulf, ii. 283

Juggernaut, pilgrimage to, iv. 132

Jugra, in Selangor, durian-trees threatened at, ii. 21

Juhar, the Bhotiyas of, ix. 209

Juice of grapes conceived as blood, iii. 248

Jujube, arrows of the thorny, used to shoot at demons, ix. 146

Jujus, fetishes, i. 349

Jukagirs of Siberia, taboos observed by the sisters of hunters among the,
i. 122

Jukos, the, of Nigeria, kings of, put to death, iv. 34;
inoculate themselves before hunting elephants, viii. 160

_Julbuck_, the Yule goat, in Scandinavia, viii. 327

Julian, the Emperor, on the Hercynian forest, ii. 7;
his entrance into Antioch, v. 227, 258;
on the Mother of the Gods, v. 299 _n._ 3;
restores the standard cubit to the Serapeum, vi. 217 _n._ 1

Julian calendar introduced by Caesar, vi. 37, 93 _n._ 1;
used by Mohammedans, x. 218 _sq._

—— year, vi. 28

Julii, the, descended from Julus, ii. 179;
rivals of the Silvii, ii. 182;
as Little Jupiters, ii. 192

Julus, the Little Jupiter, ancestor of the Julii, ii. 179

Julus or Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, ii. 197

July, procession of giants at Douay in, xi. 33

—— the 5th, the Flight of the People at Rome on, ii. 319 _n._ 1

—— the 7th, death of Romulus on, ii. 181;
the festival of the _Nonae Caprotinae_ at Rome, ii. 313 _sq._, ix. 258;
Lord of Misrule at Bodmin on, ii. 319 _n._ 1

—— the 25th, St. James’s Day, flower of chicory cut on, xi. 71

Jumièges, in Normandy, Brotherhood of the Green Wolf at, x. 185 _sq._, xi.
25

Jumping over wife or children as a ceremony, iii. 112;
over wife as a ceremony, iii. 164 _n._ 1, viii. 64, 253, x. 23;
over a bonfire, iv. 262;
over a woman, significance of, viii. 70 _n._ 1, x. 23.
_See also_ Leaping

_Juncus tenuis_ in homoeopathic magic, i. 144

June, named after Juno, ii. 190, 190 _n._ 2;
Khasi ceremony of “driving away the plague” in, ix. 173;
Mexican human sacrifice in, ix. 283;
the fire-walk in, xi. 6

—— the 1st, a Roman festival, ii. 190

—— the 9th, Vesta’s festival on, ii. 127 _n._ 2

—— the 15th, St. Vitus’s Day, x. 335

—— the 29th, St. Peter’s Day, iv. 262

Juneh, magical pool at, where childless couples bathe, ii. 160

Jungle Mother, in Northern India, her shrines consist of piles of stones
and branches, ix. 27

Juniper worn by mourners, iii. 143;
burned to keep out ghosts, ix. 154 _n._;
used to beat people with, ix. 271;
burnt in need-fire, x. 288;
used to fumigate byres, x. 296

Juniper berries, houses fumigated with, as a protection against witches,
ix. 158

_Juniperus excelsa_, the _chili_-tree, a kind of cedar, sacred in Gilgit,
ii. 49, 50

Juno on the Capitol, ii. 184, 189;
her oak crown, ii. 184, 189;
at Falerii, ii. 190 _n._ 2;
a duplicate of Diana, ii. 381 _sq._;
the Flaminica Dialis sacred to, vi. 230 _n._ 2;
the wife of Jupiter, vi. 231;
serpent in sacred grove of, at Lanuvium, viii. 18

—— and Diana, xi. 302 _n._ 2

Juno Caprotina, the milky juice of the wild fig-tree (_caprificus_)
offered to, ii. 313, 317, ix. 258;
on a Roman coin, viii. 18 _n._ 2

—— Lucina, no knots on garments of women in rites of, iii. 294

—— Moneta, ii. 189

Junod, Henri A., on twins regarded as children of the sky, i. 268;
on superstitions as to miscarriage in childbirth, iii. 152 _sqq._;
on the profundity of savage ritual, iii. 420 _n._ 1;
on the worship of the dead among the Thonga, vi. 180 _sq._;
on woman’s part in agriculture among the Baronga, vii. 114 _sq._

Juok, the supreme god and creator of the Shilluks, iv. 18, vi. 165

Jupiter, ox sacrificed to, as expiation, ii. 122;
costume of, ii. 174 _sq._;
the Roman kings in the character of, ii. 174 _sqq._, ii. 266 _sq._;
oaks sacred to, ii. 175, 176;
as god of the oak, the thunder, the rain, and the sky, ii. 178, 358, 361
_sq._;
worshipped on the Capitol, ii. 361;
as sky-god, ii. 374;
a duplicate of Janus (Dianus), ii. 381 _sq._, xi. 302 _n._ 2;
the husband of Juno, vi. 231;
the father of Fortuna Primigenia, vi. 234;
(Zeus) said to have transferred the sceptre to the young Dionysus, vii.
13;
lamb sacrificed by Flamen Dialis to, viii. 133;
perhaps personified by the King of the Wood, the priest of Diana at
Nemi, xi. 302 _sq._

—— the Fruitful One, ii. 362

—— and Juno, doubles of Janus (Dianus) and Diana, ii. 190 _sq._, 381
_sq._, xi. 302 _n._ 2;
sacred marriage of, ii. 190

—— and Juturna, vi. 235 _n._ 6

——, Latian, on the Alban Mount, ii. 187, 379;
human sacrifices in honour of, ix. 312 _n._ 1

——, the Little, ii. 179, 192

——, the Rainy, ii. 362 _n._ 1

—— and Saturn, ii. 323

——, the Serene, ii. 362

——, the Showery, ii. 362 _n._ 1

Jupiter Capitoline, ii. 176, 187;
robbed by Julius Caesar, i. 4;
custom of annually knocking a nail in temple of, ix. 66, 67 _n._ 1;
represented by an oak-tree, xi. 89

—— Dianus, ii. 382

—— Dolichenus, v. 136

—— Elicius, ii. 183

—— Indiges, ii. 181

—— Liber, temple of, at Furfo, iii. 230

Jupiter, the planet, period of revolution of, iv. 49, xi. 77 _n._ 1

Jupiters, probably many local, in Latium, ii. 184

Jura, fire-custom at Lent, in the, x. 114

Jura Mountains, Midsummer bonfires in the, x. 188 _sq._;
the Yule log in the, x. 249

Jurby, parish of, in the Isle of Man, x. 305

Justice and Injustice in Aristophanes, v. 209

Justin, on the “sacred spring” among the Gauls, iv. 187 _n._ 5

Justin II., Emperor of the East, his embassy to the Turks, iii. 102

Justin Martyr on the resemblances of paganism to Christianity, v. 302 _n._
4

Jutland, belief as to eating white snake in, viii. 146;
sick children and cattle passed through holes in turf in, xi. 191;
superstitions about a parasitic rowan in, xi. 281

Juturna, a water-nymph, the wife of Janus, ii. 382;
beloved by Jupiter, ii. 382;
in Roman mythology, vi. 235 _n._ 6

_Ka_, spiritual double or external soul in ancient Egypt, ii. 134 _n._ 1,
iii. 28, xi. 157 _n._ 2

Kabadi, a district of British New Guinea, seclusion of girls at puberty
in, x. 35

Kabenau river, in German New Guinea, ceremony of initiation on the, xi.
193

Kabuis, the, of Assam, their taboos at sowing and reaping, vii. 109 _n._ 2

—— of Manipur, chastity before sowing among the, ii. 106

Kabyle tale, milk-tie in a, xi. 138 _n._ 1;
the external soul in a, xi. 139

Kabyles, marriage custom of the, to ensure the birth of a boy, vi. 262;
their cure for jealousy, ix. 33

Kacha Nagas of Assam, parents named after their children among the, iii.
333

Kacharis, the, of Assam, their fear of demons, ix. 93

Kachh, the Rao of, i. 385 _n._ 1

Kachins of Burma, their custom of making a new fire on taking possession
of a new house, ii. 237 _sq._;
continence of women at brewing beer among the, iii. 200;
their offerings at sowing and reaping, viii. 121 _sq._;
their belief in demons, ix. 96

Kadesh, a Semitic goddess, v. 137 _n._ 2

Kadiak, island off Alaska, uncleanness of women at childbirth in, iii.
148;
customs as to whalers in, iii. 191 _sq._

Kadombookoo, in Celebes, prayers for rain at a chief’s grave in, i. 286

Kadouma, near the Victoria Nyanza, drums beat to still a storm at, i. 328

Kaempfer’s _History of Japan_, iii. 3 _sq._

Kafa, custom as to eating in, iii. 119 _n._ 6

Kaffa, in East Africa, divine pope at, i. 410

Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh, dances of their women while men are away
fighting, i. 133 _sq._;
their test of a sacrificial victim, i. 385;
sacred persons among them defiled by contact with a dog, iii. 13 _n._ 6

Kahma, in Burma, annual extinction of fires in, x. 136

Kai of German New Guinea, their belief in conception without sexual
intercourse, v. 96 _sq._;
their superstitious practices to procure good crops, vii. 100;
their games played to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 101 _sq._;
their stories told to promote the growth of the crops, vii. 102;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
why field labourers among them will not eat pork, viii. 33;
eat the brains of slain foes, viii. 152;
their belief in transmigration, viii. 296;
beat their banana shoots to make them grow, ix. 264;
their seclusion of women at menstruation, x. 79;
their use of a cleft stick as a cure, xi. 182;
their rites of initiation, xi. 239 _sqq._

Kaiabara, Australian tribe, avoidance of names of the dead among the, iii.
351

Kaikolans, a Tamil caste, their dedication of girls to temple service, v.
62

Kail, divination by stolen, at Hallowe’en, x. 234 _sq._

Kaimani Bay, in Dutch New Guinea, division of labour between the sexes
among the natives of, vii. 123

Kaitish tribe of Central Australia, their ceremony to make grass grow, i.
87 _sq._;
burial customs of the, i. 102;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 183;
their rain-making, i. 258 _sq._;
their continence at ceremonies to make grass grow, ii. 105;
their belief as to the shadow of a hawk, iii. 82;
custom of father after childbirth among the, iii. 295;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 60;
their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 99

Kakian association in Ceram, rites of initiation in the, xi. 249 _sqq._

Kalahari desert, the Bushmen of the, ii. 218 _n._ 1

Kalamantans, the, of Borneo, their descent from a deer, iv. 126 _sq._;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii.
293 _sq._

Kalamba, the, a chief in the Congo region, ceremony observed by subject
chiefs on visiting, iii. 114

Kalanga Mountain, in Rhodesia, sacrifice at chief’s grave on the, viii.
113

Kalat el Hosn, in Syria, shrine of St. George at, resorted to by childless
women, ii. 346, v. 78

_Kalau_, demons, among the Koryaks, ix. 101

Kali, bloodthirsty Indian goddess, inspired priest of, i. 382;
used to devour a king a day, iv. 123

_Kalids_, _kaliths_, deities in the Pelew Islands, vi. 204 _n._ 4, 207,
ix. 81 _sq._;
sacred animals of the Pelew Islanders, viii. 293 _n._ 2

Kalingooa, village of Celebes, rain-making at, i. 286

Kalmucks, their consecration of a white ram, viii. 313 _sq._;
story of the external soul among the, xi. 142;
_See also_ Calmucks

Kalotaszeg in Hungary, continence at sowing at, ii. 105

Kalunga, the supreme god of the Ovambo, vi. 188

Kalw, saying as to wind in corn near, vii. 292

Kamants, a Jewish tribe in Abyssinia, their custom of killing the dying,
iv. 12

Kamenagora in Croatia, Midsummer fires at, x. 178

_Kami_, the Japanese word for god, iii. 2 _n._ 2

Kamilaroi, the, of New South Wales, tribute of teeth exacted by, i. 101;
burial custom of the, viii. 99 _sq._;
ate livers and hearts of brave men to make themselves brave, viii. 151;
anointed themselves with the fat of the dead, viii. 162 _sq._

Kampot, in Cambodia, i. 170

Kamtchatka, the Italmens of, viii. 173 _n._ 4;
bear-dance of the women of, viii. 195;
the tug-of-war in, ix. 178

Kamtchatkans, their ceremony at an eclipse of the sun, i. 312;
will not mention whales, bears, and wolves by their proper names, iii.
398;
their attempts to deceive mice, iii. 399;
their observation of the Great Bear, Pleiades, and Orion, vii. 315;
offer excuses to bears and other animals which they kill, viii. 222;
their belief in the resurrection of all creatures, viii. 257;
stab the eyes of slain bears, viii. 268 _sq._;
their fear of demons, ix. 89;
their purification after a death, xi. 178

_Kamui_, the Aino equivalent of the Dacotan _wakan_, viii. 180 _n._ 2;
Aino name for god, viii. 198

Kanagra, district of India, marriage of images of Siva and Pârvati in, iv.
265 _sq._

Kandhs or Khonds. _See_ Khonds

Kangaroo, tooth of, in sympathetic magic, i. 180

Kangaroo fat, men of kangaroo totem anoint themselves with, viii. 165

—— flesh eaten to make eater swift-footed, viii. 145;
eaten sacramentally by men of kangaroo totem, viii. 165

—— totem in Central Australia, viii. 165

Kangaroos, ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 87 _sq._;
imitated by dancers, ix. 382

Kangean Archipelago, propitiation of mice to induce them to spare the
fields in the, viii. 278 _sq._

Kangra district, Punjaub, temporary rajahs in hill states about, iv. 154;
special burials of infants in the, v. 94;
“outcaste” Brahmans in the hill states about, ix. 45

—— mountains in the Punjaub, human sacrifices to cedar-tree in the, ii. 17

Kanhar river, in Mirzapur, ix. 60

Kaniagmuts of Alaska, uncleanness of whalers among the, iii. 207

Kanna district, Northern Nigeria, the Angass of the, xi. 210

Kanodrs, dairy-temple of the Todas at, iii. 16

Kansas Indians, eat dog’s flesh to make them brave, viii. 145

Kantavu, a Fijian island, belief as to earthquakes in, v. 201

Kanytelideis, in Cilicia, v. 158

Kappiliyans of Madura, their seclusion of girls at puberty, x. 69

Kapu women of Southern India, their rain-charm by means of a figure of the
rain-god, i. 284 _n._;
their rain-charm by means of frogs, i. 294

Kapus or Reddis, in Madras Presidency, i. 294

Kara-Bel, in Lydia, Hittite sculpture at, v. 138 _n._, 185

—— -Kirghiz, barren women fertilized by apple-trees among the, ii. 57

Karaits, a Jewish sect, cover mirrors after a death, iii. 95;
lock all cupboards at a death, iii. 309

Karamundi nation of Australia, their rain-making, i. 257

Karels of Finland, sacrifice a lamb on St. Olaf’s Day, viii. 258 _n._ 2

Karen-nis of Burma, the, iii. 13.
_See_ Karens

Karens or Karennis of Burma, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209;
their custom of setting up a village pole every April, ii. 69 _sq._;
their custom in regard to fornication and adultery, ii. 107 _sq._;
rules observed by chiefs and their mothers among the, iii. 13;
their recall of the soul, iii. 43;
their customs at funerals, iii. 51;
wizards among the, capture wandering souls of sleepers, iii. 73;
afraid of passing under a house or a fallen tree, iii. 250;
their belief as to a spirit in the head, iii. 252;
foods tabooed to chiefs among the, iii. 292;
their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 _n._ 1;
their way of fanning away ill-luck from children, vii. 10;
their ceremonies to secure the rice-soul, vii. 189 _sq._;
their belief in demons, ix. 96;
their custom at childbirth, xi. 157

Kariera tribe of West Australia, their beliefs as to birth of children, v.
105

_Karkantzari_, fiends or monsters in Macedonia, ix. 320

Karma-tree, ceremony of the Mundas over a, v. 240

Karnak, in Egypt, Ammon-Ra, the lord of, ii. 132;
sculpture at, vii. 260.
_See also_ Carnac

Karneios, a Peloponnesian god mated with Artemis, i. 36

Karo-Battas (Bataks) of Sumatra, their belief as to the afterbirth, i. 193
_sq._;
their rain-making ceremony, i. 277 _sq._;
apologize to trees for cutting them down, ii. 19;
their custom at a funeral, iii. 52;
their custom at cutting a child’s hair, iii. 263;
names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 339;
their euphemisms for the tiger, iii. 410;
their custom as to the first sheaf of rice at harvest, vi. 239;
their custom as to the largest sheaf at rice-harvest, vii. 196.
_See also_ Battas

Karok Indians of California, avoid the names of the dead, iii. 352;
their lamentations at hewing sacred wood, vi. 47 _sq._;
their ceremonies at catching the first salmon of the season, viii. 255

Karpathos, Greek island, custom of swinging in, iv. 284;
transference of sickness to a tree in, ix. 55.
_See also_ Carpathus

Kartik, an Indian month, equivalent to October, i. 294

Karunga, the supreme god of the Herero, vi. 186, 187 _n._ 1

Karwar, in Western India, hook-swinging at, iv. 278

Kasai district of the Congo Free State, the Ba-Yaka and Ba-Yanzi of the,
i. 348

—— River, xi. 264

Kasan Government of Russia, the Wotyaks of the, ix. 156

Kashgar, effigy of ox beaten in spring at, viii. 13

_Kashim_, assembly-room or dancing-house of the Esquimaux of Bering
Strait, viii. 247

Katajalina, an Australian spirit who eats up boys at initiation and
restores them to life, xi. 234 _sq._

_Katikiro_, the, of Uganda, iii. 145 _n._ 4

——, Baganda term for prime minister, vi. 168

Katodis, their ceremony at felling a tree, ii. 38

Katoemanggoengan, a lawgiver, born again in a crocodile, viii. 211

Katrine, Loch, x. 231

Katsina, a Hausa kingdom, custom of killing infirm kings in, iv. 35

Katzenthal in Baden, charm to make the hemp grow tall in, i. 138

Kaua Indians of North-Western Brazil, their masked dances, vii. 111, ix.
236, 381

Kauffmann, Professor F., on the Balder myth, x. 102 _n._ 1, 103 _n._;
on the external soul, xi. 97 _n._

Kaumpuli, the Baganda god of plague, ix. 4

Kaupole, a Midsummer pole in Eastern Prussia, xi. 49

_Kausika Sutra_, ancient Hindoo book of sorcery, i. 209, 229, ix. 192

Kavirondo, the Bantu tribes of, purification of manslayers among, iii. 176
_sq._;
division of agricultural labour between the sexes among, vii. 117 _n._
2;
believe that skin disease is caused by eating a totemic animal, viii. 26
_sq._

——, the Ja-Luo tribes of, iii. 79

Kawars of India, their cure for fever, xi. 190

Kaya-Kaya or Tugeri of Dutch New Guinea, their use of bull-roarers, xi.
242 _sq._

Kayan family not allowed to cut their hair, iii. 260

Kayans or Bahaus of Central Borneo, vii. 107, 109, 111, 234;
beat gongs in a storm, i. 328;
threaten the demons of the storm, i. 330;
ascribe souls to poison-trees, ii. 17;
observe a period of penance after building a house, ii. 40;
sacrifice to the spirits of ironwood trees, ii. 40;
believe that adultery blights the crops, ii. 109;
their expiation for adultery, ii. 109;
threaten the demon of thunder, ii. 183 _n._ 2;
try to prevent the departure of their souls from their bodies, iii. 32;
their recall of lost souls, iii. 47;
afraid of being photographed, iii. 99 _sq._;
their ceremonies at entering a strange land, iii. 110;
their custom of seclusion after a journey, iii. 113;
their belief as to ill-luck of man who touches a loom or women’s
clothes, iii. 164 _sq._;
their custom after killing a panther, iii. 219;
regard smiths as inspired, iii. 237;
remove sharp weapons from room at childbirth, iii. 239;
cut their hair at end of mourning, iii. 286;
use a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 406;
mock human sacrifices among the, iv. 218;
their reasons for taking human heads, v. 294 _sq._;
their New Year festival, vii. 93, 96 _sq._;
their sowing festival, vii. 93 _sqq._, 111, 186 _sq._;
their ceremonies in connexion with rice, vii. 93 _sqq._, 186 _sqq._,
viii. 54 _sq._, 184 _sqq._;
their games played at sowing festival, vii. 94 _sqq._, 187;
their observation of the sun, vii. 314;
their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 314 _n._ 4;
their custom as to eating venison, viii. 144;
their belief in transmigration, viii. 293;
throw sticks or stones at evil spirits, ix. 19;
stretch ropes round their houses to keep off demons, ix. 154 _n._;
their masked dances, ix. 236, 382 _sq._;
their priestesses not allowed to step on the ground at certain rites, x.
4 _sq._;
custom observed by them after a funeral, xi. 175 _sq._;
their way of giving the slip to a demon, xi. 179 _sq._

Kayans of the Mahakam river, vii. 186

—— of the Mendalam river, vii. 97, 98

Keadrol, a Toda clan, vi. 228

Keating, Geoffrey, Irish historian, on the Hallowe’en fire-festival of the
Irish Druids, x. 139;
on the Beltane fires, x. 158 _sq._

Keating, W. H., on the seclusion of menstruous women among the
Potawatomis, x. 89

Keats, John, his sonnet to the Evening Star, i. 166

Keb (Geb or Seb), Egyptian earth-god, father of Osiris, v. 6, 283 _n._ 3,
ix. 341

_Kedeshim_, sacred men, at Jerusalem, v. 17 _sq._;
among the Western Semites, v. 38 _n._, 59, 72, 107;
in relation to prophets, v. 76

_Kedeshoth_, sacred women, among the Western Semites, v. 59, 72, 107

Kei Islanders, their belief in the homoeopathic magic of creepers, i. 145;
their charm to ensure trading profits, i. 152;
their treatment of the navel-string, i. 186;
dance for wind, i. 321;
their offerings at graves, iii. 53

—— Islands, magical telepathy in the, i. 126;
telepathy in war in the, i. 130;
custom as to children’s cast teeth in the, i. 179;
fire maintained during absence of voyagers in the, ii. 265;
offerings of first-fruits in the, vii. 123;
expulsion of demons in the, ix. 112 _sq._;
birth-custom in the, xi. 155

—— river, in South Africa, heaps of stones on the banks of the, ix. 11

Keisar, an East Indian island, avoidance of graves at night in, iii. 53

Keitele, Lake, in Finland, first-fruits of harvest offered to an old
fir-tree on, xi. 165

Kekchi Indians of Guatemala, their period of abstinence before sowing, ii.
105;
their respect for serpents, viii. 219;
their propitiation of dead deer, viii. 241

_Kelah_, Karen word for soul, vii. 189 _sq._

Kells in Ireland, iv. 99; St. Columba at, ii. 243 _n._ 1

Kemble, J. M., on need-fire, x. 288

Kemosh, god of Moab, v. 15

_Kemping_, contest between reapers in Scotland, vii. 152

_Kěna daulat_, killed by the sanctity (_daulat_) of a Malay king, i. 398

Kengtung, a Shan state of Upper Burma, worship of a lake-spirit in, ii.
150 _sq._;
expulsion of the demons of sickness in, ix. 116 _sq._

Kennedy, Prof. A. R. S., on Azazel and the scapegoat, ix. 210 _n._ 4

Kennett, Professor R. H., on David and Goliath, v. 19 _n._ 2;
on Elisha in the wilderness, v. 53 _n._ 1;
on _kedeshim_, v. 73 _n._ 1;
on the sacrifice of first-born children at Jerusalem, vi. 219;
on the eating of mice by the Jews, viii. 24 _n._ 1

Kent, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 168;
the Weald of, ii. 7;
May garlands in, ii. 62;
the Ivy Girl in, vii. 153

Kent’s Hole, near Torquay, fossil bones in, v. 153

Kenyahs of Borneo, their use of magical images, i. 59 _sq._;
set up images of a god at the doors of houses, ii. 385;
their recall of the soul, iii. 43 _sq._;
their ceremony at entering a strange land, iii. 110 _sq._;
their tabooed words, iii. 415 _sq._

—— of Sarawak, their observation of the sun, vii. 314

Keonjhur, ceremony at installation of Rajah of, iv. 56

Kerak in Palestine, rain-making at, i. 276

Keramin tribe of New South Wales, their rain-making by means of a stone,
i. 304

Keremet, a god of the Wotyaks, ceremony to propitiate, ii. 145 _sq._

Kerr, Miss, of Port Charlotte, Islay, on the harvest Cailleach, vii. 166

Kerre, a tribe to the south of Abyssinia, accustomed to strangle their
first-born children, iv. 181 _sq._

Kerry, Midsummer fires in, x. 203

Kers, Robert, healed by witchcraft, ix. 38 _sq._

Kersavondblok, the Yule log, in Flanders, x. 249

_Kersmismot_, the Yule log, at Grammont, x. 249

Ketane, river in Basutoland, mythical snake at waterfall on the, ii. 157

Ketosh warriors of British East Africa, their custom after battle, iii.
176

Kettles used to mimic thunder, i. 310

Kevlaar, Virgin Mary of, i. 77

Key as symbol of delivery in childbed, iii. 296

—— of the field, vii. 226

“Key-race” at a marriage in Bavaria, ii. 304

Keys as charms against devils and ghosts, iii. 234, 235, 236;
as amulets, iii. 308.
_See also_ Locks

——, the golden, used by St. George to open the earth in spring, ii. 333

Keysser, Ch., on belief in conception without sexual intercourse, v. 96
_sq._;
on games and stories as means of promoting the crops among the Kai, vii.
101 _sq._

Khai-muh, kingdom to the west of Tonquin, first-born sons said to be
devoured in, iv. 180

Khalij, old canal at Cairo, vi. 38

Khambu caste in Sikkhim, their custom after a funeral, xi. 18

Khan, ceremony at visiting a Tartar, iii. 114

——, the Great, his blood not to be spilt on ground, iii. 242

Khandh priest, his charm to bestow offspring on a barren woman, ii. 160

Khangars of the Central Provinces, India, bridegroom and his father
dressed as women at a marriage among the, vi. 261

Kharwars of Northern India, will not name certain animals in the morning,
iii. 402 _sq._;
their use of scapegoats, ix. 192;
their dread of menstruous women, x. 84

Khasis of Assam, their treatment of the placenta, i. 194;
their belief as to the disastrous effects of marrying a woman of the
same clan, ii. 114 _n._ 1;
their system of mother-kin, ii. 294, v. 46, vi. 202 _sq._;
succession to the kingdom among the, ii. 294 _sq._, vi. 210 _n._ 1;
goddesses predominate over gods in their religion, vi. 203 _sq._;
their tribes governed by kings, not queens, vi. 210;
their annual expulsion of demon of plague, ix. 173 _sq._;
story of the external soul told by the, x. 146 _sq._

Khasiyas, the, of India, their worship of village deities, ii. 288 _n._ 1

Khatris, a caste in the Punjaub, perform funeral rites for a father in the
fifth month of his wife’s pregnancy, iv. 189

Khent, early king of the first dynasty in Egypt, vi. 154;
his reign, vi. 19 _sq._;
his tomb at Abydos, vi. 19 _sqq._;
his tomb identified with that of Osiris, vi. 20, 197

Khenti-Amenti, title of Osiris, vi. 87, 198 _n._ 2, vii. 260

Khlysti, the, a Russian sect, abhor marriage, iv. 196 _n._ 3

Khnoumou or Khnumu, Egyptian god, with his potter’s wheel, ii. 132, 133;
fashions a wife for Bata, xi. 135

Khoiak, festival of Osiris in the month of, vi. 86 _sqq._, 108 _sq._

Khön-ma, a Tibetan goddess, mistress of foul fiends, viii. 96

Khonds or Khands of India, their sacred groves, ii. 41;
rebirth of ancestors among the, iii. 368 _sq._;
their human sacrifices for the crops, iv. 139, vii. 245 _sqq._, xi. 286
_n._ 2;
their annual expulsion of demons at seed-time, ix. 138, 234;
their treatment of human victims, ix. 259

Khor-Adar Dinka, the, their custom of strangling their rain-makers, iv. 33

Khyrim State, in Assam, importance of the priestess in, v. 46;
governed by a High Priestess, vi. 203

Kia blacks of Queensland, their treatment of girls at puberty, x. 39

Kia-King, Chinese emperor, his punishment of the rain-dragon, i. 297 _sq._

Kiang-si, Chinese province, Dragon and Tiger Mountains in, i. 413 _sq._

Kibanga, on the Upper Congo, kings of, put to death, iv. 34

Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, a dead man, vi. 197;
his personal relics preserved at Cambridge, vi. 197

Kic tribe, of the Upper Nile, ventriloquist as chief of the, i. 347

Kickapoo Indians, iii. 171;
their customs before going to war, iii. 163 _n._ 2

Kid, surname of Dionysus, vii. 17

Kidd, Dudley, on use made of twins by Zulus in war, i. 49 _n._ 3;
on chiefs as rain-makers in South Africa, i. 350;
on the fire-drill of the Caffres, ii. 210 _sq._;
on female ghosts among the Bantu peoples, ii. 224 _n._ 4;
as to Caffre belief about the shadows of trees, iii. 82;
on Caffre belief as to shadows, iii. 88 _n._;
on the worship of ancestral spirits among the Bantus of South Africa,
vi. 177 _sqq._;
on external souls of chiefs, xi. 156 _n._ 2

Kidneys tabooed to Malagasy soldiers, i. 117 _sq._

Kiel, the corn-spirit as a cat at, vii. 280

_Kigelia africana_, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210

Kikuyu, the, of British East Africa, their observation of the Pleiades,
vii. 317.
_See_ Akikuyu

Kilchrennan, on Loch Awe, vii. 165, 166

Kildare, fire and nuns of St. Brigit in, ii. 240 _sq._;
the church of, ii. 363;
Midsummer fires in, x. 203

Kilema, in East Africa, strangers doctored before being admitted to see
the king at, iii. 114 _sq._

Kilimanjaro, the Wajaggas of, i. 250

——, Mount, attempted ascent of, iii. 103

Kilkenny, Midsummer fires in, x. 203

Killer of the Elephant, official who throttles sick kings, iv. 35

“—— of the Rye-woman,” name given to the cutter of the last rye, vii. 223,
224

Killin, in Perthshire, the hill of the fires at, x. 149

Killing the spirit of the wind, i. 328;
the divine king, iv. 8 _sqq._;
the corn-spirit, vii. 216 _sqq._;
the divine animal, viii. 169 _sqq._;
a totem animal, xi. 220;
the novice and bringing him to life again at initiation, pretence of,
xi. 225 _sqq._

—— a god, ix. 1; in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of
society, iv. 221;
in the form of an animal, vii. 22 _sq._;
two types of the custom of, viii. 312 _sq._;
in Mexico, ix. 275 _sqq._

—— the tree-spirit, iv. 205 _sqq._;
a means to promote the growth of vegetation, iv. 211 _sq._

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

Kilmarnock, mode of cutting the last corn near, vii. 279

Kilmartin, in Argyleshire, the harvest Maiden at, vii. 156

Kiln, the fire of a, called by special name, iii. 395

Kimbugwe, minister in charge of the king of Uganda’s navel-string, i. 196

Kimbunda, the, of West Africa, their cannibalism at accession of new king,
viii. 152

Kincardineshire, Midsummer fires in, x. 206

King, J. E., on infant burial, i. 105 _n._ 4, v. 91 _n._ 3

King, torn to pieces by horses, i. 366;
gives oracles, i. 377;
not to be over-shadowed, iii. 83;
his life sympathetically bound up with the prosperity of the country,
iv. 21, 27, xi. 1 _sq._;
slaying of the, in legend, iv. 120 _sqq._;
responsible for the weather and crops, iv. 165;
abdicates on the birth of a son, iv. 190;
at Whitsuntide, pretence of beheading the, iv. 209 _sq._;
a masker at Carnival called the, vi. 99, vii. 28 _sq._;
eats of new fruits before his people, viii. 63, 70;
first-fruits presented to the, viii. 109, 116, 122;
so called, at Carcassone, viii. 320 _sq._;
mock or temporary, ix. 151, 403 _sq._;
beaten at his inauguration in ancient India, ix. 263;
assembly for determining the fate of the, ix. 356;
nominal, chosen at Midsummer, x. 194, xi. 25;
presides at summer bonfire, xi. 38.
_See also_ Kings

King and Queen at Athens, i. 44 _sq._;
on Whit-Monday near Königgrätz, ii. 89;
at Whitsuntide in Silesia, ii. 89 _sq._

—— and Queen of May, ix. 406;
at Halford, in Warwickshire, ii. 88;
at Grenoble, ii. 90;
marriage of, iv. 266

—— and Queen of Roses at Grammont, x. 195

King, the Grass, at Whitsuntide, ii. 85 _sq._

——, the Leaf, on Whit-Monday, ii. 85

——, the Roman, as Jupiter, ii. 174 _sqq._

King of the Bean, ix. 313 _sqq._, x. 153 _n._ 3;
at Merton College, Oxford, ix. 332

—— of the Calf, vii. 290

—— of Fire in Cambodia, ii. 3 _sqq._, iii. 17, iv. 14

—— of the harvesters, vii. 294

—— of the Jinn, death of the, iv. 8

—— of the Night at Porto Novo, iii. 23

—— of Rain at Poona in India, i. 275;
on the Upper Nile, ii. 2

—— of Rain and Storm at mouth of the Congo, ii. 2

—— of the Rice in Sumatra, vii. 197

—— of Sacred Rites at Rome, i. 44, ii. 179, 201;
exhorted to be watchful, ii. 265;
the successor of the old Roman king, ii. 266;
nominated by the chief pontiff, ii. 296;
his flight, ii. 309;
of the Sacred Rites in other Latin towns, i. 44, 44 _n._ 1, ii. 266

—— of the Saturnalia, ii. 311, ix. 308, 311, 312

—— of Summer chosen on St. Peter’s Day, x. 195

—— of Tyre, his walk on stones of fire, v. 114 _sq._

—— of Uganda, his navel-string preserved and inspected every new moon, vi.
147 _sq._
_See_ Baganda _and_ Uganda

—— of Water in Cambodia, ii. 3 _sqq._, iii. 17, iv. 14

—— of the Wood at Nemi, i. 1 _sqq._, ii. 1, 378 _sqq._, iv. 28, 205 _sq._,
212 _sqq._;
put to death, i. 11, x. 2;
a mate of Diana, i. 40, 41, ii. 380;
representative of Virbius, i. 40 _sq._, ii. 129;
a personification of the oak-god Jupiter, ii. 378 _sqq._, xi. 302 _sq._;
perhaps a successor of the Alban dynasty of the Sylvii, ii. 379;
compared to the Whitsuntide mummers, iv. 212 _sqq._;
in the Arician grove a personification of an oak-spirit, xi. 285.
_See also_ Priest of Nemi

King of the Years at Lhasa, ix. 220, 221

King Bees (Essenes) at Ephesus, i. 47 _n._ 2, ii. 135 _sq._

—— Hop in Siam, iv. 149, 151

King George’s Sound, influence of medicine-men among the tribes of, i.
336;
namesakes of the dead change their names among the tribes of, iii. 355

King’s brothers put to death on his accession, iii. 243

—— College, Cambridge, Boy Bishop at, ix. 338

—— County, Ireland, hurling-matches for brides in, ii. 305 _sq._

—— daughter offered as prize in a race, iv. 104

—— disease, palsy called the, i. 371

—— Evil (scrofula), iii. 134;
touching for the, i. 368 _sqq._

—— hearth, oath by the, ii. 265

—— jawbone preserved, i. 196, iv. 200 _sq._, vi. 167 _sq._, 169 _sq._, 171
_sq._

—— name changed in time of drought, i. 355

—— Race at Whitsuntide, ii. 84

—— skull, priest drinks beer out of, as means of inspiration, in Uganda,
iv. 200, viii. 150

—— son, sacrifice of the, iv. 160 _sqq._, vii. 13, 24 _sq._

—— widow, succession to the throne through marriage with, iv. 193

Kingaru, clan of the Wadoe in German East Africa, xi. 313

Kingdom, in ancient Latium, succession to, ii. 266 _sqq._;
the prize of a race, ii. 299 _sqq._, iv. 103;
mortal combat for the, ii. 322.
_See also_ Kingship _and_ Succession

Kinglake, A. W., on the great Servian forest, ii. 237 _n._ 1

Kings, magicians as, i. 332 _sqq._;
expected to give rain, i. 348, 350, 351 _sq._, 353, 356, 392 _sq._, 396;
punished for drought and dearth, i. 353 _sqq._;
among the Aryans, magical powers attributed to, i. 366 _sqq._;
often the lineal successors of magicians or medicine-men, i. 371;
the divinity of, i. 372;
worshipped and consulted as oracles, i. 388;
as gods in India, i. 403;
sacrifices offered to, i. 417;
temples built in honour of, i. 417;
of nature, ii. 1 _sqq._;
of rain, ii. 2;
expected to make thunder, ii. 180 _sq._;
perpetual fire in houses of, ii. 261 _sq._;
paternity of, a matter of indifference under female kinship, ii. 274
_sqq._;
sometimes of a different race from their subjects, ii. 288 _sq._;
chosen from several royal families in rotation, ii. 292 _sqq._;
fat, ii. 297;
handsomest men, ii. 297;
long-headed, ii. 297;
supernatural powers attributed to, iii. 1;
their lives regulated by exact rules, iii. 1 _sqq._, 101 _sq._;
taboos observed by, iii. 8 _sqq._;
beaten before their coronation, iii. 18;
forbidden to see their mothers, iii. 86;
portraits of, not stamped on coins, iii. 98 _sq._;
guarded against the magic of strangers, iii. 114 _sq._;
forbidden to use foreign goods, iii. 115;
not to be seen eating and drinking, iii. 117 _sqq._;
concealed by curtains, iii. 120 _sq._;
forbidden to leave their palaces, iii. 122 _sqq._;
compelled to dance, iii. 123;
punished or put to death, iii. 124;
not to be touched, iii. 132, 225 _sq._;
their hair unshorn, iii. 258 _sq._;
foods tabooed to, iii. 291 _sq._;
names of, tabooed, iii. 374 _sqq._;
taboos observed by, identical with those observed by commoners, iii. 419
_sq._;
killed when their strength fails, iv. 14 _sqq._;
regarded as incarnations of a divine spirit, iv. 21, 26 _sq._;
attacks on, permitted, iv. 22, 48 _sqq._;
killed at the end of a fixed term, iv. 46 _sqq._;
related to sacred animals, iv. 82, 84 _sqq._;
personating dragons or serpents, iv. 82;
addressed by names of animals, iv. 86;
with a dragon or serpent crest, iv. 105;
legends of the custom of slaying, iv. 120 _sqq._;
the supply of, iv. 134 _sqq._;
abdicate annually, iv. 148;
as lovers of a goddess, v. 49 _sq._;
held responsible for the weather and the crops, v. 183;
marry their sisters, v. 316;
slaughter human victims with their own hands, vi. 97 _n._ 7;
torn in pieces, traditions of, vi. 97 _sq._;
human sacrifices to prolong the life of, vi. 220 _sq._, 223 _sqq._;
trace of custom of slaying them annually, vii. 254 _sq._;
eat of new fruits before their subjects, viii. 63, 70;
magistrates at Olympia called, ix. 352;
marry the wives and concubines of their predecessors, ix. 368

Kings and chiefs tabooed, iii. 131 _sqq._;
their spittle guarded against sorcerers, iii. 289 _sq._

—— - and magicians dismembered and their bodies buried in different parts
of the country to fertilize it, vi. 101 _sq._

—— - and priests, their sanctity analogous to the uncleanness of women at
menstruation, x. 97 _sq._

——, dead, worshipped in Africa, iv. 24 _sq._, vi. 160 _sqq._, 191 _sqq._;
turn into lions, leopards, pythons, etc., iv. 84;
reincarnate in lions, v. 83 _n._ 1, viii. 288;
sacrifices offered to, vi. 162, 166 _sq._;
incarnate in animals, vi. 162, 163 _sq._, 173;
consulted as oracles, vi. 167, 171, 172, 195;
human sacrifices to, vi. 173

——, divinity of Babylonian, i. 417 _sq._;
of Egyptian, i. 418 _sq._
_See also_ Divinity

——, English, touch for scrofula, i. 368 _sqq._

—— fetish or religious, in West Africa, iii. 22 _sqq._

——, Hebrew, traces of divinity ascribed to, v. 20 _sqq._

——, the Latin, thought to be the sons of the fire-god by mortal mothers,
ii. 195 _sqq._
_See also_ Latin

——, priestly, i. 44 _sqq._, v. 42;
of Sheba, iii. 125 _n._;
of the Nubas, iii. 132

——, Roman, as deities in a Sacred Marriage, ii. 172 _sq._, 192, 193 _sq._;
costumed like Jupiter, ii. 174 _sqq._;
as public rain-makers, ii. 183;
as personifications of Jupiter, ii. 266 _sq._;
as personifications of Saturn, ii. 311, 322.
_See also_ Roman

——, sacred or divine, in great historical empires, i. 415 _sqq._;
development of, ii. 376 _sqq._;
of the Shilluk, iv. 17 _sqq._;
Semitic, v. 15 _sqq._;
Lydian, v. 182 _sqq._;
put to death, x. 1 _sq._;
subject to taboos, x. 2

——, Shilluk, divine, iv. 17 _sqq._;
put to death before their strength fails, iv. 21 _sq._, vi. 163

——, temporary, iv. 148 _sqq._;
their divine or magical functions, iv. 155 _sqq._

——, Teutonic, i. 47

——, the Three, on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 _sqq._

Kings of the Barotse worshipped after death, vi. 193 _sqq._

—— of Dahomey and Benin represented partly in animal shapes, iv. 85 _sq._

—— of Egypt worshipped as gods, v. 52; buried at Abydos, vi. 19;
perhaps formerly slain in the character of Osiris, vi. 97 _sq._, 102;
as Osiris, vi. 151 _sqq._;
renew their life by identifying themselves with the dead and risen
Osiris, vi. 153 _sq._;
born again at the Sed festival, vi. 153, 156 _sq._;
perhaps formerly put to death to prevent their bodily and mental decay,
vi. 154 _sq._, 156

—— of Fire and Water in Cambodia, ii. 3 _sqq._, iii. 17, iv. 14

—— of France touch for scrofula, i. 370

—— in Greece, titular or sacred, i. 44 _sqq._;
called Zeus, ii. 177, 361

—— of Sweden answerable for the fertility of the ground, i. 366 _sq._, vi.
220;
sons of Swedish king sacrificed, iv. 160 _sq._, vi. 220

—— of Uganda, dead, consulted as oracles, i. 196, iv. 200 _sq._, vi. 171
_sq._;
their life bound up with barkcloth trees, xi. 160.
_See_ Baganda _and_ Uganda

_Kings, The Epic of_, Firdusi’s, x. 104

Kings’ fire, the, ii. 195 _sqq._

—— Race, the, ii. 84

—— sisters, licence accorded to, ii. 274 _sqq._

—— wives turned at death into leopards, viii. 288

Kingship, an annual office in some Greek states, i. 46;
evolution of the sacred, i. 420 _sq._;
contest for the, at Whitsuntide, ii. 89;
burdens and restrictions attaching to the early, iii. 1 _sqq._, 17
_sqq._, iv. 135;
octennial tenure of the, iv. 58 _sqq._;
triennial tenure of the, iv. 112 _sq._;
annual tenure of the, iv. 113 _sqq._;
diurnal tenure of the, iv. 118 _sq._;
modern type of, different from the ancient, iv. 135;
under mother-kin, rules as to succession to the, vi. 210 _n._ 1;
mock, at the Saturnalia, ix. 308

—— in Africa under mother-kin inherited by men, not women, vi. 211

——, descent of the, in the female line, at Rome, ii. 270 _sqq._;
in Africa, ii. 274 _sqq._;
in Greece, ii. 277 _sq._;
in Scandinavia, ii. 279 _sq._;
in Lydia, ii. 281 _sq._;
among the Danes and Saxons, ii. 282 _sq._

——, double, at Sparta, ii. 290;
traces of, at Rome, ii. 290

——, nominal, left by conquerors to indigenous race, ii. 288 _sq._

——, Roman, abolition of the, ii. 289 _sqq._;
a religious office, ii. 289;
a plebeian institution, v. 45

Kingsley, Miss Mary H., on reincarnation of the dead in Nigeria, i. 411
_n._ 1;
on fetish kings in West Africa, iii. 22;
on soul-traps in West Africa, iii. 71;
on the confinement of the king of Benin to his palace, iii. 123 _n._ 2;
on negro notions as to blood, iii. 251;
on custom of killing chief, iv. 119 _n._ 1;
on secret burial of chief’s head, vi. 104;
on West African belief in demons, ix. 74;
on the periodic expulsion of demons at Calabar, ix. 204 _n._ 1;
on external or bush souls, xi. 204 _sq._;
on rites of initiation in West Africa, xi. 259

Kingsmill Islanders, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 64

Kingsmill Islands, first-fruits offered to a god in the, viii. 127 _sq._

Kingussie, in Inverness-shire, Beltane cakes at, x. 153

_Kinnor_, a lyre, v. 52

Kinross, custom of “dumping” at harvest in, vii. 227

Kinship of men with crocodiles, viii. 212 _sq._, 214 _sq._;
of men with tigers, viii. 216;
created by the milk-tie, xi. 138 _n._ 1

Kintu, the first man in Uganda, ii. 261

Kintyre, the last corn cut called the Old Wife in, vii. 142

Kioga Lake in Central Africa, ix. 246

Kiowa Indians, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 198;
relations of the dead change their names among the, iii. 357;
changes in their language caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 360
_sq._

Kirauea, volcano in Hawaii, v. 216 _sq._;
divinities of, v. 217;
offerings to, v. 217 _sqq._

Kirchmeyer, Thomas, author of _Regnum Papisticum_, x. 124, 125 _n._ 1;
his account of Easter customs, x. 124 _sq._;
of Midsummer customs, x. 162 _sq._

Kirghiz, “Love Chase” among the, ii. 301;
divine by the shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 _n._ 4;
games in honour of the dead among the, iv. 97;
their story of girl who might not see the sun, x. 74

—— women will not pronounce names of their husbands’ older relations, iii.
337

Kiriwina, one of the Trobriand Islands, annual festival of the dead in, v.
56;
snakes as reincarnations of the dead in, v. 84;
presentation of children to the full moon in, vi. 144;
annual expulsion of spirits in, ix. 134

Kirk Andreas, in the Isle of Man, x. 306

Kirkland, Rev. Mr., on Iroquois sacrifice of white dogs, ix. 210

Kirkmichael, in Perthshire, Beltane fires and cakes at, x. 153

_Kirn_ or _kern_, last corn cut, vii. 151, 152 _sqq._;
name of the harvest-supper, vii. 158, 162 _n._ 3

—— -baby, vii. 151, 153

—— -doll, vii. 151, 153, 154