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INDEX
Karens, funeral custom by the, i. 129, 130; transference of the soul in Karen, i. 140; dread of women’s blood by the, i. 186; belief concerning the head, i. 187; custom at rice sowing, i. 354, 355
Karma tree, i. 289
Karoks of California and salmon catching, ii. 121
Kasyas, expulsion of devils by the, ii. 184
Katodis, ceremony before felling a tree by the, i. 63
Kent, the ivy girl in, i. 344
Keramin tribe of New South Wales, rain-making by the, i. 15
Key Islanders, soul superstition amongst the, i. 130, 131; expulsion of sickness by the, ii. 160
Khonds, human sacrifices by the, i. 384-390; rain-charm, ii. 42; expulsion of devils by the, ii. 173, 174
Kibanga, kings killed in, i. 218
Kilema, ceremony in, before a stranger is allowed to see the king, i. 159
Kilimanjaro Mount, believed to be tenanted by demons, i. 151
Kimbunda, cannibalism amongst the, ii. 88, 89
King Hop, the title of a temporary king, i. 230
—— of the calf, ii. 21
—— of the May, i. 247
—— of the sacred rites, i. 7
—— of the Wood, i. 1-108; why so called, i. 7; never a temporal sovereign, i. 51; an incarnation of the tree spirit, i. 106-108; probability that he was formerly slain annually, i. 240, 241; similarity to North European personages, i. 249, 250; a personification of the oak, ii. 364; probably burned in a fire of oak wood, ii. 363-365
Kings—as gods, i. 8; supposed to control the weather, i. 44-46; punished for the failure of crops, i. 46-48; killed, i. 48; divine, i. 49; of nature, i. 52; of fire, i. 53-56; of rain, i, 52, 53; of water, i. 53-56; divine, cease to govern, i. 118, 119; abdicate, i. 120; guarded against strangers, i. 158, 159; veiled, i. 162, 163; at meals, i. 162; confined to their palaces, i. 164, 165; killed when they show signs of decay, i. 217-223; killed at expiry of fixed term, i. 223; mitigation of the above rule, kings allowed to defend themselves, i. 224; killed annually, i. 225-227; temporary, i. 228-234; temporary kings sometimes hereditary, i. 228, 232; sons sacrificed in times of great danger, i. 235
Kingsmill Islands, offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 378
Kirn, the name of a harvest supper, i. 345
Klausenburg, harvest custom at, ii. 9
Kloxin, harvest ceremony in, i. 369
Knives, reluctance to use, after a death, i. 176, 177
Kobi, offering of first-fruits by the, ii. 376
Kochs of Assam, offerings of first-fruits by the, ii. 374
Kohlerwinkel, harvest ceremony at, ii. 27
Kolosh Indians, seclusion of girls amongst the, ii. 230
Koniags, seclusion of girls amongst the, ii. 230
Königshain, driving out Death in, i. 276
Konkan, scapegoat used in Southern, in cases of cholera, ii. 191
Konz, midsummer fire festival in, ii. 260, 261
Kostroma, funeral of, i. 273
Kostrubonko, i. 272
Kukulu, the priest king, i. 112, 113
Kumis, driving away small-pox by the, ii. 161
Kupalo, funeral of, i. 272; representation of, i. 292
Kupole’s festival, i. 294
Lachlin family and the deer, ii. 363
La Ciotat, hunting the wren in, ii. 144
Lada, funeral of, i. 273
Lagos, human sacrifices at, i. 383
Lakor, expulsion of diseases to sea in, ii. 192
Lamas, Grand, i. 42, 43; the chief of the, i. 43, 44
Lamb killed sacramentally by the Madi tribe of Central Africa, ii. 137, 138
Lamps, festival of, ii. 176
Laos, precautions against strangers in, i. 152; belief in plurality of souls amongst the, ii. 339
Laosia, women worshippers in, i. 42
La Palisse, harvest custom in, ii. 68
Lapis manalis, i. 22
Lappland, wind selling in, i. 27; ceremony at the sacrifice of an animal in, ii. 123; seclusion of women in, ii. 240
Larch-tree, sacred, i. 61, 62
Lazy man, the, i. 89
Lechrain, midsummer fires in, ii. 258, 259
