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etc.) in which a man deposits his soul for safety, ii. 337-342
Totemism, ii. 38, 53, 54, 56, 133, 337-342, 358, 359
Totems, sex, ii. 334
Touaregs of the Sahara, custom of veiling the face amongst the, i. 163
Transmigration of divine spirit, i. 42-44
Transylvania, rain-charm in, i. 17; burying the carnival amongst the Saxons of, i. 255; “carrying out Death” in, i. 265, 266; corn-drenching in, i. 286; custom for preserving the crops from insects, etc. in, ii. 130
Transylvanian story of a soul, i. 126, 127
Traunstein district, harvest custom in the, ii. 27
Travancore, transference of sickness in, ii. 151
Travel, purification after, i. 157, 158
Tree-spirit represented by leaf-clad persons alone, i. 87-90; killing the, i. 240-253; reason for annually killing the, i. 247-249; the goat as an embodiment of the, ii. 34-37; burnt in effigy, ii. 274-277; human beings burnt as representatives of the, ii. 277-285
—— spirits give rain and sunshine, i. 66; cause the crops to grow, i. 67-70; influence of, on women and cattle, i. 70-74
—— worship, i. 56-98; in antiquity, 98-108
Trees, bleeding, i. 61; souls of, i. 59-61; souls of the dead believed to animate, i. 62; inhabited by spirits, i. 62-65; planted at the births of children, ii. 329, 330; regarded as storehouses of the sun’s fire, ii. 369 sq.
—— and cattle, i. 72 sq.
Trier, harvest custom in, ii. 6
Tukaitawa and his shadow, i. 142, 143
Turks, parings from the nails preserved by the, i. 204; Turks of Central Asia give backward children tongues of birds to eat, ii. 87
Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough, i. 1
Turtle, the, not eaten, i. 163; sacrifice of the sacred, ii. 95-99; belief in the transmigration of human souls into, ii. 98, 99
Twelfth Day customs, ii. 143, 144, 182
Tycoons, the, i. 119
Types, two, of animal worship, ii. 133, 134
Typhon, ii. 57-60
Tyrol, expulsion of witches in the, i. 181, 182; witches said to make use of the hair cut in the, i. 199; midsummer customs in the, ii. 267
Ualaroi, ceremony at initiatory rites in, ii. 344
Uapes of Brazil, treatment of girls at the age of puberty in, ii. 334
Udvarhely, harvest home in, i. 370, 371; ceremony with the last sheaf in, ii. 9, 48
Uea, power ascribed to the souls of the dead in, i. 132
Uelzen, harvest ceremony in, ii. 13
Uganda, custom of burning the king’s brothers in, i. 181; king of, and his courtiers, i. 222
Ugi, dread of women’s blood in, i. 186; burying of cut hair in, i. 202
Uliase, sprinkling the sick with spices in, i. 154
Unyoro, kings killed in, i. 218
Upsala, sacred grove at, i. 58
Utch Kurgan, sin eating in, ii. 156, 157
Val di Ledro, fire festival in, ii. 251
Vaté, burying alive at, i. 217
Vegetation, spirit of, in human shape, i. 87, 88; slain at midsummer, i. 274, 275
Veihng, i. 162, 163
Venison not eaten, ii. 86, 87
Vermin, respect shown by primitive people for, ii. 129-132
Vestal fire, i. 5
—— virgins, hair of, i. 200
Victoria, Queen, worshipped by a sect in Orissa, i. 41
Vine, not to walk under a, i. 183; sacred to Dionysus, i. 321
Vintage, Phoenician custom at, i. 365
Virbius, legend of, i. 6; possible explanation of his relation to the Arician Diana, i. 362; and the horse, ii. 62-67; reason why he was confounded with the sun, ii. 369
Volders, threshing custom at, i. 374
Vorarlberg, fire festival at, ii. 248
Vosges Mountains, May Day customs in the, i. 76
Wadai, veiling of the Sultan of, i. 163; he must have no bodily defect, i. 221
Waganda, worship in, i. 45
Walber, the, i. 84, 86
Wallachia, corn-drenching in, i. 286
Wanika, the, believers in the souls of trees, i. 59; do not shed the blood of animals, i. 182
Wanyoro, secretion of cut hair and nails by the, i. 203
