IBN BATUTA: travellers' tales, 99;
Javan family deputed to die for the Sultan, 99
Images, clay or waxen, as vicarious objects of revenge, 3
India: fire-walking, 286
Indo-China: offering of first-fruits to a god, 267
Ireland: late superstition in, 109;
incised patterns on stones, 253
Iruntarinia (evil spirits), inimical through new-born
children, 262, 264
Isaacs, Mr., quoted, on Zulu superstitions, 97
Ishtar (goddess), 125, 157, 164, 175, 177, 178, 179
Islamite suggestions of a God to savage races, 11
JASTROW, Professor, on mental prepossession, 80;
Babylonian gods, 91;
the Tammuz feast, 136, 137;
the Zakmuk, 142;
the Book of Esther, 162;
the Purim, 162;
cited, 157, 166, 178, 179;
Java: self-slaughter of kings and their substitutes, 99
Jensen, Dr., on the feast of Purim, 150, 151, 152, 159, 162, 164, 165,
166, 172, 173, 176, 177, 179
Jesuits, credited with suggesting the idea of a great spirit to savage
races, 23;
cited, 42, 45
Jevons, Mr.,
on taboo, 259, 260, 261, 268
Jewish Passover, the, theory of, 53
Jews: hanging a mock-king at the Purim festival, 78;
condemned criminals representing life and death of vegetation, 78
Jinn, the, 91
Johnson, Dr., cited, 263
KALARI (Australian bull-roarer.) 71
Kalk (Kallak): Australian bull-roarer, 71
Kalunga (African god), 237
Kamchatka: religious beliefs, 226
Kamilaroi (Australian tribe): religious beliefs, 28, 29, 31, 43, 66
Karunga (African god), 236, 237
Khonds: human sacrifices, 129
Kibanga (Upper Congo): king killed by sorcerers when dying, 96
Kiehtan (New England god), 20, 21, 38, 39, 90
Kingsley, Miss Mary, cited, 12, 42, 45
Kitchi Manitou (North American Indian great spirit), 18
Kittanitowit (Algonquin great living spirit), 20
Koin (Australian supernatural black man), 27
Kolb (missionary), cited, 232
Kudulu (African tribe): human sacrifices, 129
Kuenen, Professor, cited, 147
Kurnai (Australian tribe), 32;
initiate Mr. Howitt in the mysteries, 52, 53; 67
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