1. The Indians of Guyaquar used to sacrifice human blood and the hearts of men when they sowed their fields.[6] 2. In the Aztec harvest festival a victim was crushed between two great stones (perhaps to represent the grinding of the maize?). 3. The Mexicans sacrificed young children, older children, and old men for each stage of the maize's growth. We are not told _how_ they were sacrificed.[7] 4. The Egyptians _burned_ red-haired men, and scattered their ashes with winnowing fans. This burning is a usual feature of sacrifice, and is not hanging or crucifying. 5. The Skidi, or Wolf Pawnees, _burned_ a victim to Ti-ra-wá, 'the power above that moves the universe, and controls all things,' but the victim was a deer or a buffalo. There were also occasional human sacrifices before sowing; the victim had his head cleft with a tomahawk, and was then riddled with arrows, and afterwards _burned._[8] In some cases he was tied to a cross, before being slain with an axe.[9] 6. A Sioux girl was _burned_ over a slow fire, and then shot with arrows. Her flesh, for magical purposes, was squeezed over the newly sown fields. 7. West African victims were killed with spades and hoes, and _burned_ in newly tilled fields. 8. At Lagos a girl was impaled among sacrificed sheep, goats, yams, heads of maize, and plantains hung on stakes. Though impalement is a form of capital punishment, probably the girl's blood was expected to fertilise the earth. We have no proof that crucifixion was used in Babylon, or the same motive might be alleged for the mock-king at the Sacæa. 'It may be doubted whether crucifixion was an Oriental mode of punishment,' says Mr. Frazer. He does not say that it was an Oriental form of sacrifice.[10] 9. The Marimos kill and _burn_ a human victim, and scatter the ashes on the ground to fertilise it. 10. The Bagolos hew a slave to pieces. 11. Some tribes in India chop victims up. 12. The Kudulu allow to a victim all the revels, women and all, of the Sacæan mock-king, and then cut a hole in him, and smear his blood over an idol. This is sacrifice, not capital punishment. 13. The Khonds slew their revered and god-like victim in a variety of ways, strangling him in a tree, _burning_, and chopping up, that his flesh might be sown on the fields. The head, bowels, and bones were _burned_. Such are the examples of a real human victim slain for the good of the crops. In six out of fourteen cases the victim's ashes, blood, or flesh is used magically to fertilise the fields, and probably this is done in several other instances. In seven cases burning occurs. In two sacrifice to a god or idol occurs. In one only is the mode of death a recognised form of capital punishment. Therefore Mr. Frazer does not seem to me to be justified in taking for and describing as 'sacrifice' the capital punishment inflicted at the Sacæa on a mock-king who notoriously was a criminal condemned to death, and who was hanged, not sacrificed.