Greece, rain-making in, i. 16; tree worship in, i. 58, 59, 99; festivals of the Greeks, i. 99, 100, 103; ceremony at the laying of a foundation stone in, i. 144; sacrificial ritual in, ii. 54, 55; human scapegoats in, ii. 210-217; midsummer fires in, ii. 266; the external soul in Greek stories, ii. 305-307 Green George, i. 84-86 Grenoble, May Day in, i. 94; harvest custom in, ii. 15, 47 Grihya-Sûtras, provision in the, for the burning of cut hair, i. 202 Grossvargula, Whitsuntide custom in, i. 91 Ground, sacred persons not allowed to touch the, ii. 224, 243 _note_; girls at puberty not allowed to touch the, ii. 225-253; sacred things may not touch the, ii. 243 _note_ Grüneberg, harvest ceremony in, ii. 11 Guanches, rain-charm in, i. 19 Guatemala, the nagual amongst the, ii. 333, 334 Guaycurus and storms, i. 28 Guinea, secreting of cut hair and nails in, i. 203; annual expulsion of the devil by the negroes of, ii. 170; time of licence in, ii. 204 Guyenne, harvest ceremony in, ii. 6 Hack-thorn, sacred, i. 69 Hadeln, reaping custom in the district of, i. 333 Haida Indian wind-charm, i. 26 Hair, burning of loose, i. 205; burning after child-birth, i. 206; cut hair deposited in a safe place, i. 200-205; cutting, i. 193 _sq._; most sacred day of the year appointed for hair cutting, i. 197; superstition concerning the cutting of the, i. 196, 198, 199; cut only during a storm, i. 199; haircutting as a disinfectant, i. 206, 207; magic use of cut hair, i. 198, 199; strength supposed to be in the, ii. 328; hair not cut, i. 193-195; superstition about cutting the hair and nails, i. 193-207 Halberstadt, human scapegoats in, ii. 199 Halibut, festival in honour of the, ii. 121 Halmahera, rain-making in, i. 13, 21 Hampstead, forest of, i. 57 Hare, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 10 _sq._ Harran, ritual observed by the heathen Syrians of, i. 283 Harvest child, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 344 —— cock, a name given to the last sheaf, ii. 7, 8 —— cries, i. 404-409 —— customs, i. 333-347, 352, 353, 367-381, 408; ii. 4-27, 32, 47, 48, 68-73, 213 —— festival, i. 169; ii. 171, 172, 374-376, 382-384 —— goat, ii. 13 —— maiden, a prototype of Proserpine, i. 356 —— May, i. 68, 69, 81, 82; ii. 4 —— omens, ii. 271 —— queen, i. 344 —— songs and cries, ii. 364-366, 404-409 Harz Mountains, Easter fires in the, ii. 253 Hawaii, detention of the soul in, i. 139; capital offences in, i. 190 Hay family, the, and the mistletoe, ii. 362 Head, sanctity of the, i. 187-193; ceremony at the washing of the, i. 188 Headache, transference of, ii. 149 Headington, May-day custom at, i. 94, 95 Heaven, the Golden Bough between heaven and earth, ii. 223-243 Hebrides, representation of spring in the, i. 97 Heligoland, disappearance of the herring from, ii. 120 Herbrechtingen, threshing custom in, ii. 22 Hercynian forest, i. 56, 57 Hereford, sin eaters in, ii. 154, 155