Herefordshire, midsummer fires in, ii. 262 Hermsdorf, harvest custom in, i. 338 Herodotus, story by, of the wind fighters of Psylli, i. 29 Herring, disappearance of the, from Heligoland, ii. 120 Hertfordshire harvest custom, ii. 24 Hessen, Ash Wednesday custom in, ii. 29; sowing-time customs in, ii. 48 Hidatsa Indians, belief in the plurality of souls amongst the, ii. 339 Hierapolis, pigs sacred at, ii. 50 Himalayas, scapegoats in the Western, ii. 194 Hindoo cure for the murrain, ii. 191; festival of Ingathering, ii. 272; girls and puberty, ii. 234, 235; the external soul in Hindoo stories, ii. 298-302 Hindoos, the, test of a suitable sacrificial victim, i. 36; Hindoos and yawning, i. 123; custom of nail cutting by the, i. 196; festival at the eating of the new rice by the, ii. 73 Hindoo Koosh, smoke from the sacred tree inhaled by the sybil, i. 35; blood sucking the test of a diviner amongst the, _ib._; expulsion of devils amongst the, ii. 173 Hippolytus, i. 6 Holland, Whitsuntide custom in, i. 88; Easter fires, ii. 253 Holstein, reaping custom in, i. 333; healing effects of the mistletoe in, ii. 289 Hornkampe, harvest custom in, i. 337 Horse, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 24-26; sacrifice of the, ii. 64 Horses excluded from the Arician grove, i. 6 —— and Virbius, ii. 62-64 Hos, harvest festival amongst the, ii. 171, 172; time of licence with the, ii. 204; offering of first-fruits by the, ii. 374 Hottentot priests do not use iron, i. 173; wind-charm, i. 27, 28; sheep driven through the fire by the, ii. 273 Hovas of Madagascar, offerings of first-fruits by the, ii. 374 How, coffer of Osiris at, i. 309 Huahine, offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 381 Huitzilopochtli, dough image of the Mexican god, made and eaten, ii. 81 Human sacrifices, i. 235-237, 251, 252, 381; replaced by mock sacrifices, i. 250-253 —— victim represents the corn-spirit, i. 390-395 Hungary, Whitsuntide custom in, i. 93; the external soul in Hungarian stories, ii. 320, 321 Hunger, expulsion of, ii. 210, 211 Hunting the wren, ii. 140-144 Hurons, the, and fish bones, ii. 119; their idea of the soul, i. 122; driving away sickness amongst the, ii. 162 Huskanaw, the name of an initiatory ceremony amongst the Indians of Virginia, ii. 348 Hylæ, sacred men inspired by the image of Apollo at, i. 37 Ibo, king of, confined to his premises, i. 164 Iddah, king of, asserts that he is god, i. 41, 42 Ihlozi, the, of the Zulus, ii. 332 Incarnate gods, i. 30-54 Incarnation, temporary and permanent, i. 32, 37-42 Incas of Peru revered as gods, i. 49; preservation of cut hair and parings of the nails of the, i. 203; restrictions upon the prince who is to become Inca of Peru, ii. 225; ceremony for the expulsion of diseases, etc. by the, ii. 167-169 Indersdorf, harvest custom in, ii. 17, 18