Slavonia, “carrying out Death” in, i. 260; ii. 209; custom of “sawing the old woman” amongst the Slavs, i. 262; reaping custom amongst the Slavs, i. 334, 355; beating in, ii. 216; midsummer fires in, ii. 265; perpetual fire of the Slavs, ii. 293; the external soul in Slavonic stories, ii. 309, 310 Slovenes of Oberkrain, Shrove Tuesday custom amongst the, i. 96 Small-pox, driving away the, ii. 161; scapegoat used for, ii. 190, 191 Snake, communion with the, ii. 139 —— tribe, ii. 95; ceremony performed with a dough snake by the, ii. 139, 140 Soest, custom of flax pullers at, i. 375 Sofala, kings of, killed, i. 219, 220 Sogamoso, restrictions on the heir to the throne in, ii. 225 Solör, harvest custom in, i. 375 Somersetshire, midsummer fires in, ii. 262 Sorcerers, the soul extracted or detained by, i. 135-141 Soul, perils of the, i. 109 _sq._; a miniature of the body, i. 121-123; precautions to prevent its escape, i. 123; conceived as a bird, i. 124; its flight, i. 124, 125; absent in sleep, i. 125-129; its departure not always voluntary, i. 129; carried off by ghosts, i. 129-132; recall of the, i. 129-141; stolen by demons, i. 132-135; brought back in visible shape, i. 136-138; extracted or detained by sorcerers, i. 138-141; transference of the, i. 140; the soul thought to be in the portrait, i. 148, 149; in the shadow, i. 141-149; in the reflection, i. 145-148; in the blood, i. 178, 179; transmigration of the human soul into that of a turtle, ii. 98; the external soul in folk tales, ii. 296-326; in folk custom, ii. 327-359 Souls, of trees, i. 59-61; of divine persons transmitted to successors, i. 237-239; plurality of, ii. 339 South American Indians, foods eaten and avoided by the, ii. 86; beating by the, ii. 216 South Sea Islands, man-gods in the, i. 38, 39. Sowing-time custom, ii. 28-30, 32, 48 Spachendorf, fire festivals in, ii. 249, 250 Spain, custom of “sawing the old woman” in, i. 261, 262; midsummer fires in, ii. 266 Sparrows, the, and the corn, ii. 130 Sparta, state sacrifices offered by the kings of, i. 7 Spices, sprinkling the sick with, i. 154 Spirit, of vegetation, in human shape, i. 87, 88 —— robbing the, i. 380 Spirits, sharp instruments supposed to wound, i. 176, 177 Spitting as a protective charm, i. 205 Spring and harvest customs compared, i. 346, 347 —— ceremony in, in China, ii. 42, 43; European fire festivals in, ii. 247-254 Storms, Motumotu theory of, i. 27 Strangers, precautions against the magic arts of, i. 150-160; tied up in the sheaves by the reapers as representatives of the corn-spirit, i. 374-380 Straw goats, ii. 16 Sucla-Tirtha, expulsion of sins to sea by the, ii. 192 Suicide of Fijians at old age, i. 216 Sumatra, rain-charm in, i. 17; tree-superstition in, i. 63; reluctance to wound a tiger in, ii. 110 Summer, bringing back, i. 263, 268 —— tree, i. 268, 269