Sun, staying the, i. 24; sacred person not allowed to see the, ii. 225, 243 _note_; girls at puberty not allowed to see the, ii. 225-253; traces in folktales of the rule which forbids girls at puberty to see the sun, ii. 235-237; belief that the sun can impregnate women, ii. 236; tabooed persons may not see the, ii. 243 _note_; fires as sun charms, ii. 267-274 Suni Mohammedans, covering up mirrors by the, i. 147 Sunshine, making, i. 22-24 Superb warbler, ii. 336, 337 Surenthal, midsummer fire ceremony in the, ii. 259, 260 Surinam, the bush negroes of, and their totems, ii. 53, 54 Sutherland, cure for cough in, ii. 154 Sutherlandshire, custom at the digging of new potatoes in, ii. 71 Swabia, burying of cut hair in, i. 202; burying the carnival in, i. 254-257; harvest custom, ii. 27; fire festival, ii. 248-249; Easter fires in, ii. 254; midsummer fires in, ii. 258 Sweden, harvest superstition in, i. 68; King Domalde sacrificed on account of famine, i. 47, 48; May Eve customs in, i. 78; midsummer ceremonies, i. 78, 79; Christmas customs in, ii. 29-31; superstitious use of Yule straw in, ii. 30, 31; May Day fires in, ii. 258; midsummer bonfires in, ii. 289; mistletoe superstition in, _ib._; divining rods made from the mistletoe in, ii. 367 Swineherds, restrictions on, in Egypt, ii. 52 Syleus, legend of, i. 398 Sympathetic eating, Savage belief that a man acquires the character of the animal or man whose flesh he eats, ii. 85-89 —— magic, i. 9-12 Syria, caterpillars in, ii. 132 Taboo, i. 121, 178; fatal effects of, i. 167-170; seclusion of tabooed persons, i. 170, 171; the object of, is to preserve life, i. 149; royal and priestly taboos, i. 109-120, 149-150, 209 Tabor, in Bohemia, ceremony of carrying out Death in, i. 258 Tahiti, abdication of kings of, i. 120; the bodies of the king and queen not allowed to be touched, i. 172; superstition concerning the head in, i. 190, 191; burying of cut hair in, i. 200 Tâif, hair cut on returning from a journey in, i. 194 Tamaniu, the, of the Bank Islanders, ii. 331, 332 Tana, disposal of unconsumed food by the islanders, i. 166; offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 378 Tarnow, reaping custom in, i. 335 Tartar Khan, ceremony on a visit by a stranger to a, i. 158, 159 —— poems, the external soul in, ii. 321-324 Ta-ta-thi tribe of New South Wales, rain-making by the, i. 14 Tâ-uz, festival in honour of, i. 283, 284 Temporary kings, i. 228-234; sometimes hereditary, i. 228, 232 Tenedos, rites of Dionysus at, i. 329 Tenimber Islands, offering of first-fruits in the, ii. 376, 377 Teutonic kings exercised the powers of high priests, i. 8 Texas, initiatory ceremony among the Toukaway Indians of, ii. 352 Thammuz as a corn-spirit, i. 283, 288 Thann, May-Day customs in, i. 83 Theban ritual, ii. 92, 93; rams sacred at Thebes, ii. 63 Thesmophoria, the, ii. 44-48