Thlinket of Alaska, festival to the halibut by the, ii. 121 Thuringen, Whitsuntide customs in, i. 90, 91, 243; Mid-Lent customs in, i. 257, 258; threshing custom in, i. 371 Tibetan New Year’s day custom, ii. 193-195; scapegoat, ii. 197-198 Tiger, flesh of, eaten, ii. 86; reluctance to wound a, ii. 110 Tikopia islanders, ceremony by the, in cases of epidemic, ii. 188 Tillot, threshing custom in the canton of, i. 372 Timor, West, custom of a speaker in, i. 163 Timorese rain-charm, i. 18 Timorlaut, married men not allowed to cut their hair in, i. 194; disease-boats in, ii. 186, 187 Tjumba, harvest festival in, ii. 375, 376 Todas, the dairy a sanctuary amongst the, i. 41; buffalo held sacred by the, ii. 136, 137 Tom-cat, ii. 11 Tona, the, of the Zapotecs, ii. 332, 333 Tonga, king of, not seen eating, i. 162; ceremony in, with regard to sacred contagion, ii. 55; festival of the first-fruits in, ii. 379-381 Tongues of birds given to backward children to eat, ii. 87 Tonquin, the test of a suitable sacrificial victim in, i. 36; selection of guardian spirits in, i. 40; the monarchy, i. 119, 120; kings not allowed to be viewed in public, i. 165; mode of royal executions in, i. 180, 181; expulsion of evil spirits in, ii. 176-178; time of licence in, ii. 204 Toothache cure, ii. 149 Torchlight processions, ii. 266, 273 Totem, a, is an object (animal, plant, etc.) in which a man deposits his soul for safety, ii. 337-342 Totemism, ii. 38, 53, 54, 56, 133, 337-342, 358, 359 Totems, sex, ii. 334 Touaregs of the Sahara, custom of veiling the face amongst the, i. 163 Transmigration of divine spirit, i. 42-44 Transylvania, rain-charm in, i. 17; burying the carnival amongst the Saxons of, i. 255; “carrying out Death” in, i. 265, 266; corn-drenching in, i. 286; custom for preserving the crops from insects, etc. in, ii. 130 Transylvanian story of a soul, i. 126, 127 Traunstein district, harvest custom in the, ii. 27 Travancore, transference of sickness in, ii. 151 Travel, purification after, i. 157, 158 Tree-spirit represented by leaf-clad persons alone, i. 87-90; killing the, i. 240-253; reason for annually killing the, i. 247-249; the goat as an embodiment of the, ii. 34-37; burnt in effigy, ii. 274-277; human beings burnt as representatives of the, ii. 277-285 —— spirits give rain and sunshine, i. 66; cause the crops to grow, i. 67-70; influence of, on women and cattle, i. 70-74 —— worship, i. 56-98; in antiquity, 98-108 Trees, bleeding, i. 61; souls of, i. 59-61; souls of the dead believed to animate, i. 62; inhabited by spirits, i. 62-65; planted at the births of children, ii. 329, 330; regarded as storehouses of the sun’s fire, ii. 369 _sq._ —— and cattle, i. 72 _sq._ Trier, harvest custom in, ii. 6 Tukaitawa and his shadow, i. 142, 143