Fertilising power ascribed to the effigy of Death, 250 _sq._ Festival of the Crowning at Delphi, 78 _sq._; of the Laurel-bearing at Thebes, 78 _sq._, 88 _sq._ Festus, on “the Sacred Spring,” 186 Feuillet, Madame Octave, 228 _sq._ Fez, mock sultan in, 152 Fighting the king, right of, 22 Fiji, voluntary deaths in, 11 _sq._; custom of grave-diggers in, 156 _n._2; rule of succession in, 191 Finger-joints, custom of sacrificing, 219; mock sacrifice of, _ib._ Fire, voluntary death by, 42 _sqq._; and Water, kings of, in Cambodia, 14 Firstborn, sacrifice of the, 171 _sqq._; killed and eaten, 179 _sq._; sacrificed among various races, 179 _sqq._ —— -fruits offered to the dead, 102; of the corn offered at Lammas, 101 _sq._; of the vintage offered to Icarius and Erigone, 283 Firstlings, Hebrew sacrifice of, 172 _sq._; Irish sacrifice of, 183 Fish, descent of the Dyaks from a, 126 Fison, Rev. Lorimer, 156 _n._2 Five years, despotic power for period of, 53 Flight of the priestly king (_Regifugium_) at Rome, 213 Florence, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, 240 _sq._ Florida, sacrifice of firstborn male children by the Indians of, 184 Fool, the Carnival, burial of, 231 _sq._ Foot, custom of standing on one, 149, 150, 155, 156 —— -race at Olympia, 287 Franche-Comté, effigies of Shrove Tuesday destroyed in, 227 Freycinet, L. de, 118 _n._1 Frosinone in Latium, burning an effigy of the Carnival at, 22 _sq._ Funeral of Kostroma, 261 _sqq._ —— -games, 92 _sqq._ —— -rites performed for a father in the fifth month of his wife’s pregnancy, 189 Futuna in the South Pacific, 97 Galton, Sir Francis, 146 _n._2 Game of Troy, 76 _sq._ Games, funeral, 92 _sqq._ Gandharva-Sena, 124, 125 Ganges, firstborn children sacrificed to the, 180 _sq._ Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain, 65 Gelo, tyrant of Syracuse, 167 Genesis, account of the creation in, 106 Ghost, the Holy, regarded as female, 5 _n._3 Ghosts propitiated with blood, 92; propitiated with games, 96; anger of, 103 Giles, Professor H. A., 275 Girls’ race at Olympia, 91 Gladiators at Roman funerals, 96; at Roman banquets, 143 Goats sacrificed instead of human beings, 166 _n._1 Gobir, a Hausa kingdom, 35 God, the killing and resurrection of a god in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, 221 God’s Mouth, 41 Gods, mortality of the, 1 _sqq._; created by man in his own likeness, 2 _sq._; succeeded by their sons, 5; progressive amelioration in the character of the, 136 Golden apples of the Hesperides, 80 —— fleece, ram with, 162 —— swords, 75 Goldmann, Dr. Emil, 155 _n._1 Goldziher, I., 97 _n._7 Gomes, E. H., 176 _n._1 Gonds, mock human sacrifices among the, 217 Good Friday, 284 Gore, Captain, 139 _n._1 Gospel to the Hebrews, the apocryphal, 5 _n._3 _Graal_, _History of the Holy_, 120, 134 Grape-cluster, Mother of the, 8 Gray, Archdeacon J. H., 145 Great Pan, death of the, 6 _sq._