—— Spirit, the, of the American Indians, 3 —— year, the, 70 Greece, human sacrifices in ancient, 161 _sqq._; swinging as a festal rite in modern, 283 _sq._ Greek mode of reckoning intervals of time, 59 _n._1 Greenlanders, their belief in the mortality of the gods, 3 Grey hair a signal of death, 36 _sq._ —— hairs of kings, 100, 102, 103 Grimm, J., 155 _n._1, 221, 240, 244 Groot, Professor J. J. M. de, 180 _n._7, 275 Grove, the Arician, 213 Guatemala, catching the soul of the dying in, 199 Guayana Indians, 12 Gypsies, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” among the, 243 Hair, grey, a signal of death, 36 _sq._ Halae in Attica, mock human sacrifice at, 215 Hale, Horatio, quoted, 11 _sq._ Hamilton, Alexander, quoted, 48 Hamilton’s _Account of the East Indies_, 278 Hammurabi, king of Babylon, 110 Hand of dead man in magical ceremony, 267 _n._1; of suicide cut off, 220 _n._ Hanging of an effigy of the Carnival, 230 _sq._ Harmonia and Cadmus, 84; marriage of, 88, 89 Harvest ceremonies, 20, 25 Harz Mountains, ceremony at Carnival in the, 233 Hausa kings put to death, 35 Hawaii, annual festival in, 117 _sq._ Hawk in Egypt, symbol of the sun and of the king, 112 Heads of dead kings removed and kept, 202 _sq._ Hebrew sacrifice of the firstborn, 171 _sqq._ Hebrews, apocryphal Gospel to the, 5 _n._3 Heitsi-eibib, a Hottentot god, 3 Heliogabalus, the emperor, 92 Heliopolis, 5; the sacred bull of, 72 Hell fire in Catholic and Protestant theology, 136 Helle and Phrixus, the children of King Athamas, 161 _sqq._ Hephaestion, 95 Hera, race of girls in honour of, at Olympia, 91; the sister of her husband Zeus, 194 Heraclitus, on the souls of the dead, 12 Hercules in the garden of the Hesperides, 80 Hermapolis, 4 Hermes, the grave of, 4 Heruli, the, 14 Hesperides, garden of the, 80 Hieraconpolis, 112 _High History of the Holy Graal_, 120, 134 Hippodamia at Olympia, 91; grave of the suitors of, 104 Hippolytus or Virbius killed by horses, 214 Hindoo belief as to shooting stars, 67; of the rebirth of a father in his son, 188 Hinnom, the Valley of, 169, 170 Hirpini, guided by a wolf (_hirpus_), 186 _n._4 Hodson, T. C., 117 _n._1 Hoeck, K., 73 _n._1 Hofmayr, P. W., 18 _n._1, 19 _n._2 Holm-oak, 81 _sq._ Holy Ghost, regarded as female, 5 _n._3 —— Saturday, 244 Homeric age, funeral games in the, 93 Homicide, banishment of, 69 _sq._ Homoeopathic or imitative magic, 283, 285 Hooks, Indian custom of swinging on, 278 _sq._ Horse-mackerel, descent of a totemic clan from a, 129 —— -races in honour of the dead, 97, 98, 99, 101; at fairs, 99 _sqq._ Horses, Hippolytus killed by, 214 Horus, the soul of, in Orion, 5 Hottentots, the mortal god of the, 3 Howitt, A. W., 64 Human flesh, transformation into animal shape through eating, 83 _sq._