Human sacrifices at Upsala, 58; in ancient Greece, 161 _sqq._; mock, 214 _sqq._; offered by ancestors of the European races, 214; to renew the sun’s fire, 74 _sq._ Huntsman, the Spectral, 178 Huron Indians, their burial of infants, 199 Ibadan in West Africa, 203 Ibn Batuta, 53 Icarus or Icarius and his daughter Erigone, 281 _sq._, 283 Ida, oracular cave of Zeus on Mount, 70 Ihering, R. von, 187 _n._4 Ijebu tribe, 112 Ilex or holm-oak, 81 _sq._ Immortality, belief of savages in their natural, 1; firm belief of the North American Indians in, 137 Impregnation by the souls of the dying, 199 Incarnation of divine spirit in Shilluk kings, 21, 26 _sq._ India, sacrifice of firstborn children in, 180 _sq._; images of Siva and Pârvati married in, 265 _sq._ Indians of Arizona, mock human sacrifice among the, 215; of Canada, their ceremony for mitigating the cold of winter, 259 _sq._ Indifference to death displayed by many races, 136 _sqq._ Indra and the dragon Vrtra, 106 _sq._ Infanticide among the Australian aborigines, 187 _n._6; sometimes suggested by a doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of human souls, 188 _sq._; prevalent in Polynesia, 191, 196; among savages, 196 _sq._ Infants, burial of, 199 Ino and Melicertes, 162 Intervals of time, Greek and Latin modes of reckoning, 59 _n._1 _Invocavit_ Sunday, 243 Ireland, the great fairs of ancient, 99 _sqq._ Irish sacrifice of firstlings, 183 Iron-Beard, Dr., a Whitsuntide mummer, 208, 212, 233 Isaac about to be sacrificed by his father Abraham, 177 Isaacs, Nathaniel, 36 _sq._ Isis, the soul of, in Sirius, 5 Isle of Man, May Day in the, 258 Isocrates, 95 Israelites, their custom of burning their children in honour of Baal, 168 _sqq._ Isthmian games instituted in honour of Melicertes, 93, 103 Italy, seven-legged effigies of Lent in, 244 _sq._ Jack o’ Lent, 230 Jagas, a tribe of Angola, their custom of infanticide, 196 _sq._ Jaintias of Assam, 55 Jambi in Sumatra, temporary kings in, 154 Japan, mock human sacrifices in, 218 Jars, burial in, 12 _sq._ Java, Sultans of, 53 Jawbone of king preserved, 200 _sq._ Jeoud, the only-begotten son of Cronus, sacrificed by his father, 166 Jerome, on Tophet, 170 “Jerusalem, the Road of,” 76 Jerusalem, sacrifice of children at, 169 Jinn, death of the King of the, 8 Jordanus, Friar, 54 Joyce, P. W., 100 _n._1, 101 Judah, kings of, their custom of burning their children, 169 Jukos, kings of the, put to death, 34 Jumping over a bonfire, 262 June, the twenty-ninth of, St. Peter’s Day, 262 Jŭok, the great god of the Shilluk, 18 Jupiter, period of revolution of the planet, 49 Justin, 187 _n._5 Kaitish, the, 60 Kalamantans, their descent from a deer, 126 _sq._ Kali, Indian goddess, 123 Kamants, a Jewish tribe, 12 Kanagra district of India, 265 Karpathos, custom of swinging in the island of, 284 Katsina, a Hausa kingdom, 35