Kayans of Borneo, mock human sacrifices among the, 218 Keonjhur, ceremony at installation of Rajah of, 56 Kerre, a tribe accustomed to strangle their firstborn children, 181 _sq._ Khlysti, the, a Russian sect, 196 _n._3 Khonds of India, their human sacrifices, 139 Kibanga, kings of, put to death, 34 Killer of the Elephant, 35 Killing the divine king, 9 _sqq._ —— of the tree-spirit, 205 _sqq._; a means to promote the growth of vegetation, 211 _sq._ —— a god, in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, 221 King, the killing of the divine, 8 _sqq._; slaying of the, in legend, 120 _sqq._; responsible for the weather and crops, 165; abdicates on the birth of a son, 190; at Whitsuntide, pretence of beheading the, 209 _sq._ King of the Jinn, death of the, 8 —— of the Wood at Nemi, 28, 205 _sq._, 212 _sqq._ —— and Queen of May, marriage of, 266 King Hop, 149, 151 King’s daughter offered as prize in a race, 104 —— jawbone preserved, 200 _sq._ —— life sympathetically bound up with the prosperity of the country, 21, 27 —— skull used as a drinking-vessel, 200 —— son, sacrifice of the, 160 _sqq._ —— widow, succession to the throne through marriage with, 193 Kingdom, the prize of a race, 103 _sqq._ _See also_ Succession Kings, divine, of the Shilluk, 17 _sqq._; regarded as incarnations of a divine spirit, 21, 26 _sq._; attacks on, permitted, 22, 48 _sqq._; worship of dead, 24 _sq._; killed at the end of a fixed term, 46 _sqq._; related to sacred animals, 82, 84 _sqq._; personating dragons or serpents, 82; addressed by names of animals, 86; with a dragon or serpent crest, 105; the supply of, 134 _sqq._; temporary, 148 _sqq._; abdicate annually, 148 —— killed when their strength fails, 14 _sqq._ —— of Dahomey and Benin represented partly in animal shapes, 85 _sq._ —— of Fire and Water, 14 —— of Uganda, dead, consulted as oracles, 200 _sq._ Kingship, octennial tenure of the, 58 _sqq._; triennial tenure of the, 112 _sq._; annual tenure of the, 113 _sqq._; diurnal tenure of the, 118 _sq._; burdens and restrictions attaching to the early, 135; modern type of, different from the ancient, 135 Kingsley, Mary H., 119 _n._1 Kingsmill Islanders, 64 Kirghiz, games in honour of the dead among the, 97 _Kirwaido_, ruler of the old Prussians, 41 Königgrätz district of Bohemia, Whitsuntide custom in the, 209 _sq._ Kore expelled on Easter Eve in Albania, 265 Koryaks, voluntary deaths among the, 13 Kostroma, funeral of, 261 _sqq._ Kostrubonko, funeral of, 261 Krapf, Dr. J. L., 183 _n._1 Krishna, Hindoo festival of swinging in honour of, 279 Kupalo, funeral of, 261, 262 Kurnai, their fear of the Aurora Australis, 267 _n._1 Kutonaqa Indians of British Columbia, their sacrifice of their firstborn children to the sun, 183 _sq._ La Rochelle, burning of Shrove Tuesday at, 230 Labyrinth, the Cretan, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77