Redemption of firstling men and asses, 173 Regalia in Celebes, sanctity of, 202 Regicide among the Slavs, 52; modified custom of, 148 _Regifugium_ at Rome, 213 Reinach, Salomon, 7 _n._2 Reincarnation of human souls, belief in, a motive for infanticide, 188 _sq._ Religion, the Age of, 2 Renewal, annual, of king’s power at Babylon, 113 Resurrection of the god, 212; of the tree-spirit, 212; of a god in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, 221; enacted in Shrovetide or Lenten ceremonies, 233; of the effigy of Death, 247 _sqq._; of the Carnival, 252; of the Wild Man, 252; of Kostrubonko at Eastertide, 261 Retaliation in Southern India, law of, 141 _sq._ Rhea and Cronus, 194 Rhegium in Italy, 187 _n._5 Rhodes, human sacrifices to Baal in, 195 Rhys, Sir John, 101 Rigveda, the, 279 “Road of Jerusalem,” 76 Robinson, Captain W. C., 139 _n._1 Rockhill, W. W., 284 _sq._ Roman custom of catching the souls of the dying, 200; of vowing a “Sacred Spring,” 186 _sq._ —— funeral customs, 92, 96 —— game of Troy, 76 _sq._ —— indifference to death, 143 _sq._ Rome, funeral games at, 96; the _Regifugium_ at, 213 Rook, custom of killing all firstborn children in the island of, 180 Roscher, W. H., 7 _n._2, 73 _n._2 Roscoe, Rev. J., 139, 182 _n._2, 201 _n._1 Rose, H. A., 181 Rose, the Sunday of the, 222 _n._1 Rottweil, the Carnival Fool at, 231 Russia, funeral ceremonies of Kostrubonko, etc., in, 261 _sqq._ Russians, religious suicides among the, 44 _sq._; the heathen, their sacrifice of the firstborn children, 183 Sacaea, a Babylonian festival, 113 _sqq._ Sacred Marriage of king and queen, 71; of actors disguised as animals, 71, 83; of gods and goddesses, 73; of Zeus and Hera, 91 —— spears, 19, 20 “Sacred spring, the,” among the ancient Italian peoples, 186 _sq._ Sacrifice of the king’s son, 160 _sqq._; of the firstborn, 171 _sqq._, 179 _sqq._; of finger-joints, 219 Sacrifices for rain, 20; for the sick, 20, 25; to totems, 31; to the dead, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97; of children among the Semites, 166 _sqq._ —— human, in ancient Greece, 161 _sqq._; mock human, 214 _sqq._ —— vicarious, 117; in ancient Greece, 166 _n._1 St. George and the Dragon, 107; swinging on the festival of, 283 St. John’s Day (the summer solstice), swinging at, 280 —— Eve, Russian ceremony on, 262 Saint-Lô, the burning of Shrove Tuesday at, 228 _sq._ St. Peter’s Day, the twenty-ninth of June, 262 Saintonge and Aunis, burning the Carnival in, 230 Sakalavas, sanctity of relics of dead kings among the, 202 Salamis in Cyprus, human sacrifices at, 166 _n._1 Salih, a prophet, 97 Salish Indians, their sacrifice of their firstborn children to the sun, 184 Salmoneus, his imitation of thunder and lightning, 165 Samaracand, New Year ceremony at, 151 Samnites, guided by a bull, 186 _n._4 Samoa, expiation for disrespect to a sacred animal in, 216 _sq._