Samorin, title of the kings of Calicut, 47 _sq._ Samothracian mysteries, 89 Santal custom of swinging on hooks, 279 Santos, J. dos, 37 _sq._ Sarawak, Dyaks of, 277 Saturday, Holy, 244 Savage Island, mimic rite of circumcision in, 219 _sq._ Savages believe themselves naturally immortal, 1 Savou, island of, 287 “Sawing the Old Woman,” a Lenten ceremony, 240 _sqq._ Saws at Mid-Lent, 241, 242 Saxon kings, their marriage with their stepmothers, 193 Saxons of Transylvania, the hanging of an effigy of Carnival among the, 230 _sq._ Saxony, Whitsuntide mummers in, 208 _Scarli_, 224 _n._1 Schmidt, A., 59 _n._1 Schmiedel, Professor P., 261 _n._1 Schoolcraft, H. R., 137 _sq._ Schörzingen, the Carnival Fool at, 231 Schwegler, F. C. A., 187 _n._4 Sdach Méac, title of annual temporary king of Cambodia, 148 Sea Dyaks, their stories of the origin of omen birds, 126, 127 _sq._ Seligmann, C. G., 17, 21, 22, 23, 26, 30, 33 Semang, the, 85 Semic in Bohemia, beheading the king on Whit-Monday at, 209 Seminoles of Florida, souls of the dying caught among the, 199 Semites, sacrifices of children among the, 166 _sqq._ Semitic Baal, 75 Senjero, sacrifice of firstborn sons in, 182 _sq._ Sepharvites, their sacrifices of children, 171 Seriphos, custom of swinging in the island of, 283 _sq._ Serpent, the Brazen, 86; sacred, on the Acropolis at Athens, 86; or dragons personated by kings, 82; transmigration of the souls of the dead into, 84 Servitude for the slaughter of dragons, 70, 78 Servius, on the legend of Erigone, 282 Seven youths and maidens, tribute of, 74 _sqq._ —— -legged effigy of Lent, 244 _sq._ Shadow Day, a gypsy name for Palm Sunday, 243 —— Queen, the, 243 Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 169, 170 Sham fight, 24 Shark, king of Dahomey represented with body of a, 85 Shilluk, a tribe of the White Nile, 17 _sqq._; custom of putting to death the divine kings, 17 _sqq._, 204, 206; ceremony on the accession of a new king of the, 204 Shirt worn by the effigy of Death, its use, 247, 249 Shooting stars, superstitions as to, 53 _sqq._ Shrines of dead kings, 24 _sq._ Shrove Tuesday, Burial of the Carnival on, 221 _sqq._; mock death of, 227 _sqq._; drama of Summer and Winter on, 257 Shrovetide custom in the Erzgebirge, 208 _sq._; in Bohemia, 209 —— Bear, the, 230 Shurii-Kia-Miau, aboriginal tribe in China, 145 Siam, annual temporary kings in, 149 _sq._ Siamese, mock human sacrifices among the, 218 Sick, sacrifices for the, 20, 25; thought to be possessed by the spirits of kings, 25 _sq._ Silesia, “Carrying out Death” in, 236 _sq._, 250 _sq._ Singalang Burong, the Ruler of the Spirit World, 127, 128 Sioo or Siauw, mock human sacrifices in the island of, 218 Sirius, the soul of Isis in, 5 Sister, marriage with, in royal families, 193 _sq._ Siu, a Sea Dyak, and his bird wife, 127 _sq._ Siva and Pârvatî, marriage of the images of, 265 _sq._