Transmigration of souls of the dead into serpents and other animals, 84 _sq._; belief in, a motive for infanticide, 188 _sq._ Transmission of soul to successor, 198 _sqq._ Trasimene Lake, battle of, 186 Tree-spirit, killing of the, 205 _sqq._; resurrection of the, 212; in relation to vegetation-spirit, 253 Trees, masks hung on, 283 Trevelyan, G. M., 154 _n._1 Tribute of youths and maidens, 74 _sqq._ Triennial tenure of the kingship, 112 _sq._ Trinity, Christian doctrine of the, 5 _n._3 Trocadero Museum, statues of kings of Dahomey in the, 85 Trojeburg, 77 Trophonius at Lebadea, 166 _n._1 Troy, the game of, 76 _sq._ Tshi-speaking negroes of the Gold Coast, their stories to explain their totemism, 128 _sq._ Turrbal tribe of Queensland, 60 Typhon, the soul of, in the Great Bear, 5 Uganda, king of, 39 _sq._; human sacrifices in, 139; firstborn sons strangled in, 182; dead kings of, give oracles through inspired mediums, 200 _sq._ Ujjain in Western India, 122 _sqq._, 132, 133 Ulster, tombs of the kings of, 101 Unyoro, kings of, put to death, 34 Upsala, 161; sepulchral mound at, 57; great festival at, 58 Uranus mutilated by his son Cronus, 192 Urvasi and King Pururavas, Indian story of, 131 Ushnagh, pagan cemetery at, 101 Valhala, 13 Varro on a Roman funeral custom, 92; on suicides by hanging, 282 Vegetation, death and revival of, 263 _sqq._ —— -spirit perhaps generalised from a tree-spirit, 253 Vicarious sacrifices, 117; in ancient Greece, 166 _n._1 Vikramaditya, legendary king of Ujjain, 122 _sqq._, 132 Vintage, first-fruits of the, offered to Icarius and Erigone, 283 Virbius or Hippolytus killed by horses, 214 Virgil, on the game of Troy, 76; on the creation of the world, 108 _sq._ Vishnu, mock human sacrifice in the worship of, 216 Volcano, sacrifice of child to, 218 Vosges Mountains, superstition as to shooting stars in the, 67 Vṛtra, the dragon, 106 _sq._ Wachtl in Moravia, drama of Summer and Winter at, 257 Wadai, Sultan of, 39 Wade, Sir Thomas, 273 _sq._ Waizganthos, an old Prussian god, 156 Wak, a sky-spirit, 181 Wambugwe, the, 65 Water, effigies of Death thrown into the, 234 _sqq._, 246 _sq._ —— -bird, a Whitsuntide mummer, 207 _n._1 —— -dragon, drama of the slaying of, 78 Weinhold, K., 57 _n._2 Wends, their custom of killing and eating the old, 14 Westermarck, Dr. E., 16 _n._1, 153 _n._1, 189 _n._2, 204_ n._1 Wheat at Lammas, offerings of, 101 Wheel, effigy of Death attached to a, 247 Whiteway, R. S., 51 _n._2 Whitsuntide, drama of Summer and Winter at, 257 —— King, 209 _sqq._ —— Mummers, 205 _sqq._ —— Queen, 210 Widow of king, succession to the throne through marriage with the, 193 Wieland’s House, 77 Wild Man, a Whitsuntide mummer, 208 _sq._, 212 Winter, Queen of, in the Isle of Man, 258; effigy of, burned at Zurich, 260 _sq._ —— and Summer, dramatic battle of, 254 _sqq._