Enemies, mutilation of dead, ii. 271 _sq._ Energy, the conservation of, ii. 226 En-jemusi, the, of East Africa, i. 118 Epiphany, i. 302 Epithets applied to Demeter, i. 63 _sq._ Equinox, human sacrifice offered soon after the spring equinox, i. 239 Erigone and Icarius, ii. 133 Esquimaux, the Central, ii. 246; dietary rules of, 84 —— of Baffin Land, ii. 257 —— of Bering Strait, i. 150, ii. 247, 272 —— of Hudson Bay, ii. 245 _sq._ Essex, hunting the wren in, ii. 320 Esthonia, i. 302 Esthonian reapers, i. 285; peasants, their treatment of weevils, ii. 274 Esthonians, the, i. 298, 300, ii. 51 Etna, Mount, i. 57 Etymology, its uncertainty as a base for mythological theories, i. 41 _n._ Eubuleus, ii. 19 Eubulus, i. 56 Eudoxus of Cnidus, i. 81, ii. 30 Eumolpids, i. 56 Eumolpus, i. 37, 70, 73 Euphorbus the Trojan, ii. 300 Europe, Corn-mother and Corn-maiden in Northern, i. 131 _sqq._ Evolution and dissolution, ii. 305 _sq._ Ewe hunters, ii. 244 —— negroes, ii. 45, 115, 143, 149; their festival of new yams, 58 _sqq._; their belief as to the spirit-land, 105 _sq._; their ceremonies after killing leopards, 228 _sqq._ Exclusion of strangers, i. 94, 111 Eyes shut at prayer, ii. 81; of men eaten, 153; of slaughtered animals cut out, 267 _sqq._, 271; of dead enemies gouged out, 271 _sq._ Faces of bear-hunters painted red and black, ii. 226; blackened, i. 291, 299 _Fady_, taboo, ii. 46 Fafnir, the dragon, ii. 146 Falcon’s eye used as charm, ii. 164 Faleshas, a Jewish sect, ii. 266 _n._ 1 Fallow, thrice-ploughed, i. 66, 69; lands allowed to lie, 117, 123 Fanning away ill luck, i. 10 Fans, the, of West Africa, ii. 140 Farmer’s wife, pretence of threshing, i. 149 _sq._ Farmers, propitiation of vermin by, ii. 274 _sqq._ Farnell, Dr. L. R., i. 3 _n._ 1, 15 _n._, 68 _n._ 1, ii. 2 _n._ 9 Fast before eating new fruits, ii. 73 _sq._, 76 _sq._ Fasting and continence, ii. 14 _Fastnachtsbär_, ii. 325 Fat, anointing the body with, from superstitious motives, ii. 162 _sq._, 164, 165 Fatigue of the Horse, i. 294 Fauns, ii. 1 _sqq._ Feathers of cock mixed with seed-corn, i. 278; of wren, virtue attributed to, ii. 319 Feet of enemies eaten, ii. 151 Felkin, Dr. R. W., ii. 314 _sq._ Fernando Po, ii. 174 Fertilising influence of the corn-spirit, i. 168 Festival before Ploughing (_Proerosia_), i. 51 _sqq._, 60; of the Cornstalks at Eleusis, 63; of the Threshing-floor (_Haloa_) at Eleusis, 60 _sqq._, 75; of winter solstice, ii. 90; of New Fire, 135; of bladders among the Esquimaux, 247 _sqq._ Festivals of new yams, ii. 58 _sqq._ Fewkes, J. Walter, quoted, i. 312 Fez, orgiastic rites at, i. 21 Fictitious burials to divert the attention of demons from the real burials, ii. 98 _sqq._ “Field of God,” ii. 14, 15 “Field of secret tillage,” ii. 57 Fields, miniature, dedicated to spirits, i. 233 _sq._ Fife, harvest custom in, i. 227