Hogmanay, the last day of the year, ii. 323 Holiness conceived as a dangerous virus, ii. 29 Hollis, A. C., ii. 155 Homer on Demeter, i. 41 _sq._; on loves of Zeus and Demeter, 66; on gods in likeness of foreigners, 236 Homeric Greeks, ii. 270 —— _Hymn to Demeter_, i. 35 _sqq._ Homoeopathic or imitative magic, i. 62, 262, ii. 267, 331, 333, 334; of a flesh diet, ii. 138 _sqq._ Honduras, Indians of, ii. 241 Hone, W., quoted, i. 264 _sq._ Hop-picking, custom at, i. 226 Horned Dionysus, i. 12, 16 Horse, “seeing the Horse,” i. 294; “Cross of the Horse,” 294; “fatigue of the Horse,” 294; sacrificed to Mars at Rome, ii. 42 _sqq._; ceremony of the, at rice-harvest among the Garos, 337 _sqq._ —— and Virbius, ii. 40 _sqq._ —— -headed Demeter of Phigalia, ii. 21, 338 —— or mare, corn-spirit as, i. 292 _sqq._ Horse-races, i. 71, ii. 114; at harvest, i. 76 Horse’s head, ii. 42, 43 _n._ 1, 337 _sq._ Horses, Lycurgus torn to pieces by, i. 24; excluded from Arician grove, ii. 40 _sqq._; excluded from sanctuaries, 45 _sq._ Horus, eye of, ii. 30 Hos of Togoland, the, i. 130, 234, ii. 59; a tribe of Ewe negroes, i. 115, 116; of Bengal, ii. 117 Hottentots, the, i. 316 _sq._ Huahine, island of, ii. 132 Huichol Indians, the, ii. 93 Huitzilopochtli, a Mexican god, ii. 86, 90, 95 Human beings torn to pieces in rites of Dionysus, i. 24 Human sacrifices for crops, i. 236 _sqq._; offered by ancient Egyptians, 259 _sq._; in Mexico, ii. 88 —— victims, substitutes for, i. 249; treated as divine, 250 Hunters, propitiation of wild animals by, ii. 204 _sqq._; of grisly bears, chastity observed by, 226 Hunting the wren, ii. 317 _sqq._ Hurons, the, ii. 250 _sq._ Huts, miniature, for ghosts, ii. 113 Huzuls, the, of the Carpathians, ii. 43 _n._ 1, 275 Hyaenas, souls of dead in, ii. 289 Hyes Attes, ii. 22 _Hymn to Demeter_, Homeric, i. 35 _sqq._, 70 Ialysus in Rhodes, ii. 45 Iasion and Demeter, i. 208 Ibans (Sea Dyaks) of Sarawak, ii. 279 Iberians, the, i. 129 Icarius and Erigone, ii. 133 Ichneumon, transmigration of sinner into, ii. 299 Ida Batara, i. 202 Idah, ii. 228 Ideler, L., i. 86 Igaras of the Niger, ii. 228 Igbiras, the, ii. 115 Igorrots of the Philippines, ii. 292 Image of god made of dough and eaten sacramentally, ii. 86 _sqq._, 90 _sq._; of snake carried about, 316 _sq._ Images of ancestors, ii. 53; of animals sacrificed instead of the animals, 95 _n._ 2; vicarious use of, 96 _sqq._; of gods, suggested origin of, 173 _sq._; of vermin made as a protection against them, 280 _sq._ _See also_ Effigies, Puppets Imitation of spirits, i. 186 Immortality, hope of, associated with Eleusinian mysteries, i. 90 _sq._ —— of animals, savage faith in the, ii. 260 _sqq._ Immortality of soul revealed in mysteries of Dionysus, i. 15 _Inachi_, an offering of first-fruits, ii. 128, 131 _Inao_, sacred wands of the Aino, ii. 185, 186 _n._, 189 Inari, Japanese rice-god, i. 297