Earth, taboos observed by the priest of, in Southern Nigeria, i. 4; prayers to, 50; and heaven, between, 1 _sqq._ Easter, fern-seed blooms at, ii. 292 _n._ 2 —— candle, i. 121, 122, 125 —— ceremonies in the New World, i. 127 _sq._ —— eggs, i. 108, 143, 144 —— Eve, new fire on, i. 121, 124, 126, 158; the fern blooms at, ii. 66 —— fires, i. 120 _sqq._ —— Man, burning the, i. 144 —— Monday, fire-custom on, i. 143 —— Mountains, bonfires on, i. 140, 141 —— Saturday, new fire on, i. 121, 122, 124, 127, 128, 130; the divining-rod baptized on, ii. 69 —— Sunday, red eggs on, i. 122 Eavesdropping, divination by, i. 238, 243, 244 Echternach in Luxemburg, Lenten fire-custom at, i. 116 Eclipses attributed to monster biting the sun or moon, i. 70; air thought to be poisoned at, 162 _n._; thought to be caused by a monster attacking the luminary, 162 _n._ _Edda_, the prose, story of Balder in, i. 101; the poetic, story of Balder in, 102 Eddesse, in Hanover, need-fire at, i. 275 _sq._ Edersleben, Midsummer fire-custom at, i. 169 Edgewell Tree, oak at castle of Dalhousie, ii. 166, 284 Effect, supposed, of killing a totem animal, ii. 220 Effigies burnt in bonfires, i. 106, 107, 116, 118 _sq._, 119 _sq._, 121, 122, 159, 167; of Judas burnt at Easter, 121, 127 _sq._, 130 _sq._; burnt in the Midsummer fires, 172 _sq._, 195; of witches burnt in the fires, 342, ii. 19, 43; of human beings burnt in the fires, 21 _sqq._; of giants burnt in the summer fires, 38 Effigy of absent friend cut in a tree, ii. 159 _sq._ Efik, a tribe of Calabar, their belief in external or bush souls, ii. 206 Egede, Hans, on impregnation by the moon, i. 76 Egg broken in water, divination by means of, i. 208 _sq._ Eggs, charm to ensure plenty of, i. 112, 338; begged for at Midsummer, 169; divination by white of, 236 _sq._, 238; external souls of fairy beings in, ii. 106 _sqq._, 110, 125, 132 _sq._, 140 _sq._ ——, Easter, i. 108, 122, 143, 144 Egypt, the Flight into, ii. 69 _n._; deified kings of, their souls deposited during life in portrait statues, 157 Egyptian, ancient, story of the external soul, ii. 134 _sqq._ —— doctrine of the _ka_ or external soul, ii. 157 _n._ 2 —— tombs, plaques or palettes of schist in, ii. 155 Egyptians, human sacrifices among the, ii. 286 _n._ 2 Eifel Mountains, Lenten fires in the, i. 115 _sq._, 336 _sq._; Cobern in the, 120; St. John’s fires in the, 169; the Yule log in the, 248; Midsummer flowers in the, ii. 48 Eighty-one (nine times nine), men make need-fire, i. 289, 294, 295 Eket, in North Calabar, ii. 209 Ekoi, a tribe of Calabar, their belief in external or bush souls, ii. 206 _sqq._ _Elangela_, external soul in Fan language, ii. 201, 226 _n._ 1 Elbe, the river, dangerous on Midsummer Day, ii. 26 Elder-flowers gathered at Midsummer, ii. 64 Elecampane in a popular remedy, i. 17