Electric conductivity of various kinds of wood, ii. 299 _n._ 2 Elephant hunters, custom of, i. 5 Elephants, lives of persons bound up with those of, ii. 202, 203; external human souls in, 207 Elgin, medical use of mistletoe in, ii. 84 Elk clan of the Omaha Indians, i. 11 Elm wood used to kindle need-fire, i. 299 Embers of bonfires planted in fields, i. 117, 121; stuck in cabbage gardens, 174, 175; promote growth of crops, 337. _See also_ Ashes _and_ Sticks, charred —— of Midsummer fires a protection against conflagration, i. 188; a protection against lightning, 190 Emily plain of Central Australia, ii. 238 Emmenthal, in Switzerland, superstition as to Midsummer Day in the, ii. 27; use of orpine at Midsummer in the, 62 _n._ Emu fat not allowed to touch the ground, i. 13 —— -wren, called men’s “brother” among the Kurnai, ii. 215 _n._ 1, 216, 218 Encounter Bay tribe in South Australia, their dread of women at menstruation, i. 76 Energy, sanctity and uncleanness, different forms of the same mysterious, i. 97 _sq._ England, belief as to menstruous women in, i. 96 _n._ 1; Midsummer fires in, 196 _sqq._; the Yule log in, 255 _sqq._; the need-fire in, 286 _sqq._; Midsummer giants in, ii. 36 _sqq._; divination by orpine at Midsummer in, 61; fern-seed at Midsummer in, 65; the north of, mistletoe used to make the dairy thrive in, 85 _sq._; birth-trees in, 165; children passed through cleft ash-trees as a cure for rupture or rickets in, 168 _sqq._; oak-mistletoe in, 316 English cure for whooping-cough, rheumatism, and boils, ii. 180 Ensival, bonfires at, i. 108 Entrails, external soul in, ii. 146 _sq._, 152 _Epic of Kings_, Firdusi’s, i. 104 Epidemic, creeping through a tunnel as a remedy for an, i. 283 _sq._ Epilepsy, yellow mullein a protection against, ii. 63; mistletoe a cure for, 78, 83, 84 Épinal, Lenten fires at, i. 109 Eriskay, fairies at Hallowe’en in, i. 226; salt cake at Hallowe’en in, 238 _sq._ Errol, the Hays of, their fate bound up with oak-mistletoe, ii. 283 _sq._ _Escouvion_ or _Scouvion_, the Great and the Little, i. 108 Esquimaux, their superstition as to various meats, i. 13 _sq._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, 55; ceremony of the new fire among the, 134; their custom at eclipses, 162 _n._ —— of Alaska, child’s soul deposited in a bag among the, ii. 155 —— of Bering Strait, their belief as to menstruous women, i. 91 Esthonia, bathing at Midsummer in, ii. 29; flowers gathered for divination and magic at Midsummer in, 53 _sq._ Esthonians, Midsummer fires among the, i. 179 _sq._; of Oesel cull St. John’s herbs on St. John’s Day, ii. 49 Eteobutads as umbrella-bearers at the festival of Scira, i. 20 _n._ 1 Eton, Midsummer fires at, i. 197 Eunuchs perform a ceremony for the fertility of the fields, i. 340 _Euphorbia lathyris_, caper-spurge, ii. 69