Funeral, customs observed by mourners after a funeral in order to escape from the ghost, ii. 174 _sqq._ —— ceremony among the Michemis, i. 5 Furnace, walking through a fiery, ii. 3 _sqq._ Furness, W. H., on passing under an archway, ii. 179 _sq._, 180 _n._ 1 Gabb, W. M., on ceremonial uncleanness, i. 65 _n._ 1 Gablonz, in Bohemia, Midsummer bed of flowers at, ii. 57 Gaboon, birth-trees in the, ii. 160; theory of the external soul in, 200 _sq._ Gacko, need-fire at, i. 286 Gaidoz, H., on the custom of passing sick people through cleft trees, ii. 171 Gage, Thomas, on _naguals_ among the Indians of Guatemala, ii. 213 Gaj, in Slavonia, need-fire at, i. 282 Galatian senate met in Drynemetum, “the temple of the oak,” ii. 89 Galatians kept their old Celtic speech, ii. 89 _n._ 2 Galela, dread of women at menstruation in, i. 79 Galelareese of Halmahera, their rites of initiation, ii. 248 Gallic Councils, their prohibition of carrying torches, i. 199 Gallows Hill, magical plants gathered on the, ii. 57 —— -rope used to kindle need-fire, i. 277 Gandersheim, in Brunswick, need-fire at, i. 277 Gap, in the High Alps, cats roasted alive in the Midsummer fire at, ii. 39 _sq._ Gardner, Mrs. E. A., i. 131 _n._ 1 Garlands of flowers placed on wells at Midsummer, ii. 28; thrown on trees, a form of divination, 53 Garlic roasted at Midsummer fires, i. 193 Garonne, Midsummer fires in the valley of the, i. 193 Gatschet, A. S., on the Toukawe Indians, ii. 276 _n._ 2 Gaul, “serpents’ eggs” in ancient, i. 15; human sacrifices in ancient, ii. 32 _sq._ Gauls, their fortification walls, i. 267 _sq._ Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, the Ingniet society in the, ii. 156 Gem, external soul of magician in a, ii. 105 _sq._; external soul of giant in a, 130 Geneva, Midsummer fires in the canton of, i. 172 _Genius_, the Roman, ii. 212 _n._ Geranium burnt in Midsummer fire, i. 213 Gerhausen, i. 166 German stories of the external soul, ii. 116 _sqq._ Germans, human sacrifices offered by the ancient, ii. 28 _n._ 1; the oak sacred among the, 89 Germany, Lenten fires in, i. 115 _sq._; Easter bonfires in, 140 _sqq._; custom at eclipses in, 162 _n._; the Midsummer fires in, 163 _sqq._; the Yule log in, 247 _sqq._; belief in the transformation of witches into animals in, 321 _n._ 2; colic, sore eyes, and stiffness of the back attributed to witchcraft in, 344 _sq._; mugwort at Midsummer in, ii. 59; orpine gathered at Midsummer in, 62 _n._; fern-seed at Midsummer in, 65; mistletoe a remedy for epilepsy in, 83; the need-fire kindled by the friction of oak in, 91; oak-wood used to make up cottage fires on Midsummer Day in, 91 _sq._; birth-trees in, 165; children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture in, 170 _sqq._ Gestr and the spae-wives, Icelandic story of, ii. 125 _sq._ Gewar, King of Norway, i. 103 Ghost, oracular, in a cave, ii. 312 _sq._