Gold, the flower of chicory to be cut with, ii. 71; root of marsh mallow to be dug with, 80 _n._ 3; buried, revealed by mistletoe and fern-seed, 287 _sqq._, 291 —— coin, magic plant to be dug up with a, ii. 57. _See also_ Golden Golden axe, sacred tamarisk touched with, ii. 80 _n._ 3 Golden Bough, the, ii. 279 _sqq._; and the priest of Aricia, i. 1; a branch of mistletoe, ii. 284 _sqq._, 315 _sqq._; Virgil’s account of the, 284 _sq._, 286, 293 _sq._, 315 _sqq._; origin of the name, 286 _sqq._ —— fish, girl’s external soul in a, ii. 147 _sq._, 220 —— knife, horse slain in sacrifice with a, ii. 80 _n._ 3 —— ring, half a hero’s strength in a, ii. 143 —— sickle, mistletoe cut by Druids with a, ii. 77, 88; sacred olive at Olympia cut with a, 80 _n._ 3 Golden sword and golden arrow, external soul of a hero in a, ii. 145 Goldie, Rev. Hugh, on the _ukpong_ or external soul in Calabar, ii. 206 Goliath, effigy of, ii. 36 _Goluan_, Midsummer, i. 199 Good Friday, Judas driven out of church on, i. 146; the divining-rod cut on, ii. 68 _n._ 4; sick children passed through cleft trees on, 172 Goodrich-Freer, A., quoted, i. 154 _n._ 3 Googe, Barnabe, i. 124 Gooseberry bushes, wild, custom as to, ii. 48 Gorillas, lives of persons bound up with those of, ii. 202 Görz, belief as to witches at Midsummer about, ii. 75 Grain Coast, West Africa, initiation of girls on the, ii. 259 Grammont, in Belgium, festival of the “Crown of Roses” at, i. 195; the Yule log at, 249 Granada (South America), youthful rulers secluded in, i. 19 Grand Halleux, bonfires at, i. 107 _Grannas-mias_, torches, i. 111 Granno, invocation of, i. 111 _sq._ _Granno-mio_, a torch, i. 111 Grannus, a Celtic deity, identified with Apollo, i. 111 _sq._ Grant, the great laird of, not exempt from witchcraft, i. 342 _n._ 4 Grass, ceremony to make grass plentiful, i. 136 Gratz, puppet burned on St. John’s Eve at, i. 173 Grave, dance at initiation in, ii. 237 Great Man, who created the world and comes down in the form of lightning, ii. 298 Greece, Midsummer fires in, i. 211 _sq._; mistletoe in, ii. 316, 317 Greek belief as to menstruous women, i. 98 _n._ 1 —— Church, ritual of the new fire at Easter in the, i. 128 _sq._ —— stories of girls who were forbidden to see the sun, i. 72 _sqq._; of the external soul, ii. 103 _sqq._ Greeks deemed sacred the places which were struck by lightning, ii. 299 Green Wolf, Brotherhood of the, ii. 15 _n._; at Jumièges in Normandy, i. 185 _sq._, ii. 25, 88 Greenlanders, their notion that women can conceive by the moon, i. 75 _sq._ Gregor, Rev. Walter, ii. 284 _n._ 1; on virtue of children born feet foremost, i. 295 _n._ 3; on the “quarter-ill,” 296 _n._ 1; on the bewitching of cattle, 303 Greig, James S., ii. 187 _n._ 3 Greta, river in Yorkshire, i. 287 Grey, Sir George, on the _kobong_ or totem, ii. 219 _sq._