“Hell-gate of Ireland,” i. 226 Helmsdale, in Sutherland, need-fire at, i. 295 Helpful animals in fairy tales, ii. 107, 117, 120, 127 _sqq._, 130, 132, 133, 139 _n._ 2, 140 _sq._, 149 Hemlock branch, external soul of ogress in a, ii. 152 Hemlock branches, passing through a ring of, in time of sickness, ii. 186 —— stone in Nottinghamshire, i. 157 Hemorrhoids, root of orpine a cure for, ii. 62 _n._ Hemp, how to make hemp grow tall, i. 109; leaping over the Midsummer bonfire to make the hemp grow tall, 166, 168 —— seed, divination by, i. 235, 241, 245 Hen and chickens imitated by a woman and her children at Christmas, i. 260 Henderson, William, on need-fire, i. 288 _sq._; on a remedy for cattle-disease, 296 _n._ 1; on burnt sacrifice of ox, 301 Hen’s egg, external soul of giant in a, ii. 140 _sq._ Henshaw, Richard, on external or bush souls in Calabar, ii. 205 _sq._ Hephaestus worshipped in Lemnos, i. 138 Herb, a magic, gathered at Hallowe’en, i. 228 —— of St. John, mugwort, ii. 58 Herbs thrown across the Midsummer fires, i. 182, 201; wonderful, gathered on St. John’s Eve or Day, ii. 45 _sqq._; of St. John, wonderful virtues ascribed to, 46 —— and flowers cast into the Midsummer bonfires, i. 162, 163, 172, 173 Hercules at Argyrus, temple of, i. 99 _n._ 3 Herdsmen dread witches and wolves, i. 343 Herefordshire, Midsummer fires in, i. 199; the Yule log in, 257 _sq._ Herndon, W. L., quoted, i. 62 _n._ 3 Hernia, cure for, i. 98 _n._ 1 Herodias, cursed by Slavonian peasants, i. 345 Herrera, A. de, on _naguals_ among the Indians of Honduras, ii. 213 _sq._ Herrick, Robert, on the Yule log, i. 255 Herring, salt, divination by, i. 239 Herzegovina, the Yule log in, i. 263; need-fire in, 288 Hesse, Lenten fire-custom in, i. 118; Easter fires in, 140; wells decked with flowers on Midsummer Day in, ii. 28 Hewitt, J. N. B., on need-fire of the Iroquois, i. 299 _sq._ Hiaina district of Morocco, ii. 51 Hidatsa Indians, their theory of the plurality of souls, ii. 221 _sq._ _Hieracium pilosella_, mouse-ear hawk-weed, gathered at Midsummer, ii. 57 Higgins, Rev. J. C., i. 207 _n._ 2 High Alps, department of the, Midsummer fires in the, ii. 39 _sq._ High Priest, the Fijian, ii. 245 Highland story of Headless Hugh, ii. 130 _sq._ Highlanders of Scotland, their medicinal applications of menstruous blood, i. 98 _n._ 1; their belief in the power of witches to destroy cattle, 343 _n._ 1; their belief concerning snake stones, ii. 311 Highlands of Scotland, snake stones in the, i. 16; Beltane fires in the, 146 _sqq._; divination at Hallowe’en in the, 229, 234 _sqq._; need-fire and Beltane fire kindled by the friction of oak in the, ii. 91 Hildesheim, Easter rites of fire and water at, i. 124; Easter bonfires at, 141; the need-fire at, 272 _sq._; hawk-weed gathered on Midsummer Day at, ii. 57 Hill of the Fires in the Highlands of Scotland, i. 149