—— of Ward, in County Meath, i. 139 Himalayan districts, mistletoe in the, ii. 316 Hindoo maidens secluded at puberty, i. 68 —— marriage custom, i. 75 —— ritual, abstinence from salt in, i. 27; as to cutting a child’s hair, 99 _n._ 2 —— stories of the external soul, ii. 97 _sqq._ —— use of menstruous fluid, i. 98 _n._ 1 —— women, their restrictions at menstruation, i. 84 Hindoos of Southern India, their Pongol festival, ii. 1; of the Punjaub, their custom of passing unlucky children through narrow openings, 190 Hippopotamus, external soul of chief in, ii. 200; lives of persons bound up with those of hippopotamuses, 201, 202, 205, 209 Hirpi Sorani, their fire-walk, ii. 14 _sq._ Hlubi chief, his external soul in a pair of ox-horns, ii. 156 Hoare, Sir Richard Colt, on Hallowe’en in Wales, i. 239 Hogg, Alexander, i. 206 Hogmanay, the last day of the year, i. 224, 266 Hohenstaufen Mountains in Wurtemberg, Midsummer fires in the, i. 166 Hole in tongue of medicine-man, ii. 238, 239 Holed stones which people creep through as a cure, ii. 187 _sqq._ Holes in rocks or stones, sick people passed through, ii. 186 _sqq._ Holi, a festival of Northern India, ii. 2 _sq._ Holiness or taboo conceived as a dangerous physical substance which needs to be insulated, i. 6 _sq._ Holland, Easter fires in, i. 145 Hollantide Eve (Hallowe’en) in the Isle of Man, i. 244 Hollertau, Bavaria, Easter fires in the, i. 122 Hollis, A. C., ii. 262 _n._ 2 Holly-tree, children passed through a cleft, ii. 169 _n._ 2 Holm-oak, the Golden Bough growing on a, ii. 285 Holy Apostles, church of the, at Florence, i. 126 —— Land, fire flints brought from the, i. 126 —— of Holies, the Fijian, ii. 244, 245 —— Sepulchre, church of the, at Jerusalem, ceremony of the new fire in the, i. 128 _sq._ Homesteads protected by bonfires against lightning and conflagration, i. 344 Homoeopathic or imitative magic, i. 49, 133, ii. 287 Homoeopathy, magical, ii. 177 Homolje mountains in Servia, i. 282 Honduras, the _nagual_ or external soul among the Indians of, ii. 213 _sq._, 226 _n._ 1 Honorific totems of the Carrier Indians, ii. 273 _sqq._ Hoods worn by women after childbirth, i. 20; worn by girls at puberty, 44 _sq._, 48 _sq._, 55; worn by women at menstruation, 90. _See also_ Hats Hoop, crawling through a, as a cure or preventive of disease, ii. 184; of rowan-tree, sheep forced through a, 184 Hoopoe brings the mythical springwort, ii. 70 _n._ 2 Horatius purified for the murder of his sister, ii. 194 Hornbeam, mistletoe on, ii. 315 Horse, the White, effigy carried through Midsummer fire, i. 203 _sq._; witch in the shape of a, 319 —— sacrifice in ancient India, ii. 80 _n._ 3 Horse’s head thrown into Midsummer fire, ii. 40 Horse-chestnut, mistletoe on, ii. 315