Horses used by sacred persons, i. 4 _n._ 1; not to be touched or ridden by menstruous women, 88 _sq._, 96; driven through the need-fire, 276, 297 Hos, the, of Togoland (West Africa), their dread of menstruous women, i. 82 Hose, Dr. Charles, on creeping through a cleft stick after a funeral, ii. 175 _sq._ —— and W. McDougall, on the _ngarong_ or secret helper of the Ibans, ii. 224 _n._ 1 Hother, Hodr, or Hod, the blind god, and Balder, i. 101 _sqq._, ii. 279 _n._ 4 Hottentots drive their sheep through fire, ii. 11 _sqq._ House-communities of the Servians, i. 259 _n._ 1 Houses protected by bonfires against lightning and conflagration, i. 344; made fast against witches on Midsummer Eve, ii. 73 “—— of the soul” in Isaiah, ii. 155 _n._ 3 Housman, Professor A. E., on the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, i. 220 _sq._ Houstry, in Caithness, need-fire at, i. 291 _sq._ Howitt, A. W., on seclusion of menstruous women, i. 78; on killing a totem animal, ii. 220 _n._ 2; on secrecy of totem names, 225 _n._; on the drama of resurrection at initiation, 235 _sqq._ Howitt, Miss E. B., ii. 226 _n._ 1 Howth, the western promontory of, Midsummer fire on, i. 204 —— Castle, life-tree of the St. Lawrence family at, ii. 166 Huahine, one of the Tahitian islands, ii. 11 _n._ 3 Hudson Bay Territory, the Chippeways of, i. 90 Hughes, Miss E. P., on the fire-walk in Japan, ii. 10 _n._ 1 Human beings burnt in the fires, ii. 21 _sqq._ —— divinities put to death, i. 1 _sq._ —— sacrifices at fire-festivals, i. 106; traces of, 146, 148, 150 _sqq._, 186, ii. 31; offered by the ancient Germans, ii. 28 _n._ 1; among the Celts of Gaul, 32 _sq._; the victims perhaps witches and wizards, 41 _sqq._; Mannhardt’s theory, 43 —— victims annually burnt, ii. 286 _n._ 2 Hungarian story of the external soul, ii. 140 Hungary, Midsummer fires in, i. 178 _sq._ Hunt, Holman, his picture of the new fire at Jerusalem, i. 130 _n._ Hunt, Robert, on burnt sacrifices, i. 303 Hunters avoid girls at puberty, i. 44, 46; luck of, spoiled by menstruous women, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94 Huon Gulf in German New Guinea, ii. 239 Hupa Indians of California, seclusion of girls among the, i. 42 Hurons of Canada, custom of their women at menstruation, i. 88 _n._ 1 _Huskanaw_, initiatory ceremony of the Virginian Indians, ii. 266 Hut burnt at Midsummer, i. 215 _sq._ Hutchinson, W., quoted, i. 197 _n._ 4 Huts, special, for menstruous women, i. 79, 82, 85 _sqq._ Huzuls of the Carpathians kindle new fire at Christmas, i. 264; gather simples on St. John’s Night, ii. 49 Hyaenas, men turned into, i. 313 _Hypericum perforatum_, St. John’s wort, gathered at Midsummer, ii. 54 _sqq._ _See also_ St. John’s Wort _Hyphear_, a kind of mistletoe, ii. 317, 318 Hyrrockin, a giantess, i. 102 Ibans of Borneo, their _ngarong_ or secret helper, ii. 224 _n._ 1