Ibos of the Niger delta, their belief in external human souls lodged in animals, ii. 203 _sq._ Ibrahim Pasha, i. 129 Icelandic stories of the external soul, ii. 123 _sqq._ Icolmkill, the hill of the fires in, i. 149 Ideler, L., on the Arab year before Mohammed, i. 217 _n._ 1 _Idhlozi_, ancestral spirit in serpent form, ii. 211 Iglulik, Esquimaux of, i. 134 Ilmenau, witches burnt at, i. 6 Iluvans of Malabar, marriage custom of, i. 5 Image of god carried through fire, ii. 4; reason for carrying over a fire, 24 Images, colossal, filled with human victims and burnt, ii. 32 _sq._ Imitative magic, i. 329, ii. 231 Immortality, the burdensome gift of, i. 99 _sq._; of the soul, experimental demonstration of the, ii. 276 Immortelles, wreaths of, on Midsummer Day, i. 177 Implements, magical, not allowed to touch the ground, i. 14 _sq._ Impregnation of women by the sun, i. 74 _sq._; by the moon, 75 _sq._ “—— rite” at Hindoo marriages, i. 75 Inauguration of a king in Brahmanic ritual, i. 4 Inca, fast of the future, i. 19 Incas of Peru, their ceremony of the new fire, i. 132 Incantation recited at kindling need-fire, i. 290 Inconsistency and vagueness of primitive thought, ii. 301 _sq._ India, seclusion of girls at puberty in, i. 68 _sqq._; fire-festivals in, ii. 1 _sqq._; sixty years’ cycle in, 77 _n._ 1; the horse-sacrifice in ancient, 80 _n._ 3; torture of suspected witches in, 159; ancient, traditional cure of skin disease in, 192; _Loranthus_ in, 317 Indian Archipelago, birth-custom in the, ii. 155 —— legend parallel to Balder myth, ii. 280 Indians of Costa Rica, their customs in fasts, i. 20 —— of Granada seclude their future rulers, i. 19 Indians of North America, not allowed to sit on bare ground in war, i. 5; seclusion of girls among the, 41 _sqq._; imitate lightning by torches, 340 _n._ 1; rites of initiation into religious associations among the, ii. 267 _sqq._ “Index of Superstitions,” i. 270 Indra and Apala, in the Rigveda, ii. 192 —— and the demon Namuci, Indian legend of, ii. 280 Indrapoora, story of the daughter of a merchant of, ii. 147 Infants tabooed, i. 5, 20 Ingleborough in Yorkshire, i. 288 Ingleton, in Yorkshire, need-fire at, i. 288 Ingniet or Ingiet, a secret society of New Britain, ii. 156 Initiation, rites in German New Guinea, ii. 193; at puberty, pretence of killing the novice and bringing him to life again during, 225 _sqq._; in Australia, 227, 233 _sqq._; in New Guinea, 239 _sqq._; in Fiji, 243 _sqq._; in Rook, 246; in New Britain, 246 _sq._; in Halmahera, 248; in Fiji apparently intended to introduce the novices to the worshipful spirits of the dead, 246; in Ceram, 249 _sqq._; in Africa, 251 _sqq._; in North America, 266 _sqq._ —— of young men, bull-roarers sounded at the, ii. 227 _sqq._, 233 _sqq._; of a medicine-man in Australia, 237 _sqq._