Inn, effigies burnt at Midsummer in the valley of the river, i. 172 _sq._ Innerste, river, i. 124 Innuits (Esquimaux), i. 14 Insanity, burying in an ant-hill as a cure for, i. 64 Inspired men walk through fire unharmed, ii. 5 _sq._ Insulation of women at menstruation, i. 97 Interpretation of the fire-festivals, i. 328 _sqq._, ii. 15 _sqq._ Inverness-shire, Beltane cakes in, i. 153 Invulnerability conferred by a species of mistletoe, ii. 79 _sq._; conferred by decoction of a parasitic orchid, 81; of Balder, 94; attained through blood-brotherhood with animal, 201; thought to be attained through initiation, 275 _sq._, 276 _n._ 1 Invulnerable warlock or giant, stories of the, ii. 97 _sqq._ Ipswich witches, i. 304 _sq._ Iran, marriage custom in, i. 75 Ireland, the Druid’s Glass in, i. 16; new fire at Hallowe’en in, 139, 225; Beltane fires in, 157 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, 201 _sqq._; fairies at Hallowe’en in, 226 _sq._; Hallowe’en customs in, 241 _sq._; witches as hares in, 315 _n._ 1; bathing at Midsummer in, ii. 29; cure for whooping-cough in, 192 _n._ 1 Irish story of the external soul, ii. 132 Iron not to be used in digging fern root, ii. 65; mistletoe gathered without the use of, 78; not to be used in cutting certain plants, 81 _n._; custom observed by the Toradjas at the working of, 154 Iron-wort, bunches of, held in the smoke of the Midsummer fires, i. 179 Iroquois, ceremony of the new fire among the, i. 133 _sq._; need-fire among the, 299 _sq._ Isaiah, “houses of the soul” in, ii. 155 _n._ 3 Isfendiyar and Rustem, i. 104 _sq._, 314 Island, need-fire kindled in an, i. 290 _sq._, 291 _sq._ Isle de France, Midsummer giant burnt in, ii. 38 —— of Man, Beltane fires in the, i. 157. _See_ Man, Isle of Istria, the Croats of, ii. 75 Italian stories of the external soul, ii. 105, _sqq._; ancient practice of passing conquered enemies under a yoke, 193 _sq._ Italians, the oak the chief sacred tree among the ancient, ii. 89 Italy, birth-trees in, ii. 165; mistletoe in, 316, 317 _Itongo_, plural _amatongo_, ii. 202 _n._ Ivory Coast, totemism among the Siena of the, ii. 220 _n._ 2 Ivy to dream on, i. 242 _Ixia_, a kind of mistletoe, ii. 317, 318 Jablanica, need-fire at, i. 286 Jack-in-the-Green, ii. 37 Jaffa, new Easter fire carried to, i. 130 _n._ Jakkaneri, in the Neilgherry Hills, the fire-walk at, ii. 9 James, M. R., on the Sibyl’s Wish, i. 100 _n._ James and Philip, the Apostles, feast of, i. 158 Jamieson, J., on the “quarter-ill,” i. 296 _n._ 1 January, the Holi festival in, ii. 1; the fire-walk in, 8 —— the sixth, the nativity of Christ on, i. 246 Janus and Jupiter, ii. 302 _n._ 2 Japan, the Ainos of, i. 20, ii. 60; the fire-walk in, 9 _sq._ Japanese ceremony of new fire, i. 137 _sq._ Java, birth-trees in, ii. 161 _n._ 1 Jebel Bela mountain, in the Sudan, i. 313 Jerusalem, ceremony of the new fire, at Easter in, i. 128 _sq._ Jeugny, the forest of, ii. 316