Kaya-Kaya or Tugeri of Dutch New Guinea, their use of bull-roarers, ii. 242 Kayans or Bahaus of Central Borneo, i. 4 _sq._; custom observed by them after a funeral, ii. 175 _sq._; their way of giving the slip to a demon, 179 Keating, Geoffrey, Irish historian, quoted, i. 139; on the Beltane fires, 158 Keating, W. H., quoted, i. 89 Kei Islands, birth-custom in the, ii. 155 Keitele, Lake, in Finland, ii. 165 Kemble, J. M., on need-fire, i. 288 Kerry, Midsummer fires in, i. 203 _Kersavondblok_, the Yule log, i. 249 _Kersmismot_, the Yule log, i. 249 Khambu caste in Sikkhim, their custom after a funeral, ii. 18 Kharwars of Mirzapur, their dread of menstruous women, i. 84 Khasis of Assam, story of the external soul told by the, i. 146 _sq._ Khnumu, Egyptian god, fashions a wife for Bata, ii. 135 Khonds, human sacrifices among the, ii. 286 _n._ 2 Kia blacks of Queensland, their treatment of girls at puberty, i. 39 Kidd, Dudley, on external souls of chiefs, ii. 156 _n._ 2 Kildare, Midsummer fires in, i. 203 Kilkenny, Midsummer fires in, i. 203 Killin, the hill of the fires at, i. 149 Killing a totem animal, ii. 220 —— the novice and bringing him to life again at initiation, pretence of, ii. 225 King, nominal, chosen at Midsummer, i. 194, ii. 25; presides at summer bonfire, 38 —— and Queen of Roses, i. 195 —— of the Bean, i. 153 _n._ 3 —— of Summer chosen on St. Peter’s Day, i. 195 —— of the Wood at Nemi put to death, i. 2; in the Arician grove a personification of an oak-spirit, ii. 285; the priest of Diana at Aricia, perhaps personified Jupiter, 302 _sq._ _See also_ Kings Kingaru, clan of the Wadoe, ii. 313 Kings, sacred or divine, put to death, i. 1 _sq._; subject to taboos, 2 —— and priests, their sanctity analogous to the uncleanness of women at menstruation, i. 97 _sq._ —— of Uganda, their life bound up with barkcloth trees, ii. 160 _Kings, The Epic of_, i. 104 Kingsley, Miss Mary H., on external or bush souls, ii. 204 _sq._; on rites of initiation in West Africa, 259 Kingussie, in Inverness-shire, Beltane cakes at, i. 153 Kinship created by the milk-tie, ii. 138 _n._ 1 Kirchmeyer, Thomas, author of _Regnum Papisticum_, i. 124, 125 _n._ 1; his account of Midsummer customs, 162 _sq._ Kirghiz story of girl who might not see the sun, i. 74 Kirk Andreas, in the Isle of Man, i. 306 Kirkmichael, in Perthshire, Beltane fires and cakes at, i. 153 Kirton Lindsey, in Lincolnshire, i. 318; medical use of mistletoe at, ii. 84 Kitching, Rev. A. L., on cure for lightning stroke, ii. 298 _n._ 2 Kiwai, island off New Guinea, use of bull-roarers in, ii. 232 Kiziba, to the west of Victoria Nyanza, theory of the afterbirth in, ii. 162 _n._ 2 Kloo, in the Queen Charlotte Islands, i. 45 Knawel, St. John’s blood on root of, ii. 56