Spirits of fertility represented by masked men, 152 Stamping of feet, 198 Statius, 201 Statue of the departed, 203 Step, limping, 38, 51 Stringed instruments, 52 _Sukkah_, reference to, 94 _Sukkôth_, 140 Sulka, of New Britain, funeral dance among, 212 Sun aided to run its course by dancing, 27 _Sungal_, 134 Supernatural powers, 3 imitated in dance, 15 sense of the, 17 the, 13 Sword dance, 28, 180, 186, 188 Symmachus, 126 Sympathetic magic, 24, 28 Syrian goddess, 118 desert, Bedouin Arabs of the, 81 peasants, weddings among the, 178 ff. prophets, 39 Syrians, ecstatic dance among, 116 ff. Tabari, ancient Arabian historian, 97 Tabernacles, feast of, 94, 141, 143, 157 f. Taboo, 104, 174 f. Talmudic period, 198 Tambourine accompanying dance, 121, 203 Tami islanders, funeral dance among, 213 f. _Ṭaphaz_, 142 Tarahumares, funeral dance among, 217 Targum, 46 Targum of Onkelos, 141 Tarphon, Rabbi, 182 _Ṭawâf_, 95 Temple worship, 58 Terence quoted, 12 _Thargelia_, 148 _The Golden Ass_ quoted, 118 f. Theocritus, 190 Theseus leading the sacred dance, 70 _Thesmophoria_, 148 Thompson Indians of British Columbia, 170 Threefold procession round pyre, 201 Threshing-floor, 147, 179 Threshold, 47 Thyia, first priestess of Dionysos, 121 Thyiads, 21, 121 ff. _Thyrsus_, 121, 143 Timagani Indians, 102 Timor, inhabitants of, 167 f. island, inhabitants of, funeral dances among, 215 Tinnevelly, 132 Titans, 125 _Tithēnidia_, 66 Tom-tom, 7, 52 _Tôph_, 52, 55 Torch dance, 143 Torres Straits, 214 Tragliatella, 71 Tree, dance round to make crops grow, 103 for hanging things on, 96 Tree-spirits, 106 Trees, dance round, 88, 99 dancing performed under, 148 Troy, game of, 69, 71, 74 Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast, 128 _ʿUgâb_, 52 Unconsciousness brought about by dance, 25 dancing to the point of, 129 Uniformity in mythology, 2 in ritual, 2 Union brought about by dance, 24 Vedda, 128 Vedic worship, 77 Vegetation magic, 120, 149 Victory dances, 40 f. Vine-leaves, 121 Vintage festivals, 39 f. dancing at, 140 ff. Visions due to over-wrought state, 122 Vows, dancing during performance of making, 145 Walpurgis night, 47 Wand, curved, used during funeral dance, 203 Warriors dancing, 71 _Wazara_, 184 Wedding ceremony, dancing at, 41 f. Wedding-feast, 177 Well of Fair Dances, 90 Well, song of the, 89 Wells, dance round, 88 Wen-Amon, 116 Wends’ dance round sacred oak, 103 Women under the influence of Dionysos, 122 Women, Bacchanalian assemblies of, 124 Xanthias, 123 _Xulophoria_, 144 Yuki tribes of California, 170 f. _Zēlaʿ_, 114 Zeus, 19, 64, 69 Ziklag, 48 CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY W. LEWIS, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS