Slayers of leopards, rules of diet observed by, ii. 230 _sq._
Slow-footed animals not eaten by some savage tribes, ii. 139 _sq._; eaten by preference by the Bushmen, 140 _sq._
Smearing the body as a means of imparting certain qualities, ii. 162 _sqq._
---- of blood on worshippers a mode of communion with the deity, ii. 316
Smith, W. Robertson, i. 259 _n._ 1, ii. 5 _n._ 2, 27 _n._ 5, 31 _n._ 1, 35 _n._ 2, 251 _n._ 5, 266 _n._ 1, 280 _n._
Smoking as a means of inducing state of ecstasy, ii. 72; in honour of slain bears, 224, 226
---- first tobacco of season, ceremony at, ii. 82
Snake worshipped, ii. 316 _sq._; white, eaten to acquire supernatural knowledge, 146. _See_ Serpent
Snakes respected by the North American Indians, ii. 217 _sqq._; sacred at Whydah, 287; souls of dead in, 293, 294 _sq._; souls of dead princes in, 288
Society, stratification of religion according to types of, ii. 35 _sqq._
Solar and lunar time, attempts to harmonise, i. 80 _sq._
Solomon Islands, ii. 85, 126, 127; belief in the transmigration of souls in the, 296 _sqq._
Solstice, the midsummer, rain-making ceremony at the, ii. 179
---- the winter, ii. 325; festival of, 90
Songish or Lkungen tribe of Vancouver Island, ii. 254
Soul thought to be seated in the liver, ii. 147 _sq._
---- of rice, i. 180 _sqq._; eating the, ii. 54
---- -stuff in the East Indies, i. 182 _sq._
Souls, immortal, attributed by savages, to animals, ii. 204; of the human dead in caterpillars, 275 _sq._; transmigration of human, into animals, 285 _sqq._
South American Indians, women's agricultural work among the, i. 120 _sqq._
Sowing, festival of Demeter at, i. 46 _n._ 2; sacrifice to Demeter at, 57; Festival of the, 111; time of, determined by observation of the sun, 187; goat killed at, 288; ceremonies at, ii. 57; customs observed by Saxons of Transylvania at, 274 _sq._
---- and planting, time of, determined by the appearance of the Pleiades, i. 313 _sqq._
---- festival of the Kayans, i. 93 _sqq._
Sowing the seed done by women, i. 113 _sqq._; done by children, 115 _sq._
Spades and hoes, human victim killed with, i. 239, 251
Sparrows, charm to keep them from the corn, ii. 274
Spearing taro stalks, as a charm, i. 102, 103
Spells for growth of crops, i. 100; narrative, 104 _sqq._; imperative, 105
