Kamtchatkans, the, i. 315, ii. 257, 268; their propitiation of slain animals, 222
Karens of Burma, i. 10; their ceremonies to secure the rice-soul, 189 _sq._
Kayans or Bahaus, the, of central Borneo, i. 92 _sqq._, 107, 109, 111, 234, 314, ii. 54; their ceremonies in connexion with rice, 184 _sqq._; their custom as to eating deer, ii. 144; their belief in transmigration, 293
Khonds or Kandhs, human sacrifices for crops among the, i. 245 _sqq._
Killing a god in the form of an animal, i. 22 _sq._; two types of the custom of, ii. 312 _sq._
King, title of Carnival mummer, i. 28 _sq._; eats of new fruits before his people, ii. 63, 70; first-fruits presented to the, 109, 116, 122; so called, at Carcassone, 320 _sq._
King's son sacrificed for his father, i. 13, 24 _sq._
Kings, trace of custom of slaying them annually, i. 254 _sq._; turned at death into lions, ii. 288
Kings' wives turned at death into leopards, ii. 288
Kinship of men with crocodiles, ii. 212 _sq._, 214 _sq._; of men with tigers, 216
_Kirn_ or _kern_, last corn cut, i. 151, 152 _sqq._; name of the harvest-supper, 158
Kiziba, district of Central Africa, i. 118, ii. 219
Kon-Meney, a tribe of Cochin China, ii. 291
Koryak, their ceremonies at killing bears and wolves, ii. 223; their ceremonies at the slaughter of whales, 232 _sqq._; their treatment of a slain fox, 244
_Kuker_ and _Kukerica_, ii. 332, 333, 334
{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, i. 161 _n._ 4
La Ciotat, near Marseilles, hunting the wren at, ii. 321
Lamentations, pretended, for insects which destroy the crops, ii. 279 _sq._
Land cleared for cultivation by men, i. 113 _sq._, 117 _sqq._
Landowners, sacrifices offered to spirits of former, i. 228
Language of animals acquired by eating serpent's flesh, ii. 146; of birds, how learned, 146
Lapps, the, ii. 257; their treatment of slain bears, 224
Leaps, high and long, i. 98; to make the crops grow tall, ii. 330 _sq._
Lengua Indians of Paraguay, i. 309; of the Gran Chaco, ii. 245
Leopard's blood drunk, or its flesh or heart eaten to make the eater brave, ii. 141 _sq._
Leopards, men inspired by, ii. 213; revered, 228; ceremonies observed after the slaughter of, 228 _sqq._; souls of dead in, 288, 289