_Hymn to Demeter_, Homeric, i. 35 _sqq._, 70
Ichneumon, transmigration of sinner into, ii. 299
Image of god made of dough and eaten sacramentally, ii. 86 _sqq._, 90 _sq._; of snake carried about, 316 _sq._
Images of ancestors, ii. 53; of animals sacrificed instead of the animals, 95 _n._ 2; vicarious use of, 96 _sqq._; of gods, suggested origin of, 173 _sq._; of vermin made as a protection against them, 280 _sq._ _See also_ Effigies, Puppets
Immortality, hope of, associated with Eleusinian mysteries, i. 90 _sq._
---- of animals, savage faith in the, ii. 260 _sqq._
Immortality of soul revealed in mysteries of Dionysus, i. 15
_Inachi_, an offering of first-fruits, ii. 128, 131
_Inao_, sacred wands of the Aino, ii. 185, 186 _n._, 189
India, the last sheaf of corn in, 222 _sq._; doctrine of the transmigration of souls in ancient, ii. 298 _sq._
Indians of British Columbia, their cannibal orgies, i. 18 _sq._; of South America, women's agricultural work among the, 119 _sqq._
Indonesian ideas of rice-soul, i. 181 _sq._
Inoculation with moral and other virtues, ii. 158 _sqq._
Inscription, Eleusinian, dealing with first-fruits, i. 55 _sq._
Ireland, hunting the wren in, ii. 319 _sq._
Iroquois, their sacrifice of a white dog, ii. 258 _n._ 1
Isis, i. 262; dirge of, 215; at Tithorea, festivals of, ii. 18 _n._ 1; in relation to cows, 35
Isle de France, harvest customs in, i. 221, 226
Isle of Man, hunting the wren in the, ii. 318 _sq._
Isocrates, on Demeter's gift of the corn, i. 54 _sq._
Isowa or Aïsawa, order of saints in Morocco, i. 21
Israelites, their brazen serpent, ii. 281
Jabme-Aimo, the abode of the dead, ii. 257
Jackal, transmigration of sinner into, ii. 299
Jaguars eaten to inspire courage, ii. 140; souls of dead in, 285, 286
Java, use of winnowing-basket in, i. 6; ceremony at rice-harvest in, 199 _sqq._
Jawbones of slain beasts propitiated by hunters, ii. 244 _sq._
Jews, their attitude to the pig, ii. 23 _sq._; their ablutions, 27
Jumping over a woman, ceremony of, ii. 64, 70 _n._ 1, 253
Jupiter, lamb sacrificed to, at vintage, ii. 133
Kai, the, of German New Guinea, i. 99 _sqq._, 313, ii. 33; their belief in transmigration, 296
Kalmucks, their consecration of a white ram, ii. 313 _sq._
Kamilaroi, the, of New South Wales, ii. 151, 162; burial custom of the, 99 _sq._