God, the Dying and Reviving, i. 1, 33; killed in animal form, 22 _sq._; eating the, ii. 48 _sqq._
Gods, death and resurrection of, i. 1, 12 _sqq._; distinguished from spirits, 169; in the likeness of foreigners, 236
Goldsmith, transmigration of thief into, ii. 299
Gonds, human sacrifices among the, i. 244
Grandmother, name given to last sheaf, i. 136
Grapes, the last, not to be stript, i. 234 _sq._
Graves, sacrifices at, ii. 113; false, to deceive demons, ii. 99 _sq._
---- Mother, the, name given to the last sheaf, i. 135 _sq._
---- Mysteries of Eleusis, their date, i. 51
Great Sun, title of head chief of the Natchez, ii. 77 _sqq._
Greece, theory of the transmigration of souls in ancient, ii. 300
Greek divinities who died and rose again, i. 2; farmers, their seasons for sowing and reaping, i. 318
Ground, last sheaf not allowed to touch the, i. 158, 159, 161
Guardian-spirit, ii. 60; of family, i. 121
---- spirits of American Indians, ii. 207
Guiana, Indians of British, i. 120, ii. 236; their animism, 204
Guinea-fowl gives signal for planting, i. 117
Hadrian institutes games at Mantinea, i. 80
Hag (_wrach_), name given to last corn cut in Wales, i. 142 _sqq._
Halibut, the first of the season, treatment of, ii. 253
Hamstring of deer, custom of removing, ii. 266
Hamstringing dead animals, ii. 267, 271, 273
---- men to disable their ghosts, ii. 272, 273
Hanover, harvest customs in, i. 133, 135, 283
Hare's tail, name given to last standing corn, i. 268
Harran, sacrifices offered by the heathen of, i. 261 _sq._
Harrison, Miss J. E., i. 5 _n._ 4, 60 _n._ 1, 62 _n._ 6
Hartland, E. S., i. 143 _n._ 1, 224 _n._ 4
Harvest, festival of the dead at the close of, ii. 110; in Greece, date of, i. 48
---- -customs and spring customs compared, i. 167 _sqq._
---- -supper, i. 134, 138, 156, 157, 159 _sq._, 161 _sq._, 297; sacramental character of, 303
Harvesters, athletic competitions among, i. 76 _sq._; wrapt up in corn-stalks, 220 _sqq._
---- -hunting, human, i. 240 _sqq._; practice of, 256
Heart of Dionysus, the sacred, i. 13, 14, 15; of human victim torn out, ii. 92; of lion or leopard eaten to make the eater brave, 142 _sq._; of water-ousel eaten in order to acquire wisdom and eloquence, 144; of bear eaten to acquire courage, 146; of serpent eaten to acquire language of animals, 146; of wolf eaten to acquire courage, 146; regarded as the seat of intellect, 149