Germany, contagious magic in, 39, 42, 45; worship of women in ancient, 97; treeworship in, 110; Harvest-May in, 118; use of May trees in, 119; Midsummer trees in, 122; races at Whitsuntide in, 124; worship of the oak in, 160; belief as to the escape of the soul in, 182; superstition as to cut hair in, 234; the Cornmother in, 399; the Old Woman in, 400; names given to the last sheaf in, 401; harvest customs, 402, 408, 427, 449, 451, 453, 454, 458–460; the Corn-spirit in, 448; the harvest cock in, 451, 479; pigs’ bones in connection with sowing in, 461; Lenten fires in, 612; Easter fires in, 614; Midsummer fires in, 623; the Yule log in, 637; need-fire in, 641; mistletoe in, 662, 702; oak-wood for cottage fires at Midsummer in, 665; stories of the external soul in, 672; birth-trees in, 682
Goat, blood of, sucked by priest as means of inspiration, 94; sacrificed, 356, 391, 436; in relation to Dionysus, 390, 464; cornspirit as, 454; last sheaf in form of a, 454; killed on harvest-field, 455; effigy of a, 456; sacred animal of a Bushman tribe, 474; relation of, to Athena, 477; evils transferred to, 540; as scapegoat, 565
God, savage ideas of, 92; the killing and resurrection of a, 301, 538; the Dying and Reviving, 386; killed in animal form, 391; the animal enemy of, originally identical with the god, 391, 469, 475; eating the, 479–494, 498; dying, as scapegoat, 539, 576; killing of the, in Mexico, 587–592. See also Gods
Goddesses, of fertility served by eunuch priests, 349; personated by women, 589
Gods, appeal to the pity of, as a rain-charm, 75; incarnate human, 91–106, 162; conception of, slowly evolved, 91; and goddesses, dramatic weddings of, 140; the marriage of the, 142–145; created by men in their own likeness, 260; their names tabooed, 260–262; mortality of the, 264–265; death and resurrection of, 385–386, 388; distinguished from spirits, 411
Gold Coast, negroes of the, 118; expulsion of demons on the, 550, 554, 555
