Six hundred and sixty-six, the number of the Beast, [44]

Skoptsi, a Russian sect, [196] n.3

Skull of dead king used as a drinking-vessel, [200]

Skulls of dead kings removed and kept, [202] sq.

Sky-spirit, sacrifice of children to, [181]

Slaughter of the Dragon, drama of the, at Delphi and Thebes, [78] sqq., [89];

myth of the, [105] sqq.

Slavs, custom of regicide among the, [52];

festival of the New Year among the old, [221];

"Sawing the Old Woman" among the, [242]