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]