—— -Beard, Dr., a Whitsuntide mummer, iv. 208, 212, 233
—— instruments, use of, tabooed, iii. 205, 206
—— rings as talismans, iii. 235, 315
—— -wort, bunches of, held in the smoke of the Midsummer fires, x. 179
Ironwood trees, spirits of, propitiated, ii. 40
Iroquois, their belief in the spirits of trees and plants, ii. 12;
their thunder-god, ii. 369 sq.;
names of the dead not mentioned among the, iii. 352;
tell their tales of wonder only in winter, iii. 385;
their myth of the Spirits of Corn, Beans, and Squashes, vii. 177;