Küstendil, in Bulgaria, need-fire at, x. 281
Kutonaqa Indians of British Columbia, their sacrifice of their first-born children to the sun, iv. 183 sq.
Kvasir, in Norse mythology, the wisest of beings, his blood and wisdom absorbed by Odin, i. 241
Kwa River, in West Africa, propitiation of goddess who dwells in the, ix. 28
Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, their treatment of the afterbirth, i. 197 sq.;
their contagious magic of wounds, i. 201 sq.;
their beliefs and customs concerning twins, i. 263, 324;
their custom as to coffining the dead, iii. 53;
the swallowing of souls by shamans among the, iii. 76 sq.;
customs observed by cannibals among the, iii. 159 n., 188 sqq.;