——, Feast of the (Candlemas), ix. 332
—— festival among the Cherokee Indians, ix. 128
——, the Great, a Japanese ceremony, ix. 213 n. 1
—— of manslayers, i. 26, iii. 165 sqq., viii. 148 sq., ix. 262;
intended to rid them of the ghosts of the slain, iii. 186 sq.
—— of the matricide, Orestes, i. 26, ix. 262
—— of Pimas after slaying Apaches, iii. 182 sqq.
Purificatory ceremonies at reception of strangers, iii. 102 sqq.;
on return from a journey, iii. 111 sqq.;