superstitious precautions of farmers against, viii. 277, 278, 283;
ravages committed by, viii. 282 n. 8
See also [Rat]
—— and mice, in magic concerned with teeth, i. 178 sqq.
Rattan, creeping through a split, to escape a malignant spirit, xi. 183
Rattle, wooden, swung by twins to make fair or foul weather, i. 263;
of deer-hoofs used by shaman, iii. 58;
shaken before human victim, ix. 286;
used at a festival in East Africa, x. 28
Rattles in myth and ritual of Dionysus, vii. 13, 15;