Reddening the faces of gods, custom of, ii. 175 sq.
Reddis or Kapus in the Madras Presidency, their women procure rain bymeans of frogs, i. 294
Redemption of firstling men and asses among the Hebrews, iv. 173;
from the fire in Lent, x. 110
Reed, W. A., on the religion of the Negritos, ix. 82;
on a superstition as to a parasitic plant in the Philippines, xi. 282 n. 1
Reed, split, used in Roman cure for dislocation, xi. 177
Reef, plain of, in Tiree, witch as black sheep on the, x. 316
Reef Islands, avoidance of relations by marriage in, iii. 344;
ceremony at eating the new fruits in the, viii. 52 sq.