Selkit, Egyptian goddess, patroness of matrimony, ii. 131
Selwanga, python-god of the Baganda, v. 86
Semang tribes of the Malay Peninsula, power of medicine-men among the, i. 360;
think that the souls of their dead chiefs transmigrate into wild beasts, iv. 85
Semangat, Malay word for the soul, iii. 28, 35, vii. 181, 183
Semele, mother of Dionysus, iv. 3;
how Zeus got Dionysus by, vii. 14;
descent of Dionysus into Hades to bring up, vii. 15
Semic in Bohemia, beheading the king on Whit-Monday at, iv. 209
Seminole Indians, souls of the dying caught among the, iv. 199;