Shadow, importance of the, 143 , 244 , 245 , 248 , 306 , 332 , 575
Shadow-plays, 514 –516
Sheikhs, the four legendary, 100
Ships, ideas about, 279 , 280 , 315
Shiva, 85 –91, 546
Silver, ideas about, 272 , 273 ;
invocation addressed to the spirit of, ib.
Sites, selection of, for houses, 141 –143;
for towns, 147 –149
Snails, bloodsucking, 306
Snakes, mythical, 3 , 4 , 6 , 14 , 25 , 28 (note), 95 , 111 (note), 303 , 506 ;
ideas about, 302 –305, 426
Soil, kinds of, 141
Sorcerers, detection of, 323
Sorcery, methods of, 568 –579
Soul, conception of the, 47 –53, 579 , 580 ;
recalling a wandering, 48 , 49 , 452 –456, 577 ;
abduction of the, 49 , 568 –579;
plurality of souls in man, 50 , 411 , 454 , 578 ;
cloth used to attract the, 51 , 452 , 453 , 575 , 576 ;
in animals, vegetables and minerals, 52 , 53 , 138 , 194 , 200 , 211 , 213 , 215 –217, 225 –227, 237 ,
250 , 251 , 271 ;
rice used to attract the human, 76 , 77 , 411
Spectre Huntsman, divinity of the, 91 ;
bird companions of the, 112 ;
legend of the, 113 –120;
charms against the, 117 –120