Spirits, of various kinds, 40 , 59 , 93 –106, 113 –120, 445 –448, 505 –509;
familiar, 59 , 320 , 322 –325, 329 –331;
in holy places, 62 , 63 ;
in trees, 64 , 65 , 200 , 202 , 205 , 211 , 213 , 215 ;
evil, 64 , 91 , 92 , 94 –96, 101 –106, 112 –120, 143 , 144 , 245 , 247 , 320 –331, 334 , 410 –451, 505 –
509, 573 ;
medical treatment for illness caused by, 64 , 65 , 410 , 414 –451;
food offered to, 76 , 231 –233, 268 , 280 , 311 –314, 415 –424, 432 –434, 447 ;
in beasts, 150 ;
objecting to noise, 231 , 257 , 258 ;
in minerals, 251 , 253 –258, 266 –273;
objecting to the name of God, 271 ;
afraid of weapons, 456 (note)
Spoons, magic use of, 108 , 350 –352
Squares, magic, 555 –558
Squirrel, origin of the, 190
S’ri, 86 (note), 89 , 545 , 546
Stars, ideas about the, 5 ;
names of the, 548 , 550 , 551
Stick-insect, ideas about the, 200 , 201
Stones, magic use of, 236 , 338 –340;
ideas about, 274 –277;
bezoar, ib., 425 , 426 ;
in the heads of snakes, 303 , 304
Stroking, expulsion of evil influences by, 178 , 430 , 442
Substitutes, 72 , 73 , 143 , 144 (note), 211 , 340 , 432 , 433
Sucking charm, 449 , 450
Sugar-cane, time for planting the, 217 ;
magic use of the, 237 , 239 , 240 , 246