VI TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page 



Lens and mirror 119 



Ethnography of tinder 12 



Matches 123 



Fire gods 126 



Fire worship 128 



Priests 131 



Altars 132 



Offerings 132 



Sacrifice 133 



Incense 134 



New fire 138 



Perpetual fire 142 



Strange fire and pure fire 143 



Bonfires, etc 144 



Lightning — Superstitions and customs 144 



Rain making 152 



Marriage fire 153 



Origin myths 156 



Communal fire and social organization 165 



Borrowing 166 



Fire in mortuary observances 167 



Cremation 168 



Ordeal 170 



Purification 173 



Superstitious healing 174 



Fire walking 176 



Pyromancy 182 



Illumination 184 



Fireflies 195 



Torch and candle 198 



Candles 208 



Development of the lamp 217 



Ethnography of the lamp 224 



Float lamp --. 238 



Lamps of antiquity 239 



Electric light 244 



Gas 245 



Civic lighting 245 



Illuminants 246 



Light in cult 249 



Index 257 



