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Aachen, fire festival at, ii. 251

Aargau, trees planted at births in, ii. 330

Aberdeenshire, ceremony at the cutting of the last sheaf in, i. 345

Abyssinia, rain-making on the outskirts of, i. 53

Abyssinian festivals, ii. 171

Acagchemen tribe, adoration of the buzzard by the, ii. 90, 91

Adonis, myth and worship of, i. 279-282, 296;

connection with vegetation, i. 281;

gardens of, i. 284-296;

rites of, similar to those of Osiris, i. 319, 320;

probable origin of the cult of, i. 363;

lament of, i. 280, 399;

as a pig, ii. 49, 50

Aegira, blood drunk at, before prophesying, i. 34

Aethiopian kings confined to their palaces, i. 164

Afghan Boundary Mission, reception of the, by the natives, i. 155

Afghanistan, reception of strangers in, i. 155

Africa, weather kings common in, i. 44;

reluctance to accept the crown in some parts of West, i. 118, 119;

priestly kings on the west coast of, i. 112;

human heart eaten in the Shire Highlands of, ii. 89

Ague, cure for, ii. 153

Aht Indians, seclusion of girls amongst the, ii. 229, 230

Ain, May-day customs in the Département de l', i. 88

Aino type of sacrament, ii. 134-136

Ainos, bear festival of the, ii. 101-105;

preparation for fishing, ii. 122;

treatment of the bear, ii. 132

Alaskan sable hunters, ii. 116

Alban hills, i. 1;

mount, i. 2

Albania, Easter Eve custom in, i. 276; ii. 181;

scapegoat in, ii. 201, 202;

beating in, ii. 216

Alexandria, commemoration of the death of Adonis and Aphrodite at, i. 279, 280

Alfoers, function of their high priest Leleen, i. 166;

ceremony for restoring the soul, i. 134, 135;

priest's hair uncut, i. 194;

priest sows the first rice seed and plucks the first ripe rice, ii. 71;

driving away the devil by the, ii. 159

Algeria, midsummer fires in, ii. 266

Alligator, the man-eating, ii. 109

Alps, May-day custom in the, i. 104

Altisheim, harvest custom in, i. 337

Altmark, Whitsuntide customs in, i. 98;

Easter bonfires, ii. 254

Amboina, soul-abstracting in, i. 139, 140;

sprinkling the sick with spices in, i. 154;

hair burying in, i. 201;

disease boats in, ii. 188;

strength thought to be in the hair in, ii. 328;

offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 377

Amenhôtep IV and the sun-god, i. 314, 315

America, belief in the resurrection of the buffalo in the western prairies of, ii. 123

Ammon, rage of the sun-god Ra against, i. 315;

rams held sacred by the worshippers of, ii. 92, 93

Andamanese belief in the reflection as the soul, i. 145

Anderida, wealds of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, remnants of the forest of, i. 57

Angel-man, beheading the, ii. 267

Angoulême, custom of burning a poplar on St. Peter's Day in, i. 101

Angoy, king of, must have no bodily defects, i. 221

Animal worship, two types of, ii. 133, 134;

sacred carried in procession, ii. 139-147;

employed as a scapegoat, ii. 189-191, 194, 195;

eaten to obtain its quality, ii. 86, 87;

spared by savages from fear of the vengeance of other animals of the same kind, ii. 107-110;

respect shown by the savage for the animal he kills, ii. 110-132;

Savage belief in the resurrection of the, ii. 122-125;

burnt as representative of the spirit of vegetation, ii. 282-284

Annamites, soul superstition amongst the, i. 132

Antaymour kings responsible for the general welfare, i. 46

Antrim, harvest custom in, i. 339

Apache Indians, rain-making by the, i. 15

Apalai Indians, ceremony on the arrival of a stranger by the, i. 153, 154

Aphrodite, i. 279

Apis the sacred Egyptian bull drowned, ii. 61 sq.

Apollo Diradiotes, blood of sacrificial lamb drunk in the temple of, i. 34

Apple-tree, superstition with regard to the, by barren women, i. 73

Arabia, belief concerning a man's shadow in, i. 143

Arabian stories, the external soul in, ii. 318, 319

Arabic belief in the properties of lion's fat, ii. 86

Arabs, rain-making by the heathen, i. 20

Arcadia, rain-charm in, i. 21;

beating the scapegoat, ii. 214

Archon of Plataeae, the, may not touch iron, i. 173

Arden, forest of, i. 57

Argive tradition concerning Dionysus, i. 324, 325

Ariadne, marriage of, i. 104

Aricia, “there are many Manii at,” explanation of the proverb, ii. 82, 83

Arician Grove, the, i. 1-6;

ritual, ii. 63, 64;

harvest celebration, ii. 67;

Manius the traditional founder of the, ii. 84;

sacrament, ii. 83, 84

Aru Islands, soul superstition in the, i. 125, 126;

custom after a death in the, i. 147;

hair cutting, i. 201;

dog's flesh eaten, ii. 87

Arval Brothers, priestly college of the, and the sacred grove, i. 65;

sacred grove of the, and iron, i. 172

Aryans, the, tree worshippers, i. 56-59, 99;

totemism and the, ii. 38;

oak the sacred tree of the, ii. 291;

primitive worship, ii. 370

Ascension Day custom, i. 265

Aschbach, harvest custom in, i. 368

Ash Wednesday customs, i. 254-257; ii. 29, 48, 251

Ashantee, royal blood not shed in, i. 181;

harvest festival in, ii. 374

Asia Minor, Pontiffs of, i. 7, 8

Athene, relation of the goat to, ii. 63

Athens, annual marriage of the queen to Dionysus at, i. 103, 104;

rites of Adonis observed in, i. 284, 285;

scapegoats in, ii. 212;

ritual at the sacrifice of the ox in, ii. 38, 39, 41

Attis, myth and festival of, i. 296-298; ii. 50;

a tree-spirit or corn-spirit, i. 298-300;

probability that the high priest of, was slain in the character of the god, i. 300;

probable origin of the cult of, i. 363;

relation to Lityerses, i. 396, 397;

as a pig, ii. 49, 50

Australia, rain-making in, i. 20, 21;

ceremony on entering strange territory by the Australians, i. 156;

seclusion of women in, i. 170;

blood may not be spilt on the ground in some parts of, i. 181, 182;

hair burning after child-birth in, i. 206;

totemism, ii. 133, 334-336

Australian blacks' charm for staying the sun, i. 25;

attack the dust columns of red sand, i. 29, 30;

fear of women's blood, i. 185, 186; ii. 238;

remedy for toothache, ii. 149;

annual expulsion of ghosts, ii. 163

—— Kamilaroi, cannibalism by the, ii. 88

—— medicine man and recall of the soul, i. 131, 132

—— Wotjobaluk, rain-making by the, i. 14

Austria, charm for lulling the wind in, i. 28;

old peasant belief in the souls of trees in, i. 61

Auxerre, reaping custom at, i. 335

Axim, annual expulsion of devils at, ii. 170

Aymara Indians, scapegoat used by the, in times of plague, ii. 191

Aztecs, the, and the reflection-soul, i. 145;

aversion to wine, i. 185

Baba, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 339, 340

Babar Islands, restoration of the soul in the, i. 137;

the soul believed to be in the shadow, i. 142

Babylon, Sacaea festival at, i. 226

Babylonian legend concerning the goddess Istar, i. 287

Baffin Land, expulsion of evil by the Eskimo of, ii. 165

Bagota, restrictions on the heir to the throne in, ii. 225

Balder killed by the mistletoe, ii. 244 sq.;

the oak, ii. 295;

life of, in the mistletoe, ii. 359-362

Balder's bale-fires, ii. 289 sq.

Bali, mice and the rice fields of the island of, ii. 131;

periodic expulsion of devils, ii. 174, 175;

custom at a birth, ii. 329

Balquhidder, harvest custom in, i. 344

Banjar kings held responsible for the weather, i. 46, 47

Banks Islanders, the tamaniu of the, ii. 331, 332

Baranton, fountain of, i. 15

Barcelona, Mid-Lent custom in, i. 262

Bari tribe, rain kings of the, i. 52, 53

Barotse, the chief a demigod in, i. 46

Barren women's superstition regarding the apple-tree, i. 73

Bassam, Great, sacrifice of oxen at, ii. 41, 42;

ceremony of driving out the evil spirit, ii. 161, 162

Basutos, the, and the reflection-soul, i. 145;

cannibalism by the, ii. 89;

offerings of first-fruits, ii. 373

Bat, the, ii. 334-337

Battambang, rain-charm in, i. 19

Battas, the, fighting the wind, i. 28, 29;

refuse to fell trees, i. 64, 65;

soul superstition, i. 124, 125, 135, 136;

soul straying, i. 160;

ceremony of making the curse to fly away by the, ii. 150, 151;

totemism amongst the, ii. 340, 341;

belief in plurality of souls, ii. 341

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