Index.
Abbot of Folly in France, 334
—— of Unreason in Scotland, 331
Abdera, human scapegoats at, 254
Abeghian, Manuk, quoted, 107 sq.
Abjuration, form of, imposed on Jewish converts, 393
Abonsam, an evil spirit on the Gold Coast, 132
Abrahams, Israel, 393 n. 2
Abruzzi, Epiphany in the, 167 n. 2
Absalom, his intercourse with his father's concubines, 368
Absrot, village of Bohemia, 161
Abstinence as a charm to promote the growth of the seed, 347
sqq.
Abyssinian festival of Mascal or the Cross, 133 sq.
Accusations of ritual murders brought against the Jews, 394
sqq.
Acilisena, in Armenia, the worship of Anaitis at, 369
n. 1
Adam and Eve, 259 n. 3
Adonis at Alexandria, 390;
annual death and resurrection of, 398;
his marriage with Ishtar (Aphrodite), 401.
See also Tammuz
—— and Aphrodite, 386
Aegisthus and Agamemnon, 19
Aesculapius at Epidaurus, 47
Africa, Northern, cairns in, 21;
popular cure for toothache in, 62;
South, dread of demons in, 77 sq.;
tribes of, their expulsion of demons, 110 sq.;
West, demons in, 74 sqq.
Agamemnon and Aegisthus, 19
Agathias on Sandes, 389
Agni, creation of the great god, 410
Agricultural year, expulsions of demons timed to coincide with
seasons of the, 225
Agrippa, King of Judaea, his mockery at Alexandria, 418
Ait Sadden, the, of Morocco, 182
—— Warain, a Berber tribe, 178
Aitan, a goddess, 173
Akamba, the, of British East Africa, riddles among the, 122
n.
Akikuyu of East Africa, 32
Alaska, the Esquimaux of, 124
Albania, expulsion of Kore on Easter Eve in, 157
Albanian custom of beating men and beasts in March, 266
Albanians of the Caucasus, their use of human scapegoats,
218
Albîrûnî, Arab historian, 393
Alençon, the Boy Bishop at, 337 n. 1
Alexandrian calendar, 395 n. 1
Alfoors of Central Celebes, riddles among the, 122 n.
—— of Halmahera, their expulsion of the devil, 112
All Souls' College, Oxford, the Boy Bishop at, 337
Allallu bird beloved by
Ishtar, 371
Allhallow Even, 332
Almora, in Kumaon, 197
Altars, bloodless, 307
Ambarvalia, the, 359
Ameretât, a Persian archangel, 373 n. 1
America, Indian tribes of North-Western, their masked dances,
375 sqq.
Amoor, Gilyaks of the, 101
Amshaspands, Persian archangels, 373 n. 1
Amulets against demons, 95
Anacan, a month of the Gallic calendar, 343
Anadates, at Zela, 373 n. 1
Ancestral spirits, propitiation of, 86
Ancona, sarcophagus of St. Dasius at, 310
Andalusia, 173
Anderson, J. D., 176 n. 3
Anderson, Miss, of Barskimming, 169 n. 2
Andree-Eysn, Mrs., quoted, 245 sq.
Animals, transference of evil to, 31 sqq.;
guardian spirits of, 98;
prayed to, 236;
dances taught by, 237;
Aninga, aquatic plant in
Brazil, 264
Anthesteria, Athenian festival of the dead, 152 sq.
Anthesterion, an Athenian month, 352
Antibes, Holy Innocents' Day at, 336 sq.
Antinmas, 167
Antiquity, human scapegoats in classical, 229 sqq.
Antoninus, Marcus, plague in his reign, 64
Anu, Babylonian god, visit of Ishtar to, 399 n. 1
Apachitas, heaps of stones,
9
Aphrodite and Adonis, 386
Aphrodite, the Oriental, 369 n. 1
Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, 217
Apollo, temple of, at the Lover's Leap, 254
—— and Artemis, cake with twelve knobs offered to, 351
n. 3
April, Siamese festival of the dead in, 150
Arab cure for melancholy, 4
Arabia, 33
Arabs, their custom as to widows, 35;
their custom in regard to murder, 63;
beat camels to deliver them from jinn, 260;
of Morocco, their custom at the Great Feast, 265
Araucanians, the, of South America, 12
Arawaks of British Guiana, their explanation of human mortality,
302 sq.
Arcadian custom of beating Pan's image, 256