Index.
Aachen, effigy burnt at, i. 120, ii. 25
Aargau, Swiss canton, of, Lenten fire-custom in, i. 119;
superstition as to oak-mistletoe in, ii. 82;
birth-trees in, 165
Abeghian, Manuk, on creeping through cleft trees in Armenia, ii.
172
Abensberg in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, i. 144
Abeokuta, use of bull-roarers at, ii. 229 n.
Aber, the Lake of, in Upper Austria, ii. 189
Aberdeenshire, custom at reaping the last corn in, i. 12;
need-fire in, 296;
holed rock used by childless women in, ii. 187
Aberfeldy, Hallowe'en fires near, i. 232
Aborigines of Victoria, their custom as to emu fat, i. 13
Abougit, Father X., S.J., on the ceremony of the new fire at
Jerusalem, i. 130
Abruzzi, new Easter fire in the, i. 122;
water consecrated at Easter in the, 122 sqq.;
Midsummer rites of fire and water in the, 209 sq.
Acacia, the heart in the flower of the, ii. 135 sq.
Acarnanian story of Prince Sunless, i. 21
Achern, St. John's fires at, i. 168
Achterneed, in Ross-shire, Beltane cakes at, i. 153
Acireale, in Sicily, Midsummer fires at, i. 210
Adder stones, i. 15
Addison, Joseph, on witchcraft in Switzerland, ii. 42
n. 2
Adonis and Aphrodite, ii. 294 sq.
Aelst, Peter van, painter, ii. 36
Africa, girls secluded at puberty in, i. 22 sqq.;
dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, 79 sqq.;
birth-trees in, ii. 160 sqq.;
——, British Central, the Anyanja of, i. 81
——, British East, i. 81;
ceremony of new fire in, 135 sq.;
the Nandi of, ii. 229 n.;
the Akikuyu of, 262 sq.
——, East, ceremony of the new fire in, i. 135;
the Swahili of, ii. 160
——, German East, the Wajagga of, ii. 160;
the Washamba of, 183;
the Bondeis of, 263;
the Wadoe of, 312
——, German South-West, the Ovambo of, ii. 183
——, North, Midsummer fires in, i. 213 sqq.
——, South, the Thonga of, ii. 297
——, West, theory of an external soul embodied in an animal
prevalent in, ii. 200 sqq.;
ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in, 251
sqq.
of child animated by a ghost and sympathetically connected with a
banana-tree, 162;
regarded as brother or sister of child, 162 n. 2;
regarded as a second child, 162 n. 2;
regarded as a guardian spirit, 223 n. 2;
and navel-string regarded as guardian angels of the man, ii.
162 n. 2
Agaric growing on birch-trees, superstitions as to, i. 148
Aglu, New year fires at, i. 217
Air thought to be poisoned at eclipses, i. 162 n.
Aisne, Midsummer fires in the department of, i. 187
Aix, squibs at Midsummer in, i. 193;
Midsummer king at, i. 194, ii. 25;
bathing at Midsummer in, 216
Ague, Midsummer bonfires deemed a cure for, i. 162;
leaps across the Midsummer bonfires thought to be a preventive
of, 174
Agweh, on the Slave Coast, custom of widows at, ii. 18
sq.
Ahlen, in Munsterland, i. 247
Ahriman, the devil of the Persians, i. 95
Aht or Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island, seclusion of girls at
puberty among the, i. 43 sq.
Ahura Mazda, the supreme being of the Persians, i. 95
Ain, Lenten fires in the department of, i. 114
Ainos of Japan, their mourning caps, i. 20;
their use of mugwort in exorcism, ii. 60;
their veneration for mistletoe, 79
A-Kamba of British East Africa, seclusion of girls at puberty
among the, i. 23
Akikuyu of British East Africa, their dread of menstruous women,
i. 81;
ritual of the new birth among the, ii. 262 sq.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Roman version of, ii. 105
Alaska, seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, i. 45
sq.;
the Esquimaux of, ii. 155
Alastir and the Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of, ii.
129 sq.
Albania, Midsummer fires in, i. 212;
the Yule log in, 264
Albanian story of the external soul, ii. 104 n. 3
Albert Nyanza, the Wakondyo of the, ii. 162 sq.
Albino head of secret society on the Lower Congo, ii. 251
Alders free from mistletoe, ii. 315
Alfoors or Toradjas of Celebes, their custom at the smelting of
iron, ii. 154;
their doctrine of the plurality of souls, 222
Algeria, Midsummer fires in, i. 213
Alice Springs in Central Australia, ii. 238
Allan, John Hay, on the Hays of Errol, ii. 283
Allandur temple, at St. Thomas's Mount, Madras, ii. 8
All Saints' Day, omens on, i. 240;
the first of November, 225;
bonfires on, 246;
sheep passed through a hoop on, ii. 184
All Souls, Feast of, i. 223 sq., 225 n. 3
Almond-trees, mistletoe on, ii. 316
A-Louyi, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 28
n. 5
Alsace, Midsummer fires in, i. 169;
cats burnt in Easter bonfires in, ii. 40
Althenneberg, in Bavaria, Easter fires at, i. 143 sq.
Altmark, Easter bonfires in, i. 140, 142
Alum burnt at Midsummer, i. 214
Alungu, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 24
sq.
Alur, a tribe of the Upper Nile, i. 64
Alvarado, Pedro de, Spanish general, ii. 214
Amambwe, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 24
sq.
Amazon, ordeals of young men among the Indians of the, i. 62
sq.
Ambamba, in West Africa, death, resurrection, and the new birth
in, ii. 256
Amboyna, hair of criminals cut in, ii. 158
Ambras, Midsummer customs at, i. 173
America, Central, the Mosquito territory in, i. 86
America, North, Indians of, not allowed to sit on bare ground in
war, i. 5;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, 41
sqq.;
dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the Indians of, 87
sqq.;
stories of the external soul among the Indians of, ii. 151
sq.;
religious associations among the Indian tribes of, 267
sqq.
——, South, seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, i.
56 sqq.;
effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, 128;
Midsummer fires in, 212 sq.
Ammerland, in Oldenburg, cart-wheel used as charm against
witchcraft in, i. 345 n. 3
Amphitryo besieges Taphos, ii. 103
Ancestor, wooden image of, ii. 155
Ancestors, worship of, in Fiji, ii. 243 sq.
Ancestral spirits incarnate in serpents, ii. 211
Anderson, Miss, of Barskimming, i. 171 n. 3
Andes, the Peruvian, effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in the, i.
128
Andjra, a district of Morocco, i. 17;
Midsummer fires in the, 213 sq.;
Midsummer rites of water in, 216;
animals bathed at Midsummer in, ii. 31
Andreas, parish of, in the Isle of Man, i. 224, 305, 307
n. 1
Angass, the, of Northern Nigeria, their belief in external human
souls lodged in animals, ii. 210
Angel, need-fire revealed by an, i. 287
—— -man, effigy of, burnt at Midsummer, i. 167
Angelus bell, the, i. 110, ii. 47
Angoniland, British Central Africa, customs as to girls at
puberty in, i. 25 sq.;
customs as to salt in, 27
Angus, superstitious remedy for the “quarter-ill” in, i. 296
n. 1
Anhalt, Easter bonfires in, i. 140