General Index
The Roman numerals (i., ii., iii., etc.) refer to the volumes; the Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) refer to the pages. The volumes of the work are cited by the following numerals:—
i. = The Magic Art
and the Evolution of Kings, vol. i.
ii. = " " " vol. ii.
iii. = Taboo and the
Perils of the Soul.
iv. = The Dying
God.
v. = Adonis,
Attis, Osiris, Third Edition, vol. i.
vi. = " " " vol. ii.
vii. = Spirits of
the Corn and of the Wild, vol. i.
viii. = " " " vol. ii.
ix. = The
Scapegoat.
x. = Balder the
Beautiful, vol. i.
xi. = " " vol. ii.
Aachen, effigy burnt on Ash Wednesday at, x. 120, xi. 25
Aargau, Swiss canton of, the Whitsuntide Basket in, ii. 83;
Lenten fire-custom in, x. 119;
superstition as to oak-mistletoe in, xi. 82;
mistletoe called “thunder-besom” in, xi. 85, 301;
birth-trees in, xi. 165
Ab, a Jewish month, equivalent to August, i. 14, vii. 259
n. 1
Ababa, a tribe of the Congo region, believe that their souls
transmigrate at death into animals, viii. 288 sq.
Ababua, the, of the Congo valley, their belief as to falling
stars, iv. 65
Aban, a Persian month, vi. 68
Abbas Effendi, divine head of the Babites, i. 402
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia, temporary substitute for, iv.
157
Abbehausen, fever transferred to dog and cat at, ix. 51
Abbeville, huge trunks of oak in the peat-bog near, ii. 351
Abbot of Folly in France, ix. 334
—— of Unreason in Scotland, ix. 312, 331
Abchases of the Caucasus, their ceremony of rain-making, i. 282
n. 4;
their worship of the thunder-god, ii. 370;
their memorial feasts, iv. 98, 103;
their use of effigies as substitutes to save the lives of people,
viii. 105;
their sacrament of shepherds, viii. 313;
their sacrifice of white ox, viii. 313 n. 1
Abd-Hadad, priestly king of Hierapolis, v. 163 n. 3
Abdera, human scapegoats at, ix. 254
Abdication of kings in favour of their infant children, iii. 19,
20;
during the reign of their substitutes, iv. 115;
annual, of kings, iv. 148;
of father when his son is grown up, iv. 181;
of the king on the birth of a son, iv. 190;
temporary, of chief, viii. 66, 68
Abduction of souls by demons, iii. 58 sqq.
Abeghian, Manuk, on the belief of the Armenians in demons, ix.
107 sq.;
on creeping through cleft trees in Armenia, xi. 172
Abensberg in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, x. 144
Abeokuta, in West Africa, the Alake (king) of, iv. 203;
his head kept and delivered to his successor, iv. 203;
use of bull-roarers at, xi. 229 n.
Aber, the Lake of, in Upper Austria, xi. 189
Aberdeenshire, All Souls' Day in, vi. 79 sq.;
harvest customs in, vii. 158 sqq., 215 sq., x. 12;
need-fire in, x. 296;
holed rock used by childless women in, xi. 187
Aberdour, parish of, in Aberdeenshire, the cutting of the
clyack sheath in, vii. 158
sqq.
Aberfeldy, Hallowe'en fires near, x. 232
Abi-baal, “father of Baal,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-el, “father
of El,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-jah, King, his family, v. 51 n. 2;
“father of
Jehovah,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-melech, “father of a king,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-milk (Abi-melech), king of Tyre, v. 16 n. 5
Abimelech massacres his seventy brothers, v. 51 n. 2
Abingdon in Berkshire, May carols and garlands at, ii. 60
Abipones, the, of South America thought it sinful to mention
their own names, iii. 328;
the dead not named among the, iii. 352;
changes in their language caused by the fear of naming the dead,
iii. 360;
their belief as to meteors, iv. 63;
their worship of the Pleiades, v. 258 n. 2, vii. 308;
ate jaguars to become brave, viii. 140
Abjuration, form of, imposed on Jewish converts, ix. 393
Abnormal mental states accounted inspiration, iii. 248
Abolition of the kingship at Rome, ii. 289 sqq.
Abomey, the old capital of Dahomey, iv. 40
Abonsam, an evil spirit on the Gold Coast, ix. 132
Aborigines retained as priests of the local gods by conquering
races, ii. 288;
of Victoria, their custom as to emu fat, x. 13
Abortion, superstition as to woman who has procured, iii. 153
Abougit, Father X., S.J., on the ceremony of the new fire at
Jerusalem, x. 130
Abraham, his attempted sacrifice of Isaac, iv. 177, vi. 219
n. 1
—— and Sarah, ii. 114
——, the Pool of, at Ourfa, i. 285
Abrahams, Israel, on the Purim bonfires, ix. 393 n. 2
Abruzzi, barren fruit-trees threatened in the, ii. 22;
belief as to falling stars in the, iv. 66, 67;
burning an effigy of the Carnival in the, iv. 224;
seven-legged effigy of Lent in the, iv. 244 sq.;
gossips of St. John in the, v. 245 n. 2;
marvellous properties attributed to water on St. John's Night in
the, v. 246;
Easter ceremonies in the, v. 256;
the feast of All Souls in the, vi. 77 sq.;
rules as to sowing seed and cutting timber in the, vi. 133
n. 3;
Epiphany in the, ix. 167 n. 2;
new Easter fire in the, x. 122;
water consecrated at Easter in the, x. 122 sqq.;
Midsummer rites of fire and water in the, x. 209 sq.
Absalom, his intercourse with his father's concubines, ix. 368
Absence and recall of the soul, iii. 30 sqq.
Absites, the, iii. 312
Absrot, village of Bohemia, precaution against witches on
Walpurgis Night at, ix. 161
Abstinence, periods of, observed before sowing, ii. 98, 105;
as a charm to promote the growth of the seed, ix. 347
sqq.
Abstract notions, the personification of, not primitive, iv. 253
Abu 'Ilberecat, a Berber, ii. 153 sq.
Abu Rabah, resort of childless wives in Palestine, v. 78, 79
Abuse (vituperation), beneficial virtue ascribed to, i. 279
sq.
Abydos, head of Osiris at, vi. 11;
the favourite burial-place of the Egyptians, vi. 18 sq.;
specially associated with Osiris, vi. 18, 197;
tombs of the ancient Egyptian kings at, vi. 19;
the ritual of, vi. 86;
hall of the Osirian mysteries at, vi. 108;
representations of the Sed festival at, vi. 151;
inscriptions at, vi. 153;
temple of Osiris at, vi. 198;
ancient shrine of Osiris at, vii. 260 n. 2
Abyssinia, rain-making in, i. 258;
rain-making priests among tribes on the borders of, ii. 2
sq.;
Tigre-speaking tribes to the north of, ii. 19;
fear of the evil eye in, iii. 116;
severed hands and feet preserved against the resurrection in,
iii. 281;
personal names concealed in, iii. 322;
the Kamants of, iv. 12;
sacrifice of first-born children among tribes on the borders of,
iv. 181 sq.;
the Faleshas of, viii. 266 n. 1
Abyssinian festival of Mascal or the Cross, ix. 133 sq.
Acacia, Osiris in the, vi. 111;
the heart in the flower of the, xi. 135 sq.
—— -tree, worshipped in Patagonia, ii. 16;
sacred in Arabia, ii. 42
Acacia
albida, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210
—— catechu, used in kindling fire
by friction, ii. 249
—— Suma, ii. 250 n.
Academy at Athens, funeral games held in the, iv. 96
Acagchemem tribe of California, their worship of the sacred
buzzard, viii. 170 sq.
Acaill, Book of, on kings of Ireland, iv. 39
Acarnanian story of Prince Sunless, x. 21
Acatay
mita, festival to make alligator pears ripen, ii.
98
Accession of a Shilluk king, ceremonies at the, iv. 23
sq.
Accoleian family, coins of the, ii. 185
Accusations of ritual murders brought against the Jews, ix. 394
sqq.
Achaia, subject to earthquakes, v. 202
Acharaca, cave of Pluto at, v. 205 sq.
Acharnae, Attic township, Dionysus Ivy at, vii. 4
Achelous and Dejanira, ii. 161 sq.
Achern, St. John's fires at, x. 168
Achilles at the court of Lycomedes, ii. 278;
his hair devoted to the river Sperchius, iii. 261
Achinese, the, of northern Sumatra, their observation of the
Pleiades, vii. 315
Achinese fishermen, special vocabulary employed by, at sea, iii.
409
Achterneed, in Ross-shire, Beltane cakes at, x. 153
Acilisena, in Armenia, temple and worship of Anaitis at, v. 38,
ix. 369 n. 1
Acireale, in Sicily, Midsummer fires at, x. 210
Acorns as an attribute of Artemis, i. 38 n. 1;
shamans responsible for crop of edible, i. 358;
found in the lake-dwellings of Europe, ii. 353;
as food, ii. 353, 355 sq.;
as fodder for swine, ii. 354, 356
Acosta, J. de, early Spanish historian of Peru and Mexico, ix.
276 n.
1;
on the Peruvian Mother of the Maize, vii. 171 sq.;
on the sacramental eating of bread among the ancient Mexicans,
viii. 86 sqq.;
on the annual expulsion of evils in Peru, ix. 131 n.;
on Aztec custom of sacrificing human representatives of the gods,
ix. 275 sqq.;
on the sacrifice of the human representative of Quetzalcoatl, ix.
281 sqq.
Acre, in Syria, residence of the head of the Babites, i. 402
Acropolis of Athens, the sacred serpent on the, iv. 86
sq.;
Sacred Ploughing at foot of the, vii. 108 n. 4, 109 n. 1;
annual sacrifice of a goat on the, viii. 41
Actium, games celebrated at, vii. 80, 85
Acts, tabooed, iii. 101 sqq.
Açvina, an Indian month, iv. 124
Adad, Syrian king, v. 15;
Babylonian and Assyrian god of thunder and lightning, v. 163
Adad-Nirari, king of Assyria, ix. 370 n. 1
Adair, James, on the self-inflicted mortifications of the Creek
Indians in war, iii. 161 sqq.;
on the refusal of American Indians to taste blood, iii. 240;
on Indian belief in homoeopathic magic of animal flesh, viii.
139;
on American Indian custom of cutting out the sinew of the thigh
of deer, viii. 264;
his discovery of the Ten Lost Tribes in America, viii. 264
n. 4
Adaklu, Mount, in West Africa, evils sent away to, ix. 135
sq., 206 sq.
Adam, man in Lent called, ix. 214
—— and Eve, suggested explanation of their aprons of fig-leaves,
ix. 259 n. 3
—— of Bremen, on the thunder-god Thor, ii. 364
Adams, J., on divinity of king of Benin, i. 396
Adana in Cilicia, v. 169 n. 3
Adar, a Jewish month, vii. 259 n. 1, ix. 361, 394, 397, 398,
415
Adder stones among the Celts, x. 15
Addison, Joseph, on the Italian opera, ii. 299;
on the grotto dei
cani at Naples, v. 205 n. 1;
on witchcraft in Switzerland, xi. 42 n. 2
Adelaide tribe of South Australia, namesakes of the dead change
their names in the, iii. 355
Adeli, the, of the Slave Coast, their festival of new yams, viii.
116
Adhar, a Persian month, vi. 68
Adivi or forest Gollas of Southern India, seclusion of women at
childbirth among the, iii. 149 sq.
Adom-melech or Uri-melech, king of Byblus, v. 14, 17
Adon, a Semitic title, v. 6
sq., 16 sq., 20, 49 n. 7
Adonai, title of Jehovah, v. 6 sq.
Adoni, “my
lord,” Semitic title, v. 7;
names compounded with, v. 17
Adoni-bezek, king of Jerusalem, v. 17
Adoni-jah, elder brother of King Solomon, v. 51 n. 2
Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, v. 17