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

Acosta, J. de, quoted, 275 sq., 277

Adaklu, Mount, in West Africa, 135 sq., 206 sq.

Adam and Eve, 259 n. 3

Adar, a Jewish month, 361, 394, 397, 398, 415

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

Agnus castus, used in ceremony of beating, 252, 257

Agricultural year, expulsions of demons timed to coincide with seasons of the, 225

Agrippa, King of Judaea, his mockery at Alexandria, 418

Ague, popular cures for, 56, 57 sq.;

Suffolk cure for, 68

Ahasuerus, King, 397, 401;

the Hebrew equivalent of Xerxes, 360

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

Aleutian Islands, 3, 16

Alexandria, Adonis at, 390;

mockery of King Agrippa at, 418

Alexandrian calendar, 395 n. 1

Alfoors of Central Celebes, riddles among the, 122 n.

—— of Halmahera, their expulsion of the devil, 112

Algeria, 31;

popular cure in, 60

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

Amboyna, belief in spirits in, 85;

disease-transference in, 187

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

Anaitis, a Persian goddess, 355, 368, 369, 370, 389, 402 n. 1, 421 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.;

as scapegoats, 31 sqq., 190 sqq., 208 sqq., 216 sq.;

guardian spirits of, 98;

prayed to, 236;

dances taught by, 237;

imitated in dances, 376, 377, 381, 382

Aninga, aquatic plant in Brazil, 264

Annam, 33;

demon of cholera sent away on a raft from, 190;

explanation of human mortality in, 303

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

Ants, jealousy transferred to, 33;

stinging people with, 263

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

Aracan, 12 n. 1, 117;

dances for the crops in, 236

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

Arch to shut out plague, 5;

creeping through, as a cure, 55

Arches made over paths at expulsion of demons, 113, 120 sq.