ii. 230;

of counting by nights instead of days, ix. 326 _n._ 2

—— family, custom of putting the old and sick to death in several branches of the, iv. 14 _n._ 3; marriage customs of the, vi. 235

—— god of the oak and thunder, ii. 356 _sqq._, x. 265; god of the sky, ii. 374 _sq._

—— languages, names for moon and month in, ix. 325

—— peoples, descent of kingship through women among, ii. 280; their correction of the lunar year, ix. 342; stories of the external soul among, xi. 97 _sqq._

—— stock, tree-worship among all the great European families of the, ii. 9

—— tribes of Gilgit revere the _chili_, a species of cedar, ii. 49

Aryans, magical powers ascribed to kings among the, i. 366 _sqq._; perpetual fires among the, ii. 260; female kinship among the, ii. 283 _sqq._; importance of cattle and milk among the ancient, ii. 324 _n._ 1; the primitive, their theory of personal names, iii. 319; their alleged Arctic origin, v. 229 _n._ 1; annual festivals of the dead among the, vi. 67 _sqq._

—— of Europe, their oak forests and use of oak-wood, ii. 372, 378; agriculture among the early, vii. 129 _sq._; totemism not proved for the, viii. 4; importance of the Midsummer festival among the, xi. 40; the oak the chief sacred tree of the, xi. 89 _sq._

Aryans of India, transubstantiation among the, viii. 89 _sq._

—— of the Vedic age, ix. 324; their calendar, ix. 325, 342

Aryenis, daughter of Alyattes, v. 133 _n._ 1

Asa, a branch of the Masai, how they dispose of their cut hair and nails,