ix. 213

Ascalon, the goddess Derceto at, v. 34 _n._ 3, ix. 370 _n._ 1

Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, ii. 197; and the Game of Troy, iv. 76

Ascension of Adonis, v. 225

—— Day, the May-tree in Saxony on, ii. 69; annual pardon of a criminal at Rouen on, ii. 165, 166, 168, 169, ix. 215 _sq._; the “Carrying out of Death” on, at Braller, iv. 222 _n._ 1, 247 _sqq._; cures on Eve of, ix. 54; annual expulsion of the devil on, ix. 214 _sq._; bells rung to make flax grow on, ix. 247 _sq._; parasitic rowan should be cut on, xi. 281

Ascent of Persephone, viii. 17

Ascetic idealism of the East, ii. 117

Asceticism not primitive, x. 65

Aschbach, in Bavaria, the Old Man at reaping and threshing at, vii. 219 _sq._

_Asclepias gigantea_, man married to, in Barar, ii. 57 _n._ 4

Ash-tree, parings of nails buried under an, iii. 276; in popular cure, ix. 57

—— -trees, children passed through cleft ash-trees as a cure for rupture or rickets, xi. 168 _sqq._

—— Wednesday, death of Caramantran on, iv. 220; burial of the Carnival on, iv. 221; effigies of Carnival or of Shrove Tuesday burnt or buried on, iv. 226, 228 _sqq._, x. 120; effigy of the Queen of Lent fashioned on, iv. 244; pea-soup and pigs’ bones eaten on, vii. 300

Ashantee, licence accorded to king’s sisters in, ii. 274 _sq._; royal criminals drowned in, iii. 242 _sq._; precaution as to the spittle of the king of, iii. 289; kings of, addressed as “Elephant” and “Lion,” iv. 86; kings of, take one of their titles from _borri_, a venomous snake, iv. 86; human sacrifices at earthquakes in, v. 201; kings of, their human sacrifices, vi. 97 _n._ 7; annual period of licence in, ix. 226 _n._ 1

Ashantees, the, sanctity of the king’s throne among, i. 365; their festivals of new yams, viii. 62 _sq._; ate Sir Charles McCarthy to acquire his bravery, viii. 149

_Asherim_ (singular _asherah_), sacred poles, in Canaan, iv. 169, v. 18, 18 _n._ 2, 107, 108

Ashes from a pyre used to cause sleep, i. 148; of serpents in homoeopathic magic, i. 152 _sq._; of spiders in homoeopathic magic, i. 152; of wasps in homoeopathic magic, i. 152; of a blind cat in homoeopathic magic, i. 153; of the dead turned into rain, i. 287; scattered as a rain-charm, i. 304; scattered to make sunshine, i. 314; of holy fire rubbed on foreheads of warriors, ii. 215; of unborn calves used in a fertility charm, ii. 229, 326; strewn on the head, iii. 112; as manure, vii. 117; of human victims scattered on fields, vii. 258; of the dead swallowed as a mode of communion with them, viii. 156 _sqq._; in divination, x. 243, 244, 245. _See also_ Sticks, Charred

—— of bonfires put in fowls’ nests, x. 112, 338; mixed with seed at sowing, x. 121; increase fertility of fields, x. 141, 337; make cattle thrive, x. 141, 338; placed in a person’s shoes, x. 156; administered to cattle to make them fat, xi. 4

—— of dead smeared on mourner, viii. 164; disposal of the, x. 11

—— of Hallowe’en fires scattered, x. 233

—— of holy fires a protection against demons, xi. 8, 17

—— of human victim scattered with winnowing-fans, vi. 97, 106, vii. 260, 262; scattered on earth to fertilize it, vii. 240; scattered on fields, vii. 249, 250, 251

—— of Midsummer fires strewed on fields to fertilize them, x. 170, 190, 203; a protection against conflagration, x. 174, 196; a protection against lightning, x. 187, 188; a protection against thunder, x. 190; put by people in their shoes, x. 191 _sq._; a cure for consumption, x. 194 _sq._; rubbed by people on their hair or bodies, x. 213, 214, 215; good for the eyes, x. 214

—— of the need-fire strewn on fields to protect the crops against vermin,