vii. 268, 280

Auricular confession, iii. 214. _See_ Confession

Aurohuaca Indians of Colombia, auricular confession among the, iii. 215 _sq._, v. 23 _n._ 2

Aurora, one of the New Hebrides, rain-making by means of a stone in, i. 308; magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 127; _tamaniu_ in, xi. 198

Aurora Australis, fear entertained by the Kurnai of the, iv. 267 _n._ 1

Ausonius, on the Ides of August, i. 12 _n._ 2

Aust, E., on the marriage of the Roman gods, vi. 236 _n._ 1

Australia, use of magical images among the aborigines of, i. 62; cave-paintings in, i. 87 _n._ 1; rain-making in, i. 251 _sq._, 254-261, 287 _sq._, 304; dust-columns in, thought to be spirits, i. 331 _sq._; government of old men in aboriginal, i. 334 _sq._; influence of magicians in aboriginal, i. 334 _sqq._; ceremony observed at approaching the camp of another tribe in, iii. 109; custom of personal cleanliness observed from superstitious motives among the aborigines of, iii. 158 _n._ 1; names of relations tabooed among the aborigines of, iii. 345 _sq._; belief as to the reincarnation of the dead in, v. 99 _sqq._; totemism in, viii. 311; demons in, ix. 74; annual expulsion of ghosts in, ix. 123 _sq._; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, x. 76 _sqq._; passing under an arch as a rite of initiation in, xi. 193 _n._ 1; initiation of young men in, xi. 227, 233 _sqq._; use of bull-roarers in, xi. 289 _n._ 2 _See also_ Australian aborigines, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

——, Central, ceremony to promote the growth of hair in, i. 83; magical ceremonies for the supply of food in, i. 85 _sqq._; charm to promote the growth of beards in, i. 153 _sq._; charm to ensure wakefulness in, i. 154; _churinga_ (sacred sticks or stones) in, i. 199; contagious magic of wounds in, i. 204; the Arunta of, i. 259; headmen of the totem clans are public magicians in, i. 335; the Kaitish of, ii. 105, iii. 82, iv. 60; the Warramunga of, ii. 156, ix. 2; the Urabunna of, ii. 209; the tribes of, do not let women see men’s blood, iii. 252 _n._; the aboriginal tribes of, make no magical use of shorn hair, iii. 268 _n._ 1; concealment of personal names among the aborigines of, iii. 321 _sq._; avoidance of the names of the dead among the tribes of, iii. 351; the Luritcha tribe of, iv. 180 _n._ 1, viii. 260; magical rites for the revival of nature in, iv. 270; the Dieri of, vii. 106, viii. 151, ix. 110; use of a species of Claytonia as food in, vii. 128; the aborigines of, their ceremonies for the multiplication of kangaroos,