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,