viii. 235

Akamba of British East Africa, believe that every woman has a spiritual husband who fertilizes her, ii. 317; continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204; their offerings of first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 113; riddles asked at circumcision among the, ix. 122 _n._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 23

—— of Central Africa, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353

Akawés, a tribe of Garos, their harvest festival, viii. 337

Akhetaton (Tell-el-Amarna), the capital of Amenophis IV., vi. 123 _n._ 1

Akikuyu, the, of British East Africa, ceremony of the new birth among the, i. 75 _sq._, 96 _sq._, xi. 262 _sq._; worship fig-trees, ii. 44 _sq._; worship a snake, and marry girls to the snake-god, ii. 150, v. 67 _sq._; believe that barren women can be fertilized by the wild fig-tree, ii. 316; purification of manslayers among the, iii. 175 _sq._; continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204; auricular confession among the, iii. 214; use of scapegoats among the, iii. 214 _sq._; their women purified after a miscarriage in childbirth, iii. 286; their treatment of premature and unusual births, iii. 286, 287 _n._ 6; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 85; transfer guilt to a goat, ix. 32; their dread of menstruous women, x. 81. _See also_ Kikuyu

Akurwa, a village of the Shilluk, iv. 19, 23, 24

Alabama, harvest festival of the Indians of, viii. 72 _n._ 3

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Roman version of, xi. 105

Alafin of Oyo, paramount king of Yoruba land, iv. 203

Alake, the, of Abeokuta, custom of cutting off the head of his corpse, iv. 203

Alaska, the Esquimaux of, i. 121, 328, iii. 145, vi. 51, ix. 124, xi. 155; the Aleuts of, iii. 207; the Kaniagmuts of, iii. 207; the Koniags of, i. 121, vi. 106; seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, x. 45 _sq._

Alaskan hunters, their respect for dead sables and beavers, viii. 238

—— islanders mistook the Russians for cuttle-fish, viii. 206

Alastir and the Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of, xi. 129 _sq._

Alba, Vestal fire and Vestal virgins at, i. 13

—— Longa, the kings of, ii. 178 _sqq._, 268 _sq._; perhaps mimicked Latian Jupiter, ii. 187

Alban dynasty descended from a Vestal, ii. 197

—— Hills, i. 2, ii. 178

—— kings, iv. 76

—— Lake, i. 2; tradition of a submerged city in the, ii. 180, 181 _n._

—— League, religious centre of the, ii. 187

—— Mountain, the, ii. 187 _sq._, 202, 387

Albania, bloodstones in, i. 165; milk-stones in, i. 165; fear of portraiture in, iii. 100; expulsion of Kore on Easter Eve in, iv. 265, ix. 157; marriage custom in, vi. 246; mock lamentations for locusts and beetles in, viii. 279; Midsummer fires in, x. 212; the Yule log in, x. 264

Albanian custom of beating men and beasts in March, ix. 266

—— story of the external soul, xi. 104 _n._ 3

Albanians of the Caucasus, did not mention the names of the dead, iii. 349; their worship of the moon, v. 73; their use of human scapegoats, ix. 218

Albano, ancient necropolis near, ii. 201

Albert, Lake, Lendu tribe of, i. 348

—— Nyanza, Lake, the Wahuma of the, i. 250; crocodiles in the, viii. 213; the Wakondyo of the, xi. 162 _sq._

Alberti, L., on Caffre purification of lion-killer, iii. 220

Albigenses worshipped each other, i. 407

Albino sacrificed to river, ii. 158; head of secret society on the Lower Congo, xi. 251

Albinoes the offspring of the moon, v. 91

Albirûni, Arab geographer, on the Persian festival of the dead, vi. 68; on the burning of effigies of Haman at Purim, ix. 393

Alchemy leads up to chemistry, i. 374

_Alcheringa_, remote legendary time of the Arunta, i. 88, 98, 102

Alcibiades of Apamea, his vision of the Holy Ghost, iv. 5 _n._ 3

Alcidamus wins Barce in a foot-race, ii. 300 _sq._

Alcman on dew, vi. 137

Alcmena, her long travail with Hercules, iii. 298 _sq._

Alcyonian Lake, Dionysus at the, vii. 15

Alder branches, sacrificial, viii. 232

Alders free from mistletoe, xi. 315

Alectrona, daughter of the Sun, taboos observed at her sanctuary in Rhodes, viii. 45

Alençon, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337 _n._ 1

Aleutian Islands, Atkhans of the, ix. 3; cairns in the, ix. 16

—— hunter injured by unchastity of absent wife or sister, i. 123

Aleutians, effeminate sorcerers among the, vi. 254

Aleuts of Alaska, seclusion of successful whaler among the, iii. 207

Alexander the Great, his fiery cresset, ii. 264; cuts the Gordian knot, iii. 316; funeral games in his honour, iv. 95; expels a king of Paphos, v. 42; his fabulous birth, v. 81; assumes costumes of deities, v. 165; sacrifices to Megarsian Athena, v. 169 _n._ 3

Alexander Severus, at festival of Attis, v. 273

Alexandria, festival of Adonis at, v. 224, ix. 390; the Serapeum at, vi. 119 _n._, 217; mockery of King Agrippa at, ix. 418

Alexandrian calendar, used by Plutarch, vi. 84; used by Theophanes, ix. 395 _n._ 1

—— year, the fixed, vi. 28, 92; Plutarch’s use of the, vi. 49

Alfai, title of rain-making priest among the Barea and Kunama, ii. 3

Alfoors of Buru, names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 341

—— or Toradjas of Central Celebes, their custom at child-birth, iii. 33; taboos observed by their priest, iii. 129; priest with unshorn hair among the, iii. 260; riddles among the, ix. 122 _n._; their custom at the smelting of iron, xi. 154; their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 222. _See also_ Toradjas

—— of Ceram, their high-priest regarded as a demigod, i. 400

Alfoors of Halmahera, name of wife’s father tabooed among the, iii. 341; their expulsion of the devil, ix. 112

—— of Minahassa, inspired priest among the, i. 382 _sq._; ceremony at house-warming among the, iii. 63 _sq._; names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340 _sq._; their custom as to the first rice sowed and reaped, viii. 54; attempt to deceive demons of sickness, viii. 100

—— of Poso, in Central Celebes, their belief as to demons of trees, ii. 35; abduction of souls by demons among the, iii. 62 _sq._; will not pronounce their own names, iii. 332; names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340

Algeds, rain-maker among the, ii. 3

Algeria, rain-making in, i. 250; the Aisawa sect in, vii. 22 _n._ 1; fever transferred to tortoise in, ix. 31; popular cure by knocking nails in, ix. 60; Midsummer fires in, x. 213

——, the Arabs of, avoid using the proper name for lion, iii. 400; tale of, iv. 130 _n._ 1

Algidus, Mount, its oak forests, ii. 187, 380; a haunt of Diana, ii. 380

Algiers, the Moors of, light no fires after a death, ii. 268 _n._

Algonquin Indians caught souls in nets, iii. 69 _sq._

Algonquins or Algonkins, the, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 197; marry their fishing-nets to girls, ii. 147 _sq._; their women seek to be impregnated by the souls of the dying, iv. 199

Alice Springs in Central Australia, i. 259, xi. 238; magical stones at, i. 162

Aline, Loch, fishing magic on, i. 110

All-healer, name applied to mistletoe, xi. 77, 79, 82

All Saints, Feast of, perhaps substituted for an old pagan festival of the dead, vi. 82 _sq._

All Saints’ Day, November 1st, old Celtic New Year’s Day, x. 225; omens on, x. 240; bonfires on, x. 246; sheep passed through a hoop on, xi. 184

All Souls, Festival of, iv. 98, vi. 51 _sqq._, vii. 30, x. 223 _sq._, 225 _n._ 2; originally a pagan festival of the dead, vi. 81; instituted by Odilo, abbot of Clugny, vi. 82

All Souls’ College, Oxford, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337

_Allallu_ bird beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371

Allan, John Hay, on the Hays of Errol, xi. 283

Allandur temple, at St. Thomas’s Mount, Madras, fire-festival at, xi. 8 _n._ 1

Allatu, Babylonian goddess, v. 9

Allerton, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338

Allhallow Even, the thirty-first of October, Lords of Misrule on, ix. 332

All-Hallows (All Saints’ Day), iii. 11, 12

Allifae in Samnium, baths of Hercules at, v. 213 _n._ 2

Alligator pears, Peruvian ceremony to make them ripen, ii. 98

Alligators, souls of dead in, viii. 297

Allumba, in Central Australia, magic tree at, i. 145 _sq._

Almagest, the, vii. 259 _n._ 1

Almo, procession to the river, in the rites of Attis, v. 273

Almond causes virgin to conceive, v. 263; the father of all things, v. 263 _sq._

—— -trees, mistletoe on, xi. 316

Almora, in Kumaon, ix. 197

A-Louyi, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28 _n._ 5

Alpach, valley in Tyrol, the Wheat-bride or Rye-bride at harvest in, vii. 163

Alpheus, the sacred, ii. 8

Alqamar, tribe of nomads in Hadramaut, their way of stopping rain, i. 252

Alsace, May-trees in, ii. 64; the Little May Rose in, ii. 74; stuffed goat or fox at threshing in, vii. 287, 297; Midsummer fires in, x. 169; cats burnt in Easter bonfires in, xi. 40

Alt Lest, in Silesia, the binder of the last sheaf called the Beggar-man at, vii. 231

—— -Pillau, in Samland, harvest custom at, vii. 139

Altars, bloodless, ix. 307

Altdorf and Weingarten, in Swabia, the Carnival Fool on Ash Wednesday at,