ii. 183;

afraid of having their portraits taken, iii. 97; keep their names secret, iii. 324; eat fruit of Araucanian pine, v. 278 _n._ 2 _See also_ Aucas

Araunah, the threshing-floor of, v. 24

Arawak Indians of British Guiana, murderers taste the blood of their victims among the, viii. 154 _sq._; their explanation of human mortality, ix. 302 _sq._

Arcadia, the oak forests of, ii. 354 _sq._

Arcadian boys offer their hair to a river, i. 31

—— custom of beating Pan’s image, ix. 256

Arcadians ate and eat acorns, ii. 355, 356; sacrifice to thunder and lightning, v. 157

Arch to shut out plague, ix. 5; creeping through, as a cure, ix. 55; child after an illness passed under an, xi. 192; young men at initiation passed under a leafy, xi. 193; triumphal, suggested origin of the, xi. 195. _See also_ Arches, Archways

Archangel, worship of Leschiy in the Government of, ii. 125

Archangels, Persian, ix. 373 _n._ 1

Archbishop of Innocents, ix. 334

Archer (_Tirant_), effigy of, xi. 36

Archery, contest of, for a bride, ii. 306

Arches made over paths at expulsion of demons, ix. 113, 120 _sq._; novices at initiation passed under arches in Australia, xi. 193 _n._ 1 _See also_ Arch, Archways

Archigallus, high-priest of Attis, v. 268, 279; prophesies, v. 271 _n._

Archways, passing under, as a means of escaping evil spirits or sickness, xi. 179 _sqq._ _See also_ Arch, Arches

Arctic origin, alleged, of the Aryans, v. 229 _n._ 1

—— regions, ceremonies at the reappearance of the sun in the, ix. 124 _sq._, 125 _n._ 1

Arcturus, Greek vintage timed by, vii. 47 _n._ 2; Greek festival before, 51, 52

Arden, Forest of, ii. 7

Ardennes, May Day custom in the, ii. 80; Arduinna, goddess of the, ii. 126; effigies of Carnival burned in the, iv. 226 _sq._; precautions against rats in the, viii. 277; the King of the Bean in the, ix. 314; the Eve of Epiphany in the, ix. 317; bonfires on the first Sunday of Lent in the, x. 107 _sq._; the French, Lenten fires and customs in, x. 109 _sq._; Midsummer fires in the, x. 188; the Yule log in the, x. 253; cats burnt alive in Lenten bonfires in the, xi. 40

Ardrishaig, in Argyleshire, the harvest Maiden at, vii. 155 _sq._

Arduinna, goddess of the Ardennes, ii. 126

_Aren_ palm-tree, superstition as to, ii. 22

Arenna or Arinna, the Hittite sun-goddess of, v. 136, with _n._ 1

Arensdorf, custom at sowing in, v. 239

Ares, men sacred to, iii. 111; the grave of, iv. 4

Argaeus, Mount, in Cappadocia, v. 190 _sq._

Argentina and Bolivia, passes of, ix. 9

Argenton, in Berry, Mid-Lenten custom at, iv. 241 _sq._

Argive brides wore false beards, vi. 260

—— maidens sacrificed their hair to Athena, i. 28

—— tradition as to descent of Dionysus into Hades, vii. 15

—— women bewailed Adonis, v. 227 _n._

Argo, tree of which the ship was made, xi. 94 _n._ 1

Argolis, Eastern, physical features of, ii. 360

Argos, titular kings at, i. 47 _n._; Apollo Diradiotes at, i. 381; Flowery Hera at, ii. 143 _n._ 2; new fire after a death in, ii. 267 _n._ 4; altar of Rainy Zeus at, ii. 360 _n._ 8

Argus, Hermes tried for the murder of, ix. 24

Argyleshire, locks unlocked at childbirth in, iii. 296; use of knotted threads as a cure in, iii. 304; last corn cut at harvest called the Maiden in, vii. 155 _sq._; the last corn cut at harvest called the Old Wife (_Cailleach_) in, vii. 164

—— stories of the external soul, xi. 127 _sqq._

Argyrus, temple of Hercules at, x. 99 _n._ 3

_Ari_ or totem, mode of determining a young man’s, i. 99

Ariadne, Cyprian worship of, vii. 209 _n._ 2

—— and Dionysus, ii. 138

—— and Theseus, iv. 75

Ariadne’s crown, ii. 138

—— Dance, iv. 75, 77

Ariccia, the modern descendant of Aricia, i. 3, xi. 309

Aricia, sacred grove at, i. 3, viii. 95; the beggars of, i. 4; Orestes at, i. 10; “many Manii at,” i. 22, viii. 94 _sqq._; its distance from the sanctuary, ii. 2; the priest of, ix. 273; King of the Wood at, ix. 409; the priest of, and the Golden Bough, x. 1; the priest of Diana at, perhaps a personified Jupiter, xi. 302 _sq._

Arician grove, the sacred, i. 20, 22, ii. 115, ix. 274, 305; horses excluded from, i. 20, viii. 40 _sqq._; ritual of, iv. 213; perhaps the scene of a common harvest celebration, viii. 44; said to have been founded by Manius, viii. 95; the Midsummer festival of fire in, xi. 285; the priest of, a personification of an oak-spirit, xi. 285. _See also_ Nemi

Arician priesthood, ix. 305

—— slope, the, i. 4 _n._ 5

Aries, the constellation, the sun in, ix. 361 _n._ 1, 403

Arikara Indians, their rule as to breaking marrow bones, i. 115 _sq._; their preparation for war by fasting and lacerating themselves, iii. 161

Ariminum, triumphal arch of Augustus at, xi. 194 _n._ 4

Aristeas of Proconnesus, his soul as a raven, iii. 34

Aristides, the rhetorician, on first-fruit offerings, vii. 56; on Eleusinian Games, vii. 71

Aristomenes, Messenian hero, his fabulous birth, v. 81

Aristophanes, Strepsiades in, i. 285; on the Spartan envoy, v. 196 _n._ 4; on Hercules as patron of hot springs, v. 209

Aristotelian philosophy, revival of the, v. 301

Aristotle, on death at ebb-tide, i. 167; on the marriage of the Queen to Dionysus, ii. 137; his _Constitution of Athens_, ii. 137 _n._ 1, vii. 79; on the political institutions of Cyprus, v. 49 _n._ 7; on earthquakes, v. 211 _n._ 3; on the trial of lifeless objects by the King at Athens, viii. 5 _n._ 1; on men of genius, viii. 302 _n._ 5; his statement of the principle of the survival of the fittest, viii. 306

Arizona, the aridity of, i. 306; the Moquis of, iii. 228; mock human sacrifices in, iv. 215; the Pueblo Indians of, vii. 312; and New Mexico, use of bull-roarers in, xi. 230 _n._, 231

Arjun and Draupadi, ii. 306

Arkansas Indians, their offerings of first-fruits to the Master of Life,