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Animal worship, two types of, ii. 133, 134; sacred carried in procession, ii. 139-147; employed as a scapegoat, ii. 189-191, 194, 195; eaten to obtain its quality, ii. 86, 87; spared by savages from fear of the vengeance of other animals of the same kind, ii. 107-110; respect shown by the savage for the animal he kills, ii. 110-132; Savage belief in the resurrection of the, ii. 122-125; burnt as representative of the spirit of vegetation, ii. 282-284
Annamites, soul superstition amongst the, i. 132
Antaymour kings responsible for the general welfare, i. 46
Antrim, harvest custom in, i. 339
Apache Indians, rain-making by the, i. 15
Apalai Indians, ceremony on the arrival of a stranger by the, i. 153, 154
Aphrodite, i. 279
Apis the sacred Egyptian bull drowned, ii. 61 sq.
Apollo Diradiotes, blood of sacrificial lamb drunk in the temple of, i. 34
Apple-tree, superstition with regard to the, by barren women, i. 73
Arabia, belief concerning a man’s shadow in, i. 143
Arabian stories, the external soul in, ii. 318, 319
Arabic belief in the properties of lion’s fat, ii. 86
Arabs, rain-making by the heathen, i. 20
Arcadia, rain-charm in, i. 21; beating the scapegoat, ii. 214
Archon of Plataeae, the, may not touch iron, i. 173
Arden, forest of, i. 57
Argive tradition concerning Dionysus, i. 324, 325
Ariadne, marriage of, i. 104
Aricia, “there are many Manii at,” explanation of the proverb, ii. 82, 83
Arician Grove, the, i. 1-6 ; ritual, ii. 63, 64; harvest celebration, ii. 67; Manius the traditional founder of the, ii. 84; sacrament, ii. 83, 84
Aru Islands, soul superstition in the, i. 125, 126; custom after a death in the, i. 147; hair cutting, i. 201; dog’s flesh eaten, ii. 87
Arval Brothers, priestly college of the, and the sacred grove, i. 65; sacred grove of the, and iron, i. 172
Aryans, the, tree worshippers, i. 56-59, 99; totemism and the, ii. 38; oak the sacred tree of the, ii. 291; primitive worship, ii. 370
Ascension Day custom, i. 265
Aschbach, harvest custom in, i. 368
Ash Wednesday customs, i. 254-257; ii. 29, 48, 251
Ashantee, royal blood not shed in, i. 181; harvest festival in, ii. 374
Asia Minor, Pontiffs of, i. 7, 8
Athene, relation of the goat to, ii. 63
Athens, annual marriage of the queen to Dionysus at, i. 103, 104; rites of Adonis observed in, i. 284, 285; scapegoats in, ii. 212; ritual at the sacrifice of the ox in, ii. 38, 39, 41
Attis, myth and festival of, i. 296-298; ii. 50; a tree-spirit or corn-spirit, i. 298-300; probability that the high priest of, was slain in the character of the god, i. 300; probable origin of the cult of, i. 363; relation to Lityerses, i. 396, 397; as a pig, ii. 49, 50
Australia, rain-making in, i. 20, 21; ceremony on entering strange territory by the Australians, i. 156; seclusion of women in, i. 170; blood may not be spilt on the ground in some parts of, i. 181, 182; hair burning after child-birth in, i. 206; totemism, ii. 133, 334-336
Australian blacks’ charm for staying the sun, i. 25; attack the dust columns of red sand, i. 29, 30; fear of women’s blood, i. 185, 186; ii. 238; remedy for toothache, ii. 149; annual expulsion of ghosts, ii. 163
—— Kamilaroi, cannibalism by the, ii. 88
—— medicine man and recall of the soul, i. 131, 132
—— Wotjobaluk, rain-making by the, i. 14
Austria, charm for lulling the wind in, i. 28; old peasant belief in the souls of trees in, i. 61
Auxerre, reaping custom at, i. 335
Axim, annual expulsion of devils at, ii. 170
Aymara Indians, scapegoat used by the, in times of plague, ii. 191
Aztecs, the, and the reflection-soul, i. 145; aversion to wine, i. 185
Baba, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 339, 340
Babar Islands, restoration of the soul in the, i. 137; the soul believed to be in the shadow, i. 142
Babylon, Sacaea festival at, i. 226
Babylonian legend concerning the goddess Istar, i. 287
