Aegira, blood drunk at, before prophesying, i. 34 Aethiopian kings confined to their palaces, i. 164 Afghan Boundary Mission, reception of the, by the natives, i. 155 Afghanistan, reception of strangers in, i. 155 Africa, weather kings common in, i. 44; reluctance to accept the crown in some parts of West, i. 118, 119; priestly kings on the west coast of, i. 112; human heart eaten in the Shire Highlands of, ii. 89 Ague, cure for, ii. 153 Aht Indians, seclusion of girls amongst the, ii. 229, 230 Ain, May-day customs in the Département de l’, i. 88 Aino type of sacrament, ii. 134-136 Ainos, bear festival of the, ii. 101-105; preparation for fishing, ii. 122; treatment of the bear, ii. 132 Alaskan sable hunters, ii. 116 Alban hills, i. 1; mount, i. 2 Albania, Easter Eve custom in, i. 276; ii. 181; scapegoat in, ii. 201, 202; beating in, ii. 216 Alexandria, commemoration of the death of Adonis and Aphrodite at, i. 279, 280 Alfoers, function of their high priest Leleen, i. 166; ceremony for restoring the soul, i. 134, 135; priest’s hair uncut, i. 194; priest sows the first rice seed and plucks the first ripe rice, ii. 71; driving away the devil by the, ii. 159 Algeria, midsummer fires in, ii. 266 Alligator, the man-eating, ii. 109 Alps, May-day custom in the, i. 104 Altisheim, harvest custom in, i. 337 Altmark, Whitsuntide customs in, i. 98; Easter bonfires, ii. 254 Amboina, soul-abstracting in, i. 139, 140; sprinkling the sick with spices in, i. 154; hair burying in, i. 201; disease boats in, ii. 188; strength thought to be in the hair in, ii. 328; offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 377 Amenhôtep IV and the sun-god, i. 314, 315 America, belief in the resurrection of the buffalo in the western prairies of, ii. 123 Ammon, rage of the sun-god Ra against, i. 315; rams held sacred by the worshippers of, ii. 92, 93 Andamanese belief in the reflection as the soul, i. 145 Anderida, wealds of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, remnants of the forest of, i. 57 Angel-man, beheading the, ii. 267 Angoulême, custom of burning a poplar on St. Peter’s Day in, i. 101 Angoy, king of, must have no bodily defects, i. 221 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