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