P. 188. _A man is literally reborn in the person of his son._—This belief in the possible rebirth of the parent in the child may sometimes explain the seemingly widespread dislike of people to have children like themselves. Examples of such a dislike have met us in a former part of this work.(765) A similar superstition prevails among the Papuans of Doreh Bay in Dutch New Guinea. When a son resembles his father or a daughter resembles her mother closely in features, these savages fear that the father or mother will soon die.(766) Again, in the island of Savou, to the south-west of Timor, if a child at birth is thought to be like its father or mother, it may not remain under the parental roof, else the person whom it resembles would soon die.(767) Such superstitions, it is obvious, might readily suggest the expedient of killing the child in order to save the life of the parent. INDEX. Ababua, the, 65 Abbas, the Great, 157 Abchases, their memorial feasts, 98, 103 Abdication, annual, of kings, 148; of father when his son is grown up, 181; of the king on the birth of a son, 190 Abeokuta, the Alake of, 203 Abipones, the, 63 Abraham, his attempted sacrifice of Isaac, 177 Abruzzi, the, 66, 67; burning an effigy of the Carnival in the, 224; Lenten custom in the, 244 _sq._ Abstract notions, the personification of, not primitive, 253 Academy at Athens, funeral games held in the, 96 Acaill, Book of, 39 Accession of a Shilluk king, ceremonies at the, 23 _sq._ Acropolis at Athens, the sacred serpent on the, 86 _sq._ Adonis or Tammuz, 7 Aesculapius restores Hippolytus or Virbius to life, 214 Africa, succession to the soul in, 200 _sq._ —— North, festivals of swinging in, 284 Agathocles, his siege of Carthage, 167 Agrigentum, Phalaris of, 75 Agrionia, a festival, 163 Agylla, funeral games at, 95 Ahaz, King, his sacrifice of his children, 169 _sq._ Akurwa, 19, 23, 24 Alake, the, of Abeokuta, custom of cutting off the head of his corpse, 203 Alban kings, 76 Albania, expulsion of Kore on Easter Eve in, 265 Alcibiades of Apamea, his vision of the Holy Ghost, 5 _n._3 Alexander the Great, funeral games in his honour, 95 Algonkin women, their attempts to be impregnated by the souls of the dying, 199 Altdorf and Weingarten, Ash Wednesday at, 232 Alus, sanctuary of Laphystian Zeus at, 161, 164 Amasis, king of Egypt, 217 Amelioration in the character of the gods, 136 American Indians, their Great Spirit, 3 Andaman Islanders, their ideas as to shooting stars, 60 Angamis, the, 13 Angel of Death, 177 _sq._ Angola, the Matiamvo of, 35 Angoni, the, of British Central Africa, 156 _n._2 Angoy, king of, 39 Anhouri, Egyptian god, 5 Animals sacred to kings, 82, 84 _sqq._; transformations into, 82 _sqq._ Annam, natives of, their indifference to death, 136 _sq._ Annual abdication of kings, 148 —— renewal of king’s power at Babylon, 113 —— tenure of the kingship, 113 _sqq._