Antichrist, expected reign of, 44 _sq._ Aphrodite, the grave of, 4 Apollo, buried at Delphi, 4; servitude of, 70 _n._1, 78; and the laurel, 78 _sqq._; as slayer of the dragon at Delphi, 78, 79, 80 _sq._; at Thebes, 79; purged of the dragon’s blood in the Vale of Tempe, 81 Ardennes, effigies of Carnival burned in the, 226 _sq._ Ares, the grave of, 4 Ariadne and Theseus, 75 Ariadne’s Dance, 77 Arician grove, ritual of the, 213 Arizona, mock human sacrifices in, 215 Arnold, Matthew, on the English middle class, 146 Artemis, Munychian, sacrifice to, 166 _n._1; mock human sacrifice in the ritual of, 215 _sq._ Artemisia, wife of Mausolus, 95 Ascanius, 76 Ascension Day, 222 _n_.1; the “Carrying out of Death” on, at Braller, 247 _sqq._ Ash Wednesday, Burial of the Carnival on, 221; death of Caramantran on, 226; effigies of Carnival or of Shrove Tuesday burnt or buried on, 226, 228 _sqq._ _Asherim_, sacred poles, 169 Ass, son of a god in the form of an, 124 _sq._; the crest or totem of a royal family, 132, 133 “Assegai, child of the,” 183 Asses and men, redemption of firstling, 173 Assyrian eponymate, 116 _sq._ Astarte, the moon-goddess, 92 Astronomical considerations determining the early Greek calendar, 68 _sq._ Athamas and his children, legend of, 161 _sqq._ Athena, human sacrifices to, 166 _n._1 Athenaeus, 143 Athenian festival of swinging, 281 Athens, funeral games at, 96; hand of suicide cut off at, 220 _n._ Attacks on kings permitted, 22, 48 _sqq._ Aun or On, king of Sweden, 57; sacrifices his sons, 160 _sq._, 188 Aurora Australis, fear entertained by the Kurnai of the, 267 _n._1 Australia, custom of destroying firstborn children among the aborigines of, 179 _sq._; magical rites for the revival of nature in Central, 270 Australian aborigines, their ideas as to shooting stars, 60 _sq._ —— funeral custom, 92 Avebury, Lord, 146 _n._1, 273 Baal, Semitic, 75; human sacrifices to, 167 _sqq._, 195 Babylon, festival of Zagmuk at, 110, 113 Babylonian gods, mortality of the, 5 _sq._ —— legend of creation, 110 —— myth of Marduk and Tiamat, 105 _sq._, 107 _sq._ Bacchic frenzy, 164 Baganda, the, 11 Ball, V., 279 Ballymote, the Book of, 100 Balwe in Westphalia, Burying the Carnival at, 232 Banishment of homicide, 69 _sq._ Banna, a tribe accustomed to strangle their firstborn children, 181 _sq._ Barber, Rev. Dr. W. T. A., 145 _n._, 275 Barcelona, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, 242 Barongo, the, 10, 61 Bashada, a tribe accustomed to strangle their firstborn children, 181 _sq._ Bashkirs, their horse-races at funerals, 97 Bath of ox blood, 201 Battle of Summer and Winter, 254 _sqq._ Bautz, Dr. Joseph, on hell fire, 136 _n._1 Bavaria, Whitsuntide mummers in, 207 _sq._; Carrying out Death in, 233 _sqq._; dramatic contests between Summer and Winter in, 255 _sq._ Bear, the soul of Typhon in the Great, 5