Agricultural year determined by observation of the Pleiades, i. 313 _sqq._ Agriculture, magical significance of games in primitive, i. 92 _sqq._; origin of, 128 _sq._; woman’s part in primitive, 113 _sqq._ Aino, the, ii. 144, 251, their ceremony at eating new millet, 52; their worship of eagle-owls, eagles, and hawks, 199 _sq._; their propitiation of mice, 278; their ambiguous attitude towards the bear, 310 _sq._; type of animal sacrament, 312 _sq._ —— of Japan, their custom of killing bears ceremonially, ii. 180 _sqq._ —— of Saghalien, their bear-festivals, ii. 188 _sqq._ Aïsawa or Isowa, order of saints in Morocco, i. 21 Ajumba hunter, ii. 235 A-Kamba, the, ii. 113 Alaskan hunters, ii. 238 Albania, custom as to locusts and beetles in, ii. 279 Alcyonian Lake, the, i. 15 Alder branches, sacrificial, ii. 232 Alectrona, daughter of the Sun, ii. 45 Alfoors of Minahassa, ii. 100 Alligators, souls of dead in, ii. 297 All Souls, Feast of, i. 30 Alur tribe, ii. 214 Alus, custom at, i. 25 Amambwe, the, ii. 287 Amaxosa Caffres, ii. 227 Amazons of Dahomey, ii. 149 Amazulu, the, i. 316 Amboyna, ii. 123 Amedzowe, the spirit land, ii. 105 Amei Awi, i. 93 American Indians, women’s agricultural work among the, i. 120 _sqq._; their ceremonies at hunting bears, ii. 224 _sqq._; personification of maize, i. 171 _sqq._ Ammon, ram sacrificed to, ii. 41; the Theban, 172 _sq._ Ancestors, prayers to, i. 105; images of, ii. 53; offerings to spirits of, 111, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125 Ancestral Contest at the _Haloa_, i. 61; at the Eleusinian Games, 71, 74, 77; at the Festival of the Threshing-floor, 75 Ancient deities of vegetation as animals, ii. 1 _sqq._ Andaman Islanders, ii. 164 Andree, Dr. Richard, i. 307 Angamis (Angami), a Naga tribe of Assam, i. 244, ii. 291 Angel dance, the, ii. 328 Angoni, the, ii. 149; burial custom among the, 99 Anhalt, harvest customs in, i. 226, 233, 279 Animal, corn-spirit as an, i. 270 _sqq._; killing the divine, ii. 169 _sqq._; worshipful, killed once a year and promenaded from door to door, 322 Animal embodiments of the corn-spirit, on the, i. 303 _sqq._ —— form, god killed in, i. 22 _sq._ —— god, two types of the custom of killing the, ii. 312 _sq._ —— masks worn by Egyptian kings, i. 260 _sq._ —— sacrament, types of, ii. 310 _sqq._ Animals torn to pieces and devoured raw in religious rites, i. 20 _sqq._; language of, acquired by eating serpent’s flesh, ii. 146; resurrection of, 200 _sq._, 256 _sqq._; and men, savages fail to distinguish accurately between, 204 _sqq._; wild, propitiation of, by hunters, 204 _sqq._; bones of, not to be broken, 258 _sq._; bones of, not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, 259; savage faith in the immortality of, 260 _sqq._; transmigration of human souls into, 285 _sqq._; two forms of the worship of, 311; processions with sacred, 316 _sqq._ _Anitos_, souls of ancestors, ii. 124 Anna Kuari, i. 244