Anointing the body as a means of acquiring certain qualities, ii. 162 _sqq._ Antankarana tribe of Madagascar, ii. 290 Anthesteria, the, i. 30 _sqq._ Anthropomorphism, i. 212 Antinous, games in honour of, i. 80, 85 Antiquity of the cultivation of the cereals in Europe, i. 79 Antrim, harvest customs in, i. 144, 154 _sq._ Ants, superstitious precaution against the ravages of, ii. 276 Apaches, the, ii. 242 Apes, ceremony after killing, ii. 235 _sq._ Apis, sacred bull, ii. 34 _sqq._ Apollo surnamed Locust and Mildew, ii. 282; the Mouse, 282 _sq._; Wolfish, 283 _sq._ Apollonius of Tyana, ii. 280 Apologies offered by savages to the animals they kill, ii. 215, 217, 218, 221, 222 _sqq._, 235 _sqq._, 243 Apple-tree, straw-man placed on oldest, ii. 6 Arabs, ii. 146, 164; of Moab, harvest custom of the, i. 138 Arawak Indians, ii. 154 Arcturus, i. 47 _n._ 2, 51, 52 Ardennes, precautions against rats in the, ii. 277 Argyleshire, harvest customs in, i. 155 _sq._ Ariadne, Cyprian worship of, i. 209 _n._ 2 Aricia, many Manii at, ii. 94 _sqq._; sacred grove at, 95 Arician grove, horses excluded from, ii. 40 _sqq._ Aristides, the rhetorician, on first-fruit offerings, i. 56; on Eleusinian Games, 71 Aristotle, _Constitution of Athens_, i. 79; on men of genius, ii. 302 _n._ 5 Arkansas Indians, ii. 134 Arriaga, J. de, i. 173 _n._ Art, Demeter and Persephone in, i. 43 _sq._ Artemis, Brauronian, ii. 41 _n._ 3 Artemisia and Mausolus, ii. 158 Artemision, a Greek month, ii. 8 Artificers, worship of the, ii. 60 _sq._ Aru Islands, ii. 145 Aryans of Europe, agriculture among the early, i. 129 _sq._; totemism not proved for the, ii. 4 Ash Wednesday, i. 300 Ashantees, the, ii. 149; their festivals of new yams, 62 _sq._ Ashes as manure, i. 117 —— of dead swallowed, ii. 156 _sqq._; smeared on mourner, 164; of human victim scattered on earth to fertilise it, i. 240; scattered on fields, 249, 250, 251; scattered with winnowing-fans, 260, 262 Assam, ii. 116; agriculture in, i. 123; _genna_ in, 109 _n._ 2; head-hunting in, 256 Asses, transmigration of sinners into, ii. 299, 308 Assimilation of victims to gods, i. 261 _sq._; of men to their totems or guardian animals, ii. 207 _sq._ Assiniboins, the, ii. 225 Assinie, W. African kingdom, ii. 63 Astronomy, origin of, i. 307 Asuras, the, ii. 120 Athamanes, the, of Epirus, i. 129 Athamas, King, i. 24, 25 Athena, sacrifices to, i. 56; and the goat, ii. 40 _sq._ Athens, Queen of, married to Dionysus, i. 30 _sq._; called “the Metropolis of the Corn,” 58; ceremony at killing a wolf at, ii. 221; the Lyceum at, 283, 284 Athletic competitions among harvesters, i. 76 _sq._ Atonement to animals for wrong done to them, ii. 310 _sq._ Attic months lunar, i. 52 Attica, vintage custom in, ii. 133 Attis, i. 2, 14, 214; his relation to Lityerses, 255 _sq._; and the pig, ii. 22 Attraction and repulsion, forces of, ii. 303 _sqq._