Aberfeldy, Hallowe’en fires near, i. 232 Aborigines of Victoria, their custom as to emu fat, i. 13 Abougit, Father X., S.J., on the ceremony of the new fire at Jerusalem, i. 130 Abruzzi, new Easter fire in the, i. 122; water consecrated at Easter in the, 122 _sqq._; Midsummer rites of fire and water in the, 209 _sq._ Acacia, the heart in the flower of the, ii. 135 _sq._ Acarnanian story of Prince Sunless, i. 21 Achern, St. John’s fires at, i. 168 Achterneed, in Ross-shire, Beltane cakes at, i. 153 Acireale, in Sicily, Midsummer fires at, i. 210 Adder stones, i. 15 Addison, Joseph, on witchcraft in Switzerland, ii. 42 _n._ 2 Adonis and Aphrodite, ii. 294 _sq._ Aelst, Peter van, painter, ii. 36 Aeneas and the Golden Bough, ii. 285, 293 _sq._ Africa, girls secluded at puberty in, i. 22 _sqq._; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, 79 _sqq._; birth-trees in, ii. 160 _sqq._; use of bull-roarers in, 229 _n._, 232 ——, British Central, the Anyanja of, i. 81 ——, British East, i. 81; ceremony of new fire in, 135 _sq._; the Nandi of, ii. 229 _n._; the Akikuyu of, 262 _sq._ ——, East, ceremony of the new fire in, i. 135; the Swahili of, ii. 160 ——, German East, the Wajagga of, ii. 160; the Washamba of, 183; the Bondeis of, 263; the Wadoe of, 312 ——, German South-West, the Ovambo of, ii. 183 ——, North, Midsummer fires in, i. 213 _sqq._ ——, South, the Thonga of, ii. 297 ——, West, theory of an external soul embodied in an animal prevalent in, ii. 200 _sqq._; ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in, 251 _sqq._ African stories of the external soul, ii. 148 _sqq._; Balders, 312 _sqq._ Afterbirth buried under a tree, ii. 160 _sq._, 162, 163, 164, 165; of child animated by a ghost and sympathetically connected with a banana-tree, 162; regarded as brother or sister of child, 162 _n._ 2; regarded as a second child, 162 _n._ 2; regarded as a guardian spirit, 223 _n._ 2; and navel-string regarded as guardian angels of the man, ii. 162 _n._ 2 Agaric growing on birch-trees, superstitions as to, i. 148 Aglu, New year fires at, i. 217 Air thought to be poisoned at eclipses, i. 162 _n._ Aisne, Midsummer fires in the department of, i. 187 Aix, squibs at Midsummer in, i. 193; Midsummer king at, i. 194, ii. 25; bathing at Midsummer in, 216 Agni, Hindoo deity, i. 99 _n._ 2; the fire-god, ii. 1, 296 Ague, Midsummer bonfires deemed a cure for, i. 162; leaps across the Midsummer bonfires thought to be a preventive of, 174 Agweh, on the Slave Coast, custom of widows at, ii. 18 _sq._ Ahlen, in Munsterland, i. 247 Ahriman, the devil of the Persians, i. 95 Aht or Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 43 _sq._ Ahura Mazda, the supreme being of the Persians, i. 95 Ain, Lenten fires in the department of, i. 114