Ainos of Japan, their mourning caps, i. 20; their use of mugwort in exorcism, ii. 60; their veneration for mistletoe, 79 A-Kamba of British East Africa, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 23 Akikuyu of British East Africa, their dread of menstruous women, i. 81; ritual of the new birth among the, ii. 262 _sq._ Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Roman version of, ii. 105 Alaska, seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, i. 45 _sq._; the Esquimaux of, ii. 155 Alastir and the Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of, ii. 129 _sq._ Albania, Midsummer fires in, i. 212; the Yule log in, 264 Albanian story of the external soul, ii. 104 _n._ 3 Albert Nyanza, the Wakondyo of the, ii. 162 _sq._ Albino head of secret society on the Lower Congo, ii. 251 Alders free from mistletoe, ii. 315 Alfoors or Toradjas of Celebes, their custom at the smelting of iron, ii. 154; their doctrine of the plurality of souls, 222 Algeria, Midsummer fires in, i. 213 Alice Springs in Central Australia, ii. 238 Allan, John Hay, on the Hays of Errol, ii. 283 Allandur temple, at St. Thomas’s Mount, Madras, ii. 8 All-healer, name applied to mistletoe, ii. 77, 79, 82 All Saints’ Day, omens on, i. 240; the first of November, 225; bonfires on, 246; sheep passed through a hoop on, ii. 184 All Souls, Feast of, i. 223 _sq._, 225 _n._ 3 Almond-trees, mistletoe on, ii. 316 A-Louyi, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 28 _n._ 5 Alsace, Midsummer fires in, i. 169; cats burnt in Easter bonfires in, ii. 40 Althenneberg, in Bavaria, Easter fires at, i. 143 _sq._ Altmark, Easter bonfires in, i. 140, 142 Alum burnt at Midsummer, i. 214 Alungu, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 24 _sq._ Alur, a tribe of the Upper Nile, i. 64 Alvarado, Pedro de, Spanish general, ii. 214 _Amadhlozi_, ancestral spirits in serpent form, ii. 211 _n._ 2 Amambwe, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 24 _sq._ _Amatongo_, plural of _itongo_, ii. 302 _n._ Amazon, ordeals of young men among the Indians of the, i. 62 _sq._ Ambamba, in West Africa, death, resurrection, and the new birth in, ii. 256 Amboyna, hair of criminals cut in, ii. 158 Ambras, Midsummer customs at, i. 173 America, Central, the Mosquito territory in, i. 86 America, North, Indians of, not allowed to sit on bare ground in war, i. 5; seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, 41 _sqq._; dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the Indians of, 87 _sqq._; stories of the external soul among the Indians of, ii. 151 _sq._; religious associations among the Indian tribes of, 267 _sqq._ ——, South, seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, i. 56 _sqq._; effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, 128; Midsummer fires in, 212 _sq._ Ammerland, in Oldenburg, cart-wheel used as charm against witchcraft in, i. 345 _n._ 3 Amphitryo besieges Taphos, ii. 103