Amulets, rings and bracelets as, i. 92; as soul-boxes, ii. 155; degenerate into ornaments, 156 _n._ 2 Ancestor, wooden image of, ii. 155 Ancestors, worship of, in Fiji, ii. 243 _sq._ Ancestral spirits incarnate in serpents, ii. 211 Anderson, Miss, of Barskimming, i. 171 _n._ 3 Andes, the Peruvian, effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in the, i. 128 Andjra, a district of Morocco, i. 17; Midsummer fires in the, 213 _sq._; Midsummer rites of water in, 216; animals bathed at Midsummer in, ii. 31 Andreas, parish of, in the Isle of Man, i. 224, 305, 307 _n._ 1 Angass, the, of Northern Nigeria, their belief in external human souls lodged in animals, ii. 210 Angel, need-fire revealed by an, i. 287 —— -man, effigy of, burnt at Midsummer, i. 167 Angelus bell, the, i. 110, ii. 47 Angoniland, British Central Africa, customs as to girls at puberty in, i. 25 _sq._; customs as to salt in, 27 Angus, superstitious remedy for the “quarter-ill” in, i. 296 _n._ 1 Anhalt, Easter bonfires in, i. 140 Animal, bewitched, or part of it, burnt to compel the witch to appear, i. 303, 305, 307 _sq._, 321 _sq._; sickness transferred to, ii. 181; and man, sympathetic relation between, 272 _sq._ Animal familiars of wizards and witches, ii. 196 _sq._, 201 _sq._ Animals burnt alive as a sacrifice in England, Wales, and Scotland, i. 300 _sqq._; witches transformed into, 315 _sqq._, ii. 311 _sq._; bewitched, buried alive, i. 324 _sqq._; live, burnt at Spring and Midsummer festivals, ii. 38 _sqq._; the animals perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, 41 _sq._, 43 _sq._; the language of, learned by means of fern-seed, 66 _n._; external soul in, 196 _sqq._; magical transformation of men into animals, 207; helpful, in fairy tales. _See_ Helpful _Ankenmilch bohren_, to make the need-fire, i. 270 _n._ Ankole, in Central Africa, i. 80 Annam, dread of menstruous women in, i. 85; use of wormwood to avert demons in, ii. 61 _n._ 1 Anpu and Bata, ancient Egyptian story of, ii. 134 _sqq._ _Anthemis nobilis_, camomile, gathered at Midsummer, ii. 63 Ant-hill, insane people buried in an, i. 64 Ants employed to sting girls at puberty, i. 61; to sting young men, i. 62 _sq._ Antonius Mountain, in Thuringia, Christmas bonfire on the, i. 265 _sq._ Antwerp, wicker giants at, ii. 35 _sq._ Anula tribe of Northern Australia, their rites of initiation, ii. 235 Anyanja of British Central Africa, their dread of menstruous women, i. 81 _sq._ Apaches, i. 21; use of bull-roarers among the, ii, 230 _n._ Apala cured by Indra in the Rigveda, ii. 192 Ape, a Batta totem, ii. 223 Aphrodite and Adonis, ii. 294 _sq._ Apollo, identified with the Celtic Grannus, i. 112 —— Soranus, ii. 14, 15 _n._ 3 Apollo’s temple at Cumae, i. 99 Apple, divination by the sliced, i. 238; and candle, biting at, 241, 242, 243, 245 Apple-tree as life-index of boy, ii. 165