The Roman numerals (i., ii., iii., etc.) refer to the volumes; the Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) refer to the pages. The volumes of the work are cited by the following numerals:— i. = _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, vol. i. ii. = " " " vol. ii. iii. = _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul._ iv. = _The Dying God._ v. = _Adonis, Attis, Osiris_, Third Edition, vol. i. vi. = " " " vol. ii. vii. = _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, vol. i. viii. = " " " vol. ii. ix. = _The Scapegoat._ x. = _Balder the Beautiful_, vol. i. xi. = " " vol. ii. Aachen, effigy burnt on Ash Wednesday at, x. 120, xi. 25 Aargau, Swiss canton of, the Whitsuntide Basket in, ii. 83; Lenten fire-custom in, x. 119; superstition as to oak-mistletoe in, xi. 82; mistletoe called “thunder-besom” in, xi. 85, 301; birth-trees in, xi. 165 Ab, a Jewish month, equivalent to August, i. 14, vii. 259 _n._ 1 Ababa, a tribe of the Congo region, believe that their souls transmigrate at death into animals, viii. 288 _sq._ Ababua, the, of the Congo valley, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65 Aban, a Persian month, vi. 68 Abbas Effendi, divine head of the Babites, i. 402 Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia, temporary substitute for, iv. 157 Abbehausen, fever transferred to dog and cat at, ix. 51 Abbeville, huge trunks of oak in the peat-bog near, ii. 351 Abbot of Folly in France, ix. 334 —— of Unreason in Scotland, ix. 312, 331 Abchases of the Caucasus, their ceremony of rain-making, i. 282 _n._ 4; their worship of the thunder-god, ii. 370; their memorial feasts, iv. 98, 103; their use of effigies as substitutes to save the lives of people, viii. 105; their sacrament of shepherds, viii. 313; their sacrifice of white ox, viii. 313 _n._ 1 Abd-Hadad, priestly king of Hierapolis, v. 163 _n._ 3 Abdera, human scapegoats at, ix. 254 Abdication of kings in favour of their infant children, iii. 19, 20; during the reign of their substitutes, iv. 115; annual, of kings, iv. 148; of father when his son is grown up, iv. 181; of the king on the birth of a son, iv. 190; temporary, of chief, viii. 66, 68 Abduction of souls by demons, iii. 58 _sqq._ Abeghian, Manuk, on the belief of the Armenians in demons, ix. 107 _sq._; on creeping through cleft trees in Armenia, xi. 172 Abensberg in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, x. 144 Abeokuta, in West Africa, the Alake (king) of, iv. 203; his head kept and delivered to his successor, iv. 203; use of bull-roarers at, xi. 229 _n._ Aber, the Lake of, in Upper Austria, xi. 189 Aberdeenshire, All Souls’ Day in, vi. 79 _sq._; harvest customs in, vii. 158 _sqq._, 215 _sq._, x. 12; need-fire in, x. 296; holed rock used by childless women in, xi. 187