Aberdour, parish of, in Aberdeenshire, the cutting of the _clyack_ sheath in, vii. 158 _sqq._ Aberfeldy, Hallowe’en fires near, x. 232 Abi-baal, “father of Baal,” v. 51 _n._ 4 Abi-el, “father of El,” v. 51 _n._ 4 Abi-jah, King, his family, v. 51 _n._ 2; “father of Jehovah,” v. 51 _n._ 4 Abi-melech, “father of a king,” v. 51 _n._ 4 Abi-milk (Abi-melech), king of Tyre, v. 16 _n._ 5 Abimelech massacres his seventy brothers, v. 51 _n._ 2 Abingdon in Berkshire, May carols and garlands at, ii. 60 Abipones, the, of South America thought it sinful to mention their own names, iii. 328; the dead not named among the, iii. 352; changes in their language caused by the fear of naming the dead, iii. 360; their belief as to meteors, iv. 63; their worship of the Pleiades, v. 258 _n._ 2, vii. 308; ate jaguars to become brave, viii. 140 Abjuration, form of, imposed on Jewish converts, ix. 393 Abnormal mental states accounted inspiration, iii. 248 Abolition of the kingship at Rome, ii. 289 _sqq._ Abomey, the old capital of Dahomey, iv. 40 Abonsam, an evil spirit on the Gold Coast, ix. 132 Aborigines retained as priests of the local gods by conquering races, ii. 288; of Victoria, their custom as to emu fat, x. 13 Abortion, superstition as to woman who has procured, iii. 153 Abougit, Father X., S.J., on the ceremony of the new fire at Jerusalem, x. 130 Abraham, his attempted sacrifice of Isaac, iv. 177, vi. 219 _n._ 1 —— and Sarah, ii. 114 ——, the Pool of, at Ourfa, i. 285 Abrahams, Israel, on the Purim bonfires, ix. 393 _n._ 2 Abruzzi, barren fruit-trees threatened in the, ii. 22; belief as to falling stars in the, iv. 66, 67; burning an effigy of the Carnival in the, iv. 224; seven-legged effigy of Lent in the, iv. 244 _sq._; gossips of St. John in the, v. 245 _n._ 2; marvellous properties attributed to water on St. John’s Night in the, v. 246; Easter ceremonies in the, v. 256; the feast of All Souls in the, vi. 77 _sq._; rules as to sowing seed and cutting timber in the, vi. 133 _n._ 3; Epiphany in the, ix. 167 _n._ 2; new Easter fire in the, x. 122; water consecrated at Easter in the, x. 122 _sqq._; Midsummer rites of fire and water in the, x. 209 _sq._ Absalom, his intercourse with his father’s concubines, ix. 368 Absence and recall of the soul, iii. 30 _sqq._ Absites, the, iii. 312 Absrot, village of Bohemia, precaution against witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 161 Abstinence, periods of, observed before sowing, ii. 98, 105; as a charm to promote the growth of the seed, ix. 347 _sqq._ Abstract notions, the personification of, not primitive, iv. 253 Abu ’Ilberecat, a Berber, ii. 153 _sq._ Abu Rabah, resort of childless wives in Palestine, v. 78, 79 Abuse (vituperation), beneficial virtue ascribed to, i. 279 _sq._