Abydos, head of Osiris at, vi. 11; the favourite burial-place of the Egyptians, vi. 18 _sq._; specially associated with Osiris, vi. 18, 197; tombs of the ancient Egyptian kings at, vi. 19; the ritual of, vi. 86; hall of the Osirian mysteries at, vi. 108; representations of the Sed festival at, vi. 151; inscriptions at, vi. 153; temple of Osiris at, vi. 198; ancient shrine of Osiris at, vii. 260 _n._ 2 Abyssinia, rain-making in, i. 258; rain-making priests among tribes on the borders of, ii. 2 _sq._; Tigre-speaking tribes to the north of, ii. 19; fear of the evil eye in, iii. 116; severed hands and feet preserved against the resurrection in, iii. 281; personal names concealed in, iii. 322; the Kamants of, iv. 12; sacrifice of first-born children among tribes on the borders of, iv. 181 _sq._; the Faleshas of, viii. 266 _n._ 1 Abyssinian festival of Mascal or the Cross, ix. 133 _sq._ Acacia, Osiris in the, vi. 111; the heart in the flower of the, xi. 135 _sq._ —— -tree, worshipped in Patagonia, ii. 16; sacred in Arabia, ii. 42 _Acacia albida_, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 210 —— _catechu_, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 249 —— _Suma_, ii. 250 _n._ Academy at Athens, funeral games held in the, iv. 96 Acagchemem tribe of California, their worship of the sacred buzzard, viii. 170 _sq._ Acaill, Book of, on kings of Ireland, iv. 39 Acarnanian story of Prince Sunless, x. 21 _Acatay mita_, festival to make alligator pears ripen, ii. 98 Accession of a Shilluk king, ceremonies at the, iv. 23 _sq._ Accoleian family, coins of the, ii. 185 Accusations of ritual murders brought against the Jews, ix. 394 _sqq._ Achaia, subject to earthquakes, v. 202 Acharaca, cave of Pluto at, v. 205 _sq._ Acharnae, Attic township, Dionysus Ivy at, vii. 4 Achelous and Dejanira, ii. 161 _sq._ Achern, St. John’s fires at, x. 168 Achilles at the court of Lycomedes, ii. 278; his hair devoted to the river Sperchius, iii. 261 Achinese, the, of northern Sumatra, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 315 Achinese fishermen, special vocabulary employed by, at sea, iii. 409 Achterneed, in Ross-shire, Beltane cakes at, x. 153 Acilisena, in Armenia, temple and worship of Anaitis at, v. 38, ix. 369 _n._ 1 Acireale, in Sicily, Midsummer fires at, x. 210 Acorns as an attribute of Artemis, i. 38 _n._ 1; shamans responsible for crop of edible, i. 358; found in the lake-dwellings of Europe, ii. 353; as food, ii. 353, 355 _sq._; as fodder for swine, ii. 354, 356