Afterbirth (placenta), portion of a man’s spirit supposed to reside in his, i. 100; contagious magic of, i. 182-201; part of child’s spirit in, i. 184; buried under a tree, i. 186, 187, 188, 194, 195, xi. 160 _sq._, 162, 163, 164, 165; hung on a tree, i. 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 198, 199; thrown into the sea, i. 187, 190; regarded as brother or sister of child, i. 189, 191, 192, 193, xi. 162 _n._ 2; seat of external soul, i. 193 _sq._, 200 _sq._; regarded as a second child, i. 195, xi. 162 _n._ 2; of cows, treatment of the, i. 198 _sq._; regarded as a person’s double or twin, vi. 169 _sq._; of child animated by a ghost and sympathetically connected with a banana-tree, xi. 162; and navel-string regarded as guardian angels of the man, xi. 162 _n._ 2; regarded as a guardian spirit, xi. 223 _n._ 2 _See also_ Afterbirths _and_ Placenta Afterbirths buried in banana groves, v. 93; regarded as twins of the children, v. 93; Shilluk kings interred where their afterbirths are buried, vi. 162 Agamemnon, sceptre of, worshipped as a god, i. 365; said to have reigned in his wife’s home, Lacedaemon, ii. 279 —— and Aegisthus, ix. 19 Agar Dinka, rain-makers killed among the, iv. 33 Agaric growing on birch-trees, superstitions as to, x. 148 Agariste, daughter of Clisthenes, the wooing of, ii. 307 Agathias, on the identification of Anaitis and Aphrodite, ix. 369 _n._ 1; on Sandes, ix. 389 Agathocles, his siege of Carthage, iv. 167 Agbasia, West African god, sacred slaves of, v. 79; prayers to, viii. 59, 60 Agdestis, a man-monster in the myth of Attis, v. 269 Age of Magic, i. 235, 237 Agesipolis, king of Sparta, his conduct in an earthquake, v. 196 Aglu, New Year fires at, x. 217 Agni, Indian god, viii. 120, ix. 410, x. 99 _n._ 2; the fire-god, ii. 230, 249, xi. 1, 296; addressed at marriage, ii. 230 _Agnihotris_, Brahman fire-priests, ii. 247 _sqq._ _Agnus castus_ strewed by married women under their beds at the Thesmophoria, vii. 116 _n._ 2; used in ceremony of beating, ix. 252, 257 Agome, in Togoland, ceremonies observed by hunters at, viii. 229 Agraulus, daughter of Cecrops, worshipped at Salamis in Cyprus, v. 145, 146 Agricultural peoples worship the moon, vi. 138 _sq._ —— stage of society, the, viii. 35, 37 —— year determined by observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313 _sqq._; expulsions of demons timed to coincide with seasons of the, ix. 225 Agriculture, religious objections to, v. 88 _sqq._, vii. 93, 108; in the hands of women in the Pelew Islands, vi. 206 _sq._; its tendency to produce a conservative character, vi. 217 _sq._; magical significance of games in primitive, vii. 92 _sqq._; origin of, vii. 128 _sq._; woman’s part in primitive, vii. 113 _sqq._ _Agriculture of the Nabataeans_, ii. 100, 346 _n._ 3 Agrigentum, Empedocles at, i. 390; Phalaris of, iv. 75