Agrionia, a festival at Orchomenus, iv. 163 Agrippa, king of Judea, his mockery at Alexandria, ix. 418 Agrippina, her marriage with Claudius, ii. 129 _n._ 1 Agu, Mount, in Togo, wind-fetish on, i. 327; fetish priest on, iii. 5 Ague, transferred to trees, ix. 56, 57 _sq._; Suffolk cure for, ix. 68; Midsummer bonfires deemed a cure for, x. 162; leaps across the Midsummer bonfires thought to be a preventive of, x. 174 Agutainos of the Philippines, customs observed by widows among the, iii. 144 Agweh on the Slave Coast, custom at end of mourning at, iii. 286; custom of widows at, xi. 18 _sq._ Agylla, in Etruria, funeral games at, iv. 95 Ahasuerus, King, ix. 397, 401; the Hebrew equivalent of Xerxes, ix. 360 Ahaz, King, his sacrifice of his children, iv. 169 _sq._ Ahlen, in Munsterland, the Yule log at, x. 247 Ahne-bergen, near Stade, thresher of last corn called Corn-pug at, vii. 273 Ahriman, the devil of the Persians, x. 95 Ahts or Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island regard the moon as the husband of the sun, vi. 139 _n._ 1; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 43 _sq._ Ahura Mazda, the supreme being of the Persians, x. 95 Ai San Bushmen, their fire-sticks, ii. 218 _n._ 1 Aijaruc, a Tartar princess, ii. 306 Ain, de l’, French department, leaf-clad mummer on May Day in, ii. 81 _n._ 3; Lenten fires in, x. 114 Aino fishermen, their ways of making rain, i. 288 —— hunters, their custom at killing a fox, viii. 267 —— type of animal sacrament, viii. 312 _sq._ —— women may not mention their husbands’ names, iii. 337 Ainos, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 212; their rain-making, i. 251, 253; their fear of whirlwinds, i. 331 _n._ 2; their ceremony at eating new millet, viii. 52; their custom as to eating the heads of otters and the hearts of water-ousels, viii. 144; their worship of bears, viii. 180 _sqq._; their worship of eagle-owls, eagles, and hawks, viii. 199 _sq._; thank the sword-fish which they kill, viii. 251; their customs in regard to the first fish of the season, viii. 255 _sq._; their propitiation of mice, viii. 278; their ambiguous attitude towards the bear, viii. 310 _sq._ —— of Japan, their use of magical images, i. 60; reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353; their custom of killing bears ceremonially, viii. 180 _sqq._; their mourning caps, x. 20; their use of mugwort in exorcism, xi. 60; their veneration for mistletoe, xi. 79 —— of Saghalien, pregnant women forbidden to spin among the, i. 114; their bear-festivals, viii. 188 _sqq._ _Aiora_, festival of swinging, at Athens, i. 46 _n._ 1 Air, prohibition to be uncovered in the open, iii. 3, 14; thought to be poisoned at eclipses, x. 162 _n._ Airi, a deity of North-West India, his worshippers inspired, v. 170 Airu, Assyrian month corresponding to May, ii. 130