Aïsawa or Isowa, order of saints in Morocco, devour live goats, vii. 21 _sq._ Aisne, Midsummer fires in the department of, x. 187 Ait Sadden, a tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 182 —— Warain, a Berber tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 178 _sq._ —— Yusi, a tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 182 Aitan, a Khasi goddess, ix. 173 Aivilik, the Esquimaux of, i. 121 Aix, squibs at Midsummer at, x. 193; Midsummer king at, x. 194, xi. 25 Aiyar, N. Subramhanya, on Indian dancing-girls, v. 63 _sqq._ Ajax and Teucer, names of priestly kings of Olba, v. 144 _sq._, 161 Ajumba hunter, his apologies to the hippopotamus which he had killed, viii. 235 Akamba of British East Africa, believe that every woman has a spiritual husband who fertilizes her, ii. 317; continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204; their offerings of first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 113; riddles asked at circumcision among the, ix. 122 _n._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 23 —— of Central Africa, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353 Akawés, a tribe of Garos, their harvest festival, viii. 337 Akhetaton (Tell-el-Amarna), the capital of Amenophis IV., vi. 123 _n._ 1 Akikuyu, the, of British East Africa, ceremony of the new birth among the, i. 75 _sq._, 96 _sq._, xi. 262 _sq._; worship fig-trees, ii. 44 _sq._; worship a snake, and marry girls to the snake-god, ii. 150, v. 67 _sq._; believe that barren women can be fertilized by the wild fig-tree, ii. 316; purification of manslayers among the, iii. 175 _sq._; continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204; auricular confession among the, iii. 214; use of scapegoats among the, iii. 214 _sq._; their women purified after a miscarriage in childbirth, iii. 286; their treatment of premature and unusual births, iii. 286, 287 _n._ 6; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 85; transfer guilt to a goat, ix. 32; their dread of menstruous women, x. 81. _See also_ Kikuyu Akurwa, a village of the Shilluk, iv. 19, 23, 24 Alabama, harvest festival of the Indians of, viii. 72 _n._ 3 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Roman version of, xi. 105 Alafin of Oyo, paramount king of Yoruba land, iv. 203 Alake, the, of Abeokuta, custom of cutting off the head of his corpse, iv. 203 Alaska, the Esquimaux of, i. 121, 328, iii. 145, vi. 51, ix. 124, xi. 155; the Aleuts of, iii. 207; the Kaniagmuts of, iii. 207; the Koniags of, i. 121, vi. 106; seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, x. 45 _sq._ Alaskan hunters, their respect for dead sables and beavers, viii. 238 —— islanders mistook the Russians for cuttle-fish, viii. 206 Alastir and the Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of, xi. 129 _sq._