Alba, Vestal fire and Vestal virgins at, i. 13 —— Longa, the kings of, ii. 178 _sqq._, 268 _sq._; perhaps mimicked Latian Jupiter, ii. 187 Alban dynasty descended from a Vestal, ii. 197 —— Hills, i. 2, ii. 178 —— kings, iv. 76 —— Lake, i. 2; tradition of a submerged city in the, ii. 180, 181 _n._ —— League, religious centre of the, ii. 187 —— Mountain, the, ii. 187 _sq._, 202, 387 Albania, bloodstones in, i. 165; milk-stones in, i. 165; fear of portraiture in, iii. 100; expulsion of Kore on Easter Eve in, iv. 265, ix. 157; marriage custom in, vi. 246; mock lamentations for locusts and beetles in, viii. 279; Midsummer fires in, x. 212; the Yule log in, x. 264 Albanian custom of beating men and beasts in March, ix. 266 —— story of the external soul, xi. 104 _n._ 3 Albanians of the Caucasus, did not mention the names of the dead, iii. 349; their worship of the moon, v. 73; their use of human scapegoats, ix. 218 Albano, ancient necropolis near, ii. 201 Albert, Lake, Lendu tribe of, i. 348 —— Nyanza, Lake, the Wahuma of the, i. 250; crocodiles in the, viii. 213; the Wakondyo of the, xi. 162 _sq._ Alberti, L., on Caffre purification of lion-killer, iii. 220 Albigenses worshipped each other, i. 407 Albino sacrificed to river, ii. 158; head of secret society on the Lower Congo, xi. 251 Albinoes the offspring of the moon, v. 91 Albirûni, Arab geographer, on the Persian festival of the dead, vi. 68; on the burning of effigies of Haman at Purim, ix. 393 Alchemy leads up to chemistry, i. 374 _Alcheringa_, remote legendary time of the Arunta, i. 88, 98, 102 Alcibiades of Apamea, his vision of the Holy Ghost, iv. 5 _n._ 3 Alcidamus wins Barce in a foot-race, ii. 300 _sq._ Alcman on dew, vi. 137 Alcmena, her long travail with Hercules, iii. 298 _sq._ Alcyonian Lake, Dionysus at the, vii. 15 Alder branches, sacrificial, viii. 232 Alders free from mistletoe, xi. 315 Alectrona, daughter of the Sun, taboos observed at her sanctuary in Rhodes, viii. 45 Alençon, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337 _n._ 1 Aleutian Islands, Atkhans of the, ix. 3; cairns in the, ix. 16 —— hunter injured by unchastity of absent wife or sister, i. 123 Aleutians, effeminate sorcerers among the, vi. 254 Aleuts of Alaska, seclusion of successful whaler among the, iii. 207 Alexander the Great, his fiery cresset, ii. 264; cuts the Gordian knot, iii. 316; funeral games in his honour, iv. 95; expels a king of Paphos, v. 42; his fabulous birth, v. 81; assumes costumes of deities, v. 165; sacrifices to Megarsian Athena, v. 169 _n._ 3 Alexander Severus, at festival of Attis, v. 273 Alexandria, festival of Adonis at, v. 224, ix. 390; the Serapeum at, vi. 119 _n._, 217; mockery of King Agrippa at, ix. 418 Alexandrian calendar, used by Plutarch, vi. 84; used by Theophanes, ix. 395 _n._ 1 —— year, the fixed, vi. 28, 92; Plutarch’s use of the, vi. 49