Alfai, title of rain-making priest among the Barea and Kunama, ii. 3 Alfoors of Buru, names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 341 —— or Toradjas of Central Celebes, their custom at child-birth, iii. 33; taboos observed by their priest, iii. 129; priest with unshorn hair among the, iii. 260; riddles among the, ix. 122 _n._; their custom at the smelting of iron, xi. 154; their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 222. _See also_ Toradjas —— of Ceram, their high-priest regarded as a demigod, i. 400 Alfoors of Halmahera, name of wife’s father tabooed among the, iii. 341; their expulsion of the devil, ix. 112 —— of Minahassa, inspired priest among the, i. 382 _sq._; ceremony at house-warming among the, iii. 63 _sq._; names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340 _sq._; their custom as to the first rice sowed and reaped, viii. 54; attempt to deceive demons of sickness, viii. 100 —— of Poso, in Central Celebes, their belief as to demons of trees, ii. 35; abduction of souls by demons among the, iii. 62 _sq._; will not pronounce their own names, iii. 332; names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340 Algeds, rain-maker among the, ii. 3 Algeria, rain-making in, i. 250; the Aisawa sect in, vii. 22 _n._ 1; fever transferred to tortoise in, ix. 31; popular cure by knocking nails in, ix. 60; Midsummer fires in, x. 213 ——, the Arabs of, avoid using the proper name for lion, iii. 400; tale of, iv. 130 _n._ 1 Algidus, Mount, its oak forests, ii. 187, 380; a haunt of Diana, ii. 380 Algiers, the Moors of, light no fires after a death, ii. 268 _n._ Algonquin Indians caught souls in nets, iii. 69 _sq._ Algonquins or Algonkins, the, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 197; marry their fishing-nets to girls, ii. 147 _sq._; their women seek to be impregnated by the souls of the dying, iv. 199 Alice Springs in Central Australia, i. 259, xi. 238; magical stones at, i. 162 Aline, Loch, fishing magic on, i. 110 All-healer, name applied to mistletoe, xi. 77, 79, 82 All Saints, Feast of, perhaps substituted for an old pagan festival of the dead, vi. 82 _sq._ All Saints’ Day, November 1st, old Celtic New Year’s Day, x. 225; omens on, x. 240; bonfires on, x. 246; sheep passed through a hoop on, xi. 184 All Souls, Festival of, iv. 98, vi. 51 _sqq._, vii. 30, x. 223 _sq._, 225 _n._ 2; originally a pagan festival of the dead, vi. 81; instituted by Odilo, abbot of Clugny, vi. 82 All Souls’ College, Oxford, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337 _Allallu_ bird beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371 Allan, John Hay, on the Hays of Errol, xi. 283 Allandur temple, at St. Thomas’s Mount, Madras, fire-festival at, xi. 8 _n._ 1 Allatu, Babylonian goddess, v. 9 Allerton, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 338 Allhallow Even, the thirty-first of October, Lords of Misrule on, ix. 332 All-Hallows (All Saints’ Day), iii. 11, 12 Allifae in Samnium, baths of Hercules at, v. 213 _n._ 2