Alligator pears, Peruvian ceremony to make them ripen, ii. 98 Alligators, souls of dead in, viii. 297 Allumba, in Central Australia, magic tree at, i. 145 _sq._ Almagest, the, vii. 259 _n._ 1 Almo, procession to the river, in the rites of Attis, v. 273 Almond causes virgin to conceive, v. 263; the father of all things, v. 263 _sq._ —— -trees, mistletoe on, xi. 316 Almora, in Kumaon, ix. 197 A-Louyi, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28 _n._ 5 Alpach, valley in Tyrol, the Wheat-bride or Rye-bride at harvest in, vii. 163 Alpheus, the sacred, ii. 8 Alqamar, tribe of nomads in Hadramaut, their way of stopping rain, i. 252 Alsace, May-trees in, ii. 64; the Little May Rose in, ii. 74; stuffed goat or fox at threshing in, vii. 287, 297; Midsummer fires in, x. 169; cats burnt in Easter bonfires in, xi. 40 Alt Lest, in Silesia, the binder of the last sheaf called the Beggar-man at, vii. 231 —— -Pillau, in Samland, harvest custom at, vii. 139 Altars, bloodless, ix. 307 Altdorf and Weingarten, in Swabia, the Carnival Fool on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 232 Althenneberg, in Bavaria, Easter fires at, x. 143 _sq._ Altisheim, in Swabia, the last sheaf called the Old Woman at, vii. 136 Altmark, custom with birch branches at Whitsuntide in the, ii. 64; the May Bride at Whitsuntide in the, ii. 95; the He-goat at reaping in the, vii. 287; Easter bonfires in the, x. 140, 142 Alum burnt at Midsummer, x. 214 Alungu, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 24 _sq._ Alur, a tribe of the Upper Nile, bury their cut hair and nails, iii. 277 _sq._; their fear of crocodiles, viii. 214; their treatment of insanity, x. 64 Alus, sanctuary of Laphystian Zeus at, iv. 161, 164; custom of sacrificing princes at, vii. 25 Alvarado, Pedro de, Spanish general, kills a _nagual_, xi. 214 Alyattes, king of Lydia, v. 133 _n._ 1 Alynomus, king of Paphos, v. 43 _n._ 1 _Amadhlozi_, Zulu ancestral spirits in serpent form, xi. 211 _n._ 2 Ama-terasu, Japanese goddess of the Sun, vii. 212 Amambwe, a Bantu tribe of Northern Rhodesia, believe that their head chief at death turns into a lion, vi. 193, viii. 287; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 24 _sq._ Amapondo country, cairn to which passers-by added stones in the, ix. 30 _n._ 2 Amasis, king of Egypt, substitutes images for human victims, iv. 217; his body burnt by Cambyses, v. 176 _n._ 2 _Amata_, “Beloved,” title of Vestals, ii. 197 Amata, wife of King Latinus, ii. 197 Amathus, in Cyprus, Adonis and Melcarth at, v. 32, 117; statue of lion-slaying god found at, v. 117 _Amatongo_, ancestral spirits (Zulu term), v. 74 _n._ 4, vi. 184, xi. 212 _n._ Amaxosa Caffres propitiate the elephants which they kill, viii. 227 Amazon, Indians at the mouth of the, ix. 264; ordeals of young men among the Indians of the, x. 62 _sq._ Amazons set up a statue of Artemis under an oak, i. 38 _n._ 1