—— of Dahomey ate the hearts of brave foes to make themselves brave, viii. 149 Amazulu, their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 316 Ambabai, an Indian goddess, v. 243 Ambala District, Punjaub, rebirth of children in the, v. 94 Ambamba, in West Africa, death, resurrection, and new birth in, xi. 256 Ambarvalia, cattle crowned at the, ii. 127 _n._ 2; an agricultural festival of ancient Italy, ix. 359 Amboin, in Angola, new fire at, ii. 262 Amboyna, custom as to children’s cast teeth in, i. 179; rice in bloom treated like a pregnant woman in, ii. 28; ceremony to fertilize clove-trees in, ii. 100; recovery of lost souls in, iii. 66 _sq._; abduction of souls by doctors in, iii. 73; fear to lose the shadow at noon in, iii. 87; sick people sprinkled with pungent spices in, iii. 105; new fruits offered to the gods in, viii. 123; belief in spirits in, ix. 85; disease-transference in, ix. 187; hair of criminals cut in, xi. 158 Ambras, Midsummer customs at, x. 173 Amedzowe, the spirit land, viii. 105 Amei Awa, a Kayan god, vii. 93 Amélineau, E., discovers the tomb of Egyptian King Khent, vi. 21 _n._ 1 Amelioration in the character of the gods, iv. 136 Amenophis III., king of Egypt, birth of, ii. 131 _sqq._; his birth represented on the monuments, iii. 28 Amenophis IV., king of Egypt, his attempt to abolish all gods but the sun-god, vi. 123 _sqq._ Ameretât, a Persian archangel, ix. 373 _n._ 1 America, treatment of the navel-string and afterbirth in, i. 195 _sqq._; the breach of England with, i. 216; association of the frog with rain in, i. 292 _n._ 3; reincarnation of the dead in, v. 91; the moon worshipped by the agricultural Indians of tropical, vi. 138; cat’s cradle in, vii. 103 _n._ 1; the Corn-mother in, vii. 171 _sqq._ ——, Central, the Pipiles of, ii. 98; the Indians of, practise continence for the sake of the crops, ii. 105; the Quiches of, viii. 134; the Mosquito Indians of, viii. 258 _n._ 2; the Mosquito territory in, x. 86 ——, North, the Natchez of, i. 249; the Omahas of, i. 249; power of medicine-men in, i. 356 _sqq._; the Hidatsa Indians of, ii. 12; Indians of, their dread and avoidance of menstruous women, iii. 145 _sq._, x. 87 _sqq._; Indians of, will not eat blood, iii. 240; sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15; Indians of, not allowed to sit on bare ground in war, x. 5; Indians of, seclusion of girls at puberty among, x. 41 _sqq._; Indians of, stories of the external soul among, xi. 151 _sq._; Indians of, religious associations among, xi. 267 _sqq._ _See also_ North American Indians