_sqq._; witches transformed into, x. 315 _sqq._, xi. 311 _sq._; bewitched, buried alive, x. 324 _sqq._; live, burnt at Spring and Midsummer festivals, xi. 38 _sqq._; the animals perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, xi. 41 _sq._, 43 _sq._; the language of, learned by means of fern-seed, xi. 66 _n._; external soul in, xi. 196 _sqq._; helpful, in fairy tales. _See_ Helpful Animism, the Buddhist, not a philosophical theory, ii. 13 _sq._; passing into polytheism, ii. 45; passing into religion, iii. 213 _Aninga_, aquatic plant in Brazil, ix. 264 _Anitos_, spirits of ancestors, in Luzon, ii. 30, viii. 124 Anjea, mythical being, who causes conception in women, i. 100, 184, v. 103 _Ankenmilch bohren_, to make the need-fire, x. 270 _n._ Anklets, as amulets, iii. 315; made of human sinews, worn by king of Uganda, vi. 224 _sq._ Ankole, in Central Africa, the Bahima of, vi. 190, viii. 288, x. 80 Anna, sister of Dido, v. 114 _n._ 1 Anna Kuari, an Oraon goddess, human sacrifices to, vii. 244 Annals of Tigernach and Ulster, ii. 286 Annam, rain-making ceremonies in caves of, i. 301 _sq._; the Chams of, ii. 159; dangers apprehended from women in childbed in, iii. 155; ceremonies observed when a whale is washed ashore in, iii. 223; wild beasts spoken of respectfully in, iii. 403; natives of, their indifference to death, iv. 136 _sq._; offerings to the dead in spring in, v. 235 _n._ 1; annual festivals of the dead in, vi. 62 _sqq._; inauguration of spring by means of an effigy of an ox in, viii. 13 _sq._; mountaineers of, sacrifice to their nets, viii. 240 _n._ 1; demons of sickness transferred to fowls in, ix. 33; demon of cholera sent away on a raft from, ix. 190; explanation of human mortality in, ix. 303; dread of menstruous women in, x. 85; use of wormwood to avert demons in, xi. 61 _n._ 1 Annamite tale of a bleeding tree, ii. 33 Annamites, their belief as to demons, iii. 58; their way of protecting infants from demons, iii. 235 Annandale, Nelson, as to H. Vaughan Stevens, ii. 237 _n._ Anne, Queen, touches for scrofula, i. 370 Anno, in West Africa, use of magical dolls at, i. 71 Annual abdication of kings, iv. 148 —— death and resurrection of gods, v. 6 —— renewal of king’s power at Babylon, iv. 113 —— sacrifice of a sacred animal, viii. 31 —— tenure of the kingship, iv. 113 _sqq._ Anodynes based on the principle of sympathetic magic, i. 93 _sq._ Anointed, human scapegoat, ix. 218 Anointing a stone in a rain-charm, i. 305 —— stones in order to avert bullets from absent warriors, i. 130 Anointment, of weapon which caused wound, i. 202 _sqq._; of priests at installation, iii. 14; as a ceremony of consecration, v. 21 _n._ 2 and 3, 68, 74; of sacred stones, custom of, v. 36; of the body as a means of acquiring certain qualities, viii. 162 _sqq._ Anpu and Bata, ancient Egyptian story of, xi. 134 _sqq._