April, religious rites performed by the Vestals in, ii. 229; the first Sunday of, custom observed at Naples on, iv. 241; Siamese festival of the dead in, ix. 150; ceremony of the new fire in, x. 136 _sq._, xi. 3; Chinese festival of fire in, xi. 3 April 2nd, annual sacrifice of wild boars in Cyprus on, viii. 23 _n._ 3 —— 15th, sacrifice on, ii. 229, 326 —— 21st, date of the Parilia, ii. 325, 326; ceremony performed by the Vestals on, viii. 42 —— 23rd, St. George’s Day, ii. 75, 76, 330 _sqq._ —— 24th, in some places St. George’s Day, ii. 337, 343; the great _mondard_ made on, viii. 6 —— 27th, in popular superstitions of Morocco, x. 17 _sq._ —— 30th, Walpurgis Day, ix. 163 Apuleius, as to the love-charm of a Thessalian witch, iii. 270; his story of Cupid and Psyche, iv. 131 _n._ 1; on the worship of Isis, vi. 119 _n._; on a cure for scorpion bite, ix. 50 _n._ 1 _Aquaelicium_ and Jupiter, ii. 184 _n._ _Aquilex_, rain-maker, i. 310 _n._ 4 Arab belief that a game of ball may cause rain, ix. 179 —— charm to forget sorrow, i. 150; to bring back a runaway slave, i. 152; to ensure birth of strong children, i. 153; to fertilize a barren woman, i. 157; of the setting sun, i. 165 _sq._; to get good teeth, i. 181; to make rain, i. 303 —— commentator as to the fig and the olive, ii. 316; on the Koran as to knots in magic, iii. 302 —— cure by means of knotted thread, iii. 304; cure for melancholy, ix. 4 —— legend of king bled to death, iii. 243 _n._ 7 —— love-charm by means of knots, iii. 305 —— mode of cursing an enemy, iii. 312 —— name for the scarlet anemone, v. 226 —— sacrifice for rain, i. 289 —— women, their custom of muffling their faces, iii. 122; in North Africa give their male children the hearts of lions to eat, viii. 142 _sq._; in Morocco, their superstitions as to plants at Midsummer, xi. 51 —— writer on the death of the King of the Jinn, iv. 8; on talismans against locusts and murrain, viii. 281 Arabia, sacred acacia-tree in, ii. 42; sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15; use of camel as scapegoat for plague in, ix. 33 Arabia, ancient, taboos observed by incense-growers in, ii. 106 _sq._; belief as to shadows in, iii. 82; Sabaea or Sheba in, iii. 124; tree-spirits in snake form in, xi. 44 _n._ 1 Arabian, modern, story of the external soul, xi. 137 _sq._ _Arabian Nights_, story of the external soul in the, xi. 137 Arabic treatise on magic, i. 65; writer on the mourning for Tâ-uz (Tammuz) in Harran, v. 230 Arabs believe the soul to be in the blood, iii. 241; avoid using the proper names for lion, leprosy, etc., iii. 400; ancient, supposed to know the language of birds, viii. 146; their custom as to widows, ix. 35; their custom in regard to murder, ix. 63; beat camels to deliver them from jinn, ix. 260 —— of Algeria, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 _n._ 1