Armenians, their belief that lightning is produced by means of flints, ii. 374; preserve their cut hair and nails and extracted teeth for use at the resurrection, iii. 280; their festivals of the dead, vi. 65 _sq._; their opinion of the baleful influence of the moon on children, vi. 148; their belief in demons, ix. 107 _sq._ Arms of youths punctured to make them good hunters, x. 58 Army under arms, Flamen Dialis forbidden to see, iii. 13 Arnobius on the Roman custom of keeping perpetual fires, ii. 260 Arnold, Matthew, on the English middle class, iv. 146 Arnstadt, witches burnt at, x. 6 Arran, magical stone in, i. 161; the need-fire in, x. 293 Arrephoroi at Athens, the, ii. 199 Arriaga, J. de, on the Peruvian Maize-mothers, Coca-mothers, and Potato-mothers, vii. 173 _n._ Arrian, on sacrifices to Artemis, ii. 125 _sq._; on Attis, v. 282 Arrows, poisoned, not to be used against certain animals, i. 116; in homoeopathic magic, i. 143; in contagious magic, i. 201, 202; fire-tipped, shot at sun during an eclipse, i. 311; shot as a rain-charm, i. 396; shot at sacred trees as mark of respect, ii. 11; to keep off death, iii. 31; invisible, of demons, ix. 101, 126; used as a love-charm, x. 14 Arsacid house, divinity of Parthian kings of the, i. 417 _sq._ Art, sylvan deities in classical, ii. 45; Demeter and Persephone in, vii. 43 _sq._ Artaxerxes II., his promotion of the worship of Anaitis, ix. 370 Artemis at Ephesus, i. 7; temple dedicated to her by Xenophon, i. 7; the Asiatic, i. 7; vineyards dedicated to, i. 15; at Delos, i. 28; hair of maidens sacrificed to, before marriage, i. 28 _sq._; birthday of, i. 32, ii. 125; a goddess of the wild life of nature, i. 35 _sq._; mated with a male consort, i. 35 _sq._; not originally a virgin goddess, i. 35 _sq._; the patroness of childbirth, i. 37; identified with lewd Asiatic goddesses of love and fertility, i. 37; the birth of, ii. 58; sacrifices to, ii. 125; the Huntress, first-fruits of the chase offered to, ii. 125 _sq._; worshipped by the Celts, ii. 125 _sq._; at Perga, v. 35; name given by Greeks to Asiatic Mother Goddesses, v. 169 Artemis, Aetolian, her sacred grove among the Veneti, i. 27 —— and Apollo, birthdays of, i. 32; the birth of, ii. 58; their priesthood at Ephesus, vi. 243 ——, Brauronian, sacrifice of a goat to, viii. 41 _n._ 3 —— of Ephesus, i. 7, 37 _sq._, ii. 128, 136; her image, i. 37 _sq._; in relation to the Virgin Mary, i. 38 _n._ 1; served by eunuch priests, v. 269 —— the Hanged, v. 291 —— and Hippolytus, i. 19 _sq._, 24 _sqq._ ——, Laphrian, at Patrae, v. 126 _n._ 2 ——, Munychian, sacrifice to, iv. 166 _n._ 1; mock human sacrifice in the ritual of, iv. 215 _sq._ —— _Parthenos_, i. 36 ——, Perasian, at Castabala in Cappadocia, v. 115, 167 _sqq._, xi. 14 ——, Sarpedonian, in Cilicia, v. 167, 171 ——, Savonian, i. 26