——, the Tauric, human sacrifices to, v. 115 —— Tauropolis, v. 275 _n._ 1 ——, Wolfish, i. 26 _sq._ Artemisia founds Mausoleum, iv. 94 _sq._; drinks ashes of her husband Mausolus, viii. 158 _Artemisia absinthium_, wormwood, xi. 58 _n._ 3, 61 _n._ 1 —— _laciniata_, garlands of, ix. 284 —— _vulgaris_, mugwort, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 58 _sqq._ Artemision, a Greek month, vi. 239 _n._ 1, viii. 8 _Artictis_, the bear-cat, associated with the spirits of the dead, viii. 294 Artificers, worship of the, viii. 60 _sq._ _Artocarpus integrifolia_, jack wood burnt in exorcism, iv. 216 Artois, mugwort at Midsummer in, xi. 59 Arts and crafts, use of spells or incantations in, ix. 81 Aru Archipelago, riddles propounded while a corpse is uncoffined in the, ix. 121 _n._ 3 —— Islands, custom of not sleeping after a death in the, iii. 37, 95; children’s hair deposited on a banana-tree in the, iii. 276; dog’s flesh eaten to make eater brave in the, viii. 145 _Arum acaule_, forbidden as food to the king of Fernando Po, iii. 291 Arunta of Central Australia, magical ceremonies among the, i. 85 _sqq._; custom observed by women during operation of subincision, i. 93 _sq._; the rain or water totem among the, i. 98; burial customs of the, i. 102; cannibalism among the, i. 106; their treatment of the navel-string, i. 183; their rain-making ceremonies, i. 259 _sqq._; their belief as to the ghosts of the slain, iii. 177 _sq._; their fear of women’s blood, iii. 251; ceremonies at the end of mourning among the, iii. 373 _sq._; their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 99, 100; their sacred pole, x. 7; their dread of women at menstruation, x. 77; legend that the ancestors kept their spirits in their _churinga_, xi. 218 _n._ 3; rites of initiation among the, xi. 233 _sq._; initiation of medicine-men among the, xi. 238 Arval Brothers, their holy pots, ii. 203 _sq._; expiation for bringing an iron tool into the sacred grove of the, iii. 226; their wreaths of corn, v. 44 _n._, ix. 232; a Roman college of priests charged with the performance of rites for the crops, vi. 239, ix. 230, 232; their song, ix. 238. _See also_ _Fratres Arvales_ Aryan custom of leading a bride thrice round the hearth of her new home, ii. 230; of counting by nights instead of days, ix. 326 _n._ 2 —— family, custom of putting the old and sick to death in several branches of the, iv. 14 _n._ 3; marriage customs of the, vi. 235 —— god of the oak and thunder, ii. 356 _sqq._, x. 265; god of the sky, ii. 374 _sq._ —— languages, names for moon and month in, ix. 325 —— peoples, descent of kingship through women among, ii. 280; their correction of the lunar year, ix. 342; stories of the external soul among, xi. 97 _sqq._ —— stock, tree-worship among all the great European families of the, ii. 9