—— tribes of Gilgit revere the _chili_, a species of cedar, ii. 49 Aryans, magical powers ascribed to kings among the, i. 366 _sqq._; perpetual fires among the, ii. 260; female kinship among the, ii. 283 _sqq._; importance of cattle and milk among the ancient, ii. 324 _n._ 1; the primitive, their theory of personal names, iii. 319; their alleged Arctic origin, v. 229 _n._ 1; annual festivals of the dead among the, vi. 67 _sqq._ —— of Europe, their oak forests and use of oak-wood, ii. 372, 378; agriculture among the early, vii. 129 _sq._; totemism not proved for the, viii. 4; importance of the Midsummer festival among the, xi. 40; the oak the chief sacred tree of the, xi. 89 _sq._ Aryans of India, transubstantiation among the, viii. 89 _sq._ —— of the Vedic age, ix. 324; their calendar, ix. 325, 342 Aryenis, daughter of Alyattes, v. 133 _n._ 1 Asa, a branch of the Masai, how they dispose of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278 Asaba, on the Lower Niger, chiefs eat in privacy at, iii. 118 Asada, name of a month in Bali, vii. 315 Asakusa, in Tokio, expulsion of the devil on the last day of the year at, ix. 213 Ascalon, the goddess Derceto at, v. 34 _n._ 3, ix. 370 _n._ 1 Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, ii. 197; and the Game of Troy, iv. 76 Ascension of Adonis, v. 225 —— Day, the May-tree in Saxony on, ii. 69; annual pardon of a criminal at Rouen on, ii. 165, 166, 168, 169, ix. 215 _sq._; the “Carrying out of Death” on, at Braller, iv. 222 _n._ 1, 247 _sqq._; cures on Eve of, ix. 54; annual expulsion of the devil on, ix. 214 _sq._; bells rung to make flax grow on, ix. 247 _sq._; parasitic rowan should be cut on, xi. 281 Ascent of Persephone, viii. 17 Ascetic idealism of the East, ii. 117 Asceticism not primitive, x. 65 Aschbach, in Bavaria, the Old Man at reaping and threshing at, vii. 219 _sq._ _Asclepias gigantea_, man married to, in Barar, ii. 57 _n._ 4 Ash-tree, parings of nails buried under an, iii. 276; in popular cure, ix. 57 —— -trees, children passed through cleft ash-trees as a cure for rupture or rickets, xi. 168 _sqq._ —— Wednesday, death of Caramantran on, iv. 220; burial of the Carnival on, iv. 221; effigies of Carnival or of Shrove Tuesday burnt or buried on, iv. 226, 228 _sqq._, x. 120; effigy of the Queen of Lent fashioned on, iv. 244; pea-soup and pigs’ bones eaten on, vii. 300 Ashantee, licence accorded to king’s sisters in, ii. 274 _sq._; royal criminals drowned in, iii. 242 _sq._; precaution as to the spittle of the king of, iii. 289; kings of, addressed as “Elephant” and “Lion,” iv. 86; kings of, take one of their titles from _borri_, a venomous snake, iv. 86; human sacrifices at earthquakes in, v. 201; kings of, their human sacrifices, vi. 97 _n._ 7; annual period of licence in, ix. 226 _n._ 1