Association of ideas, magic based on a misapplication of the, i. 53, 174, 221 _sq._; common to the animals, i. 234 Associations, religious, among the Indian tribes of North America, xi. 267 _sqq._ Assumption of the Virgin in relation to the festival of Diana, i. 14-16, v. 308, 309 Assusa, king of Fazoql, iv. 16 _sq._, 17 _n._ 1 Assyria, kings of, their annual homage to Marduk, iv. 113; festival of Zagmuk in, iv. 116; Ashurbanipal, king of, ix. 387 _sq._ Assyrian cavalry, v. 25 _n._ 3 —— eponymate, iv. 116 _sq._ —— kings took into their harem the daughters of the vanquished princes, ix. 368 _n._ 1 Assyrian monarchs, conquerors of Babylonia, ix. 356 —— monuments, illustrative of the artificial fertilization of the date-palm, ii. 25 _n._, ix. 273 _n._ 1 —— ritual, use of golden axe in, xi. 80 _n._ 3 —— settlers in Israel petition for an Israelitish priest, ii. 288 _n._ 1 Assyrians, their use of knotted cords in magic, iii. 303 _sq._; forbidden to mention the mystic names of their cities, iii. 391; in Cilicia, v. 173; the ancient, their belief in demons, ix. 102 Astarte or Ishtar, a great Babylonian goddess, ix. 365; the moon-goddess, iv. 92; at Byblus, hair offerings to, i. 30, v. 13 _sq._; her temple at Hierapolis, iii. 286; and the _asherim_, v. 18; kings as priests of, v. 26; at Paphos, v. 33 _sqq._; doves sacred to, v. 147; identified with the planet Venus, v. 258; of the Syrian Hierapolis served by eunuch priests, v. 269 _sq._; called by Lucian the Assyrian Hera, v. 280 _n._ 5; the Heavenly Goddess, v. 303; the planet Venus her star, vi. 35. _See also_ Ishtar —— Aphrodite, v. 304 _n._ —— and Semiramis, ix. 369 _sqq._ Asteria, mother of the Tyrian Hercules (Melcarth), v. 112 Asthma transferred to a mule, ix. 50 Asti, a Thracian tribe, vii. 26 Aston, W. G., on the Japanese word for god, iii. 2 _n._ 2; on the annual expulsion of demons in Japan, ix. 212 _sq._; on Japanese and Chinese ceremonies of purification, ix. 213 _n._ 1; on Japanese ceremony for averting pestilence, x. 137 _sq._; on the fire-walk in Japan, xi. 10 _n._ 1 Astral spirit of a witch, x. 317 Astrolabe Bay, in New Guinea, ii. 255 _n._ 1; precaution as to spittle in, iii. 289 Astronomical considerations determining the early Greek calendar, iv. 68 _sq._ Astronomy, origin of, vii. 307 Astyages, king of the Medes, v. 133 _n._ 1 Asuras, the rivals of the Indian gods, viii. 120 _Asvattha_ tree, v. 82 Aswang, an evil spirit, exorcism of, ix. 260 _Atai_, external soul in the Mota language, xi. 197 _sq._ Atalante and her wooers, ii. 301 Atargatis, Syrian goddess, v. 34 _n._ 3, 137; worshipped at Hierapolis-Bambyce, v. 162 _sq._; derivation of the name, v. 162; her husband-god, v. 162 _sq._ Ates, a Phrygian, v. 286 Ath, in Hainaut, procession of giants at, xi. 36 Athamanes of Epirus, women tilled the ground among the, vii. 129