Augustine, on the one God, i. 121 _n._ 1; on the effeminate priests of the Great Mother, v. 298; on the heathen origin of Christmas, v. 305; on the discovery of corn by Isis, vi. 116; on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, vi. 233; on the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 88; on Roman deities of the corn, vii. 210 _n._ 3 Augustodunum (Autun), worship of Cybele at, v. 279 Augustus as a ruler, i. 216; granted the oak crown, ii. 176 _sq._; reputed a son of Apollo, v. 81; celebrates games at Actium, vii. 80; triumphal arch of Augustus at Ariminum, xi. 195 _n._ 4 Aulus Gellius on the influence of the moon, vi. 132. _See also_ Gellius Aun, or On, King of Sweden, sacrifices his sons to save his life, iv. 57, 160 _sq._, 188, vi. 220 Aunis, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 69 _sq._; wonderful herbs gathered on St. John’s Eve in, xi. 45; St. John’s wort in, xi. 55; vervain gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 62 _n._ 4; four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63 —— and Saintonge, Midsummer fires in, x. 192. _See_ Saintonge Aunts named after their nieces, iii. 332 Aunund, King, in Norse legend, viii. 146 Aurelia Aemilia, a sacred harlot, v. 38 Aurich, in East Friesland, “cutting the hare’s tail off” at harvest at, vii. 268, 280 Auricular confession, iii. 214. _See_ Confession Aurohuaca Indians of Colombia, auricular confession among the, iii. 215 _sq._, v. 23 _n._ 2 Aurora, one of the New Hebrides, rain-making by means of a stone in, i. 308; magic practised on refuse of food in, iii. 127; _tamaniu_ in, xi. 198 Aurora Australis, fear entertained by the Kurnai of the, iv. 267 _n._ 1 Ausonius, on the Ides of August, i. 12 _n._ 2 Aust, E., on the marriage of the Roman gods, vi. 236 _n._ 1 Australia, use of magical images among the aborigines of, i. 62; cave-paintings in, i. 87 _n._ 1; rain-making in, i. 251 _sq._, 254-261, 287 _sq._, 304; dust-columns in, thought to be spirits, i. 331 _sq._; government of old men in aboriginal, i. 334 _sq._; influence of magicians in aboriginal, i. 334 _sqq._; ceremony observed at approaching the camp of another tribe in, iii. 109; custom of personal cleanliness observed from superstitious motives among the aborigines of, iii. 158 _n._ 1; names of relations tabooed among the aborigines of, iii. 345 _sq._; belief as to the reincarnation of the dead in, v. 99 _sqq._; totemism in, viii. 311; demons in, ix. 74; annual expulsion of ghosts in, ix. 123 _sq._; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, x. 76 _sqq._; passing under an arch as a rite of initiation in, xi. 193 _n._ 1; initiation of young men in, xi. 227, 233 _sqq._; use of bull-roarers in, xi. 289 _n._ 2 _See also_ Australian aborigines, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria