Austria, dancing or leaping as a charm to make flax grow tall in, i. 138; gipsy mode of stopping rain in, i. 295 _sq._; meal offered to the wind in, i. 329 _n._ 5; peasants of, their belief in the sensitiveness of trees, ii. 18; belief as to stepping over a child in, iii. 424; leaping over Midsummer fires in, v. 251; children warned against the Corn-cock in, vii. 276; mythical Calf in corn in, vii. 292; cure for warts in, ix. 48; dances or leaps to make the crops grow high in, ix. 238; “Easter Smacks” in, ix. 268 _sq._; custom of young people beating each other on Holy Innocents’ Day in, ix. 270; weather of the twelve months thought to be determined by the weather of the Twelve Days in, ix. 322; weather forecasts in, ix. 323; the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day in, ix. 329; Midsummer fires in, x. 172 _sqq._; the Yule log among the Servians of, x. 262 _sqq._; fern-seed at Midsummer in, xi. 65; mistletoe used to prevent nightmare in, xi. 85 Austria, Lower, presages as to shadows on St. Sylvester’s Day in, iii. 88 ——, Upper, processions round fields on St. George’s Day in, ii. 344; need-fire in, x. 279 Austrian charm to make fruit-trees bear, i. 140 _sq._ Autumn, ceremony of the Esquimaux in late, ix. 125 —— fires, x. 220 _sqq._ Autun, procession of goddess at, ii. 144; the Festival of Fools at, ix. 335 Auvergne, milk bewitched at Corrèze in, iii. 93; Lenten fires in, x. 111 _sq._; story of a were-wolf in, x. 308 _sq._ Auxerre, the last sheaf called the Corn-mother near, vii. 135; “killing the Bull” at threshing at, vii. 291 Auxesia and Damia, female powers of fertility at Troezen, i. 39 _Ave Maria_ bell on Midsummer Eve, xi. 47 Avebury, Lord, on the distinction between religion and magic, i. 225 _n._; on substitutes for capital punishment in China, iv. 146 _n._, 273 Avengers of blood, ceremony performed by, before starting, i. 92 Aventine, Diana on the, ii. 128; oaks on the, ii. 185 Avernus, Lake, and the Golden Bough, xi. 285 _n._ 2 Aversion of spirits and fairies to iron, iii. 229, 232 _sq._; to innovation among savages, iii. 230 _sqq._ Averting ill-luck at marrying a second, third, or fourth wife, ii. 57 _n._ 4 Avestad, in Sweden, heaps of sticks and stones on graves at, ix. 20 _sq._ Avoidance of the wife’s mother, iii. 83 _sqq._; of common words to deceive spirits or other beings, iii. 416 _sqq._ “Awakening of Hercules,” festival at Tyre, v. 111 Awa-nkonde, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28 “Awasungu, the house of the,” x. 28 Awe, Loch, vii. 165; the Old Wife at harvest on, vii. 142