Awemba, Bantu tribe of Rhodesia, their belief in a supreme being, vi. 174; their worship of ancestral spirits, vi. 175; their prayers to dead kings before going to war, vi. 191 _sq._; woman’s part in agriculture among the, vii. 115; among them murderers mutilate their victims in order to disable their ghosts, viii. 272 _sq._ Awka in South Nigeria, taboos observed by priest at, x. 4 Awujale, title of chief of the Ijebu tribe, in South Nigeria, iv. 112 Awuna tribes of the Gold Coast, their belief as to the sacredness of their heads, iii. 257 Axe, emblem of Hittite god of thundering sky, v. 134; as divine emblem, v. 163; symbol of Asiatic thunder-god, v. 183; that slew the ox, trial and condemnation of the, viii. 5 ——, double-headed, symbol of Sandan, v. 127; carried by Lydian kings, v. 182; a palladium of the Heraclid sovereignty, v. 182; figured on coins, v. 183 _n._ Axim, on the Gold Coast, annual expulsion of the devil at, ix. 131 Ayambori, in Dutch New Guinea, woman’s share in agriculture among the Papuans of, vii. 123 Aymara Indians of Peru and Bolivia, their rain-charm by means of frogs, i. 292; afraid of being photographed, iii. 97; their use of a black llama as a scapegoat in time of plague, ix. 193 Ayrshire, mode of cutting the last corn in, vii. 154; “cutting the Hare” at harvest in, vii. 279 _Azadirachta Indica_ in a rain-charm, i. 293 Azazel, a bad angel, in connexion with the Jewish scapegoat, ix. 210 _n._ 4 Azemmour, in Morocco, cairns reared by pilgrims near, ix. 21; Midsummer fires at, x. 214 Azores, bonfires and divination on Midsummer Eve in the, x. 208 _sq._; fern-seed at Midsummer in the, xi. 66 Aztec mode of keeping sorcerers from houses, iii. 93 —— priests, their hair unshorn, iii. 259 Aztecs, their view of intoxication as inspiration, iii. 249 _sq._; their priests, iii. 259; their festival at end of fifty-two years, vii. 310 _sq._; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 310 _sq._; their sacred new fire, vii. 310 _sq._; eating the god among the, viii. 86 _sqq._; their custom of sacrificing human representatives of gods, ix. 275; their five supplementary days, ix. 339; their punishment of witches and wizards, xi. 159 Azur, the month of March, ix. 403 Azyingo, Lake, in West Africa, viii. 235 Ba-Bwende, a tribe of the Congo, v. 271 _n._ Ba-Lua, in the Congo region, will not pronounce name of their tribe, iii. 330 —— -Mbala, a Bantu tribe, woman’s share in agriculture among the, vii. 119 —— -Pedi, the, of South Africa, grave-diggers not allowed to handle food among, iii. 141; women in childbed not allowed to handle food, iii. 148 _sq._; their superstitions as to miscarriage in childbed, iii. 153 _sq._; their continence in war, iii. 163; continence at building a new village among the, iii. 202; their belief as to a woman stepping over their legs, iii. 424