| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
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| Albania, milk-stones in, 34; mock lamentations for locusts and beetles in, 531; expulsion of Kore on Easter Eve in, 560; the Yule log in, 638 |
| Albanians of the Caucasus, 251, 571 |
| Albigenses worshipped each other, 101 |
| Alchemy leads up to chemistry, 92 |
| Aleuts of Alaska, 221 |
| Alexandria, festival of Adonis at, 335 |
| Alexandrian calendar, 374; year, 373 |
| Alfai, rain-making priest, 107 |
| Alfoors, of the island of Buru, 250; of Central Celebes, 181, 690; of Halmahera, 548; of Minahassa, 94, 95, 186, 482, 492; of Poso, 248 |
| Algeria, Midsummer fires in, 631 |
| Algidus, Mount, 150, 164 |
| Algonquins, 144 |
| All-healer, name applied to mistletoe, 659–661 |
| All Saints’ Day, 634, 636 |
| All Souls, feast of, 360 |
| Allan, John Hay, on the Hays of Errol, 702 |
| Allatu, Babylonian goddess, 326, 327 |
| All-Hallows (All Saints’ Day), 173 |
| Almond, causes virgin to conceive, 347; the father of all things, 347 |
| Alpheus, the sacred, 110 |
| Alqamar, tribe of nomads, 64 |
| Alsace, May-trees in, 121; the Little May Rose in, 125; stuffed goat or fox at threshing in, 457; cats burnt in Easter bonfires in, 656 |
| Altmark, the May Bride at Whitsuntide in the, 135; Easter bonfires in the, 615, 616 |
| Alvarado, Pedro de, Spanish general, 687 |
| Amaxosa Caffres, 522 |
| Amazon, Indians at the mouth of the, 581 |
| Amboyna, rice in bloom treated like a pregnant woman, 115; ceremony to fertilise clove-trees in, 137; fear to lose the shadow at noon in, 191; sick people sprinkled with pungent spices in, 196; superstition regarding hair in, 680 |
| America, power of medicine men in North, 87; continence in Central, 138; the Corn Mother in, 412; personification of maize in North, 419; first-fruit ceremonies in, 486, 487 |
| American Indians, 29, 63, 82, 87, 111, 136, 138, 214, 244, 246, 252, 253, 256, 264, 522. See also North American Indians |
| Amethysts as charms, 34, 85 |
| Ammon, the god, 142, 477, 500 |
| Amoy, spirits who draw away the souls of children at, 186 |
| Amphictyon, king of Athens, 155 |
| Amulets, 109, 242, 243, 679, 680 |
| Amulius Silvius, 149 |
| Anabis, human god at, 96 |
| Anaitis, Persian goddess, 331 |
| Anatomie of Abuses, 123 |
| Ancestor, wooden image of, 679 |
| Ancestors, prayers to, 71; sacrifices to, 72; souls of, in trees, 115; names of, bestowed on their reincarnations, 256 |
| Ancus Marcius, Roman king, 158 |
| Andaman Islanders, 192 |
| Anderida, forest of, 109 |
| Andes, the Peruvian, 79; the Colombian, 104 |
| Anemone, the scarlet, 336 |
| Angamis, Eastern, of Manipur, 64 |
| Angola, the Matiamvo of, 271 |
| Angoni, the, 73, 214 |
| Angoniland, rain-making in, 63 |
| Angoy, king of, 273 |
| Anhouri, Egyptian god, 265 |
| Animal, killing the divine, 499–518; and man, sympathetic relation between, 700 |
| Animals, homeopathic magic of, 31; association of ideas common to the, 54; rain-making by means of, 72; injured through their shadows, 190; propitiation of the spirits of slain, 217, 220; torn to pieces and devoured in religious rites, 390, 391; so-called unclean, originally sacred, 472; belief in the descent of men from, 473; resurrection of, 516, 528, 529; wild, propitiation of, 518–532; two forms of the worship of, 532; processions with sacred, 535; transference of evil to, 540–542; as scapegoats, 540, 565, 568, 570, 576; burnt at festivals, 655, 656; perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, 657, 658; external soul in, 683–691 |
| Animism, the Buddhist, not a philosophical theory, 112; passing into polytheism, 117 |
| Anjea, mythical being, 39 |
| Anna Kuari, an Oraon goddess, 434 |
| Annam, ceremonies observed when a whale is washed ashore in, 223 |
| Anointing stones, in order to avert bullets from absent warriors, 26; in a rain-charm, 76 |
| Anointment, of weapon which caused wound, 41; of priest at installation, 174 |
| Anthropomorphism of the spirits of nature, 423 |
| Antigonus, King, 97 |
| Antioch, festival of Adonis at, 336, 346 |
| Antrim, harvest customs in, 404 |
| Ants, bites of, used in purificatory ceremonies, 195, 601; for lethargic patients, 496 |
| Anubis, the jackal-headed god, 366, 367, 374 |
| Anula tribe of Northern Australia, 64, 72, 693 |
| Apaches, the, 76, 211 |
| Apalai Indians, 195 |
| Ape, a Batak totem, 691 |
| Aphrodite, 4; and Adonis, 7, 327, 335; the mourning, of the Lebanon, 329; sanctuary of, 330; and Cinyras and Pygmalion, 332; her blood dyes white roses red, 336 |
| Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, 335, 365, 476, 501 |
| Apollo, prophetess of, 95; image of, in sacred cave at Hylae, 95; and Artemis, 120; at Delphi, 265; his musical contest with Marsyas, 354; identified with the Celtic Grannus, 611 |
| Apollo Diradiotes, inspired priestess at temple of, 94 |
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