Ardennes, effigies of Carnival in the, 305; exorcising rats in the, 531; bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, 609, 656; Lenten fires and customs in the French, 610
Aricia, 1, 2; many Manii at, 6, 491; its distance from the sanctuary, 106; the priest of, 582, 592, 593, 703
Aryans, magical powers ascribed to kings, 89; in Europe, 110, 159, 161, 163, 656, 665; descent of kingship through women, 155; of ancient India, 490; their use of the sacred oak-wood, 666; stories of the external soul, 668; reverence for the oak, 709
Assam, the hill tribes of, taboos observed by the headman and his wife, 173, and by warriors, 212; parents named after their children in, 248; head-hunting in, 441; the Asongtata ceremony in, 568
Athenians, decree divine honours to Demetrius Poliorcetes and his father Antigonus, 97; prayed to Zeus for rain, 159; their tribute of youths and maidens to Minos, 280; sacrifice to Dionysus for the fruits of the land, 386; their use of human scapegoats, 579
Athens, king and queen at, 9; titular king at, 106; marriage of Dionysus at, 142; female kinship at, 155; sacred spots struck by lightning at, 159; the Commemoration of the Dead at, 340; Dionysus of the Black Goatskin at, 390; annual sacrifice of a goat on the Acropolis of, 477; fever transferred to pillar at, 545
Attica, summer festival of Adonis in, 336; Flowery Dionysus in, 387; time of threshing in, 466; killing an ox formerly a capital crime in, 466
Attis, and Cybele, 4, 5, 8; myth and ritual of, 347–352; as a god of vegetation, 352, 353; human representatives of, 353–356; his relation to Lityerses, 440; killed by a boar, 471
Australia, magical ceremonies in, 17; charms in, 32; contagious magic in, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45; magic practised but religion nearly unknown in aboriginal, 55; rain-making in, 64, 65, 72, 76; detaining the sun or hastening its descent in, 80; dust columns thought to be spirits in, 82; government of old men in aboriginal, 83; ceremony observed at approaching the camp of another tribe, 197; totemism in, 533; annual expulsion of ghosts in, 550; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, 603; initiation of young men in, 692
——, Central, magical ceremonies for the supply of food in, 17; charm to promote the growth of beards in, 32; contagious magic of wounds in, 42; headmen of totem clans public magicians in, 83; conceàlment of personal names in, 245; avoidance of the names of the dead in, 252; magical rites for the revival of nature in, 323; expelling the devil in, 548
