Airu, Assyrian month corresponding to May, ii. 130
Aïsawa or Isowa, order of saints in Morocco, devour live goats, vii. 21 _sq._
Aisne, Midsummer fires in the department of, x. 187
Ait Sadden, a tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 182
—— Warain, a Berber tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 178 _sq._
—— Yusi, a tribe of Morocco, their tug-of-war, ix. 182
Aix, squibs at Midsummer at, x. 193; Midsummer king at, x. 194, xi. 25
Aiyar, N. Subramhanya, on Indian dancing-girls, v. 63 _sqq._
Ajax and Teucer, names of priestly kings of Olba, v. 144 _sq._, 161
Ajumba hunter, his apologies to the hippopotamus which he had killed, viii. 235
Akamba of British East Africa, believe that every woman has a spiritual husband who fertilizes her, ii. 317; continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204; their offerings of first-fruits to the spirits of the dead, viii. 113; riddles asked at circumcision among the, ix. 122 _n._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 23
—— of Central Africa, reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353
Akawés, a tribe of Garos, their harvest festival, viii. 337
Akhetaton (Tell-el-Amarna), the capital of Amenophis IV., vi. 123 _n._ 1
Akikuyu, the, of British East Africa, ceremony of the new birth among the, i. 75 _sq._, 96 _sq._, xi. 262 _sq._; worship fig-trees, ii. 44 _sq._; worship a snake, and marry girls to the snake-god, ii. 150, v. 67 _sq._; believe that barren women can be fertilized by the wild fig-tree, ii. 316; purification of manslayers among the, iii. 175 _sq._; continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204; auricular confession among the, iii. 214; use of scapegoats among the, iii. 214 _sq._; their women purified after a miscarriage in childbirth, iii. 286; their treatment of premature and unusual births, iii. 286, 287 _n._ 6; their belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, v. 82, 85; transfer guilt to a goat, ix. 32; their dread of menstruous women, x. 81. _See also_ Kikuyu
Akurwa, a village of the Shilluk, iv. 19, 23, 24
Alabama, harvest festival of the Indians of, viii. 72 _n._ 3
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Roman version of, xi. 105
Alafin of Oyo, paramount king of Yoruba land, iv. 203