—— of Europe, their oak forests and use of oak-wood, ii. 372, 378; agriculture among the early, vii. 129 _sq._; totemism not proved for the, viii. 4; importance of the Midsummer festival among the, xi. 40; the oak the chief sacred tree of the, xi. 89 _sq._
Aryans of India, transubstantiation among the, viii. 89 _sq._
—— of the Vedic age, ix. 324; their calendar, ix. 325, 342
Aryenis, daughter of Alyattes, v. 133 _n._ 1
Asa, a branch of the Masai, how they dispose of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278
Asaba, on the Lower Niger, chiefs eat in privacy at, iii. 118
Asakusa, in Tokio, expulsion of the devil on the last day of the year at, ix. 213
Ascalon, the goddess Derceto at, v. 34 _n._ 3, ix. 370 _n._ 1
Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, ii. 197; and the Game of Troy, iv. 76
—— Day, the May-tree in Saxony on, ii. 69; annual pardon of a criminal at Rouen on, ii. 165, 166, 168, 169, ix. 215 _sq._; the “Carrying out of Death” on, at Braller, iv. 222 _n._ 1, 247 _sqq._; cures on Eve of, ix. 54; annual expulsion of the devil on, ix. 214 _sq._; bells rung to make flax grow on, ix. 247 _sq._; parasitic rowan should be cut on, xi. 281
Aschbach, in Bavaria, the Old Man at reaping and threshing at, vii. 219 _sq._
_Asclepias gigantea_, man married to, in Barar, ii. 57 _n._ 4
Ash-tree, parings of nails buried under an, iii. 276; in popular cure, ix. 57
—— -trees, children passed through cleft ash-trees as a cure for rupture or rickets, xi. 168 _sqq._
—— Wednesday, death of Caramantran on, iv. 220; burial of the Carnival on, iv. 221; effigies of Carnival or of Shrove Tuesday burnt or buried on, iv. 226, 228 _sqq._, x. 120; effigy of the Queen of Lent fashioned on, iv. 244; pea-soup and pigs’ bones eaten on, vii. 300
Ashantee, licence accorded to king’s sisters in, ii. 274 _sq._; royal criminals drowned in, iii. 242 _sq._; precaution as to the spittle of the king of, iii. 289; kings of, addressed as “Elephant” and “Lion,” iv. 86; kings of, take one of their titles from _borri_, a venomous snake, iv. 86; human sacrifices at earthquakes in, v. 201; kings of, their human sacrifices, vi. 97 _n._ 7; annual period of licence in, ix. 226 _n._ 1
Ashantees, the, sanctity of the king’s throne among, i. 365; their festivals of new yams, viii. 62 _sq._; ate Sir Charles McCarthy to acquire his bravery, viii. 149