Arabia, ancient, taboos observed by incense-growers in, ii. 106 _sq._; belief as to shadows in, iii. 82; Sabaea or Sheba in, iii. 124; tree-spirits in snake form in, xi. 44 _n._ 1
Arabian, modern, story of the external soul, xi. 137 _sq._
_Arabian Nights_, story of the external soul in the, xi. 137
Arabic treatise on magic, i. 65; writer on the mourning for Tâ-uz (Tammuz) in Harran, v. 230
Arabs believe the soul to be in the blood, iii. 241; avoid using the proper names for lion, leprosy, etc., iii. 400; ancient, supposed to know the language of birds, viii. 146; their custom as to widows, ix. 35; their custom in regard to murder, ix. 63; beat camels to deliver them from jinn, ix. 260
—— of Algeria, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 _n._ 1
—— of East Africa, their faith in an unguent of lion’s fat, viii. 164
——, the heathen, their custom as to a boy’s cast teeth, i. 181; their way of procuring rain, i. 303; their treatment of a man stung by a scorpion, iii. 95 _n._ 8
—— of Moab, their charm against scorpions, i. 153; their charm to ensure the birth of children, i. 157; their rain-making ceremony, i. 276; their use of shorn hair as a hostage, iii. 273; preserve their nail-parings against the resurrection, iii. 280; resort to the springs of Callirrhoe, v. 215 _sq._; their custom at harvest, vi. 48, 96, vii. 138; their remedies for ailments, vi. 242
—— of Morocco, their custom at the Great Feast, ix. 265; their Midsummer customs, x. 214
—— of North Africa, their rain-charm, i. 277; jinn invoked by their names among the, iii. 390
Aracan, ix. 117; the Mrus of, ix. 12 _n._ 1; dances for the crops in, ix. 236
Arachnaeus, Mount, altars of Zeus and Hera on, ii. 360
Arad, in Hungary, thresher of last corn wrapt in a cow’s hide at, vii. 291
Aran, in the valley of the Garonne, Midsummer fires at, x. 193
Aran Islands, off Galway, St. Eany’s well in the, ii. 161
Aratus of Sicyon, sacrifices to, i. 105; deemed a son of Aesculapius, v. 81
Araucanians of South America, the, ix. 12; their idea as to toads, i. 292 _n._ 3; their belief that thunder-storms are caused by the spirits of the dead, ii. 183; afraid of having their portraits taken, iii. 97; keep their names secret, iii. 324; eat fruit of Araucanian pine, v. 278 _n._ 2 _See also_ Aucas