—— -tree, afterbirth of cow hung in an, i. 198 _sq._; straw-man placed on oldest, viii. 6; as life-index of boy, xi. 165
—— -trees, barren women roll under, to obtain offspring, ii. 57; torches thrown at, x. 108; mistletoe on, xi. 315, 316 _n._ 5
Apples at festival of Diana, i. 14, 16; forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, v. 280 _n._ 7; dipping for, at Hallowe’en, x. 237, 239, 241, 242, 243, 245
April, religious rites performed by the Vestals in, ii. 229; the first Sunday of, custom observed at Naples on, iv. 241; Siamese festival of the dead in, ix. 150; ceremony of the new fire in, x. 136 _sq._, xi. 3; Chinese festival of fire in, xi. 3
April 2nd, annual sacrifice of wild boars in Cyprus on, viii. 23 _n._ 3
—— 21st, date of the Parilia, ii. 325, 326; ceremony performed by the Vestals on, viii. 42
—— 23rd, St. George’s Day, ii. 75, 76, 330 _sqq._
—— 24th, in some places St. George’s Day, ii. 337, 343; the great _mondard_ made on, viii. 6
—— 27th, in popular superstitions of Morocco, x. 17 _sq._
Apuleius, as to the love-charm of a Thessalian witch, iii. 270; his story of Cupid and Psyche, iv. 131 _n._ 1; on the worship of Isis, vi. 119 _n._; on a cure for scorpion bite, ix. 50 _n._ 1
Arab belief that a game of ball may cause rain, ix. 179
—— charm to forget sorrow, i. 150; to bring back a runaway slave, i. 152; to ensure birth of strong children, i. 153; to fertilize a barren woman, i. 157; of the setting sun, i. 165 _sq._; to get good teeth, i. 181; to make rain, i. 303
—— commentator as to the fig and the olive, ii. 316; on the Koran as to knots in magic, iii. 302
—— cure by means of knotted thread, iii. 304; cure for melancholy, ix. 4
—— legend of king bled to death, iii. 243 _n._ 7
—— love-charm by means of knots, iii. 305
—— women, their custom of muffling their faces, iii. 122; in North Africa give their male children the hearts of lions to eat, viii. 142 _sq._; in Morocco, their superstitions as to plants at Midsummer, xi. 51
—— writer on the death of the King of the Jinn, iv. 8; on talismans against locusts and murrain, viii. 281
Arabia, sacred acacia-tree in, ii. 42; sticks or stones piled on scenes of violent death in, ix. 15; use of camel as scapegoat for plague in, ix. 33