American Indians, power of medicine-men among the, i. 355 _sqq._; drive away the ghosts of the slain, iii. 170 _sq._; confession of sins among the, iii. 215 _sq._, 216 _n._ 2; personal names kept secret among the, iii. 324 _sqq._, 327 _sq._; their fear of naming the dead, iii. 351 _sqq._; relations of the dead change their names among the, iii. 357; changes in their languages caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 360 _sq._; their Great Spirit, iv. 3; women’s agricultural work among the, vii. 120 _sqq._; their personification of maize, vii. 171 _sqq._; do not sharply distinguish between animals and men, viii. 204 _sqq._; their ceremonies at hunting bears, viii. 224 _sqq._; treat elans, deer, and elks with ceremonious respect, viii. 240; cut out the sinew of the thigh of deer which they kill, viii. 264. _See also_ North American Indians _and_ South American Indians
American prairies, skulls of buffaloes awaiting resurrection on, viii. 256
Amestris, wife of Xerxes, her sacrifice of children, vi. 220 _sq._
Amethysts thought to keep their wearers sober, i. 165; in rain-charms, i. 345
Amiens, “killing the Cat” at harvest near, vii. 281
Ammerland, in Oldenburg, cart-wheel used as charm against witchcraft in, x. 345 _n._ 3
Ammon, the god, married to the queen of Egypt, ii. 130 _sqq._; human wives of, ii. 130 _sqq._, v. 72; regarded as the father of Egyptian gods, ii. 131; costume of, ii. 133; king of Egypt masqueraded as, ii. 133; high priests of, their usurpation of regal power, ii. 134; identified with the sun, vi. 123; rage of King Amenophis IV. against, vi. 124; at Thebes in Egypt, ram annually sacrificed to, viii. 41, 172; the Theban, represented with the body of a man and the head of a ram, viii. 172 _sq._
Ammon (country), Hanun, king of, iii. 273; conquered by King David, iii. 273
Ammonite, fossil, regarded as an embodiment of Vishnu, ii. 26, 27 _n._ 2
Amoor River, the Manegres of the, iii. 323; the Gilyaks of the, v. 278 _n._ 2, viii. 103, 267, ix. 101; the Goldi of the, viii. 103; bears in the valley of the, viii. 191; the Orotchis of the, viii. 197
Amorgos, the month of Cronion in, ix. 351 _n._ 2
Amorites, their law as to fornication, v. 37 _sq._
Amoy, fear of tree-spirits in, ii. 14; spirits who draw away the souls of children at, iii. 59; euphemism for fever among the Chinese of, iii. 400; puppets as substitutes among the Chinese of, viii. 104