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Index.
Animal gods, 178
Animal sacrifices, India, 169 ; Tahiti,
179 Animal taboos, in Australia, 326, in
India, 169 Animal worship in Egj'pt, 163- 165 Animals as spirits of the dead, Africa,
308, Australia, 398, 399 ; asso- ciated with gods in worship, 177 Animism, 160 V Annie Sociologiqne, publiee sous la
direction d'Emile Diirkheim, re- viewed, 251 Annual meeting, 20 ; report of
Council, 23 Anthropological theories of theology,
A. Lang on, 290 Anthropometry, results of in India,
in relation to Caste, 168 Antiker Abei-glaiibe, Wilhelm Kroll,
reviewed, 343 Antinous, leader of Penelope's
suitors, 108, 109, III, 112, 115 Anti-vaccinationists, superstitions of,
256 Aphrodite, and her dowry, iii, her
garth loi ; Pandemos, 177 Apis, 165 Aplech de Rondayes Mallorqitines ,
d'enJordiDes Reco, A. M. Alcover,
reviewed, 158 Apollo, the python-slayer, 177 Apples, Kidderminster custom of
pelting with, at election of bailiff,
117 Arabia, folklore of, ropes of sand,
369 Arabs, Bedouin, in the Lebanon, 8,
reverence for bread, 17 Aramaic dialect, range of, 165 Architecture of farmers' houses in the
Punjab, 153 Areas of folklore research suggested,
52 Arete of Phaeacia, 113 Argos, 175 Aristotle cited, on wife purchase,
106; on hereditary kingship, 115 Arjuna, the bow-breaker, 132 Armenia, folklore of, version of
Grateful Dead tale, 228 Artemis, Lady of the Lake, 175 ;
mullet offered to, 277 ; the strangled.
worship of, 170 Arthur, King, 266. and the Graal,
348' 353 ; tales of the Son of,
237
Arthurian romances. 266, 270 ; hypo- theses of origin, 271
Arthur's Stone, in Gower, 77
Artistry of early man, 38, 39
Aryan cycle in the Homeric poems, 99; immigrations, influence on folk- lore, 34, 36, 37, 49 ; three main streams of, 41, 45
Asari, Babylonian prototype of Osiris, 338
Ash, sapling used to cure infantine ailments, 335 ; the Shrew, in Rich- mond Park, 330 ; used for cattle and animal cures, 333
Ashton-under-Lyne, riding the Black Lad at, on Easter Monday, 379
Asses eating ropes, 369
Assheton, Sir Ralph de, transforma- tion into a myth, 382
Asmodeus in tale of Tobit, 242
Assyria, 1 66- 1 67
Atalanta, and parallels, 121
Athena Parthenos, statue of, 179
Athene, birth of, 97 ; and the suitors of Penelope, loi
Athens, 175
Aurora, the, in connection with Penelope's web, 122
Australia, folklore of ; aborigines of, 98 ; theories of origin of, 261 ; class system of, 252 ; European influence on beliefs of, 301, 303 ; feeding of chiefs in, 103 ; food taboos, 326 ; high gods of, 290 ; marriage customs of, 252, 324-325 ; precepts taught to novices, 322 ; value of folklore of, and right manner of studying, 329
Axes, shooting through, in Wooing of Penelope, explained, 132
Aynsley, Mrs. H. G. M. Murray, on the development of idol worship, 183
Baal, a Semitic deity, 163 ; fires, in Cyprus, 188 : in France, 284
Babar, Mughal Emperor of India, 116
Babylonian folklore, its influence on Hebrew beliefs, 71 ,• origin of Osiris cult, 164, 338
Baiame, Australia god, 296, 297 ; destroys Daramulun, 299, 314 ; legends of, 300, 301 ; European influence on, 302 ; Noongahburrah legends of, 303 ; Wiraijuri legends of, 304, 312, 313
