GENERAL INDEX.
Abatwa or Bushmen, see Bushmen Abbot of Unreason, 477 Aberdeenshire, see Braemar ; ajid Dee
valley Abergavenny : landslip near, beliefs
about, 349 Abraham, mosque and pool of, Ourfa,
431
Acanthus changed into linnet or gold- finch, 388
Acanthyllis changed into linnet, 388
Accounts of Folk-Lore Society, 10- 11
Achsemenes, King, see King Achs- menes
Achelous, river god, 269
Acheron river: white poplar on banks of, 297, 421, 422
Achilles, story of, 372, 374-5
Acorn : used to assign judges to courts, Athens, 372
Adansis, Ashanti tribe, 228
Adder, see Snake
Additional Variants of the Father and Son Combat Theme, by M. A. Potter, 216-20
Adiaman : folklore from, 428 ; grapes, consecration of, 443
Admetus, King, see King Admetus
Adonis, annual festival of, 428
Adoption : 477 ; custom of, Torres Straits, 353
Adventures of Libanza, The, folktale, Congo, 329-31
Aeacus : prayer under oak, Aegina, 296; on vase, Tarentum, 314-5
Aedon and Poly technus,legendof,300- 1
Aeetes, Iving, see King Aeetes
Aegae : oak Zeus and Hestia wor- shipped, 311
^geus, story of, 219-20
Aegina : sacred oak, 296
Aegolius changed into owl, 389
Aegospotami, battle of, 302
Aegosthena : temporary priestly king,
394. Aegypius, myth of, 388 Aeolis, see Aegae ; and Elaea Aerolites, see Meteorites Aethlius, King, see King Aethlius ^thra, mother of Theseus, 219 Africa: (^ee a/ro Amaxosa ; Amazulu;
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Angoniland ; Ashantis ; Bantu ; Bonde tribe; Bushmen; Cameroons; Congo State ; Delagoa Bay ; Digo tribe; Fantis; Gold Coast; Guinea; Hottentots ; Kologwe ; Kong mountains ; Lagos ; Limpopo ; Madagascar ; Magila ; Mashona- land; Mauretania ; Morocco; Nile; Nyassaland ; Ogowe ; Pondos ; Senegambia; Somaliland; Soudan; Usumbwa; Yorubaland; a«a? Zanzi- bar) ; central, rain-making, 433 ; Kidd's The Essential Kafir re- viewed, 224-6; folktales, 125; myth of Antaeus, 378 ; Zeus Amnion the setting sun, 274-5 ; west, war dances and spells, 158, and secret societies of, no
Agamemnon, King, see King Aga- memnon
Age, classification of primitive peoples by, 108-12
Agesilaus, King, see King Agesilaus
Agnation or father-right: group mar- riage decays under, 472
Agricultural folklore : {see also Corn spirits, vegetation souls, and the like; Planting customs and beliefs; Ploughing customs and beliefs; and Sowing customs and beliefs) ; ashes of new Candlemas fire spread over fields, Moush, 437 ; charm against theft in cornfields, E. Central Africa, 72 ; Easter Sunday custom, Monmouthshire, 221 ; failure of crops prevented by witch-doctors, E. Central Africa, 69 ; school of agriculture, Maoris, 18
Agrigentum : story of Empedocles, 301-2
Ahanta, Fanti state, 228
Ailill, King, see King Ailill
Aintab : folklore from, 428 ; Varte- var festival, 430 ; water-throwing as rain-charm, 430, 433-4
Air spirits, France, 475
Aix, son of Python, 402
Akahiakuleana, mother of Umi, Hawaii, 217
'Al, spirits dangerous to mother, Egin, 445