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GENERAL INDEX

Ablutions, at weddings and at funerals, 555

Aborigines, regarded as wizards, 248;
  their relations with invaders, 244

Absolution, and dissolution, 401;
  of the dead, 396 ff.

Achaeans, religion of, 521 f.

Adonis, story of, 582;
  story of, how interpreted, 580;
  as type of the initiated, 582

Aeschylus, popular beliefs utilised by, 437 ff., 459 f.;
  religious sympathies of, 523

Aetolus, story of, 273

Agamemnon, as revenant, 438

Alastor, application of word, 465 ff.;
  as proper name (in Homer), 473;
  as term of abuse, 477;
  derivation of word, 471;
  development of meaning of word, 475 f.;
  meaning of, 476;
  original meaning of, 472

Alastores, 462 ff.;
  not originally deities, 467 ff.

Allatius, on vrykolakes, 364 ff.

Amorgos, oracle of, 332

Amulets, 12-13, 21, 140

Amymone, story of, 593

Ancient language, attempted revival of, 30

Angels, exorcism of, 68;
  good and bad, 288;
  worship of, 42

Animals, unlucky species of, 307

Anointing, of the dead, 557

Anthropomorphic conception of God, 52

Antigone, as 'bride of Acheron,' 551

Antiphon, on blood-guilt, 443

Aphrodite, 117-120;
  'eldest of the Fates,' 120;
  mystic rites of, 580

Apis, story of, 459

Apollonius of Tyana, 257

Apostasy, 409

Apple, symbolic usage of, 558

'Arabs' (a class of demons), 211, 276 f.;
  identified with vrykolakes (q.v.), 277

Ariadne, story of, how represented on sepulchral monuments, 598

Aristomenes, 76

Arrogance of Greeks, 29

Art, in relation to religion, 1

Artemidorus, on death and marriage, 553 ff.

Artemis, 163-171;
  as huntress, 165;
  as the Moon, 165;
  bathing of, 164-5;
  displaced by S. Artemidos, 44;
  modern character of, 169;
  offerings to, 170

Asclepius, in serpent-form, 274 f.;
  re-incarnation of, in mock-mysteries, 589

Ass-centaurs, 235 and 237 f.

Athene, and the owl, 207;
  succeeded by Virgin Mary, 45

Athenians, religious sympathies of, 523

Attis, 586

Augury (see Auspices)

August, certain days sacred to Nymphs, 152

Auspices, 308 ff.;
  affected by number, 313;
  from any movement of birds, 311;
  from cry of birds, 311;
  from flight of birds, 311;
  from posture of birds, 311;
  modified by position of observer, 312

Avengers, dead persons as, 438

Avengers of Blood, ancient names for, 462 ff.;
  their resemblance to modern vrykolakes, 458

Axe, double-headed, as religious symbol, 72


'Baboutzicarios,' 217

Bacchic rites, 38

Baptism, exorcisms at, 15;
  neglect of, 409

Beast-dances, 224 ff.

Bed-chambers, in temples, 587

Beehive tombs, original use of, 94

Bells, worn at popular festivals, 224 ff.

'Binding' and 'loosing,' 397

Binding-spells, 19;
  means of loosing, 19

Birds, as messengers, in modern ballads, 316 f.;
  as messengers of particular gods, 309;
  colloquial application of word, 315;
  in popular ballads, 315;
  still acknowledged as messengers of heaven, 315;
  which classes observed for auspices (q.v.), 308 f.;
  why selected for divination, 308

Black-handled knife, as charm, 286

Blessing the waters, 197