Ab, a Jewish month, equivalent to August, i. 14, vii. 259 _n._ 1
Ababa, a tribe of the Congo region, believe that their souls transmigrate at death into animals, viii. 288 _sq._
Ababua, the, of the Congo valley, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65
Abbas Effendi, divine head of the Babites, i. 402
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia, temporary substitute for, iv. 157
Abbehausen, fever transferred to dog and cat at, ix. 51
Abbeville, huge trunks of oak in the peat-bog near, ii. 351
Abchases of the Caucasus, their ceremony of rain-making, i. 282 _n._ 4; their worship of the thunder-god, ii. 370; their memorial feasts, iv. 98, 103; their use of effigies as substitutes to save the lives of people, viii. 105; their sacrament of shepherds, viii. 313; their sacrifice of white ox, viii. 313 _n._ 1
Abd-Hadad, priestly king of Hierapolis, v. 163 _n._ 3
Abdication of kings in favour of their infant children, iii. 19, 20; during the reign of their substitutes, iv. 115; annual, of kings, iv. 148; of father when his son is grown up, iv. 181; of the king on the birth of a son, iv. 190; temporary, of chief, viii. 66, 68
Abduction of souls by demons, iii. 58 _sqq._
Abeghian, Manuk, on the belief of the Armenians in demons, ix. 107 _sq._; on creeping through cleft trees in Armenia, xi. 172
Abensberg in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, x. 144
Abeokuta, in West Africa, the Alake (king) of, iv. 203; his head kept and delivered to his successor, iv. 203; use of bull-roarers at, xi. 229 _n._
Aber, the Lake of, in Upper Austria, xi. 189
Aberdeenshire, All Souls’ Day in, vi. 79 _sq._; harvest customs in, vii. 158 _sqq._, 215 _sq._, x. 12; need-fire in, x. 296; holed rock used by childless women in, xi. 187
Aberdour, parish of, in Aberdeenshire, the cutting of the _clyack_ sheath in, vii. 158 _sqq._
Abi-jah, King, his family, v. 51 _n._ 2; “father of Jehovah,” v. 51 _n._ 4
Abi-melech, “father of a king,” v. 51 _n._ 4
Abi-milk (Abi-melech), king of Tyre, v. 16 _n._ 5
Abimelech massacres his seventy brothers, v. 51 _n._ 2
Abingdon in Berkshire, May carols and garlands at, ii. 60
Abipones, the, of South America thought it sinful to mention their own names, iii. 328; the dead not named among the, iii. 352; changes in their language caused by the fear of naming the dead, iii. 360; their belief as to meteors, iv. 63; their worship of the Pleiades, v. 258 _n._ 2, vii. 308; ate jaguars to become brave, viii. 140