Algiers, the Moors of, light no fires after a death, ii. 268 _n._
Algonquin Indians caught souls in nets, iii. 69 _sq._
Algonquins or Algonkins, the, their treatment of the navel-string, i. 197; marry their fishing-nets to girls, ii. 147 _sq._; their women seek to be impregnated by the souls of the dying, iv. 199
Alice Springs in Central Australia, i. 259, xi. 238; magical stones at, i. 162
All-healer, name applied to mistletoe, xi. 77, 79, 82
All Saints, Feast of, perhaps substituted for an old pagan festival of the dead, vi. 82 _sq._
All Saints’ Day, November 1st, old Celtic New Year’s Day, x. 225; omens on, x. 240; bonfires on, x. 246; sheep passed through a hoop on, xi. 184
All Souls, Festival of, iv. 98, vi. 51 _sqq._, vii. 30, x. 223 _sq._, 225 _n._ 2; originally a pagan festival of the dead, vi. 81; instituted by Odilo, abbot of Clugny, vi. 82
All Souls’ College, Oxford, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337
_Allallu_ bird beloved by Ishtar, ix. 371
Allan, John Hay, on the Hays of Errol, xi. 283
Allandur temple, at St. Thomas’s Mount, Madras, fire-festival at, xi. 8 _n._ 1
Allhallow Even, the thirty-first of October, Lords of Misrule on, ix. 332
All-Hallows (All Saints’ Day), iii. 11, 12
Allifae in Samnium, baths of Hercules at, v. 213 _n._ 2
Alligator pears, Peruvian ceremony to make them ripen, ii. 98
Allumba, in Central Australia, magic tree at, i. 145 _sq._
Almo, procession to the river, in the rites of Attis, v. 273
Almond causes virgin to conceive, v. 263; the father of all things, v. 263 _sq._
A-Louyi, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 28 _n._ 5
Alpach, valley in Tyrol, the Wheat-bride or Rye-bride at harvest in, vii. 163
Alqamar, tribe of nomads in Hadramaut, their way of stopping rain, i. 252
Alsace, May-trees in, ii. 64; the Little May Rose in, ii. 74; stuffed goat or fox at threshing in, vii. 287, 297; Midsummer fires in, x. 169; cats burnt in Easter bonfires in, xi. 40
Alt Lest, in Silesia, the binder of the last sheaf called the Beggar-man at, vii. 231
—— -Pillau, in Samland, harvest custom at, vii. 139
Altdorf and Weingarten, in Swabia, the Carnival Fool on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 232
Althenneberg, in Bavaria, Easter fires at, x. 143 _sq._
Altisheim, in Swabia, the last sheaf called the Old Woman at, vii. 136