—— hunter injured by unchastity of absent wife or sister, i. 123
Aleutians, effeminate sorcerers among the, vi. 254
Aleuts of Alaska, seclusion of successful whaler among the, iii. 207
Alexander the Great, his fiery cresset, ii. 264; cuts the Gordian knot, iii. 316; funeral games in his honour, iv. 95; expels a king of Paphos, v. 42; his fabulous birth, v. 81; assumes costumes of deities, v. 165; sacrifices to Megarsian Athena, v. 169 _n._ 3
Alexander Severus, at festival of Attis, v. 273
Alexandria, festival of Adonis at, v. 224, ix. 390; the Serapeum at, vi. 119 _n._, 217; mockery of King Agrippa at, ix. 418
Alexandrian calendar, used by Plutarch, vi. 84; used by Theophanes, ix. 395 _n._ 1
—— year, the fixed, vi. 28, 92; Plutarch’s use of the, vi. 49
Alfai, title of rain-making priest among the Barea and Kunama, ii. 3
Alfoors of Buru, names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 341
—— or Toradjas of Central Celebes, their custom at child-birth, iii. 33; taboos observed by their priest, iii. 129; priest with unshorn hair among the, iii. 260; riddles among the, ix. 122 _n._; their custom at the smelting of iron, xi. 154; their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 222. _See also_ Toradjas
—— of Ceram, their high-priest regarded as a demigod, i. 400
Alfoors of Halmahera, name of wife’s father tabooed among the, iii. 341; their expulsion of the devil, ix. 112
—— of Minahassa, inspired priest among the, i. 382 _sq._; ceremony at house-warming among the, iii. 63 _sq._; names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340 _sq._; their custom as to the first rice sowed and reaped, viii. 54; attempt to deceive demons of sickness, viii. 100
—— of Poso, in Central Celebes, their belief as to demons of trees, ii. 35; abduction of souls by demons among the, iii. 62 _sq._; will not pronounce their own names, iii. 332; names of relations tabooed among the, iii. 340
Algeria, rain-making in, i. 250; the Aisawa sect in, vii. 22 _n._ 1; fever transferred to tortoise in, ix. 31; popular cure by knocking nails in, ix. 60; Midsummer fires in, x. 213
——, the Arabs of, avoid using the proper name for lion, iii. 400; tale of, iv. 130 _n._ 1
Algidus, Mount, its oak forests, ii. 187, 380; a haunt of Diana, ii. 380