Alake, the, of Abeokuta, custom of cutting off the head of his corpse, iv. 203
Alaska, the Esquimaux of, i. 121, 328, iii. 145, vi. 51, ix. 124, xi. 155; the Aleuts of, iii. 207; the Kaniagmuts of, iii. 207; the Koniags of, i. 121, vi. 106; seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of, x. 45 _sq._
Alaskan hunters, their respect for dead sables and beavers, viii. 238
—— islanders mistook the Russians for cuttle-fish, viii. 206
Alastir and the Bare-Stripping Hangman, Argyleshire story of, xi. 129 _sq._
Alba, Vestal fire and Vestal virgins at, i. 13
—— Longa, the kings of, ii. 178 _sqq._, 268 _sq._; perhaps mimicked Latian Jupiter, ii. 187
Alban dynasty descended from a Vestal, ii. 197
—— Lake, i. 2; tradition of a submerged city in the, ii. 180, 181 _n._
—— League, religious centre of the, ii. 187
—— Mountain, the, ii. 187 _sq._, 202, 387
Albania, bloodstones in, i. 165; milk-stones in, i. 165; fear of portraiture in, iii. 100; expulsion of Kore on Easter Eve in, iv. 265, ix. 157; marriage custom in, vi. 246; mock lamentations for locusts and beetles in, viii. 279; Midsummer fires in, x. 212; the Yule log in, x. 264
Albanian custom of beating men and beasts in March, ix. 266
—— story of the external soul, xi. 104 _n._ 3
Albanians of the Caucasus, did not mention the names of the dead, iii. 349; their worship of the moon, v. 73; their use of human scapegoats, ix. 218
—— Nyanza, Lake, the Wahuma of the, i. 250; crocodiles in the, viii. 213; the Wakondyo of the, xi. 162 _sq._
Alberti, L., on Caffre purification of lion-killer, iii. 220
Albino sacrificed to river, ii. 158; head of secret society on the Lower Congo, xi. 251
Albinoes the offspring of the moon, v. 91
Albirûni, Arab geographer, on the Persian festival of the dead, vi. 68; on the burning of effigies of Haman at Purim, ix. 393
_Alcheringa_, remote legendary time of the Arunta, i. 88, 98, 102
Alcibiades of Apamea, his vision of the Holy Ghost, iv. 5 _n._ 3
Alcidamus wins Barce in a foot-race, ii. 300 _sq._
Alcmena, her long travail with Hercules, iii. 298 _sq._
Alectrona, daughter of the Sun, taboos observed at her sanctuary in Rhodes, viii. 45
Alençon, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337 _n._ 1
Aleutian Islands, Atkhans of the, ix. 3; cairns in the, ix. 16