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 GENERAL INDEX.

Abatwa or Bushmen, see Bushmen Abbot of Unreason, 477 Aberdeenshire, see Braemar ; ajid Dee

valley Abergavenny : landslip near, beliefs

about, 349 Abraham, mosque and pool of, Ourfa,

431

Acanthus changed into linnet or gold- finch, 388

Acanthyllis changed into linnet, 388

Accounts of Folk-Lore Society, 10- 11

Achsemenes, King, see King Achs- menes

Achelous, river god, 269

Acheron river: white poplar on banks of, 297, 421, 422

Achilles, story of, 372, 374-5

Acorn : used to assign judges to courts, Athens, 372

Adansis, Ashanti tribe, 228

Adder, see Snake

Additional Variants of the Father and Son Combat Theme, by M. A. Potter, 216-20

Adiaman : folklore from, 428 ; grapes, consecration of, 443

Admetus, King, see King Admetus

Adonis, annual festival of, 428

Adoption : 477 ; custom of, Torres Straits, 353

Adventures of Libanza, The, folktale, Congo, 329-31

Aeacus : prayer under oak, Aegina, 296; on vase, Tarentum, 314-5

Aedon and Poly technus,legendof,300- 1

Aeetes, Iving, see King Aeetes

Aegae : oak Zeus and Hestia wor- shipped, 311

^geus, story of, 219-20

Aegina : sacred oak, 296

Aegolius changed into owl, 389

Aegospotami, battle of, 302

Aegosthena : temporary priestly king,

394. Aegypius, myth of, 388 Aeolis, see Aegae ; and Elaea Aerolites, see Meteorites Aethlius, King, see King Aethlius ^thra, mother of Theseus, 219 Africa: (^ee a/ro Amaxosa ; Amazulu;

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Angoniland ; Ashantis ; Bantu ; Bonde tribe; Bushmen; Cameroons; Congo State ; Delagoa Bay ; Digo tribe; Fantis; Gold Coast; Guinea; Hottentots ; Kologwe ; Kong mountains ; Lagos ; Limpopo ; Madagascar ; Magila ; Mashona- land; Mauretania ; Morocco; Nile; Nyassaland ; Ogowe ; Pondos ; Senegambia; Somaliland; Soudan; Usumbwa; Yorubaland; a«a? Zanzi- bar) ; central, rain-making, 433 ; Kidd's The Essential Kafir re- viewed, 224-6; folktales, 125; myth of Antaeus, 378 ; Zeus Amnion the setting sun, 274-5 ; west, war dances and spells, 158, and secret societies of, no

Agamemnon, King, see King Aga- memnon

Age, classification of primitive peoples by, 108-12

Agesilaus, King, see King Agesilaus

Agnation or father-right: group mar- riage decays under, 472

Agricultural folklore : {see also Corn spirits, vegetation souls, and the like; Planting customs and beliefs; Ploughing customs and beliefs; and Sowing customs and beliefs) ; ashes of new Candlemas fire spread over fields, Moush, 437 ; charm against theft in cornfields, E. Central Africa, 72 ; Easter Sunday custom, Monmouthshire, 221 ; failure of crops prevented by witch-doctors, E. Central Africa, 69 ; school of agriculture, Maoris, 18

Agrigentum : story of Empedocles, 301-2

Ahanta, Fanti state, 228

Ailill, King, see King Ailill

Aintab : folklore from, 428 ; Varte- var festival, 430 ; water-throwing as rain-charm, 430, 433-4

Air spirits, France, 475

Aix, son of Python, 402

Akahiakuleana, mother of Umi, Hawaii, 217

'Al, spirits dangerous to mother, Egin, 445