Amboyna, rice in bloom treated like a pregnant woman, 115; ceremony to fertilise clove-trees in, 137; fear to lose the shadow at noon in, 191; sick people sprinkled with pungent spices in, 196; superstition regarding hair in, 680
America, power of medicine men in North, 87; continence in Central, 138; the Corn Mother in, 412; personification of maize in North, 419; first-fruit ceremonies in, 486, 487
Animal, killing the divine, 499–518; and man, sympathetic relation between, 700
Animals, homeopathic magic of, 31; association of ideas common to the, 54; rain-making by means of, 72; injured through their shadows, 190; propitiation of the spirits of slain, 217, 220; torn to pieces and devoured in religious rites, 390, 391; so-called unclean, originally sacred, 472; belief in the descent of men from, 473; resurrection of, 516, 528, 529; wild, propitiation of, 518–532; two forms of the worship of, 532; processions with sacred, 535; transference of evil to, 540–542; as scapegoats, 540, 565, 568, 570, 576; burnt at festivals, 655, 656; perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, 657, 658; external soul in, 683–691
Animism, the Buddhist, not a philosophical theory, 112; passing into polytheism, 117
Aphrodite, 4; and Adonis, 7, 327, 335; the mourning, of the Lebanon, 329; sanctuary of, 330; and Cinyras and Pygmalion, 332; her blood dyes white roses red, 336
Apollo, prophetess of, 95; image of, in sacred cave at Hylae, 95; and Artemis, 120; at Delphi, 265; his musical contest with Marsyas, 354; identified with the Celtic Grannus, 611
Apollo Diradiotes, inspired priestess at temple of, 94
