Awa-nkonde, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 28
“Awasungu, the house of the,” i. 28
Awka in South Nigeria, i. 4
Azemmur, in Morocco, Midsummer fires at, i. 214
Azores, bonfires and divination on Midsummer Eve in the, i. 208 sq.;
fern-seed at Midsummer in the, ii. [66]
Aztecs, their punishment of witches and wizards, ii. [159]
Baal and Beltane, i. 149 n. 1, 150 n. 1, 157
Babine Lake in British Columbia, i. 47
Backache at reaping, leaps over the Midsummer bonfire thought to be a preventive of, i. 165, 168, 189, 344 sq.;