Abortion, superstition as to woman who has procured, iii. 153
Abougit, Father X., S.J., on the ceremony of the new fire at Jerusalem, x. 130
Abraham, his attempted sacrifice of Isaac, iv. 177, vi. 219 n. 1
—— and Sarah, ii. 114
——, the Pool of, at Ourfa, i. 285
Abrahams, Israel, on the Purim bonfires, ix. 393 n. 2
Abruzzi, barren fruit-trees threatened in the, ii. 22;
belief as to falling stars in the, iv. 66, 67;
burning an effigy of the Carnival in the, iv. 224;
seven-legged effigy of Lent in the, iv. 244 sq.;