Akikuyu, the, of British East Africa, ceremony of the new birth among the, i. 75 sq., 96 sq., xi. 262 sq.;
worship fig-trees, ii. 44 sq.;
worship a snake, and marry girls to the snake-god, ii. 150, v. 67 sq.;
believe that barren women can be fertilized by the wild fig-tree, ii. 316;
purification of manslayers among the, iii. 175 sq.;
continence observed by them on journeys and while the cattle are at pasture, iii. 204;
auricular confession among the, iii. 214;
use of scapegoats among the, iii. 214 sq.;
their women purified after a miscarriage in childbirth, iii. 286;
their treatment of premature and unusual births, iii. 286, 287 n. 6;