importance of the Midsummer festival among the, xi. 40;

the oak the chief sacred tree of the, xi. 89 sq.

Aryans of India, transubstantiation among the, viii. 89 sq.

—— of the Vedic age, ix. 324;

their calendar, ix. 325, 342

Aryenis, daughter of Alyattes, v. 133 n. 1

Asa, a branch of the Masai, how they dispose of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278

Asaba, on the Lower Niger, chiefs eat in privacy at, iii. 118

Asada, name of a month in Bali, vii. 315

Asakusa, in Tokio, expulsion of the devil on the last day of the year at, ix. 213