Chapter Agnes to Aidenn of A by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Aherman and Argen, the former a fortress, and the latter a suite of immense halls, in the realm of Eblis, where are lodged all creatures of human intelligence before the creation of Adam, and all the animals that inhabited the earth before the present races existed.—Beck-ford: Vathek (1786).

Ahmed (Prince), noted for the tent given him by the fairy Pari-banou, which would cover a whole army, and yet would fold up so small that it might be carried in one’s pocket. The same good fairy also gave him the apple of Samarcand, a panacea for all diseases.—Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (“Prince Ahmed, etc.”).

Solomon’s carpet of green silk was large enough for all his army to stand upon, and when arranged the carpet was wafted with its freight to any place the king desired. This carpet would also fold into a very small compass.

The ship Skidbladnir had a similar elastic virtue, for though it would hold all the inhabitants of Valhalla, it might be folded up like a sheet of paper.

Bayard, the horse of the four sons of Aymon, grew larger or smaller as one or more of the four sons mounted it. (See AYMON.)

Aholibamah, grandd aughter of Cain, and sister of Anah. She was loved by the seraph Samiasa, and, like her sister, was carried off to another planet when the Flood came.—Byron: Heaven and Earth.

Proud, imperious, and aspiring, she denies that she worships the seraph, and declares that his immortality can bestow no love more pure and warm than her own, and she expresses a conviction that there is a ray within her “which, though forbidden yet to shine,” is nevertheless lighted at the same ethereal fire as his own.—Finden: Byron Beauties.

Ahriman or Ahrimanes , the angel of darkness and of evil in the Magian system. He was slain by Mithra.

Aidenn. So Poe calls Eden.

Tell this soul, with sorrow laden,
If within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden,
Whom the angels name Lenore.
   —Edgar Poe: The Raven.