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INDEX.

Accounts of the Society, 202
Adams (W. H. D.), Curiosities of
Superstitions reviewed, 182-183
Adoption, India, 43

Affliction, proverb on, India, 43
Africa, customs, 168; folk-lore of,
books on, 67, 78, 186
Agricultural Folk-lore Notes, 33-49
Ale, brewing of, from heather, Polish
legend, 31

Ali Baba, parallels to incidents in story
of, 18, 24

Allen (Miss) on Children's Game-
rhymes, 84-89

American Indian legends and fables,
93-143; books on, 73, 188; super-
stitions, book on, 181-182
Anarchy, proverb on, India, 42
Ancestry, common, a condition of adop-
tion, India, 43

Animals, fables of, American Indian,
93-95, 117-118, 133-135
Ant, proverb on, India, 49
Appetite, proverb on, India, 43
Arabian Nights, parallel stories in
Mabinogion, 147

Arabic proverbs, books on, 77, 153
Arbitration on boundaries, mode of,
India, 39

Architecture, folk-lore of, book on, 62
Armenian popular songs, book on, 57
Armour, charmed, story incident, 19
Arms, summons to, parallel to Fiery
Cross, India, 40

Arthurian legends, 1, 3, 10, 11
Aryan belief, book on, 180

Aryan Expulsion-and-Return formula,

147-149

Ashes of house deposited at cross-roads
at death, Africa, 168

Ass, criminal mounted on, India, 49
Astrology, India, 48

Astronomical myths, book on, 66
Athelstane, folk-tale traditions of, 27
Auditors' statement, 203

Ayrshire, traditions of Caractacus in, 10

Baby lore, Indian, 158; Roumania, 50

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Bibliography of English folk-lore pub-
lications, 55-80, 198

Birch-broom, cure for sore throat, Corn-
wall, 174

Birds'-cages tied with crape at owner's
death, 177

Birth customs, Africa, 168

Blood, discharge of, cure for, Corn-
wall, 175

Blood-vengeance, story incident, 18, 19
Bonfires, May, Sweden, 162

Books on folk-lore published on the
continent, 151-153; reviews of new,
180-189; see "Bibliography"
Blind (Karl), Paper on Some finds in
Germanic and Welsh folk-lore, 198-

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Cake, not to be looked at, Roumania, 50;
given away after death of relative,
Roumania, 51; of cowdung placed
on threshold, India, 34; on corn-
heaps to avert evil eye, India, 35, 38
Calamity unforseen, proverb on, India,
40

Calendar, folk-lore of, book on, 71
Campbell's Highland tales quoted, 30
Caractacus (Caradawc), in Mabinogion
tradition, 10, 11, 15

Carnegy's Kachahri Technicalities, folk-
lore from, 33-49; note on, 159
Carrier without load, bad omen to meet,
India, 48

Cassivellanus (Caswallawn), in Mabi-
nogion tradition, 11, 15

Cattle, cure against ill-luck to, Ireland,
81

Cauldron, magic, in Mabinogion tra-
dition, 5, 6, 11, 13, 29-31
Celtic invasion of Britain, 2
Cerberus in Roumanian folk-lore, 51
Chap-books, book on, 59

Charming of snakes to sleep, story in-
dent, 19

Charms, Cornwall, 174

Chaucer's Franklin Tale, parallel to
folk-tale, 179

Cheshire traditions, book on, 61
Child-killing incident in folk-tales, 6,

17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 28
Children's game rhymes, 84-89
Chimney custom, 160, 172
Church, walking round cure for epi-
lepsy, Cornwall, 177

Clark (R.), on Folk-lore collected in
county Wexford, 81-83

Classical influence on Mabinogion
tradition, 11

Clothes, ill-luck from reversing them,
Ireland, 83

Cloud, personification of, in American
Indian legends, 125

Cornwall, folk-lore of, books on, 69;
superstitions in, 173-178; witchcraft
in, 172-173

Cough, cure for, Cornwall, 175
Courtship, custom of, Sweden, 165
Cow, sacred, India, 40; purchase of,
India, 158; folk-lore of, Ireland,
81, 82

Cow-dung, cake of, placed on thres-
hold, India, 34; placed on corn
heaps to avert evil eye, India, 35, 38
Cowskin placed on head of arbitrator,
India, 39, 40

Crane, good omen, India, 48

Creation legends, American Indian,

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Dance, American Indian, 105-106; fire,
Sweden, 162

Dancing, game rhyme, 87
Darby's son, game rhyme, 87
Dates of German folk-tales, 26

Days for ploughing, India, 37; for sow-
ing, India, 34

Dead, spirit of, Roumania, 51

Dead hand, gives power to take butter,
Ireland, 81;

Dead-man's hand, charm of, Cornwall,
174, 177

Death, bees told of, Cornwall, 177; cake

given away after, Roumania, 51;
cow not yoked at time of, Ireland,
82; customs, Africa, 168

Death bed of grass, desirable, India,

39

Death bell, 161

Deluge traditions; see "Flood"
Derbyshire customs, books on, 76;
superstition in, 161

Devonshire folk-lore, book on, 72;
Holywell customs in, 160; super-
stition in, 155-157; proverbs, 159;
skimiting riding custom, 166-167
Dionysiak myth, book on, 75
Divination from sound of cuckoo, Ire-
land, 82; from snail, 82

Dog, entrance into house, divination
by, Ireland, 83

Donkey's hair, cure for cough, Corn-
wall, 175, 177-178

Door, change of, to avoid ill-luck, Ire-
land, 81

Dorman (R.M.), Origin of Primitive
Superstitions, reviewed, 181-182

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