Children must not be carried down-
wards till named, Kenyahs, 438;
mental condition analogous to that
of uncivilised man, 22-3; teeth,
beliefs concerning, Hebrides, 32,
India, 67, 198; must not walk back-
wards, Hebrides, 31; unbaptised,
see Unbaptised; Unlucky and Lucky
Children, and some Birth Super-
stitions, by H. A. Rose, 278-80;
Unlucky Children, by H. A. Rose,
3, 63-8, 197-8

Children's games, see Games
Children's rhymes, see Nursery
rhymes

China (see also Manchus); newly
dead serve predecessors, 283
Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, by

I. T. Headland, reviewed, 108-9
Chipping Norton: unlucky to injure
Rollright Stones, 293; witchcraft
near, 290

Chitral fairies and banshees, 183-4
Choking from food, omen from,
Hebrides, 50

Cholera, goddess of, N. India, 188
Cholar, see Trikhal or cholar
Chopras parents re-married after
first birth, 279

Chotia Nagpur: (see also Orâons);
customs, 442

Choti Bala spring caused by Balochi
saint, 260

Christmas: Christmas bough, Lincoln-
shire, 202-3; firstfoot, St. Briavel's,
174; frumity eaten at, Lincoln-
shire, 92; guisers, Staffordshire,
107; mumming-play, 296-7; in
sayings, Hebrides, 38, Kennet
Valley, 423; the "vessel cup,"
Yorks, 94-5; wassailing, 95-6
Christmas Eve: cattle kneel, St.
Briavel's, 174; fires in cornfields,
St. Briavel's, 174; Hogmany for-
merly on, Hebrides, 45, Spain, 45;
rosemary flowers, St. Briavel's,

J74
Church bridal party blackmailed
by tying door, Whittingham, 238,
or locking it, Ilderton, 229-30,
233; marriage rite should be per-
formed outside chancel, 233; sus-
pected murderer taken into tower
to touch corpse, Kennet Valley,
422; walk round twelve times
backwards to become witch, St.
Briavel's, 175

others than, Hebrides 49; folk
etymology of, 378-9

Clan totems, see Totemism

Clarke, E. W., The Vessel Cup, 95
Clothes not mended on person,
Hebrides, 29-30

Coal carried to protect from dead,
Hebrides, 31

Cock (see also Fowls); assigned to

child with first tooth, Hebrides,
32; black, buried as cure for
epilepsy, Hebrides, 56; crowing in
dream sign of death, Hebrides, 5;
cut open and applied for pneu-
monia, England, 182
Coco-nut palm: charm for collecting
sap, Malays, 163-4; shrines to
make fruitful, 394

Coco-nut shell used in spiritualist
performance, Malays, 140
Coldingham St. Ebba, 215
Colds, cure for, St. Briavel's, 173
Coles, F. R., Scottish Charm against
Witchcraft, 275

Collectanea, 69-83, 166-90, 275-95,

403-30

Collection of Folklore, The, by S. O.
Addy, 226, 297-9, Miss C. S.
Burne, 299-302, W. Crooke, 302-7,
W. Skeat, 307-10, C. G. Seligman,
310-2, and J. Roscoe, 312-3
Colours, see Black; Blue; Dun;
Green; Grey; Red; White; and
Yellow

Comb, hair : teeth not counted,
Hebrides, 30; not thrown to any.
one, Hebrides, 30
Committees joint with Anthropo-

logical Institute, 9; lecture, 7, 9
Compass, points of, see North; and
West

Conaire the Great, King of Tara,
327-30

Cook's islands, see Raratonga
Cooper river, see Killalpanina
Cooper's Creek : near districts in
Dieri legend, 417
Coquet St. Henry, 216
Corfe Castle: K. Edward, 216
Cork county folktales, 221
Corn divination by seeds on stalk,
Hebrides, 53; fires in fields on
Christmas Eve, St. Briavel's, 174
Corn-crake; enchanted, Hebrides, 35
Corn spirits, vegetation souls, and
the like: Berwickshire, 178;
Malays, 155, 163-4; Maoris, 25
Cornwall (see also Looe; and St.
Neot's); St. Briavel, Cornish king,
171; trees whisper future on 21st
of month, 429

Corozaim, Antichrist brought up in,
129

Corpses, customs and beliefs concern-

ing, see Death and funeral customs
and beliefs
Correspondence, 84-96, 191-204, 296-
313, 431-2

Cottington Hill: witchcraft, 427
Council of Folk-Lore

election, 4; report, 5-11

Counting-out rhymes, 107

Society :

Counting stars: counter struck dead,
Kennet Valley, 419

Counting teeth of comb unlucky,
Hebrides, 30

Courting customs and beliefs: Bible
and key test, Kennet Valley, 422-3;
discussed, 445
Couvade, 211

Cow (see also Calf; and Cattle);
byres not thatched with reeds,
Hebrides, 32; not driven by docken
stem, Hebrides, 31; dung, fire of,
lighted at first birth after 21 or 24
years' marriage, Punjab, 280; dung
used as bath for rheumatism, Bloem-
fontein, 181, for floors, Transvaal,
70, to plaster site for worship of
Hanuman, N.W. India, 188, as
poultice, London, 73-4, Shrop-

shire, 74; field mouse sign of
ill-luck to, Hebrides, 35; in-
flamed udder, cure for, Hebrides,
56; loss of, unlucky to tell, He-
brides, 31-2; milk after calving
drunk by dog (not cat), Hebrides,
34; village sobriquet, Largitzen,
384; weather saying, St. Briavel's,
172

Cow-lady, see Ladybird

Cranbrook marriage customs, 245-6
Creator: Australian ideas of, 16,
18-21, 355, 403-4, 517
Crewe lifting' custom, 250
Cricket house, pet and precursor of
evil spirit or polong, Malays, 150-1
Crocodile alligators at "long ju-
ju," Niger delta, 170; alligator
bit off foot of Tezcatlipoca, 88;
killing is murder, Malays, Melan-
esia, Sumatra, 366

Crom Cruach, Irish idol, 325
Cromlechs Enstone, 295; Steeple
Barton, 295

Cronk-ny-Irey-Lhaa (Isle of Man):
spirit of unbaptised, 186-7
Crooke, W. The Collection of Folk-
lore, 302-7; An Indian Ghost Story,
280-3; The Lifting of the Bride, 225,
226-51; Puli Rája or the Tiger
Prince, 79-83; Some Notes from
North-Western India, 188-90;
reviews by, Cheyne and Black's
Encyclopedia Biblica, and Keane's
The Gold of Ophir, 218-9; Had-
don's Head-Hunters, Black, White,
and Brown, 101-3; Potter's Sohrab
and Rustem, 443-7
Crow: eaters of crows," village
sobriquet, Avalon, 384; omens
from, Hebrides, 49, St. Briavel's,
171; in sayings, Hebrides, 30;
never shamed, Hebrides, 35; as
totem, W. Australia, 361

66

Croyland St. Wallevus, 216
Crusade connected with the Letter of
Toledo, 122
Crystal-gazing, 91

Cuchulainn sagas: birds in, 329;
Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne
reviewed, 333-5; Nutt's Cuchu-
lainn, the Irish Achilles reviewed,
332-3; dog flesh not to be tasted,
329; essentially pagan, 326; father-
and-son combat, 445; refer to
early cycle remaining in Mabino-
gion, 330-1

Cuckoo enchanted, Hebrides, 35;
in sayings, Hebrides, 40; as ill
omen, Hebrides, 52; as village
sobriquet, 385

Cuckoo-flower: "frumity-flower," 92
Culham: white dog in harvest &c.
sayings, 179-80

Cumberland: chastity test, 236-7
Cursing, see Imprecations
Cyvis rose, gall formed by, averts
toothache, St. Briavel's, 173

Dagger, used in "sending," Malays,
146, 157
Dahomey special name for boy
born after twins, 63
Dakota tribes: (see also Asiniboin
tribe; Hunpatina tribe; Itaziptco
tribe; Minikooju tribe; Mysterious
Lake tribe; Sisseton tribe; Sit-
canxu tribe; Wahpeton tribe; and
Yankton tribe); group names, 390
Dambiro, Balochi musical instrument,
253

Dames, M. Longworth: Balochi

Folklore, 225-6, 252-74
Dances: among Baloches, 272;
dancing swords or wards of virgins,
Benin, 440; devil, Malay, 135, 153;
marriage, Bhils, 243, Kattâîs,
242-3, Orâons, 242, Vârlis, 243;
monkey, Malay, 136; sword, Eg-
ton Bridge, 302

Dancing objects inspired by spirits,
Malays, 137-43, 164-5
Daramulun, lame god, Australia, 88-9
Dawn, see Sunrise

Days and Seasons: All Saints' Day,
41; All Souls' Day, 41; Annuncia-
tion, Feast of, 40; April, 77, 250;
Ash Wednesday, 423; Autumn,
38, 250-1; Beltane, 40-1; Bhadon,
month of, 280; Candlemas, 39;
Christmas, 38, 92, 94-5, 107, 174,
296-7, 423; Christmas Eve, 45,
174; December, 38, 45, 92, 94-6,
107, 173-4, 292, 296-7, 423; Easter
Monday, 247-9; Easter Sunday, 40,
248, 423; Easter Tuesday, 247-9;
Fathering Sunday, 174; February,
39-40; Friday, 42, 148, 173, 175,
423; Good Friday, 173, 175, 423;
Hallowe'en, 53-5; Hocktide Day,
250; January, 40, 174, 185, 292;
Jeth, month of, 278; July, 77;
June, 40, 77-9, 422; Kātik, month
of, 280; Magh, month of, 278;

March, 38-40; May, 38, 40-1,
77-9, 96; May Day, 38, 40-1;
Michaelmas, 44-5, 423; Mid-
summer Eve, 422; Midwinter, 40;
Monday, 41-2, 47, 148, 247-9;
Mothering Sunday, 107, 174; New
Year's Day, 40, 174, 247; New
Year's Eve, 45-6,174, 292; Novem-
ber, 38, 41; October, 53-5; Old
Twelfth Night, 185; Palm Sunday,
32, 40, 174-5; St. Andrew's Day,
38; St. Brigid's Day, 39; St.
Patrick's Day, 38-9; St. Peter's
Day, 40; St. Thomas' Day, 173-4;
Saturday, 42; September, 44-5,
423; Shrove Tuesday, 174; Spring,
245, 251; Sunday, 32, 40, 42, 107,
174-5, 189, 248, 423; Thursday, 41;
Tuesday, 42, 65, 144, 174, 188-9,
247-9; Twenty-first of month, 429;
Wednesday, 49, 423 ; Whit Sunday,
175; religious beliefs connected
with calendar, 441

Dead, beliefs about, see Death and
funeral customs and beliefs
Dead, land of, see Hades
Dean Forest, see St. Briavel's
Death and funeral customs and
beliefs (see also Graves; and
Omens); beehives lifted when
corpse removed, St. Briavel's, 173;
burial customs, Hebrides, 60-1,
Japan, 276-7, St. Briavel's, 173;
burial-places haunted by invisible
beings, Birria &c. tribes, 19;
cairns prevent wicked spirits
from wandering, 218; corpse bleeds
when touched by murderer, Kennet
Valley, 422; corpse sat up with,
St. Briavel's, 173; corpses should
be touched, Hebrides, 60; corpses
surrounded by dust &c. to detect
slayer, N. Queensland, 365, or
animal tracks, Scotland, 365; dead
alone have clothes stitched upon
body, Hebrides, 29-30; dead
avenge insults, Sahara Desert,
287-8; dead become bhūts, if
funeral rites not performed, Bengal,
281-3; dead become birds, Milya-
uppa tribe, 18; dead, coal protects
from, Hebrides, 31; dead feared,
Mungerra tribe, 19; dead inhabit
household snakes, Zulus, 353; dead
not mentioned, Koombokkaburra
tribe, 19; dead newly arrived serve
predecessors, Bengal, 282, Ireland,

Scotland, and China, 283; dead, pro-
cession of, Hebrides, 31, 59; dead
return to graves at dawn, Hebrides,
59; dead speak with nasal twang,
India, 283; dead, stars named
from, Kurnai tribes, 20; drink pro-
vided for dead, Hebrides, 60;
funeral rites, Baloches, 257, Sibops,
437 future life, Sibops, 436-7,
Yorke's Penin. (S. Aus.), 18; ghosts,
see Ghosts; Marî Mâtâ, goddess of
death, N. India, 188; mourning,
Hebrides, 61; second wife suffers
"dead man's nip," Hebrides, 59;
skulls of dead asked for advice,
Torres Straits, 103; soul of dying
released by wrapping in sheepskin,
Kennet Valley, 419; "spirit stone
used, Dharwar, 236; theft punished
after death, Hebrides, 59; wlfe of
deceased carried from burial place,
Tsinyai, 240; windows opened to
free spirit, St. Briavel's, 173
December, see Christmas; Christmas
Eve; New Year's Eve; and St.
Thomas' Day

Deer charmed as enemy of the rice,
Malay Penin., 160; "dried veni-
son eaters," Siouan group name,
389; not eaten, Kalamantans, 356;
in group name, Itaziptco tribe, 388;
roe-deer song, Malay Penin., 160-1;
as "sending," Java, 157; saying
of, Outer Hebrides, 34

Deity, conceptions of Australian

tribes, 18-20; absent, Fraser's
island aborigines, 19, Kabi tribe,
19, Kurnai tribes, 19, Wodi-wodi
tribe, 19

Deluge legends, 20, 42
Demoniacal possession, see Possession
Demons and evil spirits: (see also
Devil; and Jinns); bhūts, Bengal,
281-3: birth-demons, Malay, 135-6;
charms against, Ceylon, 79, Heb-
rides, 30, Malays, 152, Pongul,
77; exorcising, Malays, 149-151;
Mooniandi, Ceylon, 277-8; 'sent
in form of insects &c., Malays,
147-51; white line excludes from
room, St. Briavel's 172
Denceaym,Antichrist brought upin, 129
Denmark: Beowulf legend belongs
to, 223

Dera Ghazi Khan: cutting hair great
disgrace, Baloches, 270; folk songs
and tales, 252-3

Devonshire village sobriquets, 385-
6, 389
Dharwâr :

marriage

customs of

Deshashth Brahmans, 236
Diamantina river, see Kuyuna
Dickeri, see Cane-grass
Dieri, see Dieyerie

Dieyeri tribe: creation beliefs, 18,
403; legends, 405-7, 414-7; the
Moora-Moora, 18, 403; murdu or
totem, 352; myth of origin of
totemisni, 355, 379; not a pristine
group, 381; rain-making, 403
Dishwater brownies warned when
thrown out, Faröe islands, 184
Diseases: communicated by leaping
over person, India, 238; cures for,
see Medical folklore
Divination (see also Omens; and
Ordeals); among Baloches, 264;
at Hallowe'en, Hebrides, 53-5; by
Bible and key, Kennet Valley, 422;
by dreams, Hebrides, 51-3; by
lemon &c., Penang, 143-4, 154-5;
by movements of inanimate ob-
jects, Malays, 137, 154-7; by
seeds on cornstalk, Hebrides, 53;
by sieve, Malays, 145, 155; by
sowing hempseed, Kennet Valley,
422; by swinging ring &c., Ma-
lays, 144-5; children's games re-
lated to, 24; friths or horoscopes,
Hebrides, 47-50; from pig's liver,
Torres Straits, 103; from shoulder-
blade of sheep, Afghans and He-
brides, 50-1, Baloches, 264; by
stones, Torres Straits, 103; of
death, Hebrides, 53-4, Kennet
Valley, 422; of marriage, He-
brides, 55-4, Kennet Valley, 422,
Torres Straits, 103; of prospective

family, Hebrides, 53-4, Kennet Valley, 422; of thief, Kennet Valley, 422, Malays, 144-5; of true love, Faröe islands, 185, Kennet Valley, 422-5

Divining rod: Malays, 134, 145, 155-6

Docken horror of, Hebrides, 31; not used to drive animals, Hebrides, 31

Dog: black, as spirit of ill-temper,

185, form assumed by spirit, Faröe islands, 185; bulldog as village sobriquet, 386, 389, 392-3; death omen from, Outer Hebrides, 34; "dog eaters," village sobriquet, W. England, 389; flesh forbidden to Cuchulainn, 329; Gelert legend, Baloches, 266; given first milk after calving, Outer Hebrides, 34; in group names, Hunpatina tribe, 388, Minikooju tribe, 388; mad, cakes for, Germany, 96; saying of, Outer Hebrides, 34; village sobriquet, Artois, 384, Shropshire, 391-3; white, in harvest &c. sayings, N.E. France, 179, Culham, 179-80

Dolmens girl cannot refuse kiss at, Ireland, 235; marriages once performed at, and associated with, 235-6; visited for barrenness, or prayer for lover, France &c., 235 Donegal Fairy Stories, by S. MacManus, reviewed, 335 Donkey, see Ass

Doomsday of mythology and Christian

apocryphal teaching, 131-3 Doora tribe, religious belief of, 18 Dorchester (n. Oxford): St. Birin, 214 Dordogne alleged appearance of Madonna in, 90-1

Dorset, see Corfe Castle; Haselborough; Shaftesbury; and Wimborne

Dough while baking must not be stepped over, Syria, 237

Dove: good omen, Hebrides, 49
Dover St Thomas, 217

Dowie Dens of Yarrow, ballad of,
The, 197

Dowsing, see Water divination Dragon becomes woman on kissing knight, 448

Draupati, the goddess, and firewalking, 89-90

Dreams: animals seen in, 24: divina

tion from, Hebrides, 51-3, 55, of future king of Tara, 328; foretelling, druids authors of, Ireland, 325; savage theory of, 21-2 Drishaks, Balochi tribe, 258 Droit du seigneur : Ireland, 334 Drowning: idiots not drowned, Uist, 61-2; none drowned with sun visible, Gairloch, 61; offerings at graves of drowned, Japan, 277; those with otter spot above mouth not drowned, Hebrides, 61 Druids: Irish, 324-5 Drummond, R. J., Rice Harvest and other Customs in Ceylon, 77-9, 277-8

Dublin county, see Hill of Howth Ducklington: harvest custom, 180 Duddingston loch: folk-etymology of of name, 378

Dumbartonshire, see Loch Lomond Dun-coloured hair most lucky in women, Hebrides, 49

Dun horse lucky omen, Hebrides, 49 Dung as bath, Bloemfontein, 181;

66

casting lots, used for, Baloches, 264 as cosmetic, Pliny, 74; drunk as medicine, Shropshire, 75, Transvaal, 71; dung eaters,' group name, Minikooju tribe, 388-9; fire of, lighted at first birth after 21 or 24 years' marriage, Punjab, 280; floors prepared with, Transvaal, 70; as poultice, Transvaal, 70, London, 73-4, Shropshire, 74; site for worship of Hanumân prepared with, N.W. India, 188 Dunwich Felix, bishop of, 214 Durham bride steps over socket stone of cross, 231

Durham county: (see also Durham ; Finchale; Gateshead; Jarrow; Sunderland; and Wearmouth); 'heaving' custom, Easter, 248 Durkānis, Balochi tribe, 259

Dust storm can be stopped by firstborn, Punjab, 278

Dutch folklore, see Boer ;
Holland

Dwellings, see Houses

and

Dyaks (see also Sea Dyaks); headhunting, 437

Dyeing indigo, not in midwinter, Hebrides, 40

Eagle; group name, Mandans, 390