FOLK-LORE 123933 A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM BEING THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY And incorporating THE ARCHEOLOGICAL REVIEW and VOL. XII.-1901. Alter et Idem. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY DAVID NUTT, 55-57, LONG ACRE. 1901. [XLVIII.] GR F5 V. 48 CONTENTS. Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, November 28th, 1900 Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, December 19th, 1900 Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, February 20th, 1901. Games of the Red-men of Guiana. EVERARD F. IM THURN MABEL PEACOCK III. (SEPTEMBER, 1901.) Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, April 17th, 1901 The Ancient and Modern Game of Astragals. E. LOVETT Notes and Queries on Totemism. Garland Day at Castleton. S. O. ADDY The Silver Bough in Irish Legend. ELEANOR HULL Folklore Notes from South-west Wilts. JOHN U. Powell Folktales from the Ægean, XV.-XVII. W. R. PATON. Cropping Animals' Ears. N. W. THOMAS Stories and other Notes from the Upper Congo. J. H. WEEKS Animal Superstitions. N. W. THOMAS Vine-grafting in Southern France. CATHARINE A. JANVIER Folk-tales from the Ægean, XVIII.-XXII. W. R. PATON Cropping Animals' Ears. N. W. THOMAS, W. R. PATON A Hertfordshire St. George. W. B. GERISH "Grateful Fréjus." EVELYN M. JONES Midsummer in the Pyrenees. JEAN C. G. SPEAKMAN Folktales from the Ægean, XXIII.-XXV. W. R. PATON The Kraal Family System among the Amandebele. P. PRESTAGE Stories from Upper Egypt. C. S. MYERS The Fire Walk Ceremony in Tahiti. S. P. LANGLEY, A. LANG Alphabet used in Consecrating a Church. A. NUTT Head of Corpse between the Thighs. S. O. ADDY The Divining Rod in U. S. A. A. R. WRIGHT The Bumble-bee in Magic. EDITH F. CAREY. Husband and Wife Story. E. SIDNEY HARTLAND Japanese Notes: Corrigenda et Addenda. Cutting off the Head of a Corpse. MADI BRAITMAIER A Berwickshire Kirn-Dolly. ALICE B. GOMME Rain Charm in Asia Minor. W. R. PATON Blacksmiths' Festival. CHARLOTTE S. BURNE The Mill of the Twelve Apostles. S. O. ADDY History, Tradition, and Historic Myths. ALFRED NUTT Customs relating to Iron. H. COLLEY MARCH Miss Weston's Guingamor. A. NUTT. Blacksmiths' Festival. T. W. E. HIGGENS, W. PERCY The Golden Bough: Moab or Edom? JESSIE L. WESTON Horses' Heads. FLORENCE GROVE New Year Customs in Herefordshire. J. G. FRAZER The Power of Speech. M. LE DR. CHERVIN History, Tradition, and Historic Myth. W. H. D. ROUSE The Ethnological Significance of Burial and Cremation. Myths of Greece. GEO. ST. CLAIR Emile Durkheim's L'Année Sociologique. E. SIDNEY HARTLAND IIO |