Cricket as death warning, and how
to avert, Ireland, 318

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Crooke, W. Some Notes on Homeric
Folk-Lore, 52-77, 153-89; reviews
by,-Rose's Compendium of the
Punjab Customary Law, 251-2;
Noble's Cradle Tales of Hinduism,
115; Cowell and Rouse's The
Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's
former Births, vol. VI., 113-5;
Religions Ancient and Modern,
124-5; short notice by,-Gordon's
Indian Folk-Tales, 506-7
Cross as amulet, England, 293, 298,
Flanders, 204, 208, Ireland, 300,
Portugal, 216-9 (plate), 221-3(plate);
as fetish and charm, Congo, 409
Cross roads: burials at, Lower Congo,
423, 437; in transferring ailments,
India, 501

Crow crucified, Kirton-in-Lindsey,
468-9; in folktales, Australia, 304-
6, Ireland, 323, Tibet, 116
Crowcombe: dragon legend, 35-6;
Sedgemoor tradition, 40
Croydon amulets, 298
Crucifix, see Cross

Crystal-gazing: Mexico, 500; Wales,
328-9

Cuchulainn sagas: draught of obli-
vion, 76

Culbone: St Culbone, 33
Cults of the Greek States, The, by L.
R. Farnell, reviewed, 236-40
Cumae: cave of Cyclops, 58, 166
Cumberland: thar-cake, 338
Curragh ride of sleeping wizard,
321-2
Cursing, see Imprecations

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Cwmdu: in legend of Savaddan lake,
460

Cwrt-y-Cadno: wizard, 327-31
Cybele the goddess, 165, 238
Cyclades, see Greek islands

Cyclops: cave of, Cumae, 58, 166;
cult of, Corinth, 172; folktale of,
57; Polyphemus, 64, 163, 172-3
Cymric, King, see King Cymric
Cypræidæ, see Cowry shell
Cyprus: cuneiform characters, 155;
folktale, 187-8

Dagon, the fish god, 166

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Dahomey female bodyguard, 161;
invisibility by pounding baby, 74
Dalmeny meaning of name, 386
Daly river: (see also Chingalee tribe);
dead, disposal of, 389, 403
Damaraland, see Herero
Dames, M. Longworth: reviews by,—
Hodson's The Meitheis, 479-80;
Lyall and Stack's The Mikirs, 479,
480-1; short notices by,-M'Nair
and Barlow's Oral Tradition from
the Indus, 507; Hellgren's Sång-
lekår fran Nääs, 510
Dances: Mexico, 500; Nyanja, 256;
Pueblo Indians, 7; start of drama,
Peru and Polynesia, 237; Sweden,
510

Danes: coast population, Somerset,
34; in traditions of Quantocks,
36-9, 45-6, 50
Danesboro' hill: dragon legend, 35-6;
fort, 32, 41; old warriors still live
in, 41; in saying, 40

Darling river: dead, disposal of, 400;
in folktale, 307; mourning custom,
404

Dart river: saying, 171

Datchet animated hairs, 107
David, King, see King David
Days and Seasons: August, 379,
383-4, 464-6; Candlemas Day, 203;
Christmastide, 504; December, 105,
504; Easter, 202-3, 504; Easter
Sunday, 202-3; February, 87, 203;
15th day of 6th month lucky, Tibet,
117; Friday, 41, 296, 379, 470;
Good Friday, 41, 470; Guy Fawkes'
Day, 104-5, 337; January, 91, 193;
July, 40; June, 323; Lammas,
383-4; Lent, 106; May, 472; May
Day, 472; Midnight, 296; Mid-
summer Eve, 323; Monday, 319;
months, names of, Roumania, 347;
New Year, 105, 375; New Year's
Eve, 105; November, 104-5, 212,
337; October, 438-9; Palm Sun.
day, 202; St Hubert's Day, 212;

457-8, 504; Summer, 384; Sunday,
202-3, 317, 326-7, 464-6, 472; 13th
of month, 296; Twelfth Night, 91;
Valentine's Day, 87; week, days
of, in folktales, 325-7; Whitsuntide,
92, 504; Yule tide, ancient, 337-8
Dead coach, see Headless ghosts
Dead, land of, see Hades

Death: amulet in shape of face of,
Flanders, 206; in folktales, 181-2;
in Sisyphus myth, 181
Death and funeral customs and beliefs:
(see also Ghosts; Graves; and
Omens); Australia, 388-408, 487;
blessed candle burnt during dying,
Flanders, 203; burial customs,
Australia, 53, 388-408, Homeric
Greeks, 53, India, 53-4, 501, Lower
Congo, 422-3, 429, Lower Niger,
498, Tasmania, 53; Celto- Latin
peoples, 368; corpse sprinkled from
box sprigs, Flanders, 202; crawling
under bier lucky, Greece, 470;
dancing after death, Upper Congo,
92; dead dwell in grave, Australia,
399, or grave tree, Iliad &c., 66;
dead, land of, see Hades; feasts,
Lower Congo, 429-30; fire purifi-
cation after touching corpse, Upper
Congo, 93; flowers from bier lucky,
Greece, 470; food and goods
buried, Australia, 393, 400, Upper
Congo, 92-3; funeral customs and
processions, Lower Congo, 421,
429; future life, beliefs about,
Australia, 403, Celto- Latins, 368,
Lower Congo, 423, 430, Lower
Niger, 498; head of corpse struck
off to lay ghost, Gloucestershire, 37;
Lower Congo, 428-31; mourning
customs, Abruzzi, 314, Australia,
404-5, Basutos and Bathonga, 283,
Lower Congo, 415-6, Lower Niger,
498, Tibet, 117; myrtle laid on
graves, Morocco, 455; nails of dead
must be cut, Edda, 187; opening
windows &c. to release soul, Taun-
ton, 336, Wales, 108; running water
ceremony to repel spirit of dead,
Upper Congo, 93; shutting windows
after death, Cambridge, 337; spirit
hovers round unburied corpse,
Lower Congo, 430; Torres Straits,
487
Death-Knock in the Wapentake of
Corringham, Lincolnshire, by Miss

Deborah the prophetess, 67
December, see Christmastide; New
Year's Eve; and Yule tide, ancient
Dé Danaan, see Tuatha Dé Danann
Dee river (Louth): sleeping army, 322
Deer; (see also Musk-deer); in folk-
tales, India, 72, Tibet, 116, 119;
stag's horn as amulet, Madeira and
Portugal, 216; white doe in folk-
tale, Tibet, 119

Deity, conceptions of; Australia, 485;
pairs of gods and heroes, 163
Delos floating island, 185; palm-
tree, 57; pilgrimages to, 239
Delphi cult of Apollo, 240
Deluge legends, 57

Demeter: as civilizer, 238; in Homeric
poems, 59, 64; horse-headed, 237-8
Demi-gods, pairs of, 163
Demons and evil spirits: (see also

Afreet; Devil; and Jinns); eyes put
out by striking ground with bay-
stick, Morocco, 455; possession,
see Possession, demon; propitiated
by cock fighting, India, 475; vila
or mar, Balkan Penin., 503
Denmark (see also Danes; Faroe
islands; Greenland; Iceland; Jut-
land; and Scandinavia); five kings
list, 353-4; Lejre Chronicle, 355;
Oddi raises storms, 185
Depeghoz, Tartar monster, 173
Derbyshire: thar-cake, 338
Devil: in folk tales, Somerset, 42-5;

takes bodies of wizards, Wales, 331
"Devil's Door" in Wroxhall Abbey
Church, The, by Miss C. S. Burne,
458-9 (plate)

Devon (see also Bideford; Black
Torrington; Dart river; Exeter;
Morebath; Sutcombe; and Tor
rington); charm against whooping
cough, 345; dialect found in Quan-
tocks, 33; folklore from, 127;
firstborn cannot be overlooked,'
340, or see ghost, 342; folk-song,
147; Sundry Notes from West
Somerset and Devon, by Rev. C. W.
Whistler, 88-91

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Diarmuid and Grainne, 173
Diarrhoea in poison ordeal, Lower
Congo, 417

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Dice as amulets, England, 295
Dickson, Miss I. A.: The Burry-Man,
131, 379-87 (plates)

Dictaean cave: libation table, 70

Dieyeri tribe: cannibalism, 395, 405;
funeral rites, 395

Dingo: skull on graves, Queensland,
402

Dione, wife of Zeus, 67, 69

Dionysus cult established in Greece
by Melampus, 62; in Homeric
poems, 58

Dioscuri, the, 163

Diplomatarium Orcadense et Hialt-
landense, reviewed, 127-8

Disco island: magical towing of, 185
Diseases (see also under names);

amulets against, Cologne, 84,
Flanders, 206-7, 212; Magi Kings
protect from, 85; native views of,
Lower Niger, 498

Disposal of the Dead in Australia,

The, by N. W. Thomas, 388-408
Divination: astragals, 107; bydreams,
Australia, 397, Ireland, 323; by
peas, Cavan, 323; by pig's head,
Tibet, 117; by yew branches,
Ireland, 67; of causer of death,
Australia, 393-7, 399, 401; of lost
article, Tibet, 117; of marriage,
Ireland, 323, Scotland, 339-40
Dodona: in Eschylus' drama, 67;
in Homeric poems, 66-7; taboos
on priests, 68

Doe, see Deer

Dog; afreet appears as, Egypt, 471-2;
amulets in shape of, England, 292,
295 (plate), 303; black, spectral,
Somerset, 44, of Wild Hunt,
Somerset, 44; burial of, Lower
Congo, 437; ceremony to appease
spirit of, Lower Congo, 437; in
charm against whooping cough,
Limerick, 317; charms to make
good tracker &c., Lower Congo,
436; drags out mandrake, 75; in
folktales, Anatolia, 310-1, High-
lands, 174, Tibet, 116, 118, York-
shire, 174; giants in shape of,
Frisians, 180; gold &c. dogs guard
Alcinous' palace, 71; hairy dogs
as males of people beyond, Cathay,
161; as mascot, Hereford, 290-2;
patron saint of, Belgium, 212; in
pedlar legend, England, 242-3 ;
Scylla connected with, 180; shape-
shifting into, Egypt, 471-2, Greece,
168, Lorraine, 179; of Underworld,
in Odyssey, 62
Dolmens: Ireland, 165-6

Donkey: afreet in shape of, Egypt,
471; amulets for, Portugal, 216
(plate); cult suggested by Centaur
myth, 160; in rain-making, Ana-
tolia, 312; shape-shifting to, Arabian
Nights, 179

Doorways: burial in, India, 506
Dorians: in Homeric poems, 54
Dorset (see also Isle of Purbeck;
and Worth); adder swallowing
young, 473

Douglas: Claverhouse legend, 242-3
Dove: black, from Thebes, 67; cult
at Dodona, 67; in Odyssey, 67, 183
Downend fort, 38
Dowsboro'; hill, see Danesboro' hill;
men from beat down Stowey castle,
39
Dragon: amulet in shape of, Rhodes,
469; in folktales, Somerset, 35-7,
Tibet, 116; in Iliad, 59; roasted
heart gives knowledge of beast
language, 65; sowing teeth of, 61
Drake, see Duck

Drakensberg: fowls, introduction of,
281

Dreams: divination by, Australia,
397, Limerick, 323; Hercules god
of, 63

Drinking-vessels : names of Magi
Kings on, 85

Drome river: spirit of, 171
Drowned cities, legends of, 459-63
Drowning: amulet against, Lincoln-
shire, 88, Whitby &c., 295
Druids: draught_of_oblivion, 76;
human sacrifices, France, 111-2;
magic mantle of, 75; mist of, 75;
raise wind, 185

Drung hill in rat charm, 318
Duck in folktales, Tibet, 116;
white fairy drake in folktale, Tibet,
118

Dung in charm against ailments,
India, 506

Dunwich: charm ring, 85

Durham county: (see also Peg Pow-
ler); thar-cake, 338

Durleigh: Sedgemoor tradition, 40
Durris: well custom, May, 472
Dyaks Seragunting, 164

Dysentery cure for, Lower Congo,

419

Dyvnaint, Goidelic district, 32

Eabani, Chaldean deity, 167

Ealhstan, Bishop, in Danish invasion,
38

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Ears amulets against diseases of,
Flanders, 206; gold rings in, Flan-
ders, 207

Earth

struck on appealing to Ge
&c., Greece, 238; venerated, Lower
Niger, 498

Earth gods, see Chthonian deities
Earthquake folklore, 472-3

Earthworm: dies in 7th son's left
hand, Cavan, 316

East corpse buried to face, Australia,
393, 400, or with head to, Australia,
397

Easter: (see also Easter Sunday);
Germany, 504

Easter Sunday: special candle, Flan-
ders, 202-3

East Ham coal as luck-bringer, 290
East Indies, see Borneo; Celebes;

Java; New Guinea; and Sumatra
Echinoderms: fossil, as amulets, Eng-
land, 298

Edda, 65, 126, 187, 493-6
Edessa: plan to capture, 187
Editor: short notices by-Diploma-
tarium Orcadense et Hialtlandense,
127-8; Orkney and Shetland Old
Lore, 127-8

Edward, King, see King Edward
Eel developed from hairs, Berks
and Bucks, 107

Eggs in ceremony for widowed,
Lower Congo, 431; in folktales,
Highlands &c., 158
Egypt: (see also Abydos; Cairo ;
Nile river; Polydamnia; and
Thebes); amulets derived from,
England, 295; Egyptian Beliefs,
by E. P. Larken, 471-2; folktales,
156, 181, 187; girdle of kings, 71;
heaven-scaling legend, 164; hen
arrives in, 281; herons, myth
of, 184; Mycenaean worship
affected by, 58; priests barefoot at
sacrifice, 68; raid of Odysseus,
55; Petrie's Religion of Ancient
Egypt reviewed; twin group Osiris-
Set, 163

Eidothee, see Idothea

Eland as clan name, Nyanja, 255
Elder or Poetic Edda, The, Part I,
by Miss O. Bray, reviewed,
493-6
"Electric" finger-rings: England,
301; Portugal, 221

Elemba-lemba: in first hair cutting,
Lower Congo, 422; in pregnancy
charm, Lower Congo, 419
Elephant in folktales, India, 188,
348-9, Nyanja, 256, Tibet, 116, 118;
at Lhasa, 116

Elm-tree planted round barrows,
Iliad, 66

Elworthy, F. T.: Obituary, 109-10
Elysium, see Hades

Emu in folktale, Australia, 305-6
Encrinites: as amulet, Hayling island,

299; St Cuthbert's beads, 298
England, see under names of counties
and South Downs
English Traditional

and

Songs
Carols, by Miss L. E. Broadwood,
reviewed, 476
Enipeus, river god, 163
Entada scandens: seed as Virgin
Mary bean, British Isles, 300
Ephialtes, son of Poseidon, 162
Epilepsy amulets against, Cologne,
83-4; Devon, 340-2, Flanders, 208,
Italy, 208; charms against, Meath,
316, Scotland &c., 85; Magi Kings
protect from, 85

Epirus, see Cocytus river; and Dodona
Erechtheus: in Homeric poems, 60;
not identical with Poseidon, 239
Eremophila twigs in fire-custom
after death, Australia, 404

Erymanthus: boar slain by Hercules,
65

Erysipelas: charm against, Kerry, 316
Eskimo: magic towing of island, 185;
ogresses, 176
Essex (see also East Ham); amulet,
299; chaff on doorstep of wife-
beater, 90; wren rhyme, 234
Esthonia folklore collections, 98
Euahlayi tribe: fire custom after
death, 404

Eumelus, son of Alkestis, 62
Euneus, son of Jason, 60
Eurystheus, King, see King Eurystheus
Eurytion the Centaur, 159
Evesham: ballad, 197

Evil eye amulets against, England,
297, 300 (plate), Flanders, 207,
Greeks, 469 (plate), Iliad and
Mycenæ, 71, Italy, 203, 314, Portu-
gal, 214-20 (plate); belief not
known, Flanders, 201; charm
against, Somerset, 88; firstborn
proof against, Devon, 340; Magi
Kings protect from, 85

Evil spirits, see Demons and evil
spirits

Exeter holy well, 49

Exhibits at meetings, 1, 6-7, 130-1,

200-24 (plates), 258, 288-303 (plates)
Exogamy: Australia, 99-103, 244
Exorcism: Lower Niger, 498; north
door opened at, Warwickshire, 459
Ex-votos, see Votive offerings
Eye diseases: amulets against, Flan-
ders, 206; cures for, Flanders, 206
Eyes: amulets in shape of, Italy, 220,
Portugal, 219-20 (plate); gold ear-
rings improve sight, Flanders, 207;
of idol last detail provided, China,
91; one-eyed giants &c., 172-3
Eyrbyggja saga, 72, 157-8

Fables, see Beast fables
Fairies: amulet against, Antrim, 299
(plate); cannibalism of, Celts, 176;
in folktales, 18, 324-7; ointment to
see, 74; pixies, Somerset, 48-50;
vila or mar, Balkan Penin., 503
Fairs: South Queensferry, 379-87
(plates)

Faith-cures, by Mrs. A. Montague,

against, Flanders, 206

amulets

Familiar spirits: Wales, 329-30
Family: on Lower Congo, 425-6
Faroe islands: folktale, 168; seal
beliefs, 168

Farringdon Hill: Stoke Courcy once
upon, 39, 46; witch, 88
Fasting: before marriage, Lower
Congo, 412

Father-right, see Agnation or father-
right

Fauni, Latium, 172

Feast of St Wilfrid, The, 464-6
(plate)

Feasts: Abruzzi, 313-5 (plate); Ger-
many, 509; India, 506; Japan,
375

Feathers summon animal relatives in
folktale, Tibet, 118

February, see Candlemas Day; and
Valentine's Day

Feet: (see also Footprints); barefoot
rites, Romans &c., 68; of priests
unwashed, Dodona, 67-9; un-
covered in holy places, 68

Female Infanticide in the Punjab, by
Capt. A. J. O'Brien, 258, 261-75
Fern: eating gives knowledge of beast
language, 65; seed gives invisi-
bility, 74

Ferrymen of dead, 176, 187
Festivals, see Feasts

Fetishes; accused of “eating"
deceased, Lower Congo, 417;
activity, rousing to, Lower Congo,
409

Fever: amulets against, Cologne,
83-4, Flanders, 206, 210
Fez: in folktale, 443, 450-2
Fifeshire (see also Inverkeithing;
and North Queensferry); propitia-
tory harvest rites, 387

Fifteen 15th day of 6th month

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auspicious, Tibet, 117

Fifth of November and Guy Fawkes,
The, by Miss E. H. Carey, 104-5
(plate)

Fig-tree Charybdis under, 179
Fiji islands: totemism, 483

Finding lost things; saint invoked,
Belgium, 210

Finger-nails, see Nails, human
Finger-rings, see Rings, finger

Fingers blood from little f. in charm,
Scotland, 85

Finland; Kalevala, 61, 98; progress
of study in, 2, 98
Finn MacCoul:
language, 65

understood beast

Finn sagas, see Ossianic sagas
Fire afreet as, Arabian Nights,
167; amulets against, Flanders, 204,
Japan, 298; bonfires, Guernsey,
104-5, Ireland, 323, Orkneys, 128;
circumcision lodge burnt, Trans-
vaal, 284; cult, Čelto-Latins, 368;
feared by afreets, Egypt, 472; fire
custom in burial rites, Australia,
392-4, 397, 400-4; no fire god,
Lower Niger, 498; flame-shaped
amulets, Portugal, 218 (plate);
Nereid takes form of, Greece, 168;
purifies after touching corpse, Upper
Congo, 93

First-born; cannot be overlooked,'
Devon, 340; cannot see ghost,

Buckinghamshire and Devon, 342
Firstfruits: amongst Celto-Latins, 368
Fir-tree cones as 'burs,' 383, 385
Fish gods, 166

Fish in folklore: (see also Bream;