Porpoise; and Shark); afreet in
form of, Egypt, 472; as amulet,
362; broiled fish gives knowledge
of beast language, 65; not eaten,
Basutos, 283; Echeneis, 107; in
folktales, Australia, 224-6, Celebes,
231-2; in linked totems, New
Guinea, 483; tabooed, Meitheis,
480

Fishers' Folklore, by D. Townshend,
108

Fishing boats, see Sea customs and
beliefs

Fishing customs and beliefs; mermaid
descent affects luck, Kerry, 319;
saffron unlucky, Cornwall, 108
Fits, see Epilepsy
Fitzwarren slays dragon, 35
Fiucarn, sunken island of, 185
Five: as protective number, Moors, 223
Flames, see Fire

Flanders: (see also West Flanders);
Notes on Some Flemish Amulets
and Beliefs, by W. L. Hildburgh,
131, 200-13
Flatholme made by devil, 43
Flintshire, see Mold

Fljótsdæla saga, translation of, 127
Floating islands, legends of, 184-5
Flood legends, see Deluge legends
Flowers in folklore: (see also Jasmine
flower; and Pomegranate-tree); in
amulets, Naples, 223, Portugal,
222-3. Spain, 223-4; clan names
from, Panjab, 268

Folk-Lore as an Historical Science, by

G. L. Gomme, reviewed, 241-6
Folk-Lore de France, Le, by P. Sébillot,
reviewed, 111-3

Folklore Fiction: a Warning, by R.
Harris, 104

Folklore from Tangier, by Miss F. K.
Green, 440-58

Folklore of Aristotle, by T. E. Lones,
106-7
Folklore of the Holy Land, Moslem,
Christian and Jewish, by J. E.
Hanauer, reviewed, 500-3
Folk-music: Broadwood's English
Traditional Songs and Carols re-
viewed, 476; Some Characteristics
of English Folk Music, by C. J.
Sharp, 130, 132-52; Sweden, 510
Folk-sayings, see Proverbs
Folk Song Society: hints to collec-
tors, 148-50; leaflet to clergy,

Folk-songs: (see also Folk-music);
Balkan Penin., 503-5; England, 66,
143, 145-6, 154, 190-200, 476;
France, 493; Germany, 503-4;
Ireland, 234-5; Isle of Man, 78,
80-1; Nyanja, 256; Orkney and
Shetland islands, 127; Roumania,
346, 505; Russia, 505; Scotland,
154, 171; Sweden, 510; Tibet, 116
Folktales: (see also under various
types, such as Cinderella); Ama.
zulu, 165; Amerindians, 70, 477-9,
500; Anatolia, 310-1; Arab, 76,
154, 158, 167, 173, 178, 501-3;
Australia, 224-7, 303-8; Babylonia,
157; Basques, 169, 173-4; beast
fables, 116, 502; Celtic, 173, 185,
188; Ceylon, 179; China, 73, 154;
Cyprus, 187-8; discussed in Presi-
dential address, 12-30; East Indies,
230-2; Egypt, 156, 181, 187;
England, 41-5, 49, 164-5, 169, 174,
242-3, 333; Faroe islands, 168; Fin-
land, 61; France, 493; Germany,
61, 73, 128, 154, 156, 168-9, 178.9,
182; gipsy, 157; Greeks, 52-77,
153-89, 167-8, 173, 181, 501; in
Homeric poems, 52-77, 153-89;
Hottentots, 118; Hungary, 173,188;
Iceland, 127; India, 61-2, 65, 72-
76, 113-5, 118, 156, 158, 167, 178,
187-8, 321-3, 347-52, 480-2, 501-
3; Ireland, 66, 75-6, 170-1,173,
181-2, 188, 327; Isle of Man, 78-
83, 324-7; Italy, 158, 169, 181-2,
327; jatakas, 113-5; Kafirs, 505;
Lithuania, 157; Mexico, 500; Mo-
rocco, 441-58; New Zealand, 177;
Norway, 167, 177, 183, 334; Nyanja,
254-6; Palestine, 500; Romans,
178; Roumania, 346-7; Russia, 173,
176, 179, 184, 478; Scotland, 158,
168, 173-4, 178, 181, 186-7, 235;
Sicily, 188; Sioux, 177; Slavonians,
170-1; Spain, 327; Tibet, 116-9;
Transylvania, 157; Wales, 119-23,
333-4, 459-63

Folk Tales from Tibet, by Capt. W.
F. O'Connor, reviewed, 116-9
Folk-Tales of the Aborigines of New
South Wales, by R. H. Mathews,
224-7, 303-8

Footprints: in charm against over-
looking. Somerset, 88; of devil,
Somerset, 43

Forgetfulness: drink or drug of,

Frog in folktales, Assam, 481;
Tibet, 116; tadpole as delicacy,
Lower Congo, 419

Fruit and vegetables in folklore, see
Apple; Coco nut; Garlic bulb;
Lotus ; Onion ; Peas; Pome-
granate; and Potato
Fruit-trees: (see also Apple-tree; and
Pomegranate-tree);
amulet for,

Somerset, 299 (plate)
Fulda river: spirit of, 171
Funchal amulets, 213-4, 216, 218-9
(plate), 221 (plate)

:

:

Fungus as amulet, England and
Germany, 295; fire of, after death,
Australia, 404

Future life, beliefs about, see Death
and funeral customs and beliefs
Fylfot, see Swastika

Galway county: (see also Letter-

mullan island); family descended
from seal, 319

Taunλia Zúußola, by N. T. Polites,
reviewed, 377

Games: France, 493; Japan, 374-5
Gandharva: derivation of Centaur

from, 159-60; the gandharvis, 170
Ganja, see Indian hemp
Gardens: amulet for, Somerset, 299
(plate)

Gargaros, see Mt Ida

Gaster, Dr. M.: President, 3; Presi-
dential address, 3, 12-30; reviews
by,-Hanauer's Folklore of the Holy
Land, Moslem, Christian and
Jewish, 500-3; Salzberger's Die
Salomo Sage in der Semitischen
Litteratur, 500-3; Krauss's Slav-
ische Volksforschungen, Abhand-
lungen über Glauben Gewohnheits-
recht, Sitten, Bräuche und die
Guslaren-lieder der Südslaven, 503-5
Gauhar Shah, Hindu saint, 62
Gazaland, see Bandjao
Ge, in Greek cults, 238
Gebel-et-ter mountain: in myth of
herons, 184

Gems: (see also Chalcedony; Onyx ;
and Turquoise); as amulets, 291,
293-4, 297, 361-6; occult powers
of, 363-6

Gendarme mascot in shape of,
France, 292

Genealogies: Schütte's Oldsagn om
Godtjod reviewed, 353-9
Gerent of Dyvnaint, 32

Germany (see also Fulda river;
Hanover; Hesse; Lorraine; Mar-
mennil; Neckar river; Pomerania ;
Prussians, ancient; Rhenish Prus-
sia; Rhine; and Wends); amulets,
295, 298; folktales, 61, 73, 168-9,
178, 182; nixies, 171; St Ger-
trude patroness of souls, 212-3;
sempervivum, beliefs about, 298;
shape-shifting by seal, 169;
southern, initials of Magi Kings
over sickrooms, 86
Geryon, grave trees of, 66
Gesta Romanorum, 156, 348
Ghost Invisible to a First-born Son,
by Miss C. S. Burne, 342
Ghost-raising in Wales, by J. C.
Davies, 327-31

Ghosts (see also Headless ghosts;
and Wild Hunt); in animal form,
Torres Straits, 483-4; attracted by
bundle of sticks &c., W. Australia,
393; as death warning, Ireland,
320; ghost funerals, Ireland, 320;
gold-clad, Mold, 243; laid by re-
moving head of corpse, Gloucester-

touch earth, Panjab, 68; of un-
buried, malignant, Lower Niger,
498; Viking, Ballachulish, 243-4;
not visible to a first-born, Bucking-
hamshire and Devon, 342
Giants (see also Balor; Ephialtes;
Gudmund; Hraesvelg; Hrungnir;
Orion; Otos; and Polyphemus);
famine giant, Iroquois, 183; in folk-
tales, 158, Highlands, 168, 173-4,
Iceland, 127, Isle of Man, 80-2,
Yorkshire, 174; in Shetland islands,
127; in Somerset, 39; in York-
shire, 128; one-eyed, 172-3
Gippsland: burial customs, 398-9;
grave hut, 405
Gipsies folktale, 157

:

Girdles of Aphrodite, Iliad, 70-1;
Bunna-do-At of Irish kings, 71; of
Egyptian kings, 71; of Hera,
Iliad, 71

Girls, see Women

Gisdhubar, in Babylonian tale, 157
Glamorgan, see Cwmdu; and Flat-
holme

Glen Rushen: fairies, 324-6
Gloucestershire: ballad, 192; Christ-

mas customs, 192-3; headless
ghost, 37; north door opened at
baptisms, 459

Gnanji tribe: dead, disposal of,
402-3

Goat: black, jinn takes shape_of,
Morocco, 456-7; in folktales, Ger-
many, 233, Scandinavia, 233,
Tibet, 116; heart tabooed to Moyo
clan, Nyanja, 255; lactation of
he-goat, Hanover, 106; sacrificed
for rain, Anatolia, 309; shape-
shifting to, Morocco, 456-7, Russia,
179; sucklings not charged for,
Lower Congo, 421
Goblins: Japan, 375-6
Godrun, see Gudrun

Gods, see Deity, conceptions of; and
under names of gods

Gold: amulets, England, 295, 297,
Portugal, 215; articles and ani-
mals in Homeric poems, 71-2;
deer in folktales, India, 72; ear-
rings improve sight, Flanders,
207; peacocks, in Great Khan's
palace, 72; wedding ring in charm,
Ireland, 316

Gold Coast system of descent, 255
Gomme, G. L.: The Telling of the

Gonachry the ship, 186
Gooaree, Australian deity, 485
Good Friday: flowers taken from
bier for luck, Sparta, 470; "hunt-
ing Judas," Somerset, 41
Gordonston Mill: journey omen, 344
Gorgoneion on deity's shield, 70
Gorm, King, see King Gorm
Gothland island: origin saga, 354-5
Grafton, Cape: initiatory rites, 391
Grani, Sigurd's horse, 65
Grateful Dead, The, by G. H. Ger-
ould, 8

Graves: Australia, 393-4, 398-400,
402; India, 506

Grave tree abode of spirit of dead,
Iliad &c., 66

Graveyard, see Churchyard
Greek folklore: (see also Arcadia ;
Argolis; Attica; Corinth; Dorians;
Epirus; Greek islands; Laconia;
Mycenae; Phocis; Sparta; and
Thessaly); amulets against evil eye,
469; Farnell's The Cults of the
Greek States reviewed, 236-40;
demi-gods, pairs of, 163; folktales,
154, 167-8, 181, 501; Some Notes
on Homeric Folk-Lore, by W.
Crooke, 52-77, 153-89; sponge an
animal, 106

Greek islands: (see also Calymnos ;
Corfu ; Crete; Delos; Lemnos ;
Rhodes ; and Syra); amulets
against evil eye, 469; grass of denial,
77

Green: garters to elder sister by
bride, Balmoral, 339-40

Green, Miss F. K.: Folklore from
Tangier, 440-58

Greenland, see Disco island; and
Eskimo

Greenstone, amulets from, 293
Grim, waterfall spirit, 171
Grimhild in Siegfried saga, 76
Grindelwald, 438

"Grup" in cows, charm against,
Antrim, 299

Gryphon: in folktales, Tibet, 116
Gudmund the giant, 177
Gudrun in Siegfried saga, 65, 76
Guernsey: The Fifth of November
and Guy Fawkes, by Miss E. H.
Carey, 104-5 (plate)
Gujarat: Jain kingdom, 352
Gunasarman, tale of, 157
Gunpowder :
to

arouse fetishes,

:

Haddon, A. C. lecture by, 129
Hades (see also Hell); in folktales,
19-20; in Homeric poems, 182;
among Lower Niger tribes, 497
Hades the deity: in Greek cults, 238;
helmet worn by Athene, 74; Her-
cules fetches hound of, 157
Hæmorrhage, see Blood
Hair: in charm against epilepsy,
Meath, 316; of child cut by nganga,
Lower Congo, 421-2; of child in
magic towing, Eskimo, 185; cut
&c. in burial rites, Australia, 392,
405; offered before marriage, 157;
raised from head in charm against
heart disease, Cavan, 316; summons
animal relative in folktale, Tibet,
118; unlucky treatments of, Ire-
land, 319

Hair string as life-token, Japan, 375,
Micmac Indians, 70
Hal: miraculous statue, 205
Hampshire, see Hayling island
Hand: (see also Fingers); amulets in
shape of, Italy, 215, Madeira, 221
(plate), Naples, 223, Portugal, 214-
5, 217-23 (plate), Rhodes, 469
(plate), Spain, 223-4

Hand Cross: motor mascots, 293
Hangman's rope: as amulet, Flanders,
204-5

:

Hanover lactation in he-goat, 106
Hare in folktales, 184, Tibet, 116-7;

:

in moon, Tibet, 116; symbol of
Buddha, 116

Hare-lip in Tibet, 117
Harpies, the, 159

Harris, R. Folklore Fiction: a
Warning, 104

Harrison, Mrs. M. C.: A Survival of
Incubation?, 313-5 (plate)
Hartland, E. S.: A Macassar Version

of Cinderella, 233-4; The Pedlar
of Swaffham, 333-6; reviews by,-

Récits, Contes et Légendes de
l'Ancien Bocage Normand: Jeux,
Vielles Chansons, 493; Bougle's
Essais sur le Régime des Castes,
488-92; Sébillot's Le Folk-Lore de
France, 111-3; Starr's In Indian
Mexico: a Narrative of Travel and
Labor, 499-500; Sébillot's Le
Paganisme Contemporain chez les
Peuples Celto-Latins, 366-9; Pub-
lications of the American Ethno-
logical Society, vol. I Fox Texts,
477-9; short notice by,-Spence's
The Popol Vuh, 505

Harvest customs and beliefs: (see also

Corn spirits, vegetation souls, and
the like); Apollo associated with
harvest, 240; buffalo races &c.,
India, 475; burry-man, South
Queensferry, 379-87 (plates); Lam-
mas, South Queensferry, 384; pro-
pitiatory rites, Scotland, 387
Hatton legend, 458

Haute Vienne, see Limoges
Hawaii: Laamao-mao the wind-ruler,
185

Hawk foot as amulet, England,
300; in Jataka story, 114
Hayling island: amulet, 299
Hazara: folktales, 507
Head: amulets for diseases of,
Flanders, 206, Portugal, 217-8
(plate); shaved, Balemba, 283, after
marriage, Abruzzi, 313, for mourn-
ing, Basutos &c., 283; singing in,
omen of death, Ireland, 318
Headache amulets against, Cologne,
83-4, Flanders, 207; cure for,
Australia, 304

Head beside thigh of corpse, Glouces-
tershire, 37

Headless ghosts: Ireland, 320-1;
Gloucestershire, 37; Somerset, 37,

44-5

Heart allotment after hunt, Lower
Congo, 434-5; amulets in shape of,
England, 293, 295, 362, Flanders,
204, Lincolnshire, 87, Naples, 223,
Portugal, 216 (plate), 218-9 (plate),
222-4 (plate); as clan name,
Nyanja, 255; Sacred Heart as
amulet, Flanders, 204, Portugal,

222

Heart disease: charm against, Cavan,
315-6

Heather: white, as amulet, England,

:

Hedgehog jinn takes shape of,
Morocco, 456

Heimdall, Norse god, 62
Heimskringla, the, 243, 334, 357
Hei tiki, Maori god, 293
Helen of Troy, in Odyssey, 76
Helios, in Homeric poems, 60, 163,
182

Hell: Buddhist, 183; harrowing of
by Conan, 182

Helmet gives invisibility, Iliad &c.,
74-5

Hen: dispersal through Africa, 281-2;

names in S. Africa, 281; omen
from, Ireland, 318

Henry, King, see King Henry
Hentland: ballad, 193

:

Hephaistos magic tripods &c. of, 71
Hera girdle of, 71; in Iliad, 59, 71;
in Odyssey, 60; statue of Hera
Coronea, 170
Herakles, see Hercules
Herbert river: grave hut, 405
Herbs in folklore, see Plants in folk-
lore

Hercules: god of dreams and warm
springs, 63; in Homeric poems,
62-3; slays boar, 65; tasks of, 157;
as worm-slayer, 63
Herefordshire: (see also Hentland;

Kingsland; King's Pyon; King's
Thorne; Ross; Weobley; Win-
forton; and Withington); ballad,
191-2, 199; dog as mascot, 290-1;
withy unlucky, 199

Herero system of descent, 255
Hermannsburg (Aus.): graves, 399.
Hermes flying sandals of, 72-3; gift
to Autolycus, 181

Hernia, charm for, Somerset, 88
Hero cults: Amerindians, 478; Aus-
tralia, 485; Torres Straits, 485
Heroes, pairs of, Homeric poems &c.,
163

Heron in myth of road of souls,
184
Herzegovina:

Krauss's Slavische
Volksforschungen reviewed, 503-5
Hesperides, apples of, 62
Hesse, see Willings-Hausen
Hickathrift, Tom, tale of, 164-5

Highlands: (see also under names of
counties); folktales, 158, 168, 173-4,
181, 186-7

Hildburgh, W. L.: Notes on Some
Amulets of the Three Magi Kings,
83-7; Notes on Some Contemporary
Portuguese Amulets, 131, 213-24
(plates); Notes on Some Flemish
Amulets and Beliefs, 131, 200-13;
reviews by, Bratley's The Power
of Gems and Charms, 361-4; Fernie's
Precious Stones: for Curative Wear
and other Remedial Uses; likewise
the Nobler Metals, 364-6

Hind Horn, ballad of, 154
Hindu folklore, see India
Hindustan, by L. D. Barnett,
reviewed, 124-5

Hinode or sunrise grass: as amulet,
Japan, 298

Hippolytus, tale of, 157

Historical Ghost, An, by Rev. C. W.
Whistler, 342-3

History of Religions, Congress of the,
228-30

Holed coins, see Coins

Holed stones : as amulets, British
Isles, 292, 297, 299 (plate); medi-
cinal, India, 506
Holland: nixies, 171

Holy Family: medals &c. as amulets,
Flanders, 210

Holy water: power of, 363; sprinkled
about houses &c. by box sprig,
Flanders, 202

Holy Well, The, carol, 192-4
Holy wells, see Wells
Homeric poems, folklore of, 52-77,
153-89

Honeley (see also Wroxhall Abbey);
legend, 458

Horn amuletic, Flanders, 209, Italy,
209, Portugal, 215 (plate) 222,
Spain, 209

Horn, King, see King Horn
Horns: as amulets, Flanders, 208,
Portugal, 214-6 (plates), 222 (plate),
224; for holding "medicine,"
Lower Congo, 432-3

Horse: amulets for, England, 300
(plate), Flanders, 211, Greeks, 469;
Arion, 64; charm to stay bleeding,
Devon, 90; cult suggested by Centaur
myth, 160; in folktales, Norway,
167, Russia, 184, Tibet, 118; frog
of as amulet, England, 296; of