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

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

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-
312;

Nightshape-shifting to, Arabian

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, III-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

Germany, 504

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

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

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; Mycenæan 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

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,
340-2

Falaise: tradition of William the
Conqueror, 493

Falling, injuries

from: amulets

against, Flanders, 206
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;
covered in holy places, 68

un-

Fern:

Female Infanticide in the Punjab, by
Capt. A. J. O'Brien, 258, 261-75
: 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
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: understood beast
language, 65

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, Celto-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;

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,