Mother-right: Amazon legend, 161;
Amerindians, 479;, Australia, 101-
2; Bantu, 255, 411, 413-6, 421,
423, 425, 427, 436

Motor mascots, 292-3 (plate), 301-2
Mt Ida: in Iliad, 59
Mt Olympus, 162, 164
Mt Ossa, 162, 164

Mt Pelion, 162, 164

Mount Troedd, see Savaddan lake
Mountain ash tree; twigs over door,
Kirkcudbrightshire, 344

Mountains: (see also under names);
Huldra spirit, 171

Mourning customs, see Death and
funeral customs and beliefs
Mouse: associated with St Gertrude,

Flanders, 212-3; blessed bread
drives off, Flanders, 212; in folk-
tales, India, 349, Scotland, 235,
Tibet, 116-8; inserted alive into
idol, China, 91; mouse Apollo, 237;
in wren rhyme, Louth, 235
Moyo clan, Nyanja &c., 255
Mule shape-shifting to, Arabian
Nights, 179; white mules of them-
selves carry building stones, Rhodes,
470

Mullaghmast, rath of sleeping
wizard, 321-2

Mumps charm against, Cavan, 315
Mundondi leaves in charm for dogs,
Lower Congo, 436

Munster, see Cork county; Kerry;
Limerick; and Tipperary
Munsusu-nsusu, see Mint
Murder trials, amulet for use at,
U.S.A., 296

Murray island, see Miriam

Murray river: dead, disposal of, 389;
divination of causer of death, 396;
grave hut, 405; language, 390;
skull, type of, 390
Murrumbidgee river in folktales,
227, 303-4

Music: (see also Folk-music); develop.

ment of art from folk music, 140-1
Musk-deer in folktales, Tibet, 116
Musk-duck in folktale, Australia,
307

Muskerry: in rat charm

Musquakie Indians; folktales, 477-9
Mutalammis the poet, letters of, 156
Mycenae amulets, 71; writing, 155
Myrtle-tree flavour remains 20 days
in stomach, Morocco, 455; myrtle

Mysia, see Mt Ida; Scamander river;
and Troad

Mysore amulets, 474

Mysteries: Greek, 238; Webster's
Primitive Secret Societies reviewed,
370-2
Mythology of Ancient Britain and
Ireland, by C. Squire, reviewed,
124-5

Nāgas costume worn once by raja of
Manipur, 480; folktale, 481
Naglfar, ship of Edda, 187
Nails, human: burnt off in burial
rites, W. Australia, 392-3; Naglfar
built from, Edda, 187; white spots
foretell gifts, Japan, 375

Nails, metal in charm against evil
eye, Somerset, 88; as motor mascot,
England, 292

Nails, wax: as amulets, Flanders, 203,
206; in Easter candle, Flanders,

Napoon dead, disposal of, 402
Naravahanadatta, story of, 72
Narrinyeri tribe: dead, disposal of,
390, 395; divination of causer of
death, 396-7

Natal Downs (Aus.): dead, disposal
of, 395, 402

Nature worship amongst Celto-Latins,
368

Neckar river: spirit of, 171
Necklaces: amuletic, England, 292,
300-2 (plate), Flanders, 206, 208-10;
magic, of Frey, 71

Needle: means to remove from hand,
Louth, 317

Neleus, story of, 157, 163
Nepal: in folktale, Tibet, 117
Nepenthe, 76

Nereids in Greek folktale, 168
Nervous complaints: amulets against,

Bonthain; in folktale, 231
Books presented to Folk-Lore Society,
7, 258-60

Boolaboolka lake: in folktale, 306-7
Boot: as amulet, England, 295
Borneo, see Dyaks

Bosjeman, see Bushman

Bosnia : Krauss's Slavische Volks-
forschungen reviewed, 503-5
Bosphorus: origin of wandering rocks
of Odyssey, 184

Boston Point (W. Aus.): burial
custom, 394

Bouches du Rhône, see Marseilles
Bow, see Archery

Box-tree sprigs as 'palms" and
amulets &c., Flanders, 202
Boys, see Man

Brabant, see Hal; and Nivelles
Bracelets of Balemba, 279-80; in

folktale, Morocco, 443-5, 451
Brahmanism: Brahmanical cord, 71
Bread: of St Anthony, Flanders, 211;
of St Gertrude, Flanders, 212-3;
of St Hubert, Flanders, 212
Bream in folktale, Australia, 225
Brecknockshire, see Llangorse lake;

Mount Troedd ; and Savaddan lake
Brendan legend, 174

Brent Knoll: Danish defeat, 38;
made by devil, 43

Bretagne folktales, 243, 327, 333-4
Bridal customs and beliefs, see Mar-
riage customs and beliefs
Bride wager type of folktales, 188,
479

Bridge mascots, 293

Bridges in folklore, see London bridge
Bridgwater river crossing at, 31-2;

no tradition of siege, 40
Brisbane: dead, disposal of, 391, 401
British Isles, see Channel islands;

England; Hebrides; Ireland; Isle
of Man; Orkney islands; Scotland;
Shetland islands; and Wales
Brittany, see Bretagne
Brittia, Isle of, 186

Broadway (Wor.): ballad, 198
Broichan the Druid, in folktale, 75
Bronllys, in legend of Savaddan lake,
461

Brooklands: motor mascots, 293
Broom: over door of absent wife,
Somerset, 91; in rain-making,
Anatolia, 312

:

Bruges amulets blessed by "Holy

Bryn-yr-Allt, monastery of, in legend
of Savaddan lake, 460, 463
Buckinghamshire: (see also Datchet);
ghost invisible to first-born son, 342
Buddha hare as symbol of, Tibet,
116
Buddhism: caste as related to, 489-

90; gandharvis, 170; jātakas, 113-5;
tales, 113-5, 156-7

Buffalo :
: as clan name, Nyanza, 255;
in folktales, Tibet, 116; races, cere-
monial, India, 475; sacrificed for
rain, Anatolia, 309; tabooed, Mei-
theis, 480

Buginese, of Celebes, 231
Building customs: France, III
Bull of the Kraal and the Heavenly
Maidens, The, by D. Kidd, noticed,
509-10

Bunna-do-At, girdle of Irish kings, 71
Burdock burrs used for burry-man,

South Queensferry, 381

Burial customs and beliefs, see Death
and funeral customs and beliefs
Burial, mock in charm against
epilepsy, Meath, 316

Burial of Amputated Limbs, by E.
B. Pitman, 234

Buried bread as cure for whooping
cough, Oxfordshire, 296

Burne, Miss C. S.: The "Devil's
Door" in Wroxhall Abbey Church,
458-9 (plate); Ghost Invisible to a
First-born Son, 342; Wedding
Custom, 339-40; review by,-
Broadwood's English Traditional
Songs and Carols, 476; short
notices by,-Tregarthen's Legends
aud Tales of North Cornwall and
The Piskey Purse, 508

Burns: cure for, Ireland, 317
Burranbinga tribe: folktale, 305-6
Burry-man, The, by Miss I. A. Dick-
son, 131, 379-87 (plates)
Bushman drawings, 107, 257

Cadbury camp, 34

Caerwent treasure find, 34
Caherciveen charm against diseases,
316, and to expel rats, 318; seventh
son, powers of, 316
Cairo: afreet, 471
Cakes: thar-cake, 337-9
Calderon, G.: review by,-Dittmer's
Te Tohunga, 359-60
Calendar folklore,

see Days and

Calicut: sympathetic magic, 475
Calymnos men yield milk, 106;
sneezing, saying about, 106; sponge
an animal, 106

Calypso island of, 58; magic cloth-
ing, 72; story distinguished from
that of Circe, 177-8

Cambridge: shutting windows after
death, 337

Cambridge History of English Litera-
ture, The, vol. i., reviewed, 247-
51

:

Cambridgeshire, see Cambridge
Camel afreet appears as, Egypt,
471; Nereid takes shape of, Greece,
168

Camelot, see Cadbury camp
Campania, see Cumae

Camps associated with dragon and
battle legends, Somerset, 35-6
Camwood-tree: in hunting charms,
Lower Congo, 431, 435
Canada, see Chipewyan Indians
Canara, see South Canara; and Udipi
Candia amulet, 469

Candle: Easter-Sunday, Agnus Dei
from, 203, and contains 3 wax nails,
Flanders, 202

Candlemas Day: candle blessed,
Flanders, 203

Cannibalism in Australia, 397, 401-
3, 405; in Europe, 176
Cannington: fort and ford, 41; other
folk than Somerset = Welsh, 343;
spectral hound, 44

Cannington Marsh: Danish raid, 36
Cannington Park: Danish defeat, 39;
shrew tree, 88-9

Cardiganshire, see Llanafan; Ponter-
wyd; and Ystrad Meurig
Carey, Miss E. HI.: The Fifth of
November and Guy Fawkes, 104-5
(plate)

Carhampton: Arthur legend, 35
Caria: prehistoric population, 58
Carlingford hills: itch, charm for,
316

Carmarthenshire: (see also Cwrt-y-
Cadno); crystal-gazing, 328-9;
Devil takes wizard's body, 331;
spirit-raising, 327-31
Carols, see Folk-songs
Carpathian to Pindus, From: Pic-

tures of Roumanian Country Life,
by T. Stratilesco, reviewed, 346-7
Carpentaria, Gulf of: dead, disposal

Carpenter, J. Estlin: Congress of the
History of Religions, 228-30
Cassava leaves in abortion doses,
Lower Congo, 419

Caste: Bougle's Essais sur le Régime
des Castes reviewed, 488-92
Castlebellingham: wise man, 317
Cat: amulets in shape of, England
and Italy, 295; black, blood of in
charms, Ireland, 316; black, in
charm, Cavan, 316-7; black, as
mascot, London, 290; death warn-
ing by, Cavan, 318; in folktales,
Australia, 307-8, Tibet, 116; motor
mascot in shape of, England, 292;
skin as amulet, Flanders, 208
Catalepsy: amulets against, Flanders,
208

:

Catamenia amulets for, Flanders,
207; customs during, Lower Congo,
418
Catford (Som), 46

Cattle, see Cow; and Ox
Caucasus, see Svanetia
Cauro: rain-making, 332
Cavan charm, 323; death warning,

318; divination, 323; folk medicine,
315-7; unlucky to burn hair, 319
Celebes, see Bonthain; Buginese; and
Macassar

Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian
Times, by E. Anwyl, reviewed,
124-5

Celts (see also France; Ireland;
Scotland; and Wales); cannibalism
amongst, 176; Celto-Latin peoples,
folklore of, 366-9; fairies, 176;
religion, 124-5; only women in Land
of Everliving, 161

Celts, stone : as amulets, Ireland,
298, Jersey, 298-9

Centaurs; in Homeric poems, 159-60
Centipede inserted alive into idol,
China, 91

Central America, see Kichés

Central Provinces of India, see Bilas-

Chalcedony, red, as amulet, 297
Chaldæa: (see also Babylon); Eabani
the god, 167

Chalk in hunting charm, Lower
Congo, 436; in pregnancy charm,
Lower Congo, 419
Chamberlain, A. F.: A Macassar
Version of Cinderella, 230-2
Champā: King Udāyin, 350
Chanakya, minister of Chandragupta,
350-2

Chandragupta, King, see King Chan-
dragupta

Channel islands, see Guernsey; and
Jersey

Charlton Horethorne: holy well, 49
Charms and spells: (see also Amulets
and talismans) :-

against bleeding, Devon, 89-90,
Odyssey &c., 73; blight, Kerry,
323; burns and scalds, Ire-
land, 317; children's ailments,
India, 501; drouth, Anatolia,
311; epilepsy, Meath, 316,
Scotland &c., 85; erysipelas,
Kerry, 316; evil eye, Somerset,
88; "grup" in cows, Antrim,
299; heart disease, Cavan,
315-6; hernia, Somerset, 88;
ill-luck at whist, London, 301;
itch, Carlingford hills, 316;
king's evil, Cavan, 316;
mumps, Cavan, 315; ring-
worm, Limerick, 317; starva-
tion, Cavan, 323; warts, Cavan,
315, Somerset, 89; whitlows,
Cavan, 316-7; whooping cough,
Devon, 345, Limerick, 317,
Oxfordshire, 296;

to expel rats, Ireland, 318; full
name of patient must be known,
Isle of Man, 78; for hunting-
dogs, Lower Congo, 436; for
hunting-luck, Lower Congo,
431-3; India, 73, 474; to
injure enemy, Madras, 474,
Malabar, 475; Japan, 374; for
rain-making, Anatolia, 311-2,
Corsica, 332, Roumania, 347
Charybdis, myth of, 179
Chastity : amulets to preserve,
Flanders, 207, 210
Cheddar: gorge made by devil, 43
Chemmis, floating island, 185
Chieftainship: powers and perquisites
of, Lower Congo, 426-7; succession

Circumcision: in Transvaal, 283-4
Cisterns cannot be counted, Rhodes,
470
Clagland's Corner (Som.): ghost, 342-3
Clans ceremonies origin of secret
societies &c., 371-2; on Lower
Congo, 425-6; names of, Lower
Congo, 425-6, Nyanja, 255, Panjab,
268

Claws as amulets, Portugal, 217
(plate)

Clover, four-leaved: as amulet, Eng-
land, 293-4, Flanders, 204

:

Cnossus pictographic script, 155
Coal: as luck-bringer, East Ham,
290, Leeds, 290
Coburg Peninsula: dead, disposal of,
389

Cock: afreet as, Arabian Nights, 167;
cock-fighting, ceremonial, India,
475; in folktales, Celebes, 231,
Germany, 168, Norway, 167,
Nyanga, 256

Coco nut: amulets from shell, Lin-
colnshire, 87

Coco-nut palm: in folktale, Tibet,
116

Cocullo: costume, 313

Cocytus river: branch of Styx, 69
Cod-fish: in folktale, Australia, 225-6
Codvan's Well, in legend of Savaddan
lake, 460

Coins as amulets, 361; made by
magic, Morocco, 457; as witch
medals, Tuscany, 87; with holes,
as amulets, Lincolnshire, 87-8
Coles, F. R.: Journey Omen, 344
Colic: amulets against, Portugal, 217
(plate)

Collectanea, 78-97, 190-227, 288-332,
438-70

Cologne: amulets of three Magi
Kings, 83-7

Colours in folklore, see under various
colours, such as Red
Combwich: charm against evil eye,
88; devil seen, 45; ford and fort,
31-2, 38, 41; hill dropped by devil,
43; Scandinavian population, 45-7;
Wild Hunt, 41, 43

Compass: as amulet, London, 297
Compass, points of, see East; North;
South; and West

Compendium of the Punjab Customary
Law, by H. A. Rose, reviewed,
251-2

Conception: Australia, 161; women's
island near Sumatra, 161
Congo Free State: (see also Bangala
tribe; Lulanga river; Manyema;
Monsembe; San Salvador; and
Wathen); Notes on some Customs
of the Lower Congo People, by
Rev. J. H. Weeks, 409-37; de
Jonghe's Les Sociétés Secrètes au
Bas Congo reviewed, 370, 373
Congress of the History of Religions,
by J. Estlin Carpenter, 228-30
Connaught, see Galway county

Convulsions, amulets against, Italy,
218

Conybeare, F. C. The Use of a
Skull in a Rain-making Ceremony
in Corsica, 332

Copper horse of Vergilius, 72; in
Transvaal

Coral: amuletic, 365, Flanders, 210,
Portugal, 217 (plate)
Corcyra, see Corfu

Corfu city of Alcinous, 58, 186;
rock Karavi, 166

Corinth cult of Cyclopes, 172; cult
of Poseidon, 239

Cork county: (see also Muskerry);
dead coach, 320

Corkscrew as amulet, Lincolnshire,
87

Corn: magician as grain of, Ger-
many, 168

Corn spirits, vegetation souls, and the
like Yorkshire, 104

:

Cornwall Tregarthen's Legends and
Tales of North Cornwall and The
Piskey Purse noticed, 503; saffron
unlucky in fishing, 108

Correspondence, 98-108, 228-35, 333-
45, 471-5

Corringham; death knock, 466-8
Corsica, see Cauro

Cortona: St Margaret of, 207
Corvedale: ballad, 192
Cosmogony: Roumania, 346
Council of Folk-Lore Society: elec-
tion, 3-4; report, 5-11
Courcy, Sir John de, 39

Courting customs and beliefs: Aber-
deenshire, 472; Lower Congo, 411,
414-5; Panjab, 251; spitting, 367
Cow amulets worn by, Antrim, 299
(plate); charm to cure "grup,'
Antrim, 299; dung in charm against
ailments, India, 506; horn as amu-
let, Portugal, 215 (plate); sacrificed
for rain, Anatolia, 309; in tale of
spirit-raising, Wales, 329-31
Cowry shell: as amulet, Greeks,

469, Lincolnshire, 87-8, London,
297; in hunting charm, Lower
Congo, 432; talking, in folktale,
Tibet, 119

Coyote culture hero as, Amerin-
dians, 478

Cradle Tales of Hinduism, by Miss
M. E. Noble, reviewed, 115
Craigour hill: well custom, May,