Religions Ancient and Modern re-
viewed, 124-5

Reports of the Cambridge Expedition
to Torres Straits: vol. VI, Sociology,
Magic, and Religion of the Eastern
Islanders, reviewed, 482-488
Reptiles in folklore, see Frog; Lizard;
Snake; Toad; Tortoise ;
Water snake

Reviews, 111-28,

476-510

and

236-56, 346-78,

Rhampsinitus, tale of, 181

Rhea the goddess, 238
Rhenish Prussia, see Cologne
Rheumatism: amulets against, Eng-
land, 295 (plate), 297, 301, Flanders,
207-8, Sioux, 297, Somerset and
Devon, 89

Rhine: Lorelei, 171
Rhodes: (see also Monolithos;
Strongylo; and Thairey); amulets,
469 (plate)

Rhymes: (see also Folk-songs); India,
507; Kerry, 318

Ribble river: Peg O'Nell, 171

Rice of other world: in folktale,
Sioux, 177

Riddles: in folktale, Italy, 158;
Nyanja, 256

Riding accidents: amulets against,
Cologne, 83

Rig-Veda, the, 491

Rings, finger: as amulets, England,
294, 297, 301, 341, Flanders, 205,
Portugal, 216 (plate); in charms,
Ireland, 316-7; zodiac, England,
294, Funchal, 214

Ringworm charm against, Limerick,
317

Ripon: feast of St Wilfrid, 464-6 (plate)
Rivers and streams, see under their

names

Rodway Hill: spectral hound, 44;

tradition of name, 45

Roebuck Bay stones on grave, 394
Roman camps: dragon and battle

legends, 35-6; treasure legends, 34
Romans, ancient: amulets, 300; bed
feet of Flamen Dialis mud-smeared,
68; camps, see Roman camps;
coins as witch medals, Tuscany,
87; folktales, 178; Nudipedalia
rite, 68; Bailey's Religion of
Ancient Rome reviewed, 124-5;

twin group of Romulus-Remus, 163
Rome: talismans of Vergilius, 72

Rorik, King, see King Rorik
Rosaries: amuletic, Flanders, 206;
medals upon, Flanders, 205; red,
Flanders, 206

Rose-tree from grave in ballad, 66
Ross (Her.): ballad, 193
Roumania folk-songs, 505; Strati-
lesco's From Carpathian to Pindus ;
Pictures of Roumanian Country
Life reviewed, 346-7

Rouse, W. H. D. reviews by,-
Stratilesco's From Carpathian to
Pindus; Pictures of Roumanian
Country Life, 346-7; Polites'
Γαμήλια Σύμβολα, 377, and Περὶ
τοῦ Ἐθνικοῦ Ἔπους των νεωτέρων
Ἑλλήνων, 378

Rowan-tree, see Mountain ash tree
Rue in cimaruta, Naples, 223
Rügen, Isle of: giant story, 128
Rush door mat from, Lancashire,
383; St Bridget's crosses, Antrim,
300; sheep fed with, Orkney and
Shetland islands, 383

Russia: (see also Caucasus; Esthonia;
Finland; Karelia; Lithuania; and
Poland); ancient religion, 127; folk-
songs, 505; folktales, 173, 176, 179,
184, 478

Rustem, saga of, 65

Sacred Wells, by A. Macdonald, 472
Sacrifice :

animal,-to dead, Lower Congo,
431; for rain, Anatolia, 309;
blood of antelope at hunter's
grave, Lower Congo, 433; feet
bared at time of, Egypt and N.
India, 68; to dead, at Styx, 70;
human,-of children, in archaic
ritual, 61; traditions of, France,
III-2, Greece, 238; Lower Niger,
498

Saffron unlucky in fishing, Corn-
wall, 108

Sagas, see Folktales

Sailors' customs and beliefs, see Sea
customs and beliefs

St Agnes: medals as amulets, Flanders,
207

St Alphonse de Liguori: medals as
amulets, Flanders, 207

St Anthony of Padua: beliefs about,
Belgium, 210

St Anthony the Hermit: beliefs about,
Flanders, 210-1; medals worn by

St Fittick: well, Aberdeenshire, 472
St Gastayu, 462-3

St George: medals

as amulets,

Flanders, 203, 207, Italy, 204,
Portugal, 219 (plate)

St Gerard (Majella): medals as
amulets, 207

St Germaine: medals as amulets,
Flanders, 207
St Gertrude :

blessed bread of,
Flanders, 212-3; invoked against
mice &c., Flanders, 213; patroness
of souls, Germany, 212-3

St Godelieve: medals as amulets,
Flanders, 206; well of, Flanders,
206

St Hubert of Liége: beliefs about,
Belgium, 212; medals as amulets,
Flanders, 212

St Hubert's Day: blessed bread on,

212

St Idesbalde: medals &c. as amulets,
Flanders, 207

St Jerome: on cannibalism amongst
Čelts, 176

St John, amuletic necklace of, Flan-
ders, 208-9

St John Baptist : medals as amulets,
Flanders, 210

St Joseph: medals &c. as amulets,

Flanders, 205, 210

St Leonard: in legend, Warwickshire,

St Magnenn, in Irish folktale, 65
St Margaret : in amulets against
cramp, Flanders, 207

St Margaret of Cortona: ribbon as
amulet, Flanders, 207

St Margaret, Queen of Scotland,
381-3

St Olaf chapel, Somerset, 48;
church in Heimskringla, 243

St Petroc, 33

St Philomena: medals as amulets,
Flanders, 207

St Roch medals as amulets, Flan-
ders, 212

St Sativola, wells of, 49

St Thomas à Becket: day still ob-
served, Somerset, 40

St Wilfrid feast of, Ripon, 464-6
(plate)

Saktideva, tale of, 180, 186
Salomo Sage in der Semitischen
Litteratur, Die, by Dr G. Salz-
berger, reviewed, 500-3

Salt in blood-kinship ceremony,
Caucasus, 344; given for abortion,
Lower Congo, 419; in pregnancy
charm, Lower Congo, 419; if
spilt, must pick up in lower
regions, India, 506

Samoa islands: grave tree, 66; wind
and rain bringers, 185
Sanctuaries or refuges: Lower Niger,
498

Sandwich islands, see Hawaii

Sånglekår fran Nääs, by O. Hell-
gren, noticed, 505-6

San Salvador: customs, 409-37
Sarangdhara, tale of, 157
Saruta Hiko no Mikoto, Shinto deity,
376

Satnámi sect, India, 506
Satu, in Egyptian tale, 156
Savaddan lake: legend, 459-63
Scalds cure for, Ireland, 317
Scamander river: in Iliad, 63-4
Scandinavia: (see also Danes; Den-
mark; Edda; Norway; Odin sagas;
and Sweden); bones of food cere-
monially treated, 233-4; Dular-kuf
or Hulidshjalmir, 75; Hraesvelg
the storm giant, 185; population
from, in Somerset, 34, 46; Craigie's
Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
reviewed, 124-5; twin group of
Odin-Loki, 163

Scanno costume, 313-4; mourning

Scotland: (see also Hebrides; High-
lands; Orkney islands; Shetland
islands; Western Isles; and under
names of counties); charms and
amulets, 85; folktales, 158, 178;
kelpie, 171

Scrying, see Crystal-gazing
Scylla, myth of, 179-80

Sea-cow mermaid, S. Africa, 169
Sea customs and beliefs: (see also
Mermaid beliefs); amulets worn by
seamen, England, 295, Flanders,
203-5; box sprig fastened to mast,
Flanders, 202; amongst Celto-
Latins, 368; Clou de Pâques in-
serted in fishing boat, Flanders,
203; mermaid descent gives luck
or ill-luck in fishing, Kerry, 319;
Proteus legends, 166-7;
winds
bought, Lerwick, 185
Sea gods: Poseidon, 239; Proteus,
166-7

Seal descent of families from, Ire-
land, 319; in folktale, Orkneys
and Shetlands, 128; human form
every 9th night, Faroes, 168;
Proteus' flock of seals, 166; Pro-
teus a seal god, 168; seal maiden
story, 376, Faroes, 168, Ireland,
319; sealskin girdle cures sciatica,
Western Isles (Scot.), 71; shape-
shifting by, Faroes &c., 168-9
Seal of Solomon, see King Solomon
Sealing odd number of times or
document unlucky, Japan, 375
Sea-sickness: amulets against, Flan-
ders, 203

Seaweed: at New Year festival,
Japan, 375

Secretary, election of, 4

Secret societies; Lower Congo, 423;
Webster's Primitive Secret Societies
reviewed, 370-2; de Jonghe's Les
Sociétés Secrètes au Bas-Congo, 370,
373

Sedgemoor Fight: ascribed to Danes,
37; traditions of, 40

Seeds, see Clover seed; Entada
scandens; Fern; Lentil; and
Sesame

Selati district, see Balemba
Selkirkshire, see Yarrow

Selli or Selloi, priests of Dodona,
67-9

Semang tribes: totemism, 246
Sempervivum: averts lightning, Eng-
land, 298; Jupiter's beard, Germany,
298; thunder-flower, Germany, 298
Seragunting, Dyak deity, 164
Serbs: Krauss's Slavische Volksfors-
chungen reviewed, 503-5
Serpent, see Snake

Sesame : in folktales, Arab and
Indian, 158

Seven: number feared, Balemba, 286;
7th son, powers of, Cavan, 316,
Meath, 316

Sexual intercourse : forbidden to
hunter, Lower Congo, 433, and
pregnant or suckling wife, Lower
Congo, 420-1; promiscuity, Assam,
481

Shangaan tribe: circumcision, 284
Shao or Tibetan stag; not in folktales,
Tibet, 116

Shape-shifting: by afreet, Arabian
Nights, 167; in folktales, 167-8,
179; by jinns, Morocco, 455-7; by
nereid, Greece, 168; by trolls and
witches, Norway, 166-7

Shark; group of men, Torres Straits,
483

:

Sharp, C. J.; Some Characteristics of
English Folk-Music, 130, 132-52
Shaving of head, Abruzzi, 313,
Transvaal, 283, 285-6
Shechem: tree of augurs, 67
Sheep blade bone in divination,
Limerick, 323; bones not burnt,
Hebrides, 233; in charm against
whooping cough, Devon, 345; fed
with rushes, Orkney and Shetland
islands, 383; in folktales, Basques,
174, Russia, 173, Tibet, 116; grass
of denial, Greek islands, 77; lamb
protects horses, Flanders, 211;
lambs in rain service, Anatolia, 311;
ram of Polyphemus, 64, 172-3;
sacrificed for rain, Anatolia, 309;
sucklings not charged for, Lower
Congo, 421

Sheep in Folk-medicine, by W. W.
Fowler, 345

Shells (see also Cowry shell; and
Pelican's foot shell); amulets,
England, 87-8, 362; necklaces,

St Philomena: medals as amulets,
Flanders, 207

St Roch medals as amulets, Flan-
ders, 212

St Sativola, wells of, 49

St Thomas à Becket: day still ob-
served, Somerset, 40

St Wilfrid feast of, Ripon, 464-6
(plate)

Saktideva, tale of, 180, 186
Salomo Sage in der Semitischen
Litteratur, Die, by Dr G. Salz-
berger, reviewed, 500-3

:

Salt in blood-kinship ceremony,
Caucasus, 344; given for abortion,
Lower Congo, 419; in pregnancy
charm, Lower Congo, 419; if
spilt, must pick up in lower
regions, India, 506

Samoa islands: grave tree, 66; wind
and rain bringers, 185

Sanctuaries or refuges : Lower Niger,
498

Sandwich islands, see Hawaii

Sånglekår fran Nääs, by O. Hell-
gren, noticed, 505-6

San Salvador: customs, 409-37
Sarangdhara, tale of, 157
Saruta Hiko no Mikoto, Shinto deity,
376

Satnámi sect, India, 506
Satu, in Egyptian tale, 156
Savaddan lake: legend, 459-63
Scalds cure for, Ireland, 317
Scamander river: in Iliad, 63-4
Scandinavia (see also Danes; Den-
mark; Edda; Norway; Odin sagas;
and Sweden); bones of food cere-
monially treated, 233-4; Dular-kufl
or Hulidshjalmir, 75; Hraesvelg
the storm giant, 185; population
from, in Somerset, 34, 46; Craigie's
Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
reviewed, 124-5; twin group of
Odin-Loki, 163

Scanno costume, 313-4; mourning

Scapulars red, Flanders, 206
Scarf presented at visit, Tibet, 117
Sciatica cured by sealskin girdle,
Western Isles (Scot.), 71
Scorpion afreet as, Arabian Nights,
167
Scotland: (see also Hebrides; High-
lands; Orkney islands; Shetland
islands; Western Isles; and under
names of counties); charms and
amulets, 85; folktales, 158, 178;
kelpie, 171

Scrying, see Crystal-gazing
Scylla, myth of, 179-80

Sea-cow mermaid, S. Africa, 169
Sea customs and beliefs: (see also
Mermaid beliefs); amulets worn by
seamen, England, 295, Flanders,
203-5; box sprig fastened to mast,
Flanders, 202; amongst Celto-
Latins, 368; Clou de Pâques in-
serted in fishing boat, Flanders,
203; mermaid descent gives luck
or ill-luck in fishing, Kerry, 319;
Proteus legends, 166-7; winds
bought, Lerwick, 185

Sea gods: Poseidon, 239; Proteus,
166-7

Seal descent of families from, Ire-
land, 319; in folktale, Orkneys
and Shetlands, 128; human form
every 9th night, Faroes, 168;
Proteus' flock of seals, 166; Pro-
teus a seal god, 168; seal maiden
story, 376, Faroes, 168, Ireland,
319; sealskin girdle cures sciatica,
Western Isles (Scot.), 71; shape-
shifting by, Faroes &c., 168-9
Seal of Solomon, see King Solomon
Sealing odd number of times or
document unlucky, Japan, 375
Sea-sickness: amulets against, Flan-
ders, 203

Seaweed: at New Year festival,
Japan, 375

Secretary, election of, 4

Secret societies; Lower Congo, 423;
Webster's Primitive Secret Societies
reviewed, 370-2; de Jonghe's Les
Sociétés Secrètes au Bas-Congo, 370,
373

Sedgemoor Fight: ascribed to Danes,
37; traditions of, 40

Seeds, see Clover seed; Entada
scandens ; Fern; Lentil; and
Sesame

Selati district, see Balemba
Selkirkshire, see Yarrow

Selli or Selloi, priests of Dodona,
67-9

Semang tribes totemism, 246
Sempervivum: averts lightning, Eng-
land, 298; Jupiter's beard, Germany,
298; thunder-flower, Germany, 298
Seragunting, Dyak deity, 164
Serbs: Krauss's Slavische Volksfors-
chungen reviewed, 503-5
Serpent, see Snake

Sesame : in folktales, Arab and
Indian, 158

Seven: number feared, Balemba, 286;
7th son, powers of, Cavan, 316,
Meath, 316

Sexual intercourse : forbidden to
hunter, Lower Congo, 433, and
pregnant or suckling wife, Lower
Congo, 420-1; promiscuity, Assam,
481

Shangaan tribe: circumcision, 284
Shao or Tibetan stag; not in folktales,
Tibet, 116

Shape-shifting: by afreet, Arabian
Nights, 167; in folktales, 167-8,
179; by jinns, Morocco, 455-7; by
nereid, Greece, 168; by trolls and
witches, Norway, 166-7

Shark; group of men, Torres Straits,
483

:

Sharp, C. J.; Some Characteristics of
English Folk-Music, 130, 132-52
Shaving of head, Abruzzi, 313,
Transvaal, 283, 285-6
Shechem: tree of augurs, 67
Sheep blade bone in divination,
Limerick, 323; bones not burnt,
Hebrides, 233; in charm against
whooping cough, Devon, 345; fed
with rushes, Orkney and Shetland
islands, 383; in folktales, Basques,
174, Russia, 173, Tibet, 116; grass
of denial, Greek islands, 77; lamb
protects horses, Flanders, 211;
lambs in rain service, Anatolia, 311;
ram of Polyphemus, 64, 172-3;
sacrificed for rain, Anatolia, 309;
sucklings not charged for, Lower
Congo, 421

Sheep in Folk-medicine, by W. W.
Fowler, 345

Shells (see also Cowry shell; and
Pelican's foot shell); amulets,
England, 87-8, 362; necklaces,