Imágenes de páginas
PDF
EPUB

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

Cock: afreet as, Arabian Nights, 107;
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
Constantinople: relics of Magi, 84-5

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

[ocr errors]

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,

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

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,

472

Cramp, amulets against, England,

296, Flanders, 207

Crane: cranes and pigmies, Iliad,
162, Musquakies, 478; in folktale,
Australia, 227

Creation myths: Assam, 481-2
Crescents, see Moon

Crete (see also Candia; Cnossus;
Dictaean cave; and Messará); early
sea power, 58; religion related to
Greek, 236, 238-9; writing on clay
tablets, 155

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

Cwmdu: in legend of Savaddan lake,
460

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

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

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-
lekar fran Naas, 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;
St Becket's Day, 40; Spring,

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
M. Peacock, 466-9

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
Dieri, see Dieyeri

[blocks in formation]

Dioscuri, the, 163

Diplomatarium Orcadense et Ilialt-
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
Domnonia, province of, 32

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
Eagle stone, 365

Ealhstan, Bishop, in Danish invasion,
38

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

« AnteriorContinuar »