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
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,
Cramp, amulets against, England,
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,
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
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,
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
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
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