Hell: Buddhist, 183; harrowing of
by Conan, 182

Helmet: gives invisibility, Iliad &c.,
74-5

Hen: dispersal through Africa, 281-2;

names in S. Africa, 281; omen
from, Ireland, 318

Henry, King, see King Henry
Hentland: ballad, 193

Hephaistos: magic tripods &c. of, 71
Hera girdle of, 71; in Iliad, 59, 71;
in Odyssey, 60; statue of Hera
Coronea, 170
Herakles, see Hercules
Herbert river: grave hut, 405
Herbs in folklore, see Plants in folk-
lore

Hercules: god of dreams and warm
springs, 63; in Homeric poems,
62-3; slays boar, 65; tasks of, 157;
as worm-slayer, 63
Herefordshire: (see also Hentland;
Kingsland; King's Pyon; King's
Thorne; Ross; Weobley; Win-
forton; and Withington); ballad,
191-2, 199; dog as mascot, 290-1;
withy unlucky, 199

Herero system of descent, 255
Hermannsburg (Aus.): graves, 399.
Hermes: flying sandals of, 72-3; gift
to Autolycus, 181

Hernia, charm for, Somerset, 88
Hero cults: Amerindians, 478; Aus-
tralia, 485; Torres Straits, 485
Heroes, pairs of, Homeric poems &c.,
163

Heron in myth of road of souls,
184
Herzegovina:

Krauss's

Slavische

Volksforschungen reviewed, 503-5
Hesperides, apples of, 62
Hesse, see Willings-Hausen
Hickathrift, Tom, tale of, 164-5
Hidden treasure, see Treasure

Highlands: (see also under names of
counties); folktales, 158, 168, 173-4,
181, 186-7

Hildburgh, W. L.: Notes on Some
Amulets of the Three Magi Kings,
83-7; Notes on Some Contemporary
Portuguese Amulets, 131, 213-24
(plates); Notes on Some Flemish
Amulets and Beliefs, 131, 200-13;
reviews by, Bratley's The Power
of Gems and Charms, 361-4; Fernie's
Precious Stones: for Curative Wear
and other Remedial Uses; likewise
the Nobler Metals, 364-6
Hind Horn, ballad of, 154
Hindu folklore, see India
Hindustan, by L. D.
reviewed, 124-5

Barnett,

Hinode or sunrise grass: as amulet,
Japan, 298

Hippolytus, tale of, 157

Historical Ghost, An, by Rev. C. W.
Whistler, 342-3

History of Religions, Congress of the,
228-30

Holed coins, see Coins

Holed stones : as amulets, British
Isles, 292, 297, 299 (plate); medi-
cinal, India, 506
Holland: nixies, 171

Holy Family: medals &c. as amulets,
Flanders, 210

Holy water: power of, 363; sprinkled
about houses &c. by box sprig,
Flanders, 202

Holy Well, The, carol, 192-4
Holy wells, see Wells
Homeric poems, folklore of, 52-77,
153-89

Honeley (see also Wroxhall Abbey);
legend, 458

Horn amuletic, Flanders, 209, Italy,
209, Portugal, 215 (plate) 222,
Spain, 209

66

Horn, King, see King Horn
Horns: as amulets, Flanders, 208,
Portugal, 214-6 (plates), 222 (plate),
224; for holding 'medicine,"
Lower Congo, 432-3
Horse: amulets for, England, 300
(plate), Flanders, 211, Greeks, 469;
Arion, 64; charm to stay bleeding,
Devon, 90; cult suggested by Centaur
myth, 160; in folktales, Norway,
167, Russia, 184, Tibet, 118; frog
of as amulet, England, 296; of
Greek heroes, 64; headless, of

Wild Hunt, Somerset, 44: horse-
headed Demeter, 237-8 ; amo pra
cts Rabie, Flanders, 211: mares
Conceive by wind, 16:; Poseidon
associated with, Greece, 239: n
sagis and myha, 645; scape-
sitting, 1793 toors as amulet,
Linczinstire, 47-8; wooden borse,
saga of, 137-4

Horseberg: Tannhauser legend. 178
Fone-side : 23 amalet, England,

37-8, 290, 293-4 puzle, 296-7
plate, 361-2; Flanders, 204
Hottentots: folctale, 113
House: beliefs of Ceits-Latins, 368
House leex: averts lightning, Eng-
land, 298

Hraesvelg the storm giant, 185
Hrungnir the giant, 164
Huldra, mountain stirit, 171
Human sacrifice, see Sacrifice

Human skin: girdle makes werwolf,

Western Isles (Scot.), 71
Hunchback: as amulet and mascot,
England and Italy, 295, Flanders,
204; in folktales, 324-7
Hungary: folktales, 173, 188
Hunting: charms for, Lower Congo,

431-6; customs in, Lower Congo,
433-6

Huron Indians: Ioskeha-Tawis, 163
Hutchinson, Rev. H. N.: communi-
cation from, 472-3
Hydra of Lerna, 159

Hydrophobia: amulets against, Flan-
ders, 212; blessed bread eaten to
avert, Flanders, 212
Hypsipyle, in Iliad, 60

Iasion, in Odyssey, 59
Iceberg: as island of Aeolus, 176, 185;

as wandering rock of Odyssey, 183
Iceland: Bray's The Elder or Poetic
Edda, Part I, reviewed, 493-6; |
genealogical traditions, 353; lacta-
tion of Thorgils, 106; legend from
Fljótsdæla saga, 127

Idols, see Images, sacred

Idothea, daughter of Proteus, 169
Ifrit, see Afreet

Igarra tribe: twins not destroyed, 498
Ila: name of ape, 255

Iliad, folklore of, 52-77, 153-89

Images, sacred: putting life into,
China, 91

Imprecations: Kerry, 319
Ina, King, see King Ina

cantatons: 17: male descent of
work. Australia, 103

Incest: Lower Congo, 422
Incubaton: Arizzi. 313-5 plates
Kadia: & Assam: Bengal Pre-
sidency: Bhars: Bombay Presi-
dency: Central Provinces: Cevion;
Chamca: Ganbar Stab: Kars;
Kashmir:
sarit sature;
Madras Presidency: Mahé Larsts:
Mysore: Necal; Pantal: Par-
ANS PREPOSTER, Kupurana: Rajpets;
and kamavere : Bratmatical cord,
71; burial customs, 33-4: Nocie's
Crate Tier of Hintain reviewed,
115: Boogle's Erotic sur le Regime
des Carter reviewed, 488-92; faqir,
69: 50lktales, 61-2, 65. 72-3, 70,
113-5, 167, 178, 187-8.501; goddess
Sita. 59: beaven-scaling legend,
153-4; Barnett's Hindi
viewed, 124-5: Girard falling on body
unlucky 475; rikshasis, 170; scarce
of Tibetan tales &c., 116-7; South
Indian Folklore, by A. R. Wright,
474-6; twin groups of deities &c.,
163; whirlpool spirit lurks under
tree, 180

re-

Indian Folk-Tales, being Side-lights
on Village Life in bilsapere Cen-
tral Province, by E. M. Gordon,
reviewed, 506-7

Indian hemp in sympathetic magic,
Malabar, 475

Indra, in heaven-scaling legend, 163
Infanticide, female, see Female in-
fanticide

Inheritance, Lower Congo, 413, 421,
423, 427

Inibe, abstinence rite, Japan, 69
In Indian Mexico: a Narrative of
Travel and Labor, by F. Starr, re-
viewed, 499-500

Initiatory ceremonies: Australia, 103,
485; Lower Congo, 373; Web-
ster's Primitive Secret Societies
reviewed, 370-2; Torres Straits,
485; Transvaal, 284

Inns: associated with Magi Kings, 85
Inny river in rat charm, 318
Insects in folklore, see Ant; Bee;
Centipede; Cricket; Scorpion ;
and Spider
Interlaken, 438

Introdacqua: costume, 313; shaven
heads of married women, 313
Inverkeithing: burrs for burry-man, 381

Invisibility, various means of obtain-
ing, 74-5

Iphicles, oxen of, 157

Iphimedeia, mother of Aloidæ, 162
Ireland (see also Balor; Connaught;
Leinster; Munster; Ossianic sagas;
Tuatha Dé Danann; and Ulster);
amulet, 300; divination, 67; dol-
mens, 165-6; folktales, 75-6, 170-1,
173, 181, 188, 327; girdle of kings,
71; merrows, 171; Squire's Mytho-
logy of Ancient Britain and Ireland,
124-5; swine, mythic, 65
Iris the goddess, in Iliad, 57
Irish Folklore from Cavan, Meath,
Kerry, and Limerick, by B. H.
Jones, 315-23

Iron and steel: (see also Horse-shoe ;
Knife; Nails, metal; Needle; and
Pin); pyrites, amuletic, Surrey,
297-8; steel finger-ring as amulet,
Portugal and Spain, 221; "touch-
ing iron," Belgium and France, 205
Iroquois Indians: famine grant, 183;
totemism, 484

Ishtar, in Babylonian tale, 157
Islay folktale, 174

:

Isle of Man

(see also Glen Rushen ;

and Peel); amulet, 295; folktales,
79-83, 324-7; seven families only, 78
Isle of Purbeck, see Worth
Istaevones, 358-9

Italy (see also Abruzzi; Campania ;
Latium ; Lombardy; Naples ;
Romans, ancient; Rome; Sicily;
Tuscany; Umbria; and Venetia);
amulets, 131, 203, 218, 221, 295;
folktales, 158, 169, 181-2, 327
Itch charm against, Carlingford hills,
316
Ivory amuletic, Flanders, 206
Ixion, father of Centaurs, 159

:

Jack and the Beanstalk type of folk-
tale, 164

Jackal in folktales, Hottentots, 118,

Tibet, 116, 118; in founding city,
India, 350

Jade or paunamu, see Greenstone
Jains: Parisishṭaparvan, 347-52
January: (see also Twelfth Night);
old Christmas Eve, Gloucestershire,
193
Japan: (see also Ainu; and Onogoro);
abstinence rite, 69; amulet, 298;
earthquake fish, 472-3; Joly's Le-
gend in Japanese Art reviewed, 373-

7; mascots imported from, England,
295 (plate), 303; smith god, 173
Jasmine flower: in charm, Madras,
474

Jason and the Argonauts, 60

Jass
at Thun, The, by C. J.
Billson, 438-40 (plate)

Jataka, The, or Stories of the Buddha's
former Births, vol. VI, by E. B.
Cowell and W. H. D. Rouse, re-
viewed, 113-5

Jats: marriage customs, 266-7, 273;
organization reflected by their
menials, 270

Java: apes identified with pigmies,
162; in folktale, 232; Pragangan,
171

Jenny Greenteeth, water spirit, 171
Jersey: amulet, 298-9

Jerusalem; shield of Crusader Kings,
219

Jester, see "Jass"
Jet: amuletic, 365

Jewels in folklore, see Gems
Jews: Hanauer's Folklore of the Holy
Land, Moslem, Christian and Jew-
ish reviewed, 500-3; influence on
amulets, Portugal, 220; mediaeval
amulets, 86

Jinns: shape-shifting by, Morocco,
455-7; wealth of, Morocco, 457
Johnson, H. H.: Bees and Withered
Branches, 339

Jones, B. H.: Irish Folklore from
Cavan, Meath, Kerry, and Limerick,
315-23

Jones, B. J.: Wren Boys, 234-5
Joppa in Egyptian tale, 187
Jordan water as amulet, 295
Joseph and Potiphar's wife, tale of,
156

Journey: Magi Kings patron saints
for, 84-5; omens, Kirkcudbright-

shire, 344, Lower Congo, 436;
protective amulets, Cologne, 83-4
Journey Omen, by F. R. Coles, 344
Judaism, by J. Abrahams, reviewed,
124-5

Judas hunted as squirrel, Good
Friday, Somerset, 41

Julian, Emperor: deserter ruins, 189
July 7th, Saint Becket's Day,
Somerset, 40

June, see Midsummer Eve

Junod, H.: The Balemba of the
Zoutpansberg (Transvaal), 258,
276-87

Jute: as amulet, London, 299
Jutland: Jutlander and King Cnut's
jug, 183; King Rorik, 353-4

Kabandha, in Ramayana, 173
Kafirs (Africa): bangles as amulets,
England, 294; Kidd's The Bull of
the Kraal and the Heavenly Children
noticed, 509-10

Kafirs (India): feet bared at sacrifice,
68

Kafir Socialism and the Dawn of
Individualism: an Introduction to
the Study of the Native Problem, by
Dudley Kidd, reviewed, 252-4
Kalevala: parallels to incidents in,
61; translations and variants of, 2,
98

Kamaralzaman and Badaura, 154
Kamilaroi tribe: folktales, 224-6,
304-5; male descent of privileges,
103; marriage customs, 102
Kangra Rajput families, 269
Karavi, rock near Corfu, 166
Karelia: Kalevala, variants of, 98
Kashmir: folktale, 65

Katha sarit sagara, the, 72, 156, 180,
186

Katungal tribe: dead, disposal of, 399
Kavya-lankārā, tale of, 156

Keenthorne: shoeing devil's horse,
41-3

Kelpie: Scotland, 171

Kenilworth : in connection with
Wroxhall Abbey, 458
Kentwine, victories of, 32, 36, 41
Kenwalch of Wessex, 32

Keres or death sprites, Greeks, 172
Kerry (see also Ballinskelligs; Bally-
ferriter; Caherciveen; Drunghill;
Inny river; and Waterville); charm
against blight, 323; death warn-
ings, 318

Key amulets in shape of, Greeks,
469 (plate), Italy, 218, Madeira,
221 (plate), Naples, 223, Portugal,
217-9 (plate), 222-3

Khatri tribe: organization, 267-8, 272
Kichés: Spence's The Popol Vuh
noticed, 505

Kid, see Goat

Kildare county: (see also Curragh;
and Mullaghmast, rath of); sleep-
ing hero, 321-2

Kinedward: folk etymology, 241
King Agamemnon: breastplate of, 59
King Alcinous: city of, 58; hounds
and torchbearers of gold &c., 71
King Arthur sagas: in English litera-
ture, 250-1; Lancelot cures wounds,
73; mantle, 75; one-eyed giant,
173; in Somerset, 34-5

King Augeas: cleansing stable of, 158
King Chandragupta, 350-2
King Cymric of Wessex, 356-7
King David: in legend, Morocco, 441
King Edward I: in folk etymology,
241

King Eurystheus: in Iliad, 157
King Frodi of Norway, 167
King Gorm, travels of, 177

King Henry the Fourth of France, 112
King Horn, ballad of, 154
King Ina of Wessex, 32, 37

King Mahasena: wife in Buddhist
tale, 157

King Malcolm Canmore, 381-2
King Nanda of Pataliputra, 350-1
King Parvata, in story of Chandra-
gupta, 351

King Pirithous, of Lapithae, 159
King Priam of Troy: opposes
Amazons, 160

King Rorik of Jutland, 353-4
Kings (see also under names); at
death pass direct to Creator, Lower
Niger, 498; Magi Kings of Cologne,
84-5

King's evil: amulet for, England,
297; cured by touch of 7th son,
Cavan, 316

Kingsland beating with withy stick
unlucky, 200

King Solomon: in legend, Morocco,
441; Salzberger's Die Salomo Sage
in der Semitischen Litteratur re-
viewed, 500-3; seal of S. as amulet,
Portugal, 220

King's Pyon: ballad, 193
King's Thorne: ballad, 193

King Udayin, founder of Pațaliputra,

350

King William the Conqueror, tradi-
tions of, Normandy, 112

Kirby, W. F.: communication and
gift by, 2, 98; short notices by-
Transactions of the First Annual
Congress of the European Theoso-

Kirton-in-Lindsey: crucifying crow,
468-9

Knife: controls afreet, Egypt, 471
Knossos, see Cnossus
Kongo, see Congo

Kongo dia Ntotela, see San Salvador
Kotakota: 254

Kottiyur: bamboo tassels, 475
Krishna, 164, 491

Krohn, K.: The Progress of Folklore
Study in Finland, 2, 98
Kuinmurbura tribe: powers of dead,
obtaining, 405
Kunāla, tale of, 156

Kurnai tribe: burial customs, 398
Kuvera, god of wealth, 72

Kwearr-iburra tribe: dead, disposal
of, 403

Kyang in folktales, Tibet, 116

:

Kyburg, story of dukes of, 438-9

Laamao-mao, Hawaiian Aeolus, 185
Lachlan river: dead, disposal of, 400
Laconia, see Gythium

Lactation: amulets to aid, Flanders,
207

Laestrygonians, in Odyssey, 57, 175-6
Lambeth in folktale, 242, 335-6
Lammas, Scotland, 383-4
Lanarkshire, see Douglas
Lancashire (see also Jenny Green-
teeth; Oldham; Ribble river; and
Southport); ballad, 199; hagstone,
298; Nov. 5 customs, 337; rush
door mat, 383, 385; thar-cake, 337-9
Lancelot romances, 73

Lang, A.: review by,-Gomme's Folk-

Lore as an Historical Science, 241-6
Lantern: in folktale, Morocco, 446-50,
453

Lapithae, in Iliad, 159

Larken, E. P.: Egyptian Beliefs,
471-2

Latium: Fauni, 172; Lemuria festival,
68

Lauterbrunnen, 438

Lazy Wife, The: a Manx Folk-tale,
by Miss S. Morrison, 78-83
Lebole mountains: circumcision, 284
Leeds: coal as mascot, 290
Left in charm against itch, Ireland,
316; in preparing amulet, U.S.A.,
296

Legend in Japanese Art, by H. L.
Joly, reviewed, 373-7

Legend of Savaddan Lake, The, by
I. C. Hughes, 459-63

Legends and Tales of North Corn-
wall, by E. Tregarthen, noticed,
508

Leinster, see Kildare; Louth county;
and Meath

Lemnos in saga of Philoktetes, 61
Lemuria, barefoot officiant at, 68
Lent: sneezing at cheese Sunday
banquet unlucky, Greek islands, 106
Lentil in Arab tale, 158

Leopard hunting custom, Lower
Congo, 434; Proteus as, 166
Lerna: the Hydra, 159

Lerwick winds sold to sailors, 185
Lethe, 77

Leto, in Iliad, 165