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Index.

TABOO, royal, 394

clan, New Guinea, 192

Tabu, what he did in Muralug

(Muralug folk-tale), 180, 192 Tagai constellation, myth of (Torres

Straits), 184-185, 194 Tahiti, offering to gods of hostile

tribes in, 167 Tambov, payment of " kladka" at,

479 Tartar objection to thrusting sword

in fire, 151 Tasks, fairy. See " Nicht Nought

Nothing." Tatars, bridal weeping custom of,'

457 ; marriage restrictions of, 452 ;

similarity of marriage customs to

Mordvin, 455

Tavistock, midwife legend at, 207 Tcherkess, Amazonian legend of, 470 Teryshevsk, bridal procession at, 437,

439

, weeping-day of, 430 ,

Teutonic Mythology, recent research

on, 118-126 Thebes (Boeotia), keeping Easter at,

275

Threshold, ill-luck brought by stum- bling on, 156 , Manchu bridal ceremony at,

487, smeared with lamb's blood in

Greece, 275

-, Tatar taboo of bride treading

on, 459 Thunder, Sakai method of frightening,

153; Esthonian, 153; Canadian,

154

Thunderstorm, custom of extinguish- ing fire at, German, 153 ; Greek,

153

Thiiringen, ill-hick belief in, 156 Tiai inaugurates funeral ceremonies

(Badu tale), 176-179, 191 Tie-beam touched as confirmation of

marriage agreement, 427

seized by Mordvin bride, 440

Timor, earthquake belief of natives

of, 150 Tin, importance of early British trade

in, 84, 92 Titmouse, Finnish magic-song of

origin of, 335 Tlinkeet Indians, earthquake belief

among, 150 Todas, destruction of aged people by,

Tom (Peeping) and Lady Godiva, 207-

226 Topcliffe, fair at, 130

Torres Straits, legends, from, 47-81,

172-196 beliefs of natives of,

76, 77 masks used in, 192,

194 ; canoes of, 195 ; water-bottles

of, 195 Totem, renewal of tribal bond with,

388 Totems, origin of fire and (New

Guinean legend), 185, 195 Toula, defence of bride's home in,

477 Trade Routes to Britain, Greek, 82-

107 Transylvania, "threshold - stumbling

belief in, 156 Travellers, the two, "Midrash" version

of, 277-278 Tree-marks made for fortune at

Moksha marriages, 445 Trees, Finnish magic-songs of origin

of, 343-348 , sudden growth of, to shield

princess of Chamba, 222 Tribal enmity, survival of English,

325 Truro, ancient pigs of tin in museum

at, 83

Tsipiana, customs in, 520 Tuatha de Danann and the Firbolgs,

conflicts between, 244-245 Turkish marriage customs similar to

Mordvin, 451 ' variant of Frog-Prince story,

503 Turks, marriage by purchase among,

453 Turning back, ill-luck brought by,

155 Turtle caught by sucker-fish in New

Guinea, 190 ; method of fishing for,

196 Turtle spirits, Murray Island myth,

186-189, 195 Tuscan beliefs derived from the

Etruscans, 404 Twelfth-night spirit, German and

Swiss, 214

Twelve-father child, Zyrian, 31 Two Dorgai of Muralug (Muralug

folk-tale), 180-181, 193 Two Travellers, "Midrash" version

of, 277-278

Tyrolese fairy punishment story, 214 ill-luck belief, 155

UG CHAN, female labour in, 365 Ukraine, husband choosing custom in, 471