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 Index.

521

Incantations, 230

Incendiarism to secure birth of son, Panjab, 392-3

Inclusae, or wall-dwelling holy women, 360

India, folklore of, {see Panjab), bridge crossed by soul after death, 349 ; cattle-switching and parallels, 180 ; Daitya demon, of, 173, Hadal demon, ib. ; infanticide of girl- babies and causes for, 436, 437 ; marriage customs in, 438, law of divorce, 409-10, the swayamvara, 429 ; sick children riding on bears, 155 ; Sati, 412 ; Yama, god of underworld, 301

" Infection theory " in Home of Eddie Poems, 455

Inheritance, modes of claiming, Indian folklore, 439

Initiatory ceremonies, {^see Bora), Indian folklore, 438-9

Insect folklore, Ants, 170, 215, riding- ants, 170; Beetles, 227 j Cricket, 416 ; Flies, 208 ; Lice, 196-7 ; Mosquitos, 208 ; Wasps, ib.; Witchetty-grub, 378

Instruction of Cuchullin, and parallels, 220

Inttchiuma ceremonies, Australia,

Invisibility, charm to secure, 171 ; in Indian folktales, 421

Invocation of saints, &c., India, 405, 420

Ireland, (see Cuchullin Saga) dangers of going out at night in, 122 ; The Couvade? 119; The Little Red Hen talc, 116, 361 ; death-warn- ing, 122, 248 ; Newts and asks, superstitions regarding, 251 ; size of fairies in, 360 ; Some Wexford Folklore, 362 ; tales, value of the older, 219; Starting a new House, 118 ; Traditions and Superstitions, Co. Louth, 119 ; war goddesses of, 455 ; white cattle of, 355

Iris, 302

Iron, {see Nails), 457, as charm against witchcraft, 364, dress and boots of, Greek tale, 501

Israelite ideas of God, 4, 5

Italy, {see Bologna, and Sicily), Holy Week Observance in the Abruzzi, III ; the Pesce Nicolo of Naples, 230 ; silence in mumming cere- monies of, 351 ;

Ithyphallic divinities, Scandinavia and

England, 482 Ivy worn by Summer in German sham

fights, 178 Izanagi and Izanami, Japanese gods

creation gods, 299, 300, 301, 304,

317, 318

Jack the Giant-Killer, oldest recorded form of tale, 242

Jalandhar, Saints of, 394

James, M. H., Cure for Ague, 365

Japan {see Mikados) dances of, 306, 307, divorce, in early myths, 301, houses set apart for birth, marriage and death, 300, 310-12; idols chained in, 420 ; washing of mourners, in, 302

Japanese Myth, by W. G. Aston,

294 ;

The Sacred books of Japan, 294 The Mythical Narrative, 297 The Place of Shinto in the Science of Religion, 313 Jar, unused, in Aeginetan lot custom,

155 Jaro, the sorcerer, Baloch hero, 393 Jay, {see also Blue Jay), in Australian

myths, 50 Jealousy, wifely, in Indian folk-tales,

423 Jephthah's daughter, Indian variant,

408 Jevons, F. B., The Place of Totemism

in the Evolution of Religion, 369 Jewel-spear, of heaven, Japan, proba- ble origin of, 299 Jewels, Kami, Ja]Dan, 317 ;

in myth, ib., 306

Jewish, {see also Israelite), search for

Moses, Cos, 176 Jimmu Tennij, first Mikado, date of,

294, his father, 312 Jones, Bryan J., Traditions and

Superstitions collected at Kilcurry

Co. Louth, {i/iap), with comments

by W. B. Yeats, 119 Judas, straw effigy of burned, Cos

etc., 178 Juno's lustration, Japanese parallel,

302

Kaffir metaphysician, a, 9 Kagura dances, Japan, 307 Kaleva, giant, legend of, 107 Kalevala, the, Abercromby on, 105 Kalevipoeg's stone-throwing, 107