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Index.

Rice's fort, Louth, legends of, 119-20 Riches in Indian folk-tales, 399, et

sqq. Riddles, Aiivergne, 334 ; as tasks,

India, 429 Riding-ants, used in charnm-potion,

170 Ritual the parent of myth, 19 River miracles, India, 399 Rivers and springs, haunted, 181 Robin Goodfellow, 360 Rocks, people changed into, 208, 213,

Rode Shah, Indian Saint, story of,

400 Rods, used in driving cattle and

horses, Hebrides, 262 Romantic revival of the i8th century,

84, its chief outcome, 85 Romans, traces of in barrows of

Bronze Age, 89, and in trenches,

95

Ronga version of the Tar Baby story, 289

Rope in butter charm, Wexford, 364 ; reaching to the sky, Baronga idea, 227

Ropes of twisted hemp and new scarlet silk as charm, 487

Rosary, Indian, origin of, 418

Roscommon, belief in water-horses in, 123

Rose water in love philtre, 170

Roses in Sicilian processions, 253

Ros na Rig, Irish tale, 452

R.ouse, W. ri. D., Christmas Mum- mers at Rugby, {ill.), 186 ; Folk- lore from the Southern Sporades, 150

Rowan i^see Mountain Ash) twigs in water-finding, 479

Rubies, in Indian folklore, origin ascribed to, 437-8

Rugby, Christmas Mummers at, W. H. D. Rouse, {ill.), 186

Russia, (see also Finland), favour- able field for folklore study, 80

Sacred books of Japan, 294

cattle, Damara land, 371, 377

objects, Australia, 383

pools India, 419

spring of Vatna's church, Nor- way, French parallel, 460

thread, India, (5^^ a/j-<7 Buarach),

oaths made on, 409

Sacred tree, Cos, in cure of sick child,

181, of Japan, 306 Sacrifice, Animal, in Denmark, 360,

in Greek Isles, 177, in Sicily,

(modern), 253, in Scotland, 353 compounded for by fines, early

Japan, 306, 308

human, funeral in Egypt, 229,

in Greek legend, 40, foundation, 183 ; in Panjab, 392

to totems, 374

Sacrificial feasts, influence of, 371 Saint Allpitiful, 168

Andrew's Day, cakes laid on

graves on, Calymnos, 180-I

Austin's Well, Cerne, curative

properties of, 479, showing faces of those about to die, at Easter, 4S0

Bride's genealogy, recited against

Evil Eye, 261 Brigid, well etc., of, Kilcurry,

121

Columba, the patron of cattle,

Hebrides, 262 ; his sister, 271-2 his day, 267

Columba's armpit, plant, 275

Cosmas, 16S

Culhbert, bulls sacrificed to,

353

Damian, 168

Dominic's church, Bologna,

body of saint half-encased in pillar

at, 361

Dunstan, 476

Eustace, Finnish form of, 329

Gabriel's altar on the tower of

St. Gall, 359

Gall, monastery, towers of, 359

George, 169, in Warwickshire

mumming, 187, et sqq.

Geraud's porch, wraiths seen at

on All Souls, 333

John, invoked in charm against

half-head monster, 172

Baptist, invoked against

sunstroke, 166 ; why potent against ague, 165

Day, and Eve, water and

fire customs on, in Cos, 17S-9

Eve, Aeginetan custom of

the lot on, 155 : spirits go to Buck- land church, 481

v»ort, lucky plant, Hebrides,

275

Laurence and the Wind, wide

diffusion of tale in France etc., 334