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533

Son, importance of possessing to

Indian people, 392, 393 "Son of God," birth of, Australian

folklore, 53 Songs of the Baronga, 321-2 ■ in divination by water, Cos,

178-9 Sore eyes, cured in St. Austin's Well,

Ccrne, 479 Sorrow, signs of, Indian folklore,

439 Soothsayers, penances for, 152 Sorcerers, North American belief in,

21 Soul crossing bridge after death, 349 ;

inhabiting totem after death, 375,

or animal, 376 of newly dead person, its travels,

121, 123 Southern Sporades, Folklore from, by

W. H. D. Rouse, 150 South Lodge Camp, excavations in,

88, 91 Space-overcoming, Indian folklore,

419

Spain, Basque provinces, silence in munnning ceremonies in, 351 ; con- querors of, 230

Spear, copper-headed magic, 211, 212; magic of Keito, 330

Speech of creatures, Indian folktales, 416, and of things, 417

Spell cast into the sea, 160, shot out of gun, ib. ,

Spinning, when wrong to do, Hebrides, 268, in Styria, 361

— — wheel, band of, removed at times of death, Hebrides, 260 ; blessing of, ib..

Spirits, of the dead in Japanese myths, 321-2 ; Great, and those bound by Solomon, 162 ; guardian, Japanese myth, 309, 320 ; newly dead, long travels of, 121, 123; possession by, Indian folklore, 422;

Spiritualistic seance among native Australian women, 492

Spitting, virtues of, Japanese folklore,

3". 313

Spittle for infant lustration, 229

Split man demon, 171

Sporades, Southern, see Southern Sporades, supra.

" Sqaktktquaclt," or the Benign- faced, the Cannes of the Ntlaka- pamuq, British Columlaa, by C. Hill-Tout, 19s

Staffordshire, the Horn Dance in, 186

Stairway to the sky, American Indian tale, 344-5

Starr, Prof F., address by, on Folk- lore of Mexico, 444, dinner to and presentation to, 445, Mexican objects presented by, 66

Staves in Demon-expelling New Year Ceremony, Japan, 321

Steel, see Iron, and Knife

Stepmother in Indian folktales, 424

Sterility, white bulls sacrificed in ceremonies to cure, 355

Sticks carried in a circle, 154

Stolen things found by means of Holy Bread, 154

Stone, black bound on forehead, to give strength, 179 ; as substitute used by the Little Red Hen, 361

Stones and rocks, the crystal rock of Baiame, 19, 51-2, 55 ; Esthonian legend of boulders, 107 ; in witch- craft, Hebrides, 270

Storm-making to punish thief, 227

Straw effigies of Judas burnt at and near Easter, 178 ; torches of, to scare witches from crops, loi ; worn by Winter in German sham fight, 178

Sturgeon, 202

Styria, folklore of, days forbidden for spinning and washing, 361

Submarine church, near old Con- stantinople, 230

Suffolk folklore {see Bury St. Edmunds), Black Dog, the, of Bungay, 476 ; Cure for Ague, 365

Sufi Ahmad of Jalandhar, open and secret miracles of, 402

Suicide, ceremonial, to injure enemies, Indian folklore, 442 ; by drowning, the origin of seals, 460

Summer and Winter, fights between, Germany, 178

Sun, sex of, 300, 303 ; theft of, 107

Sun-goddess of Japan, 300, 303, 315, 319, 320, and Susa no wo, 304 et S(]q., 318

Sun-worship in Egypt, 231 ; in Indian folklore, 440 ; in Shintoism, 297, of Tartar tribes, ib.

Sun and Moon, creation of, Japanese myth of, 302

Sunday, as birthday, old German augury, 116, rhyme on, 349 ; the second in September, festival on,