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Index.

Harz Mountains, squirrel hunted, Easter, 251

Hatav, see Avezuha

Haunted house freed by bread and salt, Cairo, 389

Hawk, clan of Wyandot Indians, 192 ; encouraged to nest on house to pro- tect, S. Germany, 244 ; sacrificed to Woden, 84

Hawk moth, see Moth

Hay harvest, removal from farm- house to upland shieling at, Bedd Gelert, 424

Head of corpse placed between legs, Iceland, Sardinia, and Venice,

413 ..

Head of sacrificed animal specially sacred, 249

Headless ghost, Wiltshire, 347

Hebrew charms against Lilith, 148-50, 155-7

Hebrew legends adapted in Cairene folktales, 378-9

Hebrew synagogue music, 418

Hebrides, see Lewis ; and South Uist

Hebrides, Folklore from the, IV., by M. MacPhail, 439-50

Hedgehog, caught before St. George's Day, 255

Heimdallr, cult of tribal origin, 295

Helensburgh, touching dead, 210

Heligoland, local cult, 295

Helwan, afrit does mischief, 390 ; afrit made to fish by blind school- master, 391 ; afrit takes form of sheep as trap, 391-2 ; festival of Abu Sirya, 393 ; ginna seen near, 388 ; hidden treasure, 385-6 ; palm- tree haunted by afrit of man who fell from it, 389 ; springs at, folk- tale of, 378

Hemicrania, cure for, Secunderabad, 218

Hen, dies with owner, Thuringia, 237 ; eaten ceremonially, Lithu- ania, 260 ; feathers not used in beds, 243 ; The Little Red Hen, 106

Herda, crow or magpie nailed in stable, 255

Heremod, son of Woden, 86-7

Herod, in Russian charm, 154

Herring, sacrificed, 254

Hertfordshire, see Barnet.

Hesse : i^see also Bingen ; and Wet- terau) ; animal ancestors, 233-4 ; stags' heads as gable ornaments, 322

Hessen-Nassau, sec Ausbach.

Hidden treasure, see Treasure, hidden

Hide of tiger cat assumed to obtain dreams, Borneo, 177

Highlands : {see also Argyllshire ; Ross-shire ; and Sutherlandshire) ; hymns and incantations orally col- lected in, 419-21 ; superstitions orally collected in, 422-3

Himalaya tribes, sister mart age among, 405

Hind, see Deer

Hindostan, see India

Hindu Rush, ceremonial fights, 19

Hindu Notes, by M. N. Venka- taswami, 218-9

Hledra in Seeland, sanctuary at, 83

Iloli feast in India, 18, 218

Holland, popular month-names in, 209

Holm (Lewis), fairy dog's tooth heals or sets house on fire, 450-2

Holstein, animal ancestors, 234 ; carp eaten, Christmas, 259 ; first bee seen killed and put in purse, 254 ; greasy pig caught, 251-2 ; pigeon sacrificed, 253

Holy Virgin, in Greek folktale, 453 ; in Rumanian charms, 129-32

Holy water, sprinkled on horses &c. before beginning spring ploughing, S. Uist, 439

Holy Week, gardening prospers in, Dorset, 112

Honie7-ic Hymns, The ; A New Prose Translation, and Essays, Literary and Mythological, by A. Lang, reviewed, 198-200

Hopi Indians, beliefs and customs of, 225

Horn of snake, as charm for snake- bite and newly-wedded, Cyprus, 120-5 ; Cos, 321

Hornchurch, horns as gable orna- ments, 322

Horns as gable ornaments, 322

Horns of Honour, and other Studies in the By-ways of Archaology, by F. T. Elworthy, reviewed, 402

Horse, black, of archangel Alichael, in Rumanian charm, 131-2 ; carried in procession, 258 ; cured by white witch, Devon, 215 ; head as gable ornament, 265, 322-3 ; human being as, 236 ; in folktales, 204 ; killed by water drop in ear, Cairo, 380 ;