Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 11, 1900.djvu/514

 492

Index.

Salop, see Shropshire

Salt and bread free haunted house, Cairo, 389

Salt and water sprinkled over horses, &c., before beginning spring plough- ing, Hebrides, 439

Salt, used against witchcraft, Dorset, 108

Samca, see Avezulia

Salmon, catching of, taught by an- cestor of bear clan, Tsimshian Indians, 60

Samyos, in Syriac charm, 15 1

Sandwich islands, sacred stones, 174

Sankarshana, see Krishna

Sardine, buried, Spain, 245 ; carried in procession, 258

Sardinia, head of criminal's corpse " thigh-forked," 413

Satan, in Russian charm, 155

Satanael, in Russian charm, 155

Satrina, see Lilith

Saturday, unlucky for Cairene marriage or wedding breakfast, 381

Savoy, localisation of Arthur's fight with the demon cat, 414-6

Saxony ; {see also Chemnitz ; Dres- den ; Linda ; and Niederlausitz) ; goose sacrificed, 253

Sayce, A. H., Cairene Folklore, 354- 95 ; review by, A, S. Palmer's Studies on Biblical Subjects, No. II., Jacob at Bethel, 1 96-8

Scalds, cured by tongue which has touched caterpillar, Hebrides, 448

Scandinavia : {see also North Cape ; Norway ; and Sweden) ; wood- pecker transformed human being, 236

Schlei fjord, gulls hunted, July 23rd, 251

Schleswig : {sec also Schlei ; and Sylt) ; first bee killed and put in purse, 254 ; carp eaten, Christmas, 259; greasy pig caught, 251-2; pigeon sacrificed, 253

Schonhirde (Boh.), white mouse respected, 241

Scorcoila, see Avezuha

Scotland : {see also Argyllshire ; Arran ; Hebrides ; Kircudbright- shire; Perthshire ; Ross-shire'; Rox- burghshire ; Shetland ; and Suther- landshire) ; fish tabooed locally, 243 ; hymns and incantations orally collected in the Highlands and islands, 419-21 ; superstitions orally

collected in the Highlands and islands, 422-3 ; totem clans, 232 ; wren respected, 242

North-east, cat respected locally,

239 ; magpie respected, 241 ; lark, rook, and wild duck tabooed, 242 ; yellowhammer killed, 255-6

West, butterfly respected, 239 ;

superstitions orally collected, 422 ; touching corpse, 210 ; white butter- fly fed, 244

Sea bathing on Ascension Day,

Calymnos, 221 Sea-beast in Greek folktale, 113, 115

Sea beliefs and customs : sea becomes sweet on Ascension Day, Calymnos, 221 ; burial of the dead horse, 434

Sea demon, original of demon cat with which Arthur fought, 415

Sea songs, English, 418-9

Sea spirit, Korean sacrifice to, 332

Seal : appears as man once a year, Faroe Islands, 236 : clan in W. Ireland and Scotch islands, 232-3 ; descended from drowned persons, Ru'gen, 235 j respected in Ireland, 242

Sea-swallow, respected locally, 241

Sebillot, P., plan for bibliography of P'rench folklore, 430-3

Secunderabad : the bug, saying of, 218; child never shown looking- glass, 218 ; cure for hemicrania, 218; Hanuman and the pariahs and moduga trees, 218 ; Holi feast, 218 ; monkeys once men, 218 ; marriage customs, 219 ; nursery song, 219

Seeland and cult of Niord, 83

Segnius Ii-ritant, or Eight Primitive Folklore Stories, by W. W. Strick- land, reviewed by M. G., 313-4

Seligmann, C. G., The Bull-roarer in Ceylon, 456

Semitic month names, 209

September, weasel killed for magic, Mecklenburg, 255

Seriphos, swinging customs, 23

Serpent, see Snake

Seventh son, cures king's evil, Hebrides, 448

Sex of children, how determined, Cairo, 381

Shadow not to fall in foundation trench of house, Calymnos, 221

Shakspeare's Greenwood, by G. Mor ley, reviewed, 424-5