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Index.

Thursday, luckiest day in week, Egypt, 394

Tiger, attendant of mountain spirit, Korea, 328 ; those killed by tigers become tiger spirits, Korea,

331

Tiger cat, skin worn for luck in war, Borneo, 177

Tiha, see Avezuha

Tin ore, Malay spirit of and taboos connected with mining, 305, 308

Tipperary, weasel hunted, 255

Tirol, animals' heads as gable orna- ments, 322 ; killing swallow kills parents, 237 ; magpie, snake, spider, and toad respected, 241 ; raven taken for medicine, March, 255 ; toad killed and hung in stable, July-August, 255

Tit, respected locally, 242 ; killed, Pays rouchi, 256

Titus, Emperor, Hebrew legend of death of : Cairene adaptation, 378

Toad, caught before St. George's Day, 255 ; first seen killed, Berne, 254; form of soul, Germany, 235 ; human being as, 236 ; kept captive for luck, Sicily, 244 ; killed, Or- tenau, 256 ; killed and hung in stable, July-August, Tirol, 255 ; as life index, 237 ; respected locally, 241 ; sacrificed, 254 ; transfixed and hung in stable, Lechrain, 255 ; transfixed and stuck on dunghill locally, 255 ; transformed human being, Sicily, 236 ; used for ill- wishing and fortune- telling, Devon,

215

Tobacco, sacrificed by Esquimaux, 172

Tom Tit Tot, true catastrophe of, 205

Tom Tram, his adventures ascribed to Grettir, 407

Toothache Well, Duneistein (Lewis), 445-6

Totemism and Some Recent Dis- coveries, (Presidential Address), by E. S. Hartland, 52-80

Totemism, Animal Superstitions and, by N. W. Thomas, 227-67

Totemism : amongst Arunta, C. Australia, 65-7, 69-77 ; amongst Bella Coola Indians, 301 ; amongst Hopi, 225 ; amongst Indians of N.W. Canada, 58-64, 67-9; dis- cussed by E. S. Hartland, 5880,

and R. R. Marett, 176-7 ; in Europe, 227-67 ; no trace amongst Thompson Indians, British Colum- bia, 397-8

Towednack, " cuckoo's feast," 260

Toys, Hopi, 225

Treasure, hidden, in Egypt, 385-6 ; in Korean mountains, 330

Trees in folklore : {see also Cedar ; Fruit-trees ; Moduga trees ; Oak tree ; Olive tree ; Pine tree ; Plane tree ; Rag-tree ; ««r/ Willow tree) ; masks swung from, to promote fertility, 24 ; sacred, 29, 82 ; World-Tree, 82-5 ; worshipped in Korea, 326

Trikka, healing spring at, 89

Trustees of Folk-Lore Society, 41, 46

Tristram romance, incidents borrowed for Grettis Saga, 406-7

Tsimshian Indians, clan legend of, 60

Tubingen, sunwise procession near, 220

Tuesday : {see also Shrove Tuesday) ; unlucky for Cairene marriage or wedding breakfast, 381

Tug-of-war in Magh funeral rites, 19

Turndun, Australian deity, discussed,

173

Turtle People, original name of Wyandots, 192

Twelfth Day, blackbird pie, Corn- wall, 259

Twins, souls of, pass into cats on death, Cairo, 392

Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Child-stealing Witch, by M. Gaster, 129-62

Tyrol, see Tirol

Ukraine, peasant arithmetic and

geometry, 428 Ullr, god and priest-king, 284-5 '■>

cult of tribal origin, 295 Umbilical cord, administered to

babies for flatulency, Ross-shire,

445.

Unbaptized children, buried after sunset, Argyll and Ross, 444 ; nick- names given, island of Lewis, 444

Unborn children, how sex deter- mined, Cairo, 381

Unchurched women, taboo on, Calymnos, 221

Underworld, see Hades