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Rice, sacrificial, Malays, 137-8, 145,

Rice harvest customs and beliefs : Ceylon, 77-9 ; Malays, 159-63

Rice Harvest and other Customs in Ceylon, by R. J. Drummond, 77-9> 277-8

Rice spoon : dancing, Malays, 142-3, 164 ; defence against evil, Malays, 164

Rice-throwing at weddings, 237

Riddles : Kennet Valley, 421

Rievaux : St. Ailred, 217

Right foot first : by newly-married at threshold, 241

Rinds, Balochi tribe, 254-5, 257, 259, 274

Ring swung to divine thief, Malays, 144, 156-7

Ringworm classed with leprosy by Hebrews, 218

Ripon ; ' lifting ' custom, 250

Rivers and streams {see also under names) ; Madu Sami, river god, Ceylon, 77 ; possession flowing down river brings owner prosperity, Ceylon, 78 ; water taken annually at sunrise for temples, Kandy, TJ-2)

Rivers, W. H. R., The Sister's Son in Samoa, 199

Road gods : Madu Sami, Ceylon,

77

Rochester : St. Ithamar, 214

Roe-deer, see Deer

Rohtak : name of son born after three girls, 66 ; rites on such birth, 67

Rollright Stones : difficult to count, 293 ; go down hill to drink, 292 ; legend of, 292 ; marriage oracles, 235 ; had to be returned, if re- moved, 293 ; unlucky to injure, 293 ; witchcraft near, 290

Romans, ancient : bride entered hus- band's familia, 208 ; influence on English village system, 98-9 ; Lupercalia, 25

Romsey Abbey : collection of saints' lives, 214

Rook : as village sobriquet, 386

Rope of straw in charm to avert cattle disease, N. India, 189

Roscoe, J., The Collection of Folk- lore, 312-3

Rose, H. A., Unlucky and Lucky Children, and some Birth Super- stitions, 278-80 ; Unlucky Chidren, 3, 63-8, 197-8 ; Yew, 201

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Rosemary : flowers on Christmas Eve, St. Briavel's, 174 ; grows well where mistress is master, St. Bria- vel's, 174

Rose-rash, cure for, Hebrides, 56

Rose-tree : wild, gall from frees from toothache, St. Briavel's, 173

Ross-shire, see Gairloch

Rothbury : bride &c. jumped over "petting stone," 227-8, and black- mailed by tying church door, 22S, 231

Rouen : St. Mello, 213

Roumania : proverbs, 11 1-2

Rubber, see India-rubber

Rumsey: St. Efleda, 216

Russia, see Esthonia ; and Finland

Sacrament bread, see Host, sacred

Sacred images or stones, see Images, sacred ; and Stones

Sacrifice : after ' trikhal ' birth, Hoshiarpur, 66 ;

animal : — Benin, 440 ; black cock, for epilepsy, Hebrides, 56 ; goat at " long ju-ju," Niger delta, 167-9; goat at shrine of Baloch saints, 263 ; during operation of charm to avert cattle disease, N. India, 190 ; for souls of dead, Japan, 276-7 ; human : — at Beltane, Ilebrides, 41; Benin, 439 ; of firstborn, He- brews, 218, India, 63 ; at "long ju-ju," Niger delta, 168-9; in magical rites, Malays, 137-8, 145, 152 ; to devil, rice harvest, Ceylon, 278; to Hanuman, N.W. India, 188

Sagen ans dem alien Irland, by R. Thurneysen, reviewed, iio-i

Sahara Desert, Myths Current in the, by W. J. H. King, 284-8

Sailors' beliefs and customs, see Sea beliefs and customs

St Albans : Ss. Alban and Amphi- balus, 213

St. Andrew's Day : in saying, Heb- rides, 38

St. Briavel, Cornish king, and hermit, 171

St. Briavel's (Glouc. ) : folklore notes from, 1 14-5, 170-7

St. Brigid : in casting frith, Heb- rides, 47-8 ; in folklore of Heb- rides, 39 ; in Hogmany rhyme, Hebrides, 46