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Index.

omens from, Ireland, 462, Jamaica,

93. 211,453. 455

Hephxstion, funeral pyre of, 392

Hera, myths of, 294, 301

Heraclea Pontica : Heracles planted oaks at Zeus' altar, 296 ; month called Apellaios, 420

Heracles, myths of, 279, 296-8, 301, 377-8, 393-4, 401-2,422

Heraclidae, return of to Peloponnesus, 289

Hercules, see Heracles

Herefordshire : customs, 221

Hermes : on coins and gems, 285 ; myths of, 279, 305; statues in Cera- micus &c., 284; two or three headed, 285, 290; "the very- leafy," 418

Herois solemnity, Delphi, 402, 406-8

Heron: myth of origin of, Greeks, 388

Herring fishing, see Fishing

Hertfordshire: relative nigrescence in,

234

Hervey islands, see Cook islands

Hestia, goddess of hearth, 311

Hiccup, charm against, Jamaica, 454

Hills: [see also under names); god of, Korea, 449

Hilo, in Hawaiian folktale, 217

Himalayan dialects, 222

Himalia the nymph, the story of, 26S

Hindi dialect, (Western), 222

Hindostan, see India

Hindus, see India

Hippodamia, story of, 38 1 -2, 388

Hippomenes, story of, 380

Hippomenes the Codrid, 397

Hippothous, King, see King Hip- pothous

Hlonipa or avoidance customs,amongst Kafirs, 226

Hog, see Pig

Holy Maul story, Guernsey, 123

Holy trees, see Trees in folklore

Holy wells, see Wells

Horn, fetish, as life-index. Upper Congo, 327-8

Horns: Ijurnt to free haunted house, Jamaica, 207; as mementoes of bull- running, Stamford, 202

Horse : ass with horse's feet, parish nickname, Guernsey, 123 ; blue necklaces &c., Jerusalem, 189 ; bridle in charm against mumps, Ireland, 460 ; charm to prevent winning race, Jamaica, 206, and to stop, Jamaica, 455 ; foal born on

Whit Monday buried, Louth, 347 ; in folktales, Gaels, 62, Somalis, 317-8, 326 ; imitated in charm against mumps, Ireland, 460; man- devouring, Greeks, 388; one head of fiend. Tibet, 95 (fi/ate) ; " three foot horse " a duppy, Jamaica, 90- 1, 211 ; white horses draw Olympic victor, 400

Horse-shoe : in charm against evil eye, Ireland, 458 ; keeps duppy away, Jamaica, 90, 456

Hottentots : Kidd's T/ie Essential Kafir reviewed, 224-6

Hound, see Dog

House : {^see also Threshold) ; adding to causes death, Jamaica, 207 ; hand of might in blue on front, Jerusalem, 189; omen from cracking of, Jamaica, 210, or piecing of, Jamaica, 453 ; uninhabited, spirits warned before entering, Jamaica, 456

How to choose a wife, Somali folk- tale, 323-4

Hull, Miss Eleanor: The Story of Deirdre, in its bearing on the Social Development of the Folk- tale, I, 24-39; review by, — Miss Faraday's The Cattle-raid of Cualnge, 235-8

Human bones, see Bones, human

Hungary, see Mag}'ars

Hunting : omen of, Jamaica, 455 ; times and observances taught, Maoris, 18

Hurdle: as witch's horse, Monmouth- shire, 80

Huts of dead destroyed, Basutos, 258

Hyaena : in folktale, Somalis, 324

Hyperippe, myth of, 389

lasus, son of Cory thus, 301 Ibadan : royal succession in, 98 Icarius, father of Penelope, 380 Ida, Mount, see Idaean cave Idaean cave : myths of, 389, 395 ;

poplar, 298 Iliad, conception of Zeus in, 265 Ilderton : {see also Roddam) ; bridal

party locked into church, and lifted

over ' stone,' 341-2 Ilex : branch in harvest custom, Kent,

464 Ilium, see Troy Illyria, see Ambracia : aiid Apollonia