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Index.

Easter Monday : well custom, Hesse, 279

Eastertide : {see also Easter Day ; atid Easter Monday) ; church-ale, Wilts, 341 ; hare's eggs sought, Penn., 357 ; pace-egging songs, 358

Eating : abstention from food or particular foods at special times and places, see Fasting ; dangerous in thunderstorm, Germany, 410 ; only in sunlight, India and Coast Salish Indians, 411

Ecclesiastes, Book of: as related to Celtic Triads, 225

Eclipse : caused by 7 evil spirits. Babylonia, 416; earthen vessels broken after, India, 410 ; fasting at, India, 410, Jews, 411; Pfalz, 410

Editor : short notices by, — Grumbine's Folklore and Supe?'stitious Beliefs of Lebanon Cotmty [Pennsylvania), 356-7 ; The Imperial Gazetteer of India, The Indiati E7npire, vol. /, 355-6 ; Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vol. Ill, Part I, 358-60; Journal of the Gypsy- Lore Society, 360 ; Gerish's The Mayers and their Song, 357 ; Sociological Papers, vol. II, 354-5

Eel : conger's blood makes hair grow, Greek islands, 330 ; in folktale, 17-S ; produced from "entrails of earth," Aristotle, 214

Eggs : divination by, Khasis, 242 ; not set to hatch same month, Greek islands, 331 ; of stork good for ophthalmia, Greek islands, 329

Egypt : {see also Alexandria ; Cairo ; Nile ; Osiris ; Sais ; Soudan ; and Thebes) ; Wiedemann's Altagyp- tische Sagen und Mairhett reviewed, 416-8 ; ancient, — carving of ibex, 213 ; closely connected with Gaul, 126; cycle of 12 animals, 119; fasting, ceremonial, 393 ; festivals, 223; folktales, 1 16-8; revenge image, 67 ; sacrifices, 393-4 ; upper, child ceremonially bathed, 261, 264

Elaine, daughter of King Pelles, 293

Elatus river: cured sterility, 271

El Chadr, see Elijah ; and St. George

Elema : All Father belief, 468

Elephant : in folktale, Africa, 239-40 ; Ganesh, e. deity, India, 271

Elijah : cave of, Mt. Carmel, 69 ; in- voked in bathing, Palestine, 61-2

Elis, see Olympia

Elsass : " lavandieres de nuit," 1 1 1

Elysium, see Hades

Emer, wife of Cuchulainn, 44-5, 133, 143. 448

England : {see also Britain ; Mercia ; Midlands ; and under names of counties) ; ballads, 470-2 ; county folklore, 9 ; Shore's Origin of the Anglo-Sa.xon Race reviewed, 351- 3 ; English and Scottish lopular Ilallads, edited by Sargent and Kittredge, reviewed, 470-2

Entlebuch : human scapegoat, 434

Eochaid Echbel of Alba, 148

Epilepsy : caused by devil, Palestine,

71 Erechtheus, King, j-^i?King Erechtheus Ermeric, saga of, 118 Ermine skins worn by Armenian

clergy, 432-3 Errol : mistletoe cut by Hays, 26 Esclados le Ros, in story of Iwain, 36,

46, 52 Eshton : St. Helen's well custom, 257 Eskimo : mourning customs, 406 ;

social organization by districts, 95-

6, and varies with seasons, 96-101 ;

song duel, 98; string games, 113 Essex, see St. Osyth's well Esthonia : {see also Oesel) ; marriage

custom, 270 Etain, folktale of, 227 Etruscans : mallet symbol of infernal

deity, 137 Eucharist : fasting before receiving, 393 European Sky-God, The : The Celts,

VIII, by A. B. Cook, 24-53 Eve, jinns descend from, Palestine, 71 Evil eye : amulets against, Greek

islands, 330, Italy, 189, Morocco,

250, 355, Palestine, 70 ; block for

printing amulets, 250 ; influence on

social relationships, 355 Evil spirits, see Demons and evil spirits Evolution of Culture, The, and Other

Essays, by Lt.-Gen. A. L. F. Pitt

Rivers, reviewed, 217-20 Ewe tribe : Mawu, hymn and sacrifice

to, 468 Exhibits at meetings, 7, 249-50, 362-3 Exogamy : Australia, 307-8 ; Gallas,

323. Eye diseases : hymns as charms for,

Connaught, 348 ; storks' eggs for,

Greek islands, 329 ; treated at wells,

England, 253-4 Eyrbyggja saga, 370- 1