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Gate, city: spirit dwells in, jatakas, 22

Gaul : {see also Arvernes ; a«af Nimes); bronze figure, 125; coins, 137-8; descent from god of Death, 125, 136 ; hammer symbol, 138 ; raven as symbol, 131 ; south, Egyptian cults in, 126

Gautama Buddha, see Buddha

Gawain, nephew of King Arthur, 37- 8, 42, 49, 52, 284, 286-90, 292-3, 298-9, 300, 302

Gaza-el-Maisi : sacred tree, 69

Gazelle : in folktale, Tibet, 20

Genealogies, recording, 105

Georgia : sprinkling infants with salt, 267

Germany : {see also Bavaria ; Bran- denburg ; Brunswick ; Elsass ; Frankisch - Henneberg ; Halle ; Hanover ; Hesse ; Mecklenburg ; Oldenburg ; Pfalz ; Prussia ; Rhenish Prussia; Saxony; Schles- wig-Holstein ; Silesia ; SwaVjia ; and Weser) ; ancient, baptismal rite in, 262-3, 265 ; eating in thunder- storm dangerous, 410; folktales, 192-3, 273-5 j ladybird brings babies' souls, 269 ; moon-spot legend, 279 ; north, — water sprites steal children, 275, 280 ; opening windows &c. to release soul, 215 ; rain charm, 277-8

Gesta Romanorum, 14, 17

Ghagarapen, bell god, 104

Ghosts : altering position of door keeps out, 369 ; Beresford ghost, 376 ; hanging up cart-wheel com- pels ghosts to run through all its ruts, Scandinavia, 369 ; laid by 12 parsons, Oxfordshire, 342 ; name not used in story, Jerusalem, 56 ; pretas in jatakas, 22 ; strewing flax-seed compels ghosts to count, Scandinavia, 366, 368-369 ; wor- shipped, jatakas, 22

Gilla Backer, folktale of, 27-35, 45-9

Gipsies : Journal of the Gypsy-Lore Society, short notice of, 360

Girls, see Women

Glamorgan, see Gower

Glarus, Canton of: portraiture not objected to, 84

Glastonbury : as Hades, 140 ; holy well, 266

Glen Cuaich : death of Fraoch, 26

Glendalough : burial of amputated limbs, 83

Glenmacnass : burial of amputated leg, 82-3

Glenties, dialect of, 120

Gloucester : 9 witches of, 458 j sorceresses in Grail romances, 294

Gloucestershire : {see also Clifton ; and Gloucester) ; opening windows &c. to release soul, 216

Goajiro clans : mourning custom, 400

Goat : amulets for, Palestine, 70 ; in animal cycle, China, 119; he-goat gives milk, Lemnos, 213 ; sacrificed, Corinth, 19, Ewe, 468, Palestine, 66-7, Sierra Leone Protectorate, 426

Goblins : in jatakas, 22

Goby : used in judicial proceedings and as love charms, Aristotle, 215

God : folktale to show need of in- voking, Palestine, 62-4 ; invoked on accident &c., Palestine, 56, 59, in bathing, Palestine, 61-2 ; not invoked at hot baths, Tiberias, 55

Gods, see Deity, conceptions of ; and tmder names of gods

Gold : apple, in folktale, 199 ; coin under threshold, Palestine, 58 ; cutting instruments, in folktale and rites, Greece, 26, Highlands, 26

Gold Coast : {see also Ewe tribe) ; relatives fast after death, 398

Goll of the Fianna, 30

Gonds : bell god, 104

Goodrich-Freer, Miss A., see Spoer, Mrs. H. H.

Goose : at ' The Carter's Race,' Scot- land, 337

Gooseberry bush : babies come from, 268

Goslar : suicides, burial customs for, 372

Go8eu, battle of, Welsh poem on,

143-5. 147

Goths : bathing rite, 264

Governal, in Tristan legends, 234

Gower: as Hades, 140

Grail, The, and the Rites of Adonis, by Miss J. L. Weston, 4, 7, 283-305

Graves : coffins mysteriously dis- turbed, Ahrensburg and Barbadoes, 376-90 ; dwelling p'.ace of living dead, Scandinavia, 367-8 ; holes to permit iiassage of dead, 367-8

Greek folklore : {see also Arcadia ; Attica; Boeotia; Corinth; Dorians; Elis ; Greek islands ; attd Phocis) ; ballad, 20 ; brothers, value attached to, 20 ; fasting, ceremonial, 392 \