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503

St Madron's well : cures children's

diseases, 255, 258 St Maree, 33 St Mourie, see St Maree St Modwen, legend of, 258 St Osyth's well, 258 St Patrick : converts King Laeghaire,

147-S, 446; 'Lorica' hymn as

charm, 348 ; recalls Cuchulainn

from hell, 147-8, 446 ; shamrock

illustration, 225 St Patrick's Purgatory, 164 St Pirian, 265 St Roch, 190 {plate) St Serf or Servanus, 33-4 St Shear, 34 St Stephen's Day : hunting of wren,

Roscommon, 438-9 Sais : night festival at, 222-3 Sakai tribes : 453-4 ; religion, 454 Sakka, see Indra Salii, Roman : in annual scapegoat

ceremony, 434 Salish Indians, see Stlatlumh Indians Salmon : not eaten or approached by

mourners, British Columbia, 487 ;

in folktale, Wales, 448 Salt : averts evil, Palestine, 70 ;

sprinkling infants with, Armenia

&c., 267 Samaritans : {see also Nablus) ; defiled

by touching dead, 75 ; Passover

lamb curative, 75-6 Sammael, jinns descend from, Pales- tine, 71 Samoa : mourning customs, 399, 404,

406-7 Sanchi, carvings at, 13 Sanctuary : Arician tree as, 90-1 ; Bu

Jpri bush. Lower Niger, 90 Sandan, deity of Tarsus, 221-2 Sandon-Hercules of Lydia, 223 Sandur State : feast to rain god, Sept. ,

331-2 Sardanapalus, YJvc\^,see King Sardana-

palus Sardinia : folktale, 193 Sarmad the Armenian, 431-2 Satan, see Devil Savage Childhood: a Study of Kafir

Children, by D. Kidd, reviewed,

343-6 Saxony, see Dresden Scall-crow, see Raven Scandinavia : {see also Denmark ;

Norway ; and Sweden) ; bathing

rite, 264-5 ; folktales, 192 ; funeral

customs, 366-73 ; future life, beliefs about, 366-70

Scania, see Skaane

Scanno : costume of, 189

Scapegoat : camel as, Armenia, 433-4 ; human, Armenia and Rome, 434

Scath, see Scathach

Scathach,-Land of, 143, 148

Schinonte, underground being, Olden- burg, 275

Schleswig-Holstein, see Amrum island

Schwabien, see Swabia

Scissors : laid open on corpse, Scan- dinavia, 366, 368

Scorpion : bite averted by tree gum, Greek islands, 329

Scotland: {see also '?>x\\si\Ti.; Hebrides; Highlands ; Orkney islands ; Shet- land islands ; atid under nafnes of cozinties) ; ballads, 470-2 ; barbar- ous sports, 336-7 ; Borders, opening windows &c. to release soul, 216; as Hades, 140 ; children's wells, 255 ; north-east, opening windows &c. to release soul, 215-6; whistl- ing dangerous in haunted places, 70

Scythe : used by baby-giver, 268

Sea beliefs and customs : {see also Mermaid beliefs ; and Merman beliefs) ; chanties, 358 ; crests of waves the horses of Manannan, 140 ; fish the cattle of the sea, 133 ; gods of sea, Celts, 142 ; meaning of Tethra, 133 ; sea the plain of Tethra, 133; "sea-wife" in German tale,

274-5

Searbhan Lochlannach, 32-4, 47, 52

Secretary, election of, 5

Secret societies : Sierra Leone Pro- tectorate, 362-3, 423-7 {plate)

Secret Societies and Fetishism in Sierra Leone, by A. R. Wright, 423-7 {plates)

Seine Inferieure, see Fescamp

Sejour des Morts, Le, suivant la Mythologie Celtique, by H. d'Arbois de Jubainville, 339-40, and com- ment by A. I\utt, 445-8

Seligmann, Dr. C. G. : Some Notes from New Guinea, 251

Selkirkshire, see Carterhaugh wood

Semang tribes : 453-4 ; funeral rites, 455-6 : religion, 454 ; soul provided for unborn child, 455 ; thunder god,

45.4-5 Seminole Indians: mourning customs, 406