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506 String Figures, by Mrs. C. F. Jayne, reviewed, 112-6

String games, 112-6, 325-9

Succubi: Syrians, 61

Suffolk, see Acton; and Staunton

Suicides: burial customs for, Scandinavia &c., 369-70, 372-4; in mysteriously disturbed vaults, Ahrensburg, 378, 385, Barbadoes,

Sumatra: (see also Nias; and Tjumba); bathing, ritual, 264

Sun: burning deity's effigy as spell, 221; eating only done in sunlight, India, 411, or when sun well risen. Coast Salish Indians, 411; eclipse of, see Eclipses; fasts in honour of, Harranians, 414-5, Manichaeans, 415; feminine, Irish and Old Welsh, 49; in folktale, Khasis, 242; Gawain as, 49; Lieu the sun god, 143; Lugh the sun god, Ireland, 131; masculine, Anglo-Norman, 49; Melkart as sun god, 127, 221-2; Osiris as sun, 222-3; Sais festival as sun spell, 222-3; Sandan as sun god, 222; Vedic Mahavrata a sun spell, 223; worshipped, India and Coast Salish Indians, 411

Sunday: fast on, Manichaeans, 415-6; first 3 in May, children dipped in St Madron's well, 255; well water drunk, Eshton, 257

Sunnerbo: suicides, burial customs for, 372

Sunrise: breaks spells, jātakas, 21; worship at, Barotse, 239

Sunset: worship at, Barotse, 239

Sunwise: Hallowe'en circuit of fields, Braemar, 85

Supplementary Notes on Cat's Cradle and String-Tricks, by W. Innes Pocock, 325-329

Surrey: as Hades, 140

Sussex: opening windows &c. to release soul, 216

Sutherlandshire: corp creagh, 67

Swabia: suicides, burial customs for, 373

Swahili: word moshi, 238

Swallow: eyes grow again after piercing, Aristotle, 215

Sweden: (see also Mälmohuus; Scania; and Vestergötland); folk-tales, 192-5, 197-200, 202-6; gates on corpse's road to churchyard hung upside down, 369; river spirits, 266

Sweeping: sweepings not thrown out at night, Greek islands, 331

Swine, see Pig

Switzerland: (see also Glarus, Canton of; Grisons, Canton of; Lucerne, Canton of; and Vaud, Canton of); "lavandières de nuit," 111

Swords: of Tethra, 132-3

Sycamore fig tree: jinn lives in, Palestine, 70; votive offerings, Palestine, 70

Sycamore-tree: in ''Livre d'Artus', 52

Sylvanus: assimilitates local deities, Gaul, 126, 139; mallet as symbol, 137

Synteng country: matriarchy, 241

Syria: (see also Beirut; Hamath; and Maronites); bewitched child drinks from 7 wells, 256; incubi and succubi, 61

Taboos: Eskimo, 96; Greek islands, 330; in jātakas, 22; Khasis, 242; Mendiland, 362; mourning, Greenland &c., 400-2; at puberty, British Columbia &c., 408-9

Tadg mac Céin, 229

Tahiti: mourning customs, 407

Táin bó Cuailgne, 138, 230-1, 446-7

Taise, daughter of King of Greece, 30-1, 46, 48

Taliessin, poem of, 145

Talmud, legend of, 72

Tamarisk-tree: leaves cure headache, Greek islands, 329; planted by Abraham, Beersheba, 69; sacred or haunted, Palestine, 70

Tamils: bullocks worshipped, Pongal day, 334

Tam Lin, ballad of, 89

Tammuz, the deity, 289, 295

Tanganyika, Lake, see Ubwari

Tara; contest of king with St. Patrick, 348.

Taranis, see Taranus

Taranus: associated with thunder, 137; Gaulish god, 139-40

Tarsus: burning of Sandan's effigy, 221

Tattooing: Malay tribes, 455

Tees river: spirit, 258, 274

Teigue, son of Cian, vision of, 164-5

Terebinth-tree: not sacred, Palestine, 70