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 INDEX.

Aaker : tale of /^^//a'rt'-folk, 326-7 Aargau : mountain dairies, beliefs

about, 324 Abberley : wishing well, 347 Aberdeenshire : amulets, 231-2 Acacia-tree : leaves, as Easter-egg patterns, Roumanians, 301 {plate), in folk-songs, Roumanians, 301 Accounts of Folk-Lore Society, 10- 1 Acer campestre : leaf as Easter-egg

pattern, Roumanians, 303 {plate) Adam : as Easter-egg pattern, Rou- manians, 302 ; in tradition, Ireland,

359 Adamnan, St., see St Adamnan Addy, S. O. : Scraps of English

Folklore, 348-9 Adelfot, in Arthur romances, 288-92,

^schylus : account of primitive man by, 106, 421-2, 428, 431

Africa : {see also Algeria ; Amazulu ; Bantu ; Ba Ronga ; Basutos ; Ber- bers ; Bondei ; Bushmen ; Chewa ; Chinyanja ; Chipeta ; Congo Beige ; Dahomey ; Delagoa Bay ; Duala ; Egypt; Ewe; Hausa; Hottentots; Kabinda ; Kaffirs; Kilwa; Kinga; Lake Nyassa ; Lake Tanganyika ; Lamu ; Lindi ; Luanda ; Mapoch ; Mombasa ; Morocco ; Nandi ; Ni- geria ; Nyanja ; Nyanwezi ; Nyassa- land ; Pata island ; Sania ; Sech- wana; Shambala; Shangani; Shenzi; Sierra Leone ; Socotra ; Subiya ; Swahili ; Swazi ; Tanga ; Taveta ; Tete ; Transvaal ; Tunis ; Veys ; Wanyoro ; Yao ; Zambesi river ; and Zanzibar) ; head of ndeiiibo society. Lower Congo, 190 ; west, Egbo society, 104

Afi-ican Life and Customs, by E. W. Blyden, noticed, 128

Age gives supernatural power and life, China, 519

Agravaine, in Arthur romances, 281, 284-6

Agricultural folklore : {see also Corn ; Firstfruits ; Harvest customs and beliefs ; and Planting customs and

beliefs); " trieteric " rite, Assam,

139

At plant : magical, Assam, 403-4

Aijal : in folk-tale, 401

Aimols : folk-tales, 389-90, 419

Alaska : {see also Eskimo) ; folk-tales, 378

Albany (W. Aus.) : folklore, 340-2

Albino : hair in medicine bundle, Lower Congo, 43

Alder-tree : in wart cure, Wilts, 80

Algeria, see Algiers

Algiers : augury and leechcraft, 208-9

All-Father belief, see Deity, concep- tions of

All Fools' Day : Westmoreland, 223

Alsace, see Elsass

Amazons : the beardless Scythians, 104

Amazulu: firstfruit custom, 436; folk- tale, 440-1 ; hyaena hermaphrodite, 247 ; ogre, 448

America, see North America

Amulets and talismans, 1-3, 7, 64-5, 70-1 {plate), 74, 131, 227-8, 231-2, 320, 323, 348, 379, 384-5, 450-6,

488-9> 513

Amulets from Costers' Barrows in London, Rome, and Naples, by E. Lovett, I, 7, 70-1 {plate)

Anals : folk-tales, 391-2, 394-5, 417-8

Ancestors : births caused by, Austra- lia, 126 ; bones &c. carried in pro- cession, Assam, 415 ; dog as ances- tor, Eskimo, 377 ; giant, Assam, 398 ; no legends, Lower Congo, 58 ; in myths, Andamans, 26 1 -2, 267, 495 ; reborn, Australia, 126 ; snake, Manipur, 419

Ancient Tales and Folk-lore of Japan, by R. G. Smith, reviewed, 249-52

Andaman islands : moon male, 377 ; The Religion of the Andaman Islanders, by A. R. Brown, 130, 257-71, 492-7

Andrews, J. B. : Obituary, by G. L. Gomme, 500

Aneurin, poems of, 113

Angamis : mankind emerges from cave, 417