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Index.

Hoe : no charge for mending, Lower Congo, 311 ; as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 302-3 [plate)

Hogmanay, see New Year

Hohammer : tale of strength-belt,

335

Hoianaii, the, 1 12

Hoi : story of htddre-lo\k, 328

Holed stones as amulets, Durham county, 74

Holly-tree : Christmas holly unlucky after Candlemas Day, Worcester- shire, 343 ; omen from burning, Worcestershire, 343

Holy Grail, see Grail

Holy Thursday : clothes not hung out, Worcestershire, 345 ; Feast, Yorkshire, 349 ; sheets not washed, Yorkshire, 349 ; soap suds not thrown out, Worcestershire, 345

Holy Virgin, see Virgin Mary

Homeric poems, 104

Honey: in folk-tale, Swahili &c. , 443, 445 ; superstitions about, Anda- mans, 268

Honor Oak : marriage custom, 222

Hornbill : shape-shifting into, Assam, 409-11 ; shooting secures village from illness, Assam, 140

Horns : as amulets, Italy, 70 (plate) ; as Easter-egg patterns, Roumanians, 302 ; mano cornuto, Naples, 71

Horse: amulets on, Naples, 71 ; fairy- ridden, Worcestershire, 347 ; horse- tail betrays evil being, Norway, 333 ; in singing game, India, 339- 40 ; untamed foal determines site of church, Norway, 315

Horse-shoe : over door, Australia, 95, Yorkshire, 348 ; tea grounds in shape of, lucky, Wales, 95

Host, sacred : remedy for sick child, Norway, 320

Hottentots : folk-tales, 440, 445

House : building customs and beliefs, see Building customs and beliefs ; salt sprinkled in new house, Dur- ham, 217

Houseleek : cures burns, Lincoln- shire, 489

House-that-Jack-built type of folk- tales, 389

Hov : kuldre-iolk, 325-7, 329

Howitt and Fison, by J. G. Frazer, 144-80

Howitt, Dr. A. W. : obituary of, 144, 150-1, 153, 158-73

Huld)e4o\\i, tales of, 315-6, 323-8,

330-5.

Hull, Miss Eleanor: obituary of Dr. Whitley Stokes, 356-60 ; reviews by, — Parker's Gaelic Fairy Tales, 242-3 ; Boswell's An Irish Pre- cursor of Dante, 107-9

Humble bee, see Bee

Humshaugh : burial of amputated limb, 226

Hunchback : attributed to ndembo fetish, Lower Congo, 194-5

Hungary, see Ruthenians ; Szeklers ; and Transylvania

Hunter, as name of star, Lower Congo, 477

Hunting customs and beliefs : dances, Lower Congo, 463, 469 ; festivals, Assam, 139; fetish cross and drum, Lower Congo, 181 -2 {plate) ; kick- ing for luck, Norway, 321 ; mock hunt, India, 212; tabus for success, Assam, 140 ; throwing mop, Nor- way, 321 ; unlucky to be seen by woman or wished good luck, Nor- way, 321

Hunt the slipper : Lower Congo, 462

Husbands : name tabued to wives, Lower Congo, 310

Hyaena : communicates with dead, 247 ; in folk-tales, Hausas, 375-6, Swahili, 438, 445, 447-8 ; herma- phrodite, Nandi and Zulu, 247 ; skin in medicine bundle, Lower Congo, 43 ; can talk, Nandi, 247 ; transformed wizard, Bantu, 247 ; venerated, Nandi, 247

Ice : noise of breaking receives life,

Eskimo, 379 Iceland : Coomaraswamy's Voluspa

reviewed, 366-7 Igan river: in folk-tale, 83 Igerna, Queen, see Queen Igerna Iguana : in folk-tale, Queensland,

214-5

Imprecations : gain help of Evil One, Norway, 331 ; Lower Congo, 471-3; spitting, Lower Congo, 471

Inaba (Japan) : folk-tale, 251

Incantations : in spirit language, Eskimo, 379

India : {see also Andaman islands ; Assam ; Bengal ; Bombay Presi- dency ; Central Provinces ; Chotia Nagpur ; Deccan ; Gujerat ; Jains ; Kashmir ; Madras Presidency ;