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550 Rain: associated with mythical beings, Andamans, 261, 264, 266, Australia, 493, and Pleiades, Lower Congo, 477; charm against, Lanarkshire, 353-4; German band brings, England, Fifeshire, 348, 490; killing beetle brings, Worcestershire, 344; killing spider brings, Durham, 217; omens of, Oxfordshire, 490, Worcestershire, 344; origin of, Lower Congo, 59; prevented by selling ivory, Lower Congo, 45, or throwing salt in fire, Lower Congo, 476; in proverb, Durham, 75; rain-making, Chewa, 440; weather prognostic, Lower Congo, 477

Rainbow charm, Durham county, 217; God's lip, Assam, 395; rests over Wahwee's waterhole, N.S.W., 487

Rain god: Assam, 418

Rainwater: on Ascension Day black, Gloucestershire, 489, and heals eyes, Shropshire and Worcestershire, 491; tabued, Nandi clan, 247

Rajputána: bathing of deity, 213

Ram, see Sheep

Râmâyana, the, 125

Rat: (see also Bamboo-rat; and Palm-rat); charm against, Japan, 384; omen from, Worcestershire, 344

Raven: in myth, Eskimo, 378

Read, Miss D. H. Moutray: Burial of Amputated Limbs, 226; Opening Windows, etc., for the Dead, 229

Red: eggs at Easter, Roumanians, 296-300 (plates); in charms, Staffordshire, 221, Worcestershire, 346; in rheumatism amulet, Fife, 231; in witchcraft amulet, Aberdeenshire, 231

Redmarley: Ascension Day rain cures bad eyes, 491

Reeds: (see also Nsakusaku); in folk-tale, Assam, 403-4

Reincarnation beliefs: Australia, 126; entry in ndembo society confers new body. Lower Congo, 190-1

Reindeer: unlucky shot at, Norway, 321

Relationship, blood: Australia, 150-1, 255-6; Fiji islands, 150, 155, 255; Tonga, 150

Relationship, group: Australia, 150-1, 166, 168, 173-80

Religion: (see also Buddhism; Deity, conceptions of; Gods; and Jains); defined, 381; magic a later conception than, 104; Pre-Animistic Stages in Religion, by E. Clodd, 354-5; Marett's The Threshold of Religion reviewed, 235-41

Religion of the Andaman Islanders, The, by A. R. Brown, 130, 257-71, by A. Lang, 492-7

Religions Mœurs et Legendes, by A. van Gennep, reviewed, 515-6

Reminiscences of Lancashire and Cheshire when George IV was King, by Miss C. S. Burne, 203-7

Renfrewshire, see Wemyss

Reptiles in folklore, see Crocodile; Frog; Lizard; Snake; Toad; Tortoise; and Turtle

Revenants, see Ghosts

Reviews, 97-128, 235-56, 361-84, 501-20

Rheumatism: amulets for, Fife, 231, South Downs, 64; cure for, Burma, 484

Rhymes, see Folk-songs; and Nursery rhymes

Rhys, Sir J.: review by,—Pokorny's Der Ursprung des Arthursage, 503-4

Rice: harvest custom, Swahili, 436; tabus for welfare of, Assam, 140

Riddles: Durham, 73; Hausa, 374; Fiji islands, 155

Ringinglow: Michael and his dogs, 348

Rites de Passage, Les, by A. van Gennep, reviewed, 509-11

Rivers and streams: (see also under names); images offered to demons of, Assam, 399; myths of origin, Australia, 340-2; river bars as entrances to spirit land, Veys, 128; tales to explain names, Assam, 413

Rivers, W. H. R.: review by,—Thomson's The Fijians, 252-5

Robin: killing kills mother, Lincolnshire, 489; omen from, Worcestershire, 344

Robin Hood, 90, 204

Rocks, see Stones

Röimœn: tale of huldre-folk, 334

Romans: first men born from trees, 423

Rome: amulets, 70-1 (plate); Exhibition of Italian Ethnography at Rome in 1911, by E. S. Hartland, 224-6