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551

Romulus and Remus, myth of, 125

Rope : gains supernatural power by age, China, 519

Rorie, D. : New Year's Day in Scot- land, 1909,481-2; Scottish Amulets, 231-2

Rosemary : thrown into grave, Shrop- shire, 219

Rose-tree : omen from roses, Wor- cestershire, 344

Rostrevor : rhyme, 78

Roumania, see Buzau ; Curtea de Arges ; and Roumanians

Roumanians: composite origin, 295 ; Roumanian Easter Eggs, by Mrs A. Murg09i, 295-303 {plates') ; social conditions, 295-6

Roundway Hill : Palm Sunday game, 81

Rouse, W. H. D. : review by, — Dahnhardt's Naiursageti, 514-5

Roxburghshire, see Hawick ; and Kelso

Rush -bearing : Bury, 204

Russia : {see also Bessarabia ; Cau- casus ; and Finland) ; folk-tales,

125 Ruthenians : Easter eggs, 300

Sacrament bread, see Host, sacred Sacrifice :

animal : — Atonement, Semites, 3S2; dog, against disease, Assam, 393 ; fowl, India, 483, Lower Congo, 40, 43, 56, 480 ; frog. Lower Congo, 480 ; goat. Lower Congo, 44, 56, 480 ; gyal, against disease, Assam, 393 ; testing sacri- ficial victim, 233-4 ; human, — of firstborn, 382 ; sur- vivals of, Assam, 138 ; images offered to demons, Assam, 399 ; kimenga. Lower Congo, 480 ; offer- ings to slain bear, Eskimo, 377 Sceter customs and beliefs, see Dairy

customs and beliefs St Adamnan, the visions of, 107-9 St Andrews : fair, Aug., 90 St Benedict's Day : wind prognostic,

Worcestershire, 345 St Brendan, voyage of, 109 St Bridget : crosses and festival,

Antrim, 130 St Columba, 107 St John : in folk-tales, 514 St Maria's Day: in Easter-egg cus- tom, Macedonia, 297

St Patrick : fights demons at Loch Derg, 109 ; slays water serpent, 109

St Patrick's Purgatory, 108-9

St Paul : in folk-tales, 514

St Peter : in folk-tales, 514-5

Saishu-iree : in folk-tale, Assam, 408

Sake of perpetual youth, Japan, 251-2

Salmon : evil eye in s. fishing, Nor- way, 322 ; unlucky to be seen after s. fishing, Norway, 323

Salmoneus, King, i-e^ King Salmoneus

Salsette : folktales, 125

Salt : sprinkled in new house, Dur- ham county, 217 ; throwing in fire prevents rain. Lower Congo, 476

Salting meat not done by menstruous woman, England, 348

Salutations: Lower Congo, 469-71 ; Norway, 317

Sand bullet slays chief, Yaos, 438

Sanden : story of huldre-id\k, 328

Sania : folk-tale, 446

San Salvador : cannibalism, 475 ; circumcision, 304-6 ; communion rite, 57 ; currency, 43 ; dance, 468; dead bodies bought by whites, 46 ; market, 42 ; powers of king, 34, 38 ; salutations to king, 469 ; witchcraft, cleverness ascribed to, 46

Sarawak : (see also Igan river ; and Oya) ; Milano tale, 83-5

Sark : folk-song, 1 19

Satan, see Devil

Saturday : holy day, Norway, 327 ; moon and weather, Worcestershire, 344, Yorkshire, 348

Scald head : from breaking food tabu, Lower Congo, 308

Scandinavia : (see also Denmark ; Edda ; Norway ; and Sweden) ; suggested origin of Greenland tradi- tions, 378

Scapegoat: India, 212

Scarborough : gifts on grave, 233

Scissors : omen from, Worcestershire,

344 Scope and Content of the Science of

Anthropology, The, by Juul Die-

serud, reviewed, 102-3 Scotland: (see also H&hnAes; Orkney

islands ; Shetland islands ; atid

under names of counties) ; Parker's

Gaelic Fairy Tales reviewed, 242-3;

west, folk-song, 87