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Index.

Echo : names of, Hausas, 202 Echternach : processional dance,

515

Eclipse : charms not worked dur- ing, India, 86

Edenvale : fairies, 483

Editorship of Folk-Lore, 10

Edgmond : funeral hood, 6

Edo : totemic kinship, 395

Eel : amulet from skin, Yorks, 227 ; gigantic, Clare, 480

Egbo society, 259

Egg : in fetish charms, Congo, 459, 463 ; first man born from, Assam, 311 ; given on child's first visit, Yorks, 225

Egypt : (see also Heliopolis ; King Rameses 11.); Osiris myth, iii ; Churchward 's The Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man re- viewed, 525-7

Eight : in folk-medicine, India, 318

Eildon Hills : split by familiar, 157

Elamites : Minotaur, 136

El-Baraghit Bedu : women veiled, 274

Elemba-lemba : in fetish ceremony, Congo, 462

Elephant : amulet against, Africa, 161 ; in folk-tales, Africa, 200-1, 203-4, 209-10, 255, 260, 358-9, 487-9, 495-6, 500-1 ; victim rein- carnated as, Assam, 262

Eleusinia, the, iio-i

Eleven : in charm, India, 331

Elis : (see also Olympia) ; coins, 65

England : (see also under counties) ; bibliography, 40-1 ; rings, 266

English Charms of the Seventeenth Century, by M. Caster, 375-8

Ennis : banshee, 191 ; death coach, 191 ; fairies, 483 ; ghosts, 344, 346

Ennistymon : death coach, 193 ; ghost, 185; snake, 479; spectre dog, 482

Epilepsy : amulet against, India,

333

Epiphany : Flanders, 528

Epirus : (see also Dodona) ; folk- tale, 141-2

Eskimo : hunting charm, 177

Essex : (see also Saffron Walden) ; dragonfly belief, 223 ; medical folklore, 223-4

Esthonia : cuckoo in sagas, 235

Etruria : Cameron's Old Etruria and Modern Tuscany reviewed, 249-50

Euphrates river, see Commagene

European folklore : its value in the history of culture, 14-41

Eurypylos, son of Euaemon, 151

Euxine, see Black Sea

Evening star : moon's wife, Aki- kuyu, 255 ; origin of, India, 126

Evergreens : Christmas, Worcester, 263, burnt, Surrey, 224, not burnt. Craven, 225, not in house before Christmas Eve, Craven, 225

Evil eye : amulets against, 163, 265, 269 ; attacks weak, 148 ; charms against, 164, India, 217, Scotland, 160, 433 ; grapes withered, Albania, 251 ; power destroyed by nganga, Congo, 465

Evil spirits, see Demons and evil spirits

Ewe, see Togo

Executions : cult of executed crimi- nals, Palermo, 168-79 (plates) ; executioner's coat, Ashanti, i

Exhibits at meetings, 1-4, 6-7, 129- 31, 265-6, 268-9

Exogamy : Assam, 298-g, 304 ; Banks' islands, 44 ; in folk-tales, 139 ; Frazer's Totemism and Exogamy reviewed, 389-96 ; S. Nigeria, 394-5

Exorcism : Carolines, 536 ; Congo,

453-4 Eye : amulets in shape of, 163 ;

votive offerings in shape of,

Sicily, 169 Eye diseases : cures for, 445, India,

86, 315 ; eye well, Glamorgan,

121 Eyre, L. M. : " Cross Trees," 515 ;

The West Riding Teachers'

Anthropological Society, 236

Fairies : in County Clare, 183-5, 194-9, 483 ; in folk-tales, 156, Argyll, 90-1, Greece, 531, India, 125, Ireland, 408, 425, Isle of Man, 472-5 ; Scotland, 264 ; seize entrapped victims only, 153

Fairs : Derbyshire, 38 ; Stafford- shire, 26

Fairyhill Fort : meaning, 185

Familiar spirits : of Michael Scott, 157