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 Index.

567

Pumpkin : in folk-tale, Africa, 257 Pumpkin vine : seeds in charm,

Congo, 463 Purgatory : in cult of executed

criminals, Sicily, 169-70, 173 ;

amongst Garos, 262 Pyrford Stone, 387-8 Python : worshipped, Assam, 310

Quantock Hills : annual squirrel hunt, 31

Queen Guinevere, 231

Queen Maeve, 181

Queensland, see Moon Creek ; Upper Burnett river

Queensland Corroboree Songs, by R. B. B. Clayton, 86-8

Queen Victoria : wife of John Com- pany, Nagas, 296

Questions : dangerous to answer, 158-9

Quin : banshee, 191 ; fort, danger- ous to destroy, 194

Quoireng N gas, see Maolong

Ra, the god, 149

Rabbi Juda, see Juda

Rabbit : fairy, Clare, 483

Race elements in lore of folk, 379- 84

Races of Man and their Distribu- tion, The, by A. C. Haddon, noticed, 263

Raga island, see Pentecost island

Rag-bushes : Glamorgan, 121

Rain : controlled by nganga, Congo, 468, or salt, Congo, 468 ; given by Thor, Sweden, 76 ; Zeus as god of, 133

Rainbow : sign of nganga' s power, Congo, 468 ; snake coming from well, Africa, 202, 256-7 ; Thor's brow, 78

Rajanpur : folk-medicine, 313-4, 316, 327

Rajputs : charm, Khichi sept, 85 ; marriage custom, 140

Ram, see Sheep

Ramallah : factions, 292 ; wedding attire, 287-8

Ramchandra, 82

Rask, Lake : legend, 188

RasQlpur : folk-medicine, 325

Rat : charm against, India, 506

Rath : place-names, 184

Rathblamaic : banshees, 187 ; carv-

ing, 344 (plate) ; demon badger,

478 Rathfollane : fairies, 195 Ravan the ravisher, 81-2 (plate) Raven : omen from Clare, 190,

484, ,

Red : in amulet, Essex, 223 ; bead

for divination, Congo, 452 ;

beards of St Olaf and Thor, 74,

76 Reed-buck : in folk-tale, Hausas,

210 Reid, H. M. B. : Scraps of Scottish

Folklore, 91-2 Reincarnation beliefs : Assam, 262,

301 Reindeer : horns in horn dance.

Abbot's Bromley, 26, 29, 39 Relationship : kinship defined, 58-9 ;

terms used, Oceania, 42-5, 53, 58 Religion, evolution of, 516-23,

525-7 Religious Dancing, by M. Peacock,

515

Reptiles in folklore, see Crocodile ; Frog ; Lizard ; Snake ; Tortoise

Reviews, 107-28, 237-64, 388-416, 516-38

Rewari : forecasting well water etc., 83 ; folk-medicine, 83

Rheumatism : amulets against, Suf- folk, 7, Yorks, 227 ; caused by fetish, Congo, 461 ; cures for, India, 84, 314, 316-7, 326-7

Rhodes, see Kameiros

Rhonabwy, story of, 242

Rhymes : England, 37

Rib-bones : cure for displacement of, India, 84

Ribs, pains in : cure for, India, 507

Rice : once grew ready-thrashed, India, 125

Riddles : discussed, 413 ; of Exeter Book, 413 ; Togo, 258-9

Riddles of the Exeter Book, The, by F. Tupper, reviewed, 413

Rigveda hymns, 61

Rings, finger, see Finger-rings

Ringworm : cures for, India, 85, 316, 319

Rinroe : ghostly bull, 480 ; tower,

344 Rio Grande : hair clippings not left

about, 147-8 Ritual, value of discussed, 165-6 Rivers and streams : (see also

Fords ; and under names) ; folk-