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571

Ceylon, 161 ; charms against, Cornwall, 161, India, 83, 85, 319, 323, 328-g, 504-6 ; in charm against bite, India, 504 ; cure for bite, India, 504 ; drinks buffalo milk, India, 216; in folklore, Wales, 118; in folk-tales, Africa, 200-1, 207-9, 255, Ireland, 479 ; Guga, snake god, India, 85 ; rainbow as, Africa, 202, 256-7 ; as seat in spiritland, India, 125 ; as totem. New Guinea, 533 ; varieties, Panjab, 216

Snake-charming, India, 328-9

Snakestone ring, Cornwall, 161

Sodermanland, see Skogstorp ; Stengvista ; Torshalla

Sohrab and Rustem, 234

Solomon islands : marriage cus- toms, 54 ; patrilineal descent, 53

Some Naga Customs and Supersti- tions,byT. C. Hodson, 268, 296-312

Some Notes on Magical Practices in the Banks' Islands, by W. H. R. Rivers, 2

Somerset : {see also Minehead ; Quantock Hills ; Taunton) ; folk- songs, 36 ; sea belief, 224 ; witch- craft, 150

Somme, see Amiens

Soot on grate bars as omen, Yorks, 227

Sorcery, see Magic ; Witchcraft

Soudan, see Omdurman

Souls : called away by nganga, Congo, 465 ; of men and animals not distinct, Assam, 262

South : in divination, Manipur, 80

South America : (see also Abi- pones ; Brazil ; Cordilleras ; Peru) ; ford rites, 159

South Australia : Frazer's Totem- ism and Exogamy reviewed, 389- 96

South east : in divination, Mani- pur, 80-1

Southern Nigeria : (see also Cala- bar ; Edo ; Wefa) ; folk-tales, 258-60 ; rings, 266

South west : in divination, Mani- pur, 80

Sowing customs and beliefs : Assam, 262 ; Denmark and Sweden, 75 ; India, 217

Spain, see Catalonia

Spanish juice, see Liquorice

Spanish Point : mermaid, 342-3

Sparta : Dorians, 135 ; omen, 159

Sphinx, the, 150

Spider : in folk-tales, Africa, 200- 15, 258-60, 351-60; in witch-find- ing, Congo, 459

Spinning : tabued when setting sugar cane, Panjab, 217

Spitting : in blessing, Congo, 454 ; in folk-medicine, Germany, 388, India, 315, 318, 330 ; in folk-tale, 158; in ford rites, 159; against witchcraft, 163-4

Spitting Cure, A, by W. R. Halli- day, 388

Spleen diseases : charms against, India, 325 ; cures for, India, 84

Spoer, Mrs. H. H. : Notes on the Marriage Customs of the Bedu and Fellahin, 265, 270-95 (plate)

Spoon : omen from, Yorks, 226

Sprains : charms for, 437-8

Springs : St Thor's, Sweden, 77

Squirrel : annual hunt, England, 30-3 ; in folk-tale, Africa, 260

Staffordshire : (see also Abbot's Bromlev ; Bagot's Bromley ; Bet- ley Hall ; Blithfield ; Bromley Hurst ;Burton-upon-Trent ; Need- wood Forest) ; omens of visitors, 226

Stairs : omen from meeting on, Yorks, 226

Stamer Park : ghosts, 344

Stanley Falls : good men have no stomachs, 105-6

Starr, F. : exhibits by, 129-30; gifts to Society, 129-30

Stars : (see also Evening star ; Morning star) ; Bunjil related to, 521 ; children of sun and moon, E. Africa, 255 ; origin of, India, 126 ; Zeus as god of, 133

Stealing Night, Castleton, 38

Stengvista : cross on monuments, 72

Stenton, F. M. : The Antiquity of Abbot's Bromley, 386-7

Sterope, Apollo's horse, 66

Sticklastad, battle of, 74

Stockings : omen from, Scotland, 8g

Stomach : not possessed by good men, Congo, 105-6

Stomach-ache : cure for, India, 83

Stomach diseases : cures for, Pan- jab, 314

Stone Age : symbolic axes, 67-9

Stone money, Carolines, 536