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Index.

Scandinavia : {see also Denmark ; Iceland ; Norway) ; marriage, 194 ; sliip burials, 253 ; society based on certain conceptions, 256-62 ; tales, 192

Scattery Island, see St Senan

Scorpion : cure for bite, Cyprus, 358 ; as village name, Hebrews, 165

Scotland: [see also Hebrides; High- lands ; Orkneys ; Shetlands) ; calendar customs, 117 ; gipsies, 316-7, 321, 332, 335-6, 339 ; place-names, 99 ; simulated change of sex, 385 ; tales, 39, 102

Scraps of English Folklore, vii,

234-41 Sea customs and beliefs : {see also

Fishing customs and beliefs) ;

dolls, 3, 8 ; murderer hinders

sailing, Oxon, 89 ; sea laughs,

Kiwai Papuans, 312 Sea-eagle : totem, Melanesia, 181 Sea-gull : totem, Melanesia, 181 Seal : as nickname, Orkneys, 165 ;

in tale, Shetlands, 192 Sea-sickness : omen from, Quebec,

362 Seats : high seat, Scandinavia, 260 Second sight : Ontario, 221-2 Secretary, 6

Segovia : amulets, 69-70 Selling : customs, Scandinavia,

260 Selston : gipsies, 351 Senamahi, deity, 413, 422-3, 443-4,

450

September : {see also Michaelmas Day) ; Feasts, Breconsh., 513-4, Glos., 249 ; hiring fairs, Wales, 107 ; perilous Monday in, 122

Septuagesima : plan to find, 122-3

Serampore ■ god's car, 535-6

Serpent, see Snake

Servia : childbirth, 195 ; gipsies, 334. 339. 347. 352, 355 ; pro- verbs, 92 ; punishment of adul- tery, 341

Seven : in death custom, gipsies, 355 ; evil spirits, Manipur, 430, 450 ; in getting clean fire, Manipur, 429 ; goddesses, Mani- pur, 421, 423, 425-6 ; in offer- ings, Manipur, 451 ; 7th son, Skye, 384, of 7th son, Oxon, 90

Severn river : in gipsy funeral rites, 350

Seville : amulets, 64, 66-71, 73 ; sacred dance, 129

Sex ; simulating cliange of, 385

Sexual intercourse, taboos on, see Taboos

Shakespear, J. : The Religion of Manipur, 281, 409-55 {plates), 518-23

Shaking hands : omen, Ontario, 222

Shamans, see Wizards

Shannon river : not crossed by St Patrick, 203 ; Cuchullin's leap, 99 ; St Senan, 206 ; in tales, 105, 498

Shape-shifting : by Devil, Pied- mont, 363 ; by medicine-man, S. Amer.,.55 ; in myth, Lusheis, 150 ; in romance of Melusine, 189 ; in song, Kiwai Papuans, 299

Shaving : as rite, Manipur, 416-7

Sheep : black ram. Devil as. Piedmont, 363 ; divination by- shoulder blade, Greeks, 358 ; in saying, Breconsh. etc., 509 ; in tale, Scotland, 39

Shellfish, see Oyster

Shells : as amulets, Spain, 69-70

Shetlands : tale, 192

Shick-shack Da\- : Monmouthsh., 109 ; Oxon, 87-8

Shield : Borneo, 276

Ship burials, 253

Ships : embodied captain's

nature, Scandinavia etc., 259

Shipston-on-Stour : loo-belling, 240

Shirt : in charm, Ontario, 224

Shoe : in charm, Oxon, 79 ; lucky to put left on first, Ontario, 226 ; not on dead, gipsies, 345, 354 ; in ritual, 127 ; in saying, Bre- consh., 509

Shoreditch : folk-medicine, 120 ; love-philtre, 120

Shcfrt Account of the Indians of the Issa-Japura District, A, by T. W. Whiffen, 3, 8, 41-62

Short Bibliographical Notices, 279-80, 536

Shrove Tuesday : games, Cambs., 234-5 ; rhyme, Oxon, 85

Shuganu : ancestral deities, 425 ; hangjaba incarnates god, 435,