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 INDEX TO VOL. XXVIII. (1917).

Abul-Cassim Mohammed, ibn

Haukal : his account of the

Khazars, 396 Abulfeda : his account of the

Khazars, 400 Adonis, 285 Advent, 295 Aegisthus : desecration of his

victim's grave, 137 Agricultural rites in Formoja, 119 Ahir tribe : cattle-scaring by, 152 Ahmed ibn Foszlan : his account

of the Khazars, 385 Ali, the Caliph : worship of, 280 All Hallow Even : HallowTnas, 53 All Hallows ' Night : Hallowmas, 53 All Hallowmas Fair, 74 All Saints' Day, 53, 67 All Souls' Day, 53 Al jMas'iidy : his account of the

Khazar kings, 391 Amusements : on Guy Fawkes'

Day, 84 ; at Hallow E'en, 58,

65. 69, 76, 80 ; on St. Clement's

Day, 171 Ancestor worship : in Formosa,

119, 120, 124 ; in Serbia, 48 Andermas : St. Andrew's Day,

176 Animals at Christmastide, 417 Apparitions : at Hallowmas, 54 ;

at Hallow E'en, 62 ; in Lincoln- shire, 103. Apple-snatching night ; Hallow- mas, 61. Apples: games with at Hallow

E'en, 58, 65, 69, 76, 80 Aran Island : legends from, 438 ;

saints of, 197 Ardmore : legends of, 87 et seq. Armada, the Spanish : traditions

of, 444 Arthur, King, and his knights

at Christmastide, 418 Ash leaves : divination by means

of, 69. 313 Ashen Faggot, the, 427

Ashes, wet : tabu of, at Christmas- tide, 419

Auditor, honorary, of the Society : appointment of, 3

Australia, natives of ; magic among, 260 et seq.

Avril-Bread, 305-10.

Balfour, H. : " Some Ethnological Suggestions in regard to Easter Island, or Rapunii," 356-81

Bant caste : cattle-driving among, 117

Barring-out, 175, 297, 304

Bays : houses dressed with, at Christmastide, 420

Beans : sown on St. Edmund the King's Day, 169

Begging customs : on St. Clement's Day, 171 ; at HaUow E'en, 57, 63, 69 ; on St. Katherine's Day, 1 73 ; on St. Thomas' Day, 299, 303

Bellman, the : cautionary rhyme of, 86

Bell-ringing : on St. Andrew's Day, 175 ; on Guy Fawkes' Day, 82 ; at Hallowmas, 55 ; on St. Thomas' Da}', 302

Bells, subterranean : heard at Christmastide, 418

Bhil tribe : cattle-driving among,

154

Bird cult : in Easter Island, 337- 355. 357 ; connexion of, with the statues, 355 ; origin of, 371

Birds : human-headed, 367 ; in- sects and animals, folk beliefs regarding, among Mexican In- dians, 329 ; omens from, in Formosa, 131

Bladebone : weather omens from, 167

Blanchard, E. C. : on " Christmas Candles," 106-8

Blood. to be spilt and sprinkled on the threshold on St. Martin's